The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 16, July 1912 - April, 1913 Page: 206
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the prospect it holds out of My being enabled to promote British
interests in this quarter
William Kennedy.
The Earl of Aberdeen, K. T.
ELLIOT TO ADDINGTON'
Steam Boat "Dayton"
On the Passage from Houston to Galveston
April 15th. 1843.
My Dear Sir,
The inclosure is the Copy of a letter which I have addressed
to Mr. Packenham2 at the request of the President that He should
be moved to make the Communication it contains to General
Santa Aia, and I have added some reflections of my own because
it occurred to me that Mr. Packenham would wish to judge of
any views of mine upon the effect of these propositions on the
Government and people of this Country.
I took occasion to mention to the President that I was with-
out any other Instructions than had already been made known to
him respecting the feelings and purposes of Her Majesty's Gov-
ernment upon the subject of the close of the Contest, but I was
persuaded they had in no degree relaxed. He assured me, and
begged the assurance might be particularly conveyed to 'Lord
Aberdeen that He continued to place implicit confidence in the
friendly declaration of Her Majesty's Government, and it was in
that spirit, and that trust, that He had felt himself bound to
communicate to me what He had done respecting the condition of
feeling concerning annexation to the United States.
I must feel that in the state of this Country it was no wonder
that men['s] minds should turn that way, and it might be de-
pended upon that the feeling was growing and gaining strength
both here, and in the United States. I thanked him for what I
was sure was the motive of this frank exposition of his views upon
this subject; but it was one of great importance, and I could only
say that I had lost no time in forwarding to England what He
had been so good as to write to me on that Matter.
1F. 0., Texas, Vol. 6. This despatch is not numbered.
2Pakenham. Elliot at times misspells the name.206
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