Autograph Letter Signed ('Napier') to Brown ('Dear Sam').

4to, 3 pp. Bifolium. Twenty-two lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with minor damage repaired with archival tape. Franked, with broken red wax seal and two postmarks, to 'Captain Saml Brown R.N.', at Inverleith House, Edinburgh. Despite the fact that Martin has 'given the Credit of every improvement in the Service', Napier happens to know 'that other people are deserving of more credit than him', and he wishes to 'bring forward some great names like yours' to 'the Lords & the Country' at the second reading of the Navy Officer Bill. Asks Brown if he introduced 'the Iron Tanks for water now used in the ships Holds'. Asks 'What reward did you ever get for the Cables & how long have you been allowed to supply the Navy & to what extent?' Postscript relating to 'Dundonald' [Lord Cochrane, the Sea Wolf] who is to be restored immed[iately]> [Apparently he was dismissed in 1814 following a conviction of fraud but restored in 1832 as per this letter.