Espediente importantisimo seguido por el Sr. Fiscal de la Exma. Corte Suprema de Justicia por la violacion de garantias individuales en el destierro de D. Jose Santiago Muñoz Bezanilla &c.

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4°, disbound. Elaborate typographical border on title page (left side trimmed when the volume was bound). Wood engraving below title of two allegorical figures, one of them Justice. Minor stains. Overall in good condition. Early manuscript foliation in ink. ii, 19 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The wife of José Santiago Muñoz Bezanilla, a prominent liberal, asks that her husband - exiled without benefit of a trial - be allowed to return to his family. After the defeat of the liberals in the Chilean Civil War of 1829, Muñoz Bezanilla was exiled to the town of Huasco near the Atacama Desert, famous as the driest place on earth. The 14 documents reproduced here are signed by President José Tomas Ovalle, Diego Portales, Fernando Errazuris, and Mariano Egaña. Dating from July to November 1830, they focus on who sent Muñoz Bezanilla into exile and whether the Constitution of 1828 gave them the authority to do so.Muñoz Bezanilla (ca. 1780-1836), a native of Santiago, was involved in the Chilean independence movement as early as 1811, when he helped suppress the Figueroa Mutiny. After Rancagua he was exiled by the Spaniards to the Juan Fernández islands, returning only after the Battle of Maipú in 1818. As a liberal, he wrote for El Pipiolo and El Monitor Araucano, and several times during the 1820s served in Congress. He also helped promulgate the Constitution of 1828, and under President Francisco Ramón Vicuña was secretary of War and the Navy.*** Briseño I, 130: without mention of the preliminary leaf. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Jisc. Seller Inventory # 37808

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