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MARKET NEWS.—(Thi3 Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

Most of the provincial markets held on Saturday exhi-
bited but moderato supplies of wheat. The demand, how-
ever, for all kinds ruled inactive, at barely stationary
prices. Barley was very dull, and lower to purchase.
Most other grain moved off slowly, on former terms.
The French markets are still firm for wheat, but those in
Germany rule heavy for most kinds of produce. In the
United States, both wheat and flour continee to come to
hand very freely.
The receipts of English grain up to our market, last
week, were but moderate. From abroad, we received
14,394 quarters of wheat, 4,352 barley, 12,860 oats, 8,995
beans, 125 tares, 25,023 linseed, 7,740 rapeseed, 1,490 sun-
dry seeds, 1,754 sacks, and 769 barrels of flour.
The quantity of English wheat received fresh up to our
market to-day coastwise was very moderate, and by land-
carriage the receipts were rather limited. However -some
of Friday's unsold samples were on offer. The attendance
of buyers was far from extensive, and the demand for all
kinds of wheat of home produce was in a sluggish state.
Selected qualities were mostly disposed of at last Monday's
quotations ; but the low and damp parcels were the turn
in favour of buyers. At the close of business Kent wheats
gave way is to 2s per quarter, and some of the Essex
qualities were unsold.
There was a full average supply of foreign wheat in the
market. Good heavy qualities were held somewhat firmly,
at full prices; bat low samples commanded very little
attention.

Floating cargoes of grain were dull, but not cheaper.
The show of English barley was very moderate, of
foreign good. The trade ruled heavy, and prices were the
turn against sellers.

We had a slow inquiry for malt, at last week's quota-
tions. The supply was moderate.
There was a full average show of oats which moved off
steadily, at 6d more money. We had a good demand for
beans, at an advance of is per quarter, and peas mere
rather dearer.

The flout trade was inactive, but no change took place
in prices.

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Wheat—Essex t Kent,
Red • • new 539 to 703
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Ditto, White new 623 7Gs
Ditt0........ old -s -3
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Barley—Grinding .• •• • 303 333 i
Malting ......... 313 3isi
Chevalier.... . . 333 --,
Malt—Suffolk and Nor-
folk •• • ......... 74s 78si
Brown . • ............. 6,33 665,
Kingsto-nandWare 75s 78s,

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Malt—Chevalier .. 78s to 80,
Oats— Yorkshire and
Lincoins74., Need 18s 22•
Potato
Youghal. and Cork
Black. • • ••• 18; 21

Cork, White ... .. 203 24s

Scotch, Feed... • • 26s 3os
Beans—Tick .• • •..... 343 37s
Pigeons •• 3i 423
Peas—Grey .. •• •
Maple .•• • • ...... 353 3As
White... 293 423

Boilers • ........ 433 46;
Flour—Town-made... 63s tifis
Suffolk . •• . 48, 51s
Stooktir& Norfolk 47s ses

THE RUGELEY POISONINGS.

TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT (THIS DAY).

FIFTH DAY.

This morning there was more than usual excitement
outside the Court. Long before the hour at which the
Court sat, a large erowd had assembled outside to watch
the arrival of persons engaged in the proceedings. The
interior of the Court was also more crowded than be-
fore, mostly by the medical profession, it being known
that the proceedings would commence with the exami-
❑ation of Dr. Taylor.
Mr. Baron Alderson did not take his seat this morn-
ing, and Lord Campbell and Mr. Justice Cresswell alone
proceeded with the case.

The prisoner looked rather pale, and during the day a
strong nervous t xitching of the lower muscles of the
face bespoke the intense anxiety which he endured.

The jury having reassembled,
The Attorney-General called Professor Taylor, who
having been sworn, said—Nly name is .Alfred SWaine
Taylor. lam a Professor at Guy's Hospital, and a Pei-
low of the Cu/!ego of Physicians.
Lord Campbell—Let your statements be slow and
distinct.

The Attorney-General—You are I believe lecturer
upon medical jurisprudence at Guy's Hospital ?—I am.
The AttorneyGeneral—And author of a work upon
poisons ?—I
The Attorney-General—Have you amonvt your
stories upon the nature of .pois,:kris turned particular
attention to that cf strychnine ?—I have.
The Attorney-General—lt ia, I believe, the produce
of nux vornica ?—lt is.

