Vienna, 26 November. Maritime authorities of Trieste
send reports dealing with information received from masters coming out of the Levant. According to this reports succeeded the Captain
Pasha in persuading Mehemet pasha to hand over to him the command of the fleet
recently fitted out at Alexandria. So this fleet didn't leave Alexandria in divisions but complete. Mehemet
refused to come on board when the Egyptian soldiers were embarked fearing that
he was to be taken to Constantinople. He
didn't trust the Captain Pasha, perhaps with some reason. Immediately after the
departure of the expedition left the Greek fleet the Egyptian coasts en Rhodes and sailed towards Morea. The combined Turkish
squadron arrived without any problems off Candia
where the Captain Pasha stayed for some time before going towards the coasts of
Morea.
