454 APPENDIX. more worthy to be admired than bhimcd. Still, this judgment when decisively formed, and riveted by being expressed, had of course a strong tendency to make critics persevere in their ap- proval of the adopted strategy, and seek elsewhere for the cause of the winter sufferings. Note 20. — The citations in the text are from several numbers of the ' Times,' beginning with the one of the 23d December 1854, and ending with that of the 1 0th February in the following year. Note 21. — The enemy, through the 'Times,' became imme- diately acquainted with the asjiect of things at Lord Raglan's Headquarters. See the next note. Note 22. — ' Nonchalance ' was what the 'Times' imputed to the Headquarter Stafl', and certainly an air of ' nonchalance ' harmonised well with the ' policy ' indicated in the text. Note 23. — The warm ' wrap ' was the one that, as mentioned in a former note, had been thoughtfully sent him frum Vienna by Lady Westmoreland, and not being I'^nglisli in shape, it seems to have been somewhat disguising. Note 24.—' Times,' January 20, 1855. Note 25.— Ibid., February 3, 1855. Note 26.— 'Times,' February 8, 1855. Note 27.— Ibid., February 9, 1855. Note 28. — Some may think it surprising that communications, liowever circuitous, should be going on between any member of a Government and the conductors of a journal opposing it, but these things happen. Note 29. — Besides all the numberless passages finding fault with Lord Raglan, there may be found here and there in the ' Times ' some sentences disclosing a ivish that Lord Raglan could be recalled, but I do not observe any really ur<jin<j the change in set terms. What the journal said of its own language was, that it had asked, ' more or less plainly, that he ' [Lord Raglan] ' be ' recalled.' — 'Times,' February 12, 1855. Note 30. --There used to be a somewhat general belief in camp that, for fighting purposes, the French soldiery placed great reli- ance on Lord Raglan ; and this belief received a signal con-
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