AttorneyGaneral—And nux vomica contains, I be-
lieve, besides strychnia that which is called brucia ?—lt.
does ; nux vomica contains a'mut 12 of brucia to 6 of
strychnine, and the impure and not properly prepared
strychnine contains more or less brucia.
Attorney-General--So thpt unless you know the
purity of the article, you may be misled as to the strength
of the strychnine ?—You may.

Attorney-General—You have, I believe, tried various
experiments with strychnine upon animal life ?—I have.
Attorney-General—Have you ever witnessed an in-
stance of its action upon a human subject ?—I have not.
Attorney-General —ln how many instances have you
tried its effects upon animal life ?—Ten or twelve.
Attorney-General--What class of animals l—Rabbits.
Attorney-General—Have you found the symptoms
produced uniformly the same ?—Yes.
Attorney-General—What has been the quantities you
administ(red ?—From half a grain to two grains.
Attorney-General—Have you found half a grain suf-
ficient to destroy life?—Yes.

Attorney-General—ln what manner have you admi-
nistered it ?—Solid.

Attorney-General—And also liquid ?—Yee.
Attorney-General—Were the effects between that
which you gave solid and that given fluid different ?
They were.

Attorney-General—How long was that given in a
fluid state before it took effect ?—A. very few minutes.
Attorney-General—And how long that which you
administered solid ?—That which I gave solid in the
form of a pill or a roll did not produce any effect from
six to seven minutes.

Attorney-General—Do you find the time of its taking
effect infleenced by the strength of the dose ?—Yes, and
also by the strength of the animal.
Attorney-General—How does it operate upon the sys-
tem to produce the symptoms l—First by absorption in
the blood. It; then circulates through the body, and
especially acts upon the spinal cord.
Attorney-General—Suppose absorption to have taken
place, how long is it circulating through the body ?
The supposed circulation of the blood is once in from
three to four minutes. Through the whole system it
would be about four minutes. The circulation in the
blood of a rabbit is quicker. The absorption in a rabbit
would be quicker. The rapidity of the absorption also
depends upon the state of the stomach receiving it as to
whether there is much food to prevent its coming' in
contact immediately with the coats of the stomach. I
think it must be first absorbed before it will act upon
the nervous system.

tA torney.General—Describe the symptoms which it
produces—The animal for the first five or eight minutes
does not appear to suffer, but runs about as soon as the
poison acts. It suddenly falls on its side, and is seized
with a trembling of the whole of the body.
Attorney-General—What first causes the trembling ?
—A general motion of the whole muscular system, aris-
ing from the poison producing an involuntary contrac-
tion. Upon this taking place, the fore and hind legs are
stretched out with the head drawn back, and the body is
bent in the form of a bow. The jaws are closed and the
eyes are prominent, and protruding after a short time ;
there are slight remissions of symptom., and it then ap-

