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 Distinguished men — Generals Bustamante, Santa Anna and Victoria — Anecdote — Señor Pedraza — Señor Gutierrez Estrada — Count Cortina — Señor Gorostiza — Don Carlos Bustamante — "Mornings in the Alameda" — Don Andrés Quintana Roo — Don Lucas Alaman — General Moran — General Almonte — Señor Cañedo — Señors Neri del Barrio and Casaflores — Doctor Valentin — Don Francisco Tagle — Eight revolutions.

27th.

H in his last letter asks what distinguished men we have in Mexico? and with a tone of doubt as to their being very numerous. Distinguished in what way? As generals, as statesmen, as men of literature? It seems to me that a country where we have known Bustamante, Santa Anna, General Victoria, Posada, Gomez Pedraza, Gutierrez Estrada, Count Cortina, Gorostiza, Don Carlos Bustamante, Quintana Roo, General Moran, Don Lucas Alaman, General Almonte, Señor Cañedo, Don Francisco Tagle, Señor Neri del Barrio, Señor Fagoaga, Don José Valentin, the Count de Casaflores, &c., &c., is not so destitute of distinguished men as he supposes. The preceding are, I confess, strung together as they occur to me, without order or regularity; soldiers, statesmen and literary men, some on one side of politics, some on another, but all men of note, and men who have acted, or suffered, or been distinguished in one