The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-09-08
NEW YORK HERALD.
The English and French Interference I'm
south America.

When charges of baseness, of duplicity, of cold
booded Indifference 10 war and its concomitant
horrors, are preferred against u great nation Ike
England, or France, that claims TO have holy
horror OF bloodshed, such charges should be based
on incontrovertible facts, and not on mere rumor.
Our readers have no doubt read with interest and
attention the letters of our Buenos Ayres cores
pond in relation 10 the Intervention of England
and France in tie affairs of the South American
republics, These letters embrace the history of
the blockade of Buenos Ayres, the forcible open
ing Of the navigation of the river Parana, the mas
sacre of Obgado, and the many debasing acts of
the combined fleet, and of the military diplomats
ofFrance and England II is always an unplea-
SAINT task to speak of acts dsgraceful to other
nations, more especially such nations as we are
terms Of peace and friendship with But
we would be doing injustice TO our own convic-
tons OF eqnity and right, did we fail to reprobate
and denounce the undgnihed and disgraceful line
of policy which has been pursued by both Eng
land and France towards the republics of South
America.
We repeat. we approach this subject with pain.
nos urrninged with that DISGUST that every honor
able mind must feel ~ the 'ortuous and unprinci-
pied course ,hat t3o Of the greatest nnons of Eu-
rore have b.an instgaied 70 pursue 10y that all
po"rfJ lu dobas.ng nlottve--scfntetest
Two aaccpt epuhhos of South America ure
20 c1' .r-e-ona uaer toe leadership OF "a man
an-d e-. rle other under that of man
namej Grea. These two republics, free and
independent, 7ud there ore NOT subject to the die
taF1n p, any nation. were in a fair way of
ding aalr disputes, until the Governments of
~to C-rel nations, living at the other side of
.cl globe n'tlfsIed and said, that they being the
altoonsniueu( dispensers of justice among the
ualc.s thc earth, could not permit the people
OF two ublics in South America to fight in such
naaoer-that il was unchristian, and therefore
that they, tue conservators of the peace of the
world-ihe one being engaged in bloody and
extermlnating war in India, in which between
thirty and forty thousand lives were sacrificed in
two days and the other in a fierce, vindictve and
relentless war in Algeria, in which some four or
five hundred human beings-some accounts say
more--were extermnated in day-not killed
Inmany and chvalric fl ght, as in the palny days
of the grand army of France, but smothered and
buried like scorpions in cave-oflered up
quintupe holocaust on the shrine of conquest
that they,-these humane and peace-loving gov
ernments could not suffer it, The reason OF this
interference on the part of England, was that an
Enghsh stock obbng company had obtained
from the weak and silly government of one OF
these republics, grants OF all the public property
of the province-and furthermore, a grant of
twenty-tour square leagues of the finest land to
be settled By three hundred English farmers, in
consideration of loans said to be enormously usu-
rious, made by those English stock obbers to the
lettering government. These stock iobbers had
likewise procured to be mortsaged to them, the
entire revenue OF the custom house for years to
come, and the exclusive right to navigate the
Uruguay river with steam, under the English
flag. And because the people would not submit
10 these extoruonate impostons, they Were I'M
mediately proclaimed semi-barbarous," "unci-
vilzed," "vioators of public faith,'' and their
leader was denounced blood thirsty tyrant.
The French interference was dictated by diff.
ierent, but not less unworthy motive Montevi-
dec has always been looked upon as u sort OF
French colony, from the fact that a large portion
OF ITS inhabitants are French and also from the
TACT that the Banda Oriental ad joins Rio Grande,
province OF Brazil, 10 which the Montevidean
Republic may ultimately be annexed and thus
form colony of considerable importance, to be
placed under the care of the Prince de Joinville
who married sister Of the Emperor of Brazil.
This probably being the beli, the combined
English and French fleet proclaim the coast of
Buenos Ayres under blockade. There is no doubt
that the two instruments in this disreputable ac-
fair, Ouscley and Detfaudis, had full and ample au-
thority for all their acts from their respective 60
vernments. In November last the combined
fleet proceeded TO open the navigation of the river
Parana. AT Obligado, Rosas had stationed con-
siderable force 10 oppose their passage. The bat
tie which took place at this point is still in the re-
collection of our readers. The Argentines fought
bravely for nine hours, and had three hundred
slain, having killed two hundred of the enemy
They were at length, however, obliged to give
way. Now, neither England nor France had any
night to the navigation of this river, and in proof
OF this, we need only refer 10 Lord Abe rdeen's
speech in the House of Lords, in February last,
three months after the battle cf Obhgado, in
winch his Lcrdship stated, that he could not
pretend 70 exercise any right of navigation with
respect 10 the river Parma, both banks of which
are within the Argentine republic. To do So"
his lofdsnp added, would be contrary to con-
slant practice and expressed principles" But
did his iordshlp. or did any of Her Britannia Ma
lesty's Ministers express the slightest condemna-
ton OF the conduct of this Ouseleyl Not at ALL
We should not be surprised if, on the contrary,
he was raised to a baronetcy.
But in the affair of Obgado, blows were at
least gwen and received. In the after transac-
tons of the French and English diplomats their
conduct was still more strange. Correntes, a pro-
vince of the Argentine republic, had revolted and
with Corrientes the representatives of France and
England endeavored to tamper The revolving
province listened to their protestations of friend
ship, and made treaty with Paraguay and
General Paz, against Rosas Paz set out
If
forces oil hesas, under the auspices of the
English and French. The vanguard of his
army was met and defeated by General Urqui-
"a, who took its leader, Madariaga. prisoner This
Madariaga was the brother of the governor of
Corrientes. The English and French mediators
as they called themselves, when they saw the
dc of I'm ohoJ