HA8ZARD’8__ GAzn'r'rn, NOVEMBER 1.

BATTLIIOI TH! ALIA. MARSHAL ST ABNAUD’S ACCOUNT" 0!‘ TH! BATALI.»

rum Battleef the Alma. Sept. ai. Sire -—tbe' edition ‘of your llsfity has spoken —we eve g a complete victory.’ It is a lorioue cg, stir. to add to the military annals of

NI”: urns to add to is victories which adorn the flags 0 ,.

army. .. t -= ‘ e ussiaas had yesterday assembled all their forces. and collected all their means in order to oppose the passage of the Alma. rinee cu- achikofl' commanded in rson. All the he" hts were crowned with redoubte and formidable at- teries. The Russian arm reckoned 40.000 bay- eneta, from all into oft e Crimes; in the morn- ing there srriv from Theodor‘ cavalry and I80 icons of heavy and field artillery. From the heig ts which they occupied the Russians cou eoeetssr Klan‘, by in , from the 19th to the moment when we srriv the Bulganac. On the 20th, frcui six "o'clock in the mornin , l carri- ed‘into operation with the division 0 General Boaquet, reinforced by eight 'I‘urkish battalions, a movement which turaed the left of the Russians and route of their batteries. General Bosqnei llIItltl_lIVI’0tI with as much intelligence as bravery. This movement decided the an o the ay. I had arranged that" the English should extend their left, in order at the same time to threaten the right of the Russians, whilst I should occupy them in the eeutre ;h ut their troops did not arrive in line until half-past ten. They bravely made up for this delay. At half-past twelve, the line of the allied army, occupying an extent of more than a league, arrived on the Alina. and was received by a terrible fire from the tiraileurs. In this movement the head of the column of General Bouquet appeared on the heights, and I gave the signal for a general attack. The Alma was crossed at double-quick time rince Napo- lean, at the head of his division, took pcsacsion of the large village of Alma. under the tire of the Russian batteries. The Prince showed himself worthy of the great name he bears. We then arrived at the foot of the heights, under the fire of the Russian batteries. There, sire, commenced a real battle along ali the line—a battle with its episodes of brilliant feats of valour. Your majesty may be proud of your soldiers , they have not de- snerated ; they are the soldiers of Austerlitz and one. At half past-four the French army was everywhere victorious. All the positions had been carried at the point of the bayonet, to the cry of “ Viral’ Empereur,” which reeounded throughout the day. Never was such enthusiasm seen ; even the wounded rose from the ground to join in it. On our left the English met with large misses of the enemy and with great ditiiculties, but every- thing was surmounted. The English attacked the Russian positions in admirable order under the fire of their cannon, carried them, and drove of the Russians. The bravery of Lord Raglan rivals that of antiquity. In the midst of cannon and musket shot he displayed a calmness which never left im. The French 1ines formed on the heights and the artillery opened its fire. Then it was no longer a retreat, but a root ; tlie’Russians throw away their muskets and knapsacke in order to run the faster. If, sire, I had had cavalry I should have obtained immense results, and Menschilrolf would no longer have had an army ; but it was late, our troops were harassed, and the ammunition of the artillery was exhausted. At six o’clock in the evening we encamped on the very bivouac of the ' Russians. My tent is on the very spot where that of Prince Mcnschikolf stood in the morning, and who thought himself so sure of beating us that he left his carriage there. I have taken pos- session of it, with his pocket book and correspon- dence. snd shall fake advantage of the valuable information it contains. he Russian army will probably be able to rally two leagues from this, and I shall find it to-morrovv on the Katchs, but beaten and demcralised, while the allied army is full ofardour and enthusiasm. I have been com- pelled to remain here in order to send our wounded un'd those of the Russians to Constantinople, and In P,-,,¢.m; arnmunllinll and provisions for the fleet. The English have had 1500 men put Mr: de com- bat. The uke of Cambridge is well. His Divi- eion and that of Sir G. Brown were superb. I have to regret about I200 men hora dc combat, 3 oflicere killed, 54 wounded, 253 sub-oliloers and soldiers killed, and 1083 wounded. General Can- rohert, to whom is due in part the honour of the day, was slightly wounded by the splinter of a shell which struck him in the breast and hand, but he is doing very well. Gen. Thomasson, of the division of the prince, is seriously wounded by a ball in the abdomen. he Russians have lost sbo t 5000 men; the field of battle is covered with their dead, and our field hospitals are full of their wounded. We have counted a proportion of seven Russian dead bodies for one French. The Russian artillery caused us less, but ours is very superior to theirs. 1 shall all my life regret not having had with me my two regiments of African chsssetirs. The Zouaves were the admiration of both armies; they are the tint soldiers in the world. ’ Accept. sire, the homage of my profound ree-

.pect, and of my entire dcvotednees.

