set on foot, prepare, and provide the means for a military expedition lo Le carried on from thence against the Mexican territory; and solemnly protest against them as a violation of the law of nations and of the laws of the United States enacted for the prcscrvatior, of the puLlic peace, and the fulfilment of the obligations of treaties with a friendly Power, with which the United Stales arc at peace. With great respect, Your obedient servant,
P. Gonzalez, Mexican Vice Counsul for New York
William M. Price, Esq., U.S. District Attorney for the Southern District of New York. [ J170] [GRANT to AUSTIN I
Goliad, November 13, 1835.
Dear Sir,-In compliance with your request, I give you a few hints on the present stale of the interior. Alvarez, instead of agreeing, as was reported, to an armistice, has commenced operations in the South, with redoubled vigor, and taken a strong fort of Acapulco. The importance of this point is !lightened by Lhc revenue of the port, which the government can ill spare, and which will assist materially in supporting the troops of Alvarez. Guzman and Montenegro have an army of 2100 liberals, in the state of Guadalaxara, and must, by this time, have driven the central troops and the centralists out of that territory. The state of Puebla, with the governor al its head, has refused to publish the law of centralism: and by last accounts, it appears that the citizens were arming en masse lo defend their liberties and rights. The state of Morelia, formerly Valladolid, has protested, in the strongest terms, against a change of system, were arming their "milicia civica," and had a respectably body of liberal troops in the southern part of the slate, prepared for the field. The inhabitants of Oajaca have made a noble and vigorous protest against the usurping government ancl aristorralic party; and
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