PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAP.!.RTE LAMAR 253 pile, not distinguished for architectural symmetry, but built of costly materials and the workmanship executed with much mechanical skill Especially does the inside of the building exhibit a high degree 00 elegance and taste the walls being studded with costly immages and the sacred desk adorned and beautified with enlays of gold & silver and other fire materials purple colored all protected by glass cover- ings of chrystal clearness. In its better days it original condition it could boast of magnifisnce and spendlor which would not have dishon- ored the proudest of cities. But all its finer beauties are now in ruins; its glory hath departed like the power that reared it and the stones of the buildig itself will soon be scattered like the race who once gathered around its altar- No. 2442 [184-f, MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, RICHMOND? TEXAS] Notes from printed, mostly secondary, works upon the history of Spain and France and their American colonies. A. Df. 1 portfolio. No. 2443 [184-f, D. G. BURNET, AUSTIN? TEXAS] MEMORANDUM UlPON THE EXPEDITION OF MIRANDAn Genl. Don Francisco de Miranda was a native of Caracas- was edu- cated in Europe and figured as a Military Commander in the armies of France-during the Revolution of '98 &c -He was second in Com- mand to Dumorier - was eventually proscribed & fled to England- He early meditated the independence of his native Country & its severance from the Crown of Spain - In 1806 an expedition was fitted out in New York under th[e] command of Miranda with a v[i]ew to effecutate those [o]bjects - About 80 gentlemen [o]f New York embarked in the well-[d]esigned but premature enterp[ri]se - I was the Youngest off[ic]er in the expedition - A- [Endorsed] Memo - of Miranda's No. 2444 [184-f, MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, RICHMOND? TEXAS] Notes upon Buaches's Chart of th.e Gulf of Mexico • • • 1780, and two other French maps of [the Gulf region?] A. Df. 2 p. No. 2445 [184-f, MIRABEAU B-UONAPARTE LAMAR, RICHMOND? TEXAS] "Manchaca 1812 Nolan, the French &c 1795." A. Df. 2 p. ""The word "of" should be inserted here. 11 A. D. Expedition by Burnett
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