His funeral ceremonies were conducted by the archbishop, and his honored remains interred in the church of San Fernando. At the period of the viceroy's decease his wife was pregnant; and it is stated, in the chronicles of the day,--and we mention it as a singular illustration of Spanish habits,--that the daughter, of which she was delivered in the following month of December, received the names of, _Maria de Guadalupe Bernarda Isabel Felipa de Jesus Juana Nepomucena Felicitas_, to which was joined at the period of the lady's confirmation, the additional one of _Fernanda_! The Ayuntamiento of Mexico, in order to show its appreciation of the viceroy's memory, offered to become _god-father_ of the infant, and the ceremony of its baptism was performed with all the splendor of the Catholic church, in the presence of the court and of a portion of the army. The defunct viceroy had become popular with the masses, and the people strove to manifest their love for the dead by their affectionate courtesy to his orphan, daughter and desolate widow. The AUDIENCIA REAL assumed the government of Mexico, inasmuch as the Spanish ministry had provided no successor in the event of the count's death. Its power continued until the following February, during which period no event of note occurred in New Spain, save the destruction by fire of valuable mining property at Bolaños, and a violent hurricane at Acapulco, accompanied by earthquakes, which swept the sea over the coast, and caused great losses to the farmers and herdsmen who dwelt on the neighboring lowlands. NUÑEZ DE HARO, ARCHBISHOP OF MEXICO, L. VICEROY, AD INTERIM, OF NEW SPAIN. 1787.