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ings.P' He held frequent conversations with Andrews, Gurney,
and other abolitionists; and he presented Andrews to Addington,
unofficially, at the request of the former.20 This course Smith
adopted, as the best means of informing himself on the subject in
order that he might protest to the British government against
their interference in Texas, and be able to expose their designs to
his own government and to that of the United States.21
While these abolition activities were occurring at London, Aber-
deen decided to offer again British mediation in Texas-Mexican
affairs. All attempts at mediation under the Hamilton Conven-
tions had failed,22 and England had declined joint action in the
triple intervention of the governments of England, France, and
the United States, proposed by Texas in its own behalf.23 Early
in 1843, Santa Anna made an overture to Houston looking to an
armistice, based on what is known as the Robinson plan. This
Houston accepted, although any hope of a permanent arrangement
of peace between the two countries was precluded by the nature of
the plan itself, which involved on the part of Texas, a renunciation
of independence.24 Smith attributed the armistice to the good
offices of the mediating powers, which Aberdeen denied; and
Pakenham, British minister to Mexico, then in London on leave,
considered it a stroke of policy on Santa Anna's part,-a ruse to
keep Texas quiet while he subdued the Yucatecans, then in re-
bellion.25
Aberdeen received the "Tappan Committee" in June. In July,
he instructed Doyle, now acting charge to Mexico, to press upon
that government "whether it would not be wiser and more con-
sonant to their true interests and even to their dignity to waive
the vain and objectionable condition of nominal supremacy over
Texas which they had included in the propositions submitted by
"Smith, Reminiscences of the Texas Republio, 54.
20Smith to Jones, July 31, 1843. Garrison, Diplomatic Correspondence
of Texas, III, 1116-9 in American Historical Asssociation Report for
1908, II.
21Ibid.; also Cresson to Smith, July 17 [1843].
22Adams, British Interests and Activities in Texas, 1838-1846, 96-106.
"Ibid., 117-9.
'Ibid., 128-33.
"2Smith to Jones, June 16, 1843. Garrison, Diplomatic Correspondence
of Texas, III, 1094-6 in American Historical Association Report for
1908, II.196
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