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over the manor of the Might Hon. Henry Fitzroy, M.P.,
Bridgbam, Norfolk.

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The LATII CAPTAIN PECNELL—Addresses aeon-
&demo bore bets voted by *be Tows Conseil of Brighios,
sod by lb. 'cohabitants at a public iswing. to Sir Gooop
sad Lady Pecholl. ea the death of their only see. Cassia
Pinball, who was killed in the trecehes before Sebastopol.

LONDON, WE DNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1855.

at all points in more than an equal ratio, these too
were soon overpowered, and in less than half an
hour altar the first Zouave scaled the parapet, the
Malakhoff was woo. The deafening roll of musketry,

however, in no degree diminished, but swept on to
the right towards the Little Mao, whose guns
flanked the tower : here, and in the adjoining works,
the struggle was continued for nee, ly a couple of
hours, till the last Muscovite was driven from his
cover, and the ground occupied by our allies.
In the meantime, however, our own assault had
begun. But it must first be mentioned that instead
of having before them a work whose embrasures had
been bunged-up and its guns silenced, like the
Malakhoff; our men had to rush upon • line of
battery nearly every piece in which was ready to
receive them with grape and canister. The French,
too, started from a line of trench only some forty
yards from the point to be attacked, whilst our owa
troops were compelled to cross an open space of fall
six times the extent, and that, too, under a direst and
flanking fire from nearly a score of guns. It
is needless to dilate upon the comparative
difficulties of the two attacks; but, whilst

had once more been illustrated ; and whilst our allies
were jubilant with well-earned success, we were

humbled by the consciousness of undeserved defeat.
Up till nsido.ght, such was pretty much the state
of feeling prevalent throughout the camp, as also

amongst the men who remained in the trenches keep-
ing up the distant attack on the work which they had

won and lost. It was known that with dawn another

assault would be made, and continued at whatever

cost till the redoubt had been finally gained ; but this

hope was, after all, but a feeble consolation after the

signal and costly repulse we had sustained before the
eyes of the triumphant French. However, there was
nothing else for it; and so everyone anxiously
awaited daylight on Sunday morning, when our
slaughtered hundreds were to be avenged,and the tar-
nish cast upon our military honour wiped away. About
an hour after midnight, however, the enemy fore-

awarding to the French a full weed of
praise for their brilliant gallantry on the occasion,
I cannot be betrayed by any mawkish generosity
into a concealment of the infinitely greater dangers
involved in that portion of the day's achievements

which fell to the lot of the British. On the day

following the assault I crossed over the space betreto
our filth parallel and the Redan, and was then able
in some degree to realize the difficulty of making a
run over such a distance and such ground under the
desolating fire of some twenty 68-pounders loaded
with grape and canister. Let all this be borne

in mind before any of your readers
_jump

to the few conclusion that the French die-

played a greater heroism than ourselves; for, raw anc
inexperienced as were many of our troops engaged,
with some few exceptions they fought as became
the conquerors of the Alma and Inkermann. As soon
as the French had made good their footing in the
Malakhoff a tricolour was run up to announce the

stalled all this by blowing up their msgszine, and
abandoning the redoubt. Such, it is presumed, was
As fact, though it is autimprobable that the explo-
sion may have been caused by one of our own shells.
Be this as it may, the result was the same; and on •
party of our men being soon after sent out to recon-
noitre, it was discovered that the Russians had given
op the game. Our troops were accordingly marched
in, and the B•st grey streaks of daylight saw the
British ensign waving over a surrender which had

already been a prize. Long before darkness
had wit in on the previous evening, the French
bad swept the chain of works on the proper left of

the Malakhoff; and thus the whole line, from the
Quarantine Fort to the mouth of the Tchernaya, was
in the hands of the Allies—the Russian batteries op-

posed to the French Left having been simultaneously

•
evacuated. Dawn showed the last stragglers of the

retiring enemy hurrying over the bridge of boats,
which was promptly destroyed when they had
creased ; and as the entire shipping—one frigate and
a couple of small steamers alone excepted—had been
sunk during the night, the sin rose upon as desolate
a scene as if Sebastopol had never been inhabited,
nor its splendid harbour covered with ships of war.
Even before the blow-up of the R. den several mines
had been fired by the enemy clung and within their
line of works, and during the night they consum-
mated the sacrifice of their stronghold by blowing up
Fort Paul and firing nearly all the principal build-

