ADMIRAL DEWEY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."; SIB,—It grieves me to see you repeat the error made by the daily papers in the report of Admiral Dewey's speech tele- graphed from America, in which he acknowledged the "support and moral courage" shown by the British Navy at ItIanila. Your and other papers say that Dewey's words were : " I refer to Sir Edward Seymour." The name he must have quoted, and the man who supported him so splendidly, was Sir Edward Chichester, Bart., C.M.G., Captain of H.M.S. 'Immortalite.' He is now Embarkation Officer at Cape Town. You most have known the story of the stern front he showed to the German Admiral in those days of waiting and anxiety to Dewey off Manila. The German Admiral Diedrich visited the ‘Immortalite,' and asked Captain Chichester : "What action will you take if Dewey bombards Manila "
Captain Chichester replied: " That is known only to Dewey
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