pears to be quiet. The slightest noise or touch pro-
duces convulsions or spasms, and the animal shrieks or
screams as if suffering great pain. The heart beats very
violently during the fits, and after a succession of those
fits it dies quietly. Sometimes it does not die quiet, but
appears to die during one of these spasms of the heart.
Attorney-General—What are the appearances after
death f—ln some instances, they appear to dif-
fer, but in general the animal is in a strictly rigid
state throughout. In one instance the animal
was so stiff after death that you could hold it horizon-
tally by taking hold of its hind legs, as I now hold this
book (taking up the Testament). It remained in that
state for a week. In the case of an animal killed the
other day by strychnine, it was fleccid at the time of
death, but became rigid about five minutes afterwards.
The witness, in answer to other questions, said—l
have opened the bodies of animals thus destroyed, and
found no appearance of the stomach being congested
and in one or two cases found congestion of the mem-
branes more than due to the gravitation after death.
The congestion, I think, is due to the succession of fits
the animals had. In three out of the five cases I found
no abnormal change. The heart in all the cases has
been congested.
By the Lord Chief Justice—The right side more
especially.
By the Attorney-General—l have seen, years ago,
a case of ordinary tetanus, but I have not had much ex-
perience. I saw a case of tetanus in the human subject
last ThurSday week, in St.. Thomas's Hospital. It did
not end fatally; the person recovered. I have heard the
symptoms of Mr. Cook described. These symptoms ap-
peared to me precisely the same as those which appeared
in the animals I have described. The animals have died
at variable periods. One died in 13 minutes and one in
17. Symptoms appeared more rapidly when the strych-
nine had been given in a fluid state. Death takes place
in about 17 minutes. The experiments I have made
lately have been confined entirely to solids. The symp-
toms appeared in the first case in 7 minutes, and
the animal died in about 13 minutes. In the next
case sy mptoins appeared in 9 minutes, and death occurred
in 17 minutes ; in the third, 10 minutes arid died in 13
minutes; in the fourth, in 12 minutes and died in 22
minutes ; in the fifth, in 10 minutes and died in 23
minutes. The poison would take longer to act on the
human subject. The pill structure would require to be
broken up iu order to bring the poi-ma in contact with
the mucous membrane of the stomach. In the case of
the rabbits I have destroyed, I have administered the
poison in the form of pills. I don't think we can draw
any inference between the death of the animals and the
human subject, because the circulation and absorption
are entirely different. There would be a difference
between one human subject and another. The
strength of the dose would also make a dif-
ference. In the experiments made upon the ani-
mals I have reproduced the strychnia. The prin-
ciple of extraction consists in putting the stomach
and its contents in alcohol mixed with a small quantity
of sulphuric acid to dissolve the strychnia. We then
get sulphate of strychnia, if any be discovered. Having
got the sulphate of strychnia, the liquor is filtered and
gently evaporated, and then an alkali added—carbonate
of potass. It combines with the sulphuric acid, and so
produces the strychnia if present. Besides this mode
of ascertaining the presence of strychnia, there are other
tests. Strychnia has a strong bitter taste. Another
test is that strychnia is nearly soluble in water ; it
is soluble in acid and in alcohol. It is precipitated
by acid when it has been dissolved in them.
The colour test is applied to the evaporations.
A mixture of strong sulphuric acid and bi-chromate of
potass produces a blue colour changing to a violet, then
purple, and passing to a red. These colouring tests are
very fallacious. When we have separated strychnia
in its crystaline state, we have recognised the crystals
by their form and their chemical qualities. You may
produce all the symptoms by introducing strychnine into
a punctured wound; it operates in that case more quickly.
'There are other vegetable substances which will exhibit
similar results after the Colouriug tests. A. mixture of
sugar and bile will produce the purplt red tint. A sub-
stance called phyrozantin produces precisely similar
colours as strychnine. I have known. cases occur
in ray own laboratory of persetis thinking that— they

