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their terror being still kept up by a suc- 

 cession of earthquakes, which, however, 

 effected no material mischief, was placed 

 in a situation of the greatest difficulty. His 

 only resource, at length, appeared to be 

 to propose a capitulation, which, with the 

 consent of the executive power, he did ; 

 and the terms agreed upon between Mon- 

 teverde, and Don T. Sata-y-busy, and others 

 appointed by Miranda, were : That the con- 

 stitution offered by the Cortes to the Spa- 

 nish nation was to be established in Ca- 

 raccas ; that no one was to suffer for 

 former opinions ; that all private property 

 was to be held sacred ; and that emigration 

 was to be permitted to those who wished 

 to quit Venezuela. 



This capitulation was, as already stated, 

 shamelessly violated by the royalists, after 

 they had taken possession of Caraccas, and 

 the republican army had been disbanded. 



