The phrase "capture and d...
The phrase'" capture and destroy," which wve in an af- ticle of yesterday ascribed to th e proclamation issued by Sir FrSDERICK ADAM, will be found in -he copy of that proclamation, which. was copied, by us frorm an. evening paper into our piper of Wednesday week. It is true.that another-ve'ysion of this procla'mationi appeared in an. e,vening paper of -Utuidayy last, and was by us tranqfetredl to' our columns of 'Moiday, it is also true,, that l' lhis ifiiproved version the werds " capture and destroy"'., have beei- ehang6d ihto "seize and detain." But frpioi'iilformation which we had in the ihterim received from o,th Aan' one- quarter, we were indud to, believe, that the .firfit version was the most correct; and at present We see no reasol1 to' Mlter this opinion. CCeitainly, th6e wild declarnatiOn,ota' Writer, who has no means of information, but wishes rere ly to curry favour wfitli.people ijitower, will neveriprevail upon us,to retract: onre opinion,: or qualfy.an,y^^,1akuage wlich hwe may htsve happened to u`se,. .Let tle' -Milist&rg ptiblish the proclamation, of which they imrist have had a copy, and let them pledge themselves that it is a faithful, inigarbled, unaltered copy, and we vill then. cheerfully confess ourselves in the wr6ng.