information to the enemy to retire upon the Rio Grande, or take themselves off lo the Colorado. Carbajal De Leon, and some others, intend making a summer sojourn in New-Orleans. Health to them! There is said to he no Mexican troops on this side of the Rio Grande. They are preparing to make a desperate effort to heal their wounded honor, and recover possession of tl1is paradise - a garden, in which such descendents of Cain were never intended by nature or nature's God to live, unless to he expelled again, with renewed ignominy; the Hon. Ex-President John Quincy Adams to the contTary, notwithstanding. That they are calling up all their resources, and al this moment straining every nerve for the purpose of making a sudden and formidable descent upon us, is too apparent lo need substantiation. I am strongly inclined to believe that their present intention is to make a combined and simulta- neous attack by land and sea. At all events, we should be prepared for the crisis, and surely our friends in the U.S. will aid us in ohtaining a sloop of war, or at least an eighteen gun Brig. I am obliged to break off here, as the vessel is just getting under weigh.
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[3748) [FORSYTH to ELLIS)
Department of Stale, Washington, July 20, 1836. Sir: The enclosed copies of letters to this department from Mr. Coleman, the acting consul of the United Slates at Tabasco, will inform you of the outrageous conduct of the authorities there with regard to lhe officers, crew, and cargo of the schooner Northhampton, wrecked on the Mexican coast in that quarter, and in relation to the acting consul himself. The accumulation of causes for complaint on the part of our citizens against the Mexican Government, the frequency of their occurrence of late, and, so far as appears from the correspondence of your predecessors, the indisposition of that government to inquire into them, lo grant satisfaction for therrt, or to take proper steps to prevent their recurrence, have by no means tended to strengthen the spirit of forbearance with which the President has hitherto acted towards Mexico; entertaining, as he does, a sincere sympathy for her domestic troubles, and a hearty desire to preserve and cultivate the relations of peace, friendship,
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