I cannot sufficiently praise the good conduct, the bravery, the cool. ness, and the presence of mind, evinced by the chief of brigade, baron de Tavast. Lieutenant-colonel baron de Cederstrom, major d'Essen, the cap tains of cavalry, Geger and de Platen, and in general all the officers, as well as the troops, conducted themselves with such intrepidity and discipline, that I could not, without reproaching myself, refrain from expressing to your majesty the satisfaction I feel at having had. the command of such brave men, or from giving them that honourable testimony on my part which their good conduct has so highly deserved. Baron d'Armfeldt entered the town of Anclam this morning, where he took two officers and 150 men, besides a considerable booty; 1995 Frederics d'or, and about 3000 crowns, belonging to the enemy's military chest, have also been taken. (Signed) H. F. D'ESSEN. Head-quarters at Demnien, April 4, mit to your lordship two letters of the 21st and 28th ult, the former of which will have informed you of my arrival with the squadron near Constantinople, and the latter of an unlucky attempt, in which the marines and boat's crews of the Canopus, Royal George, Windsor Castle, and Standard, had been engaged. It is now my duty to acquaint your lordship with the result of the resolution which, for the reasons I have already detailed, I had adopt. ed, of forcing the passage of the Dardanelles. My letter of the 21st is dated at anchor eight miles from Constantinople, the wind not ad. mitting of a nearer approach; but the Endymion, which had been sent a-head with a flag of truce, at the request of the ambassador, was en. abled to anchor within four miles. Had it been then in our power, we should then have taken our station off the town immediately; but as that could not be done from the rapidity of the curreat, I was rather pleased than otherwise with the po sition we had been forced to take; for in the conferences between Mr. Arbuthnot and the Captain Pacha, of the particulars of which your lordship is in possession, it was pro. mised by Mr. A. that even when the squadron had arrived before Constantinople, the door to pacifi. cation should remain open, and that he would be willing to nego ciate on terms of equality and jus tice. In consideration of this pro. mise, and as it would convince the Porte of his majesty's earnest desire to preserve peace, as well as possess her ministers with a confidence of the sincerity of our professions, it was the opinion of Mr. A. ia MY LORD, which I concurred, that it was forTogether with this letter, I trans- tunate we had anchored at a little 1807. P. S. According to all the infor. mation received at the time of baron Bojie's departure, the number of prisoners already taken by the Swedish troops exceed 1000 men and 20 officers, amongst whom was a French colonel. Particulars from Sir J. Duckworth to Lord Collingwood, relative to the Affairs of the Dardanelles, on the 19th and 27th of February, and 3d of March. Royal George, without the Dardanelles, March 6. Tt4 distance distance from the capital, as a nearer ward, and continued light airs or Two days after our arrival near the ambassador minister of the Porte, came off; found himself indis posed, and has from whose expressions Mr. Ar- been ever since confined with a fit buthnot thought it impossible not of illness, so severe as to prevent to believe, that in the head of the him from attending to business. government (for in the present in- Under these circumstances he had stance every circumstance proved, delirered in on the 22d, to the that between him and the armed Turkish ministers, a projet, as the populace a great distinction is to be basis on whịch peace might he pre. made) there really existed a sincere served ; and at his desire, the subse. desire for peace; and the negocia. quent part of the negociation was car. tion was carried on, as will appear riedon in my name, with his adriceand by the documents transmitted to assistance: and while I lament most your lordship, till the 27th ; but deeply, that it has not ended in the from the moment of our anchorage re-establishment of peace, I derive till we weighed, on the morning of consolation from the reflection, that the 1st of March, such was the un. no effort has been wanting on the fortunate state of the weather, that part of Mr. Arbuthnot and myself it was not at any time in our power to obtain such a result, which was to have occupied situation which soon seen, from the state of the prewould have enabled the squadron parations at Constantinople, could to commence offensive operations be effected by negociation only, as against Constantinople. On Sun. the strength of the current from the day the 22d alone, for a few hours, Bosphorus, with the circuitous ed. the breeze was sufficient to have dies of the port, rendered it imprac. stemmed the current where we were ticable to place ships for an attack placed ; but such was the rapidity without a commanding breeze ; on shore where the Endymion was which, during the ten days I was off at anchor, that capiain Capel the town, it was not my good for. thought it very doubtful whether tune to meet with. the squadron