THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 573 whenever I can produce sufficient proof of our possessing the lnnd to enable me to sell a part we will as the snilors say make up our lee-way with a wet sail, since I trust our fortunes will ere long be made--1Ve shall I trust then be enabled to do without any partners but if we have any they shall be such as to give us no trouble about business in any but that liberal Gentlemanly way which woulcl be consonant with our feelings and interests the papers are at present indeed in the hands of a gentleman of very large fortune who will possibly join us in the speculation but h,'o very unfavorable events have occurred which throw very serious obstacles in the way of the accomplishment of our schemes, The Columbian Govt-Agent raised a loan in this Country a short time since which that Govt-now in part disavows which has tended to discredit beyond measure the character and good faith of Spanish Americans in general ancl a 8cotchman by the name of Macgregor has of late raised a loan on a trnct of land which he states to be ceded to him by the Chief of some Indian Nation on the Mosquito Shore the fever [got up nnd he] received they state about 20,000£ but the bubble has burst and all the speculators are anxious to get rid of the business in ncldition to which the Pirntes have been so successful and hitherto uncon- trolJed that few now venture to risk property in the Gulf of Mexico Therefore we must have a. little patience although I much fear it will be irksome to you to remain in Texas doing little or nothing. 'With regard to Mining that will be I trust effected on a very grand scale since merchnnts have enabled me to make very advantageous proposals, and for an immense sum of money five or ten millions of Dollars [the] very moment I can bring our schemes to bear every thing [realised] on your [part] shall be sent to you indeed the very mo- ment I receive an answer to my late dispatches from Mexico I will forwarcl to you a. full statement and will do every thing en debicla formu.. Pray send on as soon as possible a plan of the estate and of the Province with as full a detail of the weather on the Coast, entrance of rivers etc., etc. as you so well know as can be porcured also EVERY EVERY tldng relative to the price at which you can afford Timber of what dimensions and description since the forests alone shall I in- tend furnish us with fortunes as large ns we could wish when you give me sufficient [information to.enter] into contracts in this coun- try on this subject you cannot be too explicit also where when und how Vessels could take it in I suspect large ships will not with suftey lye opposite the mouths of the Rivers during the Smwrner nncl it be rafted clown to them. Let us not be [discouraged but] put our shoulders to the wheel and make our fortunes I promise [to work] most indefatigably whenever enabled to do so wh[en you] write me directing to me at 105 Fenchurch Street London Papers descriptions
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