The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY

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trams in immediately essay arrivfmg at Kamen. It was Is
respect of what I believed to be the peeper form of sending
• flag of tree* that I did not take the ship into the Inner
roads, fur I believed that it was la accordance with usage
that the ship should stn y oat of per shot on such an Gera-
don. I stood into the bleed of Rue, on, about two sad a
quarter miles from the village oi Haag°, and theses seat
the boat, and I then stood off and oa to the same epos.
Reateinieg for this mane as the ordinary station for •
blockading ship, I believed that I complied with custom la
not hoisting a en of trace on board my own ship, but only
in the boat detached.
tad. The instructions gins by me to the officer in charge
of the boat wets to proceed with the flag of trues to the
letting place at the village of Heap ; say troops were
there to ask to commanicate with the r Seer in commend, to
explain the reason of the boat coming in—comely, to lend
the liberated Russian prisomen, and to ask leave to do so.
It no troops were there, he was to land the liberated pit-
mans at the Ludt g place, with all their luggage, sad to
rehire on board without clay. He was at liberty is the
latter ease to allow the officers' Stewart. a to porch on any
article offered at the boat by the villagers, provided that no
detentiou of the blot was occasioned thereby. I also di-
rected him, sho II be be questioned as to the manner in
which the blockade would be enforced with reference to
masters, to captain tbe intentions sot forth in your memo-
randum on the subject, as clearly as possible.
Be was charged not to allow any one to stray from the
boat, sad also to be careful that to Wier, was done to pro-
perty at the landing-pl toe, ad none of it removed. The
position of the ship, and the Cantle of the beat from the ship
to the 1 tidies plan, was in full view of the telegraphic
station which overhangs the village, and the boat took about
three-quartets of on hoer to reach the shore. It was there-'
fore open to the enemy either to have warned her off by
firing with blank cartridge, or to order her off on her slo-
pe oaching within hail.
3rd. The boat wrs abseil two miles from the ship when
last seen previous to her landing, and less than half a mile
from the landing plan, there being a small rocky islet
which then shut her in from the ship.
4th. The flog of trees was first displayed when about half
way from the ship to the shore, or tether more than a mile
I from the shore. No blank guns or muskets were fired, but
the flag, which was on • boarding-pike was, by Lieutenant
Genestet orders, kept clear in a good position to be seen.
The officer in *charge could bays no reason to suppose
either that it was acknowledged sr rejected by the enemy,
as they were not to be seen, and the place appears&
deserted.
6th. But one matt, and he not a soldier (who ran away
as the boat approached), was seen from the cutter befalls ehe
reached the jetty.
The onions end prisoners had landed, and the baggage
was removed from the bon to the wharf before the troops
were seen. They mane out suddenly (rein behind a cover '
of some houses or rock, and rushed down firing their mus-
ket.. Before stepping on the wharf, Lieutenant Omens
gave the crew strict orders to remain in the boat, and to be
careful not to touch anything on the wharf. When the
Russians first appeared, he was on the wharf with the
other officers, rbeut four or live paces from the boat with
the flog -1 truce in his hand, which be immediately
waved, and called out flag of truce. The person who
headed the soldiers replied, that " they did not ears about
flags of truce there." The Finnish captain took the flag
from Lieutenant (none., waved and shouted in his own
language and in English, flag of truce."
6th. No assent coati be implied, ur otherwise, as no one
on the part of the enemy appeared till after the prisoners
were leaded, when they rushed out, as described in answer
No. 6.
In conclusion, I beg to state, that I was fully aware
from some vessels having been lately captured in
the neighbourhood, that there was a likelihood that
troops might have been sins sent down to the coast ;
but at the same time, I wee under the full conviction
that the coarse pursued was such as was usual,
and should have secured to the boat the protection due to
the flog of truce, wbett er the enemy in exercise of his dis
cretion, thought proper to order it to return without com-
munication or not.
On again interrogating the wounded min, I find that
the person who led on the enemy, and who spoke English,
was a'med will a musket like the resr, and ern probably
therefore set a ennenisenned nicer —I have, &c ,
(81Invd)ilas./. 0. FILIISHAWB, Captain.
To Rear-Admiral the a. 8. Den-
des, C. 8., ConimandleerlmsOhist

H. M. S Conack, Tolbonkin,
June 11, 1865.
Bir,—ln addition to the circumstances detailed in my
letter to you of this day's date, I have to report that cu
spin interrogating John Brown, the survivor of the boat's
craw, he suttee: that immediately on the soldiers appearing,
they contemned firing on the officers and liberated
p.ionen who were with them on the wharf : their
bet fire did but little injury, but as they approached
be saw first, Mr. Easton. surgeon, and then Lieutenant
°meets fall dead. He also saw the Finnish captain,
who spoke English, fall; and feels perfectly certain that
the rest were all shot, as be saw them falling indiscrimi-
nately. He s cdnfident that all fell. By this time the sol- '
diers, having approached within 10 or 15 yards of the boat,
were firing into her also, sad the whole of the men were
very soon stunk down. They then rushed into the boat,
and threw overboard several of the bodies, but finding
James Oliddon, though wounded, was not dead, they
hauled him on the wharf and bayoneted him. He states
that he was wounded early; that though faint, he had a
perfect perception of what was plug on around him,
and a sense of his own danger, which induced Rim
to feign dead, and also that he was twice dragged from one
part of the boat to the other in the h for arms, but,
fortunately, not pitched overboard. Glidd ,n was close to
him when he was dragged on the wharf. He conceives that
the whole 'title, from the time the *de iers first rushed out
until they filially retired, might have occupied about 15
minutes. He distinctly heard everything that w: s said
on the wharf by Lieutenant Omens and the Russians.
I may here lineation that the body of one of the
men found dead in the boat had two shots through
the kg, which he had had time to bandage with
• silk handkerchicf before he received two other fatal
wounds, in the abdomen and head.
I omitted to state in my letter ripening this occurrence,
that the following morning, when nulling the boat out,
Brown saw a number of men in the same dresses as those
who fired upon them coming down the telegraph hill; they
stoppel several times, turning round and pointing to the
cutter and the gig, which was approaching. I have, &e.
(signed) E. O. FANSZAWS.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. B,r R. S. Dundee,
Commander in Chief, etc. etc. fits.