The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-25 00:00:00

AN INSULT AND AiV APOLOGY.

A letter from Chios, in the Levant, gives an in-
teresting account of an incident which had just
.aken place. The letter is dated as far back as May

24:-

" Chios is in quite a state of ferment to-day,
owing to the Pacha of Rhodes having been com-
pelled to apologise for having insulted the British
flag. I hastily send you the particulars.
" Her Majesty's sloop Foxhound, Capt. Hobart
(brother of Lord Hobart), was cruising near
Rhodes, on the look-out for pirates who were said
to be about there. As he could not run into the
little creeks, &c., along the coast with the ship, ho
engaged a Greek boat, and manned her with his
first-lieutenant and eight men, fully armed, to
search along the shore. The Foxhound lay 40 or
50 miles off, so as not to be seen by any pirates
about the coast.
" While the boat was searching about near a
place called Yali, on the coast opposite Rhodes, the
Pacha came by with his small steamer, and, think-
ing this boat contained pirates, fired a shot at her
to bring her to the steamer, but the boat kept on,
and the Paeha fired a second shot, at which the
boat pulled alongside the steamer. The Turks told
them to come on beard. The officer and men, not
suspecting anything, went on board unarmed, and
as soon as each man came on deck he was roughly
seized by the Turks, knocked down, and had his
hands lashed behind his back and then thrown
down into the hold. The lieutenant was also
served in the same way. During this time there
did not appear one Turkish officer on deck. They
were kept prisoners in this way for two hours, and
were barbarously treated by the Turks, who stele
everything they could from them. At the end of
two hours they were fetched up, and interrogated
by the Pacha and some officers. Neither the Eng-
lish cfficer nor his men knew any other language
than English, so the Pacha fetched an engineer ho
had on board, who spoke a little English, and who
interpreted for them.
" The officer had his uniform cap on, and was
regularly furnished with papers ; the men were
dressed in their proper man-of-war dress, with thed
name of the ship round their hats, were fully armetes,
with regulation revolvers, muskets, andbahyoo_nng.
with stores and everything on board with the
beEmis-
lish mark on. Besides, the men could
taken from English Jack-tars ;hthatefs
more, they
had regular
Anglo-Saxon features, and, w
on their boat. How
had the English flag flying
for
the Turks could mistake them pirates is a
mystery.
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English they let them go, on
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his ship, reported what had happened. The cap.
tain was furious, and gave chase to the Pacha. He
followed him to Rhodes, and found ho had left
ry
the e
pa here
He went to Cos and several other islands,
bfourtcos.
always arrived too late.
) on Thanday evening, and found
a rid here
a
had(Cli°ileeft that morning, on which he wrote an
awfully strong telegram to him at Smyrna, sum-
moning him to come to Chios immediately, and to
give him full satisfaction. The Pacha arrived this
morning, and has given full satisfaction. The cap-
tain demanded an ample written apology, 100
piastres to be given to each of the English sailors,
all the things stolen to be returned, and that the
Turks who bad maltreated the Englishmen should
be punished in such a manner as he (Captain Ho-