Maitsiuti. A. or Sr. Aitrutiir

FURTHER Dli1‘AII.s OI-‘ -mu nA'1't'LE rue itussiuts nnoaarn.

regiments engaged against us, the timbers on the caps on ‘

12th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, and some of is] uerd. The Russian regiment consists of four battalions, and each bathlion may be said to be 650 stro The soldiers were mostly stout, strong men. of the regiments, 8 and 16th, for example, black leather helmet, handsomely mounted with brees, and lmvings brass cone , with a hole for the reception of n or plume ; others were simply a white linen raging cup. They were all dressed

in long ‘drab costs with brass buttons, bearin

the number of the regiment. These costs fltte loosely, were gathered in at the back b a small strap and button, descended to thee les and seemed stout comfortable prmenta, thougl: the in texture‘; the‘ trouae _ , of

your Majesty will have one name 1,

a_lcaf of dark brown bread, of a sour taste and disogreeeb_le_odour in his kite ck, and s linen loll. Golf-II1_uing a quanti o brown coarse stufl' broken up into lumps an large grains, which ll crushed biscuit or herd granulated

, This, we were told bythe

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St the br wit onions oil; the wder l|“¥§l.°"0"r\h'on; and i ‘ they . for dlyanwithcgt hfolod. sud;-em‘ !,- ’_geves4oavee_an more “Enid-‘lag-l’;lt-eta.‘ *.mde‘nsiog think they can keep togethcron such diet—end yet they are stron muscular mcnlenough. The

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surgeons-re -tht fieir tliiaelty '1 or ‘life W“ "17 Nmfltglv-, Many of ‘them lived with wounds celetrle it destro 2 or 3 ordinary

men. I saw one of

field just ‘nftoF"I‘li’é fi'ht. through the head, emf the large masses at the back of th

intent on _

He _was shot right brain pr-oi-ud

head and from

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oyed.tlf¢"0l§l'ItIofl inan raise his hand, wipe the horrible mass from his brow, and roeeed to struggle down the hill towards’ water! Many of the Russians were shot in three or four places : few of them had only one wound. They seemed to have an idea. that they would be-murdered: ssibly, the had been told no quarter would given,» several deplorable events took place inconsequenee As our men were using by, two or three of them were shot or eta bed by men lyinqlou the ground, and the cry was raised that “t e wounded Russians" were firing in our‘ men. There is is story, indeed, that one clfioer was severely injured by it man to whom he was in the very act of administering sucoour as he lay in agony on the field; be this as it may, there was at one time c. nenr chance of a massacre taking place, but the men were soon controlled, and confined themselves to the pillage which always takes place on a battle-field. One villain with a red coat on his back, I regret to say, I saw go u to a wounded Russian who was rolling on the earth in the rear of the 7th Regiment, and before we could say a word, be discharged his rifle right throu h the wretched creature's brains. Colonel ea rode at him to cut him down, but the fellow excused himself by declaring the Russian was ing to shoot him. This was the single act 0 inhumanity I saw perpetrated by this army flushed with victory and animated by angry passions, although the wounded enemy had unquestionably endangered their lives by acts of ferocious folly. Many of the Russians he sma crosses and chains fastened round their neckr. Several were found with Kornns in their kna cks—most probably recruits from the Kasan rtars. Many of the oflicers had portraits of their wives or mistresses, ofuiothers or sisters, inside their costs. The privates wore the little money they ssessed in purses fastened below their left knees, and the men, in their eager search after the money, often caused the wounded painful apprehen- sions that they were about to destroy them. Last night all these r wretohes lay in their agony; nothing con d be done to help them. The groans, the yells, the cries of despair and suffering, were u- mournful commentray on the exultation of the victors and on the joy which reigned along the bivouac fires of our men. As ny of our wounded as could be possibly ickcd up, ere darkness set in, were conveyed on stretches to the hospital tents. Man of the others were rovided with blankets, an covered as they lay in their blood. The bandsmen of the regiments worked in the most cheerful and indefatigable manner, hour after hour, search- in out and carrying on‘ our woun . ng after night had closed faint lights might be seen moving over the frightful eld, making the spots where friendship directed the steps of some officer in search of a wounded comrade, or where the pillager yet stalked about on. his horrid errand. The attitudes of some of the dead were awful. One man might be seen resting on one knee, with the arms extended in thc_i'oi-in of taking uiin, the brow compressed, the lips clinched—thc very expression of firin at on enemy stumped on the face and flxc-ll there by death : it ball had struck this -man in the neck. Physiologists or austomists must settle the rest. Another was lying on his back with the same expression, and his arm raised in a similar attitude, the Minie musket still rns ed in his hands undischarged. Ano- ther ny in a. perfect arch, his head resting on one part of the groundnnd his feet on the other, but the back raised high above it. Many men without legs or anal were trying to crawl to the waterside. Some of the dead lay with a calm, placid smile on the face,as though they were in some delicious dream.

