The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-29 00:00:00

TOMAYOR as the mouthpiece of the NAEVAEZ Cabinet,
and in the policy of that Cabinet, as the symbol of
the will of degenerate Spain--the most stupendous
act of national ingratitude in the records of the globe.
Terrible indeed is the retribution preparing for Spain
—the retribution which 'mot follow an insolence so
irredeemably base. Where is that retribution pre-
paring ? In England ? Will the maritime power of
Britain crush the insignificance of its peninsular ally
by blockading the Spanish ports and demanding I
the payment of the English creditors at the mouth
of their cannon ? itrhere is the retribu•
tion preparing ? Not in England. No! Eng
;and is too generous. Not in England—in the
heart of Spain ! A thankless despotism is not invul-
nerable ! The sword of NEMESIS can be fleshed in
the heel even of ACHILLES. That sword will speedily
descend upon the ungrateful Spaniards, and it will
flash from its scabbard in the suicidal hands of the
people.

The event on which the public attention on both
sides of St. George's Channel had been concentrated
for the last fortnight, on which, as we truly believe,
the peace and tranquillity, prosperity and happiness
of the sister kingdom in a great degree depended,
has at length been decided. The trial of Joss
MITCHEL has taken place, and the jury, faithful to
the oaths they had taken, have returned the only
verdict which a conscientious discharge of their im-
portant duties permitted. The issue which the un-
fortunate prisoner himself had raised has been found
against him ; for a considerable period he had deter-
mined to leave no loophole by which the Government
could avoid a prosecution. He had challenged the
distinguished nobleman who fills the Vice-
royalty of Ireland to meet him in a court
of justice. He had taunted him with the
forbearance that had been exhibited in so long over-
looking his own seditious and most mischievous pub-
lications. He had deliberately declared that either
tl:e Government or himself should be put down, and
he has now only himself to blame for the melancholy
but inevitable result of his insane proceedings,
his expatriation from his native land as a convicted
felon, the loss of all that could make life worth
possessing. However deeply we may be impressed
with the criminality of the unfortunate man, however
richly-merited the punishment he is about to suffer,
it is impossible not to deplore the position in which
a gentleman by birth and education, a man of very
considerable talent and acquirements, has involved
hitnselt by his own reckless and headstrong conduct.
Yes, it is indeed a melancholy spectacle to behold such
a person consorting with thieves and pickpockets,
with the most debased and degraded outcasts from
society, who for their crimes have forfeited their na-
tural liberties, but it is still more painful to reflect
that his criminality far exceeds that of any of his
meaner associates—that he had excited thousands of
his misguided countrymen into a state of disaffection
and disloyalty, ready to imperil their own lives and
these of their fellow-citisens in the pursuit of an im.
practicable chimera; to imbue their hands in human
gore, to involve their country in the most hateful, the
most sanguinary, the most destructive, in every respect,
of all wars—an internecine contest, where brothers and
fathers are arrayed against each other in hostile ranks.
Had the jury impaufilled to try his case paltered with

