We must indeed protest emphatically against the whole of the
suggestions which underlie Sir Edward Grey's asser- tion that Sir Redvers Buller was cruelly and unfairly assailed by the Press. The suggestions have no foundation. There is, in truth, nothing in the whole course of the last three years of which the Press have a greater right to be proud than the way in which Sir Redvers Buller was treated by them. They could not have refrained from their criticisms of him without the gravest dereliction of public duty. As far as was consistent with that public duty they treated Sir Redvers Buller with the utmost courtesy and consideration. Even when he gave them an excuse for vituperation by his " spy " speech they refrained from retorting in kind. Their action as regards Sir Redvers Buller is a matter which the English Press may well contemplate with unalloyed satisfac- tion. Sir Edward Grey's Motion was lost by 138 (236 to 98).
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