Of the Russians one thing was remarkable. The prisoners are generall coarse, sullen, and unintelligent-locking men. Death had ennobled those ho fell, for the expression of their faces was altogether diflerent. The‘ wounded might have envied those who seemed to have passed away so pee e u y.

The so diers are all sheven cleanly on the chin and cheek ;,_onl the moustache is left, and the hair iscrcppe as close to the head as possible. The latter is a very convenient mode of wearing the hair in these parts of the world. The oflicers (those of superior rank excepted) are barely distinguished from the men, so far as uniform is concerned, but the crisis wore sashes and gold epsulettes. T e subsltsrns were merely a lace shoulderstra , instead of the cloth one of the rivates. ost of them spoke French, and the entreaties of the wounded to be taken along with us, as the oflicers moved up the hill were touching in the extreme. The poor fellows had a notion that our men would murder them, ifthc e e of the ofioer was re- moved from them. in old general.-who sat smiling and bowing on a bank, with his leg broken b a round shot seemed princ' lly cancer for the loss of his gold no -box. This, I believe, has since been res to him. The men say they were badly‘ handled, and had no general to direct them. enschikclflcet his head, in n figurative sense. The ulcers dis-

played great llantry, and the men fc ht wit fged‘ an

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a‘ do coura characteristic of he Russian in try, but ey were utterly deficient in clan sad ‘dash. I am not nits sure th

names I sent you per last list o the generals commending as correct, but I believe it to be now. Our oasis 2,196 killed and wounded;

two with - Siletiere. t ‘pole fohdof the men. fliey; as

the front of the skull. I saw with my own’ the

turning the

turnfl the l shod that the‘ Infill plsek the heights t y

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t use ectly under- it tnrrIed'b‘yl downri ht mi t have turned, ut refer the direct an oeetly attack to the atrstegyby which life might have been 1 We see in some journals attempts to answer such questions b remarks on the coin- peretivva slowness of lhtglish movements! We are told with expressions of admiration that the Englidi never quickened their step in ad- vancin , but marched as if on parade, whilst the be a fell in showers about them, while the more impreuimmhlc re ch rushed a inst theitflsdverasrles, and on fewer. This we take to‘ _be_ u_ gratuitous, ovrever ccmplimentar assumption. The French turned the left wit ai of Admirer Hemelin’s war steamers, which moreover were the cause of throwing to- wards the right the cavalry which could not advance on the left, a'nd_ thus of resenting to glish gross messes, which, aving little cavalry themselves, they could meet in no other way than the old downright fashion of going up directly to the mark. This ‘shows, ?o,lthst the English bore the brunt of the att c.

Tue Fitxrzcii than Patssrn IN has Bar-i-i. It so happened that twice or thrice during the action, the French were so hardly pressed that they sent urgent messages to us for aid, and our guns were directed with such good eflbct on a made of infnntr which threatened their left that the were relieved from all embarrassment, and one led to gain a position from which they rendered us material aid in return, by direct- ing their guns against the Russian reserves above the battery.

