The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, July 1917 - April, 1918 Page: 203
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British Correspondence Concerning Texas
the Republick of Texas to have ceased by the fact of the dissolu-
tion of the independence of that State.
You will accordingly return to England as soon as you may
find it convenient to do so, and you will bring with you the
Archives and papers of your Mission, with the exception of such
as you may deem it right to leave at Galveston for the benefit of
Her Majesty's Consulate at that place.
Aberdeen.
Captain Elliot. R. N.
ELLIOT TO ABERDEEN19
No. 20. New Orleans.
April 19 1846.
My Lord,
No latter tidings from the American force in Tamaulipas have
reached this place than I have recently forwarded to Mr Paken-
ham, and requested him to transmit to Your Lordship; namely of
the 1st Instant from the Brassos. Santiago. Our last dates from
Galveston are of the 15th Instant, but it is possible that the ac-
counts from General Taylor's Head Quarters may in future come
sooner, direct to this place or Pensacola, than by the way of Texas.
There was very tempestuous weather with heavy rains between
the 2d and 6th of this month, as far to the Westward on the
Coast of Texas as we have yet heard from, and if it extended to
the Coast of Mexico as far as the Mouth of the Rio Grande (which
is probable, being an equinoctial gale) mischance may have be-
fallen some of the transports, ill provided with ground tackle,
and insufficiently manned. At all events the difficulty of discharg-
ing and transporting the Material to General Taylor's position,
about 24 Miles from Point Isabel, will have been much increased,
and the advancing Mexican reinforcements will have had more
time to arrive at Matamoros before the supplies from the Brassos
Santiago had reached the American force. Their separation from
their resources has certainly given the Mexicans, particularly if
they are in the strength reported, a favourable chance of compel-
ling the invading force to retire rapidly, if not of striking a still
more decisive blow."F. 0., Texas, 16.
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