The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-14 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S NEWS

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LAW INTELLIGENCE. (7'lllS DAY.)

BANK FtUPTCY COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN RE W. HORNE.

This was a meeting for last examination. The bank-
rupt was described as a railway contractor, and con-
tracted for public works of Queen-street-place, city, and
Connaught-terrace-square, Barnstaple, and elsewhere.
The balance-sheet commences Aug. 4, 1854, and ends
Aug. 2, 18E5, and shows debtor to creditors, 17,2231. ;
holding security, 9,273/. to Western Railway of Switzer-
land Company ; amount awarded them by Mr. Charles
Vignoles and disputed by me, 9,876/. ; creditors for rent,
rates, and wages, 113/. ; capital commencement,
61,6271 ; rents of property, 4871 ; profits on shares,
4/. ; liabilities, 8,666/. ; debts considered good,
26/. ; doubtful, 143/. ; estimate to realise, 2001. ; bad,
5,5511. (note a sum of 5,450/. of the loss on these ba-
lances was written off before the 4th of August, 1854) ;
property, 3,404/. ; ditto in hand of creditors, 8,721/. ;
losses, 9,773/. ; loss on bad and doubtful debts, 45/. Bs.
sd. ; loss by the Western Railway of Switzerland Com-
pany, which accrues to me under the award of Mr. C.
Vignoles, 72,805/. ; expenses of arbitration with the
above railway, 1,354/. ; interest on mortgage loan, &c.,
620/.; trade and travelling expenses, 816/.; law charges,
333/. ; outlaying charge on property, 253/.;
,personal
expenses, 254/.

No opposition was offered, and the bankrupt passed
his examination.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.

James Wm. Ball, and the lad Taylor, remanded,
charged, the lad with stealing, and Ball with receiving,
a quantity of copper plates, the property of Taylor's
master, Mr. Hammond, printer, Bread-street, were
again placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Wire.
No fur;;her evidence being forthcoming, the Alderman
discharged the prisoners for the want of evidence to con-
vict, although there could be no doubt they were morally
guilty.

Taylor was then summoned for purchasing marine
stores and neglecting to enter the same in a book ac-
cording to the act of Parliament.

Mr. Lewis appeared for the defendant, and took a
technical objection to the summons. The words
of the 480th section of the act stated that any person
purchasing old cables, junk, sails, iron, or other marine
stores, were liable to a penalty for not keeping a proper
account of such purchases ; but he contended the word
marine stores did not embrace such articles as copper-
plates, but marine stores, such as were used in the mer-
cantile marine.

Mr. Alderman Wire, having read the words of the act,
said he was disposed to take the words as bearing a wide
meaning, embracing old bottles, copper, or such other
articles as those persons generally dealt in.
The policeman 449 proved going to the defendant's
residence in Thames-street, where he keeps a shop, over
which he has written "marine store dealer." He had
examined the book produced by the defendant as the one
in which he entered his purchases, but he found no
entry of the copper•plates purchased of Taylor.
Defendant said he sometimes purchased goods which
he did not enter in a book.

Ball then gave evidence of his selling the plates to the
defendant. He did not ask him at the time his name or
address, nor make any entry in a book. He sold him
copper-plates on three or four occasions.

Cross-examined—The plates were sold in a perrect

state.

Mr. Lewis renewed his objection, urging the act was
passed fur the protection of the shipping interest.
Throughout the act "marine stores" were mentioned,
and according to Dr. Johnson " marine " referred to the

sea.
Alderman Wire said he should take time to consider
the point raised, and give his decision to-morrow.

GUILDHALL.

THE EXTRAORDINARY WILL CASE. —Mr. JOlin, Carter,
jun., of Bristol, surrendered to his bail, charged with
perjury, in proving a will of his late brother as his last
will and testament, well knowing a subsequent will was
in existence, whereby Messrs. Stuckey and Co., bankers,
of Bristol, had been defrauded of a large sum of money.
Mr. Clarkson appeared fur the prosecution, Mr. Parry
for the defendant.

Mr. Clarkson corrected a f firmer statement made by
him. The bankers would only lose about 4,0001., in-
stead of 20,0001., although the money advanced on the
first will would amount to that sum.
A conversation ensued, in which it was stated and
admitted that the second will was found in a box be-
lor ging to the defendant, but in the hands of the
testator.

