And the Government at Washington, I fear, does not know the full extent of the danger.

They think that the English are disposed to lie down on them.

They don't realize the cost of the war.

This Government has bared all this vast skeleton to me; but I fear that Washington imagines that part of it is a deliberate scare.

It's a very real danger.
Now, certain detached items: Sims is the idol of the British Admiralty and he is doing his job just as well as any man could with the tools and the chance that he has.