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402 to the military or public employes disaffected to the Mexican independence; they will leave the Empire within the term prescribed by the Regency, &c., &c.

By the seventeenth and last, as the occupation of the capital by the peninsular troops is an obstacle to the realization of the treaty, this difficulty must be vanquished; but as the chief of the Imperial army desires to bring this about, not by force, but by gentler means. General O'Donoju offers to employ his authority with the troops, that they may leave the capital without any effusion of blood, and by an honorable treaty. This treaty was signed by Yturbide and O'Donoju.

Had this plan of Iguala taken effect, what would have been the result in Mexico?—what its present condition?. . ..

This being Sunday, and a fête-day, a man was murdered close by our door, in a quarrel brought about probably through the influence of pulque, or rather of chinguirite. If they did not so often end in deadly quarrel, there would be nothing so amusing as to watch the Indians gradually becoming a little intoxicated. They are at first so polite—handing the pulque jar to their fair companions; (fair being taken in the general or Pickwickian sense of the word) always taking off their hats to each other, and if they meet a woman, kissing her hand with a humble bow as if she were a duchess;—but these same women are sure to be the cause of a quarrel, and then out come these horrible knives—and then, Adios!

It is impossible to conceive anything more humble