observe an entire neutrality as regards the revolution which agitates the Government you represent. To promote the object or your letter, have instructed the marshal of this district carefully to observcthe conduct which may be pursued by the commander of the Brutus, and immediately lo report any acts that wilJ justify my interference as public prosecutor. Such other measures will be adopted as circumstances may suggest, to detect and promptly punish any violation of law tending to interrupt the friendly relations between our respective Governments. Permit me to invite your co-operation in this duty, by informing me of such facts, within your knowledge, as may subject the factors to the penalties of the United Stales laws, by which it is forbidden, within the limits of the United States, to fit out ~nd arm, or to increase and augment the force of a vessel of war, cruiser, or armed vessel, or to begin or set on fool a military expedition or enterprise within the United States, to be carried on from these against the dominions of a foreign state, colony, or people, with whom the United States are at peace. With great respect, your most obedient servant, William M. Price, United States District Attorney. To Mr. Sebastian Mercado, !Vlexican Consul, New York. [4122) [SAWYER to MORGAN] [F. A. Sawyer, Velasco, to James Morgan, September 1, 1836, stating that he and the President wish him to come to Velasco to confer.]
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