The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

were taken ; 700 of one regiment, who had evaenateld the
town in the night, marched down to the beach with 4rns
beating, and quietly laid down their arms. The t-
teriss were awfully knocked about, many guns upset, an -
several burst. Vast quantities of munitions of war and prb1,...4
visions, together with specie to the amount of 6,0004 were
found in the town. Mahrnoud Bey, the Governor, effected
his escape, but was afterwards taken by the mountaineers.
Poetry has crowned the terrific taking of Aare, and the
beginning of a carmen tritomphale written on the occasion '
would have served onr Commodore for his threatening war_
song, as well as ever did the " Song of Roland" serve Nor.
mandy's chieftain, on the eves of his onsets.
Now ye ramparts ! I am near you
Strengthening your inviolate town,
For the flag of England hastens ,
Not to save. but smite you dosiu.
From a thousand mouths of terror
Bolt on bolt shall volley down,
Till above the smoky darkness•
Napier'a banner crowns the town.
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We cannot pass by the splendid action of Adinfral Stopfor
—an action which has covered the Admiral with immortal
honour. It was Admiral Sir Robert Stopford who left his flag
ship for the Phceniz, who directed the attack, who fired the
first shot on the devoted fortress, who neared the formidable
batteries, and under the bristling cannon (the labours and ac-
cumulations of ages') stood up with ceolness, daring, unshaken
ceurage, and commanded the whole operations.
The result cf this grand action was 3,000 prisoners, an im-
menre quantity of wrrlike stores accumulated for years ies this
celebrated fortress, and pcesession of the entire mast of Syria.
The fail of Acre will echo and re-echo through the vvorld.
The SoYereigits of Europe wal see that the spa it cf Nelson
slid lives in the i'ritish navy, that her fleets can yet barter
dozen reiglity works deemed by ordinary people impregrable,
and that Eneland is yet the undisputed Mistress cf the Sea.
Our description of this greet action is complete as it ap-
pears above, but the following letter, as if •Int off by the
sweep of a sailor': tar-brush, with an hone- t and hearty zee's,
presents a rough and spirited sketch of the Sidon and Acre
actions. The breve Commodore, figures in it dravely, and it
comes from one who accompanied every inch of the bus:nesse—
"My dear Father—l have received )our welcome letter,
and am happy to hear all oer dear family are well, tie I am
at present, although I must ray, since I wrote last to you,
we have had some sharp work f.r the eyes, I do assure you.
First and firemost, we took Sidon. I was whore with the
Royal Marines, whom arc cal jollies, and right jolly fellows,
believe me, they are for fighting, as the Eityptians know to
their cost ; but. now I settee tell you. as f r as I can learn
from the marines, their ers proposed to send out
skirmishers to corer their teen while they formed ti.eir
1 ending, and go on in what they call sections or th-ees,
or quarter distant eoiunins. But our brave Commode: e,
Mho is called Chsrley--- a rum nee to look at, hut a
rare en , to go—severe ho would it. are no " parade nonsense,"
but would make skirmishers of es all ; so off tie set with the
Turks lielteresk-lter, the devil take the hiudmor. I believe
our messmates, the Turks, th iught us marl, for the moment
one of them shortened sail, or lagged behind, the galltant old
Commodore, who was without his jacket, with his shirt-sleeves
tucked up, and an old straw hat, let fly a stone at him, with
" Bear a hand, messmates: shake a reef out of your trousers."
Oh, it was capital fun ! Only a pity they were not our saucy
neighbours on the other side of the water, that. we might have
tried to take the shine out of them, instead of the miserable
half-starved Egyptian recruits, poor rascals, we had to deal
with. Poor fellows, I pitied them, but it was no fault of
ours. Next we went to St. Jean d'Aere, a mighty strong place,
and where we cast anchor at about two o'clock on the after-
ternoon of the 3d of November, beat to quarters, and away we
rattled at the fortifications ; but, alter the fist broadside, the
smoke was so thick, devil a thing could we see, but we bladed
away at a fine rate: Some of us iiut four shots in the guns
at a time, which made the guns kick, and sometimes stranded
and carried away the breechine ; but, as we were determined to
give them a'goed dose, we did not s and upon trifles. When
we had fired away about two hours, a most wicked shell from
the Gorgon steam-ship went slap bang into their largest maga-
zine of powder, blew 1,300 men to atoms, upset their guns. and
knocked the carriages to pieces on the ramparts, and killed
their artiilerymen dice which, nn wereler that they
were. cowed, and would not stand to their guns, and
marched out of the place, poor devils. Some mistake was
made by souse of the shies Lot taking their roper berths, and
the admiral finding one of the ship; ficii,g over into another,
hung (nit the segrral to discontinue the action, so they hail after-
wards nothing to do but look on. We lase taken g:,at
many gun,-. dui ,tors, and a gnat firLl of eash ; so 1 live,.
My dear father, to bring you Kunio some prize money, which
is a tare thing in these days. If it had net been Ix 41, blow-
ing up of the magazine by the Go-gun, as ws bad fired assay
almost all oar powder and shot, they say we should have at-
tempted to storm it next day ; in that ease, I think a great
number of us would have lost the number of our mess, which
means, being sent to Dary's locker, or if not, to kingdom come,
the place was_ so devilish strong. But " All', well that ends
well," and we have bd rare good lurk and rare good fie.
The Egyptians stuffed begs filled with sand in their port-holes,
and so could cot trill their guns fore and aft, and fired very
badly. Give my love to all at home. From your loving FOS,
" St. Jean d'Acre, November 5. g. J. 111
NAPIER AT ALEXANDRIA.

