The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-19 00:00:00

BLOCKADE OF BUENOS AYRES..

POLICY OF ROSAS.

MONTE VIDEO, JULY 27.
Sin,—Since I wrote you by last packet, on the 20th
ult., things have remained without alteration regarding
the French question.
In my former letter I mentioned that all hopes of an
adjustment on this side of the water were at an end.
The foreign agents and " peace-makers" here are only
rendering the matter worse and more intricate every
day by their meddling.
Rosas is a man who will allow none of them, nor any
person living, to converse with him on political subjects,
whereby a diplomatist might possibly come at the
true intent and the meaning of his views. He stu-
diously avoids confidential intercourse with them, but
if he is forced to meet them by the laws of etiquette,
or if he condescends to enter into conversation with
them'on topics of a familiar nature (for the purpose
of reading their character), it will be composed of
an assortment of ideas which they can make neither
head nor tail of. Several persons of distinction have
lately had private interviews with him—Xaptain Mac-
kenzie, of the United States ship Fairfield, a clever
man and an author ; Commodore Nicholson, also of
their navy ; Mr. Mandeville, our Minister ; and others
—not one of whom, I will venture to say, can give a
correct description of his political views. Therein con-
sists his tact, which, in the present instance, is leading
them and their Governments widely astray, while at
the same time he is benefiting by the lights which they
thrown on the question at issue.
But to come to the point. England, and England
alone, has the power to raise the blockade when she
pleases. Where her commerce is so much interested,
why dally about it for such a length of time ? It has
now become solely a question of national honour on the
part of both France and Buenos Ayres. The indemnity
(or, as I wish to be understood, the pounds, shillings, and
pence part of the business) is totally forgotten ; conse-
quently, the only mode of adjusting their difference is
either by force of arms or mediation. The latter, I
should suppose, could not well be refused on the part of
the French ; and if offered in a proper manner, I could
safely vouch for it, would not be rejected on that of the
Argentines.
Rosas has sent his Minister, Moreno, to England
merely for the purpose of gaining time, and you will
find that he has despatched him with a sort of " rig-
marole" commission, which the British Government
will not feel itself authorized to act on. By the time
this reaches you, you will be able to judge of the truth
of this assertion.

....
The fact is, that nothing less than a special midister
from England will now satisfy Rosas. Were this ac-
corded, the whole affair might be settled in a few
hours. If such a negotiation be not entered into be-

fore the French bombard the city (which is now their
only resource,) you will only prolong the war, impo-
verish the country, destroy our commerce, and ulti-
mately have to mediate among the ruins.
As for the landing of French troops to conquer the
country districts, while Rosas lives, it is all out of the
question. In the first instance he might perhaps amuse
them, as he did the Indians in a former campaign,
wherein he sacrificed a few hundred of his best men,
merely for the sake of seeing how they came into action,
but there his loss would end.
He is a man of most extraordinary talents, and the
greatest fault the French agents and others commit is
underrating them. He is by no means the " blood-
thirsty" tyrant that he is painted, inasmuch as he will
meddle with none who do not interfere with his go-
vernment. He has undertaken the grand work of or-
ganizing the whole of the South American Republics,
and if he flinches now, he is a lost man, and he
knows it. Although Iby no means admire his policy,
yet I must do him the justice to say that I do not
believe it to be sordid or selfish. His ruling passion
and his present aim (in my opinion) may both find
utterance as follows :—" I must organize my country
in such a manner that the husbandman can sow his
crop with a certainty of reaping it. In that consum-
mation, after all the shocks she has experienced from
her disorders, will consist her true happiness. To
accomplish it, I must trample on her nominal consti-
tutions and on all the thenretic rights of man. This
resnonsibility I take upon myself. If I fail, Igo down
to my grave as the assassin of my countrymen ; if I
succeed my name will be immortalized as their saviour."
I sincerely sympathize with many of the suffering
Argentines, who now too late see the false position into
which their folly has brought them. They may, how-
ever, rest assured that the dictatorship of Rosas (what-
ever may be its end) will afford a useful lesson, not
only to themselves, but to all the South American Re-
publics, and must ultimately lead to the grand result of
their organization and union for mutual defence, if in no
other way, by showing them how easy it is to establish
despotism on the ruins of anarchy.
—Times. A BRITISH RESIDENT.

