certain corporations aid in fitting out another expedition. The Mexican government was duly advised by its agents and made preparations accordingly.[1] The alarm throughout the country was great, and even gave rise to the circulation of a false report, in August 1830, that 5,000 Spaniards had landed between capes Rojo and Tamiahua near Tuxpan.[2] This rumor probably originated in the movements of a few men seeking a suitable place for a smuggling operation. The consequence was that more stringent measures against the Spaniards were adopted by the government, not only expelling those still residing in Mexico, but forbidding the landing of others.[3]
European intrigues were not wanting at this time, 1830, to erect thrones in Spanish America, one of which was to be raised in Mexico and occupied by a prince of the Orleans family. The best informed statesmen and politicians in Europe seemed to be under the impression that Mexico could be ruled only by a monarchy.[4]
President Guerrero was duly installed in office on the 1st of April, 1829, and immediately published a manifesto outlining his future policy.[5] The history of Mexico's long struggle for national life is witness to Guerrero's resolution. He was born in the town of Tixtla, then within the intendencia of Mexico, in 1782,[6] of humble parents, Juan Pedro Guerrero and María
- ↑ Some Carmelite friars had also said that the Spanish flag in July 1830 would wave over the palace at Mexico. That remark apparently explained the influx of Spaniards to the ports. Atleta, 1830, March 24, 381; Bustamante, Voz de la Patria, ii. no. 16; Mex., Proceso Instruc., 1833, 39-40.
- ↑ The name of Prince Paul of Wurtemberg, who made a flying visit to Mexico, had been absurdly mixed up with Spanish plans. Alaman, Defensa, 85-6.
- ↑ Decrees and details are given in Bustamante, Voz de la Patria, v. no. 17, 8, no. 21, 7, supl., nos 9, 10; Dispos. Var., ii. 80; Dublan and Lozano, Lėgis. Mex., ii. 230, 287-8, 322-3, 390; Mex. Col. Ley. y Dec., 1829-30, 142-3.
- ↑ Zavala assures us that he was invited, about Feb. 1830, by a foreign agent to coöperate in the accomplishment of such a plan. Revol. Mex., ii. 248.
- ↑ Full text in Arrillaga, Recop., 1829, 55; Guerrero, Manif., 1-20.
- ↑ The certificate of his christening at the parish church is dated Aug. 10, 1782, by which it appears that he was named Vicente Ramon.
