Richmond Enquirer

Extract of a letter dated Natchitoches, June 4, 1817.

I sometime since communicated to you the rumors which were floating in this region of our political atmosphere, respecting a visit made by the celebrated Caddo chief to our neighbors, the Dons of St. Antonio de Bexar. The conjectures which I stated to be incident to that visit, are fully verified. The Caddo chief is now here, and has exhibited, in a recent interview (or talk) with the Indian agent, a commission signed by Arredondo, general and commander in chief of the Province of Texas de Bexar. It was extorted from him by the urgent and repeated demands of the agent, and apparently with much reluctance. It is written in Spanish—I have not read it, but am informed that it appoints him to the command of all the Indian tribes west of the Arrogo Honde. The instructions which are attached to this impertinent instrument, are of the most bloody and atrocious kind.—He is directed to seize the persons and property of every man of whatever description, whom he may find beyond the Arrogo Honde, and between that and St. Antonio de Bexar, and forthwith to transport them bag and baggage to St. Antonio: and if forsooth any one should have the insufferable audacity to resist this holy mandate of his most Catholic Majesty, to treat him as an enemy—to put him to death—and is promised, by way of incentive to the faithful execution of his commission, a reward proportioned to the quantity of property and the character or standing of the person he shall bring in.

[Louisiana Rambler.