Ambassador to Madrid : and we do so, because those
animadversions are as disingenuous and as undeserved
as they are petulant and vituperative. Our opinion
of the conduct of Sir H. BULWER throughout the
whole of these recent misunderstandings is derived
solely from the deliberate conviction of our judgment
after a calm and dispassionate consideration of the
correspondence. That correspondence—consisting of
the letters and documents severally exchanged be-
tween Lord PALMERSTON, Sir H. BULWER, and the
Due DE SOTOMAYOR—has just been printed in sixty-
eight pages, and copies of it presented to both
Houses of Parliament by order of her MAJESTY. In
the sixty-eight pages of this important diplomatic
publication there are exactly sixty-eight official com-
munications, penned during an interval extending
from March the first to May the eighteenth in-
clusively. From these papers alone Sir HENRY
BULWER may derive his vindication ; and any one
who shall have the temerity to assert,
after a perusal of the whole, that her
Britannic MAJESTY'S late representative at the Court
of ISABELLA has not been entirely exonerated from
all blame i❑ regard to the quarrel which has arisen
between the two Governments, will be actuated either
by a monstrous obliquity of judgment, or by a
shameless avidity fur prevarication.
What, we ask at once and for all, what can pos-
sibly be said as to the culpability of Sir HENRY
LYTTON BULWER apart from the culpability of the
Government, of which he was the accredited agent,
after the very explicit letter written on the 20th ult•
by Lord PALMERSTON, in which that statesman says—
now mark this !—in which he says—"l have to instruct
you to state to the Duc DB SOroMATOR that HER
MAJESTY'S Government entirely approve the step
which you took in making your communication of thi
7th instant, and likewise of your note of the 12th."
Of course, the Government gave those letters of Sir
11. BULWER their approval, for, in writing as he did
on the 7th and 12th of April, Sir H. Buewea was
merely obeying the instructions transmitted to him
from the Foreign-office in Downing-street. Cul-
pable, therefore, Sir H. BULWER is not in the estima-
tion of the English Government, for the Chief of that
Government in the Foreign Department has thus for-
mally pronounced the commendation of his conduct as
an ambassador. Nor can sir HENRY BULWER
be considered as culpable even in the estimation of
the Spanish Ministry, notwithstanding the violent
language addressed to him by the Foreign Secretary
of her Most Catholic MAJESTY—for immediately
anterior to his departure from Madrid Senor CABAL-
LERO waited upon the representative of her Britannic
MAJESTY with an assurance of the " great personal
regard and esteem" entertained for him by the Due
DE SOTOMAYOR. From both sides, therefore, Sir
HENRY BULWZR may derive his individual vindica-
tion. By neither party is he treated as culpable (he
merely acting throughout the whole transac-
tion as a simple medium or agent); and, there-
fore, all tiros° who are endeavouring to depre-
ciate his character by their aspersions, should reflect
that they are only shooting with the barbless arrows
of abusc—projectiles which can only in the end recoil
upon themselves.
Some one, however, is culpable. That is clear.
Sir HENRY BULWER is vindicated, as we have
shown, by reference to the correspondence
itself ; firstly, by Lord PALMERSTON, and, secondly,
by Lord PALMERSTON'S antagonist the Due DE Soro-
MAYOR. That Lord PALMERSTON has been more
than justified in the course pursued by him through•
out the misunderstanding in •his c ipacity as the
Foreign Administrator of Great Britain, we have
fully explained in foregoing observaions—observa-
dons in which we adduced the records of History as
the inducements to the memorable recommendation
of Viscount PALMERSTON to the Narvaes Cabinet.
As a perfect epitome of those remarks, and as a
masterly condensation of the historical arguments in
favour of such an interference on the part of Eng-
land, we refer to the closing paragraph of the letter,
already quoted, written by Lord PALMERSTON to
Mr. (now Sir HENRY) Burewea, a copy of
which letter is printed in another column
of The Sun of this day's impression. It is
there shown that England has earned a right
to make such friendly suggestions to the Government
of Spain—that she has earned that right by her mu-
nificence, her arms, her aid, her energies, her heart's
blood ; that she has earned that right by the prowess
of her soldiers fighting in the cause of Spain, by the
talent of her diplomatists lavished in the furtherance
of the interests of that country, by the money of her
citizens generously expended in the preservation of
the peninsula from the horrors of a national bank-
ruptcy ; that she has earned that right, solemnly
in the face of Christendom, by elevating
ISABELLA 11. on the bucklers of her war-
riors, and girding her brows with the diadem of
PHILIP ; that history has proclaimed the fact upon
her brazen tablets ; that it is written in bloody cha-
racters upon the hills of Biscay; that it is attested
by the misfortunes of MONTEMOLIN, by the death of
ZUMALLACARREGUI, and by the fame of ESPARTERO.
Of a truth there is culpability, and a damning culpa-
bility in one quarter, and that quarter is Spain.
Years can never efface the recollection of what has
just transpired in the Spanish capital. Years ? Cen
turies! Posterity will recognise in the conduct of So