• Commodore Napier's ship " the Powerful," though she had
the warmest berth at Acre, was, slrange to say, only hulled
twice. Alter the engagement she sai.ed fur Alcsandrie, where
the Commodore further crowned his glory, by settling in six
hours, not with treaties and protocols, but on the word of
honour of a British officer, and under the guns of a British
man-of-war—the Egyption question, against which all the
dip'omatists in Europe had been knocking their heads fur the
last five years, and which shook the Ottoman empire to its
centre, and all but involved Europe in the flames of a general
war. The short circumstances are these :

Commodore Napier having arrived off Alexandria with a
reinforcement of several ships, learnt from her Alajesty's
Vice-Consul, Mr. Larking, of the transmission of the terms
of settlement proposed by Mehemet Ali to Lord Palmerston,
through the Government of Malta; namely, that his High-
ness would restom the Ottoman fleet, withdraw his forces
from Sysia, and content himself with the hereditary possession
of Egypt alone. Whereupon the Commodore took the Power-
ful in with her guns double spotted. Twenty-four hours' time
was given for the Pacha's ultimatum ; before the expiration
of which the Pacha signified his assent, and the treaty was
duly s'gned and executed on the 24th inst. A more formal ra-
tification of the treaty was made by Admiral Stopford shortly
after.

A Maltese Correspondent, who saw the Gallant Commodore
at Alexandria at this time, gives this short but entertaining
sketch of him :

On the 25th of November he landed at Alexandria, and
spent his time in walking through the town in a plain coat
without epaulettes, and all the inhabitants, Turk, Arab, and
Christian, manifested the most intense desire to see lira. He
took up his quarters at the British Consulate, and in the cisurre
of the afternoon the principal Consuls called on hint. On the
27th, about noon; he passel through the bazaars in the carriage
of Mr. Larking with a great cavalcade to be presented to the
Pacha, and I perceived that most of the Orientah gave him a
profound salaam. Nobody would have believed that Lord Pal.
merston would have entrusted such a delicate negotiation to
Commodore Napier, who has always been considered a mere
fighting man, but the result shows that his Lordship's prognos-
tications in this respect have not been deceived. The town
was in a perfect state of jubilee, and the old stagers say this
is the merriest Bairara they ever saw.