PERFIDE ALBION.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 554, 24 February 1868, Page 4

PERFIDE ALBION.

I (From tire Tomahawk.) I The following may be accepted as the jvk'w to be adopted by the Abyssinian 'Expedition, and of the real objects I which it is intended to promote. It is jderived from the very best authority—no other, in fact, than that of the principal French papers, which, not being allowed to treat of matters which concern themselves, are of course, all the more free and competent to concern themselves with the affairs of other !people, and to instruct their readers as to their signification and bearing. To cur translation then:— j “So the old England is about to send ;an Expedition to Abyssinia, in order to liberate three or four prisoners. Ah, bah! She knows very well that she cannot, and will not, liberate them—that, as far as they are concerned, the greater her success, the worse will be their fate. She knows that she can never catch, much less punish King Theodore. Why, then, the Expedition? We are going to say, Have you never looked at a map of Europe? You have; and you have noticed that that Mediterranean which Napoleon I said he would make a French Lake is dotted with English Forts and Colonies, and bristles at all its entrances with English cannon. The [Mediterranean instead of being a French Lake is an English canal, Ii was bought with intrigue, with blood, with gold, with anything in short which could be employed. It was bought, as a road to India; but to complete this road another sea is required—the Red Sea. Once established there, the highway to India would be for ever in the hand? •:f England. The Turk might then live or die as he pleased, and our engineer might be encouraged to make his canal. For when made it would ho English. She would fortify Massowah, Porim, and Aden, as she has fortified Gibraltar and [Malta. Ami if that is not enough she will make herself the ally and supporter of Arabia, as she has made herself the ally and supporter of Turkey. And she will reign for ever in the Red Sea, as she reigns in the Mediterranean. Now do you understand why England sends a fleet and an army to Abyssinnia?” Of course the entire French people does immediately understand it, and as we should not like the English people I to be in the dark about it, we give them (the news.