“THIS NEW ATTEMPT AT REBELLION IN MEXICO WILL NOT BE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN THE PREVIOUS ONES”: ACCOUNTS OF THE AUSTRIAN DIPLOMATS IN SPAIN ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF MEXICO(1820-1823)

Abstract

The article is based on the diplomatic documentation that the representatives of
the Austrian Empire in Madrid sent to Vienna between 1808 and 1825. Although
they would refer to the events in Mexico, they didn’t describe them as
independence movements. Until 1820 they didn’t show the conviction of a real
and absolute independence, but from 1822 on they already made it clear that the
situation had changed to the point of even thematize the recognition of the
independence. The latter became widespread in Europe after 1823 and made
America a subject of the monarchical politics of the time.