[The Battle of Navarino; Rumours Affirmed]

First published Edinburgh Saturday Post, 5 January 1828, p. 276. Never reprinted. This leading article continues the close examination of the motives of the British government and Sir Edward Codrington over the Navarino affair, which De Quincey had been conducting in the Post for some time. The clearest indication of his presence seems to be the reference to a previous leader (see above, pp. 138–41), in recalling ‘the monstrous exaggeration which we pointed out in the English papers’ whereby ‘seventeen’ Turkish frigates became ‘forty-seven’.