o the Queen
and ultimately Commander of the Forces in Ireland. He died in
1902.]

[Footnote 65: See _ante_, 18th November, 1854, note 60.]

[Footnote 66: Colonel Henry Hugh Manvers Percy, 1817-1877,
whose father afterwards became the fifth Duke of
Northumberland. The Legion of Honour, the Medjidie, and the
V.C. were all subsequently conferred on him.]

[Footnote 67: Hon. Thomas Vesey Dawson, brother of the third
Lord Cremorne (created Earl of Dartrey).]

[Footnote 68: In this terrible hurricane the _Prince_, a
new and magnificent steamer, with a cargo of the value of
L500,000, including powder, shot and shell, beds, blankets,
warm clothing for the troops, and medical stores for the
hospitals, was lost; six men only of a crew of one hundred and
fifty were saved; but the soldiers of the Forty-sixth, whom
she was conveying to Balaklava, had happily been landed.
Thirty of our transports, as well as the French warship _Henri
IV._, were wrecked. A thousand men were lost, and many more
escaped drowning, only to fall into the hands of the
Cossacks and be carried to Sebastopol. One solitary source
of consolation could be found in the circumstance that the
tempest did not occur at an earlier period, when six hundred
vessels, heavily laden and dangerously crowded together, were
making their way from Varna to Old Fort.]

[Pageheading: THE CRIMEAN MEDAL]

_Queen Victoria to the Duke of Newcastle._

WINDSOR CASTLE, _30th November 1854._

The Queen thinks that no time should be lost in announcing the
intention of the Queen to confer a _medal_ on all those who have been
engaged in the arduous and brilliant campaign in the Crimea.

The medal should have the word "_Crimea_" on it, with an appropriate
device (for which it would be well to lose no time in having a design
made) and _clasps_--like to the Peninsular Medal, with the names
_Alma_ and _Inkerman_ inscribed on them, according to who had been in
one or both battles. _Sebastopol_, should it fall, or any other name
of a battle which Providence may permit our brave troops to gain, can
be inscribed on other clasps hereafter to be added. The names _Alma_
and _Inkerman_ should likewise be borne on the colours of all the
regiments who have been engaged in these bloody and glorious actions.

The Queen is sure that nothing will gratify and encourage our noble
troops more tha