Your correspondent goes on to assert, that 1 was
offered my choice between the command of the
Guards and that of the Highlanders. This is not
true ; I never was offered any such choice. He gives
an account of my reception by her Majesty : " How
he was honoured by leading in the Princess Royal ;
how the Royal piper was stationed behind his chair
at dinner ; " and how, above all, " after dinner, the
Queen summoned him to sit by her side on the sofa."
I had not the honour of leading in the Princess Royal ;
the Royal piper was not stationed behind my chair at
dinner ; and her Majesty did not summon me to sit
by her side on the sofa. Whether the person who
wrote this account intended to injure me, I cannot
tell ; but I do feel that there may be many people not
acquainted with me who might believe these idle and
impertinent stories, the truth of which I emphatically
repudiate.
(Signed) C. Campbell, General.
14th March, 1856.
Yesterday we rode to General Vinoy's, picked him
up, and then went on to the French head-quarters to
breakfast with the Marshal. He has a large salon of



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reception, besides a great dining-room. The break-
fast was funny : at 10 a.m. soup, then a turbot, then
three or four dishes of meat, then vegetables, then
foie gras and cheese, with claret and champagne.