Mr. Walter Fitzdavies, clerk to Messrs. Campbell
and Davies, solicitors, was in 1843 with Messrs. Short
and Strickland, solicitors, of Bristol, Messrs. Stuckey's
solicitors. Their hill-book stated that they handed the
will of April, 1846, to Mr. John Carter, jun., in June,
1848.

Mr. Lasburg corrected his statement relative to the
letter received by his wife. His wife received the letter
and opened it. Witness gave it to Mr. Hinton, his soli-
citor, who bad kept it ever since.
Mr. J. G. Hobbs, solicitor, Bristol, produced the
mortgage to Messrs. Stuckey. The gross amount ad-
vanced to the brothers under the first will was 13,7001.
Mr. Clark•on asked for a further remand, which was
granted, Mr. Jones, &gar merchant, 28, Moorgate-
street, being bail for 5001.

THE B INK O' ENOGAND.-INCREASE
OF THE RATE OF DISCOUNT.

The Bank of England increased their rate of discount
yesterday from 4 per cent , at which it was fixed on
Thursday last, to 41 per cent.
The step has taken the public by surprise, since, al-
though it was known that the demand during the past
week for discount at the Bank, as well as the with-
drawals of gold, had been much grea'er even than was
anticipated, it was assumed that the recent sales of
stock supposed to have been made by them were in-
tended temporarily to obviate the necessity for it. With-
in the last ten years there has been only one previous
instance of an advance of the rate in two consecutive
weeks, and that was in January, 1847, when the threat-
enings of the approaching panie were suddenly becoming
plain. Between the two periods there is no resemblance,
for at the present moment the trade of the country
is as sound and healthy as at any time on rec.:int.
Nevertheless, there is quite enough to justify a repeti-
tion of the unusual course. The Gazette returns of the
last and present week will doubtless exhibit diminutions
in the amount of notes unemployed and in the stock of
bullion, calculated to excite anxiety, but for the know-
ledge now afforded previously to their appearance that a
vigorous check has been applied. Little question seems
to be entertained that the instalment of 1,000,000/. ster-
ling paid yesterday on the Turkish loan will forthwith
be sent in sovereigns to Constantinople, and that during
the next five months the remainining 3,000,0001. will be
despatched in a similar manner. The Australian arrivals,
moreover, are still delayed, only 176,0001. having
been received out of 800,0001. that may be con-
sidered due; and, finally, the extraordinary firmness
of the corn-market in the face of a satisfactory har-
vest at home and of an unusual surplus in the 'United
States and Canada has disappointed all expectations,
and led to the transmission of large orders, accompanied by
specie, to the Danube andelsewhere. Under these circana-
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the remotest prospect of its suddenness causing panic or
even it.convenience in any quarter. Although com-
merce bas lately assumed increased activity, there are
no signs of undue speculation either in the manufacturing
towns or on the London Stock-Exchange, and the news
of the fall of Sebastopol has imparted a feeling of con-
fidence the effect cf which will be much more powerful
in sustaining trade than that of the present notification
in depressing it. There is, consequently, no reason to ,
depart from theconnvoitctpiord notulicaetaney dveryistthuirnbganweeil.l go on
smoothly, and that, even if further measures should be
requisite, they will
persons are disposed to believe that a return to 5 per
cent. will be adopted before the close of the year, but
the drain of specie has been so sudden, and has so evi-
dently resulted from a combination of unusual causes,
that it will be against all experience if an early reaction
is not witnessed.

Mr. Ellice, M.P., is entertaining a numerous party at
Glenquoich Lodge, among whom are Lord Stanley of
Alderley, Lard Seymour, Mr. and Lady Henrietta
Graham, ttc!

GENERAL SR GEORGE BROWN ON TILE
CAPTURE OF SEBASTOPOL.

