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leaving nearly fifteen hundred Spaniards, 

 who had no possibility of emigrating, at 

 the mercy of the conqueror. The articles 

 of the treaty were sent to Monteverde, at 

 Puerto Cabello, who, true to his system, 

 refused to agree to them, because it was 

 derogatory to the dignity of the Spanish 

 nation to treat with insurgents." 



General Bolivar made his public entry 

 into the city of Caraccas, on the 4th of 

 August 1813, and was received with the 

 most enthusiastic joy by the inhabitants; 

 the dungeons were thrown open, and the 

 survivors of those who had been consigned 

 to them, again embraced their friends and 

 relations : whilst, in the midst of all this 

 high excitement, to the great honour of the 

 patriots be it recorded, no insult whatever 

 was directed against any of the royalists 

 who had been left in the city. 



