THE CORUNNA CAMPAIGN.
ITO 1111 Earroa or 21111 "BrEorrror."1 Sts.,—In your issue of May 23rd your reviewer of the Journal of a Cavalry Officer in the Corunna Campaign writes of "mis- judgment, mismanagement, and disaster" in connexion with that campaign, one of the most glorious in our history. A proper reading of history looks to general results rather than to any subsidiary sacrifices or "regrettable incidents,' which must always attend even the most successful ware. Sir John Moore, weighing well all the risks, threw himself on Napoleon's communications in face of vastly superior forces with a definite object in view. This, the ruin of Napoleon's combinations for the subjugation of the Peninsula, he achieved, and thus made Wellington's subsequent operations possible. Colonel Henderson, Stonewall Jackson's lamented historian, tells us that on one occasion, retreating after severe defeats, Stonewall Jackson's Staff Officer said: "Sir, we are well whipped this time." The reply was: "No, no! I am more than contented with the results of our operations."—I
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