[5][6] It is also highly suspected that Generals Flores and Santa Cruz are united in the enterprise, and that there is an attempt to revive, in one form or another, perhaps monarchical, the old Peru-Bolivia Confederation.

Letter from Manuel Bulnes (president of Chile) to Juan Manuel de Rosas (in charge of the Argentine Confederation).Flores' project received the support and financing of the former regent of the Kingdom of Spain, María Cristina de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, exiled in France, where she met Flores, so it was established that the candidate for king of this new kingdom would be Agustín Muñoz y Borbón, whom she called prince of Ecuador and restorer of the monarchy in Peru and Bolivia, son of María Cristina de Borrbón and her second husband, Agustín Muñoz, whom she had known as a simple bodyguard after the death of Ferdinand VII of Spain.

By October 20, the growing opposition of British public opinion that joined the efforts of the Latin American delegations in that country intensified with the formal protest of more than thirty commercial houses led by Baring Brothers, who saw in the General Flores' project a threat to English economic interests, as Peruvian Minister Iturregui had previously stated.

[9] This situation forced Palmerston to confiscate General Flores' ships, which were anchored in the East India Company Dock in London, through customs officials, invoking the Foreign Recruitment Act.

[12] The French government denied any participation or support for the Spanish conquest of Ecuador, and the attempt by General Flores and the former queen regent of Spain was frustrated.