CABRERA, Dox liAmos, the boldest leader of the Carlist party in Spain, was b. at Tortosa, in Catalonia, 31st Aug., 1810. The death of Ferdinand, in 1833, gave the sig nal for a civil war, and first brought C. into notice. Placing himself at the head of some guerilla troops, he joined the absolutists, or partisans of Don Carlos, and by his vigilance, energy, and daring soon rose to be second in command in the Maestrazgo dis trict. Throughout Aragon and Valencia his name became a by-word for cruelty. After penetrating as far s. as Andalusia, his forces were completely routed by the royal troops, ou the borders of Aragon, and he himself, severely wounded, escaped with difficulty into the woods. It was now rumored that C. was dead, when all at once he reappeared at the head of 10,000 foot and 1600 horse. Invading the province of Valencia, he over threw the royal army at Bufiol, 18th Feb., 1837, and again ou the 19th Mar. at Burjasot; but was in lus turn vanquished at Torre Blanca, and once more compelled to seek is hiding-place. Shortly after, he reopened the war with fiery energy. Madrid itself was threatened by C., who, about this time, received the title of count of Morella for his vigorous defense of the fortress of that name, and was also appointed governor-general of Aragon, Valencia, and Murcia. The Carlists now believed that the triumph of abso
lutism was approaching, when the treachery of the Carlist gen., Marotto, changed the whole aspect of affairs, and Don Carlos fled from Spain. C. held out until Espartcro forced him to quit the country in the summer of 1840. He then entered France, where he was taken prisoner, and confined for a short time in the fortress of Ham. In 1845, he strongly opposed Don Carlos's abdication of his rights. On the outbreak of the French revolution in 1848, he renewed the struggle ou behalf of absolutism in Spain; but the adventure proved a miserable failure, and on the 17th Jan., 1849, he recrossed the Pyrenees, to live in retirement. He afterwards married a wealthy English lady, .hiss Marianne Catherine Richards. When Alphonso was proclaimed king of Spain in 1875, C. advised the Carlists to submit to him, chiefly because he was "a good son of the church." Ile died 24th May, 1877.