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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... the gross number of pounds of iron as if the affair had been between two ships. You set down in your columns the statements of the writer of a note upon your Strictures, the statement of the Strictures themselves, and my statement; arid then come on with your own observations as if there were three witnesses on your side. But the author of the note is again your witness D'Urban, who thus shows himself incorrect both as to number and weight; and the author of the Strictures is yourself. This is not ingenuous, though it is an ingenious mode of multiplying testimony. In your Further Strictures also you first called in sir Benjamin D'Urban in person, you then used his original memoir, you also caused him to write anonymously a running commentary upon yours and his own statements, and now you comment in your own name upon your own anonymous statements, thus making five testimonies out of two. 1 Vol. II, Jvuik lii, h.tp vi, p.igo 337. Vol. II, pap, -itivi. The answer is simple and plain. When 1 took sir Benjamin D'Urban as a guide he led me wrong; and you instead of visiting his errnur upon his own head visit it upon mine, and require me and your readers to follow him implicitly upon all points while to do so avaits for your defence, but not when they contradict it. From sir Benjamin D'Urban I took the calibre of the allies' guns employed in the battle of Albuera, and he was wrong! From him, if I had not possessed sir Alexander Dickson's official return, I should also have taken the number of guns, and I should have heen wrong, because he calls them thirty-four instead of thirty-eight. He also (see page 26 of the Appendix to your Further Strictures) says that the Spaniards had six guns, whereas Dickson says, they had but...