red country, under such protection,
little imagining that they had associated themselves with a large band
of robbers, for no other name can be given to these lawless plunderers.
But if the force made a tolerable appearance on its quitting the
capital, a few hours' march put an end to all discipline and restraint.

Although the country abounded with game, and it was killed from mere
wantonness, such was their improvidence, that they were obliged to
resort to their salt pork and other provisions; and as, in thirty days,
forty large casks of whisky were consumed, it is easy to suppose, which
was indeed the fact, that every night that they halted, the camp was a
scene of drunkenness and riot.

During the last few days of the march through the game country they
killed more than a hundred buffaloes, yet, three days after they had
quitted the prairies, and had entered the dreary northern deserts, they
had no provisions left, and were compelled to eat their worn-out and
miserable horses.

A true account of their horrible sufferings would beggar all
description; they became so weak and utterly helpless that half a dozen
Mexicans, well mounted, could have destroyed them all. Yet, miserable as
they were, and under the necessity of conciliating the Indians, they
could not forego their piratical and thieving propensities. They fell
upon a small village of the Wakoes, whose warriors and hunters were
absent, and, not satisfied with taking away all the eatables they could
carry, they amused themselves with firing the Indian stores and shooting
the children, and did not leave until the village was reduced to a heap
of burning ashes. This act of cowardice sealed the fate of the
expedition, which was so constantly harassed by the Wakoe warriors, and
had lost already so many scalps, that afterwards meeting with a small
party of Mexicans, they surrendered to them, that they might escape the
well deserved and unrelenting vengeance of the warlike Wakoes.

Such was the fate of the Texan expedition; but there is another portion
of the history which has been much talked of in the United States; I
mean the history of their captivity and sufferings, while on their road
from Santa Fe to Mexico. Mr. Daniel Webster hath made it a government
question, and Mr. Pakenham, the British Ambassador in Mexico, has
employed all the influence of his own position to restore to freedom the
half-dozen of Englishmen who had joined the expedition. Of course, the