This notice to Mr. Gorostiza was not intended lo express the intention to occupy a post within the acknowledged known limits of Mexico, but to apprize Mexico that if General Gaines should occupy a poslion supposed by each Government to be within its limits, that occupation would not be used either as the foundation of a claim or to strengthen a claim-the sole purpose being lo enable this Government to do its duty to itself and to Mexico; and the concluding paragraph, with respect to the abandonment of any post thus occupied, which might be found within the territory of Mexico, was intended to convey the information that that abandonment would take place as soon as that fact was ascertained, unless the disturbed condition of the country at that time should render its continued possession indispensable lo the safety of the United States, and under circumstances which would justify the occupation, if not in the judgment of the l\'lexican Government itself, at least in that of every impartial Power. l\lr. Gorostiza must not understand that the Government of the United States intends to interfere in any manner in the disturbances of its neighbors. The troops of General Gaines will be employed only in protecting the interests of the United States and those of the Mexican territory, according to the obligations of the treaty between the two Powers. Whether the territory beyond the United States belongs to the Mexican Government or the newly declared Texan State, is a question into which the United Stales does not propose to enter. It is a territory protected by the treaty of limits bet:ween Spain and the United States, subsequently recognised by the treaty between Mexico and the United States. In this view it will be considered; and while this Government sees with great regret the sanguinary struggle which is carried on there, it does not permit itself to look to the result, being prepared, whatever that may be rigidly to perform its own engagements. John Forsyth. M. E. Gorostiza
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