Excerpt from The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Vol. 9: July, 1905, to April, 1906 Negroes supposed to be detained in Slavery in that republic. One of the negroes in question was said to have been sold from among the crew of a British vessel in 1833 or 1834, and several others had been unlawfully introduced into Texas by John Taylor of Barbados. When Hamilton closed his mission on April 21, 1840, he was able to report that he had recovered five of the negroes he was seeking. The exertions of the Texas government in his behalf seem to have been satisfactory, for about a year later Lord Pal merston wrote to President Lamar expressing the thanks of Lord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.