Tidings
from Alexandria dated 26 May reported that 5 days earlier one of the most
beautiful ships of the Pasha a 100-gun frigate (?) was burnt. She was 4 months
earlier launched and just being fitted out with the upper batteries when in the
night of 20-21 May at several places fire was set and within some hours the
ships was completely destroyed. Lucky enough there was no gunpowder on board
and no wind. It is thought that the fire was deliberately set by the Turkish.
