22 MARCH 1856, Page 8
The morning journals publish a letter from Sir Charles Napier
on the late debate. Its object is to diminish the effect of Sir James Graham's speech, by attempting to prove that he wilfully suppressed important portions of Sir Charles's letters, and otherwise misrepresented the facts : in which object Sir Charles does not succeed. He also, by implication, accuses Sir James Graham of having suppressed altogether a letter which Sir Charles addressed to him on the 18th July, containing a proposition to attack Sweaborg with gun-boats and mortar-vessels. "This letter," writes Sir Charles, " the Admiralty deny having received. I wish to know what Sir James has done with it ? "