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Socorrenos dispersed ; but they afterwards 

 complained that the articles of agreement 

 were never fulfilled ; a complaint which has 

 been too often and too justly made with- 

 in a few years past, against the government 

 authorities in Spanish America, whose re- 

 peated and shameless breaches of faith in 

 this respect, have perhaps contributed more 

 than any other circumstance, to exasperate 

 and render more determined their opponents, 



A project was formed in 1794, by Don 

 A. Narino, who afterwards distinguished 

 himself in the war for independence, for 

 bringing about a revolution in Caraccas. 

 It waSy however, discovered in 1797, before 

 any step could be openly taken for carry- 

 ing it into effect. The ostensible leaders, 

 Don M. Gual, and Don R. M. Espana, made 

 their escape to the neighbouring island : 

 Espana returned two years afterwards to 

 La Guayra, but, being discovered, he was 



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