BRANTZ MAYER,

FORMERLY SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STATES LEGATION IN MEXICO,
AND AUTHOR OF "MEXICO AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS."


Ne dites à la posterité que ce qui est digne de la posterité.—Voltaire.


VOLUME I.


NEW YORK & LONDON.
WILEY AND PUTNAM.

MDCCCXLVIII.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by
BRANTZ MAYER,
in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the District of Maryland.