The Sun.
London, England, 1807-05-04 00:00:00

.11ERLA

Attjor-Gen. Sir GEORGE PREVOsT, Bart. is 3P-
'jointed Inspeltor-Genentl. of the lieciuiting .service,.
with the conitr-nnd of the depot in the Isle of WiOt•

Major-General WAltt, it is eXpett- ed, will sutteeci
Sir GEORGE in the command Of the garrison of
Portstnouth ; and Brigadier-General PORTBIt Will,
Command at Gosport. =

Yesterday Capt. BLACKWOOD, of His Majesty's
late Ship the Ajax, which was burnt previous to
the passage of the Dardanelles, arrived at the Ad-
miralty with Dispatches from Admiral DucXwortrit.
dated off Tenedos, the
.16th of Mar Ch.; and, we are
sorry to say that. they fully confirm the
.opinion.
which we have uniformly expressed upon this sub-
lea. The Accounts contained in the Foreign
Papers appear, to have been tolerably accurate,
and the Letters from Admiral Pucrtmfrotru
were coreeetly given. After 'the passage of the.
Dardanelles, and the destruCtion of the small Turkish
Squadron, Admiral Dycx.wowrn was very much.
impeded in his operations by continued calms. The..
Turks profited by. the delay to put the Capital in a
state of defence, and to secure their Fleet ; and the
British Adiniral, finding that he could neither sac•
teed by.negotiatiOu or by force, repassed the Darda.
nelles, in doing which our Fleetsustained considera-
ble damage. They I.verejoined off Tenedos by the
Russian Fleet, the Commander of which wished to
renew the attempt, but it was deemed impraEtica-
ble. It is much to be lamented that an attack of 'this
kind should . have been made without a land
force;. SOOO men would at first have been sufficient
to take possession 'of the Forts and Castles which
command the passage of the Dardanelles; though .
tiOw perhaps five times that number would not 49.
It is said that Admiral DLICKWOIITH applied to
neral Fox for Troops, but the latter could not, con!.
sistently with his order, grant them. Upon the whole
it does not appear that a proper force was Sent upon
this most important expedition ; nor do we think the
Comilla of Admiral DUCKWOP!ZEI) iu the Negotia-
tion, entitled' to much praise. We think that
in' the beginning of the Correspondence he
Bunted too high and peremptory a tone, and we
cannot account *for his suffering the Negotiation to
continue so long, unless indeed he acted fror,po_-
fltiVt iastruelions,

Saturday's Gazeiie contains Addrtigses to hisSA:4
Znyry, oil the line 'of conduct his .MAJLTY. was.
ki!?.ased to pursue on a recent Occasion, from New-
Woodstock, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newark-uixnu,
Trent, Halifax, Glasgow, - Dutnfries, Lincoln,
tlarWich, New Windsor, PontefraCl, Lanark, Gree-
!lock, Banbury, St. Andrew's, Penrhytt, Stamford,
takhampton, Dover, London, -Perth, and Stirling;
'kid Dundee.

tArRIMT OF .A LETTER BROM AN OFilart ON BOARD
51R J. DUCKWORTH's SO,DADRON DATED OFF TE-
Vu9s, TflU 12TH OF lIARCH.

" NIV bEAR FATHER, •
" Thank God we, are safe again through these I
Streights. We have had an escape, having run
the gauntlet with the whole Squadron through such
ranges of batteries, some of them throwing stones of
goo weight. We have suffered-a good deal in yar%lil
land hulls, and men, and are now repairing ourAate
tnags.--If we had had only aOOO land troops yvitpn
Us, we shoukl have succeeded : for when we litist
appeared. of the' Dardanelles,' with the assistance
such a -land force, we could ha:ye -immediately
taken their Castles and destroyed all their Batteries;
v:hich, whilst-we-remain masters at sea, could never
have been repaired during the War ; this would have'_,
trade us- triisters ,a Constantinople at once, for the: I
Turks could pot' have resisted an hour when they
found us masters of the Streights : but this not hay,
ing been done, all our chance was a coup de nzoiu,
and that was prevented by a calm. You will read in
the Gazette the account of our losses, and our destroy-
ing part of the Turkish fleet. Thii we hoped would '
inake an impression; but when we appeared MI Cot I
tantinopit,• the Wind- fell so calm arid continued ill
calm,.that we csotald do nothing then we lay: Irleso
logs in the water, tiil the Turks•got the better of theiri
terror; and removed their Fleet into a'secure birth ;
and then having no land forces we could do nothing.
Our Admiral soon saw the necessity of our speedy
return, as the Dardanelles werefortifying behind us
with rapidity, and we had twelve Sail of the enemy's
tine,to fall on our rear if we should get crippled.—
WV different was our return dawn the Streidlits
ruin our passage up: the .batteries doubled, their guns
better pdaced; and .• better dire red : some of their
guns threw, as I said, stone's of ii6o weight. Our
tseape is miraculous ; had we staid a week' longer,
\Pie might have never come hack :-7-pur disappoint-
meut is truly mortifying, for if they had let five
thousand men go with us from Sicily, which
/ hear the Admiral asked for, we should have doneour ,
business in a masterly style; but.. Fox said,
,htv,,,
could only send them to Egypt, for his orders were
Pereniptory.' This, to be sure, was'd—d uiduck:i;'
,however, I hope we shall make up a little for VW
'isaPpointment by prizes, for we are going off Sraya.-7.
'l4- The Russian Squadron has joined us, and want
tu make another atteMpt, but I don't believe our
Atinitr- 41 will indulge them.": •

. OFFICIAL.
L• • •
+ST Or THE COMMI3SrON, WARRANT, AND TZTTIf Or-
FICERS, wzru THE riumaza. OF SZAMEN AND ArAklo7.4:
LIVED FROM ruL AJAX, ON TtlA NIGHT OF inE 14TH'
Or F4IIIIIJART 184.
Captain the Holt. H. Blackwood Peter Prolor, First
1
iii,e.utenant ; Jeremiah Brown, second; Cbas. Wood, fourth
b urY Rowe, fifth; Arthur 1. Hamilton, seventh ; Mr. I.
• r; Purser; Samuel Ellis, Lieutenant of
Ve Marines; 1?- I
Linnomoncl, ditto ; him Turner, boatswain; benjamin
C4rpen/cri Louncelot Armtron, surgeon's mate ;
F 111. Dalrymple school-master; Samuel Arrnstroug,Cleili;
ti Michello, pilot ; joint Callam, master's
mate
eit
•°'n DWI; Thos. -Dutt, Rob. Mackworth. Thebbit
riv 4. Rawlins, Peter Stark, Benjamin 1. Itunftell,
to-I,n" Waring, Philip Phips, John Gordon, Thos. Smith, ;
1...uel Moore, Wm. Walpole, Wm. Henry Bruce, Charles
4,t7 "v. and Witt. 'Trotter, midshipmen ; John Dunfnnl,
rest 3, boatswain ; the Rev. Mr Fainter, left behind at thb.
; and 6d
o ot
220 tile ioydl Marines, 4;Q-in-lifts Serjeant Win.
an &cwl).