THE 17TII OF OCTOBER. 405 that special service:* and I know of no ground chap • XIII for supposing that any one man engaged at the L land defences was either withdrawn from his post or otherwise disturbed in his task by the stress of the sea cannonade. In proportion to the immense artillery -power which the two fleets exerted, the loss they inflicted upon the enemy was small. Under the fire of 1100 ships' guns, and these so diligently served that from two ships alone, there were hurled between 6000 and 7000 shot, no more than 138 of the Russians were either killed, wounded, or bruised.^f* The Allies suffered more. Besides the two English ships which were so crippled that they had to be sent back to Constantinople to be refitted, there were many that sustained great damage. The Ville de Paris, the Erench Ad- miral's flag-ship, received fifty shots in her hull ; and a shell bursting under the poop made such havoc in that part of the ship that nine of the oBRcers of Hamelin's Staff there standing near their chief were either killed or wounded. In- deed, the Admiral himself, and Rear -Admiral Bouet-Willaumez, the Chief of his Staff, were the •only two of the group who remained unstricken.| In killed and wounded (without including the Turks, whose losses remained unrecorded) the Allies lost 520 men ; 203 French, and 317 English. But it was not only in men and material that
- Ante, footnote, p. 280. + Todleben, p. 336.
J Relation du Contre-Amiral Bouet-Willaumez, inserted in Bazancouit, p. 332.
