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CONTENTS.
| LETTER THE FORTY-FOURTH. | ||
| Agitation — Storm — Revolution — Manifesto — Resembling a game of chess — Position of the pieces — Appearance of the city — Firing — State of parties — Comparisons — "Comicios" — The people — Congress — Santa Anna — Amnesty offered — Roaring of cannon — Proclamation — Time to look at home — The will of the nation — Different feelings — Judge's house destroyed — The mint in requisition — Preparations — Cannonading — "Los Enanos," | 222 | |
| LETTER THE FORTY-FIFTH. | ||
| Leave Mexico — Travelling equipage — San Xavier — Fine hacienda — Millionaires — Well-educated ladies — Garden, &c. — Tlanapantla — Indian hut — Mrs. Ward — Doña Margarita — The pronunciamiento — False step — Santa Anna in Puebla — Neutrality — General Paredes — President in Tlanapantla — Tired troops — Their march — Their return — Curate's house — Murder — General Paredes in the Lecheria — President in Tlanapantla — A meeting — Return of the President and his troops — General Paredes and his men — Santa Anna in Tacubaya — A junction — President in Mexico — Allied sovereigns — Plan — Articles — President declares for federalism — Resigns — Results — Hostilities — Capitulation — Triumphal entry — Te Deum — New ministry, | 235 | |
| LETTER THE FORTY-SIXTH. | ||
| Santa Mónica — Solidity — Old paintings — Anachronism — Babies and nurses from the Cuna — Society — Funds — Plan — Indian nurses — Carmelite convent — Midnight warning — Old villages and churches — Indian bath — San Matéo — The Lecheria — Fertility — Molino Viejo — Dulness — Religious exercises — Return to Mexico — Mexican hotel — New generals — Disturbances — General Bustamante — Inconvenience — Abuses in the name of Liberty — Verses — Independence celebrated, | 256 | |
