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British Correspondence Concerning Texas
best spoken of; but their horses as well as those of the Cavalry
have the appearance of having suffered severely from bad water
and exposure. The people are still under canvass, and I learn
that there were about 80 men in the hospitals, and that they have
lost rather more than that number by death and the same by
desertion. Large proportion of the force are Irish, and Germans
and other foreigners; indeed it is said that not more than a fifth
of the whole are of American birth.
The swampy condition of the lower Country would prevent them
from moving immediately even if the orders have come on, but
if the weather should continue fine for 10 days or a fortnight
they would be able to do so, and I should add that they have been
collecting transport since their arrival in Texas, and I believe
have now enough for movement to any points on the lower Rio
Grande which they propose to advance upon.
If they do move, the Brassos, San Jago would I conclude be
immediately occupied both by troops and by such light armed
vessels as could be got into that anchorage. The best water there
may be about 84 feet, but the position would be necessary for
their supplies and communications. There is no Naval force of
any kind upon this Coast except one revenue schooner; engaged in
a survey under the direction of two officers of the Engineer Corps.
Charles Elliot
To The Right Honourable.
The Earl of Aberdeen. K. T.
ELLIOT TO ABERDEEN35
No. 13. Galveston
February 15th. 1846.
My Lord.
I have the honour to transmit the Copy of a Note from this
Government, dated on the 4th Inst.8-and in connexion with the
subject of it, I take this occasion to forward to Your Lordship the
Copy of a letter of instructions which I have this day addressed
T"F. O. Texas, Vol. 16.
'"Allen to Elliot, February 4, 1846. In Garrison, Diplomatic Corre-
spondence of the Republic of Texas, III, 1204, in Am. Hist. Assoc. Re-
port, 1908, II.
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