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 214 EFFECT PRODUCED BY THE CHAP. General Cannon pressed him hard — for some time XIII 1_ in vain ; but at length the Pasha yielded, upon condition that the English General would give him a written warranty certifying the wisdom of the step. On the third day after the battle, Prince Gort- schakoff came up with a force which was said to number some sixty or seventy thousand men. He had been set free by the raising of the siege of Silistria, and he now appeared upon one of the ranges of hills looking down upon Giurgevo from the north-west. It seemed that he meant to cover over the stain of the defeat sustained at Giurgevo by driving the Turks back into the river ; but before he camped for the night the British flag was already in the waters beneath him. Lieutenant Glyn of the Britannia, with the young Prince Leiningen under him, and thirty seamen accompanied by a like number of sappers, had come up by land, and now took the command of some gunboats already in this part of the river. Glyn quickly carried his gunboats into the narrow loopstream which escapes from the main of the river above Giurgevo and meets it again lower down. By this movement Glyn thrust his gunboats into the interval which divided the Pussian aiiny from the Turks,* Gort- • A critic used language which might seem to throw doubt on the above narrative of Lieutenant Gl^'n's operations. So proof may be useful. In a letter now before me, Lieutenant (now Captain) Gli'u writes: — 'lie immediately threw across a
 * large force, and ordered me to hold the creek between Slo-