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London, England, 1855-06-13 00:00:00

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES PROM PUB ED-
MARSHAL LORD RAGLAN.

( From a supplement to Tuesday's Gazette.)
WAR-DEPARTMENT, JUNE 13.
Lord Panmure has this day received four despatches
and their enclosures, of which the following are copies,
addressed to his lordship by Field-Marshal the Lord
Raglan, G.C.B. :

Before Sebastopol, May 29, 1855.
Aty Lord,—Sir Edmund Lyons's telegraphic despatch of
the 25th, which was forwarded from hence on the morn-
ing of the 27th, and one from me that immediately fol-
lowed, will have informed your lordship that the Allied
expedition to Kertch reached its destination on the
morning of the 24th, and the troops having landed with-
out delay, and the war steamers drawing little water
having pushed on towards Kertch and Enikali, that
all the objects in contemplation were accomplished in
twenty four hours without any resistance on the part of
the enemy, who blew up the fortifications on both sides of
the passage and retired, thus leaving us masters of the Sea
of Azov, to be speedily occupied by a
flotilla. French and English

I have now the honour to lay before you a copy of the
report ofLientanant-General Sir G. Brown, commanding
the allied troops, and in congratulating your lordship,
c, your
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Imhoasvte cordially,
est egr
eat satisfaction in drawing on the complete success of the
attention to the promptitude with which the disembarka-
tion was effected, to the efficient measures taken by the
Lieutenant-General to ensure his position and attain the
objects in view, and to the just tribute which he pays in
his interesting narrative to the judicious arrangements of
Admiral Bruat and Sir E. Lyons, and to the zeal and
energy displayed by the officers and men of the Allied
fleets in carrying them out under their vigilant superin-
tendence, as well as to the cordial co-operation and assist-
ance of General Dantemarre, commanding the French di-
vision, and Reschid Pasha, commanding the Turkish
troops.
. -

I have not received any farther advicas from Sir G.
Brown and Sir E, Lyons.
Nothing material has occurred in front of the new posi-
tion taken up by the Allies on the morning of the 25th.
The enemy have made no movement from the high ground
towards the advance, but they have displayed a consider-
able force to-day on the Inkerman heights.
Convoys continue to arrive on the north side of Sebas-
topol.
I enclose a return of casualties to, the 27th instant.
A further portion of the Sardinian Contingent has
arrived, under General La Marmora's brother, the details
of which I have not yet received.—l have, &c.,
RAGLAN.

The Lord Panmure, &c., &e.

Enclosure 1.

Yeni Kali, May 25, 1855.
My dear Lord Raglan,—The expedition to this place so
far has proved entirely successful, and we have got pos-
session of all we proposed without striking a blow, and
almost without firing a shot.
On leaving the anchorage off Sebastopol, on the 22d, the
night became so foggy that the fleet made but little
progress towards its destination, but the whole of
the ships and • steamers reached the rendezvous, four
leagues off Cape Takli, soon after daylight on the morning
of the 24th, when it was s eedily determinedp. to run at
once in for the spot at which, as your lordship aware, it
was originally proposed to disembark, and which is a fine
smooth bay, round a low point running out immediately
under the village of Kazatch Bouroun.
The water in the straits is so shallow that large ships
cannot ascend higher than about three miles from this
spot, but the steamers and vessels in which the whole of
the British infantry and artillery were embarked, could
get at least a mile nearer to it.

All the vessels got as high up as the depth of the water
would permit, and came to an anchor about eleven, when
the English and French troops began to get into the boats,
and small steamers, which were assigned to them, towed
them to the shore, and the gun-boats and small war-
steamers were stationed to scour the beach, and protect
the disembarkation.

Although we had observed some six or eight pieces of
light artillery following us along the shore, no opposition
was made to the disembarkation, and the first of the
troops rerched the shore at ten o'clock, which, as soon as •
they were formed, were pushed on to occupy the village
on the rising ground bordericg the marshy plain, on
which they landed for the purpose of covering the re-
mainder of the disembarkation. As they were the most nu-
merous, and as your lordship had done so on a former oc-
casion, I placed the French on the right and the British
troops on the left, intending to hold the Turkish Contin-
gent in „reserve.

