374 SPANISH AMEIllCA. 



gena under an escort, and then sent to 

 Spain. The Junta now disowned the au- 

 thority of the Regency ; and issued a mani- 

 festo, inviting the provinces of New Grena- 

 da to send deputies to Bogota, for the pur-" 

 pose of forming a congress, with the view of 

 considering what form of government should 

 be established. 



The revolution thus commenced in New 

 Grenada, was joined by the provinces of 

 Tunja, Pamplona, Casanare, Carthagena, 

 Socorro, Antioquia, Citara or Choco, Neyva, 

 and Mariquita ; Santa Martha was also 

 amongst the number, but the royalists suc- 

 ceeded in instigating a popular commotion, 

 and through that means, in establishing, on 

 the 22d of the following December, a Junta, 

 devoted to their own opinions. In Popayan, 

 the principal persons of the province as- 

 sembled at the instance of Don N. Tacon, 

 the governor, and voted for the formation of 



