The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-08-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL O'BRIEN ON' THE AFFAIRS OF MONTE VIDEO AND THE RIVER PLATE.  The urgent necessity, for the sake of British interests and of humanity itself, of some intervention by which a stop could be put to the murderous war now carrying on between Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, has long been acknowledged. Without entering upon the merits of the question, or questions, at issue between the two governments—without enquiring whether the claim put forth by General Rosas be just or unjust, and the character of that chief revoltingly base and cruel or the reverse—it is quite clear that European nations, and Great Britain in parr ticular, cannot permit the try -f - .t? ont tr  ,ade of a whole confine be interrupted, year after year, and the vast productions of the countries bordering the river Plate and its tributaries to be sealed up at the caprice of this desperado. Such is the case at the present moment. General fiosas, on behalf of the Buenos Arrean government, carrying on hostilities against Monte Video, blockading not only the approach to that city, but to the whole of that fertile portion of the American continent, of which the river Plate is the natural outlet ; depriving our manufacturers of markets for their goods, incalculable in extent, and the rich returns of a country which could supply us with almost every staple commodity suited to our commerce and our wants. He shuts us out, in fact —to use the language of recent petitions, which have gone up to the legislature from this and other commercial communities —" from trading on a river, which, from the mouth of La Plata to the city of Asuncion, for nearly 2000 miles, is navigable for ships of 300 tons, being there joined by the river Vermijo, navigable to near Bolivia, more than 800 miles, to the city of Oran, corning nearly in contact with the river Amazons ; bounded by the richest and most productire countries in the world; affording the noblest sites for emigration of the millions of Great Britain ; blest with the richest soil and most healthy climate in the world ; terminating in one direction to Paraguay and Brazils; abounding in yerba (tea), one of the greatest staple articles of use in South America, and producing indigo, sugar, cotton, rice, and tobacco, all toe growth of free labour, and in countries where the foot of an African slave has never trod !"  We cannot conceive a fairer subject of agitation amongst a commercial community, than the propriety of urging upon government the opening to British commerce of a territory holding out such brilliant prospects ; and an opportunity is now afforded to us by the presence in Liverpool of General O'Brien, a gentleman intimately acquainted with the country, its position and circumstances, and who is the recognized ;Tent here of our suffering fellow-countrymen in Monte Video, who are menaced hourly with destruction of their hies—their commerce is already destroyed—by the savage troops of Resas. A perusal of the pamphlet with which General O'Brien has kindly favoured us, and which details the entire state of affairs in that country, with his own noble efforts to procure redre,s from the British government, would, we are sure, impel the influential and enterprising merchants of this port, to ucite their influence to his, in an effort to do justice at once to the British artizan at hone, and to a whole continent, oppressed and robbed of the wealth which a bountiful Providence has bestowed upon its inhabitants, by an ambitious and insolent usurper. The character of liosas is there sketched by a hand evidently acquainted with the subject.