or Norwegians_, who were good sailors and quite trustworthy.’ He was told to ‘enter them quietly.’ If he could not get Swedes and Norwegians, ‘even Danes would strengthen him, for they were hardy seamen and brave. There was, it is true, a difficulty with their Governments, but if the men enlisted freely, and came over to the Fleet, the First Lord did not see why the Admiral should be over-nice, and refuse good seamen without much inquiry as to the place from whence they came.’ “Admiral Berkeley, moreover, instructed the Admiral to the same effect. ‘Have any of your ships tried for men in a Norwegian port? _It is said that you might have any number of good seamen from that country._’ On the 18th of March the Admiral had been apprised that the _James Watt_, the _Prince Regent_ and _Majestic_ would now join him; ‘_but men are wanting_, and it is impossible to say how long it will be before they are completed.’ On the 4th of April Admiral Berkeley stated: ‘Notwithstanding the number of landsmen entered, we are come nearly to a dead standstill as to seamen; and after the _James Watt_ and _Prince Regent_ reach you, I do not know when we shall be able to send you a further reinforcement, _for want of men_! _Something must be done, and done speedily, or there will be a breakdown in our present rickety system._’” The German article produced a great stir in England. This was followed up by the publication in 1859 of _The Navies of the World_, by Hans Busk, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, who, while nominally casting cold water on the “Leipsic Article,” added fuel to the fire. This writer was one of the first to concentrate attention upon the fact that the French were building “iron-plated ships.” From this scarce and remarkably interesting work I quote the following:--