July 9, 1863.] [Footnote 1100: Hansard, 3rd Ser., CLXXII, 554 _seq_., July 10, 1863.] [Footnote 1101: In the same issue appeared a letter from the New York correspondent of the _Times_, containing a similar prediction but in much stronger terms.

For the last half of the war the _Times_ was badly served by this correspondent who invariably reported the situation from an extreme anti-Northern point of view.

This was Charles Mackay who served the _Times_ in New York from March, 1862, to December, 1865.
(Mackay, _Forty Years' Recollections_, II, p.

412.) Possibly he had strict instructions.

During this same week Lyons, writing privately to Russell, minimized the "scare" about Lee's advance.