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Rh arrive unmolested at Tacubaya, where Paredes has also arrived, and where he has been joined by General Valencia; so that the three pronunciado Generals are now united there to dispose of the fate of the Republic. . ..

The same day General Almonte had an interview with Santa Anna, who said with a smile, when he left him—"Es buen muchacho—(he is a good lad) he may be of service to us yet.". ..

The three Allied Sovereigns are now in the Archbishop's palace at Tacubaya, from whence they are to dictate to the President and the nation. But they are in fact chiefly occupied with their respective engagements and respective rights. Paredes wishes to fulfil his engagements with the departments of Guanajuato, Jalisco, Zacatecas, Aguas Calientes, Queretaro, &c. In his Plan he promised them religious toleration, permission for foreigners to hold property, and so on—the last in fact being his favorite project. Valencia, on his side, has his engagements to fulfil with the federalists, and has proposed Señor Pedraza as an integral part of the regeneration, one whose name will give confidence now and for ever to his party. General Santa Anna has engagements with himself. He has determined to command them all, and allows them to fight amongst themselves, provided he governs, Paredes is in fact furious with Valencia, accusing him of having interfered when not wanted, and of having ruined his Plan, by mingling it with a revolution, with which it had no concern. He does not reflect, that Valencia was the person who gave the mortal wound to the