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Bexar, July 25, 1835. Yesterday afternoon the corporal Juan Ximenes and the solider Santos Flores, Ly whom I had sent the correspondence of Captain Don Antonio Tenorio and who had heen taken prisoners, as I have told you in my previous communications, returned from San Felipe. The deposition which accompanies this, taken from them Ly my orders, will inform you of the manner i11 which they were treated in San Felipe. Through them I have received the enclosed official communications and particulars from Captain Tenorio who addressed them lo me from another place: also a letter from Don Edward Gritten, and officio of the Political Chief of the Brazos, and act of a meeting which took place in the department. By all these papers you will he able to see the stale of public opinion among the colonists, and also the determination with which they will oppose the introduction of the troops into the colony, which the supreme Government has destined for that purpose_and which are now in my opinion very necessary. P. S. By a country man who took your communications Lo the Political Chiefs of the Brazos and Nacogdoches, 1 sent one lo Captain Tenorio, telling him, if they would allow him in San Felipe lo do so, lo come lo this city, where by your order he must reside for some lime. [To Martin Perfecto de Cos] f Domingo de Ugartecheaj
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Bexar, July 25, 1835. Under date of the 15th of this month Captain Don Antonio Tenorio says lo me that Don Lorenzo Zavala arrived al tl11~ bar of Velasco in the sloop San Felipe. Ai1d although your order for them to go lo Vera Cruz lo give an account of a
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