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sence of General Don N. Armigo, whose attach- 

 ment to the cause of the Constitution was too well 

 known to admit a doubt of his supporting it. He 

 was, therefore, dismissed from the command of 

 the military division stationed between Mexico 

 and Acapulco ; and in his place Don Augustin 

 Iturbide was appointed ; an officer who, during 

 the former Revolution, had adhered steadily to 

 the interests of the king, though he was a native 

 of Mexico. He had been privy to the secret pro- 

 ject above alluded to, of forcibly resisting the 

 proclamation of the constitution, and when he left 

 Mexico in February 1821, to supersede Armigo, 

 he was implicitly confided in by the Viceroy, who 

 appointed him to escort half a million of dollars 

 destined for embarkation at Acapulco. Iturbide, 

 however, soon took possession of this money at a 

 place called Iguala, about one hundred and twen- 

 ty miles from Mexico, and commenced the second 

 Mexican Revolution, by publishing a paper, 

 wherein he proposed to the Viceroy that a new 

 form of government should be established, inde- 

 pendent of the mother country. 



As this document, which bears the title of the 



