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( 18 ) Sir John Hay's retirement having already been notified to him, Mr. Childers wrote the following note:—

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It was quite evident that, under the then existing circumstances, Sir John Hay could accept no command; but the first thing that struck him with astonishment was that the First Lord of the Admiralty