The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-28 00:00:00

from the position of the persona to whom they had
been in the first instance attributed, and the very
1 awkward consequences which they might involve►
But, in good faith, we have something else to do with
our time, and with the attention of the public, than
waste both in what an illustrious orator has called
querelles de saeristie. We do not judge it necessary
to blow up the flame of discord between two great
nations relative to the ill-humour of a missionary, cry-
ing out the abomination of desolation, because some
French sailors danced on a Sunday with the savage
ladies of the isle of Cythera. What is there in that so
wonderful, or, we may say, so offensive ? Every one
knows that a French Sunday is not, thank Heaven, like
an English one 1 The Methodists had taught the CU-
' heitans to observe the Sabbath in the English way—to
be melancholy on the seventh day, and not to take any
strong liquours unless perhaps such as they themselves
sold them—and, behold ! they find all their economy
disarranged by the introduction of more sociable and
more tolerant habits ! What is there astonishing in
their exaggerating their grievances, in their increas-
ing to an immoderate extent what they consider a
stumbling- block of offence, and in accusing our
sailors of giving to the gentle and simple daughters
of the South Sea lessons in forbidden choregraphy ?
We are well persuaded that these accusations are so
many calumnies ; but it must be borne in mind that
dancing, even of the noblest character, is in the eyes
of zealous Protestants a monstrous desecration of the
Sabbath. It is, therefore, natural for them to cry
out a little. When their language is risible, it ought
to be laughed at; when it is rude, to be pitied ; and
when wall-founded attended to ; but in no case do we
think that there is sufficient cause in their complaints
to recal ambassadors, or to excite sentiments of ani-
mosity between two nations who look on each other
seriously. We are well convinced besides that, on
this point, as on many others, the Opposition journals
make much more noise than they think there is harm,
and that if they are going to seek for war at Otaheite,
it is, as M. DE LAMARTINU very justly observed, what
they will not find."
The Courrier Francais contradicts in these words
a paragraph, which we copied yesterday from the
Presse, relative to the return of Admiral DUPETIT

Mon A Rs :
" The Ministry was accused of having put the crown-
ing point to its baseness by recalling Admiral Dupetit-
Thouars ; it was a calumny. In place of recalling him,
the Ministry forbids him to return. It is only too just.
The prompt return of M. Dupetit Thouars would pro-
bably excite public indignation more keenly ; and if his
appearance coincided with the sitting of the Chambers,
who knows what part the Opposition might draw from
it against the Ministry ? DI. Guizot has come to the
conclusion that a second voyage of circumnavigation
should be prescribed to the Admiral, in the interest of
the Cabinet. The Admiral will be permitted to return
home when the Otaheite affair is forgotten, dead, buried.
M. de Mackau, it is said, has gone further. Ilis solici-
tude for his brethren in arms, and his zeal for his com-
rades, are well known. Ile desired to charge M. Du-
petit Thouars to make a voyage of discovery to one (,I
the Poles, to seek for unknown lands, or esen to at-
tempt the north-west passage from America. Never did
a smaller matter more completely dishonour a Ministry;
All the falsehoods which it heaped together to justify
its renunciation of the sovereignty of Otaheite, and the
disavowal of M. Dupetit Thouars, are evident ; the
Moniteur proves it. The Admiral's Aide-de-camp was
kept in a sort of sequestration, when he arrived in France
at an inopportune moment ; the news from Otaheite
was kept back from the public until information arrived
from other SOUrflt?s ' ' the country, and the families c f
persons out at Otaheite, were allowed to remain in the
utmost uneasiness relative to the combats engaged in
with the natives ; and now, behold the officer who was
disavowed is not permitted to repair to France, but is
kept under arrest on board his frigate, during a fresh
voyage of great length An article was wanting to the
penal code of the Ministry which invented disql,ewa/ and
blame—it is circionaavigatiott."
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These papers furnish no additional information re-
specting the fate of ZURBANO, but publish extracts
from Bayonne papers, containing both a proclamottiOn
to the people, and an address to his followers after
having entered Najera. They are, however, very
contemptible productions. We fear there is too much
truth in the following character of this man, as given
by the Presse

" Zurbano unites in himself some of the good qualities
and all the defects of those Guerilleros who, from the
epoch of the invasion until the treaty of Vergara, covered
themselves with glory in the war of independence, and
with blood in the civil war. He is in the highest degree
a man of stratagem, audacity, ferocity, and indefatigabi-
lity ; a compound of the fox, the boar, and the tiger, a
dangerous friend, a redoubtable enemy. Before he made
himself the terror of Catalonia, he was the butcher of
the Carlists, and if Narvaez had not arrested him at Tor-

rejon, ha would not have treated the Progressistos in
1843 better than he treated the Moderados at Vittoria
and Bilboa in 1841. The proverb says—Honours
change manners, but Zurbano gives the lie to the adage.
He has preserved, under the uniform of a Lieutenant-
General, his habits of a smuggler ; always ready to give
a blow with his fist or a shot from his musket, always
acting with brutality, and speaking in language of the
grossest insult. In proof of this, the case of M. Laserna,
th 4 political chief of Bilboa, may be adduced. He treated
him in 1841 as he had all his life treated the officers of
the Customs who opposed his contraband practices. All
can appease the instincts of this sanguinary
the endeavours of the Government hare been in vain ;
being. The necessity for being in action, which is the
distinguishing characteristic of Zurbano, and that con.
tinual excitement of ferocity which urges him into adven-
tures which promise him the gratification of insatiable
desires do not, however, exclude him from having great
subtlety and much prudence. Danger never stops him,
but he never seeks it without a motive. At the same
time, it is not very easy, we repeat, to assign any serious
motive fur his last coup-de-main."
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