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.*
- Immediately on their arrival at Balaclava, he. Sir EJ-
' mund, had urged again on Lord Eaglan an immediate
- assault ; but Sir John Burgoyne represented strongly
' 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
- loss of the assaulting troops ; on which he, Sir Edmund,
' 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
- urged an assault on Lord Eaglan. By this time the Rus-
- The earlier part of this Memorandum, with also the copy of the lata
Duke of Newcastle's letter on the subject, appears in the ' Invasion of tiie Crimea,' vol. iii. of the Cabinet Edition.
