could have done & retaliation on our part I fear would be equally fatal to Texas. I am happy in appraising you that you possess many warm friends in the U. S. & that the prudent course you have pursued has inspired universal confidence as to the eventual result of the war. It is generally wished that a doubtful rngsgementwill not be risqued · by you as a very short time must give force enough lo place the contest beyond hazard. A vessel arrived in this City last evening 13 [lorn l for Matamoras. She brings no news to cause us despair. The Montazuma driven aground J [torn] Brown has since gone to pieces in the breakers. No force was fitting out against Galveston. Only 500 soldiers were in Matamoras & one vessel of war of 90 tons. The curvette so long expected has not yet arrived. Capt. Liveis [?) sent on board the Mexican Sehr before the engagement with the Montazuma & taken prisoner has since hen Shot in conformity with the savage.use of the enemy. As respects to the mission with which you have been pleased to honor me I can only say under the unfavourable circumstances which 1 am placed I will do all that can be done & repair as soon as possible to camp. [Edward Conrad) [2927) [ELLIS to FORSYTH] [Powhattan Ellis, Mexico City, to John Forsyth, Washington, D. C., April 30, 1836, reporting his arrival as Charge d'Affaires in Mexico and stating that there were rumors that Santa Anna and his army had met with great difficulty, the general silence of the authorities tending to support such an impression.]
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