To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir,--In the leading artile of The Times of this day you are pleased to call upon me to entradict a report by which (in your opinion) I am charged of having ordered or connived at the miurder of some Spaniards who were im_ prisoned for conspiring against the thea existing constitu.- iion of their cauntry. Quite astonished at a charge which even my bitterest enemnies had never made against me, I loolce&mostanxiouslv to the evidence on which it was grounded, and I found there was none, since my name is not even mentioned in the Madrid Gazette which professes to be a statement of the affair alluded to. In these circumstances, my only way is a most positive and solemn deniatl or any share in any transaction of such a, description, and a bold challenge to prove otherwise, since in such cases the onus probandi beloi.gs to the acenser. I feel confident that the whole of my polidieal life does not offer any ground on which I may be liable to the sus- picion of having ever ordered or connived at murder. Of the part I took in what I thought to be the regeneration of my country, I still feel proud, -though men may judge of it differently, according to their political principles; bat I can ascertain, that ncither while I commanded the Liberating Arnny at Isla, nor ever since, has any blood been spilt by my orders, save in battle or by the sentence of the exist_ ing laws. I hope, Sir, vou will insert in your paper this answer to, what ?may be allowed to term a most gratuitqus and ua- founded accusation. I remnain, Sir, Your moat nhpAiinf ta b 1uiinh1I -pri-vn ANTONIO QUIROGA. ti,NWellealey.street, Chebsex, D= 9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMELS.