The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-05-04 00:00:00

FROM LLOYIA UST.

Gnawistwo, Ma• d 1)4 L.wi ~,,, Brown; Mar-
go., of Ilw.tity, MinMMinl and tbw Caledonia, Mnler, for

CORRESPONDENCE WIIH THE PORTE.

(Continued from our Payer of Saturday.)
No 11.

" Sir John Thome; Duck Of Vice-Admiral of the White,
and knight of the Bath, knowia; that acc.rding to an article
in the Triple Alliance, the Sublime Porte a engaged to
grant the tree passage of the Dardanelles to vie silos fit war of
his Sovereign; and M. Aitoutlinot, His Majesty': Amb,,,adur,
having Informed has tat the Suelime P.m-, from particular
circumstances, had constantly expressed its da.ire that the
treaty •hould be proceeded in, and that it should he hapoy in
seeing the moment a•rive, when they might an able to enter
boon it, without sue inco.ovenience; had given th- strntigeat
ammances, that all the conditions of the and Treaty shot:. I, in
the meat whi.e, be looked upon as IVllSailiing in lull lore,
In Misstate of affairs' it a iIISOJS,SIiC (or the Vice..".dintrai to
expmss the extent of his chagrin, when he saw kJ Attack
ed the day before yesteday, iii a tv.stile manner, by toe titer
Moat Castles of the Sub'inie. Puke, when In• eas permrniing
the duty imposed upon lona, o• passing the Daidanelle•.
" But though His Majesty's iresse,l hart b .ea struck by
the and sortie of laa subjects tout their lives, the I,iee-
Admiral, to give a proof of h:s ye.Jc sentiute is, do-dated
from firing upon the Castles of the Stash:he Porte ; but he Pit,
at the same time, that it he experienced tie same oside dis
motion from the other caatles and battetteA, his dory would
then oblige hue to repel force by fore.
" it was with pain that he saw himself censpelied tri have
recoinse to :his disagreeable duty. But if tite Sublrue Porte
had not made use anther means of resistatuna, the Vice Ad-
renal would stilt have Battered himseif that what hid taken
place *lt the effect of some misundaratanding, in commtuence
of insufacient explanation on each -ide.
" But this edam very suits vanished; for after having prated
the ten Castle. of fibydue and Se,trat, he found a squadro.- be-
long, .g to the Sublime P.rte formed i inn of battle, and
table.. tiepin to upon His Majesty's squad, oi as soon as they
arrivers wit. in cannon-skot

" The French flag being hooted uncut the Castle of Abydea,
the determitiati in talkers by the Stiblirn,.- ie to tiirow t *At
into the arms ot France, c•iuld no longer De d ; notwith-
standing th- perfidy of that nation, of whiten the Saolime
rte had ,xpe,miseed enough in Egypt.
" rile Vice-Admiral thensaw himself under the necessity
nt destroytog those remelt, notwalistandii.o the instructions
he has, received Gans his Sievereign to and tile Porte, to the
last mentht, proof. of lin amity and wawa aried patience.
" After having witnested a change so absolute in the dia.
positional the Sutrimai Porte, and His itanisty's A 611341..th1f
havrig afterwards funtlesily exhausted all the means ci
pacification, the Vice-Admiral finis him-elf under the lICCC.•
City of declaring to the Sublime Pone, that having it in his
power to de.troy the capita!, :tad all the Turkirh vessels, the
plan of operations which ins duty prescribe* to br., is, in
consequen :re, very clearly masked put. EA CVIIV Mt* d time
the lust and humane disposition of his Sovereig.. induces him
to punish t gully only ; persuaded at the carne time, that the
Solt .n and his peojee are very far from wishing to go to war
with Great Britain; avid that or cantle the present measure
can only have been occasioned by the bestows. and the in-
trigues ut the French with some of the adviser, of his High-
ness, the Vice Admiral MY feel the utmost reluctance to ren-
der so many 'noters completely miserable by the horrors of
war, and the destruction of all the objeSs of then attachment
and enjoyment.
" To avoid so fatal a catastrophe, the following is the con-
. dition he propose—' The Si.iblime Porte wial, deliver up rs
ship. and tee/41.1 of war, with means surficivin for their equip
ment ; and the Vice-Admiral will, in this cam, engage not to
molest the city, but to withdraw immediately :sisal the Dar-
dartelles.•

" The Vice-Admiral grants the Sublim• Porte hilt an hour
sec the tran.lation of tins note into the Turkish I trg. age, to
determiner 'twin this prepe•sal, iirotetting that if he is reit eel
to the the dlsaArimahle necea,:re Cl seizhig the 'f or
war by force, cud to c-ionsiroce the work of destniCtion which
he has the means to accomplish, it will be the fault of the
Suhliine P.,rte, and not that of the King his master
aa 0., b..ar.l the Royal George, oN Prince's
'• Wand., Feb. 21, Itlta.
t Signed) as J T. DUCKWORTH."