The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, July 1916 - April, 1917 Page: 397
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British Correspondence Concerning Texas
goods by the land frontier, I think the land traffic would soon
be beat down by the safety and superior cheapness of the other
channel. No better mode of checking some of the very dan-
gerous purposes of this Government against Mexico has pre-
sented itself to my mind, and I am sure that it consists with
the security of Mexico to fall forthwith upon sound means of
diminishing the Commercial intercourse with the Americans by
the land frontier. The present purpose of this Government is
to make Texas the emporium of a great smuggling trade into
the Northern Provinces of Mexico, but I believe it is more in
the power of Mexico, by judicious courses, to make Matamoros
an emporium for an extensive trade with the United States.
If goods can be purchased much cheaper at Matamoros than
at New Orleans (or Galveston, as part of the United States)
the people in Texas will purchase them there, and they will find
their way by that channel through the whole South West of the
United States. The Mexicans have but to beat the Americans
in a liberal Commercial policy, at their frontier ports, (no hard
task,) and the trafficking spirit of the Neighbouring people will
effectually secure to them the fruits of their victory.
I take this occasion to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lord-
ship's despatches No. 14 and 15.
Charles Elliot
To the Right Honourable
The Earl of Aberdeen K. T.
ELLIOT TO ABERDEEN19
Secret. New York.
November 26th. 1845.
My Lord,
Since I last had the honour of addressing Your Lordship I
have received some information from a quarter where mistakes
are not likely, which Her Majesty's Government may desire to
know.
The substance of it is that the Executive of the United States
is fully committed to the expectations raised by Major Donnel-
son's correspondence with the Government of Texas, especially
as to provision for their debt in some satisfactory form, or theI"F. O. Texas, Vol. 13.
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