Vienna, 3 June. The newspaper Beobachter reported that according to tidings from Zante the Turkish fleet of 33 ships commanded by the Captain Pasha was sighted going southwards (suggested was to Hydra).
Tino, 18 April. The commanding officer of the Austrian naval force takes the primates of Niconi prisoner to force them to pay 70.000 piasters and finally decided that 1.000 talaris to be paid within 40 days was enough. Three hundred soldiers of the failed Greek-Albanian expedition to Cyprus returned with 2 ships of Spezzia. In the morning of the 9th arrived 6 Greek ships with 1.000 men.
Syra, 27 March. Caused by the piracy the trade of the island almost disappeared. A French merchant ship coming from Marseille anchored in the harbour. Despite the presence of the French frigate la Galathée a Greek warship wanted to inspect the merchant ship. The privateer captain accompanied by the secretary of the heparch went on board of the frigate to ask permission for the inspection. They were send away while the French captain threatened to destroy the Greek ship if they tried to go on with the inspection.
Alexandria, 11 April. The Egyptian coast was harassed by Greek privateers who even didn’t hide themselves. According to rumours they brought 47 European vessels up at Napoli. Even ships in convoys tried they to inspect. Other rumours claimed that other European countries flying the Greek flag had a part in this piracy.
Milo, 31 March. The French merchant brig le Prospère master Eyraux was according to rumours captured by pirates off Cape Matapan. All Greek vessels claimed that they were allowed to inspect searching for merchandise and stored destined to their enemies. The French goelettes la Torche, la Daphné, l’Amaranthe and la Dauphinoise and the corvette la Lionne which visited this harbour while escorting French ships, constantly had to prevent this sort of inspections using everything but their guns.
London, 10 June. Tidings arrived reporting a second battle between the squadrons of Brazil and Rio Janeiro at the Plata, which the first seemed to have lost. Letters from Rio Janeiro via Montevideo confirmed that 25 February the enemy [Brazil] attacked with a corvette, 4 brigs and a schooner the castle of Praca da Calonia. When the surrender was refused they fired the next day during 5 hours at the castle but without success. When a brig was lost by fire, the enemy retreated. The British representative Morrier returned with the frigate Pyramus from Mexico and New York. At Havanna was a Spanish naval force collected of 1 ship of the line and 6 frigates with 3.000 soldiers embarked. Morrier sighted at New York a large frigate fitted out by ‘special’ men to be used against Colombia. The Pyramus left Vera Cruz 27 March with almost 500. dollars on board of which almost 300.000 were destined to pay in for the in October expiring Mexican dividends.
Marseille, 3 June. One of the war brigs built here on account of the Pasha of Egypt left while flying the French colours towards Alexandria.
