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 406 APPENDIX. ascendant of the second Pitt. When one of his Ministers was obstructed by a department of State, he did not appeal, as the Duke of Newcastle could have done, to the ' will of the Govern- ' ment,' but to a power much better understood in those days — the will of its great chief. At the Admiralty (where the Board had in strictness a right to withstand the First Lord by outvoting him), Lord Spencer at the time alluded to, both enforced com- pliance and (concretely) explained his principle by saying that, if further resisted, he would ' go to Mr Pitt.' Note 33. — There was one of these — Sir Frederick Elliot — who not only knew how to govern, and how to administer, but also had proved himself able to meet new demands on the public service by devising, constructing, and perfecting the new official machi- nery, which brought and kept emigration under careful State superintendence ; and the fertile brain-power, the tact, the know- ledge of men required for achieving such a task, were exactly what England needed when striving in haste to provide means of action for an inchoate War Department then consisting of simply nothing except its name and its chief. Note 34. — When Marshal M'Mahonwas disabled by his wound at Sedan, General Wimpfen, by virtue of a dormant commission, succeeded to the command ; but the officers of M'Mahon's stafi judged it right to remain in attendance upon their wounded chief, and did not, therefore, place their sei'vices at the disposal of the new commander. Note 35. — This change was to take eifect on the 22d of De- cember 1854, but did not do so practically until long afterwards. Note 30. — This change took place in the early summer of 1855. Note 37. — This change was made in February 1855. Note 38.— Seb. Comm., 4th Rep., p. 257. Note 39. — The ' Victualling ' sub-department of the Admiralty was under Mr Grant ; and Captain MUne, who was one of the ' Sea Lords,' personally undertook the highly important charge of the transport business. The State possessed but few ' transport ' vessels — at one time, I think, only three — and the means of de- Rpatching troops to the East had to be obtained almost wholly by appealing to private shipowners, and chartering their vessels. Note 40.— 2d Rep. Seb. Comm., pp. 415, 41G. A sketch of the proper medical arrangements that should be made was also