Mauuriicxrrr wear or run, Fnrivcu.--The French had to scale the sides of stoop ravines covered with dense masses of infantry, sup ort- ed by clouds of skirmishers; they’ had to c - her u rocky steeps‘defended y swarms of sharps ooters; they had to gain a moat diflicult position with quickness and nlncrity. Delay would have been fatal; slowness of movement would have lost us the battle, for without the French on the heights on our ri ht we must must have been driven across the A me, as they would have been swept -into the valley had we failed in carrying our batteries. Their energe- tic movements, their rapid flame-like s read from era to creg, their ceaseless fusila e of the deed rifle, were all astonishing, and pr.- ralyaod t e enemy completely. We. perhaps, could never have made such a rapid advance, or have got over so much ground in the same time.

_ Fnsrui. CASUALTIIS UNDIR riis Ensures’ Fine. ——The Rifles got over the stream in such loose order that they were wonerfully preserved, in s ite of the tremendous storm that rattled over I: cm. Col. Lawrence had his -horse killed under him. Major Norcott’s char or received no loss than five inortnl wounds. hen the 7th got out of the stream Col. You found himself und his men at once under range of the battery before they could form, and were obliged to ad- vance pell-mell it inst the uns. Poor Monok and liars soon fe I The co ours were lost for a time, for thrice did the enemy’: shot strike down the ofiicers who carried them ; but Capt. Pearson, Aide-do Camp to Sir G. Brown, nssed the last poor fellow who bore them. and c was enabled to restore them to the gallant colonel. They are torn to pieces with shot.

Tn: Ilrrnsar arzn [Rsvxxcx or: riiit Him..- The 30th, 55th, and 95th leftlong lines of dead behind them, and just as they came to the r on t u hill a sheet 0 lend passed througfii them like a sword. They were utterly broken u . It was necessary to retire to re- form; an the Russians, seeing their retreat. lea d out of the embrusure- and brenstworkr, an actually charged them down the hill with the bayonet. But few exchanges of the steel were made, probably not more than hnlfn-dozen bayonet wounds were indicted, and bitterly did the enemy repent his tqmerity. The shattered regiments re-formed, and drove the enemy like a herd of sheep up the hill to the shelter of their earthworks, and then sent them flying beyond the hill pursued by remorseless volleys of Minis balls.

Tiix Russians’ Mrs-i-ax: anour uni: Gh:.\‘It‘.ltALS-

,—The Vulcan brought two Russiun- prisoners ;

one is a young man of good family and education, who wu serving in the ranks as a common soldi- er, in order to win his position of otlicer by ser- vice, according to the Russian usage. He said he had been three months on the march from the neighbourhood of Moscow, and that previous to the defence of Silistria the Czar had entertained

_no fears for Sebaatopol, where there were then

scarcely any troops. Large forces had been sent o mm the interior at that time, and more were on their way, although they are likely to arrive too late. The other prisoner is s brigudier-gerie- ral, who will not disclose his name. He has re- ceived four wounds in the leg, and is not out of danger. He mentioned a curious circumstance. In conversation on the subject of the battle, it was observed by some one to be singular that. though the loss of English cflicors had been very great, yet no general oflicer had received a hurt. although they are conspicuous b a white plume, and the Russians con fessedly singled but the oflicere while the British were advancing across the river and the valley in a clear day and free from smoke.

‘he Russian replied that the Generals were not aimed at, because they are thought to belonglo the Cominissariat. n the continental armies, the higher oflicers are surrounded on all occasions b a brilliant stafl, but our own Generals ride atten ~

only y one or two ai The

were tlrerefcre ‘n this case indebted for their safe- ty to the uncbtrusiveuoas of their habits.

_'I'Hl IIILD AITII THI IATTLI.

The field of battle was crowded on the 21st with oflicers from the fleet, carrying flasks of andy and water, visiting the wounded; and iving them all the relief in their power. The cetcrs from the ships were on shore all night giving medical aid. So many soldiers from each regiment were told ed‘ to bury the dead: the Ros- aiens were buried outside the mounds; the Eu- glish and French inside. There was great a oil on the fleld—coats, dresses, swords, guns, ri ea, &c., I.c., and in some inetanceslarge sums of mo-

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