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ing my advice as to the removal of your family here the ensuing fall. In relation to the first,-it is rather difficult to say what is the real state of things at present at the seat of Govt in Mexico. So far as can be infered from the public prints, things are more settl~d than they have been for some time, and Bustamante appears to sit more quietly in the .Presidential chair than he did. Gen 1 Bravo has defeated the force that was in the field near ..i:\.ccapulco in support of Guerrero and the latter seems to be a fugitive. Per- haps it would be safe to say that no certain calculations •can be made as to the political affairs of the capital, or as to what changes may take place in the form of Govt. or whether any. I am in- clined to think that none will be made, altho, ther·e seems to be a. party in favor of a central Govt.- In this colony all is peace, har- mony, and lrilion-more than·ever has been: The prospects of crops are very good and promise abundance. On the 2d point- The policy of this Govt seems to have changed as to colonization in Texas, as ·you may see by the 11th article of the law of 6th of April last, which prohibits emigration from the U. 8.- The 10th Article of that law however declares that no variation shall be made in the colonies already established This completely covers my colony, for it is established, and no legal impediment can be interposed to the emigration of the colonists who properly belong to my contracts, neither do I believe that any will be. If an opinion can be formed from the public prints, this law has been produced by a chain of circumstances, some of which are the following. Mr. Poinsett became very unpopular, as it seems, and the prints of Mexico are teeming with the most bitter invectives against him. This odium seems to have extended to the American people and Govt. to a considerable degree. The charges (so far as they can be infered from Newspapers for I see .no proofs) are that Mr. P. intermed[dled] with the internal affairs of Mexico-that he formed and organised political parties-that he fomented dis- union-that his object in doing so was to defraud this Govt. out of Texas. In proof of this they say that as soon as all Mexico was thrown into convulsions by the viru~ence of the Yorkino (founded as is said by P-) and ·the Escoses parties, the Jackson papers of the U.S. Simultaneously vociforated "we must have Texas"- That P-was concerned in the grants of Exiter [Exter] and ZavnJa, for colonizing in Texas, this caused a suspicion by infei:ence, that as he was the agent and representative of the U. S. that Govt was also secretly a colonizer, and had improper vie~s ai;; to this country. 1'o all this the little imprudences and silly expressions of some of the settlers on the frontiers of Texas and elsewhere, have been added,
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