[XXIV-24] Other distinctions, among which an addition to the coat of arms, were also resolved in the same session. Córtes, Actas Ord. (1814), ii. 206.
[XXIV-25] His decree of May 4, 1814, was carried out on the Isthmus in August of the same year. Pan., Doc. Hist., in Pan., Col. Doc., no. 36, MS., 8-19.
[XXIV-26] Bustamante, Cuad. Hist., iv. 161-3, gives the number as 10,473, which agrees with the figures given by Restrepo, Hist. Col., vi. 49; but this authority refers only to the troops.
[XXIV-27] This was the principal object; 'asegurar este istmo en sujecion perpetua á la España, fuera cual fuese el éxito final de la guerra de la independencia de las colonias de S. M. C. en el Nuevo Mundo;' which is confirmed by the words of the royal order of May 9, 1815, speaking of the expedition as made in view of 'la importancia de poner en el respetable pié de defensa que conviene, al Istmo de Panamá, llave de ambas Américas.' Arosemena, Apunt., 29-30.
[XXIV-28] The vessel carrying Hore and part of his force was captured near Cartagena by two small ships belonging to the revolutionists. Restrepo, Hist. Col., vi. 95-6; Torrente, Hist. Rev., ii. 178-9.
[XXIV-29] It had been held ad interim by Juan Domingo Iturralde, Arosemena, Apunt., 30-1, who was the governor of Veragua and adjoining districts. Pan., Doc. Hist., in Pan., Col. Doc., no. 36, MS., 8.
[XXIV-30] Arosemena, Apunt., 31, speaks of his 'detestacion de los principios de gobierno representativo,' and says on page 42 that he was the man employed by Fernando VII. to dissolve in 1814 the Spanish córtes.
[XXIV-31] The king had decreed the reëstablishment of the order in Spanish America, but it was not carried out on the Isthmus, there being no members of the society here, nor any one willing to join it. 'Andábamos ya algo despreocupados,' says an authority. The society was already looked on as an agent of despotism and perpetual state of vassalage. Bol. Ofic., 1868, 112.
[XXIV-32] 'Prometiéndoles ganancias enormes, pero propias de las circunstancias.' Restrepo, Hist. Col., vii. 168.
[XXIV-33] While the assailants had all their attention centred on Portobello, a Spanish vessel, with $70,000 on board, passed the port unperceived. Weatherhead's Darien, 29.