The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-18 00:00:00

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It has generally been the guiding characteristic of
British Governments, and the distinguishing mark of
heir high, philanthropic; and abiding policy, to refrain
for• engaging themselves in war, bloodshed, or provoca-
N., us leading to either, up to the cxtremest moment that
it ould so do, compatible with its weal and glory ; and
this to an'extent that has almost carried out the principle
involsed in the dictum of Ciceros that " lie preferred
an unjust peace to a just war." National honour,
however, becomes in some cases so entrammelled in ad-
ver. e events, that recourse to arms is as unavoidable as it
is to be recommended ; and when aggression proceeds
fro-n 'the opposing party, and violation of sacred and long-
fotwded rights, persons, or institutions, attaches to their
pfslitical conduct, the wounded sense of British autho-
ri y and right cannot reasonably submit to the injury
ofi Ted, nor the arm of vindication rest quiet. Our
As. %tic wars have undeviatingly been wars of compul-
shin. Of all, which during the last half cycle of a cen-
tury, have engaged British arms in India, none can be
insts„aced in which our opponents have not been the pre-
eipit sting, parties ; the transactions of Seringapatam and
Nun spore, with a cluster of others referable to the
same period, bOar ample testimony to the fact ; and
subseqiient wars in • Burrnah, the Nepaulese ter-
ritory, and • finally that which now engages us in
11._;Iinistan, come under the same declaration. The
p.ent War • is, upon our part, most virtually one of
Let sSsity: and perceiving, therefore, that non- avoidance
o' bloodshed is a point which British authority, not:-
with: tanding its pacific desires; has' been unable to pre-
vent or:-over-ruk, and that war must inevitably prevail,
the only choice left -to every true Englishman is, that
the arms and expeditions of his country, which are either
nos' on .envoy to• the seat -Of war, or some of which are
perchance at-this moment engaged in contests, of the cha-
raster of whose • fierceness and immitigability there can
be doubt, ma ay be,crowned, in consonance with the as-
pirations -of every patriotic heart, with those successes
and victories which heretofore, under the guidance of
Providence, have so often attended on our enterprises
sibroad.
At such a time, therefore, desire cannot fail to be
atr: ad in the minds of man to be acquainted with the
localities in which the torch of warfare-burns, as well as
its topographical and political relations to- the various
kingdoms adjoining ; and the accompanyinNtap,
brnnght out and prepared under the accurate eye and
e,.7e Of Tar. 'Wyk', of Charing-cross , famish these re-
qu'sitions in every satisfactory pointslivasv. The roads
of Candahar, Peshawur, ;
-P''''tan:l,s',-,as those also bear-
ing on Khelat, Peshoot,,Lshore, and it Variety of other
• -es bat more
I' especially the Inuit-Lit:sin-passes of
jol!alabad, where eur ceuatrymea hav,e
.beon slaughtered
by thonsa.utis-,-have already become stahael and me-
morable spots in the archives of history and doubtless
asi;ird at present but inconsiderable samples at most of
%stint may be surmised as hereafter. destined to occur.'