THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 1433 Electors and they must be instructed to vote for the Baron as Elector-O ! how the Citizens of this place do curse the day they connected themselves to Oqaliuil,a I cannot tell when I shall return I am determined not to do so untill I do something-If slavery is not permitted I have come to the conclusion provided I can get 100 mules to employ 4 or 5000 dollars in goods and bring them to this place-I have never seen so good a prospect to clean 8 or 9000 dollars as_offers at this time-- here (and owing to the prohibition laws which they have lately re- ceived the strictest orders to enfo1·ce) And the additional number of troops to be stationed here, the prospect will be better-6 or 7 months hence- As to the Colony Saucedo says there is no restriction-there is one thing I wish to caution you-There has lately arrived here a new dec1'ee relative to passports and you must be particular to whom you give pasports hereafter-(the same order has been sent on to you) you will have to express in the pasports whether they are Colonists or not-if they bring goods the kind and the amt The cause of this last Decree relating to pasports is owing [to] ahuses comitted by strangers on the Coast against the Revenue laws-and also for fear Spain may introduce Emissaries into this republi~ as she has lately done in BueMs Ayres- Berrimende and D 0 Erasmo's son Juan will start on the l•t of next month for New Orleans they calculate to go by S° Felipe you must try and be at home-I wish you to be very pa1·ticular in yr attentions to Juan for my sal(;e for I am certainly indebted to his family for inumerable favors-{should] he want a new supply of provisions furnish him with the best let it cost what it may-Also he will want letters of recomendation to persons in New Orleans which I wish you to furnish him with he goes on to purchase goods, probably to the amt of 1000 or 1,200-Also tell Mrs. Picket to have some good butter for him to take along on the road-I would rather that you and J. E. G[ross]-would come to some understanding different from the one you are now on-as to Keep from what I have learned since I left you-it is his intention to leave the country shortly- Parker has been imprisoned in La Bahia very unjustly I have procured an order for his relea.sc--which the Govr has sent on to day- Do, let me beg of you to assume more cheerfulness you alway~ put the worst construction on things and thereby render yourself fretful and melancholy-you are ... [three lines torn awn.y] there has been and is still much siclmess on this place I wish you to inform Huber that he can do well in this place; as to his procuring a situation in the army it is uncertain untill the arrival
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