An event in the last year of the administration of Las Casas gave rise to festivities of a memorable character. When the war between Spain and the French Republic broke out, General D. Gabriel Aristizabal, who operated in Hayti, did not want the ashes of Columbus to be lost during the ensuing disturbances. It seemed more appropriate, too, that they should not remain in the place where he had been slandered and persecuted and where the villain Bobadilla had put him in fetters, but in the island that had always smiled upon him. On the fifteenth of January, 1796, there entered into the port of Havana the warship _San Lorenzo_, carrying the casket. It was received by Governor Las Casas and General Araoz, the bishops Penalver and Tres Palacios, and between two lines of soldiers was carried to the cathedral, where it was deposited in a humble niche. Though the first city of the island did not then raise a monument to Columbus it was done by a much smaller town, Cardenas, which for this act alone deserves to be mentioned. The inscription upon the stone, under which the remains of Columbus found rest, reads: D. O. M. Clares Heros. Ligustin. CHRISTOPHORUS COLUMBUS A Se, Rei Nautic. Scient. Insign. Niv. Orb. Detect. Araque Castell. Et Legin. Regib. Subject. Vallice. Occub. XIII Kal. Jun. A.M. DVI Cartusianor. Hispal. Cadav. Custod. Tradit. Transfer. Nam. Ipse Praescrips. IN HISPANIOLAE METROP. ECC. Hinc Pace Sancit. Galliae Reipub. Cess In Hanc V. Mar. Concept. Imm. Cath. Ossa Trans. Maxim. Om. Frequent. Sepult. Mand. XIV. Kal. Feb. A. Md. C. C. X. C. V. I. HAVAN. CIVIT Tant. Vir. Meritor. In Se Non Immen. Pretros. Exux. In Optat Diem Tuitur. Hocce Monum. Erex. Praesul. Ill. D. D. Philippo Iph Trespalacios Civic AC Militar. Rei. Gen. Praef. Exme D.D. LUDOVICO DE LAS CASAS