STANLEY'S DANGERS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2573, 6 April 1877, Page 2

STANLEY'S DANGERS.

Mr Hejirc Stanley's poaUiojo, has always been pecuKar.- 3He is- tv servant of an English and an American newspaper, and yet it has been the fashion with ourselres to look on hiaTas a pure Englishman. Stanley, of course, is a subject of the United StatesjGovernment. p f ltia t^ue that he has used the Britiih'ffaglo; At'riia; but, then-, 19 $4 Sergeant Bates, avYankee and a pedestrian (now said to be dying :jfc .poverty)*? when he tramped through England/ Therj is a distinction. The " exploit" of Batetjs^mere child's play, and attracted none *but roughs, bicyclists and nursemaids, wherea* ; i^Bj«v7% performances bare been ''Hr a more* 'se-rious-character.: WJi^be: returns to Europe or America, Sfa'nley will hare to endeavour, .and, may jbe able, to justify himself. The" cleverness and brilliancy of his-identical, letters to the Daily Telegraph' and the New" Ydrk Herald hare, been • freely- .admitted,; as also, hit Homeric sense), to his. employers. He was well treated in this country. He received the Eoyal Geographical Society's gold medal as an eminent foreigner who had done, sound scientific f wprk; and, if he'was" a little chaffed "'at a { 'Brighton dinner about his \Yel3h. origin, and if he lost his temper, the fault was chiefly Mr Stanley's own for not appreciating a jpcqw aljhusipn to his early training. It is reported By telegraph"ffiaTstrong action -ia>, being, tak^n, : the British African 'Consuls against Stanley, and that on, account Qf-JaVf dUgedUoruelties committed ,in the '■'•'eajfeai,'. /fpT.ijhjjs", semiHDttilitary progress he",wiU r,be 'aTpsfed^at whatever t .seapoct he may first return to. . This premonition, it ;js; almost jmpoafliiftr fto believe, andthat for reasons, s>U>'motm£. on the same generic principle.^ When Mr HyMman wanted the: Ldodon Geographical Society; to passmToteofwraiuro !on- Stanley, *hey; 'reftisSf^Vlfieir/main ground bfobjection beitfg that the wctised was not aJJritish subject, again, whit Lord .Derby most j'usjfly ttameiTftid JEmetican expioreMor; was his 'illfcft .hoisting—he being an; alien—of those which could gire him no,.authority,, and insure him ,no protections^thirdly.,' we , can argue, a fortiori; that Jt^e Engliih consuls on the African seaboard, sfould think twice-,; qr,pas Mr f Gladstone 1 wow|i say. thrw>time»y< before;they,;would 'dream of arresting Stanley. If he Ihai committed any heiooas outrages, it must: be the - American and not the British^anthorities to' whom "the Africans must' look.' And eren if, he were morally guilty, bit slisare by English pflScials might Joad tb'.a grire international question/ for !j3^lwjc^is .Bnrely worth more than those of £he genus Brett and Wiuslo^^HbTmlß NeTwa.