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newspaper accounts about a month or six weeks back: to which is to
be added the force the Turks had at Ochakoff before he came, which
you will find in that letter of Sam's which gives an account of the
commencement of hostilities. The expressions in Sam's letter to
you are remarkable in this view. It is not merely for the
Turkish Flotilla that he hopes his "Flotilla" "will be a match",
but for the "Turkish Fleet.". Accordingly the terms employ'd,
in the account I send you, are, on the one hand, la Flotte
Ottamane: on the other hand, (not la Flotte de l'Imperatrice,
but in general " Les forces Navales de l'Imperatrice. The Russians, as
you may see from Sam's former letter abovementioned, have, from
the first commencement of hostilities, been wishing and hoping to see
the Turks hamper themselves in some odd corner where they
could not get away from fireships, but would be obliged to stand still
to be burnt. It was on the strength of that idea that Sam wrote
so sanguinely in his first letter above mentioned, upon finding the
Turkish fleet venturing itself up the Dnieper, though the Russian
force in ships of the line and frigates was next to nothing. It was in
pursuit of this idea that in the autumn they formed the plan of that attack which appears
to have been prevented by the hot-headedness of the French-man who
took it into his head to break orders and plunge into the thick of the
Turkish force with his own vessel alone, unsupported by the rest. Perhaps
it
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