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New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 5, 16 August 1842, Page 3

Barbarous Treatment of the Texian Captives and American Prisoners.—Wc, yesterday, held an interview with a gentleman just arrived from the City of Mexico, who informs ns that ninety of the Tcxian captives had reached that place, some days before his departure. They were brought in in a most wretched condition, having been marched barefooted and almost naked from the place of their capture. Amongst the prisoners was the son of General Leslie Coombs. The charity of the foreigners in the city furnished them some necessary apparel. So far from receiving humane treatment from Santa Anna, as reported, they were chained in pairs, and were compelled to work in the streets as common felons. Our informant assures us that the resident Ministers of foreign countries had interfered, in an informal manner, to arrest this disgraceful and barbarous treatment, without success. Young Coombs was extremely ill; his constitution had proved too frail to endure the cruelties to which he had been subjected. The accounts of the treachery resorted to, to capture the expedition, are confirmed. Mr. Kendall had not reached Mexico; he was expected daily in company with about 200Texians. Mr. Ellis, our Minister at Mexico, had demanded young Coombs as a citizen of the United States, but that a week had elapsed without his receiving any response from the government. Wo have read a number of private letters that speak of the sufferings of the captives as most appalling. There has been no clemency shown to the citizens of the United States. The general belief in the city was, that nothing short of force would ameliorate the condition of the prisoners, and that all would lie treated alike. —New South Wains Examiner.