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London, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

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SIR C. NAPIER TO LORD PALMERSTON.
Mesh/ dam. Dam a, 18se.
My Lord,—Year krededie tells me that you have
witnessed with great pain the illsousleas that have
taken pleas between as acrd the Beard of Admiralty,
both in sad oat of pediment, as well as the attacks
made by me upon Bir Jams Graham on a public 000 -
Dion." Bat, my lord, if you have felt pain on that
ClDOWoo—provoked sa I was by Sir lames Graham
and his Board—how much mare pained mast you
have been to witness the unprovoked attacks made
upon me by a munbsr of your lordship's govern-
ment an two public) ooeseions:
Your lordship tells me that "yes have always
maintained, when professionally employed in enema-
lag instructions ander your department, that you
had full reason to be satisfied with my judgment
and discretion; and you are bound to say that you
estimate the great services which professionally I
have preformed. Yon highly respect the noble
qualities. of which—in my professional career—l
have gives seek frequent proofs. But you have
seen, with sincere grief, le my conduct on shore,
things which my best Mende (and you claim to
be out.of them) could not witnam without deep
rot Rock mart poignant, then, my lord, must
have been your " grief,* and how much mon deep
your "regret," to witness the conduct of Sir Robert
Peeler Lord of the Admiralty, a member of your
goverossent—in attacking an old officer, double his
age, who had served his country honourably for up-
wards of fifty years. had several times received the
thanks of parliament, and had even been highly
lauded in parliament by the hon. baronet's own
lather.

Your lordship must also remember that in attacking
me he attacked the French admiral, my colleague ;
and in so doing must have given offence to the French
nation—our ally.
Your lordship will permit me to observe that you
do not pat the case enfileiently strong. The attacks
were made at public meeting., it is true; but they
were made by Sir Robert Peel,. Lord of the Admi-
ralty, a member of your lordshiositegsg:Lernment, and
in the preemies of one of your
You lordship thinks no investigation n ,
bemuse "you consider my easdeot to have been ja
doom sei proper, and to have been founded on aw-
rest ulnae day public duty, in the very responsible
Amelia Is whisk I was placed, as Commander-in-
Mists' She Battle kW

The Lit I emosedsd. yosr lordship observe,
" was inefectly mint, whew reinforced by the
Preset orinedres. to Mee enabled se to give a good
sessest dis Swabs bet, if it Wow out to give
me bade. Bet the lest seder irj 1111=111111d WWI IKli I
stagiest kr tiro doable purple efstieskiag the stem
be
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Orendsit. red
afterwards eneseatering
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-foie farther elawres, that "if I had
attackedUserin it, whatever the remit might have'
been to the Ralik* tutorial, my ships would have
been seriously damaged, and my duet, after sub
an adios with the battings, would probably not have
been In a 'duties to suountsr the Baden fleet.
The coomuuse of oak a state of things might have
been a soul dints% sr the temporary asemaoy of
the Rodeo Seek aft only in the Baltio, bat is the
North lies, and ea the seism of Begird.
'You thasedrm think that, NI. the theet exhdag
Mate of things, I aged with semi Wessel In re.
training from attacking the batteries of Crenatedt
with the fleet under my command; and that, in pur-
suing this coarse, I but performed the important and
reiusiblo duty which I had undartaken."
The, your lordship says, "is your opinion now—
was your opinion at the du—and it was so expressed
in a private latter to me, When I was still in command
of the Baltic fleet, sad that this I. the opinion you
have invariably expelled to all with whom you have
semmonicated at any time on the 'abject"
I feel highly grails* that yea entertain so high
an opinion of my publionordoes in gourd, and parti-
cularly of my conduct beim Ortestadt. Bat Ido
not think, after what has pawed, that even your good
opinion will door me in the eyes of the world.
It was stated by Admiral Beekekey in 1868 that it
was my halt Cronstadt wee net Masked.
It has been stated at one gab%
_niesting in per
▪ of owe of your collespes, by Sir &WO Peel,
another Lord of the Admiralty, that had I deft
slat duty, Ckometsdt would have been mesbled to

This was ornerared at another public Emoting, and
it was stated by Sir R. Peal that " what he had said
at Stafford we/ approved by the' highest asthority: "
earth.
Tide Me gams forth to the istestset corners of the

—The *highest authority* amid not harshen your
lordship, atter what you have written to me. It
meld not have bsen bet Majesty. Therefore, I think
the sosutry her a right to !mow who this H highest
authority " is.
Si, Robert Peel's *aka, m lard, on Bevel mat-
ters is not worth meta ; nor, indeed, on say other.
His want o[ judgment is proverbial, bat hie position
gives him t.
The mutes has wooed meats little credit on
your lordship's government; and be enured, my
lord, that he is not the Samson to pall down the
=e
thof the State, and crash the administration its Mina

I therefore tenet your lordship will recossider your
deeidoe, eud grant me the investigation I request.
I have, &a, &e.,
QUALM NAPIZZ.
The Right Hon. Vieweret Palmerston.

No. 11.
Slit C. xensa TO LORD PALIDIRSTON.
linchistoun, Dec. 7, 1866.
My Lord,-Binee writing to year lordship, on the
6th el December, I beg to seed you a copy of the
Greed Dake's reply tome, jest received.
It is for your lordship to edge whether a member
of your lordship's government—who has code&
Toured to ruin the reputation of an old odlioer—is St
to be one of his masters I sad year lordship may,
perhaps, be able to mortals who the " highest
authority" le, to whom 81: R. Peel alluded in his
speech.—l have, doe.. Casa. Nam&
The Bight Hon. Viscount Palmerston.

No. lIL
MR C. NAPIER TO THE GRAND DUKE
CONSTANTINE.
Nerehiatosa, Oot. 39,1868.
814—I beg to road to your imperial highness a
speech of Sir R. Poel—a Lord of the Admiralty—
ia whisk he amass sae of sot dots; ray duty before
Croostadt.

I sioooind you highs.. my LAW to him, and two
to Lod Polsorotoa.
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--iiiiikfleiistiactly stated what palmed he•
twain year imperial highness sad myself relative to
Oreastadt, which certainly does not agree with what
Sir B. Peal states.

leitetal mks no apology to your imperial Maims
he weidft to you. Your highness is a hank, open-
booted iliac. I thereto» must you will be pleased
'to When a whether I have correctly stated what
Wnibstween your highness and myself when you
me with an interview, and whether, »stated
by Sir R. Peel, it I had attacked Croastadt, I would
have crumbled it into dust. -

I have the hamar, &a, &e.,
Cate. NAPIII., Vier Admiral.
Hia Imperial Highness the Grand Doke
Constantine.

No. IV.