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which I had a distant view of when I landed at the Island of Siro.
These fire-ships and bomb-vessels he made up out of the
Empress's pleasure boats and other such riff-raff of which
you may form a general idea from the extracts you have of
old letters of his to me.
Not only the business was done by fireships and gun-boats,
but if it had not been done by such kind of irregular vessels, it
never could have been done at all. In the open sea it was
impossible the whole naval force of the Russians could have
faced the half of the Turkish fleet, making every allowance
for the difference betwixt the awkwardness of the Russians and
the still greater awkwardness of the Turks. In the packet I
returned you from Pole Carew was a state of the Russian
force brought down to last Autumn: from since then it is impossible
the number of their ships of the line can have received any considerable
additions, if any: and it has been diminished by one of 74 that
was driven on shore some months ago in a storm not far from
Constantinople, and there taken. The force the Captain — Bashaw
took with him from Constantinople you may find I believe by turning to the
newspaper
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