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 TIIK 17X11 OF OCTOliEi:. 379 the master, the surgeon, ami the paymaster. On chaP. board the Firebrand, too, there were five men -^^^^' M'ounded ; and amongst these was Captain Stewart himself. Loth the Arethusa and the Albion had to be Disabled sent to Constantinople to refit ; and indeed they AreUmsa Avere in such plight, that the chance of their prov- ""^ '■^'^'°°' iug able to reach the Bosphorus was judged to be dependent upon weather.* And those few guns on the cliif which thus beat Engagement off and disabled the Arethusa and the Albion were, London all this while, inflicting great havoc upon the Telegraph London. From the moment when the London ''"'"^" cast anchor, she was under a telling fire from the Telegraph Battery, but at first, though many shots struck, there were also some which missed. After a while, men gazing at the battery from the deck of the London saw an officer, quadrant in hand, exerting himself to obtain with mathematic exact- ness the proper angle of fire. After that, there was no imperfection in the aim of the Kussian gunners ; and as soon as the Arethusa and Albion had been disabled and beaten off, the fire from the cliff, which before had been divided in its objects, became concentrated with powerful effect upon the three remaining ships. Of these the London was the one which lay closest under the guns of the Telegraph Battery. So, against that battery as his real antagonist Captain Eden exerted the whole power of his port broadside ; but after a while, he was able to as-
 * Dundas to Lord Raglan, private letter, 18th October 185-1