19.--At a meeting of the county magistrates, the following resolution was
adopted, on the motion of Mr. T. J. Birch: "That the magistrates of the
county of Norfolk, in Quarter Sessions assembled, take this, the earliest
opportunity, of conveying to Major-General Charles Ash Windham, their
sincere congratulations on his providential escape from the perils
attendant on the assault of the great Redan of Sebastopol on the 8th of
September, 1855, of expressing to him their sense of admiration of his
long-enduring gallantry, of his courage, constancy, self-devotion, and
self-possession, which may be equalled, but cannot be surpassed, and of
tendering to him their warmest and most cordial thanks for the example he
has thus held out to the British soldier." A "Windham Testimonial Fund"
was afterwards opened. (_See_ August 1st, 1856.)