78 CONFERENCES OF GENERALS. chap, curred) could never be carried into effect with- IV ' out first obliging the Russians to loose their new hold on Mount Inkerman. General Canrobert and the French officers at- tending him 'did not consider his [Burgoyne's] ' scheme, nor the reasoning by which Sir John ' Burgoyne supported it, to be well founded ; and ' they at once declared their determination not ' again to attempt to drive the enemy from his ' new works.' ( 6 ) A weak resolve that for months kept back and kept down the Allies ! For a purpose no longer worth notice, the Con- ference directed an examination of some specified ground, but did nothing more* 8th March. Late in the evening of the 8th of March, Gen- reTewing his eral Canrobert came to Lord Raglan's head- to obtain' 8 quarters, and again urged that it should be reinforce- proposed to Omar Pasha to come to the Cher- sonese with a considerable part of his army. Lord Raglan saw no reason for changing his former opinion ; but consented that (with a view to full discussion of the question) Omar Pasha, with also Sir Edmund Lyons and Admiral Bruat, should be invited to attend a Conference on the following Monday. In his almost passionate eagerness to have Turkish troops on the Cher- sonese, General Canrobert refused them French aid for any operations elsewhere. He announced that he could not reinforce Omar Pasha whilst at
- Despatch (Secret) from Lord Raglan to Secretary of State,
March 10. 1855.