could have obtained I now come to the point of ex. an anchorage, though it had been plaining to your lordship the mo. held in preparative readiness, by tives which fixed me to decide on re. signal, from day-break; but the pe- passing the channel of the Darda. culiarly unsettled state of the wea. nelles, and relinquishing every idea ther, and the minister's desire that of attacking the capital; and I feel I should give a few hours for an confident it will require no argu. answer to his letter, through Ysak ment to convince your lordship of Bey, presented me from trying. the utter impracticability of our Before five o'clock P, M, it was force having made any impression, nearly calm, and in the evening the as at this time the whole line of the wind was entirely from the east. coast presented a chain of batteries ; that that twelve Turkish line of battle ships, two of them 3-deckers, with nine frigates, were with their sails bent, and apparently in readiness, filled with troops: add to this, near two hundred thousand were said to be in Constantinople, to march against the Russians: besides, there were an innumerable quantity of small craft, with boats; and firevessels had been prepared to act against us. With the batteries alone we might have coped, or with the ships, could we have got them out of their strong hold; but your lordship will be aware, that after com. bating the opposition which the resources of an empire had been many weeks employed in preparing, we should have been in no state to have defended ourselves against them as described, and then repass the Dardanelles. I know it was my duty, in obedience to your lordship's orders, to attempt every thing (governed by the opinion of the ambassador) that appeared within the compass of possibility; but when the unavoidable sacrifice of the squadron committed to my charge, (which must have arisen, had I waited for a wind to have enabled me to cannonade the town, unat tended by the remotest chance of obtaining any advantage for his majesty's service), must have been the consequence of pursuing that object, it at once became my positive duty, however wounded in pride and ambition, to relinquish it; and if I had not been already satisfied on the subject, the increased opposition in the Dardanelles would have convinced me I had done right, when I resolved on the measure as indispensably necessary. I therefore weighed with the squadron on the morning of the 1st ; and as it had been reported, that the Turkish fleet designed to make an effort against us, to give them an oppor. tunity, if such was really their intention, I continued to stand on and off during the day, but they showed no disposition to move. I therefore, as every hour was of im portance, bore up at dusk with the squadron: we arrived off Point Pesquies towards the evening of the 2d instant; but the day-light would not admit of our attempting to pass the castles, aud the squadron came to anchor for the night; we weigh ed in the morning, and, when I add that every ship was in safety outside of the passage about noon, it was not without the most lively sense of the good fortune that has attended us. The Turks had been occupied unceasingly, in adding to the num ber of their forts; some had been already completed, and others were in a forward state. The fire of the two inner castles had, on our going up, been severe; but, I am sorry to say, the effects they have had on our ships returning, has proved them to be doubly formidable: in short, had they been al lowed another week to complete their defences throughout the channel, it would have been a very doubtful point, whether a return lay open to us at all. The manner in which they employed the interval of our absence has proved their assiduity. I transmit your lordship an account of the damages sustained by the respective ships; as also their loss in killed and wounded, which your lordship will perceive is far from trifling. The mainmast of the Windsor Castle being more than three quarters cut through by a gra nite shot of eight hundred weight, t.. we have fan! grai cca?y iasisch as are be opposed. Sain it. ÀU : 2.1 1. Dre rio2 ocock, I have the hour to 52. indrua bad D:$ J.'T. Duis economics, www.tatius P., 1 an goriyeti observ2, t. ii, It usu.. da so to their sire (which in the Citric of this izttur to Sur .ebakte is cry. This berdship, Liare omited to mention, Iv.D 2012: 538 p..ca] by the t' at linked the lon, €1. iain Geite ui his resisniaisir, esCapel, in the Eigmion, w..ich na pissid, tu men: every appear. be in advance in the span of te aecarity, tot he might bego. Bosphory, fur the rose ciais cidid li too strongest proof of certain.ng where guio Coin ne paciuc dir istio. of our sore. sten the current, a dior a waici. Teisteswards the Furte; a second ful observation of the muros bgcry on the European site fred of the Turks, as we'l as to f.cile aise with 25 litte eieci. Åt halt tate conn'r'cation will the Fipt?, ! *t nilie o'tluk, the Canopus, I feel myself inúebied to ... of. Feb, on ai co'int of sir Thomas ticer for his z:a'oss atteon and Louis's koosle 'ge of the Channel, assiluity durioz the time he was just to the steady gaisaairy