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British Cor'respondence Concerning Texas
published in Paris, seems entitled to particular notice at the
present Juncture. The title of the work is "Exploration du Ter-
ritoire de L' Oregon, de Californies et de la Mer Vermeille":-
it was executed during the Years 1840, 1841 and 1842, by M.
Duflot de Mofras,23 an AttachP of the Legation of France in
Mexico, and has been published by order of the King, under the
auspices of the President of the Council, and the Minister of
Foreign Affairs. Were other evidences wanting, it would indi-
cate that the French Government is not indifferent to the destinies
of this Continent, although there are well-informed Americans
in this quarter quick to allege that His Majesty the King of the
French has declared that there will be no interference, as regards
the question of Annexation, on the Part of the Power of which
he is the Executive head. M. de Mofras has been so kind as t)
transmit to. me a copy of his work, and I have observed that the
Marquesas and Tahiti seem to be laid down on one of his bril-
liant Charts not merely as convenient touching-points for Whalers,
but a "Stepping-Stones" to China.
It appears to me that the question of Annexation will be grad-
uated in its progress by the relations of parties in the United
States. It may, on the one hand, be assumed that Mr. Tyler is
anxious to draw from it all the political capital it is capable of
bringing to an advocate of the Measure,-and, on the other hand,
that the Northern Section of the democratic voters for Mr. Polk
will be not less anxious to secure that Capital than their own
Man and their own party. As Matters now stand, the strength
lies with the latter, and the only opening left to Mr Tyler, i.
apparently some audacious and unexpected Move-Such as war
with M1Texico--that would produce an embarrassment of affairs,
and leave warm work and divided laurels for his successor.
The Polk party, or rather the Jackson party, are in the ascend-
ent here, as well as in the United States,-the New President,
Mr Anson Jones, owing his election almost entirely to the sup-
port of General Houston. The present United States', Charg6 d'
Affaires in Texas is General Jackson's Nephew, and the particu-
lar friend of Mr Polk.-General Duff Green may be designated
"Duflot de LMorfras. His book is that of a traveller and observer, and
such ideas of French action as are presented are wholly directed to the
expansion of French interests in the Pacific.301
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