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

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1852.

Ann-m-KADER—the last of the Green Turban
Chieftains--has at length set forth on his depar-
ture from Christendom. After a captivity of
nearly five years' duration, at first in the fortress
at Pan, but subsequently at the Chateau at Am-
.boise, he is tasting the sweets of liberty on his
Broussa—the sweets of that liberty which
has been accorded him by the Emperor NAPOLEON'S
unquestioned magnanimity. It cannot be for-
gotten that before the heroic warrior, now on his
road to Turkey, had any inkling whatever of the
probability of his release from incarceration—.
an earnest and generous plea was addressed
in his behalf to the then Prince Presi-
dent of the French Republic, by a brave-hearted
veteran of the English army, who had visited the
Arab in his prison--CHARLES WILLIAM, the third
Marquis of Londonderry. The incident is by
this time as familiar with the great nations on
either side of the British Channel, as the kindred
one wherein the same gallant soldier interceded
with King Louis PHILIPPE for the liberation from
his dungeon, at Ham, of the then Prince Louis
NAPOLEON. Remembering that previous inter-
cession in regard to the condition of an eminent
state prisoner, Lord LONDONDERRY had sufficient
reason to conceive that he, especially, could with
with very peculiar grace, beseech the clemency of
the ruler of 35,000,000 of Frenchmen, in favour
of the Hero of the Desert, who was pining
for freedom in a state of almost utter hopelessness.
Ile 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 apopriately 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-KADER, the preux
Chevalier of the Wilderness. And so Lord LoN-
ZONDEREY wrote, as will be remembered, to the
ruler of the French people, delicately recalling to the
recollection of the PRINCE the occasion when a
document had been addressed to his Royal
Predecessor. The response to this appeal was
exactly what might reasonably have been antici-
pated. it was at once an expression of sympathy
for the EMIR and of regard for his advocate—
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a distinct pledge of honour, as from the hand of
I)RINCE, that twelvemonths should not elapse
without a visible token of his magnanimity. That
Pledge, the world knows by this time, has been
nobly*thad punctually redeemed. Encouraged
by the
accordant voices of nearly the whole
adult la,'
once ine population of France, united for
Pointing the moral" of History, the
Emperor XAPOLEON lll.—as the first manifesta-
tion of the 'lel!" power entrusted to his keeping by
the nation-.....ujay be
said, with very slight meta-
phor, to have broken asunder with his own hands
the chains of the Rem
of the Arabians. ABD-EL-
RADER was free : but
While he owed his freedom
directly, of course, to the
the
generosity of his Im-
perial Deliverer, he o wd it
ctl to
generosity of his Inter e r alsos° indire y
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, the chivalrous quis of LONDO3STDERRY.
Since that memorable morning
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PRESIDENT
stopped
for when the. then
a while at
the Chateau d'Amboise--on
his way to his
first triumphal entry into Paris--and him-
self announced to the EMIR the close of
his prolonged and unjust captivity, an in-
teresting correspondence has taken place be-
tween ABD-EL-KADER and Lord Lorinorrnsitny.
A. communication was transmitted to the Arab
Chieftain by the gallant Marquis, inviting him,
prior to his departure for the East, to partake of
the hospitalities of one who had shown himself in
a very obvious manner his friend in the hour of
3nrsfortune. Had the invitation been accepted,
ABD-EL-KADER, we believe, might have reached
this country in sufficient time to have witnessed
the obsequies of the late Duke of WELLING-
TON iu Si., Paul's Cathedral. Circumstances
terposed to prevent the pos-
sibility of "2-ifulf interesting and aptly-timed
(7”--arrival of the 'Aram in the United Kingdom.
It was iraprachiable for him, indeed, to visit
England even or a brief interval previous
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