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last of Dec.-but I hope that the. French Blockade will not be lifted before that period, and that she will yet be in time,-before you owu Trade can be interrupted by Mexican Cruizers.- --As the Steamer we have bought, had the most splendid accomoda- tions & Furniture for 120 passengers.-! would recommend you keep- ing her as a Government Mail & passage Boat between New Orlearni & Galveston. She will thus be able to keep your Coast clear and what is a matter of some value in the present state of your Finance11 by passengers pay all her expences. For this purpose you can not possibly have a better man than Pennoyer who has great experience & ability in this business & to whom I have promised your kindest & most liberal patronage.- ----! will meet the Boat in New Orleans and go out to pay a visit to my friends & to your new & interesting Country. - I am particularly desirous of seeing you, to confer with you on many points connected with your foreign policy as I think I can serve your Government both in England & France, during the next sum- mer,-in reference to your recognition --As Mr. Holford came forward in the handsomest manner and in effect advanced fifty Cents on the risk of one Dollar of your Bonds ,vhen these Bonds would not have sold in \Vall Street for 30 Cents on the Dollar, I trust that your Congress will in secret session pass a Resolution forthwith conferring Messrs Burnley & Williams Contract with him. For in fact the Boat with her equipments & armament will be worth every dollar in U. S. Currency what your Commissioners have stipulated to pay in your Bonds.-- -~--Mr. Holford accompanying me in the Boat from New Or- leans to Texas and you may expect us about the 15t. Jany.-1 have been particularly anxious that he should visit your Country and judge of its character & resources from his own observation,-as he is a Banker of great wealth & influence in London and proposes making investments in your Country if he likes the state of things existing there, he may be of the most essential service to you abroad, more especially from his influence with the present ministery.-in ad interum point of view & from his connection with the Bankers in a financial one. ----It would be a great point as he will in all probability make a commercial establishment at Galveston that your present Congress should pass an act giving him if not the Rights of Citizenship at least the power of holding Real Est. in your Country. As I propose the ensuing month sending out a gang of Negroes to settle a Plantation in Texas. T should like to be included in this privilege if there is nothing improper in my application.- But let Mr Holford by au· means have this privilege as he will in all probability diffuse a good deal of his capital in Texas. ----As it is not at all impossible indeed eminently probable from the state of public opinion at the North on the slave question that the Boat may be stopped by some attempt of the :Mexican Minister to make out a case of the breach of Neutrality, we have taken every pos- sible precaution in New York to guard against such ttn em[erlgency- Hence the Resolution for the purchase of the Boat ought to be passed in secret session.
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