Augsburg,
7 December. The newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung dated 7 December published a
tidings dated Constantinople 7 November according to which the Captain Pasha
while being in the Dardanelles a letter wrote to the sultan explaining what
went wrong in the last expedition. He wrote that his intention to fight with
small ships against the Greeks was refused while the huge ships of the line
were useless against the small Greek vessels. Everyone was curious how the
sultan would react while in the last winter indeed small flat bottomed vessels
were built and taken with him by the Captain Pasha. The newspaper Oesterrechischen
Beobachter dated 18 February mentioned these new vessels to be used in the
forth coming expedition and the same newspaper reported 18 May that when the
Captain Pasha departed 30 flat-bottomed gun chaloupes of a new design were
available.
