The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-11-23
From the Bait. Amricdn.

From the Bait. Americdn
Gen. Santa Anna has addressed a COM
munication to the Texan government, de-
clarIng his having complied with the terms
entered into by him, and protesting III the
first against his having been treated more
as an ordinary criminal than as a prisoner
of war, the head of a respectable nation.
Secondly, against the treatment Of Adrian
" all, II Mexican General, who had entered
the Texan camp with a flag of truce, with
the consent of the Cabinet, and under the
word of honoIof General Houston. Third
ly, against the nun-iulflmcnt of the 9Th ar
tlcle of his capitulation, which provides for
the exchange OF prisoners, asserting that
although the Texans had been freed, not
single Mexican had been set at liberty.
FOurhly, against the performances of
the condition which was a sine qua non,
that he should be sent to Vera Cruz " hen
the government shall deem proper-they
icing Srisfed that the conditions of the
treaty had been fulfilled on his part, which,
as he alleges, had been done so far as he
was concerned. Filthy, against the yio-
lence commtted Oh his person i'll forcing
him to return Oh shore after he had embark
ed, and cXhiI ting him. TO the soldiery.
Aud, finally, against his being kept in "a
narrow prison calculated to injure his health
guarded by sentinels, and suffering all the
privations which make life insupportable
also for the uncertainty in which he has
been kept in regard to his own fate and that
Of his fellow prisoners.
To the protest, Of which the above is an
abstract, President Burnct, of Texas, has
returned an answer, framed in courteous
and becoming style, in which he admits that
circumstances of popular excitement had
constrained him To deyiate slightly from The
terms Of the ucaty respecting Santa Annals
return to Vera Cruz-,he excitement hay-
ing been cnusgd d by the crueIlics committed
10y the troops lately under command of
Santa Anna, upon Colonel flaming and
his party, Of the Mexican Generals parlic-
Ipation IN which slaughter, he expresses
himself unwilling even to conjecture. He
says that the embarkatiOn of Santa Anna
on board of the Invincible, had been the re.
suit of the governments determination to
comply strictly with the terms agreed upon,
and that his subsequent debarca,ion was
owing to popular excitement, which render
ed 1t indispensable to postpone his depar-
tuic.-To the first item in the protest the
President states, that the accommodation
of Santa Anna had been The best within the
power OF the authorities, as he had exposed
his own sick family to privations, in order
to make him comfortable, aud that the want
of the comforts of life was owing to the visit
of the Mexican army. In reference to The
treatment of General Wall, he alleges that
every thing had been done to afford him a
safe return, but that the order to that effect
having been contravened at n distance from
the seat Of government, the reasons for IT
were not known, but were alleged to orIgl-
nate In Indiscrction on the part of General
Wall, whose conduct during his solourn had
not been prudent.
Touching the non fuIfIment of the 9th
article respecting prisoners, the President
declares that he has no official knowledge
of the discharge of single Texan prisoner
under the treaty although some of the sur
yivors of Fanning's command had managed
to escape whereas the Texan government
had released several Mexican captives and
paid their expenses to New Orleans. where
thev wished to 90. OF the admission on
the part Of the Texan cabinet that Santa
Anna had performed his part of the coudt-
ions, the President says that so far from
having done so, cattle had been driven off
by the retreating army, and brass pieces of
artillery, found at the Alamo, had been
melted down and destroyed, both of which
acts were IN con,rayentinn of the treaty.
With regard to the exposure of Santa
Anna's person in his dcbarcation the Pre- -
ldent disclaims any intention TO make a
show of him, however na rural it might have
been for the people to desire to see an in
diyidual so connected with the late occur
reuces, and that he was aware of nu act of
violence committed on his person, which,
as that of a prisoner of war, was held sacred.
He concludes his answer, by alleging that
the apartment Of which tke general COM
plains as a narrow prison is larger and more
commodious than that which constitutes
both his office and the residence OF his fam
lly, and reminds Santa Anna that the ber
Recommendations which the new govern
ment had enjoyed. had been broken up
about two months previously by the army
under the immediate command of his excel
lency. at the burning of the town of Hsr-
risbug.
nE GNEDS