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THE FIELD 
OFFICIAL LIST OF TIIF. KILLED AND WOUNDED ON THE 
IOtii INSTANT. 
The following is a return of the killed and wounded on 
board her Majesty’* ship Penelope, when aground and under 
the fire of Bomarsund Fort, on the 10th instant 
aeorgo Privett, *:,•<*! 20, wrtaln of the maintop, killed. 
'Diduium liarliiT, lived 22, ordinary, killed 
William Itobltwon, aged 23, private KM, wounded. 
The following is o Uafc of casualties on board her Mojesty’e 
■hip Uccla : — 
j anu ,. ffdl, n.-Mant engineer, 3rd class, wounded. 
Alexander T lirowno, A ll , wound of face. 
William OenrieM, A. It., wound- of face. 
All recovering W. H. Hall, Captain. 
Owen Carrol, of the Termagant, aged 23, ordinary, wounded. 
J Hancock, of the Bellcislo, aged 26, A.B., wounded. 
A French seaman killed belonging to the Duporrtf. 
A poor marine, of the Duke of Wellington met his quirt us 
in a very summary manner. TTe was lying asleep in a tent, 
when a round shot from the large fort fell into it, striking 
the unfortunate man on the chest. He never woke again in 
this world. 
Commauder Anderson, of the Cressy, ia dead. The news 
tame in by the Vulture, which has just arrived from the Gulf 
of Finland, and will return thither again as soon as Bhe gets 
out of the brig Harlequin some stores intended for that por- 
tion of the fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Mar- 
tin. The vacancy will doubtlessly be given to Lieut. Agnew, 
« Old Charley’s” flag-lieutenant. Commander Anderson 
was only promoted on tho occasion of Captain Foster s death. 
Ho did not ciyoy his rank long. 
SHIPS EMPLOYED IN THE CAPTURE OF BOMAIlSUND. 
Tho following were the ships employed in the reduction of 
Bomarsuml : — 
ENGLISH. 
Hogue 00 screw Capt. Ramsay 
Blenheim 00 screw ... .. Capt. Hon. F. Pelham. 
Ajax 00 Kcrow capt. Warden. 
Edinburgh 60 Ncrew Capt. Hewlett. 
Arrogant 47 screw Capt. Ydverton. 
Amphlon .34 screw Copt. A. C, Key. 
Leopard 1 > paddlo Capt. Gllmrd. 
Penelope ...... 18 puddle Capt. Coffin. 
Valorous 10 puddle Copt. Buckle. 
llcclu 0 paddlo Capt. W. H. Hall. 
Gladiator 0 puddle Cipt. Broke. 
K * nx 0 puddlo Capt. Clifford. 
fh tiling 4 puddlo Capt. Sulivan. 
Bulldog •• paddle Capt. W. K Hall. 
Gorgon 0 paddlo Com. Cracroft. 
Bualll.sk 0 puddle Coin. Hon. F. Egorton. 
Stromboli .. .. 6 puddle... . . Com. Robert Hull, 
Driver 6 puddle Act. Com. Lieut. Hon. A. Hobart. 
The Bulldog was the flag-ship during the operations. 
FKENCH LI N E-OF-BATTLE SUITS. 
Inflexible. 
Trident. 
8t. Louis. 
Tilsit. 
With attendant steamers. 
The steamers engaged, ranged in a semi-circle opposito the 
principal fort, Were two French steamers, with Valorous, 
Hecln, Amphion, Phlegetlion, Driver, Edinburgh, and Arro- 
gant ; four or five fired within 400 yards’ range. Sir Charles 
Napier and tho French admiral's divisions were anchored 
just out of range, in front of the fort. 
“Admiral Plumridge’s squadron was anchored out of 
range, on tho other side of the narrow channel, with plenty 
of water if they were required to come in. 
“ Tho following are the ships ongngod on the 1 5th of 
August : — 
English. Fnt-Kon. 
Edinburgh. DuperrS. 
Ajax. Darien. 
Arrogant. l’hlegothon. 
