The newspaper published a letter dated 8 August written on board of her lying on the roads of Beyruth. She arrived three days earlier coming from Malta and reported that several European powers send with haste squadrons regarded the threatening situation over for the Christian part of the population.(1) At that moment so was written in the letter were lying a British squadron consisting of a 3-decker, a ship of the line, two steam frigates and three smaller steamships, a French squadron of two ships of the line and a steamship, two Turkish ships of the line and a steamship, a Sardinian steamship joined the 7th by a corvette, a Greek corvette and some gunboats. Further more were some Austrian warships and some thousands of French soldiers expected. The letter was send the 9th with a French steamship. The 7th also arrived the Austrian steam frigate Radetzky and a Greek brig of war and the 8th again an Austrian war steamship and a Russian mail boat and a frigate.
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1. Probably the so-called Lebanon conflict beginning in the north of Lebanon. In advance a rebellion of Maronite peasants against their Druze overlords ending in a massacre of about 20,000 Christians and during which conflict several hundreds of Christian villages and churches were destroyed.
