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 hands in the conspiracy against Quiroga, and who had letters in his possession that would have compromised Rosas, was shot by Rosas' order at the Arroyo del Medio, a little river between the Provinces of Buenos Ayres and Santa Fe, to which place he was transported for that purpose. The character of Rosas was as stupidly misunderstood abroad, at the time of his supremacy, as that of Lopez of Paraguay at the present time. When he was appointed Governor by the Congress, he was crowned by the women; the city was illuminated, bands of music paraded, the people were in a state of exultation, and the universal cry was "Death to the Unitarios!" On the 18th day of the same month the House of Representatives, "in order to reward the worthy citizen, Don Juan Manuel Rosas, and his country companions, for having stifled the scandalous military insurrection of the 1st of December, 1828," voted for a law declaring all publications printed since the 1st of December, 1828, against the former governor, Dorrego, or Colonel Rosas, or the provincial governors and respectable patriots who had served the cause of order, to be infamous libels, and disgraceful to public morals and honor. It also declared him "the restorer of the laws and institutions of the Province of Buenos Ayres. The rank of Brigadier-General of this province shall be given him, and the legislature charges itself with