Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-12-28
MEXICO INDEPENDENT.

we nave been so Fortunate as to ohtain.
through respectable channel, some inoor-
tan Information. from 'icxico private letters
aud several printed documents of great in
terest, otwhlch however, we can give oalC an
outline. The General tenor OF these advices
IS OF such Il temper us must be grateful TO CIV
cry lriend ottrecd0m, and the great Grntiyy Of
hc Reic !foTtd, but the details would of them
se!ves form hook.
The following extracts we make from the
Original letter, dated,
MEXico, SEPT. 90, 1921.
The general NUrjide) entered This city
yesterday, at the head Of 95000 men. The
provisional junta is now assembled and n re-
Sency will be formed in the course of a few
days Every thing is perfectly quiet, and ev-
cry prospect Of lis remaining so. / send Won
some public documents, which will convey
you some Ideas Of the stale ot things here =
III mas been IA most extraordinary revolution.
effected without boodshcd, and has been
preclpitated altogether by the vile policy of
The beloved Ferdinand. Ii is now well known
generally, that Ferdinand has sent secret Of
ueis To Apodaca, TO ovcrturn the constitution
Ia New SPAN, ana re-establish the despot-
10 regime of the Bourbons. Apodaca conf
ded The secret to the several chiefs and among
others to ltT6ide, who, finding the country
determined Ia maintain constitutional govern
neni, hostcd the til-colOred FLAG and alopt-
cd poilcy calculated To deceive .qDoddcG.
Mo at that time might have crushed him ian
TIE bud but Apodaca allowed il to spread.
Nnd 1t ran through the country like wildfrc.
Hhrce-fourths 81 the European troops ioincd
The independents, but had it not been for Tia,
opportune arrival of O'Don0hu, Mexico being
then garrisoned by 1000 resolute troops. n1ighf
haze Sized much blood, and held ont con
siderable time"
So far the letter among the papers which
accompany il are the following, of a very
marked charactcr-but which are too vo!nmi-
nous for instant translation. The first is a
copy OF the Official despatch addressed by
general u Donohu to the military governor OF
era Cruz, (DdUiuGJ enclosing copy of a
convention entered into by that officer with
general Au5ustn Yturbide, in which the indie
pendcnce of Mexico of the authority of Spain
Is recognized, and explanatory of the reasons
which governed him in signing this conyen-
ton, which is dated on the 26th of August LAST
dt Cordova. We shall give a sketch of the
substance of this letter, which must have been
10 the Havana 1early four months past
When some time since we published some adj
vices received from Havana, concerning Mex
leo, we stated that while Vera Cruz rrnlain-
ed under the royal authority, no advices adj
verse to the royal cause would he permit
ted to pass that way, aud all the adviccs by
way OF Havana would be, as had so often
been the case in the adyices from Vcnpzue-
la, suppressed or Ifiutiated so as to ppryprt
the truth. This public document is now
received, the port Of Vera CrgZ being
open and under the authority of the indc
peudenf government. We shall now STATE Am
outline of the despatch to the governor Of We
ia Cruz, which IS an act of aulhJtii rxercis-
oil ~ the Name and in behalf Of Ferdinand
by his authorized captain general.
The dispatch enter Circumstantjally INFO q
detail of tb" relations which have existed be-
tween Old and Ncw Spaii--thc actual situ,-
ton Of Mexico, and al the provinces dcpen-
dent on It's goyernmcnt-ihe Affections under
which it has suffered from false policy. and
gross mlsrulc, tor aleDgth Of years that the
5tJection OF the people, the obstruction Of
h5Fcuiture ANA Industry, by fatal policy, had
produced great poverty, and a mass Of dis
content. which had been concentrated by the
spirit OF tIc age, aud produced sentiments
which, having their foundation In nature and
necessity, pcryaded all parts Of the provinces
That Tie greatest errors had hitherto directed
tnc policy pursued towards the Mcxicans
they arc the people ofpccuIiir organizatinn.apd
of great susceptibility of character, incidental
TO illc happy nature Of their Cimate--apt that
the evils of Internal war, acting upon their
minds had stimulated them IT, assert their
rights aud however imperfecily they had
formed their opinions, they were such as were
~ be- found in The heart 0f man. whenever his
iniellccts are brought TO act in that direction II
aud pariake Of the awakening spirit that cha
ractorses the whole world at this time ihatI
Mexico stood in the same relation tn Spain.
rs q child to his parent, by whom in infancy,
he is nGrsed up, vino Guifls his duties and obc-
dicncc fili he becomes capable Of acting for
himsc..-- when, without abatng his love or
disregarding his first ties, std leads hin to