The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-02-10
Old England and the Island
Of Cuba.

Our distinguished Senator, the Hon
P. Soule, in an eloquent speech in the
Senate short time since, brought ia
light, and read very qauint old docu-
ment published in England over hun
dred years ago, whish proposed to raise
10000 men in the colonies and take
forceable possession Of the island of
Cuba
If it were feaseable, we ask, could
not, and would not the same-or sim
liar plan Of conquest meet favor in the
age of modern England! But now it
would be the madest folly for the com
bined powerd Of the Old World, to at
tempt such plan of practical war
fare.
We make short extract from the
document read by Mr.. Soule:
"That when each Province has fur
nished their quota Of transports and
men, according to their abilitys, these
shall Immediately repair to one place
appointed, which may be at South
Carolina, and from thence proceed, un-
der the command and direction of the
person to be commissioned, from hence.
They may, Gf it shall appear advisa-
ble,) in ts,ir passage, make a feint to
take st. Augustine-and having man.
aged that stratagem properly, they are
to proceed to the island of Cuba, and
land in the Bay of Matanzas--that be-
ing good harbor, and not guarded,
yet lying the nearest of any other pro-
per one to We Havana. Here they
shall land 700 or 800 men, more or
less, as necessity shall require, and
with that force to march down and
pitch at proper distance, to surround
the Havana and cut off all manner of
provisions going thereto by land; at
the same time that some ships shall I've
before the town, to prevent any pro-
vision or relief coming to it by sea in
which situation that important place
must surrender in a very short time.
In order to render this conquest both
sure and expeditions, it will be neces-
sary to send six or eight sixty-gun
ships and two bomb kctches, with about
2OOO troops on board them, which, if
necessary, may be joined by some of
We station-ships now in America.
These ships of war are intended, some
to lye before ye Havana. to play
against We town, and cut off all relief
and provisions by sea, while the Amer
lean forces besiege it by land, and the
rest of the ships are to take care Of
the Card du Coastc.
1t may be asked how it is possible
to 60 upon ye proposed expedition
without its being known by inquisitiye
diligent foreign spies, since ships of
war are to be sent from England! In
answer to that it is to be hoped Eng
land can be as polite as her neighbors,
(viz) look one way and streer We con-
trary. 1t may, for this purpose, be
given out by some that England is 60
ing to reinforce some of her colonys
by others that she is going to resume
the settlements of Darien; in short,
there is no human appearance of this
attempts miscarrying, if the knowl-
edge Of it is confined to Cabinet Coun-
Gil, and fit person appointed for ye
chief command.
Talk of "Fillibustering," what is
this? The unfortunate expedition Of
Lopez, was designed to free his coun-
trymen from the tyranical oppression
of an imbecile and decrepid monarch;
and had it not failed, the name and
fame of Lopez, would now be associa-
ted with the champions of human Lib
erty but fortune decreed otherwise.
Tie hour has not yet arrived, but
draws on a-pace, when the harvest
shall be ripe a bold vindicstor Of the
Rights of Man" will come with it to
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