The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

" CONVENTION.

Whereas her Majesty the Queen-of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, being desirous of putting an
end to the hostilities which still continue to be carried on
between Mexico and Texas, has offered her mediation to
the contending parties, with a view to ' bring about a paci-
fication between them ; and whereas the Republic of Texas
has accepted the mediation so offered; the Republic of Texas
and her Britannic Majesty's Government have determined to
settle, by means of a convention, certain arrangements which
will become necessary in the event of such pacification being
effected; and have tor this rurpoye named as their'jilenipoten-
tiaries, that is to say, the republic of Texas General James
Hamilton, &c. ; and her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom the Right Honourable Henry John Viscount Pal-
merston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a Member of her
Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Council, a Member of
Parliament, Knight of the Grand Cross of the Most Honour-
able Order of the Bath, and her Britannic Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; who, after having
communicated to each other their respective full powers, found
in good order and due form, have agreed upon and concluded
the following articles

"Art. I. The republic of Texas agrees that if by means of
the mediation of her Britannic Majesty an unlimited truce
shall be established between Mexico and Texas within thirty
days after this convention shall have been communicated to
the Mexican Government by her Britannic Majesty's mission
at Mexico, and if within six months after that communica-
tion shall have been made Mexico shall have concluded a
treaty of peace with Texas, then and in such case the re-
public of Texas will take upon itself a portion, amounting
to one million pounds sterling, of the capital of the foreign
debt contracted by the republic of Mexico before the Ist of
January, I&9b

" Art. 2. The manner in which the capital of one million
pounds sterling of foreign debt, mentioned in the preceding
article, shall be transferred from the Republic of Mexico
to the Republic of Texas, shall be settled hereafter by a
special agreement between the Republic of Texas and the
Republic of Mexico, under the mediation of her Britannic
Majesty.
_

Act. 3. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the
ratifications shall be exchanged at London, as soon as possible,
within the space of nine months from this date.
‘• In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have
signed, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms.
Done at London, the 14th day of November, in the year of
our Lord, 1840.
(Signed) " PALMERSTON.
" HAMILTON."

" London, November 5, 1840.

" Mr Loan—As
uoritnhge
dmediation
proposeof,ohercsolmoesutnyis,:aGtioosnesrnimn
enretlaintipnrnoct
a paoification between Texas and Mexico, and the assumption
by the former of a portion of the public debt of the latter have
hitherto been entirely verbal, I beg leave to transmit you this
despatch, that the reasons and motives which may influence
the Republic of Texas in making this assn option may not be
liable to any future misconstruction.
" In the first place I must enter a protestando against the
inference that Texas is bound in any degree for any portion of
thesaid debt on any principle of international law, or by any
obligation of private justice.
‘• Mexico violated the Charters she had granted to Austin's
colonists, on the faith of which the Anglo-Americans had emi-
grated to Texas, and recovered its territory from the savage
tribes, with whom Mexico was incapable of coping. These
violations wcre accompanied by atroeitivs which rather be-
longed to the dark ages than the era in which we live.
Texas consummated her independence in 1836. In 1837,
after 'Mexico had lost all possession of and sovereignty over
Texas, she concluded a convention in London with the Mexi-
can bondholders, and assigned certain portions of her public
lands in several of her provinces or departments. She was
guilty of the absurd mockery of including in this convention
those situated in the department of Texas, where she had nei-
ther a man nor a foot of land over which she exercised juris-
diction east of the Rio Grande.
" I need not insist (I am sure) with your Lordship on the
absolute nullity of this Convention, as far as Texas is con-
cerned. But what I desire to do is to do voluntarily, as a con-
cession to the benevolence and philanthropy of her Majesty's
Government, which have induced you to come forward and
offer its intervention in producing a pacification between the
two countries honourable to both.

" If, therefore, Mexico will consent to a truce with Texas
within thirty days after the communication of any convention
we may conclude on the subject by her Majesty's Minister at
her capital, and in six months after will conclude a treaty of '
amity and commerce with Texas, which shall provide for a sa-
tisfactory and well-defined boundary between the two coun-
tries, I shall be quite willing to come under a stipulation that
Texas shall assume one million sterling of the public debt of
Mexico, contracted by Mexico prior to the year 1635, wbia is
precisely the sum the United States offered for the whole
country in 1830. The value it has acquired since has been
conferred on it by the enterprise, heroism, and intelligence of
the citizens of Texas themselves, and is a just and honourable
acquisition of their own.
" This J desire to be regarded as a voluntary concession ;
for I conceive Texas no more bound to assume a portion of
the public debt of Mexico, than the thirteen American colonies
after they achieved their independence were bound to assume
a share of the national debt of Great Britain. Your Lordship,
however, in our conferences, has never pressed this as a matter
of right, although I have not failed to recognise the zealous
attention and regard 'you have paid to the interests of a class
of her Majesty's subjects who have long suffered under the bad
fajth of Mexico, and whom, under a just equivalent to the
guished confidtrution citizens of Texas, I shall be gratified if they shall be inst.-
remain,
mental in indemnifying. u-
"In conclusion,, hnay.e..!,hts..honour remain, With dislin-

" Your Lordship's obedient servant,
"J. HAMILTON.
The Bight Hop. Lord Viscount Palmeritton."