Comargo 29th June 1830
Dr Sir,
The bearer of this letter goes to New Orleans with letters from
a Lady of this place to her husband one of the Expulsed Spaniards
in which is enclosed a passport or certificate from Mexico that he is
excepted from the law of twenty Eight with the intention of
bringing him to the Brazos if not to Comargo He is a gentleman highly
Esteemed, here by Every person by request of his wife I address
you this letter requesting you as a friend to the distressed and
oppressed that should your influence be necessary for the
forwarding on of the Express or the protection of Don Gaspar Sais (Dicha
Spaniard) should he come to Brazos, to use your influence in his
behalf also if you see proper to write him a note promising your
protection by the Express and by so doing procure a wealthy and
respectable citizen in your Colony as she wishes to move on and
join him in Septembre—
yesterday arrived here above a hundred convicts destined for
Texas condemned to three years labor on the public buildings that
General Teran is going to Establish there (for vagrants) Report
says here that you have notified the general that if he does not take
immediate steps to establish a military force in Tejas that there
will be revolution in Nacogdoches Also that eighteen thousand
Spaniards have disembarked in Tejas and destroyed the Military
force of that Department the latter however is not believed Several
Companies of troops have and are starting on to that point and
an officer yesterday told me that they were going to " Empinar " the
Americans in Tejas " muy pronto " There is a great deal said of the
Spanish Expedition this fall Also that Bustamente is determined
to stop the emigration of Americans to Tejas and even expulse those
that are there however Teran speaks highly of you and your
colony but does not yet know when he will start for Tejas you will
oblige me by contesting [answering] this
Horatio A. Alsberry
[Addressed]Al C. Esteban F. Austin En San Felipe Rio Brazos