Amphlon. And another 
llcclu. French steamer. 
Valorous. 
Bulldog. 
Driver. 
Intelligence was received in London on Tuesday, under 
date Danteic, August 10, that her Majesty’s ship Basilisk had 
juBt arrived from the capture of Bomarsund, bringing Lieu- 
tenant Agnew, bearing the despatches relative to the event 
from Sir C. Napier to her Majesty's Government. The 
Imperial ateamor, the Heine Hortense, also arrived with an 
oflicer conveying the official dispatches to the French Go- 
vernment. 
REAR-ADMIRAL CHADS TO VICE-ADMIRAL SIR 
CHARLES NAPIKH 
“ Edinburgh, off Bomarsund, Aug. 12. 
“ Sir, — In obedience to your directions to give every aid 
from the four ships of my squadron named in the margin* 
to Brigadier-General Jones, to form a breaching battery, I 
consulted with that officer, who proposed to compose his 
battery of six thirty-two pounders of forty-two cwt., which 
guns you had forwarded in the Belleislo, when the following 
operations were undertaken : — 
“ Each ship having previously prepared two sledges, after 
a pattern made by Captain Itaiusay, for dragging the guns, 
fonr were landed on the morning of the 10th, to convey three 
guns and the carriages and the gear, with 150 meu to each 
sledge, under their respective senior lieutenants, the whole 
being under the command of Captain Hewlett, of my flag- 
ship, encouraged occasionally by their own captains. 
“ Tho situation selected for the battery from the landing- 
place was four and a half miles distant, over execrable 
ground, the greatest portion of steep rocky hills and 
ploughed fields. 
“At five o'clock the boats left the ships, erected shears, 
landed the gnus, and had them in the General’s camp by 
one o’clock. The exertions and goodwill of tho officers and 
seamen created much astonishment in the encampment of 
the French troops, who cheered them in passing, and on 
some of the most difficult ascents went in voluntarily ami 
most cheerfully to the drag -ropes, and gave their assistance. 
“On arriving in cump tho men were much exhausted, and 
lay down to rest and prepare their dinners, when on order 
arrived that they were to ornbark immediately, ns the Pene- 
lope was on shore under the fire of the enemy, and their 
ships might be required. The order was received with cheers, 
and, forgetting dinner and fatigue, they rushed down to their 
boats in three quarters of an hour by a short route, but close 
under the enemy’s fire. 
“ On the next morning the same number of guns were 
landed, but on this occasion with 200 men from each Bhip, 
as the parties the previous evening were much fatigued; these 
guns were in the camp by half-past ten. 
“ The bonds of the ships attended the parties, and the 
whole march was one of triumph over difficulties that pre- 
viously had been considered almost insurmountable ; the 
spirits of the men were occasionally excited by a dropping 
shot from the enemy. 
" It is unnecessary for me to expatiate on the merits of 
Captain Hewlett, the officers, and seamen, in performing 
this arduouB service, but to express my admiration of their 
great zeal and perseverance, as from personal observation on 
the spot you will have formed your own judgment. 
“ I liave, &c., 
“ H. D. Chads. Rear-Admiral, &c. 
“ Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K C.B., Sic." 
Immediately af er the surrender of Bomarsund, General 
Baraguay d'Hilliera and Mr. Grey, Secretary of the English 
Legation, started for Stockholm, it is supposed with a view 
of inducing the Swedish Government to join tho Western 
Powers. — 
Admiralty, Aug. 23. — Lieutenant John De Courcy A. 
Agnew, Flag-Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir Charles 
Napier, K.C.B., has this day been promoted to the rank of 
commander. 
• “ Edinburgh. — Donald Me. L. Mackenzie, Senior Lieutenant. 
“ Hoifuc — Tnomas Davies (B). Senior Lieutenant. 
'Blenheim. — George H. Clarke, Senior Lieutenant. 
''Ajax, — Walter J, Pollard, Senior Lieutenant." 
ADDITIONAL MEMORANDA AND INCIDENTS. 
(From various sources.) 
The principal fort surrendered on Wednesday, the 16th. 
