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engagements betwen Great Britian and Texas when the latter
should have ceased to be an independent State, and also conveying
a Copy of a Confidential instruction which you had addressed to
Her Majesty's Consul at Galveston directing him to recommend
to all British Subjects trading to Galveston to pay under protest
whatever duties might be required of them subsequently to the
Annexation of Texas to the United States.
With regard to this latter point Her Majesty's Government con-
sider that the general declaration recommended in the first part
of your instruction is quite sufficient for every useful purpose,
and that the more detailed protest enjoined in the subsequent
part of your Letter might, if' constantly acted upon, be produc-
tive of inconvenience. I have therefore to desire that you will
further confidentially instruct Mr Kennedy not to insist on such
detailed protest being recorded on the part of British Traders;
but to confine his recommendations to entering a general protest,
if such protest should be found necessary. Her Majesty's Govern-
ment do not desire to incur the risk of an unnecessary controversy
with the United States on the legal existence, or otherwise, of the
Treaty engagements with Texas, after Texas, shall have been
merged in the Federal Union, although they considered it desir-
able to enter their general caveat on that point with the govern-
ment of Texas, prior to the extinction of the Republick.
Aberdeen.
Captain Elliot. R. N.
ABERDEEN TO ELLIOT18
No 2. Foreign Office
April 3d. 1846.
Sir,
Your Despatch No 15 of the 16th of February (received at
this Office on the 27th Ultimo) having announced to Her Maj-
esty's Government that the Government of the Republick of Texas
as an independent State would be dissolved on that day, I have
to state to you that Her Majesty's Government consider your func-
tions as Her Majesty's Charg6 d'Affaires and Consul General to'8F. 0., Texas, Vol. 21.
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