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was to the merchants : and, as Iturbide himself, 

 at this juncture, condescended to advocate the 

 cause of the army, by writing appeals, with his 

 name at full length, in the public prints, in fa- 

 vour of the merits and claims of his fellow-sol- 

 diers, he dexterously contrived to bring all par- 

 ties into the best possible humour with himself 

 personally. 



On the 18th of May 1822, he presented to the 

 Congress two Madrid Gazettes of the 13th and 

 14th of February, by which it appeared that the 

 Cortes of Spain had declared the treaty of Cordo- 

 va, entered into by the Viceroy, O'Donaju, to be 

 " illegal, null, and void, as respects the Spanish 

 government and its subjects."" 



This document is no less characteristic of the 

 Spaniards, than the foregoing treaty is of the 

 Mexicans ; and, as it is not long, a translation is 

 here inserted. 



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