The dinner to General Sir George Brown, by his fel-
low-townsmen in Elgin, to which we referred the other
day, came off on Tuesday with great eclat. Nearly 300
of the most influential noblemen and gentlemen in the
ncrth of Scotland were present. Provost Grant, the
chief magistrate of the Burgh, performed the duties of
chairman ; and amongst the company were his Highness
the Prince Edward cf Saxe Weimar, the Duke of Rich-
mond, the Earl of March, Admiral Duff, Sir Alex. P.
Cumming, Mr. Cumming Bruce, M.P., the Hon. T. C.
Bruce, the Hon. Lewis Grant, Colonel Marshall, Capt.
Maitland, &c. •
After the usual preliminary toasts,
The PROVOST said—Mr. Croupier, my Lords, and
Gentlemen, I have now the honour and the greatest
possible pleasure in proposing to you the toast of the
evening, "The health of General Sir George Brown."
Gentlemen, however much I may fail in doing that jus-
tice to the toast which you may wish and expect from
me, I feel assured that the assembling together of so
many noblemen and gentlemen as I now see around me
to do him honour will convince him how much he is
esteemed, how highly his services in the cause of his
country are appreciated by his fellow-ceuntrymen in
general, and in particular by the inhabitants of this an-
cient royal burgh, of which community he has been long
a free citizen in right of his respected father, who for a
considerable number of years presided over them as
provost and chief magistrate (or, as our friends in Eng-
land would term it, the mayor of the town), and who
discharged the duties of :hat office in a way most hon-
ourable to himself and with great advantage to the pub-
lic. It is, therefore, with peculiar delight and enthusiasm
that they hail his return to the place of his nativity,
loaded as he is with laurels so nobly won, and with dis-
tinctions so justly bestowed—a delight and enthusiasm in
which I feel assured every person in this vast assembly
fully participate. (Cheers.) It will not be necessary for
me to refer particularly to the many important incidents
in the successful career of General Sir G. Brown. These
are, in a great measure, londago matters of history and
familiar to many of you. I may, however, in passing,
mention a few facts which it would be improper to over-
look. (The Provost here went over the details of Sir

George's career during the last war.) Such, my lords and

gentlemen, are the important events in which our honored
guest took so noble and gallant a part, during wars which
are now about being considered as belonging to a past
age ; but so soon as the present war had been declared
he was afnong the first appointed to take an important
lead in it. He was appointed to command the Light
Division, and to be second in command to the Gene-
ral-in-Chief of the army, the late lamented Lord Raglan.
General Sir George Brown was the first general officer
to mount his charger. On the lauding of the British
troops in the Crimea, and when reconnoitering in the
neighbourhood, an attempt was made to cut him off from
the army, but he was rescued by a body of riflemen, and
a few of the Cossacks fell as victims to their temerity ;
and he was present when the first blood was drawn by
the British on Russian soil. (Cheers.) He was also one
of the first of the brave Generals who forced their way
to and carried the heights of the Alma, in the face of
showers of shot of all kinds from the strongly fortified
position of the enemy, and in his progress his celebrated
charger fell under him, pierced by no less than 11 bul-
lets ; but the cry of the General the moment he got upon
his legs was, " Forward, brave 23d, and I will lead
you !" and he led them to victory accordingly. His
Commander-in-Chief, in reporting to the Government,
expressed himself in these emphatic terms—" The mode
in which General Sir George Brown conducted his divi-
sion demands my warmest approbation." As to the
battle of the Alma, and the still more glorious and bloody
battle of Inkerman, it i 3 difficult fur me to command
language sufficient to convey to you my feelings in re-
gard to them, but something like what is described by
one of our national poets must have been flashing ra-
pidly across the minds of the Generals when their con-
tests were about to commence ; and, although nothing
but the cheer of the fierce onset was heard, their
thoughts, if I may judge from their boll daring and
heroism, ran thus :
" Bold northern usurper, we have marshall'd our clans,
Their swords altho' thousands, their bosoms are one ;
They are true to the last of their blood and their breath,
An , like reapers descend to the harvest of death.
Thou welcome be Russia's hordes to the shock, .
Let them dash their proud foam like a wave on the rock;
But woe to their kindred, and woe to their cause,
When Albyn her claymore indignantly draws,
When her bonnetted chieftains to victory crowd,
All plaided and plumed in their tartan array."
And on that memorable morning on the heights of Inker-
man, where BritLh valour and prowess were so conspi-
cuously shown, and before the mantle of night bad been
withdrawn, and where

