The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1844.

No Governor-General of India has been more
maligned than Lord ELLENBOROUGH. The press of
England and India justly laughed at his puerilities,
his songs of triumph ; and many of the journals la-
mented more than they blamed the attacks on his
predecessor, and the pompous proclamations about the
disasters of Caubul, the gates of Somnauth, and his
firm determination to confine the British power for ever
in India to the limits which bounded it at the accession
of Lord AUCKLAND. Some, however, more severe
than just, described him as the most incompetent
Governor that ever had been sent out to rule that vast
empire. We all along, however, endeavoured to
judge him by his acts, and not by his words. We
blamed him almost without one exception for what he
said, and praised him for what he did. The result
has not belied our opinions. Under his administra-
tion the honour and power of England were vindi-
cated in Affghanistan ; the most glorious and success-
ful march of armies through passes considered im-
passable was accomplished ; Caubul was recaptured,
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and the Affghans were taught the useful lesson, that
neither their high mountains, nor their narrow valleys Accounts have been received from Madrid to the
19. th inst. M. 'MARTINEZ DE LA RosA has refused to
commanded from the heights, nor their barren deserts,
could protect them against the forces of England. accept the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ac-
This was an important point gained in that quarter. cording to the Heraldo he had anticipated his journey
The merit is not entirely due to Lord ELLENBOROUGI!, to Madrid (whither he would have been called as a
but he ordered the movement, and must come in for Deputy in a few days), " merely to explain by word
his share of the honour. That was, however, only an of mouth to her MAJESTY and the Ministers the
episode in his Lordship's government, though the itn- motives that induced him to refuse the department of
portant results which flow from it entitle it to a Foreign Affairs, and which he appeared to have re-
much higher rank. But the greatest achievement of nounced definitively."
Lord ELLENBOROUGB, greater, too, than any per- The Clamor Publico reiterates the statement that
formed by the most illustrious of his predecessors, is seven thousand men are forthwith to be marched to
the occupation of Sinde. When the news of that Navarre, where the partizans of Don CARLOS have
event reached England, Whigs, and Tories, and generally triumphed.
Radicals, joined in one cry for execration against the The Heraldo, however, states that the Government
man who so cruelly deprived the innocent Ameers of
would not be obliged to march troops to Navarre, all
their dominions, who added treachery to hypocrisy,
either ust the accounts from that province describing it as per-
who, from the ambition of conquest, risked the lives fectly tranquil, although the Carlists had carried the
of British troops without an object j, or elections.
honourable, or useful; who sullied, the name of Eng-
The same journal affirms that the rumours
land by a barbarous invasion, and doomed the unfor- current as to an impending change in the Cabinet are
tunate General NAPIER and his brave troops to death,
, and that none will take place before the
meeting of the Cortes.
fence of the climate. We are not aware that any s,
The re-organisation of the National Guard was
journal, with one exception, justified the conduct of )
also talked of, and the partisans of the Cabinet like-
Lord ELLENBOROUGH and Sir CHARLES NAPIER in i
wise declared that it contemplated making consider-
this great work of justice, regeneration, and improve- I able reductions in the army.
went. Many members of the Society of Friends I " The roads of Spain, and especially those of Anda-
exclaimed against the occupation of the country, lusia (says the Tiempo) are infested with bands of rob-
though Sir CHARLES NAPIER, or rather the Governor- bers, who freely exercise their culpable industry. In the
General bad
, llt7;ick off the fetters from every slave. 1
I very environs of Madrid robberies are as easily perpe-
trated as in a forest. It would appear that: Spain is not
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tings_werol4l;l fuldsirisro -de- to denounce the I yet near losing the fame she has long obtained as the
inglorious.inroad unsuspecting and B4c "
innoqent Amite, classical land of smugglers, .
td Lord CLANRI• MADRID BOLZA, SEPT. 12.---Three per Cents.
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