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Rh it appears that the Sonorans had no special grievance to redress, but were easily induced to join what they were led to regard as a general and popular movement, which they abandoned as soon as they learned its unpopularity; that the immediate motives of the leaders Gallardo and Castillo are not known; that alarms and rumors. One or two arrests were made, and the Sonorans feared punishment and sent a committee, including Wm A. Richardson, to plead for them with Gutierrez. On March 19th, F. sent a full pardon and permission to return to Sonora. Dept. St. Pap., Ben., MS., ii. 25-7; v. 191-6; Dept. St. Pap., MS., iv. 23. March 11th to May 6th. Apalátegui and Torres, Causa seguida contra ellos por Conspiradores, 1835, MS., 100 p. Testimony and legal proceedings, with some additional papers, in Dept. St. Pap., MS., iv. 21-3; Dept. St. Pap., Angeles, MS., ii. 12-13. Fragmentary testimony of Hidalgo and others at Monterey in ''Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil.,'' MS., liii. 77-86. Gallardo and Castillo testified that A. and T. had seduced the Sonorans, assuring them that the happiness of Cal. depended on the movement, and that all the settlers and the ayunt. were in favor of it, and had given the pronunciados $2 each. T. they said had furnished $60 to buy lead, etc. A. deposed that T. and Gallardo had led him into the affair; but admitted that he himself had written the plan and lent $200 for distribution. He said that Gallardo was the leader, and had secured the re-paynent of the $200 by pledging his horses. He thought that many citizens of Los Angeles and some foreigners of Sta Bárbara knew of the plot in advance. T. swore that he had made many objections to the plan shown him by A. and Gallardo after they had 'pronounced;' that he had loaned a little money without knowing for what it was to be used; and that he had never favored nor instigated the movement. Miguel Hidalgo testified at Monterey that T. at Los Angeles had tried to induce him and others to join a plot, though speaking very guardedly. All efforts to prove by this witness an understanding with Híjar or others failed completely. Several foreigners, including Dr Wm Reid, Hugo Reid, and Santiago Johnson, testified that they knew nothing of the revolt except by rumors; but they said some arms had been taken from them or other foreigners. There was some evidence respecting the manufacture of lances and the payment of various sums of money, implicating none but Gallardo. A.'s defender was Julian Padilla, Osio declining; and T. was defended by Regina de la Mora. The fiscal was Manuel Requena. There is nothing in the legal routine that requires notice. The defence was confined mainly to protests, complaints of irregularities in the proceedings, and declarations of the ease with which the innocence of the accused was to be shown before the sup. court in Mexico. On June 13th, the asesor, Cosme Peña, reviewed the case; and June 30th the alcalde rectified certain errors. April 10 to May 6, 1835, Apalátegui and Torres, Averiguacion en Sonora del Tumulto hecho en Los Angeles por varios Sonorenses á Instigacion de los dichos Gefes, MS., 50 p. About a dozen men were examined in this Sonora investigation, and the general purport of their testimony was that the Sonorans had joined what they were led by Apalátegui to regard as a general movement of Los Angeles, the prominent citizens of the south, and the foreign residents, made with a view to restore the missions to the padres, and that they had abandoned the scheme as soon as its true nature was known. The record is a fragment, and the result not known. March 13th, Figueroa at S. Juan Bautista to ayunt. of Angeles on the events of March 7th. Original in ''Coronel, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., 23-34; Figueroa, Manifiesto,'' 147-51. Same to alcalde of Monterey. Original in Vallejo, Doc., MS., xxxi. 175. Same to alcalde of S. Diego. ''Hayes, Miss. Book,'' i. 228. Same to Gutierrez in Dept. St. Pap., MS., iv. 9-10. Replies of Argüello and Portilla. March 21st, all right at S. Diego and S. Luis Rey. Id., iv. 13-14.