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ble, and stript of all its clothes, money, effects, &c. except a waistcoat, containing a card with the name of Don Carlos de Grandez engraved on it, and a fine shirt of Holland linen, marked with the initials D. C. G. surmounted with a Marquis's coronet, both of which are deposited in the town-hall of this city:

"We, the Corregidor, the Magistrates, Councillors and others, the officers justiciary of this Royal City and Sea-port, in order to promote the ends of public justice, do hereby promise and award to every one and all, who may or shall discover or detain, or cause to be discovered or detained, one, several, or all of the parties concerned in that diabolical act, so that it may be the means of him, her, or them being brought to condign punishment, a Reward of Four Thousand hard Pistoles, in lawful currency of this realm, to be paid on conviction of each or every one of these atrocious assassins, by the Royal Bank of St. Carlos, at Madrid.

"One moiety of the said Reward will also be given, besides a free grant of the King's