Kingdom of Sardinia. Genoa, 3 October. Letters brought with the latest courier of Tuscany brought the tidings of a Turkish fleet at Coron, Morea, with 4-80 gun ships, several frigates, corvettes and gunboats, with ammunition and troops. The 10th September were 11 Algerian ships seen, sailing towards the Levant. An Algerian chebeck with orders for Smirna captured underway a large Greek polacre with a crew of 90 men. The latest tidings coming from Zante reported that the Turkish fleet was ordered to destroy Idra, Spezia and Ipzara, being the major harbours of the Greek sea trade.
Zante, 15 September. According to an extract of a letter were yesterday, 14th September in the harbour the remaining ships of the Turkish fleet lying, with the ships of the Barbaray States in the worst possible condition. There were 3 ships of the line, 6 vessels of medium size, frigates, brigs and corvettes, and 24-25 transports. It became known that the fleet was ‘controlled’ by British officers, divided over the ships of the line, bringing the fleet from Rhodes towards Cyprus and Egypt to join the vessels of Egypt and the Barbary States. Today came the news that the fleet was to depart in two divisions, one towards the Gulf of Lepante and the other towards the Strait between Corfu and the coast of Epirus, to aid the Turkish ships blockaded by a Greek flotilla in the harbour of Gomenizza.
Zante, 15 September. According to an extract of a letter were yesterday, 14th September in the harbour the remaining ships of the Turkish fleet lying, with the ships of the Barbaray States in the worst possible condition. There were 3 ships of the line, 6 vessels of medium size, frigates, brigs and corvettes, and 24-25 transports. It became known that the fleet was ‘controlled’ by British officers, divided over the ships of the line, bringing the fleet from Rhodes towards Cyprus and Egypt to join the vessels of Egypt and the Barbary States. Today came the news that the fleet was to depart in two divisions, one towards the Gulf of Lepante and the other towards the Strait between Corfu and the coast of Epirus, to aid the Turkish ships blockaded by a Greek flotilla in the harbour of Gomenizza.
