text:  The absurd history of the violence employed by him to obtain the Queen's signature to a decree for the dissolution of the Cortes is well known as are also the efforts that were made to crush him even after his expulsion from the ministry had been obtained by this pitiful pretext--a pretext at once disgraceful to the artful and unprincipled framers and injurious in the highest degree to Queen Isabel one of whose first acts after her majority had been declared was thus made to be the attestation of a gross and shameless falsehood