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APPENDIX. 457 to show that the strain put upon liiin had for the moment proved to be more than his Ijiain and nerve could bear. — Lord Raglan to Duke of Newcastle, January 20, 1855. Note 43. — ' I am told that the want of change of linen, and tho ' state of the I'oads, are equall}' my fault.' — Duke of Newcastle to Lord Raglan, 2'2d December 1854. Note 44. — 'Of course at present I have to bear the whole ' blame.' — Duke of Newcastle to Loi'd Raglan, 22d December 1854. ' I shall, of course, be the first victim to popular ven- ' geance ; and the papers, assisted by the Tory and Radical ' parties have pretty well settled my fate already. ' — Same to Same, 1st January 1855. Note 45. — Expressions contained in the Duke's letters show that this idea was runnmg in his mind. Thus, after saying (see last note) that he has ' to bear the whole blame,' he adds, ' but already public attention is turning to the olHcjrs in the ' camp.' And in a subsequent letter there is a similar indi- cation. Note 46. — This sentence alludes to the measures (see ante, chap. vii. ) by which Lord Raglan found means to replace the vast stores of warm clothing and other supplies wrecked and lost in the hurricane of the 14th November. Note 47. — General Aii-ey was so far from having omitted to send home requisitions that, on one day — viz., the 28th of November 1854 — he sent home requisitions for, inter alia, the following things : 100 hospital marquees, 3000 tents, 7000 camp-kettles, 2500 spades, 2500 shovels, 2500 pickaxes, 2500 felling axes, 2500 saws, 6000 nose-bags, and 3000 I'eaping-hooks ; and, indeed, his requisitions altogether were so vast and so many that the fact of his having been censured by a War Minister for making no requisitions at all becomes a 'Whitehall curiosity.' Irrespectively of these requisitions, all duly sent home to London, his department, with the sanction of Lord Raglan, efi'ected vast purchases at Constantinople, there obtaining, with happy jirompt- itude, huge supplies of warm clothing, of tarpauling, and of tools, together with 4700 camp-kettles, and numberless other supplies. The great supplies of timber (planks and scantling) which General Aircy obtained, were drawn from various parts of the Levant. Note 48. — Duke of Newcastle to Lord Raglan, 29th December 1854. — It is curious that the Duke should have been admijiister-