Excerpt from Letters and Papers of Charles, Lord Barham, Admiral of the Red Squadron, 1758-1813, Vol. 3 The Second Volume of the Barham Papers ended with the retirement of Sir Charles Middleton from the Admiralty, consequent on a difference with the First Lord as to the propriety of recalling Sir John Laforey from the command at the Leeward Islands. From the letters there printed, it appeared that this recall was, in some way, connected with the quarrel between Laforey and vice-admiral Thompson. The few letters relating to ...
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Excerpt from Letters and Papers of Charles, Lord Barham, Admiral of the Red Squadron, 1758-1813, Vol. 3 The Second Volume of the Barham Papers ended with the retirement of Sir Charles Middleton from the Admiralty, consequent on a difference with the First Lord as to the propriety of recalling Sir John Laforey from the command at the Leeward Islands. From the letters there printed, it appeared that this recall was, in some way, connected with the quarrel between Laforey and vice-admiral Thompson. The few letters relating to the same subject, which are here given (pp. 5 do not confirm this, but imply that the cause was much more commonplace - the working of, private interest of which Lord Spencer had been made the tool. It is clear too that, as concerned Middleton, this was only the climax of a long-felt sense of injury, a sense that he had not been treated with the consideration which his age and Official experience entitled him to expect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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