The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-04-26


British Commissioner from England. The part
OF the population opposed to the King gave
Military reception to the Commissioner on one
day, snd the King and his followers did the
same on another.
While on bis way to the Commissioners
quarters in his royal basket, with pistol in
his right hand and golden mounted knife
in his teeth, (both signs of war and defance,)
he was stopped by the black insurgents and re-
turned to his house. In the afternoon of the
same day general fight took place; guns were
fired, men were killed, and houses burned.
After the difficulties had become 80 great as to
justify the interference of the troops-after
thirty black men had been killed, one hundred
wounded, and the King escaped into the fort
he WAS finally tried by o court martial Of mer-
chants and British officers, some Of them from
vessels Of war in the harbor--the Alecto aud
Childers-aLd depcsed. Fines were also levied
on beth parties to o considerable extent, and
the country is now purely British. Letters
from the coast state that the native King had
previously heen deposed by his own people, ac-
cording to their own laws, but that he was
maintained in authority by British influence,
and in course Of oppression and illegality.
When the public discomfort led to insurrection
and bloodshed, the British Commission took ad-
vantage of 1t to dethrene the King and seize
upon his authority.
And the King Of the Cape is nomore King.
All this is done on the score of the necessities
of commerce and civilization. No other plea
is or can be offered; and if ii be good plea,
why may not other nations have the benefit Of
it as well as England? Take the very case Of
Central America, and of Mosquito in particu-
lar, now the subject of 80 much interest. No
friend Of civilization can deny but that q
there would be highly beneficial. To depose
Sambo from his Mosquitian kingdom would
not be more unjustifable than the proceedings
at Cape Coast Castle. To aid the democratic
party in Nicaragua Is not worse than to send
British ilibusteriDg legions into Spain to help
the Christmas, under the command Of Col. De
Lacy Evans. The very claim set up by Lord
Clarendon, under the Bulwer treaty, to hold
its protectorates and acquisitions, while it
claims by inference, on the other hand that
the United States can have none, is proof Of
the impudent and presumptuous logic by which
this drum beating round the world ia continu-
ally repeated.
doubtful question with Great Britain, if she
were the United States She would set forth
the disadvantages Of its military surveillance,
the cruelty and despotism of its local govern
ment, the ahject position of it's inhabitants,
and the horrible condition Of it's slaves This,
according to her ideas, would furnish perfect
defence to the charge Of flibustering, and the
press and the pulpit would echo the praise of
British benevolence. But let the Yankees 60
with their ships and their railways to Central
America, connect the oceans, build towns, dig
and diffuse gold and open trade 'beyond the
dreams Of avarice,"-lett them dispense liberty,
secure liberation, and promote education
among those with whom they fraternize-let
them even open marts for British goods, where
there were none before, and the dukes and the
duchesses Of England, the lords and the la
Dies the gentry and the hereditary states
men," pampered with place and power, (for
these, after all, are the only England histori-
cally, or automatically, or potentially all
these start up in horror at the thought Of that
revolutionary progress which endangers the
distinctions of rank, which may deprive it of its
antiquated supremacy, which may unsettle the
opinion of the world as to the rights of kings
and princes, and holds out to humanity every
where the benefit of example and the sola. 9
of sympathy. Hne lilac lachryma'