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Now actually agreed, what has been decided on, and what still remains to be settled.
I think Colonel Moody, the Commanding Royal Engineer, is quite justified in calling attention to the tone adopted by Sir Horne in his letter of the 8th March 1863, and which appears to me to be subversive of public confidence in the proper transaction of business.
A number of Officers whose integrity and sense of public duty are beyond all suspicion have considered the question as to the merits of the two sites with a view to conciliate all the interests concerned, as they were even instructed to do by the Secretary of State, and which Sir Horne admits he had not done, and these Officers have arrived at a different conclusion from Sir Horne. Surely he would have done better if he had confined himself to stating