The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-25
What VIII the English Do:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.


England has always been proverba for the protection
she affords her subjects. The Englslman in Milan, in
Rome in Russia in Canton, feels that though far dis
ant he may be from his native land he si stands under
the protecting arm Of his country and his Queen.
Few months have passed since have witnessed an
illustration of this fact. Mr. Boyan, English gentle
man, long residing in Cuba seeing the heart rendng
Of tyranny and oppression daily enacted in thAt
unhappy isle gave uterauce to his honest indignation
at such crimes conscious that his person and hs
perty by the palladium of his country;
but 1t happened otherwise for in the middle of the night
he was taken from his home and clapped in the Gala
bouse. His fate of decided. General Canedo
had estimated the value OF his to be Sophisticated
property, and he would have been now his way to
Ceua but for the courage of honest Creole who
bis friend and Who fearless of the consequence wrote
to General Canedo, informing him that his prisoner
an Englishman-that he had been guilty of no
crime, and that his character was upimpeachabe.
" 10 do pe1dido ~ exclaimed CanedO, when he had
read the letter We have caught tartarths prison
er is an Englishman. What shalt we do9 The re-
sult, of course, was obvious The prisoner should
be freed Moro Castle would have been perforated by
the British guns and Canedo--the mercifu the kind
Canedo who to each day. and confession three
times mountaineering to make virtue of necessity re.
leased the prisoner and apologzed for the mistake All
it would be well for humanity did the close here
Creoe-hat unwavering friend who had nobly saved
Mr. Boylan from exile and penury-has been arrested
for no other crime for no other offence that of
tecting Engishman!
senorArango is that honest Creoe's gentleman
Of learning and Of character moving in the most respec
table sphere Of life enjoyed the few comforts which,
even in that unhappy land, domestic bliss and an up
right and honest heart always insure He with
his isand-once the Eden Of the worldreduced by
tyranny and oppression to what she is but sitting
every paug and regret he hoped happier days
for his own lovely country So high was his character
SO unimpeachable his name. so rreproachable his
duct, that although Creole he was invested with the
chief msgstracy of Santiago de Cuba by Mr. Canedo
Whilst acting in such capacity he formed the acquant
of Mr. Boyan whom he knew to be an honest open
hearted the mis-
own country goaned at the barbarity of the kind and
pous Canedo Senior Arrange warned him frequently to
take care; but true Englshman yet cared TO
speak his opinion openly and publicly, and Mr. Boylan
was one Of the right he spoke what he thought pub
cy and before the whole world Nine ladies of the most
respectable class In Cuba torn from their babes and
lay ncarcerated in the Moro for other crime the
patriotism OF their husbands Is there honest English
man in part of the known world who would not cry
against such conduct? 1t for this Mr. Boylan
rested he wealthy and Canedo his lips at the
He was lonely stranger in lonely part Of
out the interference of the British consul All things
seemed proptious Any who dared to aterfere knew
one Creole and that Creole Senior Arrange who fear
less Of the gnomy of the garote or the chains Of eua
the friend Of Mr. Boyan and rather than see him SO ba
y wronged fouy treated lac flung every consideration
to the Winds and sacrificed the happiness Of his wife, his
children and himself to obtain the liberty of his friends
andustice for Engishman. He has saved his friend
but in doing SO he has lost himself unless England will
protect him. Oh Englishmen, where is your philan
thropy? where Is your protection Will you tolerate the
Incarceration of the who dared to stand forward
save your fellow countryman from banishmentS Your
ships Of surround that island for the protection of
the negro and the slave but Senior Arrange the friend Of
your eountryman, and the saviour of his liberty lies in
prison unheeded and forgotten. His weeping wife looks
up to you for the liberation of her husband Will you de-
mand itS His little children stretch out their innocent
for their father Oh will you not heed them
Will you sanction act of such unheard of atroctyY
Or you afraid Of another Armada Ladies' Of England
you extend your sympathy for the slave-w you not do
the same for Senior Arango2 Will you turn deaf to
tbo nf hon ho.h aar
fully wronged? Is all your sympathy in the of hui
mainly but deuson and farces The hour has at last
arrived when your sincerity is put to the testrescue
this from the dungeon, demand of your husbands
their assistance in noble cause-tel them that they
must enforce the most ample reparaton for this injured
man, for his disconsoate wife and weeping children.
AN ENGLISHMAN.