' had strychnia when it was only phyro-zentin. A
small quantity of salucine added gives this mixture a
bitter taste. Vegetable poisons are more eliffiOult to
discover than mineral ones. In the rabbits I have
destroyed I have tried to discover the strength of
the strychnia in four distinct cases. I was as4isted,
by Dr. Rads.. I applied the process I have just de-
ecribed. I endeavoured to reproduce the strychnia if
present, and then applied those celeury tests I have
mentioned. In one case by .the colour tests I had
Oven two grains of strychnine when it was discovered
by the colour test in the other ease I had given one
grain. I attribute the absence of strychnia in some
of the cases to its absorption into the blood, and
therefore it would bo no longer in the stomach. It is
in great part changed in the blood. In some cases
there would be a retention of sems not absorbed
there being an excess of what was required to destroy
life. Supposing the minimum dose given I should not ex-
pect to discover any if it was required to destroy life.
There is no process by which I am acquainted with of
detecting strychnine in the ti,suee. Half-a-grain has
destroyed life, and supposing it to bo absorbed in the
eystem by circulation, I should find in the blood, aseutu-
ing that it be 251 b. in the human subject, there would be
1-50th of a grain to 11b. of blood. A physician in Ca-
nada died in 20 minutes from a dose of half-a-grain. I
believe it undergoes is partial- change in the blood. I
have never heard of its being separated from the tissues
in a crystalised state. The crystra!s are peculiar
in form. Toey present themselves in the form
sometimes of octahedra and quadilateral prisms,
terminating in four-sided pyramids. There are
other. organic substances which crystalise in a similar
manner. After Cook's death'l received a brown stone
jar from Mr. Boycott covered with bladder and tied and
sealed. It contained the stomach and intestines of the
deceased. I experimented on-it with a view to discover
poison. We sought for varnous first, prussic acid, oxalic
acid, morphia, strychnia, veratria, the poisons of tobacco
and hemlock. We only found small traces of antimony.
The parts sent us to experiment on were the most unfae
vourable that possibly could be to find strychnia, from
the stomach having been cut completely from end
to end, and all the contents gone, and the
flue mucous surface in which any poison, if present, would
be found lying in contact with the outside of the intes-
tines, all thrown together. On the surface of the mucous
membrane of the intestines there was feculent matter.
No doubt, in its journey up to London, it had been shaken
in every possible way ; the contents of the intestines
were also gone. If this poison had been in the system
I should have expected to have found it in the contents
and on the mucous membrane. At my request other
parts of the body were sent—the liver, spleen, and the
two kidneys, and in addition a small bottle of blood,
11b. weight—it was unlabelled, giving us no idea from
whence it was taken. We analysed all the liver and
kidneys for mineral poison, and discovered in one-
eighth part of the liver antimony. We analysed the left
kidney and the spleen—they all yielded antimony, but
the quantity was less in the spleen than in the other
parts. The blood also yielded antimony. It was re-
produced or brought out by boiling the animal substance
in a mixture of hydro-chloric acid and water, and cop-
per in a state of foil and gall was introduced into it
whilst boiling, and the antimony appeared on the sur-
face. We applied various tests to it—both the esta-
blished tests and others. [The professor handed in a
small quantity of the antimony so produced.] It is im-
possible to say with precision when the antimony was
taken by the subject, but it must have been
within a few days. The longest period I have
known antimony foiled in the blood after the parson hna
ceased to take it is eight days ; antimony within my
own knowledge has got into the blood in the quickes t
time in 18 hours. I found it in the liver, the boy hav-
ing died within 19 hours after taking it ; it was a small
dose, and was not the cause of death. It was about five
or six grains of antimonial powder. Antitraony is given
in tartar emetic. It acts as an irritant and produces
vomiting. Repeated doses would, notwithstanding the
vomiting, leave a portion behind and that would find its
way into the system. It is often given in minute doses
with impunity, and it might be given so as to produce
symptoms that would produce death if continued. I heard
from the servant her description of Mr. Cook's vomiting
both at Rugeley and at Shrewsbury, as well as the
accounts given by Mr. Jones and Mr. Gibson, and it
was such as that which would be produced from anti-
mony ; antimony is partly soluble in fluids, and does
not affect the colour of the fluid in which it is mixed, if
used in small quantities ; a quantity sufficient to produce
sickness would not affect the colour of toast and water,
brandy, wine, or broth. I should think the antimony
found in'the deceased must have been given within three
weeks of death—there was no evidence of any having
been given within a few hours of death.
By Lord Campbell—lt might have been administered
within a few days of death—in fact within 18 hours of
death.

Examination continued—Antimony to cause sickness
would not be perceptible to the taste. A large quantity
taken might leave a tickling or choking sensation for a
time. In the analyses we made we found no trace of
mercury. If it had been taken recently to the extent of
two grains, I should have expected to have found some
trace of it in the liver. If he had taken any for a syphi-
litic affection, I should have expeoted to have found it,
and if taken within a few hours of death, I should have
expected some traces of it would have been found from
its slowly passing through the body. Three or four
grains taken then, I should have expected, would have
been traced. I recollect finding it on the liver on one
occasion 24 hours after being taken ; half a grain had been
taken daily for four days previous to death. I have
heard the evidence relative to Mrs. Smith's death ; that
of Agnes Sinnett, Mrs. Dove, and the gentleman about
whom Dr. Moore gave evidence, and I coincide with
them in opinion that the three former died from strych-
nia. Mr. Cook's symptoms were of a similar character
to those referred to. As a professor of medical science,
I know of no other disease to which Cook's death can
lie attributed than that it, arose from strychnia.

Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Shee—The term
trace means a small quantity ; but I do not use it in
that term now. The whole which we found was about
half a grain. That would not cause death. The tests are
used for antimony after obtaining the deposit by boiling the
animal matter. Nothing but arsenic orantimony would de
posit upon the copper. We found no sublimate of arsenic.
We next used the test of sulphuretted hydrogen, and after
24 hours there was a deposit of a reddish colour, like rut-
phuret of antimony, and was soluble in hydra-chloric
acid. He then described the tests employed, which
produced a deposit, which, upon being (dissolved in
hydro-01106c acid, converted the black precipitate into
antimonial acid. An inaccuracy in the long pro•
cess or badness of the instrument might affect
the experiment. The antimony which I found might
have been taken 3 weeks before. I should think anti-
mony gets quicker out of the body of an animal than a
man. lam acquainted with the works of Orfile. He
was one of the most esteemed chemists. He makes
mention of a deg in whose body after it had lived 4
months, was found to contain antimony, but that dog
took 45 grains. That was a large dose, and
some of the dogs died who had taken the
dose. I never knew of a case of such a quantity being
taken. We cannot clearly tell when it gets out of
the body. I was first applied to about this body upon
the 21st of November ; it was by Mr. Warrington. I
did not know Gardner. I havo not had any previous
cases at Rogeley. Mr. Stevens and Boycott brought in
the jar with the contents of the stomach. I wrote a
letter in answer, giving my opinion of the cause of
death. The letter was here read, and went on to state
that the contents of the stomach did not give the pre-
sence of either strycbnia, prussic acid, or opium ; but that
the deceased might have died from the effects of anti-
mony. A man will vomit upon first taking anti-
mony—part will go out by the bowels and part by
the urine. Orfile inclines to the opinion that in from 4
to 17 hours it passes out from the urine. I believe I
was justified in coming to the opinion that Cook might
have died from antimony. The quantity found in the
body does not always prove the cause of death. Any
antimonial preparation, taken judiciously or injudiciously,
might have given the results of antimony which we
arrived at. James's powder, or any such preparation,
might have left enough in the system. The accounts
which I received of Cook's death guided me in the
opinion I came to, that he, Cook, might have died from
the effects of antimony.

Mr. Sergeant Shee—Do you allow yourself to be di-
rected in the opinion you arrive at by hearsay statements?
—A man may die from many sorts of poisons. The
learned professor explained that an account of how a
man died would tend to assist and direct him in the
analysis, but not influence the opinion of such analysis
beyond guiding him in the conclusions drawn, that the
symptoms exhibited by the deceased had been
caused by whatever poison might be traced. I was
not at the inquest on Cook at its commencement.
Some of the evidence was read over to me. Dr. Har-
land was being examined. I also beard Dr. Bamford,
Lavinia Barnes, and Elizabeth Mills examined. I had
not experimented on the rabbits before I went to the in-
quest. Five of the rabbits were experimented on
25 Tars ago. I had a great objection to destroy life ex-
NA in extrercp. cases. My last experiments_were made
lalter the inquest. I-don't consider a rabbit an unfair

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test ; dogs are not so good. They are not so dangerous
to handle. I think the rabbits as good as any animal, as
the poison is retained and the effects aro ►isible. I
attended the inquest and suggested questions. They
were put to the witnesses. I remember Roberts being
examined, but, I only paid attention to the medical part
of the case. I did not hear Roberts say strychatia bad
been bought, bat I knew it had been bought on the
Tuesday from Mr. Gardner's letter to me, and, it was
with that knowledge, and after hearing some of the evi-
dence, that I gave my opinion.

Sergeant Ghee—l think., my lord, we ought here to
have the witness's depositions read.
The Lord Chief Justice —Very well.
The Clerk tien road the evidence given by Dr. Alfred
Taylor at the inquest held on Mr. Cook.
Examination continued—l returned to town hum.•
diately after giving my evidence, .and the prisoner was
committed for wilful murder. I thought it my duty to
abstain from all discussion calculated to influence the
public mind. I wrote a letter to the Lancet cumtradiet.
Mg, some statements that had been made.

Tho letter was here read. It was one comp' &icing of
certain statements, and also rniEquotations t.Liat had
ben made from his evidence.