The English flag was planted by Mr. Bogel, of H.M.S. 
Amphion, on the first Russian fort, amidst the cheers and 
huzzas of the combined fleet. The Bulldog got on shore ; 
she was got off by the assistance of the Amphion and Vul- 
ture. On Wednesday, the 0th inst., stores were lauded. 
In the evening a detachment of Russian Boldiers was observed 
in Praesto Channel. Some boats endeavoured to take them. 
The Russians made their escape, leaving five or six small 
boats in the hands of the English. There were many very 
narrow escapes. The ground was ploughed up in all direc- 
tions by shot and shells ; and it appears almost miraculous 
that so few casualties occurred among the English and 
French. The rifle practice of the French Chasseurs was 
admirable. After the Tzee Fort bad surrendered, it was the 
object of great curiosity. The sides of the embrasures, and 
tho opposite walls, were thickly dotted with marks made by 
tho rifle balls, which struck so closely and so quickly, that it 
had been impossible for a Russian to show himself and escape 
a wound. Several slight casualties happened, and one poor 
fellow of the Blenheim broke his leg. During the attack, 
Lieutenant Cameron Wrottesley, R.E., was killed. He was 
stooping down, in obedience to sigual, wben a shot, after 
striking the trunnion of one of the guns, bounded against 
him, inflicting a dreadful wound. His side was crushed, and 
his hands, which were folded together at the time, were tom to 
pieces; he died very soon ifterwards. The British camp was 
a strange scene, round shot and shell plunging and bursting 
over it ; some of the officers seated in their tents at break- 
fast, others making their toilets on dressing tables of granite 
boulders, 6ome writing letters on the Bame rude sort 
of table ; and although the whole affair was fraught with 
danger, yet it was the source of much merriment, some 
diving, as a ball whizzed over their heads, and popping it 
up again to resume their occupations, whether toilet, letter 
writing, or breakfast. The Russian General Bodisco is an 
old man, apparently eighty years of age. He was very 
anxious that the French general in chief should certify that 
he had clone his duty. General Baraguay d’Hilliera returned 
the Russian: general’s sword, and at the same time 
extolled the valour with which he had defended his 
trust and the prudence which had surrendered it 
when further resistance could have done no more 
than cause an useless loss of life. The Russian 
general then sent a priest to the officer in command 
of Praesto Fort, with orders to surrender. The order was 
obeyed ; thus the four forts of Bomarsund fell into the 
possession of the allies. As the Russian commandant 
passed the debris of the first round tower, he looked up and 
exclaimed to an officer, “ Oh, England, England, we did not 
expect this from you.” They had breakfast in the English 
camp, and were then marched three miles to the boats under 
the charge of Captain Sayer, Lieutenant Bent, and a large 
party of Marines with loaded muskets. At eight on the 
morning of the 16th, the prisoners, to the number of 118, 
were put on board the Termagant. A gallant exploit is 
told of Lieutenant Bytheson, H.M.S. Arrogant. This officer 
having been informed that the Russian mail, with despatches 
from St. Petersburg to the commander at Bomarsund would 
pass in a particular direction, determined to intercept it. 
He disguised himself, and, with an interpreter, conc .aled 
himself in a house by the roadside. After their night’s watch , 
they perceived four men w ith the letter-bags. He and his 
companion, armed each with a revolver, sallied out on the 
four Russians, and summoned them to surrender. The 
Russians gave themselves up. No public despatch, however, 
was found. Only private letters were in the bags. One 
of the officers of engineers, named Cowoll, unfortunately shot 
himself in the thigh whilst putting his pistol in the holster. 
