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ADMIRAL STOPFORD AND COM-

MODOEE NAPIER.

67, Baker-street, May 31,
DEAR SIR,-I have read with pain a speech of yours
at Malta. accusing me of arrogating to myself the
whole credit of the Syrian campaign, which has gone
the round of the newspapers in this country.
I conclude you have taken your text from some of the
public journals, who for party
.purposes have endea-
voured to damage me in the opinion of my brother offi-
cers, but have signally failed in this country. Had you
done me the honour of writing to me, 1 should have
informed you that I had at all times, and in all places,
done justice to the officers and men placed under my
command. I shall not fall into the error you have done
with regard to me, and take for granted that your speech
is properly reported. Before I make any animadver-
sions on it, I should wish you would be good enough
to inform me whether what has appeared in the papers
is correct or not.

I am, dear Sir, your obedient Servant,
CHARLES NAPIER.
Admiral the Honourable Sir Robert Stopford.

GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP. RACE
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. —The following letter from
Captain Hosken, Commander of the Great Western
steamer, has been _handed to us by Mr. H. B. Webb;.
agent for the Company in this city, and it is only. neces-
sary to state that we copied the paragraph in question
from a Liverpool Paper of the 17th instant. We in-
serted the paragraph in the usual business way, without
even the most remote idea of giving umbrage to.any
party whatever : "London. May '24, 1841.
"My dear Sir,—l have just received the Glasgow
Courier of the 20th instant, .and notice a paragraph
headed " Race across the Atlantic," which states the
result of the passages of the Columbia and Great West-
tern, in the slang of the turf, a dead 'heat.' I cannot
allow this to pass without correction,' as the result was
a dead beat, as is very easily proved. The Columbia
left Boston about two hours after the Great Western. left.
New York—Boston is about 180 miles nearer Liverpool
than New York is to Bristol—allowing twelve hours'
loss of time for calling at Halifax, which is more than,
sufficient, still the Columbia, to make a dead heat, ought
to have reached Liverpool four hours before the Great
Western reached Bristol. At six o'clock on the morn-
ing of the 15th, the Colombia was (where ?) off Holy-
head, and at one P.M on that day, she reached Liver-
pool. The Great Western was in King Road, Bristol,
at seven P.M. of the 14th, or at her destination eighteen
hours before the Columbia reached hers. I therefore
say most decidedly; the Great Western has beaten the
Columbia one-day s- sail, at an average of-rather more:than
lest knots or nautical miles, per hour, in the s' race 'across
fhe 4tklntiC.' If the Glasgow Courier will-hot dolls the,
justice' to acknowledge the Columbia beiteri,•lniust, find
other 'channels to make the Tact kndwn at- Glasv-w,,,as
asitis known in-London,- Liverpeoli-13ristol,
dear stir, yones'vciy fait fully, JA DIE RO S KN.
-TO lit 13. Webb; E6(l.,Dia4m."=-...Q./Ogov)Qcourief.
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