New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-04-20

bo,,.- "a have lcf, the Do,t and the hanrnn. and
,h whole circle OF savage, to fght out. nnd cut
mn coc;1 other we have not the slightest dob tins
,soili have been the right proceeding AID must DC
the proceeding after ali. But 20 Represent the
iighans as chivalric. sensitive. and roInantlc,-a
i,aita,ing in the slightest degree the r-ing OF tie
Swcdcs for Gu-taris, or the Scotchtor The Y ne,
lier i nothing but 10 bIresque al! truth, ana rhahc
y tinscl novel out OF barbarian incident nc rea
nature OF the instruction Is, an intrigue 70 drive
Shah Shooiah from the throne, and put the CON
,r;~er o; the intrguc=in il: the same thing has
been done a hundred times over in India. IN IN
d:yiduaI r party have rot together money enough
:, hire soldiers The na;ionnre handful, and would
hire ihenlsclye. to anv one the per:idy. hes, br
berry. and ylanv Ct all kinds with which every
tb;ne done bv the Asatics iscarrled on, MAKE
conspiracy-at once. the conspiracy swell. into
rebellion Iftnc British resident /, man OF sense
and vigilance he watches the plot, brushes The
rebellion and hangs the principal performers II
he is merely showy cexcomb ne allows himself 70
be tricked with his eyes opcn,-inlaglncs himself
the first diplomati.tin the world, Nhlic he IS
laughed at by his OWN palanki. bcarsrS, and sits
dosn to pen despatch 20 the encouragement,
announcing III. general pachcaiion produced By
his genius, when in the next tlve minutes, he !.
shot in the midst OF general rebellion. iii nc
il ,ulky, se-su.'iceat, and ob,tiaue official, he
dcspiscs all notice Of the movement around him.
refuses to believe that he ia not intuhblc, and
fnally walks into the pittall OF the enemy, inthe
face Of dav But the true cyiI of such things and
persons is The hazard into which they throw clever
people and brave men. who we're compelled 70 rely
on them Still we nus, have vanishing oil the
,fghan, they are bloody, plundcring, and Wei
ou- race Of savagcs. The British certainly were
npo!i,ic in remaining so long in their country; but
the Afighans had been actually benefited By them:
British expenditure gives opulcnce Wherever i:
goes-therc had been no acts of trranny,-,le
populatioa were rro.cctcd.-and the idea Of
their feeling disgraccd, like 50 many Romans or
Enc shmen seeing an enemy sarmy supporting
a returned sovereign, all is vcrbia-c. Tic onlj
difference between the parties, is, that the British
paid, bu, did notbribc, while the Dost Mohamined
party bribed but di,lnot pay, and, among barbara
ans the hribe always carries the field.
But the matter must Come before the grcat Brit
sh tribunal. The governor general must be com
PEELED to account for his first having suffered so
foolish rash. and was,cfu wal ever to haze
been contemplated, and then to account for the
oalpaby absurd, hazardous, and scnsclcss manner
in which after the conquest, the attempt to keep
the country was maintained. He must produce
the CORES pondcacc Of Sir Alexander Burncs,
whose friends declare that he made the strongest
rcmonstrances HgninStsthe whole expedition. He
must produce the correspondence Of Mr.. Clerk
and the other residents in that part OF India. He
must Ec able to satisfy the country tile prsjcct
which was 50 long sal 10 be entertained of garr-
soHing llcra, and thus extending the line OF Brit
ish hostitc> from China TO Persia, L. line of > 900
miles. He must account for the ignorance which
made the nsurrcction surprise to him; OF il llr
knew of it, the scattered aud helpless condition il
which the various bodies ef orr troops were left
in that wild country. II he can defend himself on
those points, 50 much the better; if he cannot lc,
Justice be done To the army and the empire.
The blow in Cabu is the heaviest that has cal.
len on the Indian army since the days OF Hydcr
Ali, when the force under General Matthews
broken up bv the Myscrc cavnlry-but this
upward Of half century ago. 1t was heavier
blow than fell on the British army in Europe du
ring the whole Continental war; for though
troops on the Continent often suffered from dis
case and winter, they fought successfully, and
even the murcho Corunna was finished by a VIC
tory. But in Aiighanistan every kind of blunacr
seems to have been committed, and every kind of
loss suffered. cnrclicvcd By single ray OF victo-
rv. Our gallant troops have been forced indig
nantly 10 iy before rabblc, because the rabb!c
had food and they had none; and the force which
4 lew months ago Would nave marched lriuHlPn-
an,lv from end to end of India is fugitive or
showing its hahitual bravery only in dying the
field
The French newspapers urc nhigh cxultaionnt
this melancholy and bitter catastrophe. The mis-
liable spirit ola Frenchman is never TO be sofcned
bv sense of. what is due to the ,uicrngs ofbravc
mem All Paris is dancing with ccstacy AT the
ldeu of our troops being driven ont Of Cabul. All
the scrbblrrs on tiptoe for disasters, and the
contemplate vanity of the nation sees nothing less
in ,hem,hcn wipins out the disgrace of Waterloo
:. rcriidc Albion is the mco-drarna,ic ran, of
those most pitiinl OF pcnmen. .'5voila Ia Dcca
dencc'' is the prediction Of the haransucrs And
SO. inclund is to be ruined, because force, tina,
after all would scarcely have made an advanced
guard fora Continental army has been cc,pcd up
by snow, anal compelled to cyacuare country
where it could not find food But, if France hn,
somcsHs h-minled and some even rational men, she
has millions always ptiful, always bnastfs and
always mean, always talking OF theirlligh feelings,
and always bitter and malignant always Wanting
their own prowcss, and yet writing under the
.conrgc that every nation of Europe has in turn
laid on lnncr, and will lay on her again.