The ball passed down the centre of the thigh ; but, luckily, 
missed the artery. Prompt medical aid was secured, the ball 
extracted, and he is now doing well. Lieutenant Bond, 
of tho Royal George, was accidentally shot while examining 
a revolver. When Penelope was ashore, a French boat that 
was carrying hawsers, &c., received a shot, that killed the mid- 
shipman and one man. Another account says, the Russian 
battery fired some red-hot shot, by which two men were 
killed and three wounded. One shot passed completely 
through the ship, killing a man, and then falling into a 
French boat, killing another. The names of the men killed 
are George Privet, petty officer, and Thomas Barber; and 
three wounded — Robinson, a marine, and two men of the 
Termagant and Belleisle. A liot shot having passed 
through a midshipman’s chest in the steerage, it was lifted 
on a shovel, placed on three cold ones, and allowed to expend 
its heat harmlessly. At night, on the 11th, the two men 
killed on board the Penelope were carried by torch-light to 
a small island, and the funeral rites performed : they were 
silently buried. In the morning a boat’s crew landed there, 
and erected head-posts, and planted some small five over their 
graves, and on a tree at the foot they carved the words, 
“ Woodman, spore that tree.” Before the capture of the 
Martello tower, it appears the Russians had all been in 
dulging rather freely in the spirit line, and were uncom- 
monly jolly. The medical officer of the Imperial forces 
was found hid under an empty cask in a corner. 
The interior of the circular fort captured by assault in 
the night presented to view a most appalling and disgusting 
spectacle ; everything was in the greatest state of confusion 
possible. The dead, to the number of sixty, were deposited 
in casks of lime water, piled all round, one above the other, 
and the stench emitted was suffocating in the extreme. 
Numbers of wounded men were strewn about unattended 
and seemingly uncared for, amidst piles of masonry, ammuni- 
tion, and dismounted guns An unfortunate mistake oc- 
curred among the advanced guard of the French on Friday 
night. A party of soldiers fired into their comrades, mis- 
taking them for Russians (they not having the right parole), 
and the mistake was not discovered before one officer and 
six men had been killed and several others severely wounded. 
In order to effect a landing the battalion of Royal 
Marines had been conveyed, together with the French 
marines, on board her Majesty’s ship Driver, to the north 
shore of the island at the back of the forts. By eight o'clock 
the work of disembarkation had finished, and the celerity of 
this operation must be considered most marvellous, for, in 
the space of three hours and a half upwards of 11,000 troops 
had been safely lauded in the forests of an enemy’s country, 
and where every opposition might have been expected, taking 
into consideration the nature of the roads they had to traverse, 
and the well-known guerilla practice of tne Russian rifleman. 
It reflects the highest credit upon all concerned, and must 
ever remain as a record of singular energy and rapidity. 
As each French regiment landed, they formed into order on 
the rocky shore, and marched through the thick pine forest 
and over the heights, their bayonets and red caps glistening 
in the morning buu. The centre wing of the army encamped 
for the night in and around a large village, at a distance of 
less than two miles from the tower which they were destined 
to attack. On the morning of the 11th the work of trans- 
porting heavy guns continued, and the sailors, with a band 
at their head, hauled away at these cumbrous weapons, 
marching through the village and to the camp of the Royal 
Marines. The first round tower kept up a fire at intervals 
upon them whenever in view. Sir Charles Napier, in a rough 
cor, drove through the encampment, and, with General Bara- 
guay d’Hilliera, arranged the disposition of the forces. 
A Russian spy was taken in the camp, in female attire, and 
a Russian officer, in the garb of a priest, ventured through in 
a carriage with a lady by his side. They observed his face 
newly shorn, and on putting questions he appeared confused, 
and drove away, taking a turn in the road leading to the forte. 
Two French soldiers rushed after him, but without avail, so 
they levelled their rifles, and have either killed or wounded 
this spy, the horse going at full gallop into the fort. 
At Bomarsund, as at Odessa, the Russians care not for a flag 
of truce. At Bomarsund a flag of truce was put out from 
a port-hole. General Baraguay d’Hilliera proceeded up to 
within ten yards of the fort, together with a company of 
Chasseurs as his guard. The enemy demanded two hours’ 
respite to bury their dead. The general gave them one 
hour only, and the use they made of this was to gain rein- 
forcements from the forts below, and to obtain a further 
supply of ammunition. The fire now recommenced with 
redoubled jfury, the shells being most effective in their de- 
scent, and the riflemen on the rocks poured into the embra- 
sures a deadly shower of bullets. The second tower to 
the east of the first was now compelled to come to its 
assistance, and sent shells completely over the 
besieged fort into the camp of the allies. At 8 p.m. another 
flag of truce was offered, and the Commandant of Artil- 
lery of Chasseurs rushed in breathless haste to the quarters 
of the Commander-in-Chief to inquire if the battery was to 
cease firing. He found the general in the village, leaning 
against some palings, conversing with a knot of officers. 
