Sin,—As one of the oldest surviving readers of the Spectator,
I venture to express my surprise at your paragraph in the issue of Saturday, November 5th, referring to the statements in a letter published in the Manchester Guardian of Novem- ber 3rd, as written by a subaltern officer in the Baltic Fleet to his father, and communicated by him in a translation to a correspondent of that journal. One is inclined to ask two questions :—(1) Is it probable that a young officer, whose experience would be chiefly confined to his own ship, should have such knowledge as the letter implies as to the general condition of the whole fleet ? (2) Is it not improbable that the father of such an officer, receiving such a communication, should proceed at once to communicate it in a translation to an English correspondent, with an entire disregard of the consequences it might involve to his son P—I am, Sir, &c.,
SERE% INCREDULUS.
THE DOGGER BANK INCIDENT.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1
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