how<:'ver as we had nothing :,;pccial from• l\lo11clova, except the purchase hy S. i\l. Williams of :mo or 400 :;itios of land, I entertain every hope that we :,;hall yeL hear sonwthing: favoralile about your appli1:al ion for land than which none lws ever been more first. The mail will arrive here on Tuesday next. & if any news should r:ome I will promptly advise you. We have nothing certain from Austin. One account was that he was entirely liverated and on his way lo i\lonclava: another is that he was still 011 Bail in Mexico on the J Sth of Feliruary and another is that Bail is dead and they have not caused him lo be arrested and held lo l,ail a new-So it is-It is certain that this Department will not l,e represented in the Congress of this session. Your leIler lo Col. Auslin was sent liy the first mail after I received it. The lclter Lo Thomas M. Duke was also sent by a safe hand, the day after it arrived here. The motives of the Alty Genl are easily falhamed 1,y a discerning mind. There are two things which a man particularly guards in this world: i.e. himself & his holiby horse. All(I you had as well allack the one as the other. Now the solicitor from the crown believes and thinks and has come lo the conclusion that his honor lo (S.J.) is the greatest man in the world and Lhal he is the next greatest-that the fam<-~ of his worship is so ii1timately entwined and connected with his own that if that is injured his own fall will be the necessary consequence. Now it was your misfortune that iL became your duty as presiding judge lo speck in rather light or harsh terms of the hobby's hol,hy-the famous (piny land or law) Thal is Lhe hcadsprout of your offendinir. Other minor circumstances have doubtless had their due effed-Bu I All Lhis nothing-The mastiff heeds not the yelping of my lady's fijste- The rumor of troops coming lo Texas in ~real m11nhers musl be falst'. Nothi1io- has been heard of it here. Such a measur<' I:' would kindle a flame in Texas that would hum in twain the slender cords thal eonnecl us lo the ill fated i\lexiean c..;nfederal ion. I am more and more cu11vi11ccd every day of lht· utter futility of our friend A11::;Lin's favorite plan of han~in~ 011 lo l\'lcxico. It is utterly impossible in the nal11n· of thin~~ that two people so diamdrieally oppos<'d in every I hing can h1° amal1111nwted and Tcxm; begins Lo act strung in m1mhers and w1~a1th and n111sl sure he provided with an efficient and ad1·1piale lq!islature or :-Ill' 11111st take over runni11~ the co1111lry under an apprelwn:-:io11 that
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