Glasgow Courier. — 1845-08-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LIEUT.-GENERAL NAPIER. General Napier, the gallant Governor of Guernsey, has address,' . ad tile following interesting letter to the editor of, the Times. chivalrous brother, if possible, in a WO 4)—.of the of July I the losing extract die . journal called the Seek In England an event like that of Debra would not even have exeited remark. General Napier recently oommitted in the war of Sinde atrocities which nothing could equal." Upon this Gelignanie Messenger observes The charge against General Napier does not stand upon the same ground; true or false, it stands in juxtaposition with that against Colonel Pelissier." This intolerable calumny, invented by the Sieck, repeated and countenanced by Gangers/it, is addressed to the startled Ovine:anon of Europe to avert its rising indignation at the barbarity of French warfare in Africa. The atrocities of Sir Charles Napier! What are they.? Can one be mentioned? Let the Slade state any act of his deviating in the slightest degree from honour, generosity, or good discipline! General Napier never committed, nor sawed those under his command to perpetrate, any barbraW He warred in Scinde, under the orders of his Government, and.. justly; he was not an agressor. He fought two battles and won both. The first, which lasted four hours and a half, he won with I 2,000 men against 35,000 brave warriors, who did not resign the 1 field until 8,000 of their numbers had fallen. The second, which bated above three hours, he won with 6,000 men against 26,000, who left a fifth of-their number on the ground to attest their valour. He him nude two campaigns, and for more than two years he has governed the country he conquered; and neither in his campaigns nor under his government, has a woman or a child been killed, oppressed, injured, or insulted. No man has been killed, save on the field of battle. Even the unmitigated calm. niator of the Bombay Times never dared to assert more thin thee jwirie officers had seduced the Ameers' women to live with thent; and his mendacious assertion was, instantly met by an 'indigene& denial, published and signed by every officer of the army. NO tail of that army had ever seen one of the women. Galiprigeis Messenger desires to have General Napier's conduct placed in juxtaposition with Colonel P6lissier's. Let it be re. • The French Colonel, if the French papers are to be believed, roasted by a slow fire 800 Arab men, women, and children, toge_ ther with their cattle, rather than delay, even for a few days, his march of devastation against other tribes, and this in an aggressive war on his part. The English General invaded certain Beloooh tribes, because they had descended from their mountains upon Scinde, cut off some troops, destroyed many villages, and murdered many men, women, and children. These tribes were not subjecte of the conquered Ameers.; no war had been made on them, and no insult, no provocation offered to them; but to repress their aggressions, and protect the people under his government, General Napier invaded their mountains. The surprising expedition, which lasted 64 days, presented the most formidable difficulties. A desert a hundred miles wide, arid and desolate as any in Africa, was to be passed ere the army could reach the numerous tribes, which were to be warred down amidst stupendous rocks and barren mountains, where more than one imperial army bad been destroyed in former days, and where recently !many British detachments had been cut off. The troops had to dig, day after day, for water, of a deleterious nature when prooured ; they were constantly on half , rations; they had to contend with a numerous and warlike people, gliding like serpents around them in craft, sad fighting ifice lions when beset. The Indian newspapers ridiculed the enterprise, and -edicted defeat for the madams who had undertaken it; the army, -s and soldiers alike, though brave and devoted to the last 'T every hardship, every privation, every fatigue, danger with matchless patience and courage, rn of a succesaful termination to their labours. _oral stood alone in his hopes; but when his masterly coon_..ations had reduced the tribes (whose power to destroy his army by fatigue and starvation was represented and believed by all-to be insurmountable) to the last gasp of misery and famine—that Is to say, when he was on the point of reaping the fruits of his Indomitable perseverance by their surrender—l find the following passage in his private journal, written during the operation, and recording in homely style the impulses of his mind almost from I hour to hour:—