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 APPENDIX. NOTE I. Extract from a Memorandum op a Coxversatiox held WITH Sir Edmund Lyons, which was made by Mr George Loch (lately Member for Sutherlandshire), February 10, 1856, and approved as accurate on the SAME DAY by Sir Edmund.* ' mund, had urged again on Lord Eaglan an immediate ' against it, and urged that regular approaches be made. ' He said it would cost them the loss of 500 men (! !). ' There was then little appearance of defences on the town ' side. It was stated that the Russian fleet Avould cause ' pointed to the IMalakoff Hill, then unoccupied, and ad- ' vised the immediate construction of a battery there, ' which would make it necessary for the fleet to take care ' of themselves. That a day or two after this he again Duke of Newcastle's letter on the subject, appears in the ' Invasion of tiie Crimea,' vol. iii. of the Cabinet Edition.
 * Immediately on their arrival at Balaclava, he. Sir EJ-
 * assault ; but Sir John Burgoyne represented strongly
 * loss of the assaulting troops ; on which he, Sir Edmund,
 * urged an assault on Lord Eaglan. By this time the Rus-
 * The earlier part of this Memorandum, with also the copy of the lata