We have heard repeated complaints of the treatment to which
naval officers are exposed in their interviews with the First Lord of the Ad- miralty. His manners are described as the very reverse of courteous. His favours are unaccompanied with grace, and his denials unmitigated by kindness. The contrast of his manners to those of the King, when he acted as Lord High Admiral, is remarkable. • We do not hear that comparisons equally to his disadvantage have been instituted between him and Lord MELVILLE. Sir JAMES GRAHAM is, moreover, accused of creating, by the arbitrary rules that he has contrived to lay down, . barriers to the natural ambition of officers, who seek to receive the honours due to their services, if they cannot obtain more solid reward. The Ministry have suffered much from the impracticable temper of the • Secretary of Ireland; but we never beard Mr. STANLEY accused of any defect of principle, however defective he is in manner. Sir JAMES GRAHAM has not escaped so well. While no man refuses more harshly the petitions of strangers, no man is said to listen inure com- placently to the cravings of his own relations.
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