placed in that arduous situat2.7. which I had before esperienced, J.T. D. habce. appointed to lead, ertered the narrow passage of Sestos and Royal George, eff Cunso: tirols, Abydos, ai i sustained a Sery beary DAY LORD, FELI. cans onade from both castles, withI had the honor of transmiting in point-blank shot of each. They to your lords ui?, by the late first opened to ir fiie on our ships a3 lientcnant of the Ajui, the various this continued to pass in succession, details relating to the 1:21-actions although I was happy in ob-ersing of the squadron till the 17th ult. that the very spirited return it met Your Bordship will from thence with had su considerably diminished bare bees informed of my resolu- its force, that the efiect on the tion of passing the Dardanelles the stern's:9-i ships could not have been first fair wind. A fine wind from so se7e7e. the sonthward permitted me to Imieliately to the V. E. of the carry it into efect on the morning ca tles, and between them and Point of the 19th. Information had been Pesquies, on which a formidable given me by his majesty's minister, bariery had been newly erected, Mr. Arbuthnot, and sir Thomas the small squadron wbich I hare Louis, that the Turkish squadron, already allud-to were at anchor. consisting of a 64 gun ship, fuur Tie van division of our sqnadron frigates, and several corvettes, had gave them their broadsides as they been for some time at anchor with- passed, and sis Sidney Smith, with in the loner Castle ; and conceiving his division, closed into the midst; ji possible toey might have remain. and the etiect of the fire was such, od there, I had giren orders to rear. that in half an hour the Turks had arimiral sir Sidney Smith, to bring all cut their cables to run on shore. up with the Thunderer, Standard, The object of the rear-admiral was and Active, and destroy them, then to destroy them, which was most most rapidly elected ; as in less my signal, by destroying a frigate than four hours the whole of them with which he had been more parti. had exploded, excepi a mali cor- cliari; engagel haring driven her vette, and a gun.bat, uilch it us on shuré o! be European side, after thought proper 19 paistvi. she rad been forced to cut her ca. close to yons for-; a tatement bles, from under ihe fire of the of their number; a'i Wien lalu Porée and Thunderer. The 64 also an account of the juns bis I!!ving run on shore on Pe quies maj sty's ship' have sustained, I Putit. I ordered the Repulse to cansos hielp expressing niny satisface Werk ilp and destroy her, which tion that we have thered so limite cupidin Legie, in conjunction with ly; as, had any of tra ir siste strut, the boats on the Pompée, executed some of which exceedri 800 eight, with great promptitude and judg. made such a breach bei wem! wind ment. The battery on the point, and water as they have done in of more than thirty gun, which, our sides, the ship mat have suak; had it bee'd completely finished, or had they struck a louer issi iu was in a position to have annoyed the centre, it mit evidently have the squad on most severely in pasbeen cut in two : in the riggi!, sig: 135 taken possession of by too, no accident occurred that was the royal marines and bats' crews not perfectly arranged in the course of the rear division, the Turks ha. of pext day. The sprit.sail yard of vius retired at their approach, and the Royal George, the gast of the the gins were immediately spik:d. Canopus, and the main-top-sail. This service was performed under yard of the standard, are the only the direction of captain Nich lls, of spars that were injured. It is with the Standard's marines, whose spirit peculiar pleasure that I embrace the and enterprize can never be doubt. opportunity which has been at this cit; bat as circumstances rendered time afforded, of bearing testimony it impracticable to effect the entire to the zeal and distinguished ability destruction of the redoubt, orders of sir Sidney Smith; the man er in were giren by sir Sidney Smith to which he executed the service (n. captain Moubray, which I fully aptrusted to hiin was worthy of the proved, tu remain at anchor near reputation which he has long since the Pesquies, and to employ lieu. so justly and generally established, tenants Carrol and Arabin, of the The terms of approbation in which Pompée, and lieutenant Lawrie, of the rear-admiral relates the con. the marines, to conplete the demo. duct of captains Dacres, l'albot, lition of the redoubt and guns; Harv y, and Moubray, which, from which when performed, the Active my being under the necessity of was to continue in the passage of passing the Point of Pequies be- the Dardanelles, till further orders. fore the van could anchor, he had a At a quarter past five P.M. the greater opportunity of observing squadron was enabled to make sail; than I could, cannot but be highly and on the evening of the next day, flattering ; but I was a more im. the 20th, came to an anchor at ten mediate witness to the able and of. o'clock, near the Prince's Islands, ficcr-like conduct which captain about eight miles from Constantino. Moubray displayed in obedience to pie, when I dispatched captain Ca. pel, |