The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1853.

AnD-EL KADER'S captivity appears to be at length
actually approaching the period of its termination.
Unless we are grievously mistaken in our newly re-
vived hopes in regard to the release of the heroic pri•
soner of the Chateau d'Amhoise, the Marquis of LoN-

DOPDERRY has not interceded in vain in behalf of the

EAtIR'S emancipation. The confidence reposed in the
clemency of the PRINCS PRE.IDENT of the French
Republic seems, in truth, in this particular, to have
been not altogether misplaced. It will be remem-
bered that the promise spontaneously given to Lord
LONDONDERRY by the Chief of the neighbouring de-
mocracy in reference to the proposed act of mingled
justice and magnanimity, declared that ADD-EL-
SALES should, before the expiration of 1852, be re-
lieved from the miseries of incarceration. The pre-
scribed time is now rapidly approlching its conclusion
and still the Arab Leader is in close confinement. But
—active preparations appear to he at last in progress
for the fulfilment of the engagement made in favour
of the unfortunate warrior by the good sense of Louis
NAPOLEON—a good sense digitated at once by the
feeling of generosity and by the sympathies arising
from w kindred experience. During five or six years
the PRINc➢ was a close prisoner in the fortress of
Ham—and the indelible remembrance of that interval
cannot but have ay.:,kened i❑ his heart a sentiment of
regret for the sufferings of the EMIR in the five or six
years during which he has been a close prisoner in
the Chateau d'Amboise. Actuated by this very com-

srehensible sympathy for the miseries endured by the
noble captive, the PRINCE PRESIDENT, we repeat,
pledged his word to Lord LONDONDERRY that before
another twelvemonth should have expired the Arab
Chieftain should be once more at liberty. In yielding
that encouraging assurance to the intercession on
behalf of the EMIR, Louis NAPOLEON must
have remembered—and not without emotion—
that it was the same veteran soldier who, on
the occasion of his owu calamities, bad pleaded
in his favour to King LOUD PHILIPPE, then
invested with supreme power as the head of the
French Government. Under these circumstances it
was that the promise was a
•
given,
as before-mentioned,
by the Prince Louis NAPOLEON, to the effect that,
before the close of 1852, ADD-EL. KADER should be
again enjoying freedom beyond the frontiers of the
rem '
Republic. Scarcely a single quartertrt now
that October has commenced, during which ai
anise can witness the event of its fulfilment.aArapprole
Ampl-
e
time, however, i 3 still left for the completion of
the
engagement made with Lord LONDONDERRY by the
PRESIDENT, so- that within the prescribed limits the
Eurx may exult in the long delayed and anxiously
expected incident of his liberation.
It is by this time tolerably well known in diploma-
tic circles, that M. BACCIOCHI proceeded very re-
cently upon an extraordinary mission to the Cabinet
at Constantinople. Conjectures were, of course, at
once rife as to the pre vise nature of this mission, and
hopes were very naturally excited in some quarters
&at it might prove to hate iniznediate reference to
the projected release of the illustrious prisoner at
Amboise. According to a statement which hes re-
eently appeared in the Adependance Beige, these
hopes, in fact, may be regarded as by no means likely
to prove altogether illusory. If we may credit the
Assertion of that journal, the mission with which M.
BAcctocen was entrusted by the French Govern-
ment, on po.otodin-. the, other day to tb3 Sublims