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duct as well as to their undoubted bravery. The test of
a soldier's conduct is not only in the town that he has
sacked, but also in the country in which he is encamped.
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soldier is as distinguished in camp as he is brave in battle.
I have, at various periods of my life, taken a deep interest,
like most of your lordships, in reading the records of the
great battles of my country ; but I cannot bring to my re-
collection one'which, in my humble judgment, surpasses
this in the distinguished conduct of the soldiers. I have,
stated, my lords, that these are not only my sentiments,
tint that they are likewise the sentiments of the Sovereign
(cheers)—as they are, no doubt, the sentiments also of
all your lordships. Her Majesty has been pleased to sig-
nify that approval by conferring a medal upon all the sol-
diers, and others, to be inscribed with the word "Crimea;"
and, following general precedents, clasps also are to be con-
ferred for the two great battles of Alma and Inkerman,
and those names shall in future be inscribed on the colours
with the names of those previous victories gained by the
regiments who have again distinguished themselves. It is
further my duty, my lords, to ask you to pass a vote of
thanks to the naval officers who rendered their assistance
and evinced the greatest devotion to the service of their
country and the moat honourable interest in the sister ser-
vice during the engagement. I know that no person more
than Lord Raglan and the soldiers under his command
feels how much the country is indebted to the navy for
their services on this expedition. I will not dilate upon
their services, but I have only to add that the seamen
and marines, as much as the officers of the navy, de-
serve your lordships' consideration, and I will ask your
lordships to accord a vote of thanks to them. There are
two other services which it is not usual to include in votes
of thanks of this nature, and I do not intend to ask your
lordships to depart from existing precedents. I cannot
forbear remarking on what is due to a large body of
seamen who are not engaged in her Majesty's service,
but who have zealously fulfilled their duty in this under
taking. I allude to the officers and men of the transport
service at the disposal of Government. Their services
were most indefatigable and deserving of every acknow-
ledgment. The other body of men to whom I refer are the
medical men of the army. I speak not now of the medi-
cal organisation, of which so much was said the other
evening, but let say, in justice to those persons, that
never were greater exertions used—never greater humanity
evinced—than by those medical officers. I will only ask
you to recur to the services rendered by Dr. Thompson.
He was left, under circumstances of the most painful na-
ture, on the field of battle ; net to attend to the wounded
of his own army, for they had all been removed and cared
for, but to a large body of Russians, many of whom
thought an Englishman little less than a devil, and were
prepared to murder the man who came to their assistance.
Ho attended to their wants, although left alone, and ho
bound up the wounds of hundreds under circumstances of
great danger to bis life. Nevertheless, he escaped safe
and came back to service in the cause of his' own army;
but it pleased Providence to remove him two or three days
after his arrival, partly in consequence of his extraordinary
exertions, and partly through the disease from which he
was suffering. (Hear, hear.) Although it is not according
to precedent to include such men as these in the vote of
thanks, it is not for a Minister of the Crown, under such
circumstances, to forget all mention of them. I am, how-
ever, about to ask your lordships on this occasion to de-
part somewhat from the precedents usual in cases like the
present. We are called on to accord a vote of thanks to
those who have served their country, but I regret to say
that there is a large body of those who left this country
high in expectations and confident of success, but who are
not now within reach of bur mortal thanks. Though
their names, my lords, are not on the list presented to
your lordships, I am convinced that theirs are names which
are not to be forgotten. in the midst of triumph deep
sorrow has been occasioned, and were I to look round
at present I know some are listening to me who aro bear-
ing the outward symbols of that grief which preys upon
their inward heart at the loss which they have sus-
tained. I think that your lordships would not con-
sider it unbecoming to depart from precedent so far as to
express our regret of the loss of those noble men, and to
vote words of condolence to their relatives. The noble
duke then referred to Sir George Cathcart, whom it was
impossible, he said, not to recollect on this occasion. I
have had the happiness to become acquainted with
that gallant and noble man by official communications,
and I never was more struck with the ability of any man
than that of Sir George Cathcart in his official correspond-
ence during the year and a half that he was Governor at
the Cape of. Good Hope. I had believed that that man
would have taken a kigh position by his abilities, and
would have been of the highest value to his country and in
the service of his Sovereign. (Loud cries of "hear, hoar.")
He now sleeps with others upon the hills of the Crimea,
but I am confident that their names will long be honoured
in the remembrance of their country, and will be handed
down on the records of English history. I rejoice, my
lords, that on this occasion we are able to extend pur vote
of thanks beyond the usual extent. We have had on this
occasion an Ally such as it has rarely been oar good fortune
to possess in any former war. (Hear, hear.) I propose to
your lordships that we should vote our thanks to that gal-
lant army which has shared with ours in its labours and
its triumphs, beginning with that eminent man who un-
dertook the command at the commencement of the opera-
tions, and including him who has so nobly succeeded him.
Marshal St. Arnaud, as is known to your lordships, left
his country to take the command of that army with the
conviction that a malady was upon him, and that it would
be impossible, in all probability, for him ever to return alive.
He showed the greatest devotion to the service of that army,
and I have it from various private litters of Lord Raglan
that he carried on his operations in a spirit of tho most
complete harmony with him, and indeed might have been
serving in tho save army or brought up in the same ser-
vici. Marshal St. Arnaud left, on the 7th of September,
the shores of Varna with the English. forces. In the course
of the short voyage to the opposite coast he became so se-
riously ill that an officer communicated to Lord 3.3.ap,1an
that it was impossible that ho could ever laud. He never-
theless rallied ; Ito mounted his h orse, and although re-
peatedly at the battle of Alma obliged to dismount from
his extreme suffering, he remained at his post, and pe-
rished, it might be said, in the houir of victory. General
Canrob3rt succeeded him in the command, and his noble
conduct and his frank and generous bearing have endeared
him to the British army as much as Lord Raglan. They
all respect his military talents—they admire him as a sol-
dier, they respect him as a man. Let messy that we pro-
pose to add to the vote the name of.' General Bosquet, the
second in command. (Cheers.) He' has been brought into
more especial contact with our troops ; he has served with
the English troops on our right, anti I can say from know-
ledge derived from the most auth antic sources that our
troops look on him as if he were a general in our own
army, and that they would follow him to victory as
readily as any officer possessing a.% present a commission.
Such has already become the go s-d feeling and affection
and concord between the two forces. I should also say
that I propose an equal vote of thanks to the French navy,
in a similar manner as to our own, for the distinguished
services which they have rendered, and the assistance
which they have afforded in all these operations. (Hear.)
Both the army and the navy of France being allied in the
same effort as ourselves, I am confident that your lordships
will feel yourselves mingling in t heir emotions of enthu-
siasm, and will as readily afford. your thanks to these
foreign officers as to your own. Now that I have made
this motion I will leave it in your lordships' hands. Were
it not that I am certain he is prepared to do so, I would
invite the noble earl opposite to second the motion which
I have now proposed. It has been: my fate, during the
two years that I have had the houtour of a seat on this
side of the house, to be frequently in collision, impar
congressus, with the noble earl. I am certain that,
upon this occasion, we shall be as 'completely united as
any two peers on this side of the touse. I invite with
the confidence that it will be accorded, his fervid elo-
quence to strengthen my feeble cowl so, to call on your lord-
ships to give this vote your most u manimous approval. I
am confident that yon will unanimmrsly record your admi-
ration and gratitude for services re udered by these united
forces who have added fresh lustre leo the military fame of
England and Prance. The noble clet2ce concluded by mov-
ing the following resolutions:—
" That the thanks of this house be given to Field Marshal
the Right Hon. Lord Raglan, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath , for the energy and
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"To Lieutenant-General Sir Geocrgo Brown, Knight
Commander of the Most Honourable 'Order of the Bath.
"To Lieutenant-General his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, Knight of the Most; Noble Order of the
Garter.

