Vienna, Austria, 13 September. Earlier
tidings from Constantinople confirmed that the Turkish-Egyptian fleet departed
31 July 1827 from Alexandria,
despite the fact an older tiding mentioned 1 August. According to the latest
news she counted 89 sails and when the ships which already left Navarino are
joined, the fleet will have a strength of 120 ships. On board were 5.000 or
6.000 soldiers. The fact that this fleet departed for sea, will be the main
reason that the representatives of the three united powers demanded an answer
from the Sultan within 15 instead of 30 days. It’s to be
expected that the commanding officers of the united fleets had become orders to
protect the Greek cities against the Turkish and that war efforts of the
Egyptian fleet would be disabled.
