The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-16 00:00:00

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LONDoN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1847

Our excellent brother Jonathan has been "shown
up" in a most ridiculous light, and that at the most
inopportune moment imaginable. As one of the
United States' newspapers remarks with a characteris-
tic outburst of grief—he is proved to have been regu-
larly " humbugged and bamboozled" in the purchase
and annexation of Texas ; and, what is worst of all,
by no astute diplomatist, by no TALLEyRAND, no
METTERNICH, no -MACHIAVELLI, but by plain SAM
HOUSTON, a fellow in a blanket coat. " Oh, Messrs.
TYLER, UPSUUR, DONELSON, and the rest, what flats
you are all made to appear !" is the pathetic ejacula-
tion of this Transatlantic journalist. And the " pre-
ciously humiliating truth," the revelation of which
is here bemoaned, is proclaimed simply in a letter
addressed by the ex-President of Texas to Col.ll.vrcuE,
the editor of the Texas Banner. Nothing certainly
could be more calamitously timed for Mr. President
PoLz and his colleagues than this epistle of General
HOUSTON, appearing, as it does, at a juncture when the
Councils of Washington are embarrassed by the in-
creasing unpopularity of the Mexican invasion, and
when that unpopularity is confirmed by the election
of a majority of Whig representatives in the new
Congress, and the accumulation of new difficulties
around the heroic armaments of those most redoubt-
able captains—Twinos, SCOTT, ZACHARY TAYLOR,
and CADWALLADIR PILLOW. Just when Mr. Pleni-
potentiary TWIST is rebuffed by the Mexican Con-
gress, when the arrival of PAREDES in the invaded
territory complicates the position of its assailants,
when the party adverse to the continuance of the
war obtains the preponderating influence in the Le-
gislative Chamber—out comes this disclosure of SAM
HOUSTON, proving that the spangled standard of the
model republic was darned in more senses than one,
and that the Supreme Government of the said model
republic had been grievously humbugged and bam-
boozled ! Oh, SAM HOUSTON ! thou art answerable
for the cholic that will inevitably seize upon the en-
trails of JAMES POLK ; for it is a disastrous thing to
show that the United States was " done " in con-
triving the annexation of Texas, just when the same
policy is about to be adventured upon by the annex-
ation of California.
The lovers of national independence—those
who detest the system of territorial spoliation—
will be grateful to the ex-President of Texas
for a document which must warn the whole popula-
tion of Yankeeland against the pursuance of a course
which apparently tends to the aggrandizement of
their dominions, but which in reality only abstracts
from their treasury so many millions of dollars, and
ultimately exposes them to contempt and ridicule.
The letter of General HousToN, indeed, tells as plea-
santly as an anecdote —as did the anecdote
of Cousin FEENIX at the dinner-party in " Doashey
and Son." Here, however, it is not of a bride who
has been regularly bought, and a bridegroom who has
been regularly sold ; but it recounts how Texas was
regularly bought and how the United States was
regularly sold. Unfortunate dupes of the man in the
blanket coat, you had immeasurably better have
maintained silence, and thus purchased by your
quietude the taciturnity of your cajolers
The circumstance which elicited the mad-a-propos
explanation of SAss HousToN was simply this. His
attention had recently been directed to a document.
relating to the Texan negotiation, published in the
Weekly Union, and signed by ex-President TYLER—
in which document Mr. TYLER. states that it was
only when he had acquired information that exer-
tions were being made by certain European Go-
vernments in reference to the isolation of
Texas, that he (the then President of the
United States) empowered his colleague, ABEL
Ursuuß (since deceased), "to scatter to the winds
the web of those intrigues." What is the revelation
of General HousToN upon this point ? Why it is a
revelation most humiliating to the character of that
ex-President, most derogatory to the national 'cute-
ness hitherto regarded as a distinguishing character-
istic of the citizens of the model Republic. It would ac-
tually appear that the intelligence which decided Mr.
TYLER to scatter the intrigues of the European
powers to the winds through the agency of good,
credulous ABEL Urstsua, originated solely in
the imagination of SAM HOUSTON ! Yes, the
ex-President of Texas was disappointed at the in-
decisive character of the proceedings of the United
States in regard to the annexation of the territory
in un-
derhis rule, and for the purpose of at once bring
TYLER to good terms upon a bad bargain the mg Man
in
the blanket coat " bamboozled" the statesmen
of
Washington with these reports of imaginary intrigues.
President TYLER was caught with a bait that would
not have deceived the most simple-minded gudgeon,
and Texas was taken for better, for worse, for richer,
for poorer, by the Government of the United States.
Such is the exposure which is simultaneous with the
arrival of PAREDES in Mexico, and the return of a
Whig majority to the Congress at Washington ; such,
in tine, is the revelation which is mentioned by an
elegant and classical writer in a New York journal
as a " preciously humiliating truth !"

4 magnificent banquet was on Tuesday given to
the Earl of DALlioustE, at Edinburgh, as a farewell
mark of esteem and respect previous to his departure
for India, whither he is about to proceed to assail@
the important duties of the office of Governor-
General, to which he has recently been appointed.
This gratifying testimonial of the approbation the
Noble Earl has earned for himself by his conduct'
was attended by persons of every party and of every
shade of political feeling : all were anxious to testify
their sense of the ability and discretion manifested by

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