[887] Even Evaristo San Miguel, one of the exaltados of 1822 who, as secretary of State, was largely responsible for the follies which invited the French intervention of 1823, admits the errors of the Córtes of Cádiz. The Constitution of 1812, he says, was an exotic that took no root in the soil; the mass of the people, plunged in ignorance and misery, knew of it only by hearing from their spiritual guides that it was a tissue of impieties.—De la Guerra Civil de España, p. 88 (Madrid, 1836).
[888] Toreno, II, 208, 211, 223, 249.—Coleccion de los Decretos y Ordenes que han expedido las Córtes Generales, I, 1-3 (Madrid, 1820).
[889] Vélez, Apología del Altar y del Trono, I, 107-10, 113-19, 211-12 (Madrid, 1825).—Coleccion de Decretos, I, 16.
[890] These letters have been repeatedly reprinted. My edition is of Madrid, 1824-5 in five volumes. Under the Restoration, Alvarado was appointed a member of the Suprema, but he can scarce have acted as he died, August 31, 1814.
[891] La Inquisicion sin Máscara, pp. 5-12, 28, 299, 480-3 (Cádiz, 1811).—An English translation by William Walton appeared in London, in 1816, with a valuable Introduction.
[892] Cartas del Filósofo Rancio, I, 86, 87, 96, 98, 262, 265, 268, 297; II, 21, 457, 461.
[893] Marliani, op. cit., I, 175.
[894] Tit. I, cap. i, art. 2, 3; Tit. II, cap. ii, art. 12 (Coleccion de Decretos, II, 98, 100).
[895] Vélez, Apología, II, 116-27.—Marliani, I, 179.—Carnicero, Hist. de la Revolucion, III, 160, 184.—Coleccion de Decretos, II, 166; III, 60.
[896] Vélez, Apología, I, 126-34, 212-13.—Rodrigo, III, 370.—Toreno, III, 106-7.