Soon after the disembarkation had commenced, several
loud explosions were heard, and it was soon discovered
that the enemy had blown up the magazines of all his
batteries on Cape St. Paul, and was retiring by the
road leading to Theodocia or Kaffa. It therefore
became exceedingly desirable that I should advance
to occupy the ridge of which the cape is the continua-
tion ; but as only a few of the Turkish troops bad got
landed, and but little of the artillery, I codtented myself
by requesting General Dantemarre to patrol to the cape
and towards Kertch, and took up the best position I could
find sor the security of the troops, and the protection of
the disembarkation of all the necessary material and
horses during the night, juPt before dark—which, in an
open steppe, where we were exposed to the attacks of
cavalry, was an operatien of some difficulty.
In the course of the evening, several more loud explo-
sions were heard, and it was soon discovered that he had
also blown up and abandoned the whole of his works here,
and along the coast between Ois and Kertch, and spiked
all the guns. He had also set fire to and destroyed
same large corn magazines in Kertch, as well as two steam-
ers in the harbour ; and the Cossacks, as usual, burnt all
the forage and farm-houses in their way.
As soon as the batteries on Cape St. Paul were aban-
doned, or soon before, some of the smaller war steamers
were enabled to round Cape Ackbouroun, and enter the
Bay of Bertch, when they engaged and endeavoured
to cut off some of the enemy's steamers attempting to
escape into the Sea of Azoff. They succeeded, I believe,
in capturing a small one, but the other two managed to get
through.
The disembarkation of horses, guns, and materiel went
on during the whole night, under the zealous and active
superintendence of Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart and
Captain Sir Thomas Palley ; but, with all this, there was
a good deal to be done at daylight this morning, and I was
ultimatelp compelled to proceed with only three of the
guns of the Turkish Contingent, and without any of their
offic !r.' horses.

Under the circumstances, bowaver, I considered it im-
perative to proceed, and the whole force marched off their
ground at six this morning—the French in contiguous
columns, followed by their artillery ; the British in
echelons of columns, covering their flank, and their
own artillery apd baggage ; and the Turkish troops
in continuous columns of battalions, covering the
rear of the whole, until they approached the
precincts of Kertch, when the whole of the troops broke
into an ordinary column of route. The town of Kertch is
clean, ancrremarkably well built, and the troops passed
through it with the greatest regularity and without the
slightest disorder ; subsequently the day became exces-
sively hot, and the march being a long one, the men suf-
fered greatly from fatigue and want of water, which was
only to be found as occasional wells. We managed to get
in here, however, by 1 o'clock, where we were soon after
visited by tho thee Admirals, and found a large aqua-
(lion of small steame's and gun-boats, ready to proceed
into the Sea of Azof, under the command of Capt.
Lyons, of the Miranda.
The result of these operations,lbesides the opening of the
passage into that sea, and the destruction of the enemy's
works, has been the capture of upwards of fifty of his
guns, many of them of the largest calibre and the bast con-
struction ; and if the enterprise has from circumstances
not added greatly to the glory of her Majesty's arms ,it
has, as already stated, so far been attended by complete
success.

. That success, however, is mainly to be attributed to the
judicious arrangements of Admirals Bruat and Sir E.
Lyons, and to their indefatigable attention in carrying
them out, as well as to the able and willing assistance
they have received from the captains and other officers of
the French and British navy under their respective corn.
man& ; nor must I omit to mention the invariable and
willing assistance I have on all occasions received in the
course of this service from General Dantemarre, cow_
manding the French Division, and from Reschid Pasha,
oommanding the Sultan's troops.
I omitted to state that, in passing through Kertch this
morning, observing that an iron foundry there had been
employed in the manufacture of shot and shells, as well :1
in casting Minh') bullets, I caused it to be destroyed, with
all its new and expensive machinery.—Yours,
G. BROWN.

Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.8.,
&c., &e., &c.

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and one of the Contracting Powers, these t wo States, be.
fore having recourse to the employment of force, should
place the other Powers in a position to prevent the ez-
tremity by pacific means.
Art. 2. The Russian Plenipotentiaries, and th-ose of the
Sublime Porte, will propose by common agreement to the
Conference the equal amount of the effective naval forces
which the two sea bordering Powers will keep up in the
Black Sea, and which shall not exceed the actual number
of Russian ships afloat in that sea. The arrangement which
they shall have made between themselves in this respect
shall form an integral part of the General Trealiy.
There shall likewise be inserted in the Treaty the means
upon which the same Plenipotentiaries shall have agreed,
with the view of controlling the exact and consttait obser-
vance of the stipulations of the present Article.
Art. 3. The rule of closing the Straits of the Bosphorus
and Dardanelles, sanctioned by the Treaty of July 13,
1841, shall remain in force, with the exceptions stipulated
in the following Article.
Art. 4. Each of the Contracting Parties which has no
establishment in the Black Sea shall be authorised by a fir-
man of his Highness to send into and to station in that sea
two frigates or ships of less force.
At. 5. In case (which God forbid !) the Sultan should be
threatened with an attack, he reserves to himself the right
of opening the Straits to all the naval forces of his allies.