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LETTER 23
Natchitoches Sept. 24th 1811
Sir
Two Spanish Gentlemen with eight or ten persons in Attend-
ance Arrived here Yesterday. One of them is Called Col
Manchack [Menchaca] from the Province of Leon" the other
is Called Col Bernard from the Province of Colone [Colonia del
Nuevo Santander] they Say they are delegated by the people
of their respective provinces who are of the Republican or Rev-
olutionary party to Come into the United States, to make known
the Situation of their Country, to obtain a knowledge of the
disposition of the people of the U. S. respecting them, and to
Contract If they Can with Some Merchants to deliver at a place
at or Near the Mouth of the River Grand a Stipulated quantity
of Arms, Amunition etc when Money is provided to pay for them
Agreable to Contract. These Gentlemen represent that the
Revolutionary have lately Obtained Considerable Advantages
Over the Royalists or Europeans & that it is their belief that
Mexico is in the possession of them though the fact is not
within their knowledge, their Opinion is founded upon what
they Know of the preparations to go Against it. I from Some
Accounts by letters received Since they Arrived in the Vicinity
of this place. They Say all Communication between Mexico and
Vera Crutz was Intercepted, by thirty or forty thousand Repub-
lican troops being Posted so as to Command the Passage, this
is done to prevent Europeans in Mexico from making their
escape with their Money & Other Valuable property & getting
with it on Board Some English vessels which are laying at
Vera Crutz for the purpose,'" that General Ryan [Ignacio
Ray6n] "11 of the Republican Army Against Mexico has under
his Command More than Two hundred Thousand Men, And
that a great Majority of the People in the City [of Mexico]
will join him as soon as they Can.
Col Bernard will remain here till he Can receive Answers to
Some letters on the Subject of his Business. Col Manchack
[Menchaca] who is An Old Soldier expects to be invited Back
to be put at the head of the People & Troops of Our Neighbour-
11Perhaps Menchaca had come originally from Nuevo Le6n, but at this
time he was an active revolutionist in Texas.
112The revolutionists considered both France and Britain their enemies;
they believed that New Spain would be transferred to Britain as the
price for British cooperation with the Spaniards in their war to drive
Napoleon from Spain. "Emancipation of Spanish America: Article II,
Lettre aux Espagnols Americains. Par un de leurs Compatriotes A. Phila-
delphia," The Edinburgh Review, January, 1809, XIII, No. XXVI, 298-300.
1130n March 16, 1811, Ignacio Ray6n was given chief command of the
Army of America, when Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende, former leaders of
the rebel army, departed for the United States to obtain aid. Bancroft,
History of Mexico, IV, 273.401
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