Odessa, 4 September. About 260 Russians ships mostly loaded with grain but some with wars stores were permitted to depart Constantinople for several destinations in the Archipelago.
Nurnberg, 27 September. The Journal the Frankfurt published a news item dated 21 September coming from the Italian boarders. Since some days came tidings of important events in the Mediterranean. The Turkish fleet was quite strengthened received new orders. The enforcement consisted of a division of ships of the line which recently left Constantinople and ships from the Pasha of Egypt Mehemet. This was the division attacked by the Greeks, but without the loss of small vessels could escape and sail towards Rhodes to join the main fleet. There are some rumours of another division which left Constantinople, commanded by the Captain Pasha which was ordered to take the supreme command. This division was apparently still underway and unknown when to arrive. The ships of the Barbary States also didn’t arrived and even unknown when to arrive. According to some tidings were the new orders to chase and destroy the Greek fleet in the Archipelago, but in the same time protect the troop transports and support the landings. If Kara-Ali wanted to take good care of this orders, he got an enormous problem, combining two different efforts at the same time.
Genoa, 19 September. In the first days of August the Turkish fleet approached Scala Nuova to embark a corps Asiatic troops and a corps commanded by Lasaga-pacha to transport the soldiers towards Samos. Before their going on board, the Asiatic troops were responsible for a massacre in the city and driven out of the city by the troops of Lasaga-pacha. In the fight several Turkish soldiers were killed. When the Asiatic troops finally went on board and the channel of Samos was left, the Turkish were chased by small Greek vessels. To prevent capture the Turkish burnt 8 of their own transports. In the meantime the Greeks tried to force the Turkish to enter the port of Samos and to be able to burnt them. This didn’t succeed and the Turkish fleet sailed onwards and met the Egyptian ships. Both fleets were in each other sight and important tidings were to be expected within short time. There were rumours that a Turkish privateer two ships commanded by the masters Florio and Bernetich, both of Trieste, had completely plundered.
