PAPEns OF MmABEAU BuoNAPARTE Lnun 363 when met they foun<l with much pleasure to be friends. It is now· passed but I can Laugh when thinking of it at this time- [Note on margin:] Pedras said he hacl orders from the Po- litical chief of N acogdoc-hes, Raymond ~[uscos, to arrest Brad- burn. The order had bec11 procured from the P. Chief & given to Pe<lrns.- l will mention also a melancholy ocurence that happened while Laying In camp at turtle Bayou a villian 8hot in Cu111p a brave and noble and young man his name I have now forgoten- It Indeed ~aused much confusion and It was thought that Bradburn hacl friends m Camp-and thus-through Bribery- It made us verry watchfuil the Villian was caught was caught [sic] ancl shot on his trying to make his Escape- I will also mention that Bradburn did, when we was assailing him in his fort tie our friends-Hands-put their arms over their Knees- and they threatened to be Shot wh[en]ever we attacked Him but we threatened to If he did harm them we would write his acts with his blood upon the walls of the fort-he Upon the th[r]eat treated kindly afterward. Travis never shrunk but called on his friends to witness that he would die like a man- The post was then Broken up. the troops was put on board of two vessels-belonging to Wm P Harris and myself the Schooner Nelson & Sloop llexcana the later was wrecked and the Schoonen Charter not paid nor the Sloop paid for-the Mexican Navy under the Com- mand of Geul. Mexia then Col. arri\'ecl in Galveston Bay· when things was The Schooner Nelson and the sloop 1\[echana belonging to Robt Wil- son and William P. Harris-was chartered by the Govt. of Santa anna- After the post at· Anahuack Surrendered to the Texas forces- who all declared for Santanna The Sloop was wrecked-The loss of the Sloop and the charter of the Vessels not paid- Gel. 1\fexia and Commodore Cochrane commanding the' 1\Iexican Na,ry arrived at Gal- veston Bay-and confirmed nil that had been done and obligated them- selves as far as words could go-that 1\fr Wilson & Harris should be paid for the Vessels-- The Vessels Sailed in Company with the fleet Wm P Harris and David Harris on board-one on Each Yessel- Mexia was Commander in Chief. of the expedition against .Mata- .moras-he succeeding in reducing the place to the power of Santa Anna-but so soon as he left Matamoras turned back to the cause of Bustamenta. Mexia hearing that there were some difficulties in Texas sailed to Brazos with four hundred men, umler the fleet of C'ochran.- 1\fexia came iu a new Brig called Santa Auna had 16 guns heave ones too-there were 7 vessels in the fleet- Mexia was Genl. with som~ force at Tampico; he wns ordered to reduce Metamoras; he accordingly sailed thither with his forces in the new Brig Santa Anna; first taking with him from Tampico 30 thousand dollars of public funds. He reduced thnt plare and 11crord- ing to orders was to have ke1>t the place until he should he joine,I by Montazuma who had just reduced Victoria aucl was to meet Mexia at Matamoras. But Mexia, instead of retaining po~session & w11iting for Montazuma, he took from the Custom House offices at M11tmnorns 30 thousand dollars & then set sail for Texas. When he returned from
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