" By torch and trumpet fast arrayed,
Each horseman drew his battle blade,
And furious every charger neighed
To join the dreadful revelry—"
if our gallant guest bad been asked what was hie indivi
dual resolve, he would have loudly exclaimed—
" Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their
gore,
Like ocean weeds heap'd on the surf-beaten shore,
I, untainted by flight or by chains,
While the kindling of life in my bosom remains,
Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low,
With my back to the field, and my feet to the foe ;
And leaving in battle no blot on my name,
Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame."
Somewhat in accordance with the sentiments cf the poet,

General Sir G. Brown did fall with his " back to the
field, and his feet to the foe ;" but we have to thank God
that his wound was not mortal ; and when he was led

away from the scene of battle the bravo troops more im-
mediately under his command, although stunned awhile,
were not dispirited, but rushed anew upon the foe, to
avenge the temporary fall of their leader. In this con-
filet the British forces, although numbering at the out-
set only about 8,000 effective men, withstood fer six
hours the determined and successive attacks of 60,000
Russians, who were at last finally repulsed with a loss
of not less than 15,000 men in killed and wounded.
(Cheers.) It is but right to add that in this last re-
pulse a division of our noble and chivalrous allies,
the French, came to the aid of the British, and
shared in the danger and glory of the day. The hero
on my right, whom we have met to honour, al-
though severely wounded at this battle, so soon as his
health was restored returned to share with his com-
panions in arms the dangers of the field, and only
quitted it when the state of his health compelled him to
do so ; and his absence, I feel assured, is as sincerely
lamented by the men whom he commanded as we rvjoice
in his safe return. (Cheers.) He is not only an honour
to his country, and to Scotchmen, and his fellow-citizens
of this ancient Royal burgh more particularly, but a
pattern to all to imitate ; and one, the incidents of
whose life will enrich the page of Britain's history over
the long series of years he has been so honourably en-

gaged in fighting her battles. (Hear, and cheers.) Let
us therefore fill our glasses to the brim and quaff them

to the bottom in wishing that Gen. Sir G. Brown may

long be spared to wear his laurels and enjoy his honours,
and in token of extreme respect for himself, as well as

for the way he so nobly co-operated with the Highland
Brigade in clearing the heights of Alma, let us give him
Highland honours—which was done with tremendous

applause.
Gen. BROWN, on rising to acknowledge the toast, was
received with repeated rounds of applause. On the enthu-

sias3m subsiding, he said— Mr. Chairman and gentleman,
I rise, I assure you, with great diffidence, because, posi-
tively my friend here did appear to me to greatly over-
rate and exaggerate my services. (•' No, no.") I assure

you!, gentlemen, I have done nothing more than carry out
the orders and instructions conveyed to me by a much
abler man ; and if I had failed to do so, I should have
failed in my duty. And more than that, I should have
failed in my duty to the most kind and considerate
friend I ever bad upon earth. (Cheers.) Lord Raglan
—(applause)—was always so kind and considerate to
everybody, and particularly so to me, be took me so
much into his confidence, and treated me in such a way
that I would have been something worse than a coward
if I had not done my best to obey his commands. I
think, however, gentlemen, I may do better if I leave
number one alone, and believe that through me you
wish to pay a compliment to the army at large. Gen-
tlemen, I can truly say that their constancy and endur

ance have been and are above all praise—(hear, and
loud applause)—only, indeed, to be equalled by their
conduct before the enemy, for British troops have never
behaved better than they have done in this campaign.

(Great applause.) I hope the news we have heard

this evening of the fall of Sebastopol will prove of
great importance, and that we shall be able to do sonic-

thing decisive, for hitherto we have been fighting with
one arm tied. We have not been able to move the army
because we depended on our ships for every ounce of
provisions, every morsel of forage, and every truss cf
hay we consumed. It was impossible to move the army
to pass the Tchernaya and march upon the Russians,
without leaving at least ninety thousand men upon the
plateau to sustain our position there. We could not
leave our ground and enormous material there to go out

and attack them ; they would nct only have got our
guns, but they would have obtained possession of points
of our position which we never could have gained
from them. They would have established themselves

upon the high ground in the way they previously
established themselves upon the low pro d, *ad the

