feelings of the brave men of the country will prevail, and that clemency will Lake lhe place even of justice. On Sunday morning last, a company of citizen soldiers came down from Marion, on lhc river Brazos, bringing information lhal a plan for lhe liberation of Santa Anna had been detected, and the conspirators taken, and Lhal some volunteers from New Orleans, and who were then here, were supposed Lo be implicated. The President forlhwilh gave the necessary orders for surrendering those volunteers, and they were escorted by Lhe company from Marion up lo lhal place for examination. While I am writing, a vessel has arrived from Matagorda giving a flattering account of the Texan army, and of the means they have lo sustain them in their present campaign. These are the desultory points lo which I alluded in the conclusion of my leller of yesterday, and which 1 thought il might be advisable lo communicate. AL lhc very earliest opportunity I shall write again, And have the honor to be,
Your obedient servant, Henry M. Morfit.
Hon. John Forsyth, Secretary of Stale.
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Declaration of Don Bartholome Pages accused of a conspiracy lo liberate Santa Anna, made before his Hon. Judge B. C. Franklin in Columbia the 23d. Augt. 1836. Deponent declares that when on the point of opening a Grog-shop in Velasco, the place of imprisonment of General Santa Anna, and Suite, he went one day accompanied by Capn. Woods lo visit the family of Deaf Smith and was subsequently introduced by them to Santa Anna, and that the latter in conjunction with Don Ramon Martinez Caro, his Secretary, pressed him to repeal his visits frequently, made enquiries concerning his circumstances, and that Caro drawing him aside Loi cl him that he might improve his fortune hy getting up a plot for Santa Anna's liberation by bringing out a Vessel & Cargo with that object, and then reveal the affair to the Texians, by which means they (Caro & Pages) would obtain that
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