246 



MEXICO. 



TREATY OF CORDOVA. 



" Treaty concluded in the Town of Cordova on 

 the 24th of August 1821, between Don Juan 

 O'Donaju, Lieutenant-General of the Ar- 

 mies of Spain, and Don Augustin de Itur- 

 bide, First Chief of the Imperial Mexican Ar- 

 my of the ' Three Guarantees.' 



" New Spain having declared herself independ- 

 ent of the mother country ; possessing an army to 

 support this declaration; her provinces having 

 decided in its favour ; the capital wherein the le- 

 gitimate authority had been deposed being besieg- 

 ed ; the cities of Vera Cruz and Acapulco alone re- 

 maining to the European government ungarrisoned, 

 and without the means of resisting a well direct- 

 ed siege of any duration, Lieut. >G en. Don Juan 

 0''Donaju arrived at the first-named port in the 

 character and quality of Captain General and first 

 Political Chief of this kingdom, appointed by his 

 Most Catholic Majesty, and being desirous of 

 avoiding the evils that necessarily fall upon the 

 people in changes of this description, and of re- 



