The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

THE AFFAIR OF ILINGOE UDD.

The Journal de St. Yetersbourg, of the 28th ult.,
contains the following :
In conformity with the instructions of the Eng-
lish Admiralty, the Commander-in-Chief of her
Britannic Majesty's Naval Forces in the Baltic has
claimed the release of Lieu tenant Geneste. This
demand has been refused. The grounds of this
refusal will appear from the following correspon-
dence :

vICE•ADMIRAL DUNDAS TO PRINCE DOLGOROUKY.
H.M.S. Duke of Wellington,
Near Tolboukhin Lighthouse, July 4.
On the 15th ult. I had occasion to address to the
officer commanding the military forces of his Majesty
the Emperor of all the Russias, at Helsingfors, setting
forth the particulars of an incident, which I consi-
dered to be a flagrant violation of the ordinary usages
of war, and which took place on the sth ult. at
Harigoe-Udd. I had reasons for believing that the
event in question had been brought to the know-
ledge of your Excellency by another channel. However,
the object of the present communication will probably
be still better explained if I take the liberty of subjoin-
ing a copy of my letter of the 15th, as well as a copy of
the reply for which I have t,t thank General de Berg.
On the receipt of this officer's letter, it seemed to me
that I was fully juAtified in submitting to him the pro-
priety of releasing the offic,rs and sailor; who are now
prisoners in his hands, and whatever opinion may be
formed as to the true origin, or as to the responsibility
of any misunderstanding which may be presumed to
have had place under the circumstances, I think every
dispassionate observer will be of opinion after the expla-
nations that have passed, that the object for which the
boat of her Majesty's ship Cossack approached the shore
of Hangoe-Udd, on the sth ult., was to set at liberty
Ri,siian prisoners who had fallen into our hands, and cer-
tainly not to accomplish any hostile or equivocal act
whatsoever.

However, I hesitated to address these representations
to General de Berg until I had been able to communi-
cate with the Government of her Britannic Majesty.
Having now received precise orders which authorise me
to demand the release of those prisoners, I have thought
it best to make a direct appeal to your Excellency, and
after the letter which you addressed to me on the 28th
ult., I take the liberty to enclose for your examination
an extract from the instructions which I have since re-
ceived from the Lords Corninissionerz of the Admiralty.
At the same time I ought to observe, in addition to
the remarks of the Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty concerning the occurrences in the Strait of Kertch,
that I made it my duty to inquire into the facts cited by
General de Berg as having taken place in the neighbour-
hood of Twarminne, and that I am in a position to deny,
in the most absolute manner, that any boat of a British
vessel i❑ that locality has used or abused the flag of
truce.

I also beg leave to pro9t by his opportunity to trans-
mit to General de Berg my thanks for the care which he
assure.: me has been paid to the prisoners since their
captivity; and I cannot persuade myself that the Go-
vernment of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias
will persist in retaining men captured in the act of set-
ting Russian prisoners free. Such a detention could
only serve to further exasperate the sentiments of animo-
sity which a state of war naturally produces, but which
it is the duty of every civilised nation to mitigate by all
the means in its power.