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connived at, and sanctions the expedition under Dr. Grant, which he alleges, is the cause of the distressed situation of the troops at Bexar. This Council repels the charges, as false and unfounded, and denies having ever recognized in Dr. Grant any authority whatever, as an officer of the Government or army al the lime. The only authority Dr. Grant ever had in the army was derived from Governor Smith. By the bye, this gives us occasion to mention another of the Governor's acts of usurpation. On or about the ninth clay of December, 1835, he appoints and commissions, without the advice or consent of the Council, Edward Burleson, Commander-in-Chief of the volunteer army at Bexar. General Burleson appoints Dr. Grant, his aid-de camp, who was thereby entitled lo rank as Colonel, and thus is derived his authority to act as he had clone. 1n this letter of the Goverrior to General Burleson, dated Decemher 9th, 1835, full of invectives against Colonel Gonzales, and his men, and the Council for furnishing him an outfit to assist in the reduction of that place, (for all of which we only call his attention to his solemn declaration to the world, and appeal lo Almight God, made in the Convention,) he shows the principles which controlled his conduct, and the effect of his elevation lo the high office he now occupies, has produced upon him, and explains the reason of all the difficulties that have occurred between the two departments, as well, perhaps, as anything to which the attention of the people can be called. Thus he concludes his letter to General Burleston- "You will use the following address: To his Excellency, Henry Smith, Governor of Texas." Take this and compare it with that impudential document, sent by him to disgrace the archives of your Council, his message, dated the ninth instant, it may serve to explain. Read the message of his Excellency; after accusing the Council of resolving themselves into "low intriguing caucussing parties," for the injury of the Government, and charging them with divers evils, which wc have proved, resulted from his own acts, and exculpating the President of the Council, he proceeds."
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