AMERICANS AT ALEXANDRIA.

Patea Mail, 22 September 1882, Page 4

AMERICANS AT ALEXANDRIA.

The New York Herald says “ Unele Sam’s little con'ingont of sixty marines Las performed honorable and worthy service at Alexandria. Indeed the behaviour of the American Admiral and his men throughout the Egyptian troubles has been beyond nil praise.” Amid diplomatic protests, European concerts, conferences and naval demonstrations of hrd ccility, it is as refieshing as a gleam of sunshine in a fog to find a commander able and willing on bis own account to say what he thinks, and do what he says. When onr European allies were getting up steam to pass out of range of the insolent Egyptian earthworks, it is said that the Ametican Admiral, with a cool glance at the threatening cannon “ calculated that he would stay where ho was, and if any one fired at him he would fire back. When the bombardment was over for the day, the American ship alone, without rpd tape or circumlocution, dared to sail around each of onr ships of war and give them a Inst} 7 cheer. When, again, Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour asked for aid to protect life and property in Alexandria, ihe Americans landed promptly and at once. Sixty marines, physically speaking, could do much, but there is a way of giving support which quadruples its value. And last and best of all, when the awkward news passed from mouth to month that Arab! was returning with 8000 men and thirty-six gnus, and the European marines were hastening hack to their men-of-war, while French and Italians were sailing in safety on the open sea, the Americans preferred to “ stick by the Englishmen and take their chance.” ■ *