“ Cease firing ( ” he exclaimed with much gesticulation ; 
certainly not, sir. These meu have not respected the 
object of their truce, and they shall not receive the slightest 
consideration. Continue your bombardment tbe whole 
night long.’’ In order to take one of the towers, a detach- 
ment of the 20th Regiment and a number of volunteers 
of the Chasseurs de Vincennes came to the front and offered 
to march straight up to the fort. They went up, and entered 
the fort, and on their approaching the room in which the 
principal officer was, the Russian officer resisted, and drew 
his sword for mortal combat. The French Boldier gave him 
the bayonet in the ribs, and was about to fire when the 
Russian offered him his sword. Captain Wilmot, an 
amateur, late commander of the Harlequin, had a narrow 
escape of his life. On observing one of the forts hoist a flag 
of truce ho declared he would be the first Englishman in that 
fort. He approached, and was in speaking distance wil h the 
enemy. “ What are you doing here ? ” said a Russian officer 
to him in French — ‘‘Do you know the truce is in again ?” 
“ No !’’ was the reply ; “Then be off immediately, as I intend 
cannonading again ; but, on my honour, I will not fire on 
you if you make off as soon as you can; ” and so Captain Wil- 
mot marched off untouched. A private letter, which we 
have been permitted to see, thus graphically describes tho 
effect of Captain Pelham’s “ beautilul fire — " Three or 
four shots set the great stones visibly chattering, as I could 
mark by a pocket telescope ; one block then fell out, then 
another, then a third, fourth, &c., and these were followed by 
an avalanche of loose rubbish, just as you see macadamising 
stones pour out from the end of a cart when the back-board 
is removed.” This corresponds precisely with Mr. Oliphant's 
account of the material of the Odessa fortresses, except that 
a soft calcareous stone, or conci'ete of shells, is at Odessa 
substituted for granite, and we believe that this is also the 
case at Sebastopol. Be the facing stone, however, which it 
may, there is no reason to suppose the construction of the 
works at Sebastopol better than at Bomarsund or Odessa, 
or more capable of resisting “ the beautiful fire” of our ten- 
inch guns. 
OUR FRENCH ALLIES. 
Aland Isles. — One thousand Russian prisoners, forming 
half the garrison of Bomarsund, have been embarked on 
board the Cteopatre and the Syrfcne, in order to be taken to 
Brest. The other 1,000 prisoners were disposed of by 
Admiral Napier. Many Russians were suffocated in the 
Bomarsund casemates by the smoke of their own fire. After 
the surrender there were great rejoicings in Aland, and 
prayers were offered in the churches for Queen Victoria and 
tho Emperor Louis Napoleou. The fortress was found to 
contain ammunition and provisions for one year. 
Baltic. — Messrs. Dunbar’s noble new troopship, the 
Hougomout, of 1,000 tons, Captain R. J. Downes (late of the 
Poictiers), proceeds to the Baltic for the conveyance of 
French troops. In compliment to our allies, tbe Govern- 
ment, with the sanction of Mr. Dunbar, has altered her name. 
The Downs. — The French steam-frigate Indefatigable, 
from the Baltic, left the Downs on Monday for Brest. 
Turkey. — Notwithstanding the sickness which desolated 
their ranks, the French gallantly continued their march, 
and arrived in the neighbourhood of Kustendje about the 
1st of August. There, for the first time, they fell in with 
the enemy, who, having got notice of their approach, were 
falling back, driving before them an immense flock of sheep 
and oxen, and having previously destroyed all the standing 
