The Sun. — 1844-11-20 (London, England)

TYRANT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The almost daily accounts from South America bring fresh news of the atrocities of a monster who, it would scarcely be imagined, existed in the nineteenth century. General Rosas, the Dictator of the Argentine Republic, still continues his work of blood and destruction. The last packet has conveyed strong remonstrances to the Earl of Aberdeen on this subject ; and the British resident at Monte Video has addressed a very eloquent appeal to the Foreign Minister, setting forth the dangers to which the English mercantile and other interests are exposed by the permissive policy as it were, indulged in with regard to the Dictator. From the time that Rosas first appeared as a public man to the time at which we write, he has, it would appear, been guilty of the massacre of thirty thousand souls—to say nothing of probably an equal number who have been forced, through his despotic proceedings, to take refuge in strange lands. In the year 1836, Rosas, after the Royalist party had yielded to the patriot brothers, determined to strike terror into the minds of the inhabitants, and he caused to be brought from the confines of the province, a tribe of Indians who had become his prisoners. On their passage they endeavoured to escape, when, without regard to trial, or any other ceremony, and with no respect for age or sex, one hundred of these poor wretches, fathers, mothers, and children under nine years of age, were butchered in the very streets of Buenos Ayres. They were brought from their prisons in groups of ten or twelve, and shot by platoons of soldiers—and many who were merely wounded, and who endeavoured to crawl away, were dragged back, had their throats cut, and their brains beat out, and afterwards left as food for the dogs and swine of the city. In 1839, Dr. Vincent Maze, the President of the National Assembly, and second magistrate of the city, was assassinated in his private apartment in the House of Representatives, at seven in the evening. He was the intimate friend of the Governor, and had been heard to say that the knowledge of the waylaying and massacre of General Quiroga and escort would; cost him his life. Two days after, the son of Maza being suspected, by Rosas, of conspiracy, he was arrested, and eventually followed the fate of his father—the two bodies being afterwards cast into a dung-cart, and thrown amongst those of other victims. The widow and survivors of the Maza family was even forbidden to wear mourning, or to perform any rites and ceremonies in their church, for the victims! Numerous other crimes, too horrible for detail, could be enumerated—all of which are attributable to this vile Republican adventurer ; yet such a man is allowed, in the face of Europe, to pursue his career of bloodshed and murder, unmolested! The conduct of our agent, Mr. Mandeville, which is extremely vacillating, is loudly and generally condemned, and appears to excite much indignation amongst the English residents, especially when compared with the noble conduct of his predecessor, Mr. Hamilton Hamilton, who, not many days after his arrival, applied to the British Government to be removed from the scene of Rosas' Dictatorship, as he deemed any communication with him derogatory to his honour and the principles of our national policy. It is to be hoped, however, that the vigilance of Commodore Purvis, who is in command of our fleet in these seas, will speedily place matters on a better footing, and the confidence reposed in him apparently by the residents would seem to mark him as a fit pro tector for our merchants. He is decidedly averse to Rosas ; and probably, but for the countenance the Dictator receives at the hands of Mr. Mandeville, that inhuman dealer in horrors would, ere this, have been deprived of the means of effecting further mischief.— , Glasgow Saturday Post. ig