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MEXICAN REVOLUTION. 



" Decree of the Cortes at Madrid. 



In the Session of 13th February, the Extraor- 

 dinary Cortes at Madrid approved of the fol- 

 lowing Articles. 



1st. The Cortes declare, that what is styled 

 the Treaty of Cordova between General CDonaju 

 and the chief of the mal-contents of New Spain, 

 Don Augustin de Iturbide, as well as any other 

 act or stipulation involving the recognition of 

 Mexican independence by the aforesaid general, 

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

 government and its subjects. 



" 2d. That the Spanish government, by an 

 official communication to all such powers as are 

 in amicable relations with it, shall declare that the 

 Spanish nation will at all times consider as a vio- 

 lation of existing treaties, the partial or absolute 

 recognition of the independence of the Spanish 

 American colonies, seeing that the discussions 

 pending between some of them and the mother 

 country are not yet concluded ; and that the 

 Spanish government in the fullest manner shall 

 testify to foreign powers, that hitherto Spain has 



