The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 19, July 1915 - April, 1916 Page: 408
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The outhwestern Historical Quarterly
days since, I observe a mistake, which, with Your Lordship's per-
mission, I will now correct.
I have said in that despatch that the first Communication of
the proposals of the Government of the United States made to
me by General Houston was in October last, instead of October
1843. Your Lordship will probably have understood me to mean
October 1843, but I have still to offer my excuse for the error,
and I have the honour to be,4
Charles Elliot.
To The Right Honourable.
The Earl of Aberdeen, K. T.
Downing Street.
ELLIOT TO ABERDEEN5
Secret Washington on the Brazos.
December 28th. 1844.
My Lord,
The President visited me a few Evenings since and spoke to
me at length upon the present situation of Affairs here, and, as
he wished that his views should be made known to Her Majesty's
Government in a confidential way, I have adopted this mode of
communication.
Before I fulfil his desire it may be convenient that I should lay
before Your Lordship some means of estimating the weight due
to his opinions, apart from his public claim to attention.
He came here before the rupture with Mexico in search of pro-
fessional employment as a Physician, but since that event has
always been engaged in public life, either as a Member of the
Houses of Legislature, for some time as Minister to the United
States, and during the whole of the late Administration as Sec-
retary of State. He is of course of the same politics as General
Houston, and I have no doubt that his Administration will be
marked by the same abstinence from the recommendation or coun-
tenance of any of those vast but visionary schemes of policy, or
speculation in point of finance, founded upon an imaginary pros-
'Elliot was mistaken in thinking his dispatch No. 17 stated the
wrong date.
5F. 0., Texas, Vol. 9.408
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