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PAPERS OF l\1IR.ABEAU BuoNAPARTE LA~IAR
I have been too long identified with Texas and her interests are endeared to me by too many reminiscences, for me to permit any personal gratification, to be made the means of disturbing the harmony which ouo-ht to prevail between the executive and legislative departments of her g;vernment, and which would most happily prevail were it not for the base intrigues of an unprincipled demagogue whose chief talents consist in difamation and whose fame, or all of it that a decent man could covet is founded in falsehood- With great consideration I have the honor to be Your mo. obt. Sev David G Burnet [rubric] , [Addressed] To His Excellency M. B. Lamar Present No. 1689 [Endorsed] David G. Burnet Jan. 20. 1840 [1840 c. Jan. 20], JAMES W. ROBINSON, [NACOC:iDOCHES? TEXAS], TO l\1IRABEAU B[UONAPARTE].LAl\1AR, AUSTIN, fTEXASJ Resigning as district judge of the Fourth ,T udicial District. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 1690 1840 Jan. 21, W. T. AUSTIN, VELASCO, [TEXAS], TO M. B. LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXASJ,11 8
Velasco January 21st. 1840
To His Excellency l\1 B Lamar President of the Republic
Your Excellency will permit me to intro- duce to your acquaintance and favourable considerations Capt. S. W. · Metcalf of our city, the bearer of a dispatch,11 9 from the Governor of the Windward Islands which I have just received from on Board of Her 1i1ajestys Brig of War Pilot and to which you are referred As it relates to a.subject 80 on which the British Govt. and people are particularly sensative, and as the promptitude of our authorities to facilitate the object of this mission will tend to create a favourable im- pression which may have important results I have deemed it advisable to forward it to the Department of State _by a special messenger Capt. Hamilton the commander of -the Brig has offered to exchange salutes with us which will be done this morning & I believe will be the first time of our receiving that courtesy from a British vessel of War I understand that Capt H on receiving your Excellency's answer con- '".A. L. S. '"There are two of these dispatches, both dated Dec. 26, 1839. Printed in House Journal, 5th Texas Congress, .Appendix, p. 19. · 00 The demand and recovery of certain negroes (British subjeds) supposed to be held in slavery in Texas.
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