triumph, and immediately after a small white flag—
the signal appointed for the advance of our own men
—wu waved from the parapet of the Mamelon.
At the first glance of it the order was passed on
from General Codriagton for the stormers to leave
cover, sad belt a minute later Major Welaford and his
party, carrying the scaling ladders, bounded over the
1 parapet of the boyeau. A volley of grape struck down
nearly a third of them, poor Welaford included, but
the remainder rushed gallantly on. Is the mean-
time the Rifles, wider Captain Fyers, kept up •
vigorous and deadly fire on the embrasures; but the

ings which had not already been in dames. And
thus ended the attack and capture of Sebastopol.
By early da3 light, as woo as it was evident that
the enemy had indeed cleared out of the town, the
French crowded io, like crows to a carrion, to gorge

thek plundering appetites with what epuil had been
lett behind. As on the whole of the previous day

thick-matted mantlets with which these were car-
tained in a great measure counteracted this, and the
grape continued to fly thick and fast over the death-
space to be crowed. The second body of lawmen
followed quickly on the heels of those who were
already placing the ladder., and, being well sup-
ported by those behind, were soon inside the Redan.
Here a murderous but brief struggle ensued,
and before many minutes had elapsed since
the first of our men gained the parapet, none of the
enemy, hut the dead and dying remained within it.
The Mao, like the Malakhoff, waa woo. And here
I might have chaunted a pearl in honour of our un-
qualified triumph, too, had not the blundering mis-
management which has so often borne fruit in the
sacrifice of our troops again turned up to deprive us
of oar full share of the glory of this memorable day.
Instead of pouring in supports to the aid of those in
possession of the redoubt, General Codriogton—l
believe I am only justly attributing the blame to
him—for some mysterious strategic reasons known
only to himself, kept back the troops who
crowded the trenches in the rear till the
enemy had time to bring up his overpowering
reserves and clear the Redan of our men. The latter
bravely, but vainly, attempted to make a stand,

during the progress of the attack, double
lines of cavalry sentries were posted along
the whole front of our camp ; and through
this impassable barrier no one not on duty,
or not belonging to the omnipotent staff, was
allowed to go. About noon, however, armed with a
pass, courteously given me by General Simpson, I
crossed the line, and proceeded down to the scene of
the pieced day's carnage. By the time I reached
the fatal **
in•tront of oar fifth parallel, however,
the dead had been gathered off the ground—the
officer* having been taken to the camp, and the men
thrown into the deep and broad ditch of the Redso.
And there was a sight harrowing enough
to affect nerves of iron and a heart of