Tile court adjourned for a quarter of an hour..
Ou the jury returning to their box,
The cro?s-exarninatiou of Dr. Taylor was t' en pro.
needed with. The last portion of the letter Wii3 strictly
correct, and it was still his opinion. The mode. in which
the result of this trial will affect the accused is •of Minor
importance compared to the interests of 10 millions of
persons. He Lad no prejudice against the mss t, but ha
had a, duty to the community as well as to the
_prisoner
to peform.

[The witness was under examination when we. went to

press.]

THE MILITARY BOARD OF InITIRY.
(This Day.)

The Board of General (dicers met for the twenty.
third time this morning at Chelsea Hospital.

Captain Heath, R.&., proceeded to comment upon
certain passages in the report of the Crimean Commis-
sioneis, in which they stated that Colonel Gordon ita his
evidence before Sir J. M.Reil complained that Captain
Heath, as the principal agent cf transports, ha I
caused considerable inconveniences to those wh)
might wish to communicate with him, by living
on board a war steamer in Cossack Bay, orntside
the Harbour of Balaklava, instead of on board
a transport in the Harbour of Balaklava itself,
With reference to this paragraph, he contended
that as his duties were of a very various nature, and
that as he had a great deal to engage his attentiion be-
sides the mere transport service connected with Vats har-
boor of Balaklava, he could much better discharge his
duties on board a war steamer in Cossack Bay Ilium t
board a transport at Balaklava. And with rega rd to
any inconvenience to which the commissariat (Impart-
ment was put to by his being outside the harbour, he
begged to state that it took about five minutes for a
bat to pull from the wharves to Cossack Bay,
while messengers for the service were to be. met
with in plenty. With reference to a further
statement of Colonel Gordon that • the station chosen
by him (Capt. Heath) and sanctioned by Admiral Lyons,
was the means of creating inconvenience in the em barka-
ticas of the sick and wounded officers at Balaklava, he
begged to give that statement a complete denial, and to
hand in statements from the officers who had superin-
tended the embarkation of the sick and woun ifod, in
proof that every possible care had been displayed in tbat
service by him.
Col. Gordon said that everything stated by him to the
Commissioners was perfectly correct, with the exception
perhaps of some of the details of the navy, in which
Captain Heath had declined to furnish certain reports
similar to those which were supplied by his predecessor,
Captain Christie. He might be in some error en con-
nection with this matter, but with regard to tle em-
barkation of sick and wounded officers, he had been in-
formed that they had often been put to great ii monve-
thence by having to seek Capt. Heath outside the har-
bour, in order to ascertain what ship they were to em-
hark in. Besides, immediately Capt. Heath 1 eft an
office was, put up ou shore, so as to do away wii;h this
inconvenience. General Airey had spoken to Lord
Raglan on the subject, and he in turn to Admiral Lyons,
who promised to call the attention of Capt. Heath to
the subject, but he (Col. Gordon) could not say whether
he did so.
In reply to General Peel, Capt. Heath stated that he
had adhered to his instructions, and that if he had been
inside the harbour he could not have fulfilled his general
duties so well as in Cossack Bay.
A good deal of conversation followed between Colonel
Gordon and Capt. Heath, in the course of which the
latter complained of the unjustifiable manner jet which
Colonel Gordon sometimes wrote him ; and Colonel
Gordon, in reply, asserting that his letters were always
perfectly civil and proper in their tone.
Colonel Mackenzie was then examined by the Board,
and stated that he was often put to great inconvenience
by the absene9 of Captain Heath's vessel from Balstklava,
and he had known sick officers to be put to great incon-
venience from the same cause.

In reply to General Peel,
Captain Heath stated that he would have deputed the
power of signing orders for the admission of sick and
wounded officers on board transports, but that it was
unnecessary to do so, as there were transports its har-
bour who had orders to receive all wounded officers who
might present themselves.
Captain Heath repeated, nevertheless, that he hadi re-
peatedly seen such officers taken to the sides of trans-
port ships, and brought back again, because they had
no embarkation orders.

In reply to the Judge-Advocate,
Captain Heath admitted that General Airey wrote to
him, complaining of his position in Cossack Bay, but
that he (Capt. Heath) then spoke about it to Lord Rag.
lan, who approved of his conduct in remaining on board.
a war sbeatuer outside of the harbour of Balaklava.