The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1852.

ADD. BL-K&Dza's liberation will be welcomed by
every one with pleasure, but by no one with more
peculiar satisfaction than by the veteran Marquis of
LorrnoNDusur. It will be borne in remembrance
that his voice was the one first raised in behalf of the
dneeived and deserted prisoner of the Chateau
d'Amboise. It was his voice that first penetrated
the Councils of State with the cry of intercession.
It was he who, by his reiterated appeals, elicited that
remarkable promise—" Sooner or later I will liberate
ADD.BL-KADER—Tot ou turd je mettrai en liberte
Abd-el-Kuder I" And nobly has that promise been
fulfilled—nobly has the word, solemnly pledged, been
redeemed—nobly, before the allotted interval has ex-

pired, before 1852 has far advanced into October,
with November sad December still in per-
spective, have the chains been broken, and
the prison doors unbarred, which, for five
long years, have restricted the movements of
the Arabian hero within the limits of the
acene of his incarceration ! Yes ! France has at
length had the blot erased from her escutcheon—the
blot of that turpitude by which a valiant enemy was
"Paid foe his own lofty confidence, by the ever-
execrable treachery of his conqueror. One of the last,
and assuredly not one of the least, of the political
crimes of Louis PHILIPPE has at length been expi-
ated. The brave EMIR, who was, in 1847, doomed
by that monarch to a captivity to which one of the
Princes of the House of ORLEANS had pledged his
honour as a soldier that he should never be subjected
—has at length received the long-delayed, but possibly
on that very account the more exquisitely prized,
announcement of the event of his liberation. That
event, while it is in one respect nothing more than a
simple act of justice, must be regarded, under the
peculiar circumstances of the moment, for a thousand
reasons, as a very signal evidence of clemency and
magnanimity.
England has, doubtless, by this time hailed these
glad tidings throughout the whole extent of her cora-
inunitY, with a sense of admiration more than is
ouatomarily accorded to an incident of this character
taking place on the European Continent. Yet we
cannot but conjecture also, that here, in these islands
of ours, the intelligence of Ann-EL-KADER'S libera-
tion will be welcomed,
unworthy
moreover, with a generous
feeling of envy not worthy of the British popu-
lation. It willbe thought, with something like
compunction by the
Franca) has in a
timlmeore reflective, that while
harshness to the hero-
Py tsnei anner expiated her
d'Amboise—England been long
of the Chateau
denied the reparation during his lifetime of the cruel-
since for ever
cruel-
ties inflicted by her upon theher
:aptive of the
mean and dilapidated house at Long
has not permitted her annals to be darkoden by France
e
the
death of ABD-EL-KADEZ during the period of his
in-
carceration; England on the contrary allowed
hatred—might we not also say her fear, her abso-
luter
terror of that one great man—to hasten the
period of his death in captivity by enhancing the
rigours which peculiarly characterised his galling
and most odious imprisonment. Englishmen, re-
membering Chia, have, therefore, ample reasc n
to envy the opportunity which has been seized
by France in the treatment of the illustri-
ous prisoner now permitted to proceed on I:is
parole to the dominions of the SULTAN CALIPH.
Such bag been the tardy but still timely magnanimity
shown towards the EMIR ABD-EL...K.ADER in his re-
lease from the prison near Tours. Such was not,
alas ! the conduct pursued by England towards the
Emperor ATAroLEON in that rocky dungeon of St.