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all other parts of the world. I am sure you will have in our country at least as many friends as in Texas. I am sir, with the highest re:;pect your most ob. humble servant Jose M. J. Carvajal [rubric] [Addressed] Free [Endorsed] Forward Letters to the Executivee from Gen. To His Excy Mirabeau B. Lamar, Canales, and J. M. J. Carrajal. Present of Rep. of Texas. Galveston, July 27th 1840 Austin No. 1847 1840 July 28, J. HAMILTON, fTHE NETHERLANDS] TO M. B. LAMAR, [HOUSTON?] 72 (private & confidential) My Dear Sir The Hague July 28 1840. -----I have written the Secy. of State 78 so fully in almost every point connected with my Mission that I deem it superfluous almost to say anything more and therefore the principal object of this Letter is rather to convey to you the assurances of my friendly & re- spectful regards & best wishes------ ------Now however that I have undertaken to drop you a line let me enforce very strongly on yourself the policy of the views which I have ventured to offer to that officer for the consideration & adoption of your Government. Which are except in self defence in no event to make any hostile movement against Mexico until the result of our negotiations financial & diplomatic are finally known which must be before the meeting of your Congress. Such a movement would be fatal to our negotiations here beyond the possibility of reversal.----- ------Besides before England recognizes she could not & would not respect any Blockade you might institute even with an adequate Force before any one of the Ports of :Mexico. She would force your Blockade & if a conflict came on might with a superior force destroy your infant Navy which has been reared with so much difficulty & at such a Cost.- · ------Whatever may be the result of :Oir Treats negociations which I fear the distracted State of Mexico has either prevented or postponed let me entreat you as you value both the considerations of Peace & the public credit of the Country to wait our final advices from Europe.- Let no apparent success temporary or seemingly effective induce you for the present, to take sides in the internal struggles oi that debased & corrupt. Government equally had I apprehend in the hands of either faction.---- ------Be assured My Dear Sir that my whole soul is very absm·bed' in the success of my Mission---- No objects of curiosity "A. L. S. '"Transcribed in foe Records of the Department of State, Texas archives, Book 41, p. 415.
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