An item dated
Constantinople 18 December reported that still it was unknown how the Turkish
Porte would react on the uprising at Cairo,
Egypt. The only
news was that on 22 October 18 ships consisting of 2 Russian frigates, two gun
barges, 1 frigate, 1 corvette and 4 small Turkish vessels were added to the
squadron commanded by the British officer Hood. The Turkish vice admiral Seïde
Ali who became famous during the last war with Russia had been for a long time
prisoner. He was in the mean time released and ordered with permission of the
Capitan Pacha to command a recently in the Dardanelles
built 80 gun ship of the line.
