and Cameron, Col. Gonzales, and others. On being informed of their approach, I ordered an escort of four Americans and two Mexicans, to meet, receive, and conduct, Citizen Viesca and suit, to the quarters provided for his accommodation. This order was directed to Capt. Morris of the N. 0. Volunteers, and was executed. As I did not conceive myself duly authorised to receive this Gentleman in an official capacity, no such reception was either given or intended. On being applied to for orders to give him a different reception, and on my refusing to grant it, a strong, but by no means general excitement arose, and opposition to good order was immediately developed. Part of this opposition was made within the fortress-but it originated without; and from this quarter, an attempt was made to carry the purpose of the discontented into effect. These occurrences transpired evening before last. One of my men refused when on parade, (and had engaged others to follow his example,) to bring his gun to a shoulder when the order was given,stepped out of the ranks and commenced a harangue to the Company. I instantly ordered him under guard. Immediately after he was marched off, another of the disaffected, (one of those who followed Irwin in the late movement which resulted in the loss of a valuable young officer,) came from the house of Western, (the abode of the disaffected,) to the door of the room where his associate had just been confined, threatened to release him, and drew a pistol on the guard. I met the mutiny by detailing 15 men, under command of Leuit. Bordon, to proceed to the house of Western, where the self styled liberator of the man under guard had fled for protection, (and where too the physical force of the friends of the mutiners was then concentrated,) with orders to take the fugitive and put him under guard This order was executed by Leuil. Bordon with a promptness, firmness, and coolness, which does both him and the men under his command, the highest honour. The occupants of the house refused lo surrender the fugitive, or to ope~ the doors for the entrance of Bor?o'\,and a threat that the "first man who entered should be killed , was distinctly heard without. The order was then given to force the door. Whilst carrying this into effect, the door was opened and the mutiner surrendered.
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