The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1852

Recently we took occasion to comment upon the
extraordinary contrast visible between the adminis-
tration of the affairs of Sinde by its illustrious con-
queror, and the mismanagement of other portions of
our colonial empire under the influence of the dis-
astrous policy infused by Earl GREY into her MA-
JESTY'S Government. The latest accounts since then
received from the seat of war at the Cape have only
tended to assure us still more forcibly in preserving
this remarkable contrast in the public recollection.
Matters have become so involved, not merely among
the Kafirs but among other races contiguous to our
scattered possessions, that it is nothing less than a
consideration of most serious import to weigh the
consequences of any prolonged perseverance in this
most melancholy course of proceeding. What induces
us, moreover, to insist thus upon the contrast
revealed between the conduct of General Sir
CHARLES NAPIER and such a man say as
General Sir HARRY Ssurn, is the thought that
whereas the latter has been cheered on by every
conceivable encouragement, the former has been sub-
jected to all imaginable kinds of rebuff and vitupera-
tion, his splendid career not only as a conqueror but
as an administrator being darkened by mingled in-
gratitude and misrepresentation.

It has long been a matter of celebrity, nay, it has
already become matter of history, that the organiza-
tion of the conquered province of Sinde by Sir
CHARLES NAPIER was neither less brilliant nor less
decisive than, in a military point of view, had been
his two glorious victories of Meanee and Hyderabad.
Within four months from the period of his crossing
the frontiers of the magnificent country thus added
to the bulk of our Oriental possessions, the victor,
as we showed in our last allusion to the subject,
had effectually repressed the spirit of mingled
panic and insubordination. Added to which the ad-
vantages thus secured have proved since then to have
been in no measure illusory or evanescent. Sinde has
from that time until now contributed to the glory of
our arms and to the credit of our administration.
Yet the
conquest and organization of Sinde have
hitherto called down upon the head of the author of
both, little more than calumnies innumerable, and de-
preciation the most shameless. These facts we can-
not bat regard as the more lamentable, from a con-
sideration of the circumstances recounted by Sir
WILLIAM NAPIER, in
recently published,
made reference—circukmnostwanocetso
the majority of the
that masterly work of his
and to which we have before now
not sufficiently well
which we believe are
population, and such as
we shall henceforth seize
every apportunity to disseminate among
the
commu-
nity. Let it be borne in mind,
amongotberthings, that the distinguishedsoldier thus
ungratefully maligned and slighted
the astonishing achievements already effected
enumerated
when himself weighed down by the bitterest sae-
tion to a commander, that of acute bodily Suffering'
at a period of supreme emergency. Insomuch was
this the case, that at a most critical period of his career
in Sinde, as its newly constituted Governor, we find
it mentioned of him by his brother, that " the sun-
stroke received by him in the field had so debilitated
him that the medical men urged him to quit Sinde
as the only chance of life," adding, that with a rare
and.unexampled generosity, Lord ELLENBOROUGEI pro-
posed to go himself to the newly conquered province
to conduct the internal affairs of its administration
until the health of Sir CHARLES NAPIER should be so
far restored as to admit of his assuming once more the
offices and responsibilities of government ! What was
the conduct of the illustrious soldier in this very
difficult and alarming situation ? It is worthy
of being recorded in the nobte and memorable
words of his brother the historian. Having mentioned
his rejection of the advice of his physicians, and his
simultaneous evasion of the magnanimous offer of the
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administration of Sinde, writes that Sir CHARLES
NAPIER, "though he could only 'write lying on his
side—the heat being above 132 degrees of Fahrenheit,
in an artificially cooled tent—though frequently at the
point of death from exhaustion, he with stupendous
energy continued to labour until he had reduced the evil
influences of war, insurrection, and social confusion to