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London, England, 1855-09-14 00:00:00

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GP;NEBAT: SIR G.EOROE IMOTVN ON TEE
b 14PTURE OF SEBASTOPOL.
The dinner to G-tieeral Sir.Geerge -Brown; by his fele
low-townsmen iu Elgin, to which we refer! et: the other
day, came off on Tuesday with great (eat. Nearly :1300
of the most influential noblemen- and gentlemen in the
north of Scotland were present. Provost Gratit, the
chief inagietrete of the Burgh, performed the duties Of
chairman ; and amongst the company were his Highness
the Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duke of Rich-
mond, the Earl of March, Admiral Duff, Sir -Alex. P.
3 Cumming, Mr. Cumming Eruce, M.P., the Hon. T. C.
Bruce, the Hon. Lewis Grant, Colonel Marshall, Capt.
Maitland, &c.
After the usual preliminary toast,
! - The PROvosT said—Mr. Croupier, -my Lords, -and
' Gentlemen,.l -have now tlea honour and the greatest
possible planstire in'proposing to you the toast-of the
evening, "The- health of General Sir George Brown."
Gentlemen, however rnuch.l may fail in doing that.jeze-:
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-countrymen 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 light 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, long ago 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 pert, during wars which
are now about being considered as belengine to a past
age ; but so soon as the present war bad been declared
he was among 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 landing 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 Gene; al the moment he got upon
his legs was, "Forward, brave 231, and I will lead
you !" and he led -them to' vieCerfaccerdingly. His
Cemmander-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 snore glorious and bloody
battle of Inlternian, it i 3 difficult for 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, nthough 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, wo have marshall'd our clans,
Their swords altlu.' thousands, their bosoms are one ;
They are true to the last of their blood and their breath,
Aue like reapers descend to the harvest of death.
Than 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 Laker-
man, where British valour and prowess were so conspi-
cuously shown, and before the mantle of night had been
withdrawn, an l where

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" 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 his indivi
dual resolve, be w, uld have loudly exclaimed—
" Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their

gore,
Like ocean weeds heap'l on the gn 7.f-beaten shore,
I, untainted by flight or by chains,
While the kindling of life in wy bosom remains,
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Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low,

With my back to the field, and my feet to the foe;
And leavin4 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 brave troops more im-
mediately under his command, although stunned awhile,
were not dkpirited, but rushed anew upon the foe, to
avenge the temporary fall of their leader. In this con-
flict the British forces, although numbering at the out-
set only about 8,000 effective men, withstood fer six
hours the determined awl successive attacks of 60,000
Russians, who were at last finally repulsed with a loss
of net less than 15,000 men in bided 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 asaured, is as sincerely
lameuted by the men whom be commanded as we rejoice
in his safe return. (Cheers.) He is not only an honour
to his country, and to Shotehmen, and his fellow-citizens
of this ancient Royal burgh more particularly, but a
pattern to all to imitate ; and one, the incident, 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-
siasm sub,iding, he said— Mr. Chairman and gentleman,
I rise, I assure you, with great diffidence, because, posi-
tively my friend here did appear to me t i greatly over-
rate and exaggerate my services. (' No, no.") I assure
you, gentlemen, I have dune notating more than carry out
the orders and instruction.; 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 had upon earth. (Cheers.) Lord Raglan
—(anplause)—was always so kind and considerate to
everybody, and particularly so to me, he 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 aloes, 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 ender
ance have been and are above all praise—(hear, and
loud applause)—only, indeed, to he 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 some-
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
platpau to sustain our position there. We could not
leave our ground an( enormous material there to go out
and attaok them ; they would tot 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 ground, and the