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Show 70 APPENDIX TO PART Ill. route. I have demanded of your excellency to know if we arc tQ be considered as prisoners of war. You inform m e, you do not consider us in that lig ht. Not to embaiTass your excellency with many demands; I only request to receive it from under your hands, in what manner I am to consider myself, and the orders for my passing into the country; also whether the expense of the voyage is to be conside red as deft·ayed by the government of Spain or the United States. Excuse my language, as I am not much accustomed to writ in~ in French, but your excellency having no person who un • uerstands English, obliges me to attempt the lan guage. I am, sir, &c. (Signed) Z. M. PrKE. -·- l No. 9. 1 TRANSLATION. THE li r~t l1euten ant of the Ang·lo Ame rican troops, of the name of z . .Montg-ornery Pike, with the party of soldiers under his command, having been met with the troops under my orders, at fout· days journey from the scat of gove1'llment, in this province, which is under my charge, he was required personally to appear, which he voluntarily did, and complying with the orde rs of the commanding general of these internal provinces ; I bid the said lieutenant proceed on his m arch, with his party equipped with horses, provisions and equipage, under the c ha1·gc of an oflicer and sixty m en of our troops, with orders to introduce him to the said commanding general in the town of Chihuahua. I permitted said party to cart·y theit· arms ancl ammunition; actuated by proper consideration, and in ordet· to grant said anglo Amcl'icau's petition. I cet·tify the foregoing contents to be accurate. Santa Fe, JlJm·ch 3d, 1807. (Sig ned) JoACIUN H.L • .L\l.U:NC AS'fEil · . .. .. . . ... .· .. . .. ·.. .... :. . ~ • " • • It ••• : ~· : . ·.. . " ~ .' , APPENDIX TO PART III. 71 [ No. 10. l LETT ER TO GOVERNOR AI.J.E NCA STER. S1n, St. Fanaurlf·::, 71/, Atarch, 1807. ON my arrival at this village, and mc('tin g- with Dr. Hobinson, he in formed me that he acknowledg-ed to li eutenant Malgm·cs to belong to my party. A~ this acknowledgm ent in fact, only intcrcstecl 1li nHelf, I am constraitl( 'd to explain to your C'Xcellency, my reasons fo1· ha \ ing- denied his conncxion with me. He mar·ched from St. L ouis with my dctachme Jtt, as a volun teer, (a fter having with much p:tin and solicitat ion obtained pe t·mission from the general for that puqwsc :) on our arrival on the Hio del Notte, ( th en supposed Red rive t·) he left the p::tl'ty in order to come to Santa Fe, \vith a view of obtaining inlo rmation as to trade, and collect some d ebts due to per:<; ons in the Illinoi!). On my being infonned of his crnb:uTassmcnts, I conceived it would be acldinl~ to them, to acknowledge his having accompanied a milit:wy party on to the frontict'!) of the province, a ncl conceived mysel f lJouncl iu honot· and ft·icndship to conceal it; hut his scorning any longer the dis~ui sc he had assumed, has left me at liberty to make this acknowledgment to yom excellency, which I hope will s uflicicntly exculpate me in the opinion or every man of honor, and of the world, fot· having de ni ed a fact, when I conceived the safe ty of a ft·iend, in a foreign country, was concerned j n the e vent. The above stl.ttcmcnt will be corroborated by g·encral Wilkinson, and he will be reclaimed by the U nited •,tatcs as a citizen, agr eeably to our treaties with Spain, l'Cg ul ating the inte rcourse, c:omrucrce, &c. between the two nations. I fe lt disposed to enter into an expos tulation with yo\ll' e xcellency as to the deception practiced on me by the ollice rs who came out with }OUI' invitation to enter tbe province, but will omit it, and only t t: Cj\IC'i l that my sel'jcant and party may be ordered to follow with all pus '>iblc dispatch, as he has ~\11 my astt·onomicul instruments and clothing, except those I now wear. I have found lieutenant Malgares to be what you stated him, a gentleman and a soldier, and 1 siuccrcly wish the fot·tultc of wal', may one day, enable m e to shew the g·e ntlemen of the Spani::dt at·my, with whom I have had the.: honor of limning an acq uaintance, with what gTatitudc I appreciate thei r fri endship and politeness, and none more hig hly than yom excell ency. 'Vith sincere, &c. ( Signed) z. l\ I. l' lf.i:l' • |