clnsequence would have been that we should have been
besieged, instead of besieging them, in our own har-
bour. (Hear.) We have now got possession of the
• south side (there seems no reason to doubt)—we hove
now got possession of the south side of the har-
bour—which is, in fact, all the town, and our
*mops will be able with a small force to maintain the
road to Mackenzie's Farm. We can cross the Tchernaya,
and we shall be able to fight our enemy upon the open
ground, whereas before we could only fight them through
the town. (Cheers.) I may say that till now we were
tied by the leg. The Russian army, it must be remem-
bered, has frequently been very superior in numbers to
ours—mind you the Russians have not been acting in
regard to their army as we have been doing to ours, or
as any other States in Europe has been doing; for, while
we have been improving our civil institutions mainly,
egad they have been paying no attention to anything but
their army. Russia is the most gigantic military power
ever seen upon earth. She has an artillery never equalled.
Just let me mention, that while we and the French brought
up our siege trains, consisting of the usual four-inch
mortars, why, sir, these fellows brought against; us guns
which threw into my own camp shot of no less weight
than eighty-six pounds, while the size of their shells
also out matched ours. In this country of ours
we have fostered the spirit of freedom of opinion ; but
there is one disadvantage attendant on this. You meet
with people sometimes who think they know everything.
There are a good many who fancy they know other peo-
ple's business better than themselves. The consequenee
of this feeling is, that we have had more great generals
and admirals at the clubs and coffee-houses than we had
in the army and navy. It would be no very difficult
matter, however, to show that every movement which has
been made by that Eastern army there bas been good
reason for. (Hear.) Let me allude to one or two circum-

Gtances connected with these movements. The troops
were sent out without any specific plan of operations ; the
only thing they were told was to occupy certain lines at
Gallipoli, joining the Sea of Marmora, so as to inter-

c,pt the Russians coming down and retreating from
the Bosphorus. Having done this, the Russians in the
meantime crossed the Danube and set to work in be-
sieging Silistria. Omer Pacha was extremely anxious
that we should send troops to Varna. We have been
told that they were sent there to die of cholera in a
swamp. I tell you, gentlemen, there was no swamp at
Varna at all. Instead of a swamp, we had the most
beautiful ground you could imagine. It was like the
finest English park with the finest water you could wish.
(Hear.) Ido not consider, therefore, that we are indebted
to the country i❑ the slightest degree for the disease that
occurred there, and particularly for this reason, that the
troops who never bad been at Varna suffered more than

.
those who had been there. And there is another reason.
The sailors of the two fleets which had been lying at
Varna suffered twice as much as the troops on chore.
(Hear.) Remember also that by going to Varna we saved
Silistria. The Turks made a very gallant defence there
but it was not the defence that made the Russians raise
the siege of Silistria, and retire behind the Danube—it
was the presence of seventy thousand troops at Varna.
(Hear, hear.) We are further told that we should have
gone two months earlier to the Crimea ; but it so
happened we could not go. Omer Pacha's army
of 60,000 could not be left to the tender mercies of
150,000 of the enemy. (Hear, hear.) But another
reason was that, as we had gone out with no
specific plan of campaign, consequently the attack on the
Crimea was never heard of by the army till July, and
when we heard of it we knew nothing of the ground at
ail, nor even whether that was a place that we might land
at. The admirals bad no flat-bottomed boats, and such
as we got we bad to improvise. The only thing indeed
we had in this respect was the paddle-boats of the steam-
ers; and I need not tell you that most of our war steamers
having now reverse propellers have no paddles, and con-
sequently no paddle-boats. Our resources, therefore, in
this way were not at all sufficient, and we had to go
down to Constantinople to make provision for the dis-
embarking of the troops. We bought up all the caiques
of the country, and joined them together, and in this way
we made very good means for landing. (Cheers.) We
aro next blamed for the late period of the season at
which we landed ; but it should be remembered that we
could not leave Varna till the Austrians had taken steps
for keeping the peace in the Principalities. (" Hear,"
and cheers.) The next difficulty was connected with the
advance at the Alma. We are told that Lord Raglan
was very wrong in taking the bull by the horns ; but I
think be did quite right. He saw that if he got out from
the plain be had not sufficient cavalry. The Russians
were in such force iu the centre that the possibility was,
that they would have made an attack, and cut up the
two armies ; and I am of opinion, therefore, that rey
lamented friend did quite right in taking the bull by the
horns. We suffered no doubt deeply last winter, and
some people say that we should have done better if we
had attacked the north side at first. This, perhaps,
looks very plausible ; but if we had attempted to lay
siege to the north side, we must have had one army to
carry on the siege, and another to keep off the enemy ;
but independently of that we could not have safely ahan-
boned our position for two days, as we night have lost
the harbour, and thereby our means of obtaining provi
sinus and material. The slightest breeze raises such a
surf on that coast that it is rendered impossible for n
landing being effected at certain points, and the army, I
am sure, would have been lost when the gales of Novem-
ber occurred. lam not aware that there are :lily fur-
ther points in connexion with this subjecl; that I need
refer to. But as people are frequently asking me about
these things, I thought I might take this opportunity of
giving an anse'er to some of their questions. I have now
only to repeat my very grateful thanks for the honour
you have now done me—an honour which I could never
forget, even were I yovnger man than I am. (Cheers.)
Amongst other toasts was " The Allied Generals," in
proposing which

