388 SPANISH AMEUICA. 



now conveyed to Quito, and from thence 

 to Lima, and was subsequently confined at 

 La Caracca, in Cadiz. He was released at 

 the period of the late revolution in Spain, 

 and has since returned to his country. 



About the same time that the Congress 

 of New Grenada received the news of the 

 retreat of their army to Popayan, they also 

 received intelligence of the victories ob- 

 tained by Boves over the patriots of Vene- 

 zuela ; of the re-establishment of Ferdinand 

 the Vllth upon the throne of Spain ; and 

 of the fall of Bonaparte. It is well known, 

 that one of the first acts of Ferdinand, after 

 his restoration, was to order the Spanish 

 Americans to lay down their arms, by his 

 decree of the 4 th of June 1814; which was 

 followed by the equipment of the expedition 

 at Cadiz, under the command of Morillo, 

 already alluded to. Whether the govern- 

 ment of Spain was administered by a Junta, 



