The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-04 00:00:00

IXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM IR JAMES GRAHAM TO SIR

CHARLES NAPIER.

Admiralty, May 15, 1854.
My dear Sir Charles—lf anything can he done, you
will discover the best means of doing it; but no rash ex-
periments must be tried which do not hold out a reason-
able prospect of success.
I still think that a complete blockade of the Gulf of
Finland must be your first operation, and the occupation
if possible of an anclioiage within the Gulf, where you can
command a supply of water.—l am, yours sincerely,

J. G. GILAHAIi,

No. IX.

taininl the line of battleships and'steamers, and then
in sending them home laden with prisoners.—T am,
yours, very truly,

No. XVI.
[Copy.] _

J. G, GRAHAM.

Devonport, Aug. 25, 1854. [Recd. Sept. 3.]
My dear Sir Charles, —I azn more than satisfied with
your proceedings.
I am delighted with the prudence and sound judgment
which you have evinced. It would have been a miserable
want of firmness bad you yielded to clamour, and risked
your ships, and sacrificed many valuable lives, in an
attempt to destroy, by naval means, works which were
certain to fall to an attack by laud.
Yourl reasoning also, in favour of the immediate and
entire destruction of the forts at Bomarsund, is irre-
sistible, and I hope you will take care that the destruc-
tion is complete, and that not one stone is left upon
another.

I am well pleased also with the promptitude with
which you have sent back the line-of-battle ships and
steamers. The work has been well done, and I gladly
give you the utmost credit for it.

- I write in great haste, but that which presses is the
order fur destroying Bomarsund. At greater leisure,
and in a few days, I will write to you on the subject of
your ulterior operations, and of the preparations for an
early retreat from the Baltic before winter.
I am, yours, very sincerely,

J. G. GRAHAM.
Again, we appeal to our readers, whether anything
which we could advance in the shape of note or comment
on the extraordinary correspondence which we have pub-
lished, could give additional force to the case of Sir C.
Napier! There will be a universal response to the effect
that it would not. Sir C. Napier has done his duty in
putting into our hands a series of letters whose impor-
tance it would be impossible to exaggerate. We have
done our duty to the country, and to the gallant admiral,
in laying the correspondence before the people of these
realms. It now remains for the country to do its duty.
From the House of Commons we expect nothing. If any
practical steps are to be taken in the matter, they must
be initiated by the people. Sir Charles has triumphantly
vindicated his character. He stands before the world a
grossly ill-used man. But the clearing of the gallant
Admiral's character is not enough. What reparation
shall be made to a country whose honour has been tar-
nished, and whose best interests have been sacrificed !
And what punishment shall be inflicted upon those
against whom charges can be brought home of thus
tampering with the honour and the interests of the coun-
try 9 These are questions which the people themselves
must answer. If they are to be answered i❑ the proper
way,—in that way which the exigencies of the case de-
mand, the country must apply itself to a consideration
of the whole subject without one hour's delay. We have
made some startling exposures : we have said enough,
or rather have enabled others to say enough, t.► show
that some of the most zealous and most efficient friends
of Russia have had their abode, not in St. Petersburg,
but in Downing-street ; but, bad as the facts are which
we have laid before our readers, we speak advisedly
when we say that others a great deal worse yet remain

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