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 AND rilEPAKIXG. 1 i i> The fact that this protest was coining may have c ii A P. pot to the knowledge of the Eussian Commander, _J — '-^ iiieuls and tended to govern his decision ; but the paper itself never reached him, for whilst it still lay ill the desk of the writer, Prince Mcntschikoff Mentsci.i- <rave wav* Without callim.' a council oi war, lie sudaeuiy suddenly caused it to be known that some twelve battalions should at once be detached from his field army, and suffered to take part with the gar- rison in the defence of the place. The next day, to the joy of Sebastopol, these Rdnfnrce- troops, with two other battalions besides, were brought over from the north of the roadstead; and from time to time afterwards, yet further bodies of infantry detached from Prince Ment- schikoff's army were sent to strengthen the gar- rison. Still, so late as the 5th of October, the forces Admiral Istoiiiin's defending the quarter of the MalakofF Tower were stratagem judged to be deficient in numerical strength ; and as though by way of a sailor's contrivance for bringing the landsmen to his purpose, Admiral Istomin, with the full concurrence of Korniloflf, imagined the idea of a ' sham fight,' which was to take place on the part of the ground thus judged to be wanting in strength. The proposed after his death, with this note by himself on the margin: 'This was to be submitted to the council which did not as- ' semble. Three regiments of Kiriakoff were given without ' this paper— 1854.' And in his journal he says,—' The Prince ' did not assemble a council, but gave us three regiments of the ' 17th Division.'
 * Korniloff's remonstrance was found among liis papers