The supplement to the Gazette of Madrid of the 15th
instant, contains the names of the fifty-three individuals, including their General TORRIJOS, who were executed at Malaga on the 1 1 th instant, by virtue of a royal decree dated 1st October 1830. The names are= Don Josef Maria Torrijos, Don Juan Lopez Pinto' Don Roberto Boyd, Don Manuel-Flo es Calderon, Don Francisco Fernandez Golfin, Don Francisco Ruiz Jara, Don Francisco Pardillo, Don Pablo Verdeguer de Osilla, Don Juan Manuel Bobadilla;Don Pedro Maurique, Joaquin Cantalupe, Don Josef Guillermo Gano, Don Angel Hurtado, Don Josef Maria Cordero, Josef Cafer, Francisco Arenes, Don Manuel Vidal, Don Ramon Ibanez, Santiago Martinez, Domingo Valero Cortez, Josef Garcia, -Ignacio Alonzo, Antonio Perez, Miguel Andreu, Andrea Collado, Francisco Julian, Josef °lined°, Francisco Mora, Gonzalo Marquez, Francisco Benebal, Vicente Jorge, Antonio Domene Francisco Garcia, Julian Osorio, Pedro Munoz, Ramon Vidal, Antonio Pradez, Magdalen° Lopez, Sal- vador Lledo, Juan Sanchez' Francisco Arces, Jayme Cabazas, Lope de Lopez, Vicente Garcia, Francisco de Mundi, Lorenzo CaVos, Juan Suarez, Manuel Bado, Jose Maria Galaris, Esteban Felien, Josef Triay Marqueda, Pablo Pulider, y Miguel Prato Preto.
There seems no doubt that these unhappy men were in to land by false information conveyed to them from Malaga, the Government there was inclined to favour the designs of Patriots. They had been ordered to quit Gibraltar, where DINAND had complained, with apparent reason, that they recefit441,!,' protection while concocting plots against his government; they- were told that every protection would, be given' them they were safe from their tyrant's reach. In the mean time, mation of the pretended sentiments of the Governor of Malaga was communicated to them ; and they sailed, without even the know- ledge of the Governor of Gibraltar, to what they considered 4,ssupi fmeeess. The particulars formerly given respecting their not being' allowed to land at the Rock, and their shipwreck on the coast of Spain, prove to have been incorrect There was no trial previous to the slaughter of these men. That TORRIJOS was to fall a victim to his old master's fears, was to be expected ; but the indiscriminate murder (for it deserves no better name) of his fifty-two followers, was an act of power which had no plea even of state necessity, the tyrant's ordinary plea, to justify it. It is said that the English Con- sul at Malaga interceded in behalf of Mr. BOYD, but without effect ! Whether in such company he was properly amenable to punishment, is not the question. As a native of a country which respects the forms of law, he was entitled to an open trial ; and we trust there is yet sufficient spirit in England, if not in its Ministers, to call the regal ruffian to a speedy and severe account who dared to murder him without one. The abject tame- ness with which such atrocities are permitted to pass, is one of the worst symptoms of the decay of that patriotism which is the sure forerunner of the decay of nations. The Boroughmengers have brought us to this. They have so long shut out the People from all participation in the government of the country, that at length they have come to regard its honour or dishonour as destitute of claim to their sympathy. A correspondent of the Times supplies some melancholy particulars of the fate of these brave and unhappy men.
" They were executed." he says, "amidst the exultations of an infuriated and bigoted populace: Torrijos was the first one who marched to the place of mar- tyrdom : he who had braved the fire of the enemy in so many engagements was not to be appalled at the sight of the wretches of Ferdinand's ivranny : he inarched with a firm and composed air, taking farewell of his comrades in arms ; —,the word was given, and be fell amidst the balls of those soldiers for whose Cause he had so valiantly fought during the war of independence. After him Came Calderon, his constant companion, with a determined step. The others were all drawn up in file, and met the same cull as their heroic chief."
The Madrid Gazette likens TORRIJOS and his party to the Jews at the siege of Jerusalem, and FERDINAND to TITUS !
The Courier says, FERDINAND may shelter himself from cen- sure in murdering Mr. Bovn under his own law, which made it death in any man to land in Spain for the purpose of subverting Isis Government. The Courier forgets, that the dispute is whe- ther FERDINAND could make a law to condemn an Englishman without trial. Suppose he made a law to hang all Englishmen who landed in Spain after the 1st of April next, should we allow him to put it in execution?
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