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PAPERS OF l\IIRABEAU Bu0NAPARTE LAMAR
No. 1814 1840 June 5, SAl\I[UE]L A. BAILEY, COLUlrBUS, GEORGIA, TO MIRABEAU B[UONAPARTEJ LAMAR, AUSTIN [GALVESTON] TEXAS Requesting his attention to the care of the personal effects and the settlement of the estate of the late William D. Redd. A. L. S. 3 p. No. 1815 1840 June 10, E.W. MOORE, TEXAS SLOOP OF WAR, AUSTIN, GALVESTON BAY, [TEXAS] TOM. B. LAMAR, [GALVESTON] 51
Texas Sloop of War Austin
Galveston Bay, June 10th 1840.
To,
His Excellency
M. B. Lamar Sir,
A few davs since I received a letter from the Hon'ble L. P. Cooke secretary of "the Navy (of which the enclosed 5 c is a copy) requiring me to arrest Lieut. W. R. Postell and inform the Department of the facts that charges may be preferred" [whi]ch I am expected by the Department to do- Having heard of the same rumours on my arrival h[ere] from Aus- tin, and after the utmost scrutiny on my part not being able to get any information on which I could ground the shadow of a Charge, I sent Lieut. Postell to sea in Command of the Schooner San Jacinto to assist me in sounding our Bars and Bays with orders to wait off Mata- gorda Bar until I joined him in the Sloop of War he was at Sea when I received the letter from the Hon'ble Secretary, and I immediately diR- patched the Schooner San Bernard with orders for them both to return to this Port, which they have done- in the meantime I addressed a letter to Commander J. T. K. Lothrop, of which the enclosed is a copy together with a copy of his reply- and have used every other means which I could to obtain information relative to the matter since- and not having been able to ground any thipg in the nature of a Charge I am placed in a delicate relation to the Hon'ble the Secretary of the Navy, who has been daily expected here for some time, and as it is now probable that he may not be here, I most respectfully request that I may be relieved of the responsibility, which is thus thrown on me, by your order or sanction to suspend for the present any action on the· Order of the Hon'ble Secretary, as by arresting Lieut. Postell the Serv- ices of one of the most valuable and efficient officers in the Navy would be lost without the slightest ground-
Very Respectfully
Your obt Servant E.W. Moore
Capt. Commdg.
01 A. L. S. See also nos. 1893-5. ·
"These enclosures are no lon·ger with the Lamar Papers.
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