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great Maritime Powers of Europe, and if they should be disappointed in 

 their hopes, they will ultimately be forced to throw themselves into the 

 arms of the United States, already opened wide to receive them. "^ 



In particular, the danger arising from the American colonization 

 of Texas, then in progress, was realized by the English agents. Hervey, 

 in the dispatch already mentioned, called attention to the introduction 

 of American capital, and to the building of American roads, as 

 well as to the immigration of American citizens. And Ward, the 

 charge who succeeded him, repeated his cries of warning. On the 

 ist of June, 1825, the latter assisted^ "at the reception of Mr. Poinsett, 

 who has presented his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary, and Min- 

 ister Plenipotentiary, from the United States," and was particularly 

 impressed by "the length of Mr. Poinsett's speech, which occupied 

 near a quarter of an hour. After paying the highest compliments to 

 General Victoria, to whose courage and constancy, Mr. Poinsett attrib- 

 uted the present prosperous state of Mexico, he congratulated the 

 Mexicans in general upon the choice which they had made of a repub- 

 lican form of Government, which, he said, was most particularly 

 agreeq,ble to the President and citizens of the United States. He 

 spoke in the most flattering terms of the manner in which the struggle 

 for Independence had been conducted, and added that it was to the 

 great quahties which had been displayed in the course of this struggle 

 that they must attribute the justice which was now done them by the 

 -jirst nation of the Old World, and the nation, which had -jirst sown 

 the seeds of hberty in the New. 



"Mr. Poinsett concluded by giving an analysis of the object of 

 his mission, which, he said was to conclude a Treaty of Commerce, 

 and Boundaries — an intimation, which appeared, by no means so 

 palatable as the preceding part of his speech, \i one might judge by 

 the looks of the Spectators, who were well aware of the difficulties 

 with which the question of boundaries is likely to be attended. 



"General Victoria's reply was very concise, but aa I expect to be 

 able to enclose a translation of it, I do not think it necessary to trouble 

 you with any details upon the subject here." 



' Hervey to Canning, January 18, 1824, Foreign Office MSS., Mexico, VI. 

 ' Ward to Canning, June i, 1825, Foreign Office MSS., Mexico, XHI. 