stone : piled up, row upon row, lay the bodies of the

brave fellows whose blood had gained our triumph,
nearly filling the huge dike—a ghastly and mangled
multitude. Those who had died within the Redan
had also been gathered into the ditch ; so that 1
looked upon nearly all the British who had fallen in
this last scene of an eleven months' tragedy, The
first fact which struck an observer was, that nearly
all who lay there were old soldiers, men who had
borne the heat and burthen of the day—hardly a
beardless face was to be seen ; the second, the calmness
which appeared on almost every countenance, even
where the death•wounds bad been the most
severe. Some, whoa. death must have been
instantaneous, lay with unclosed eyes " gazing
on the sky," and bat for the glazed pupils
and ghastly countenance, might have been supposed
booking for pleasure in the sun; whilst others again
were stretched out in all the seeming composure of
a calm sleep. Amongst them lay a few Russians,
hideous in their rags and dirt, but displaying like-
wise but few of the harrowing traces of acute or
prolonged death.throes. As I passed over this
bridge of corpses into the interior of the Redan, a
fatigue party was already beginning to shovel
in the parapet upon the bodies, many of
whom thus found a grave on the spot where
they fell. The enemy had carried off nearly
all their dead and wounded, which accounted
for the fewness of the former found inside the re-
doubt. Terrible were the traces of our fire which
here met the eye: to say nothing of dismounted
guns, shattered platform., and broken carriages,
, nearly every squire yard of the place was torn up
by round shot and exploded shell. How any human
beiogs could have existed in such a pandemonium of
explosive horrors it puzzled every one who looked OD
the spot to conceive. The place had formerly been a
viaeyard, and was consequently honeycombed ori-
ginally; but these small hollows had been knocked
into every possible shape, and scarcely a
toot of space left which bad not been
ploughed up by the fire of our own and the
French guns. Leaving, however, a more detailed
description of the interior of this formidable work for
a future letter, I pass on to the portion of the town
at the hue of the slope which it crowns, end here, for
the first time, I got a glimpse of the utterly unknown
extent of the injury which bad been done to the
town itself by our fire. As viewed even with the
aid of a good glass from our most advanced
parallel, not a tithe of the mischief was visible,
except amongst the house. opposite the French left
attack. But even here, in a portion of the place
which everybody supposed to be comparatively unin-
jured, nothing but ruins met the eye. Shot and
shells had smashed in roots, penetrated and knocked
down walls; and, in fact, left nearly every building
one came to crumbling and shapeless muses of bat-
tered masonry. My exploration in this direction,
however, was soon brought to a dead halt, for as I
was crossing what bad been a small vineyard
behind one of the main buildings which led down to
the Admiralty and Fort Nicholas, a rascally French
sentry ordered me to atop, and before I had time to
ask why, the scoundrel deliberately levelled his piece
and fired, mending a bullet within a few inches of my
head. As there waamo replying to such arguments
as this, I thought it best to prosecute my researches
elsewhere, and so turned away to explore the main
body of the town on the opposite side of
the Admiralty Creek. Bat at every step I found

anxiously expecting every minute the arrival of sup-
ports, but no supports came, and they were swept
back into the open to retreat under fresh storms of

grape—for by another marvellous piece of neglect no
attempt at spiking the guns of the place had been
made by those who had gained a tooting inside.
Orders for the withheld supports were theta given,
but in harmony with the blunder which had gone
before, the intelligent aides-de-camp who carried the
commands, being about as ignorant of the topography
of the trenches as of the interior of Sebastopol,
stumbled on the wrong regiments, and ordered up the
first brigade of the Light Division, which had been
told off as the proper reserve. Evident, however, as
was the blunder, the gallant "fighting 7th," led on
by Major Turner, and the 23rd, under Colonel Lytton,
advanced to the renewed attack. The other regi-
ments, who should have preceded, followed in a slate
of beautiful pell-mell, and under a fire of grape and
icanister before which the bravest columns of the
Old Guard would have staggered, our young
levies—for such were three-fourths of the troops
engaged—were led on to regain the ground
which bad been lost through mismanagement before.
It was not, however, in human nature to make head-
way under each an iron storm ; the men turned,
and fled back under cover of the parapet, leaving
very many of their own number, and more in pro-
portion of their officers, dead or dying on this field
of death. Two young lieutenants, Wright and
Colt, of the 'kb, were amongst the killed, aid three
of the same rank of the 23rd. Major Turner received
a ball through his scalp—one of the narrowest
escapes of the day—whilst Lieutenant Alma Jones,
of fighting fame, was knocked over by a frag-
ment of a shell. Colonel Lyman carried away
a rifts bullet in hie leg, and only three
of all the remaining officers of these two crack
regiments escaped untouched. From the failure of
this second attempt, the attack became one of mus-
ketry-fire over the parapet, aided by the guns of the
Quarry andother batteries which bore upon the Redao.
Brigadier Straubenzee, commanding the Ist Brigade
of the Light Division, tried to induce his chief to'
storm again, offering to lead the assault with the still
eager though shattered regiments of his own com-
mand; but Sir William declined repeating the
attempt at that time. Thence on till desk, we
waged a futile war of musketry and artillery fire,which
was vigorously replied to by the enemy, and night
closed upon our men, discouraged and humbled that,
through mismanagement on the part of those with
whom lay the direction of the assault, they had tailed
while the French had triumphed. It mewed as if we
were again to reap the bitter experiasse (staled on
as by similar causes on the 18th of haw, atter hav-
ing lost, in killed and wounded, nearly half the
number of men, and much more than that proportion
of officers, of the whole force engaged. The Russian
apothegm of "an army of lions led on by donkies,"

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