[3585) lBURNET to GREENl
Executive Department, Velasco, July isl 1836.
To Brigadier General Thos. J. Grecnt
Sir: - [ enclose you a copy of a teller found in El Correo Allantico, a11d published originally in the N. 0. Bulletin. This recloubtahlc "Leader'' is, I presume, lhe same you introduced lo me as a conficlc:nlial officer, Lo whom the custody of the prisoners might be commilled with perfect safety. If he had then been known, as Lhe author of the lclkr enclosed, in which it is . difficult lo determine, whether impudence or falsehood predominaLes, he certainly would never have borne a commission in the service of Texas; with the approbation of this government. You will be pleased lo signify this lo Capt. Hubhell, whose speedy resignation will be cheerfully accepted, and would save me the trouble of a more peremptory suggestion.
Your obedient servant, David G. Burnet
(3586) [BURNET to MUNT)
Executive Department, Vclasco July 1, 1836
To Major-General Mcmucan 1-lunl Oxford, North Carolina
Sir: Intelligence, on which we place unqualified reliance, has reached us that the enemy are returning to our country in in- creased numbers, and doubtless with feelings of aggravated fury. Mexico is arraying her strongest forces and her ablest ge11- erals against us. ALou l 4000 men have already taken up their march from Matamoros, and General Felisola, at the head of his lately retreating army, about 4500 men, is ordered to counter- march and reenter our territory. Such is the cloud that at present rests over our suffering country. The odds against us would appear to he fearful irideed, were it not that there is between Mexicans and Americans a vast
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