PAPERS OF l\Irn.ABE.AU BuoN.AP.ARTE LAM.AR 397 the harbinger of prosperity & happiness to our country, and will essay to perpetuate it by a punctilious observance of all its requiremts- [Endorsed] Defense on charge of extravagance in Administration No. 1806 1840 JJfay 31, [ANTONIO] CANALES, GALVESTON, [TEXAS] TO MIRABEAU [BUONAPARTE] LA}IAR, [GAL- VESTON, TEXAS] His own approaching departure on the Constitu.tion; his intentitm to return soon. A. N. S. 1 p. No. 1807 [1840? before June], LEWIS 1\1. H. WASHINGTON, NASHVILLE, TEXAS . "Prospectus for publishing a literary periodical, to be entitled 'The Ramblers Sketch-Book.'" A. D. 2 p. No. 1808 1840 June 1, J. P. HENDERSON, SAN AUGUSTINE, ['I'EXASJ, TO 1\1. B. LAl\IAR, AUSTIN, [TEX:AS]n San Augustine June 1st 1840 Dr Sir Your Excellency witl recollect that when I sent in my resigna- tion4-'l last summer as l\Iinister to France and England J\Ir 3Icintosh Secy of Legation also requested 43 to be permitted to return with me- that he could not remain there as Secy of Legation after my departure- I informed you·r Excellency that he would remain as l\Iinister of Cha[r]ge- When I was about to leaw Paris l\Ir McIntosh consented to remain on the following condition. He said to me that I might say to you that he would accept of the appointment of l\Iinister or Charge de Affaires- that if you refused to confer the appointment on him I was directed to say to you that he must be permitted to return home without delay as your Excellency will also recollect that you, upo11 my , application in January last, promised to appoint him Charge de Affaires and upon that assurance and the assurance of Judge Lipscomb Secy of State that you would do so I wrote to l\Ir l\Iclntosh and informed him that he was appointed Charge to France with power to treat with Belgium- And it was in consequence of your promise to appoint ~Ir }Iclntosh that I did not communicate to you his whole instructions to me . .,A, L. S. See also nos. 1824, 1856 and 1979. .,Printed in Garrison, G. P., Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas, II, 1247. See also no. 1215. "This requeat is transcribed in the Records of the Department of State, 'Texas archives, Book 41, p. 201.
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