incorporate Yucatan into the union, and to concentrate the whole military force of the republic upon Texas.

"The Mexican government has sent public notice to their agents in Europe and America, that they will expel from California all parties intruding there without regular passports; and that parties buying lands in Texas, and accepting titles from the rebel government, cannot recognize any such titles."

My zealous endeavours to obtain and perpetuate the opinions that have been written on this important subject, have not been confined to the European press, as may be seen from the annexed extract from the Honduras Observer, June 16th, 1841.

"TREATY WITH TEXAS-SLAVERY.

"ARTICLES 5 and 7. The treaty of navigation and commerce lately published between Great Britain and the republic of Texas, is conceived in the usual spirit of reciprocity, which, with some later improvements, the wise policy Huskisson legitimatized among kingdoms, to which Canning and the successive sires of commerce gave life, and which promises to bring forth many wealthy and peaceful descendants betwixt the connecting families of nations. It is by such ties that man will be bound by the brother ties of amity with man, and that sister countries will unite as natural friends, which, in the foolish antipathies of old, viewed each other as natural foes. But a great deficiency in the treaty with Texas, is the want of some stipulation regarding slavery. Whilst it was a province of the Mexican federation, slavery was abolished; it is now re-established by the adventurers from the Union, who provide

"That the congress shall not have the power to emancipate slaves; nor shall any slave-holder be allowed to manumit, without the consent of the legislature, unless he shall send the slave without the limits of the republic.

"That no free person of African descent, either in whole or in part, shall be permitted to reside permanently in the republic, without the consent of the congress.

"That the admission of negroes, except from the United States, is for ever prohibited, and the importation of them declared to be piracy.

"The same practical sanction must now be extended to Brazil and other slave-holding states.

"The British treaty with Mexico, by Article 15, stipulates— "ARTICLE 15. The government of Mexico engages to cooperate with his Britannic Majesty for the total abolition of the slave trade, and to prohibit all persons inhabiting within the territories of Mexico, in the most effectual manner, from taking any share in such trade.

"Is a slave escaping from or by a vessel to Jamaica or Bahamas, to be delivered up as a deserter? Is the exception by the laws of their constitution against free persons of African descent to be extended to British-born subjects? There is not an expression in the whole treaty that gives the smallest discountenance to the slave traffic, or on which England may build a future provision; and well does Britain know how little it can trust to the mere internal laws of slave-holders. Here is every encouragement to the breeding and rearing of slaves in the southern states of Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia, for sale, not only to the southern planters, but for export to Texas, a separate and independent republic. What difference does it make whether they come from Africa or the Union, except that they speak our native English, and are trained for slave work? Is not the Union hereby carrying on the slave-trade from its own territories into those of another republic-Texas? Is there any piracy declared on their exportation from the latter to Cuba or elsewhere?-None.

"Here is a neighbouring country to which the discontented English planter can emigrate with facility, and enact all the scenes of the old tragedy anew! England was in this treaty the in

dependent party, whose recognition was anxiously sought, and she ought to have stipulated that no law affecting colour (whether with the consent of congress or without it) should militate against any of her subjects from Africa, the West Indies, Britain, or elsewhere. The question is not about colonies, but all may see the influence that will predominate in case the high contracting parties should ever enter on future negotiations relative to her Majesty's colonial possessions in the West Indies, agreeably to the 5th article of this treaty. Look to the spirit that pervades the whole American Union, and to the exclusion of Hayti from their commerce and diplomacy.

“England has in this treaty with Texas ceded her 'vantage ground, and given her tacit approbation of slavery to new slave constitutions, and to all the various shades of civil intolerance, disability, refusal of education, and denial of the natural rights of humanity."

The latest authentic information of importance that has been received from Mexico, I have extracted from the Times of the 11th of October.

"Falmouth, October 9.-On the 5th instant, we advised the arrival of the Penguin packet from Mexico, with dates from Vera Cruz to the 17th of August, and this morning we had a further arrival from the same quarter, by the Alert packet, which sailed from Tampico on the 19th of August, Vera Cruz on the 2nd of September, and Havannah on the 17th of September, with 340,000 dollars on freight. We have, consequently, sixteen days' later intelligence by this vessel, which, however, principally refers to the pronunciamento which we noticed as having broken out at Guadalaxara, in favour of a reduction of the consumo duty. It now appears that General Paredes, who is at the head of the said movement, having effected a reduction of the duty in question in the state of Jalisco, demands further, the deposition of the present

government, the formation of a new congress (to be occupied exclusively with the revision and reform of the constitution), and the election of some influential man who, invested with extraordinary powers, should take the reins of government till the proposed measures are effected. In consequence of these proceedings, General Santa Anna, who was residing on his estate at Vera Cruz, issued a communication to government, praying them, in consideration of the justice of the demands of General Paredes, to suspend any hostile measures against him, intimating at the same time, his (General Santa Anna's) resolution to second the plans of Paredes, should government not be disposed to listen to them. On Santa Anna's sentiments being known, as well as from his being commandant-general of Vera Cruz, the civil authorities of that city immediately pronounced in favour of the new order of things; whereupon the General immediately marched for the fortress of Perote (on the road to Mexico), to strengthen his position. What impression this émeute made at the seat of government was not known, as the accounts reached the capital at the moment when the express for the coast left, but it was generally considered beyond a doubt that it would tend to the abolition of the consumo duty. We regret to announce the death of Lieutenant Dawson, of the Alert.

"By letters from Mexico of good authority, it is known that that government on the 10th of August, sent instructions to General Arista not to have any communication with the Texan commissioners expected at Monterey, except on the basis of submission to Mexico. The Mexican congress has passed a law admitting, free of duty, for the term of ten years, coals for the use of her Majesty's steam-packets; such concession being granted only for the coals used by that particular service, with a proviso that it may cease before the expiration of the term, provided the mines of the republic shall yield a sufficient quantity of coal. With respect to the recently declared independence of Yucatan, the Mexican minister for foreign affairs strongly protests against it, and against all that may be done in that territory against

the integrity of the Mexican republic, and repudiates all contracts that may be entered into with the insurgents."

When speaking of the Texans, I have always described them as sanguinary gamesters, and coldblooded assassins, and the following extract from the columns of the Morning Chronicle, October, 1841, indisputably bears me out, and I can claim for myself the fullest consolation of the old Latin proverb

"Magna veritas et prævalebit."

"From Texas we learn that one Jackson, resident in Harrison county, had contrived the arrest of Judge M'Henry, who tried him; that the friends of the judge killed Jackson, and that a large party of Jackson's friends immediately went out, and hung the five friends of the judge, who had killed Jackson; the whole representing a fearful tragedy!"

I take the above from a letter of "Publicus," of Philadelphia, the well known veracious correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.

While in the act of compiling the foregoing supplement, I received from an authentic source the following account of a "Big Talk" with several Indian chiefs in Texas, in presence of Her Majesty's Consul, (Joseph T. Crawford, Esq.) at Tampico, which may be interesting to the reader.

"Early in May, 1837, a day or two after the opening of the Congress, at the city of Houston, several tribes of Indians being