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it was more fortunate upon the whole, that that project failed: Had it
succeded, the loss of the Turks if they had lost their all then, would
not have amounted to what they appear to have lost now; and the
great fish, the Captain Pacha, would not have swum into the
net. After all the Turks have lost more in reputation than
in ships and men: the reputation of the Captain-Bashaw was
the strength of their cause. Taking for granted the 8 ships captured
or destroy'd were all of the line, I am very curious to know what
became of the other 32: if they got out of the river safe &
sound, the Russians had they twice or thrice the force they have could
still never face them in the open sea. The Turkish Flotilla
too? what is become of that? The Russians, destroy'd 3 out of the
57 in the engagement of the 19th last: but in doing so, they left
just double their own number. Possibly they have got altogether into
some corner, where they will abide the fate of Ochakoff.
As to Sam, whatever publick rewards other people may get,
I have no expectation that any of them will fall to his share. As
the fitting out for that kind of irregular service stands more particularly in need of inventive
abilities, to which I think it probable enough that nobody
there has any pretensions to but himself, he was perhaps as great a
contributor to the victory as the Prince of Nassau: but I believe,
it
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