The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-12-27
Camp Of Naeogdoebts, on. IL, 1906.

Informed your excelency by my letter of the 2sth
81 la month"; that had !ent that of your excelency
os the 24sh OF the fame month the captain gene
raj brigadier Don Niuieiio Salcedo, OF whom / de-
pend, becau.e was not inveGed with competent
authority, for its dilculion and as the anfwer be-
lonsed TO fad chief. | Eatter myfelf that in conf
deratoi1 OF the good of humanity which your ex-
oelIercy proteiied TO with, and of the good har-
rnoDy which reigns between governments, your
sxcellency would have expelled his anfyger to deter
mine on your operations, becaufe not at Eber-
~ not to carry into execution the orders which
niand me 10 con6der the Hondo run as the boundary
line Of the province.
fee, By the letter of your exceileney of the 18th
infant, which have juh received that agisnf my
hopes you have marched your troops toward. the
Sabine without any hottie views ssainn the Spani-
ards, but with the intention only of maintaining the
pretenGon, of the United States to that iide of fad
river.
Your excellency i. v,ry well acquainted with the
facred duties Of folder mutt in eonfequence
declare TO your ezeeleney that though the relult OF
the operations which your exceleney has undertaken
eugh, not in any manner whatever TO be coniidered
as an att Of hot.i:ty provoked by my government
mum oPpoe nyielitoi il, in dchsrge of the ohligati-
on which am under,o opPoe myieif to the aggref-
tons OF the United States and prelcrve entire =,
far as lies in my power the domnions of my ioye-
reign.
take the proper means that your sxcelieDcy may
receive this letter, praying the Lord God that he
may Preisrve your life for many years.
am, rePeafuiIy, &c.
(signed)
ANTONIO coRDERo.
,5TiJ Exe.it79y,
Gr7. James Wilkinfon.
Extraa Of a Ltfer Eyom fSe fnbiain general
Don EanGJf1 Saitfdo 10 goo. Claiborne, 4tte4
CbibAagud, Istb IF Sat. SOC.
BY my orders ! am bouHd to maintain the beff
harmony with the go~wnment Of the United States,
and TO that end hzge dreeed all my views a. your
exeeHeDey may be convinced by the condua whici,
has been followed, aud BY the let.er which under my
directions the governor Of Texas wrote on the 7th Of
March lar to thcconrmahdant Of the for, of Na,,hi
toohes, exhofiing him not repear, On either fde
any ass Of botiiy concerning the difpned territory
OF this letter major Porter acknowledged recent and
gave afurances that he was on the point Of Tending
account Of il TO gen. Wiknfon, to whom he left
the deeiGOnI which however has not as yet beer We
TiGed.
After this intelligence your exceency will find no
juti motive 20 draw the iword on aeeount of the
movements of tine troops this frontier, Especially
alter being aiuted that neither hofe troops nor their
chiefs have had, pTelent have, any orders to
make rev Embellishments. Your cxeellency may be
ailrred that all my ae,oni dreeted in compliance
with my duties, and with view that may at no
period whatever, be feproached with having fuhered
10 any manner the uierPstion of the ImaIle part Of
The doninions Of my king under my charge. But
IN confederation OF the aursnee whch your exceilen-
~ gives that the fubea snow in treaty between the
two governments, and the frsrtnefs with which YOU
safe the 6iPptes ssia as ore that Dan he srnissbly