The Sun. — 1839-09-17 (London, England)

ROTO. CA.RLOs wag the first to propose a neaotiation for pee carried u to be 0 ied on by General MAROTO ; but he in dSing so. , had no intention of going farther than to involve MAnoTo in what he hoped his other Generals would regard as a treasonable conspiracy, and so have him shot. The cunning fowler was here caught in his own snare. The prospea of peace upon any terms filled the army with joy? and the insidious coward who _ treason,proposed it with rage and despair. He shouted fled like a hunted hare when none pursued, after vainly endeavouring to provoke MA ROTO'S troops to fire upon their General. MAROTO had no alternative but to come to terms at once with the QUEEN'S Government. Had CARLOS not attempted openly to have him assassinated, there is no doubt but that he would have procured such terms for the Pretender, his family, the Basque Provinces, and the army, that an immediate and general pacification of Spain would have I been the result. He had even stipulated that CARLOS should be recognised as Infant, and that in the event of the death of Queen IsABELLA without heirs, the Crown of Spain should revert to the Pretender's descendants. But, before such a stipulation could be represented to the Madrid Cabinet, CARLOS, by a premature exposure of his own treachery, rendered the friendly intentions of MA-1 40TO abortive, and compelled him in self-defence Ith declare at once for peace and the constitutional Government. The Times of this morning has a rabid attack  on the British Government for treating with MARoTo, whom it foully and falsely accuses them of bribing to betray his master—" work too dirty for Frenchmen to meddle with." Let us set the Times right upon one or two rather important points. In negociating with MAROTO the British Government only complied with the written solicitations of CARLos himself; for, as we stated above, it was CARLOS who first suggested the egociation, for the purpose, as subsequently transpired, not of obtaining peace, but of involving MARoTo in a conspiracy, which would serve as a pretext for murdering him. The negotiation terminated with the surrender of MAROTo, and that followed close upon the heels of CARLOS exposure of his own duplicity. Our Government, therefore, had nothing to do with MAROTO apart from CARLos and the whole of his partizans. So much for the first falsehood of this charge. As regards the second, about " the work being too dirty for Frenchmen to meddle with," it may suffice to borrow the following paragraph from the Castellano of Madrid, which appeared in the Times itself, no longer ago than yesterday When Espartero and Maroto were negotiating the Convention, a French Envoy, who was present. proposed to give an account of the arrangement to his Government which would guarantee the treaty ; but that Espartero rising from his seat and offering his hand to Maroto, said— 'ls my word of .honour, which I pledge solemnly, a sufficient guarantee for you? If you are satisfied with it, we do not require any other security. In the contrary case, let the affair be decided by our armies.' Maroto is reported to have replied—' Your word of honour, as a General, is for me a greater guarantee than that of France. Ido not.' require any other.' And the treaty was then concluded."  With respect to the Times' last objection to treating with MAROTO, namely, that he is a murderer, we cannot see how the Government could treat with CARLOS at all if murder and treason were to prevent all communication between our agents and the Carlist chiefs. The cowardly butcher of Durango eannot surely claim any exemption from the infamy of having steeped his hands in the blood of the innocent and the defenceless. CABRERA, now become the idol of Tory worship, is far from being so immaculate as to claim a fellowship with Lord JOHN HAY, ColonelWYLDE, and ESPARTERO, to the exclusion of the bloodstained MA