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 284 BATTLE OF TllK ALMA. CHAP, into tlio wvuiil;- part (iT tlic licld — now slipped • from out of his hands. lie had no longer a he is carried gvasp of his ai'inv. A little later, he was seen the retreat- bomc along with tlic el)b, a dismal unit in the ing masses -i-vi t • -i i-i • •, ^ ^ throng. Lndued with a high spirit, and having a good deal of the pride which a man may justly take in his country so long as it is warlike and honest, he broke out into a loud, angry cry. ' It is a disgrace,' he said, ' for a Paissian soldier being maddened, partly by the defeat, and partly, as they say, by strong drink, fiercely answered his General, and told him to his face, in the hearing of the soldiery, that if he had ordered the men to stand, they would have held their ground.* To this depth of wretchedness Prince Mentschikoff fell in the nineteenth month from the time when, in the name of a mighty empire, and under the gaze of all Europe, he came down iuto the Bospliorus with commission to trample upon the Ottoman State. XXXYI. Tiie array of jMeaiitimc Evaus had been rc^"uined by the two annyonthe rcgiments dctaclied under Adams. The Scots (.'round they in- i • i iiiidwou. lusiliers had resumed their place in the centre of the brigade of Guards. The Light Division, re-formed, had followed the advance of the Duke of Cambridge. Sir Eichard England, pushing forward towards his right front, had taken up
 * to retreat ! ' An officer, heaiing his words, and
 * Chodasiewicz.