rOKESIIADOWS OF COMING TEOUBLES. 449 'bleak winds, licuvy rains, sleet, snow, bitter chap. ' cold. But cold like the cold in England is not l_ ' the worst of what may come. Once in some
- few years it happens that there comes a fort-
- night or so of liussiau cold.* AVhen I speak of
' " Kussian cold," I mean cold of snch a degree ' that if a man touches metal with an uncovered ' hand the skin adheres. I am not a strong man,
- and I feel certain that a winter here under can-
' vas would kill me. With that belief I have ' naturally determined not to pass a winter here.-|* ' Upon that, my mind is made up, so it is not ' on my own account that I am concerned : it is ' about the army that I am anxious. The army ' ought not to winter here. You are in the habit ' of seeing Lord Raglan. Somebody ought to ' speak to him. I do not like to speak to him ' myself.' It was obvious, of course, that the statement would be most appropriately made direct to Lord Eaglan by Mr Cattley himself, and I do not con- sider that his reasons for not taking the step per- sonally were well founded ; but, npon the whole, I judged that it would be wrong for me to dis- regard this appeal ; and having an opportunity the same day of conversing alone with Lord Eag- lan, I repeated to him the purport of what the
- Cruel as was the first winter endured by the Allied aimies
on the Chersonese, the apprehended contingency of a fortnight of ' Russian cold' did not occur. + Mr Cattley, notwithstanding this, was induced to remain nt Headquarters, and was not killed by the winter. He died, ■* think, at Headfiuaiters, in the summer of the following year, OL. IV. 2 F
