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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
2. In the United States.-In the meantime the United States
authorities had taken up the matter, for, as we have seen, the
capture was considered an act of piracy. After the Invincible had
brought her prize to Galveston, she proceeded to New Orleans, but
owing to the excitement over the capture of the Pocket she could
not remain there with safety. On April 18, 1836, Bryan wrote
to Burnet:
We have been compelled to order the Invincible back to Gal-
veston; the capture of the brig Pocket is considered by the authori-
ties as an act of piracy. The friends of 'Texas are among those
in authority, and information was given me of the intention of
the marshal to take the vessel and arrest the crew. We acted in-
stantly and sent down a supply of provisions and ordered the vessel
back to Galveston. We presume she has escaped. Captain Brown
is out of the city and will probably not be able to join his vessel.
Should she be detained, the cause of Texas will have received the
severest blow she has yet met and the agency will be involved in
trouble it will be hard to evade. Our situation with all the wealth
and power of New Orleans arrayed against us is one of peril and
danger.
But the Invincible, did not get away. Commodore Dallas of the
United States Navy, at the request of the insurers of the cargo
of the Pocket,2 sent out the sloop of war Warren to seize her. This
was done on May 1, and the crew of the Invincible was lodged in
jail by the United States marshal, and held to answer to the
charge of piracy." Bryan at once employed the ablest counsel he
could secure4 and had the Texans brought to an examining trial
as soon as possible.5 An examination was held on May 5, but for
want of evidence the trial was postponed several days."
In the meantime the'seamen were confined in a prison which a
'Records Department of State, Texas, Book No. 34, p. 249.
'New Orleans Bee, May 7, 1836.
'The True American, May 2, 1836; New Orleans Bee, May 3, 1836.
4The attorneys for the Texans were Seth Barton, Randall Hunt, and O.
P. Jackson. After the trial was over, the citizens of Texas who were
then in New Orleans, and among whom were T. J. Green, A. C. Allen,
Samuel Williams, and S. Rhoads Fisher, drew up a letter of thanks to the
attorneys for their valuable and gratuitous services in defending the
crew. (New Orleans Bee, 'May 10, 1836. The letter is dated May 7.)
'Records Department of State, Texas, Book No. 34, p. 237.
'The True American, May 5, 1836.284
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