The Duke of RICHMOND said—Gentlemen, I trust that
you will not consider that I am intruding too much
upon your notice when I rise in obedience to the Provost
to propose the next toast. Gentlemen, I was trained in
Wellington's School, and I feel it right to obey all law-
ful commands ; and though I am well aware that there
are many gentlemen here who would perform the task
better than I can do, yet I can assure you there is no
man in this great empire who feels more deeply than I
do, that my present toast deserves the approbation and
heartiest cheers you can give it. During a longer war
we were unfortunately opposed to the army of France ;
yet the utmost respect existed between the officers and
soldiers of the contending armies, as Sir George Brown
will agree with me in saying. (hear, from Sir George.)
In the ‘lay of battle we did our duty to our country and
sovereign, hut the moment the battle was at an end, the
officers and soldiers mingled together to such an extent,
that at last the Duke of Wellidgton was obliged to for-

bid them communicating. I say this to prove to you
that war can be carried on in rather a better way than
the present war has been. To the officers in command of
Sebastopol—l cannot call it a sie,ge, for it is no siege
unless you invest the place in full—l give full credit. I
think their defence of that fortress has been most gal-
lant and most meritorious to them. It would have
gene down to history as a great feat of arms, but
it has been stained by the greatest of all crimes, that of
firing on a flag of truce. (Hear.) Gentlemen, I am to
ask you to drink the health of Generals Pelissier, Simp-
son, Marinora, and Omer Pacha. (Cheers.) I feel that
in doing this, it is not necessary that I should say much
to induce you to drink the toast in a full bumper. You
all know them well. The allies have done their duty—
they have emulated the acLievements of the army which

went before them. As a soldier of the old army I may
say that our present troops went as far, and perhaps
farther than their predecessors ; for though we never had
that dreadful disease the cholera amongst us, they have
not, on the other hand, had those long terrible marches
where we had to send our sick and wounded a hundred
leagues to head-quarters. There is one thing quite
clear : the British army before Sebastopol have proved

true in the field of battle—(hear, and applause)—and

that they have endured their privations with very
little grumbling indeed. I remember when the men in
my time had little else to do they grumbled ; but

next day, when work had to be done, they would lead
the storming party just as if they had never grumbled.
(Applause.) But we British hold that wo have a right

to complain ; sti:l, when we are called upon to come

forward to do our duty, there are few of tie who will re-
fuse. (Hear, hear.) Is this war there has been—and I
fear we shall still bear of more—there has been a sad
loss of life ; but I do hope and trust that the result of
the Russians evacuatirg Sebastopol will lead to a peace
which will be lasting. Let me say, however, that I for
one will never consent to a patched-up concern. tAp-
plause.) I say that the allies have shed too much valu-
able blood in the Crimea to allow any diplomatist to
mancouvre a peace. (Hear, hear.) I say that we ought
to obtain those guarantees which shall secure to the
civilised world the great blessings of peace ; and I con-
sider that any man who would agree to a patehed-uP
concern will deserve the reprobation of his fellow-mcn
Gentlemen, I propose to you the toast of the Allied
Generals, and beg to assure you that the only regre t
which I have felt is, that I have been too old to share
the danger. (Hear.) Nothing would have given me
in
greater pleasure than to have commanded a battalion in
Sir George Brown's Division ; and I am sure that though Sir George might have got better officers, he would, at
all math have felt that he h A
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