376 Sl'ANISH AMliHICA. 



authority, however, was on their arrival 

 already at an end, and no efforts of the new 

 commissioners were in any manner avail- 

 ing for its restoration. Montufar, whose 

 father, the Marques Selva Alegre, had been 

 amongst those massacred at Quito on the 

 2d of August 1810, so far worked upon the 

 fears of the Spanish authorities, as to induce 

 them to establish a Junta there ; a circum- 

 stance rendered remarkable by its being 

 the only Junta of which the Regency ap- 

 proved. 



On the 1 9th of September 1810, the 

 Junta of Carthagena published a manifesto, 

 urging the federal union of the provinces of 

 New Grenada ; but, at the same time, dwell- 

 ing upon the perfect freedom of the pro- 

 vinces to adopt any form of government 

 which they pleased, and asserting, that the 

 revolution at Bogota had destroyed the bond 

 of union between the provinces and their 



