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son of General O'Donaju, who, considering 

 the cause of the mother-country in Mexico 

 to be hopeless, agreed, after some negotia- 

 tion, to the treaty of Cordova, which was 

 signed on the 24th of August 1821, and 

 which acknowledged the independence of 

 Mexico, by the name of the Mexican Em- 

 pire ; but stipulated, that the throne should 

 be offered conditionally to Ferdinand Vllth, 

 and on his refusal, successively to his bro- 

 thers : it being, no doubt, anticipated at 

 the time, by Iturbide, that Ferdinand Vllth 

 and his family would at once repudiate 

 both the treaty and the conditional sove- 

 reignty. 



In consequence of this treaty, and at the 

 instance of O'Donaju, the capital was in- 

 duced to surrender, and Iturbid6 made his 

 entry into Mexico on the 27th of September. 

 O'Donaju soon afterwards died of the yel- 

 low fever. The Congress met on the 24th 

 of February 1822. On the 18th of May, 



