News arrivez from Buenos Aires in June…

News arrivez from Buenos Aires in June 1810 that Napoleon Bonaparte's forces have conquered Andalusia and laid siege to Cádiz, the last redoubt against the French on Spanish soil.

Moreover, the Supreme Central Junta, which had governed the Empire for the past two years, has abolished itself in favor of a Regency Council.

García Carrasco, who is a supporter of the carlotist group, manages to magnify the political problems by taking arbitrary and harsh measures, such as the arrest and deportation to Lima without due process of well-known and socially prominent citizens under simple suspicions of having been sympathetic to the junta idea.

Inspired by the May Revolution in Argentina, the autonomy movement has also propagated through the criollo elite.

They resent the illegal arrests and, together with the news that Cádiz is all that is left of a free Spain, finally solidify in their opposition to the Governor.

Brigadier García Carrasco is suspended from office and forced to resign on July 16, 1810, to be in turn replaced by the next most senior soldier, Mateo de Toro Zambrano, Count of la Conquista, even though a legitimate Governor, Francisco Javier de Elío, has already been appointed by the Viceroy of Peru.