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

AN INSULT AND AN 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 Paella of Rhodes having been corn-

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, he
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 Rhode3, 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 Pacha fired a second shot, at which the
boat pulled alongside the steamer. The Turks told
them to come on board. 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 ofacei DUL Lie men knew any other language
than English, so the Pacha fetched an engineer he
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 the
name of the ship round their hats, were fully armed
with regulation revolvers, muskets, and bayonets,
with stores and everything on board with the Eng-
lish mark on. Besides, the men could not be mis-
taken from English Sack-tars; they had regular
Anglo-Saxon features, and, what is more, theyo
had the English flag flying on their b.oat.
the Turks could mistake them for pirates is a
mystery.
and the Pacha gave the
" When they found the
English they let them go, a boat's crew undeniably
satsifiscoaoti
n justification
he gwoltiatto
ho lieutenant
ba d donac.k i nirdh
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tain was furious, and gave
followed him
for Cos. He went to Cos and several other islands,
to Rhodes,
but always arrived too late. He arrived
(Chios) on Thurslay evening, and found the Pacha
at Smyrna, sum-
had left that morning, on which ho wrote an
to come to Chios immediately, and to
mawofnuinllgy
him
mong telegram to him
give him full The Pacha arrived this
satisfaction. has The cap-
faunlal satisfaction.ggiven
n
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-

bart) wished, and finally, the English flag should
be saluted with 21 guns. The Pacha acceded to
everything immediately except the salute, but the
captain was firm, and made him do it; and after
everything had been done as required the Fox-
hound saluted the Turkish flag, and then the Pacha
left Chios with his steamer, doubtless glad to get
away from the clutches of the Giaour: "