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of the night. Twenty-nine of the leading citizens one being General “Flores brother remained at the cabille all nigbé to guard if, and in the morning they were ail found dead of cholera. Thus, wholesale murder, and choler: raging on every side, made a very unpleasing
variety after England.
The troops bivouacked on the grass in the centre of the large plazzo; the matrise, or cathedral, being on one side and the cabille on the other. The military band was playing in the evening, and the townspeople sauntering up and down in the walks under the avenues of tiees. The black and swarthg savage Paraguayan soldiery had Dit fires, and were cooking their meat on upright spits over the fires; and the whole scene, after the butchery of the day, presented a curious aspect, the soldiery being in whitish-coloured regimentals, and giving anything but a sense of security to a beholder.
On the’ body of one of the conspirators a list was found of sixty-eight persons who were to have been assassinated, including the whole of the senate and two of the principal English residents.
The troops returied from the country on the 20th February, after cutting to pieces 150 of the Blanco army; and yet the same evening thirty-one of these troops died from cholera, brought on from fatigue, drink, and heat. The guard ships of the different nations sent their marines ashore to guard the custom house, ambassadors, and merchants houses. It being impossible to leave the city, Î was forced to remain and listen to the fearful accounts of both bloodshed and pestilence that reached me from every quarter. It appeared that two former
