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ried black standards, assumed the appalling 

 appellation of the army of death. This cir- 

 cumstance, amongst others, is a striking 

 manifestation of that spirit of deadly hatred 

 and revenge which actuated the royalists, 

 and which rendered the warfare they car- 

 ried on nearly one continued scene of san- 

 guinary cruelty. 



Don N. Molina, who, by the Regency of 

 Spain, had been appointed president of the 

 Junta of Quito, entered its territory, at the 

 head of the troops from Lima, which had 

 been withdrawn from thence after the mas- 

 sacre on the 2d of August 1810. The Junta 

 acknowledged the authority of the Regency 

 of Spain, but refused to receive Molina at 

 the head of an army as their president ; 

 and having appealed to the Cortes, the 

 latter body ordered Molina to put a stop 

 to hostilities ; which, however, he refused, 



