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 436 APPENDIX. Port of Balaclava, he obtained the completest account of the wrecks that could then be furnished ; whilst from the reports of Colonel Dacres comTnaiidiug the Royal Artillery, and Mr Young of the Field Train, and from an examination of the Jura's bill of lading, he enabled himself to give the rest of the above-mentioned information. Note 19. — Lord Raglan to Secretary of State, 15th November — i. e., on the very morrow of the hurricane : ' I earnestly, ' he says, ' recommend that not a moment should be lost in replacing ' the ammunition. The Commissariat losses are very heavy, and ' lead Mr Filder to apprehend that we may be very shortly deficient ' in supplies of provisions and forage.' In his despatch of the next day he adds : ' I earnestly recommend that 300 rounds per gun, ' quantity of smooth-bore ammunition should be sent from Eng- ' land in a powerful and fast steamer at the earliest possible ' moment.' In his private letter of the same day (the IGth), to the Duke of Newcastle, he writes : ' The ammunition should be ' replaced instantly, the other things as soon as possible ; but the ' Mini6 should be sent in the fleetest vessel without a moment's ' delay.' Note 20. — Ibid., and private letters from Lord Raglan to Duke of Newcastle, 16th and 18th November. Captain Wether- all, a man of great energy and ability, was the officer charged with this mission, and the instruction he received directs him to ' purchase all he can get ' — Lord Raglan to Duke of Newcastle, 18th November. Whilst imparting to the Government his de- termination to obtain what ' warm clothing ' he could from Con- stantinople, Lord Raglan had the forethought to add : ' I would ' earnestly recommend that this should not prevent your Grace ' from forwarding from England a large supply without delay.' — Despatch to Secretary of State, 15th November. Note 21. — Ibid. 'He ' [the Commissary-General] 'will write ' to the Commissariat officer in charge at Constantinople to send ' up all he can procure in that capital. ' Note 22. — Lord Raglan to Secretary of State, 18th November Note 23.— Ibid. Note 24. — Lord Raglan to the Duke of Newcastle, 28th No- vember : ' Our horses,' he writes, ' are dying fast, but until we are ' sure that we can feed them, I would not recommend that they ' should receive any addition here. But horses might be sent
 * as well as large supplies of Miniu ammunition, and a certain