"To Lieuteuaut-Gonoral Sir Da Lacy Evans, Knight
Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

"To Lieutenant-General Sir Bias.] •d England, Knight
Commluder of the Most Honourable 'Order of the Bath.
" To Lieutenant-General the Earl cxf Lucan.
"To Major-General the Earl of Cal,iligan.
" To Brigadier-General, now Major-General the Hon.
James York Scarlet.

" To Major-General Henry John William Bentinck.
"To Major-General Sir Colin Ca? Lphell, Knight Com-
mander of the Most Honourable Ordcir of the Bath. •
"To Major-General John Lysagh.:t Pennefathor, Com-
panion of the Most Honourable Order •of the Bath.
"To Brigadier-General William J• o hn Codrington.
"To Brigadier-General, now M a jor-General Henry
Wm. Adams, Companion of the Most:.Honourable Order of
the Bath.

"To Brigadier-General, now Majtra-General Sir John
Campbell, Bart. _

"To Brigadier-General, now Major -General Geo. Buller,
Companion of the Most Honourable ( :irder of the Bath.
"To Brigadier-General, now Ma sor-General William
Eyre, Companion of the Most Honoii rallies Order of the
Bath.
"To Brigadier-General, now Maj or-General Arthur
Wellesley Torrens.
" And to the several other officers fc.r their zeal,intrepi-
dity, and distinguished exertions in he several actions in
which her Majesty's forces have bee a engaged with the
enemy..

,‘ that this house doth highly acl a towledgethnodeisirttihn. e
guished discipline, valour, and exertic cis displayed by the
non-commissioned officers and soldiers • f thearrayna
command of F.-M. Lord Raglan, in all 'the operations in the
Crimea, and that the same be signified. -to them by the com-
manders of the several corps, who is: re desired to thank
them for their distinguished and galls e .t behaviour.
" That the thanks of this house be gi':- veu to Vice-Admiral
James Whitley Deans Dundee, Cont, panion of the Most
Hon. Order of the Bath; to Rear-Aik .niral Sir Edmund
Lyons, Knight Grand Cross of the Mali :, Hon. Order of the
Bath, and to the several captains and: officers in the fleet
under the command of the said Vice-Al, 'lmiral, and also to
the officers of the navy and marines mut iloyed on shore in
the siege of Sebastopol, for their indefai .igable activity and
exertions in conveying her Majesty's land forces to the
Crimea, in effecting their disembarkm: Lion, and in co-ope-
rating with them during the siege of Se bastopol.
"That this house doth highly emir Are of and aeknow-
kelp the services of the seamen and i ai .rines on board the
',hips under the command of Vice-Adu ki ral Dundas, and also
of the seamen and marines employed , n i shore in the siege
of. Sebastopol, in their indefatigable a ci .ivity and exertions
lel"nveying her Majesty's land fore a i to the Crimea, in
~ueelentine their disembarkation, and iut co-operating with
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..inTo(ghluatrthiten,hgiathhe siege of Sebastopol, nes d that the captains
r the several shies do signify the same,' to their respective
i crews. and do thank them for their psi iseworthy and gal-
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