The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-23 00:00:00

LgNDON, T}IURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1852.

ABD-EL-K IDE-a—the last of the Green Turban
.Chieftains—has at length set forth on his depar-
thre from Christendom. After a captivity of
!dearly five years' duration, at first in the fortress
at Pau, but subsequently at the Chateau at Am-
kis°, he is tasting the sweets of liberty on his
wz.q. to Broussa—the sweets of that liberty which
b:,s been accorded him by the Emperor NAPOLEON'S
unluestioned. magnanimity. It cannot be for-
,:3ten that before the heroic warrior, now on his
':4l to Turkey, had any inkling whatever of the
pr.)bability of his release from incarceration—.
n earnest and generous plea was addressed
his behalf to the then Prince Presi-
of the French Republic, by a brave-hearted
ran of the English army, who had visited the
Atab in his prison—CHAßLEs WILLIAM, the third
:212 rquis of Londonderry. The incident is by
tl!ios time as familiar with the great nations on
f'ither side of the British Channel, as the kindred
wherein the same gallant soldier interceded
Ivi:11. King LOUIS PHILIPPE for the liberation from
.hi dungeon, at Min, of the then Prince Louis
..-poixoN. Remembering that previous inter-
e& ion in regard to the condition of an eminent
t;L,,re prisoner, Lord LONDONDERRY had sufficient
.n.-;:san to conceive that he, espcially, could with
*with very peculiar grace, beseech the clemency of
the ruler of 35,000,000 of Frenchmen, in favour
011 the Hero of the Desert, who was pining
for freedom in a state of almost utter hopelessness.
lie was not mistaken. Everybody at once recog-
nised the grace as well as the generosity of his in-
terposition. Everybody understood at once that
the Voice which had once been raised in behalf of
the Captive of Ham, was, of all voices, the one
which could most appropriately address the same
personage---a prisoner now no longer, but chief
magistrate of the foremost race on the European
Continent—in behalf of the captive of the Chateau
d'Amboise, the valiant ABD-EL-KA DER, the preux
Gzevalier of the Wilderness. And so Lord LoN-
DONDERRY wrote, as will be remembered, to the
ruler of the French people, delicately recalling to the
recollection of the PRINCE the occasion when a
similar document had been addressed to his Royal
predecessor. The response to this appeal was
(madly what might reasonably have been antici-
pated. It was at once an expression of sympathy
for the EMIR and of regard for his advocate—
but it was something more than all that—it was
a distinct pledge of honour, as from the hand of
a P7aarrez, that twelvemonths should not elapse
without a visible token of his magnanimity. That
fledge, the world knows by this time, has been
61-11 Y and punctually redeemed. Encouraged
the accordant voices of nearly the whole
341,14 t male population of France, united for
"ce in "pointing the mor4l" of History, the
-1-)3"Peror NAPOLEON 111. —as the first manifesta-
t 'WA ache
the
i new power entrusted to his keeping by
to
ha---may be said, with very slight meta-
phor,
vofotbl,r. oken asunder with his own hands
the chains
freee:Hero of the Arabians. ABD-EL-
1C &DER was
oolirriebut while he owed his freedom
directly, of
to the. generosity of his Im-
vrial Deliverer, h,
generosity of his Interce%gor,
wed it also indirectly to the
the chivalrous Mar-
quis of LONDoNDERIty.

Since that memorable
lA°rlling when the then
the Chateau d'Amboise—pp
on
PRINCE PRESIDENT St Oed
for a while at
is :first triumphal entry into
- way to his
him-
announced. to the Ellin theand
close of IL; prolonged and unjust captivity,
an in
t-renting correspondence has taken place be_
c;',.Teen AED-El,-K ADER and Lord LONDONDERRy.
A communication was transmitted to the Arab
g
t-iliatain by the gallant Marquis, invitin
tior to his departure for the East, to partake of
tlic• hospitalities of one who had shown himself in
a very obvious manner his friend in the hour of
fnrtune• Had the invitation been accepted,
..1
we believe, this country ; might have reached
sUfficOent time to have witnessed
the obsequies of the late Duke of WELLING-
-I(.°l' in 'St' Paul's Cathedral. Circumstances
unfortunately inter Posed to prevent the pos-
sibility of this interestin and aptly-timed
:rival of the EMIR in g
the United Kingdom.
.waN impracticable
England even for for him, indeed, to visit
a brief interval previou§