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 OF THIS VOLUME. XV as that lately sent out under Lord Raglan to tho ' under a Letter of Service ? — He does. By whom is that Letter of Service signed ? — It ' is aigned by me as Commander-in-Chief. ' As soon as the Commander-in-Chief takes the ' command of that force abroad, he is then subject, ' direction of the Secretary of State, and only cor- ' responds with you on strictly military details ? — ' Entirely so : I had better read to the Committee ' the same as that which was sent to Sir Arthur ' the Duke of Wellington, when he took the ' command of the English army at the battle of ' Waterloo.' * Lord Hardinge then read to the Committee the very document which I cited at p. 29 of the first and p. 27 of this edition.! Lord Hardinge's words made it plain that, when the Reviewer was writing his confident article, and believing himself to be only a critic of me and my volume, he in fact — though of course without know- ing it — had been all the while contradicting the late Commander-in-Chief — a man officially charged with the very piece of knowledge in question.^ X Lord Hardinge's teatimony waa laid before Parliameut ts
 * Crimea, he receives his appointment, does he not,
 * with respect to the movements of the army, to the
 * the beginning of a Letter to Lord Raglan, which is
 * Wellesley, and also by the Duke of York to
 * Seb. Comm., 20,732. t Il-id.