vessels, between that peninsula and Cuba, though contrary to law; it is even asserted that a number of such vessels arrived, August 18, 1824, at Sisal, escorted by Spanish men-of-war to the entrance of the port.[1]
Fernando was no doubt planning the reconquest of his former colony, and conferred upon the ex-viceroy Apodaca the appointment of-captain-general of Cuba, to carry out the scheme. The count, however, did not come out to Cuba.[2]
A few days after the constituent congress began its labors, a plot was divulged, at the head of which was a friar named Joaquin Arenas.[3] This individual, on the 19th of January, 1827, approached Ignacio Mora, comandante general of the federal district, inviting him to join in a plan for the restoration of the Spanish government, and the protection of the true faith, which he claimed to be imperilled by the freedom of the press and the introduction of heretical books. He threatened Mora with death if he divulged the plot to the government, assuring him that it had ramifications throughout the country, and was on the eve of execution. Mora, of course, at once apprised the president, and it was arranged that he should invite Arenas to a second interview, and that Colonel Tornel, the president's private secretary, and Molinos del Campo, the governor of the federal district, hidden from sight, should be present at the conference. The
- ↑ The same men-of-war that had brought relief to the garrison of San Juan de Ulúa. Yuc. Manif. Cong. del Est., 39-53, 78-85; Yuc. Comp. Hist., 14-25; Beltrami, Mex., ii. 355-8; Вarbachano, Mem. Саmр., 4-3, ар. 9-14; Suarez y Navarro, Hist. Méx., 67-70; Bustamante, Cuad. Hist., MS., viii. 23S; Id., Voz de la Patria, ii. no. 6, 2-3. Under the pretext that the invasion of Yucatan would imperil Mexico's nationality, a motion was made in congress to empower the governors to remove from their homes all persons suspected of hostility to independence. The motion was rejected. Bustamante, Voz de la Patria, ii. nos. 5 and 8.
- ↑ King Fernando, by his ambassor in London, the duque de San Cárlos, according to the statement of the latter's agent, José Mariano Torrente, solicited the aid of Iturbide, but without avail. Torrente, Revol. Hisp. Am., iii. 365; Bustamante, Hist. Iturbide, 228, 252-3; Id., Cuad. Hist., MS., viii. 255.
- ↑ A barefooted Dieguino from Spain with a bad record; his last offence being that of counterfeiting coin at a place that was disguised as a soap factory in Mexico.
