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222 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE1855. on the llth of the month,at which entertainmentthe sergeants of the91st were honoured by thepresence of his Excellency, M. Mercier (the Frenchminister), and Vice-Admiral Jacquinot (who hadreplaced Admiral Le Barbier-de-Tinan), commandingthe French naval division in the Levant, whoboth addressed the sergeants and theirassembledguests.The chief of the staff wrote next day toMajor Gordon, referring to the hospitality shownby his non-commissioned officers, as follows :" Dans la fete toute fraternelle qui les reunissaithier, L'Amiral Jacquinot s'en estime heureux dese trouver aupres de braves gens qu'il honore, etde donner un temoignage de la haute considerationqu'il professe pourla nation Anglaise, et enparticulier pour les sergens du 9l me regiment."On the evening of the 5th of October it wasreported that a French officer,Captain Bertrand,had been carried off to the mountains by brigands.Detachments of theFrench troops were immediatelydespatched in the direction of Phalerum Bayand towards the Hymettus range of hills, andMajor Gordon, who was still in command of the91st, ordered two companies of the regiment tostart off at once under his personal command, toassist in the recovery of this officer. After a