| Show affairs in the crimea blowing BLO bno MG LT ur OF FORT sant SAINT NICHOLAS sebastopol sevastopol SEBA feb 4 MY ir LORD marshal marshai Pe lessier lessler informed me a few dau dan days ago that this day fort nicholas would be d destroyed eyed and he sent seat again to say that at aej J clock p m the mines for this purpose would be fired the view over the whole harbor is well obtained from the tile interior lope slope of the redan hill and from other points vi within the lines the tile day was magnificently clear every sentry on the opp oste osle ste side could be seen every working party kalcl watched ed every soldier that was lounging in lit tile the sun occasional shot and shell were sebit from the enemy to ta the Karabel uala nala and the tile town but othe otherwise ruise nothing disturbed abe t ie usual appear appearance aLCe of quiet almost of desolation on oil our lle ile lie south side we looked down on oil tile the large ruined barracks in front on the inner creek of tho the dockyard dock yard the tiie quay and the remains of fort paul tile the spacious inlet from the harbor on oil our left be beyond ond which stand the roofless buildings of sebastopol sevastopol Seba itself there also aleo is the well remembered long line of pointed arches llie ilie casements of the llie interior of fort nicholas of which the embrasures embra in doulie double tier pointed to seaward and away from froin us it jolts juts out into the harbor built on an inner tongue of land fort forming asim a blin ir but m more ore outward defence for the sea ep vp oil on the north the scene and feeling of or expectation were of great interest for another anellier tangible tau giLle proof of power and s was to take place and pc pounds ands of powder ponder were in the several mines at A the hour named a burst of smoke dark and thick rolled from our left of th tha building it was full followed owed by another the tile heavy sound arrived lle ile tie lie stones stories were shot lito into the air and to the iea tile the explosions of the tile extreme right and the centre mingled at little intervals into one drifting cloud which veiled the destruction below tile the light of the sun played beautifully on the mass of smoke of or which the lower pat pa t lay long and heavily oil on its vict victim lin the breez breeza passing it away over the remains of the town showed bowed that a low line of ruin was all that remained of the pride of fort nicholas lasand and one standing menace of the harbor lay buried bader under its waters the tile state of the decks has been given in detail in my letters lotters they are tire all destroyed while the eaith surrounding them is shaken into ioto cracks basin docks masses of broken granite capstans caps cOPS tins gates beams of iron and of timber are I 1 tumbled into one niss of destruction I 1 have ac IV J C 0 DR I 1 G e ua C 0 mg to lord Pul mure ac |