EXECUTION OF TWO NATIVE
MURDERERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Yesterday morning being the time appointed for the
execution of Yerr-i-Cha. who was condemned in the
Supreme Court last week for being engaged in the
murder of William Duffell ; and Wang Nucha, who was
condemned for the murder of James Thompson ; at an
early hour in the morning preparations were made for
the execution.
A scaffold had been erected in front of the iron stores
on the Park Land, North Adelaide, to which, at eight
o'clock, the criminals were conducted in a cart, guarded
by a strong body of police. James Croak, the inter-
preter, walked alongside the cart, to whom Wang Nusha
kept talking most of the way, from the jail to the
place of execution.
By the time they arrived at the scaffold a consider-
able number of people had assembled round it. After
the warrant for their execution had been read by the
Sheriff, the unfortunate men were led, or rather
dragged, upon the scaffold, and placed by the execu-
tioner on the fatal drop. They then seemed quite aware
of the fete which was overhanging them. Their coun-
tenances, especially that of Yerr-i-Cha, betrayed every
symptom of terror—exhibiting none of that stern de-
' termination which despises to show a fear of death—a
characteristic of the natives of some countries—but on
the contrary evincing every sympton of apprehension
and dread of dying. Yerr-i-Cha's limbs quivered, and
his whole frame was agitated ; while Wang Nucha,
though showing fewer symptoms of trepidation, made
violent protestations in his own language, as we under-
stood him against being hanged.
On the signal being given by the Sheriff, the drop
fell, and, after a few struggles, the unfortunate crimi-
nals ceased to live. After hanging the usual time the
bodies were cut down, and afterwards interred within
the gaol in accordance with the sentence. By nine
o'clock the persons who had assembled to witness the
execution had dispersed, and in a short time everything
was again as quiet as usual.
One circumstance connected with this execution, we
must not neglect to notice. It seemed quite evident,
from the remarks and conversation of the other natives,
many of whom witnessed the execution, that they were
aware of the cause of the death of the criminals ; and
most of them seemed to agree in the justice of the sen-
tence ; and we have no doubt but the example thus
shown them will act as a terror to them, and will be a
means of deterring them in future from interfering in any
way with the property or lives of the settlers.
On passing the native huts immediately after the
execution, we found the women and children and many
of the men lamenting, in a most piteous manner, and
with their sable faces bithed in tears, the death of the
two men ; thus showing the sympathy existing among
them in their native state, not only among the members
of a family, but between all the members of a tribe.—
South Australian Gazette, June 1.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

Dam., Ocr. 17.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Orissa,
B. own, Port Adelaide ; Duke of Buccleugh, M'Leod,
Calcutta; Agnes, Cumming, Matagorda, with the rest of
the outward bound.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 17.—Wind, variable.—Arrived the
Integrity, Horton, Richebucto ; St. George, Crawford,
Paraiba. Sailed the Guiano, Nicholls, Bahia ; Idry's
Wife, Reehan, Halifax; Sisters, Short, St. Kitt's. Off
Port, Statesman, New South Wales ; Adelaide, St.
John's, N.B.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT, 17.—Wind, E. S. E.—Arrived the
James M•Queen, M'Coll, St. Kitts. Off Port, the Boyne,
Richardson, from Bombay, sailed sth June.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 16.—Wind, N. \V.—Arrived the
Henry, Townsend, from Malaga ; Royalist, Seward,
ditto. Sailed the Surrey, Huxtablc, for Sierra Leone.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 16.—Wind S.W., strong breezes
and squally.—Arrived the Columbine, Reed, from the
Cape of Good Hope; Lord Althorp, Jackson, Bahia;
Diadine, Bocaci, Odessa.
SWANSEA, OCT. 16. Arrived the Ocean, from Cuba.
STANGATE CREEK, OCT. 17.—Arrived the Slater, Re-
bow, and Sadler, from Denia ; Clementina, Wopton, Ali-
cant ; Renshaw, Mogadore.
DOVER, OCT. 17.—Sailed, the Neptune, for Havannah.
LEITH, OCT. 16.—Arrived, the Matilda, Bukenbuy,
from Dantzic.
SHIELDS, OCT. 16.--Arrived the Charlotte, Graf von
Essin, from Dantzic; William, Freeman, ditto; Forti-
tude, Clint, Memel. Off port, the Ida, from Quebec.
HULL, OCT. 17.--Wind S. S.W.—Arrived Lady Jane,
Logan, from Riga; Ajax, ditto; Hope, Sawyer, ditto;
Johanna, Dantzic; Louise, Buch, Memel.

VESSELS sroitEN WITII-Turk, Penton, and Mary Ann,
Atherton, 30th ult., in the Gut of Gibraltar, by the
Slater, Rebow, arrived in the Creek ; Orlando, London to
Jamaica, 3d inst., lat. 41. lon. 13 ; Thetis, Barber,
bound to Rio Janeiro, Bth, lat. 44. lon. 14., by the Cora,
Paine, arrived in the River ; Elizabeth, Hore, London to
Algoa Bay, 22d May, by the Syntreer, Brown, arrived at
Algoa Bay ; Olympus, hound to Valparaiso, 15th June ;
Hindustan, Lamb, London to Hobart Town, 26th Juno,
by the Mary Anne, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope.
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