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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
your country, an intelligent and amiable Gentleman, a brave man, and useful Citizen, and were he to join you, he has the means and I am very confident would use them with a liberal hand, to fit out a respectable force, both as it regards numbers and usefulness Let me hear from you, imme• diately, and as often as you may have leisure to write. If you find that a Company or two can be raised in the neighborhood of Lexington, I would advise you, if I might advise at all, to connect them with Harrisons command. So as to make out one effective battallion ready for the field as soon as possible which you can no doubt accomplish by urging upon those who may take the lead in gelling them up, the propriety ,of going as soon, and in as great force as possible, MORTIMER R. WIGGINGTON Col. Lewis P. S. Please bear in mind that my brother Alfred M. Wiggington will be in Texas when you return and that you cannot do me greater serv• ice, that [than] by obtaining him some situation in which he can be useful the one you mentioned will be most suitable. M. R. W. Col-Lewis Lexington Ky If CQl L. has le£t Mr Ficklin is desired to forward this to him.
M. R. W.
AUSTIN TO A. J. YATES
(Copy) Ma. A. J. YATES SIR,
New York April 23, 1836
Your letter dated at Washington City, April 1st 1836 containing a report of your proceedings under our letters of Instruction of the 21st and 22n,d January last, has been received. Your several previous letters to us transmitting important information relative to the interests of our country, together with the efforts you have made in her cause, not only meet our _warmest approbation, but also entitle you to the gratitude of the people of Texas. We much regret to be under the necessity of discharging from further consideration, the purchase of a Steam Boat for the Government of Texas, in consequence of its slender finances, and of the immediate and more im- portant demands for money to be applied to sustaining the army already in the field. The proposition to negotiate a loan in the City of New York which you have presented to us at the City of Washington, cannot be acted on by us, as it requires power with which we are not vested, and we must there fore decline it.
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