THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 579 ulnti'on to a house inclined to take it the questiori asked was "what a1·e your latest advices? account.<i from N: .Ama: state that a revolu- tion is inevitable indeed has aheady commenced in S(l/ll,tander" and wit.h regard to your grant in Texas every rich man to whom I had applied asked the same question adding your docwment,'I state that. the cfoim, was under the con,<Jidm·ation of the Congress and not rati- fied tlwt Odngress has it appean; by the Ha·vannak and N: American i\'ews7Hiper.'I been dissolved by Iturbide-If therefore any time has been lost you must attribute it to the cause be it what it may which bas prevented my ·receiving an account of the confirmation of your claim which you must recollect you was to send me immediately and by every conveyance in order to·enable me to make a. contract--Hacl I not been robbed, ancl disap1'>ointecl for which I had reason to ex- pect, those articles·which you want for your self I should have sent out as soon as I arrived-If ho,,·ever as yon state in your letter you can procure money in the United States on advantageous terms and time is so very important . , ·on the following terms I shall in order to meet your .wishes have no objection to provided the bC'st Janel be re- served to be sold in this country and the proceeds divided between . . us and reserve for me n share in the whole concern of one-sixth (¼)- This offer I make you in order to ~eet your wishes since-remem- ber that the Bank has resumed·cash payments money here procure~ scarcely ,t pr cent: Capital was never so abundant as it now is in London consequently...[illegible] Mr Exter hns removed t.o No._109 Fe.nchurch London therefore address me there do not inclose more or ' • thicker paper in your letters than absolutely necessary since it renders t'lie postage very expensive and when possible as I always do to you write o:nly a single she~t without enclosing it which doubles the post- age-[If] .YOU remove the obstacles above mentioned I have no doubt everything will succeed beyond your most sanguine expectations-- Rem.ember th.at in 01ir agreement no time is specified hn.d any giYen period been mentioned eYen in conversation I should of course have said so mar.y weel.'.s after the 1·eceipt O?J me in England of the sanc- tion of the Cong1·ess my interest are as mnch concerned as yours consequently I will not lose a. single moment indeed have already taken an ·expensive journey in order to meet a gentlemen who I ex- pected might ha,·e ach-:mced some cnsh 1 :;nt did not meet him at home-"\Vith patience all will go well or if in a very great hurry procure cash as I have before stated on the terms there mentioned in the United States The Bills Barry drew in favor of the l\Jinr-
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