The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-22 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,--I cannot refrain from expressing to you the un-
qualified pleasure with which I have read all you have
written on the question at issue between Lord Palmers-
ton and the Duke de Sotomayor. It is characterised
throughout by a knowledge of the real merits of the
case, and by what I may term an intuitive sagacity,
which are beyond all praise. You alone, of all our daily
press (so far as I have been able to judge it), have seen
this matter in its true light. The Times, Daily News,
Morning Chronicle, and I think the Morning Advertiser,
have all been on the wrong scent; of course the Morning
Post, Herald, and Standard have no further or higher
idea of the matter than how they may may turn it to a
party advantage, and accordingly they bark at Lord
Palmerston's heels. Of the hebdomidal papers, which I
see here and there, my general impression is that they
have not comprehended the true merit of the case.
The rock upon which the whole of the press, and a
large portion of our not over-well informed Members of
the Houses of Parliament have split, has been that Lord
Palmerston did wrong to vex " the proud Castilian" by
writing his celebrated note to Sir 13. Bulwer, in which
his Lordship authorised his Minister to give some good,
plain, perhaps unpalatable advice to Sotomayor (mean-
ing always Narvaez), as to bis mode of carrying on the
Government of Queen Isabella.
The Peers in the House of Lords, the gentlemen in
the House of Commons, and the writers in the English
press, who have run a tilt with Lord Palmerston, on the
ground that he had unnecessarily wounded the Castilian
pride of Narvaez, Sotomayor, and Co., are merely the
many Don Quixotes running with lance in rest against

The Spanish people, considered in their aggregate
character, are a fine people ; but, unhappily, they have
fallen upon evil days, in regard to their rulers and
.pub-
lic men. These are venal, unprincipled, arrogant, igno-
rant, selfish, and mean, and they misgovern Spain. I
speak generally, and I am happy to say that there are
exceptions, proving the rule.
Well, Narvaez—an unmitigated tyrant, and the
meanest of mankind—comes to the conclusion in
his own addled brain, and in the ignorance of the
affairs of England, that the Chartists are about to reign
paramount, and that at all events Lord Palmerston and
Sir Henry Bulwer (ese Lord Palmerston, con su amigo
Bulver) are about to tall, and that accordingly the time
had arrived for the ass to kick the dead lion. So in his
magnanimity be sends Sir Henry Bulwer off, but, per si
acaso, in case of accidents, he also sends Count Mirasol

to explain.
Be assured, Sir, that if Narvaez and his clique could
for one moment have foreseen the denouement of their
dismissal of Sir Henry Butwer, they would sooner have
chopped off their little fingers than have proceeded as
they did. They committed, as we say now, " a grave
mistake."
Narvaez will fall in consequence of his arrogance, his
meanness, his folly, and his ignorance. Lord Palmerston
will be recognised more clearly than ever as the most
consummate diplomatist, and what is more to his honour,
the most dignified and best defender of his country's
rights that modern times has produced for this happy
nation.
That you may know that these are the sentiments of
one long acquainted with Spanish character and feelings,
and in no way connected with Lord Palmerston, I in-
close my card, which you may show to any one you
please. To yourselt lam wholly unknown, but I repeat
that your mode of seeing, or rather foreseeing, all the
bearings of the question, displays an insight into na-
tional character, an observation of diplomatic detail, a
sagacity in analyzing it, and a wisdom in anticipating
the ultimate judgment which is to be pronounced upon
it—ail deserves the raced of praise from those who wish
to see the best interests of England well understood and
well handled by the press.
R.
London, June 19, 1848.