The Sun. — 1841-10-07 (London, England)

SEPT. I, 1841.] inequality of punishment under' one liveseeSPeeiteller as' When I reached Moka, in April, 1840, the town regards cascz of apa;ill, often proclucitietilisq4hiq , and I was abandoned by the Egyptian troops, and the mer. crud result:. I never t.aw a•zt'onger ipatence,pf this . chants of the country were in terror of falling again than the,oue repQrted inyOurimpor 90 14 PvePlPg' A 'into the power of the Belouins. Upon try return to 114„1'5c,i.e 0. the Dame of Foley, wi'tout e Mcka from Abyssinia, their fears were realised. Moka, s!'goF)-tePr9"ck")",tftrLnie oast the wily:remaining ere under the domination of Sherif Husseir, was ruined b) of a poor mac, named John Hays, who had,served his '.his avidity, and the principal merchants had flei t, kist, this.Gtherin that. service.., The Mug's" Men. A French vessel, l'Africain, bad been forced trate first 'recomnaends,him to make foirte'comPcuse• to pay 200 tubule duty for entering port. Even whichr. the -injured man'truly-say,- morn had the Arab beats could not come to Atoka, for maw! ?Aod•heie stop to observe,_;thtit this fear of the brutality of the soldiers.. The English tbc:Mai'qalit Vt't'erford- eft- were worse treated, They had paid 10,000 talares ctt s, li.e.*Ould 1400 ti thit'degin his 51.,,nthe .value of for the right to hoist the Consular flan and Which to Mai wduld be.abont What a 14onY,would beafter paying them a mob had pulled down their to ti poof man, and then have walked 4 'vv. WU' fl,ig, the armed English vessel there having gone cisolance, at iiterty to commit, and buy off, other back to Aden to report the insult. The chief did net eeffeeces. Neat the Magistrate commits him for one liar the sengeaace of the English. Ho sa:d he hoped nronlls'i hard labour. 'The fault here is, perhaps, more -to resist* them ; but if not strong enough, Le said he that of the law than the Magistrate. Now, Sir, I ear- would retreat to the mountains, after having pillaged neatly contend, and mppeal to just men of every party, ,tl,e inhabitants. The English Consular Agent had that in al! such cases the pun:aliment should be double, fled to Aden. No European was allowed to moent or a fine, as compensation to the:party, levied on the on horseback. From Moka I went to Men. 1 goods of the crionne!, according to his station in life, have already described this establishment, which the from al, to 3,000/., and much more. Let no one start English call a new Gibraltar. From this important or smile; fur this, and nothing less than this, is perfect point the English will execute, without difficulty, their reason and justice. It ;the compensation be excessive divers projects upon the coast of Abyssinia. 'They fur the injured party, let a reasonable portion: go to hope also to monopolise the commerce of coffee, and charitable purpeasis ; and next, let- theta be a personal the scheriffs, by ruining Moka and Odeidea, serve, punishment, according to the aggravation and enormity without knowing it, the interest of Great Britain. I asked of the offence. If. I mistake not, in several countries a person of the colony one day whether &Wand would which we are accustomed to term lest trenched oiies, not reienge the insult ()tiered to its flier by the Bedouins rich, and even titled offender's; do- net ft' fiaos 'of' Moka? • fieti,P la . The answer was, " What would we alone. In the case before Oreireetryliacercely, a gain by it ?" I visited successively Barbela, Z"gla, step below murder :an fletest, and leefferi2ieeenwS; is :Tesjoura, and Mita, upon the western coast of the made poor and unhappy for; life. The woo tought, to:Red Sea. Everywhere I found that the English im have been sent to the Sessions, And the :eaPPMie;and pede the progress of French traveilert. It was imtrouble of the prosecution taken" up- by a paternal Ex- possible for isle to enter into the interior, and six other ecative. A month truly, for maiming a -:fellow-sub- trevellersosho were there at the same time us-I was, ject in this scandalous manner! Seven years' hard were not more fortunate. In every port 1 found an labour would not have been an hour too much. The English ship-ofwar, and sometimes two. Besides, the case of this poor blinded man appears to me singularly East ludia Company has purchased Tajoura,_ the only pitiable ; and 1 sincerely hope public sympathy will be point through which foreiguers can penetrate into the directed to it. He appears to be at present in the Chou with some sort of security. When I came to Middlesex Hospital.— I am, yours respectfully, this town I was ill-received, and after vain negotiations Oct. 4, 1841.