The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-19 00:00:00

board Mr. WARD, his Maje Sty's Charge d'Af-
faires in Mexico, and Alr. ROC FITE RT E, the
Representative of . Mexico in this country:—
about 1,200,000 dollars in specie, and some
cochineal. The letters and dispatches for Go-
vernment were forwarded to town by Mr. RD-
C AFUERTE, who is likewi,e the hearer of the
Raifleation of the Treaty with Mexico, Mr.
WARD having been detained in Port mouth by
the illness of AIM WARD, who was confined on
board a few days before the Minirose reached
England.

The appointment of an individual to the high
situation -of Governor-Gen'al in India, is al-
ways an event of deep interest, as affecting our
mighty empire in the east ; but at few periods of
our connection with that country, has it been of.
more importance to select for the high office an
individual possessing talent, energy, judgment,
and acknowledged integrity. Without wishing
to rake up the slumbering ashes of the Barrack-
pore Mutiny, or to pass any opinion on the
conduct of those concerned in that unfortunate
business, it is not to be concealed that by that
act of extreme rigour, they have sensibly affected
the tenure by which a handful of our• country-
men hold sway over countless millions of their
fellow creatures, vast numbers of whom are their'
equals in personal courage and physical strength.
The natives of high cast, have, since that period
felt a disinclination to enter our service, and we
believe' that the situation of India was much
more critical than is generally supposed, when
the fall of Bhurtpore convinced the disaf-
fected, that even that pucelle, the. Peronne
of the Eastern world, was not inviolable ; and
broke up a coalition, which added to discontent
in our own army, threatened the predicted and
anticipated expulsion of the English from the
banks of the Ganges, and the fertile plains
of Hincloatan.

The Noble Lord to whose energy and mili-
tary skill, the fall of Bhurtpore was principally
Owing, has since done much to remove
discontent from cur , army, and by an
early acquaintance with that country, is
enabled to avoid offending their prejudices
dearer than life to the blinded Hindoos, and the
want of respect for which will always •(as it did
at Yellore) lead to the most serious conse-

quences.
But Lord ('OMIiERMERE does not succeed
better with the natives than with the Euro-
pean population. The courtesy and guarded
propriety of his conduct make him a uni-
versal favourite, and thus he • contributes
to the security of our Eastern Empire, no
less by his et)loits in arms than by the conci-
liating ;11:11-ay manners in the time of
pPace.

To- unite in. these laudable exertions, and to
restore the suspended confidence of the natives
of India in the justice and humanity of our Go-
vernment, Nye do not !hint,: that the Court of
Directors and Board Of.Controul 'could. haYe se:l
lected a person more amply qualified than
the Noble Lord on whom their choice has lately
fallen. Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK, has had
like Lord COMBERMERE, the benefit of a pre-
vious acquaintance with the may/nets and Fe-
tiiliCe o: ‘b- —c trust, that those
,Ac.,
noble individualc will go hai;d in hand in rais-
ing still higher, the character of the British
Nation. For whether our possessions in that
quarter are to continue under the government of
the East India C,'ompany, or in %Thai:ever shape
they are to be attached to this monarihv—there
is little doubt that the of our tcnure must
ever be a temperate a.:(1
•
gentle sway, added to
our acknowledged and pre-eminent superiority
arms.

It is scarcely worth while to notice the con-
temptible attack made on the Marquis of LANs-
DowNE by the Morning Post of this day
with
respect to the services of a military fOree having
been called in aid of the civil power, to sup
press a disgraceful riot, which took place in the
King's Bench Prison. The Posf aflopted the
insinuations from a low and obscure Evening
Paper, and any thing from such a source must
be as harmless .as it is contemptible. But the
cause which rendered the assistance (0
the military necessary, appears to us to
deserve the strictest investigation, for if the
facts are as they have been represented,
we do consider that the greatest blame
must attach to the Authorities who have
the immediate. charge and cantroul of the
prison, and that nothing short of their in-
slant dismissal from their situations should take
place. It appears from all the information which
has been circulated of the origin of this riot in
the prison, that some of the unfortunate persons
confined_there for debt, .forgetful of their own
unhappy situation and that of their farailieE—
and regardless of. the rnislottunes. Which . they
may have entailed on others, had formed
a plan for c:irr\ in _r on the ',noel; eleJion
of a Member of Patliament, which was
allowed to proceed with the fOrmality of
a. real elegion, occasioning all the excite-
ment which such arc ..event produces; and
blasphemy, drunkenness, ai.ld;,
attended with the
violation of decency which the Most favoured.
spot or,freedgin in election could exhibit. Is it
not then, We sny, most disgraceful that such a
scene should have hen permitted to exist for a
"single. hour ? or is it extraordinary, if it were