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On the ISth of January 1832, a conspiracy was revealed to 

 Gamarra by anonymous notes, stating that a regiment, in which 

 Major Rosel, a young man of great promise, had a command, 

 would revolt that night, and seize upon the person of the pre- 

 sident. In the afternoon Rosel drilled three companies, and 

 directed them to stack their arms in the barrack yard. At eight 

 o'clock, while pacing in his quarters, the colonel of the regi- 

 ment entered, accompanied by a serjeant and two soldiers, and 

 ordered them to seize the major. No sooner was the order 

 given, than, drawing his sword, he rushed out and called the 

 soldiers to arms, and ordered them to charge a company that 

 had been summoned, at the same instant, by the colonel, but 

 they hung back. Rosel was seized, disarmed, tried on the spot, 

 and shot the following morning at seven o'clock ! 



This instance is related to illustrate the summary process 

 which has been resorted to on several occasions by Gamarra. 

 Several revolutions, as all such incidents are termed, have been 

 checked during his administration, and many of them are said 

 to have been fictions. The people of Lima never take part in 

 these disturbances, but, like peaceful citizens, retire into their 

 houses, and there quietly wait till the military decide the mat- 

 ter among themselves, and again resume their vocations, only 

 indulging in remarks upon the suffocated revolution." 



Another revolution, according to Gamarra, was to be at- 

 tempted in March 1833. On the night of the sixteenth, Ma- 

 nuel Telleria, President of the Senate, and ex officio Vice 

 President of the Republic, (La Fuente being in exile), was 

 seized at Chorillos, where he had gone to recruit his health, 

 and carried a prisoner to Callao, charged with being privy to 

 a conspiracy against the government. On the twenty-first, at 

 midnight, he was put on board a man-of-war schooner, the 

 Peruana, and carried to Panama. Some delay was occasioned 

 by the desertion of her commander, Otero, a young man of 

 spirit, who refused this duty, because the law prohibits any 

 master of a vessel, whether Peruvian or foreign, from taking 

 any individual out of the republic, without his own consent, 

 under heavy penalties. 



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