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he was forced to join the new order of things, 

 and has ever since acted most correctly, and 

 even obtained the esteem of many of those 

 who formerly opposed him in his. ambitious 

 projects. At the commencement of this ses- 

 sion he did not take his seat, on account of 

 anonymous accusations, made against him in 

 the official paper of the government, charging 

 him with having applied certain public monies 

 to his own use, and which eventually two of 

 the senators stood forward to substantiate* 

 Immediately, therefore, on the meeting of 

 the congress, the senate proceeded to try 

 General Narino, and as the opening and ter- 

 mination of his address appear to me parti- 

 cularly good, I translate those parts for the 

 benefit of my readers. 



Members of the Senate, 



This day I present myself as a 

 criminal, before that senate of which I have 

 been nominated a member, and arraigned by 



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