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728 him permission to advance as far as Córdoba for the purpose of holding a conference with him, and despatched the conde de San Pedro del Álamo and Juan Ceballos, a son of the marqués de Guardiola, to receive and entertain General O’Donojú there. Meantime Iturbide went to the vicinity of Mexico, and established his headquarters at the hacienda of Zoquiapa, near Tezcuco, whence he apprised Novella of O’Donojú's arrival. Novella, however, resolved to effect no change in affairs till the new ruler should reach the capital.

After adopting some necessary military measures, Iturbide proceeded to Córdoba, which place he reached on the 23d of August. General O’Donojú arrived the same day, having been escorted by Santa Anna with every mark of respect as far as Jalapa. The chief paid a friendly visit to the general and his wife that same evening, and on the following day official conferences were held. Iturbide proposed that by a treaty the plan of Iguala should be adopted as the only means to secure the lives and property of Spaniards residing in the country, and the Mexican throne to the house of Bourbon. O’Donojú assented, and in his sovereign's name recognized the independence of Mexico, and agreed to surrender the city of Mexico to the army of the three guaranties. This celebrated treaty consisted of seventeen articles, which confirmed the plan of Iguala with a slight difference in the third article. I give in a note an epitome of the instrument.