sentences:  After the defeat their assets were seized, being amnestied years later to return to practice as a lawyer in Barcelona until shortly before his death.He maintained contact with several that had been leaders of the city during the siege, as well as with the exiles in the Austrian Empire, and is credited with the authorship of a public manifesto addressed to king George II of Great Britain remembering the alliance between Catalonia and England which was published in 1736, the "twenty-second year of our slavery".Rafel Casanova died in 1743 and two years after, the English historian Tindal wrote in 1745