Ah, don Martín de Álzaga, Mayor of First Vote, how much that night it was worked, how everything was arranged so that our enemies did not enter!  Álzaga remained with Gaspar from the age of 12 to 22, when he became independent, and with Gaspar’s help (5000 pesos), established his own commerce -Álzaga and Requena. According to Gaspar himself, Martín was much more efficient as a merchant. Martín de Álzaga had indeed a very important participation in the commerce of the Virreinato, arriving to be one of the richest men of that time. Martín de Álzaga, as Spaniard and rich, was not well seen by the Mayo revolutionaries. He managed to save his life in one first opportunity at 1809, because it had a right trial, where Gaspar of Santa Coloma declared in his favour. Nevertheless, two years later, on July 4, 1812, Martín was again detained probably under false accusations and witnesses, and was shot that same day. He was order to die without a trial and without a lawyer, by the First Triumvirate (Argentina), formed by Manuel de Sarratea, Feliciano Chiclana and Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, who in that year replaced the former member Juan José Paso. Bernardino Rivadavia was Secretary of war of this Triumvirate, and was actively involved in his sentence to death. Gaspar of Santa Coloma, on the other hand, could save his life, at the cost of its fortune, destroyed due to the continuous withdraw from the revolutionaries. Also, and most likely, because his brother in law was Miguel de Azcuénaga, a member of the Primera Junta with strong influence among the revolutionaries. We will never know with certainty the details of which it happened, since little they left writing from fear of retaliation. Without a doubt, someone powerful as Álzaga was a threat for the Triumvirate. For that reason they did not leave any margin for defence or appeal, and was shot immediately. Only Gaspar de Santa Coloma, and his friend José Martinez de Hoz, dared to accompany his rest. Gaspar educated Álzaga, as well as prominent journalist and writer Esteban Echeverría, and several nephews, among them Juan Antonio of Santa Coloma.