Note 29 — SEQUEL TO THE MILITARY ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY NEWCOME PART I
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It has been whispered, that strange means were resorted to in order to get at the opinions of men in high rank, respecting the operations on the Peninsula. I own I do not credit the malicious story, but, as Sir John was conversant in state politics, I must leave him to form his own conjectures, and his directing his son to write typically might be defended.