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the enthusiasm of the reception they will give turns of which met the line at all distances, and him, he will learn the measure of the cordiali- the varying depth of which took one commanding ty which we entertain for our illustrious officer's horse up to his neck, whilst another neighbours.

passed not far off through an easy ford. Efforts,

great and persevering efforts, were made by commanding and company officers to regain the twodeep formation and line ; but a biting, enfilading fire from our right, along that supposed " shelter,

prevented it; whilst the helmets and rifles of the NOTE on the Campaign in the Crimea, in enemy's skirmishers showed, and made themselves No. CXCI.

felt, by firing right down upon us in front. There

was no time to be lost; it was better to advance We have been informed by a member of

in partial irregularity than to hesitate and be de

stroyed in a hole. It was done; irregularly, perCaptain Giffard's family that there is no haps, but successfully. The advance went up truth in the statement wbich appeared in the that slope, through fire, over and into the battery, Russian newspapers that the flags of the Tiger from which the Russians retreated, having withhad been taken by the enemy. With the excep- drawn all the guns except one large howitzer, tion of one, which is in the possession of Mrs. left at an embrasure, and one gun, then in the act Giffard, they were all burnt, together with of being moved away by horses, when it was the ship's papers, by the order of the gallant tery, past our troops, by an officer of the brigade.

taken, and turned round the shoulder of the batCaptain himself

. On the same authority we That battery was consequently not armed by are told that the reason why the crew did not guns against any subsequently advancing troops. escape from the stranded vessel in the boats, These were the efforts, and that was the success, was the fearful loss of life which would have of the brigade : troops in the best formation ensued in consequence of the galling fire of could scarcely have passed the first through that the Russians.

fire, and up that even slope, without severe loss : In speaking of the advance of the first bri- advanced position it had won, had it been in greater

the gade of the Light Division at the battle of regularity of formation, but it might never have Alma, we stated that,

got to the battery at all, had it waited to do so;

and there can be no doubt that it gave to the more than once the men had to lie down to take regiments that were coming on so finely to supshelter from the heavy fire of the Russian batte- port its weakness, the opportunity of steadily ries; that they crossed the stream in disorder; forming before they advanced up that same slope that they were not allowed to form under the shel- against the enemy's infantry and batteries beyond. ter of the opposite bank; and that the leading up I confine my observations to circumstances within the brigade before it was formed was a grave my personal observation and immediate neigherror, which entailed a severe loss upon three bourhood.' regiments.

In the description of the battle of InkerWe have received from Major-General Cod-mann, it is remarked that Sir G. Cathcart rington, who commanded this brigade, a let-placed bimself at the head of a few comter pointing out an inaccuracy in this portion panies of the 68th Regiment to make that of our narrative, and it gives us great pleasure gallant advance which resulted in his death. to be able to publish so excellent and authen- It was, however, General Torrens, wbo, by tic an account of what really occurred :

the command of General Cathcart, led the attack with portions of the

46th and 68th • From the time that I received the only order, Regiments. Nearly every officer was killed, viz., to advance in line, and not stop till I had wounded, or dismounted at the first onset, crossed the water, until the time of reaching the and it was owing, perhaps, to this havoc steep bank on the further side of the river, there among their leaders that the troops, after rewas no balt, nor much possibility or inclination pulsing the enemy, were tempted to press forto take shelter on ground covered by fire of all ward too far in pursuit along the fatal valley. descriptions. I'well remember how the sight of It was then that Sir G. Cathcart followed the the opposite steep bank gave hope that its shelter from the artillery fire would be the means of re

men into the thick of the fire, and as he passed forming a line unavoidably broken by its passing General Torrens, who lay wounded upon the over a vineyard and walls, down banks, between ground, he said, "You have nobly led them, felled trees, and through a river, the serpentine Torrens, and it is quite successful too.'

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