Interim President of Mexico instructs Mr. D. Miguel Santa Maria on the negotiation entrusted to him with the Cabinet of Madrid, regarding the recognition of Mexican Independence and the Treaty of friendship and commerce. Reference to: Note of Lorenzo Zavala; Duque de Frías; treaty of Spain with the Estados Generales de la Provincias Unidas in 1648 and of England with the U. S. in 1783 and 1794; required inclusion of Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Oajaca, Sinaloa, Tabasco Tamaulipas, Texas, Veracruz, Yucatán, and Zacatecas; Spanish-English treaty of 1815 on establishment of Walis [Belice]; Spanish treaty with the U. S. in 1815; General Montilla; Baron Deffandis; Legation archives in London.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Col. Anthony Butler refuting claims made against him by Parrot and others.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Col. Anthony Butler, in which Butler refutes accusations made against him by the recipient.

Copy of transcript for a translated letter from Stephen F. Austin to Martín Perfecto de Cos asking to make a truce with the general.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Stephen F. Austin to Martín Perfecto de Cos, which accompanied Austin's letter to Cos of October 17, 1835 asking for truce. This letter acknowledges Austin's receiving Cos's letter of the 5th, and expresses Austin's wish to settle affairs in Texas with Cos.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Philip Dimmitt discussing reasons why Texans should apprehend General Cos.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Anthony Butler, on December 8, 1835, explaining the falsehoods that have been spread about money he supposedly owes, and going on to give his reasons for not associating with the man who first began them.

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