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Hon:d Sir

A pretty sort of a "compleat victory" yours was: a
victory with nothing to shew for it but the destruction of 3 vessels
out of 57, gained by small craft over small craft. I send
you something like a victory: a victory, and that really a
compleat one, gained over the Grand fleet of ships of the line:
and what is better, by the same small craft, it should seem,
that gained the former one. For you will observe that though
two ships are taken with 3 or 4,000 prisoners, yet six, including
the Admirals and the Vice-Admirals, were burnt: so
that the main of the business was done by burning: now burning
is done by fire ships. But the fire ships compose with the Bomb-vessels
what Sam calls his division: therefore this capital and
decisive victory is principally Sam's work. Q.E.D. — It is
the fate of the Turks to build fleets for the Russians to make
bonfires of. You remember in their last war that was the way
the whole fleet was destroyed in the harbour of Chermé or Tscherme Tchermé
which

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