The Press.
London, England, 1856-10-04 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

of the brigade (which I did by order). He also told you
that Captain Nolan was immediately killed after moving
off (ho was at the time riding about independently as a
staff officer). It was my duty to lead the brigade over
more than a mile of ground into the Russian battery.
Captain (now Lieutenant-Colonel) Morris followed me
into the battery in command of the 17th Lancers, and was
very soon after out down. Captain Oldham, who followed
me, also in command of the 13th Light Dragoons, was
blown to pieces on entering the battery. Of the two
squadron officers of the 17th Lancers, Captain Winter was
killed and Captain White (now Brevet Major White) se-
verely wounded and brought to the ground short of the
battery. Of the two squadron officers of the 13th light
Dragoons Captain Good was killed, and Captain Jenyns
(now Brevet-Major Jenyns. C. 11.) was slightly wounded
and had his horse killed. Captain Percy Smith had his
horse killed and was slightly wounded, and the three
remaining officers of the 13th Light Dragoons, Tremayne,
Jervis, and Chamberlayne, had their horses killed. Of the
remaining officers of the 17th Lancers Captain Webb was
mortally wounded, Sir William Gordon was severely
wounded, and Captain Morgan and Lieutenant Cleveland
( afterwards killed at Inkermann) survived. Captain Maxse
( now Brevet-Major Maxse), my aide-de-camp, was wounded
short of the battery ; and Sir G. Wombwell, my extra aide-
de-camp, had his horse killed and was taken prisoner for a
time ; and Captain Lockwood, my aide•de-camp, here or
later, was killed. Of all these officers it would be invidious
to state that any one distinguished himself more than
another. For myself, having led this brigade into the
battery, I pursued my direct course as leader—a course
which one horse could take, but in which a line of troops
could not well follow from the number of guns, limber car-
riages, and other impediments which stood in the way.
Thus coming upon a large force of Russian cavalry, I was
attacked by two Cossacks, slightly wounded, and nearly dis-
mounted. The survivors of the brigade all went about as
they came upon the masses of the Russian cavalry, and
retreated. The whole of the remnant of the brigade was
retreating at the same time, and a few minutes only inter-
vened between the retreating from the line of guns which
we had attacked of all the parties engaged in the affair, in-
cluding the supporting regiments which had come into the
affray in succession under their respective commanding
officers. I have further to observe that the confusion was
so great after passing the battery that the 17th Lancers and
13th Light Dragoons reversed their position in brigade,
and the remnant of them came out in the retreat on the
opposite side of the valley to that in which they had ad-
vanced.

It is with reference to a desperate affair of this na-
ture which I had the honour of leading that you have
considered it becoming in )ou, as a country gentleman and
a county man in Devonshire, and Conservative member of
a large borough, to rise in your place and utter a slanderous
insinuation against me which you are unable or unwilling
to account fur; and this after my conduct has been com-
mended in the strongest terms in all the official despatches
addressed to the Government from the seat of war.

I tell you that such conduct is totally unworthy of the
position you hold, and you may depend upon it that if your
constituents at Barnstaple were ultra-Radicals instead of
Conservatives they would reprobate your conduct. For,
be their politics what they may, the British public are al-
ways just and fair towards men who are placed in the ser-
vice of their country in positions of danger and difficulty,
and despise slanderous insinuations, from whatever quar-
ter they may come ; and those which you have thought
proper to utter against me on a recent occasion were
probably founded upon the calumnious statements of some
anonymous publications, which the respectable part of the
press were too generous to encourage by any notice.-1 am
sir, your obedient servant, CARDIGAN.
Colonel G. S. Buck, M.P., ttc.

ARCHDEACON DENISON, in compliance with the
declaration of the court granting him till the Ist of
October to revoke his errors, on the 30th ult. filed a
paper defending the Roundness of his doctrine, and
citing a number of Protestant authorities in its be-
half. Towards the end of the paper, the Archdeacon
remarks :

The defendant begs, however, respectfully to say that,
as it is not his duty to contend for language only, apart
from its substance—if it can be shown to him that the
language whioh he has employed in teaching the doctrine
of the Lord's Supper is, in one or more particulars, open
to just exception, as conveying that doctrine under any
aspect new or strange to the Reformed Church of Eng-
land—the defendant will be ready to alter his language to
such extent.