Trieste,
21 February. The newspaper il Osservatore Triestino published a tiding
from Zante dated the 2nd that last week the Turkish fleet left Patras to attack
the Greek fleet off Missolunghi. The Greeks immediately reacted with sending
fire ships managing in burning a Turkish 2nd class frigate and a brig. A second
Turkish brig was boarded and captured. The Turkish returned to Patras and the
Greeks towards Missolunghi to victual that fortress. Master Ragencowich of the
Austrian brig Pericles, who sold a cargo of grain at the latter place,
confirmed the Greek victory.
