The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1851.

The accounts received from the United States and
Cuba by the Royal Mail steam-ship Canada, which
arrived at Liverpool yesterday, fully confirm the
truth of the Spanish statements of the recent occur-
rences in that island, and at the same time show
how impossible it is to place the slightest reliance
on any account emanating from "sympathising"
sources. Never has the system of "enormous
lying" been so shamelessly carried out as it has been
speculators of New
by LOPEZ and the greedy
Orleans, and the other southern cities of the
Union, with whom he has been a coconspirator, and
of whom, ere this, the whole of the unfortunate
" flibustiers" whom he induced to accompany
him have been the victims. The latest accounts
received by the United States Executive from Cuba
are to the 25th of August; up to that date it is stated
"that LOPEZ had been enabled to maintain himself,
but with a very reduced force. Not one creole had
joined him. His prospects were desperate. It is a
personal struggle for his own life and the lives of his
few remaining followers." This is the semi-official
statement of the United States Government, and con-
trasts strangely with the
accounts put forth by the
sympathisers of his battles and his victories.
The letters of the unfortunate men who were
shot at the Havannah, victims of the am-
bition of LOPEZ and of the avarice of his,
if not more guilty, assuredly more cowardly
associates, who fitted out the expedition as an invest
ment, are published in the New Orleans papers, and
they prove to demonstration that LOPEZ never, from
the first moment of his landing, possessed the shadow
of a chance, and that the expedition, as it was brigand
in principle so was it briglnd in management, as it
was conducted without the slightest attention to even
ordinary military tactics. He seems to have left
Colonel CRITTENDEN and his battalion to their fate,
without orders, without plen, without information.
Had he been playing false to his own companions, in
order to betray them into the wands of the Spanish
authorilie3, he could not have adopted any plan to
have more effectually or speedily accomplished the
Tna following letter from Atiilltnt
STAN-
FORD describes the short and disastrous campaign of
,he battalion of GA. CRITTENDEN

" Havanuah, Aug. 16, 1851.
"Dear Hulico.',—We arrived on the island of Cuba
after the ma,thorrible passigo you can conceive of,
cooped on board with 400 or 500 men. .

"We arrived on Sunday last, I believe—dates I have
Almost forgotten. The next morning General Lcpez,
with General Paraguay and all the commanding officers,
left us (I mean Crittenden and his battalion). We heard
nothing more of him for two days, when Crittenden dis-
patched a note. He then requested we should join him
at a little town some six or eight miles off, leaving us in
the meantime to take care of all the baggage.
" We started for him on Wednesday morning at two
o'clock, and had proceeded only three miles when we
were attacked by 500 Spanish soldiers. In the first
charge I received a very severe wound in the knee.
We repulsed them, however. They made another
charge, and completely routed us. We spent two days
and nights, the most miserable you can imagine, in the
chapparal, without anything to eat or drink.
" We made the best of our way to the sea shore, and
found some boats with which we put to sea. Spent a
night upon the ocean, and the next day, about twelve
o'cloek, were taken prisoners by the Habanero, were
brought to Havanuah last night, and condemned to die
this morning. We shall all be shot in an hour.
" Good by and God bless you. I send the 'Masonic
medal enc!oscd in this, b,locging to my father. Convey
it to my sister, Mrs. P—n, and tell her my fate.
Once more, God bless you.

" STANFORD."

AnDther of the unfortunate men, G. A. CooKE,
does not hesitate to distinctly charge LOPEZ and his
associates with treachery. His letter is short, truth-
ful, and to the point; it is in these words :

" Havannah, on board a man-of-war, eight
o'clock A. 31 August 16, 1851.

" My dear Friends,—About 50 of us, Colonel Critten-
den's command, were taken prisoners yesterday; have
not received our sentence yet, bat no doubt we will be
shot before sunset. Lopez, the scoundrel, has deceived us;
there is no doubt that all those reports about the Cuban
rising were trumped up in New Orleans,
" btanton and Co.'

There can be no doubt that "LOPEZ, the scoundrel,"
deceived these unfortunate men, but he is not the
only or the greatest scoundrel ; it was not LOPEZ
alone who trumped up all those reports about Cuban
risings in New Orleans. Who were his associates ?
Who were the keepers of the so-called " military
offices" where these men were enrolled ? Who were
the capitalists who furnished funds for the ex-
pedition, as a speculation, in the profits of
which, if successful, they were to share ?
These " scoundrels" must be well known in
New Orleans, and it is to be hoped that the friends
and relations of CRITTENDEN, STANFORD, COOK E,
and the other victims will not rest until they have
brought these men to justice. It appears that the
whole of CRITTENDEN'S battalion have been either
cut to pieces or executed ; forty of them, it is said,
were taken in a farm-house immediately after their
first defeat, and shot at once ; and it is said that a
Spanish company on the 14tb came upon twenty of
them guarding an equal number of wounded com-
rades, and that the whole of them were cut to pieces.
And yet, notwithstanding the fate of these unfortu-
nate men, notwithstanding it is known that not a
single creole has joined LOPEZ, notwithstanding the
statement on the part of the New Orleans journal,
which had heretofore supported LOPEZ, that " Gra-
dually the veil is rising, and, ere many more days roll
over, the plot and plotters, who have most cruelly
deceived and destroyed as brave, as disinterested,
and as true-hearted a body of men as ever embarked
in an enterprise of freedom, will be exposed to the
public gaze;" we find that recruiting is still going
on in many cities of the Union ; that General FELIX
HousToN has issued an address at New Orleans,
urging the citizens to subscribe liberally, so as to fit
out an expedition on a large scale ; that at Baltimore
arrangements are making for the departure of a
Cuban expedition, and that at New York the sym-
pathisers have devised a very original method of, as
they think, evading the law by issuing the following
placard :

" THE MASSACRE MONUMENT COMMITTEE.—The
undersigned have been appointed, under the authority
of the great mass meeting in the Park, a committee to
receive public :subscriptions, to be applied to the purpose
of erecting a suitable monument to tho fifty massacred
prisoners, on the spot where the irlaraous butchery was
committed, and to the taking of all necessary and proper
steps that may be required for the eventual consumma-
tion of that object; which include, of course, such mea-
sures as may be found necessary and proper to acquire
the title to the ground on which the monument is to be
erected, and the consent of the local authorities. Ac-
cepting this appointment, they hereby announce their
readiness to receive ell contributions designed for the
furtherance of the said meritorious and noble object, and
express the hope that their fellow-citizens will coast:, tor-
ward liberally for the purpose in view.
" ANDREW H. MICKEE, "F. R. TILLOU,
Jomq M'KEON, ELIJAH F. PURDY."
E. S. SQUIERS,

In order " to acquire the title to the ground," of
course it will be necessary to put down the Spanish
Government in that island.

The American Executive are, however, we are
happy to say, exerting themselves to prevent the
organization and departure of these expeditious.
Their semi-official telegraphic dispatch of the 4,h
says :—"No reibforcements have gone from New
Orleans, and the Government is successfully exerting
itself to prevent any." And it further states that
"The collector of Ct.:4oms at New Orleans has been
removed from office for alleged indifference in Cuban
matters." Probably the fact that the Spanish Cxisul
in New Orleans has struck his flag, and has, by so
doing, devolved the vibnle responsibility of the pro-
ceedings in that city on the American authorities, may
have httd some effect is eliciting from the American