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CH. XVIII.] at the moment the first news of the revolution against Iturbide was received, he agreed that the congress should be convoked as originally constituted by the Act of Independence: the same was carried into effect, by an act of 29th March; and, on the 2d July, the said congress decreed that the Mexican troops should evacuate the Guatemalian territory. In their march through the capital city of the province of Chiapa, of which Filisola was the commandant, some difficulties arose: he insisted upon the separation of that province from the Guatemalian federation, showing that it belonged to the government of Mexico; and, whilst Chiapa seemed silently to acquiesce in this arrangement, Filisola continued his march, leaving a detachment of his division under the command of Colonel Codallos, but who was afterwards expelled by the joint military forces of Tutla and Comitañ.

Although, at the present day, the Mexicans claim this territory in the list of the