The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-08 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS.

FROM THE NIORNIZ,G PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

[Morning Post.l
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

Extract of a Letter from a British Officer, dated on
the Ganges, July 17, 1818.

" Since the general tranquillity of Europe, /a-
ction events may, perhaps, have had somewhat
ruore of interest with you than they have iisnally
lio‘seeil ; and we have certainly furnished you a
pretty thick succession of late. The upshot has
heeu quick, and very comfortable for us. We
remain with extraordinary advantages acquired,
purchased too, so to speak in sucl, a matter, at a
very cheap tate ; and oar successes have been a
blessimg to an immense population. The ignorance
and the turbulent habits of some petty Chiefs may
still occasion temporary but limited interruptions
of the public tranquillity ; but such
speedily and easily repressed, are very different
politic uneasinesses from the systematic rapine so
long carried on by everyMahratta Power, as well
as by those ruthless and untamable freebooters,
the l'indarries. Thank Heaven, that scourge of
Hindoostan exists no longer, nor can it ever re-
appear, if there continue to be a decent energy in
our Government. That this necessary vigour will
be hereafter forthcoming is more than can be
safely predicted. In reviewing the annals of our
Gov,rinuent,. there seems to have been at almost
all times in it an inherent tendency to go to sleep
in too confident or unreflecting security or uncon-
During this slumbering, the native Stales
recover strengh, fashion their resources, and con-
ceit new intrigues with each other ; till at length
the busy hum of preparation ' arouses us from
the lethargic nap. It is possible that our Noble
Governor'-General might have been induced by
this habit of our Councils to have dozed away It is
term of superintendance in chief, as exemplarily
as any Governor that ever preceded him, had nut

cet ut.

matters been nearly ripe for the long-premeditated
mischief, at the period of hi, arrival among ns;
and that a certain dull note of surrounding hosti-

li!y had not infested his pillow, and awakened ap-
prehension and reflection. What he foresaw has
Callen ont ; what he,prepared for has happened ;
and what he early promised to you has been ful-

filled in all. But as no man is a prophet in his
own conwry, t shall be agreeably disappointed to
find that this able and indefatigable Man, and-suc-
cessful Administrator and Commander, is allowed
by you in England to have been weather-wise,'

and provident for you here. I will may add, that
as tar as my near observation enables me to
judge, every prospect here is favourable, and,
just all that I would wish it.' It most now be
the noble task of :he Governor-General and Pre-
sidency here, to make the future product and re-
sult answer to the present appearance and our
expectation, which will, I depend, be the suc-

cessiul base and labour of our present Chief, be-
fore he leave us to take and enjoy the honourable
and tv,H -earned rest and ease his encrejes, perse-

verance, and great soiccess, so highly ►merit."

CObibPIRACY AT BUENOS ATRES.--A Mr.
Ai`Con4), who resides at Buenos Ayres, writes
to his kiend at Salem, tinder date of the 19th of
August, as follows :—" Since you left here;
something of a rim,re has occurred wtiar
will be the consequence I know not. it appears
that a combination has been formed, in which are
some of the most respectable citizens in Buenos
Ayres ; their intention was to secure the Di-
rector and Principal Officers of Government ; a
plan was laid to take the Director of the road to
his Kinter on Thursday last ; a Serjeant of his
body guard bad agreed to execute the plan; but,
after receiving a good sum of money with a pre-
tence of bribing the remainder of the guard, he
pocketed the cash, and made known the whole
affair ; in consequence of which several of the
party have beets arrested and are now in close
confinement. I am fearful that much blood will be
shed before it ends."—(lbid.)

After what we have more than once positively
stated, in contradiction of the wilfully false state-
ments of some of our Cotemporarks, we certainly
did not expect that any further attempt to deceive
the public with respect to pretended changes in
the Administration would be made, even by those
who deal only in falsehoods of their own inven-
tion, and who dare almost daily to contradict un-
doubted facts. Yet sta ange to say, the same false
statements were yesterday unblushingly reiterated
from the same unprincipled quarter ; anti there-
fo!e do we feel ourselves called upon, in order
to guard even the unthinking few against
such base artifices, to state that there is not, nor
ever has been, the slightest foundation for any of
the assertions thus audaciously made, nor has
any thing whatever occurred that could by possi-
bility he construed to give even the semblance of
probability to any such events —(Mid.).