Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-01-11
FOREIGN NEWS.

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7 FOREIGN NEWS.
Last evenings Northern mails brought us
the following details Of the news brought by
the Africa :-Carolinian, 9Th inst
Requesting the reader to bear in mind that
all the accounts of the massacre-for it,can
scarcely be called a battle-in the harbor Of
Sinope, have come through the Russian
sources, we. proceed TO give as connected a
narrative'of the occurrence as the imperfect
information yet received will permit. AL
though called "Turkish defeat" the intel
ligence before us describes the defeat as
more glorious to the Turks than their VIC
tory" of twenty. lone ships over fourteen is
to the Russians.
The harbor of Sinope is not strongly for.
tilted. Formerly. it was The principal naval
establishment of Turkey, but of late the
arsenal has been transferred to CONSTANT.
nople, and a single battery on The little fort
of Boze Tepe now constitutes the whole
defence Of the port.
On the 30lh ult., the fleet OF Admiral
NachmofF, that had been sent expressly to
look for the Turkish fotila that was con.
veying renforcements to the army on the
east coast of the Black Sea, appeared off
the roads Of Sinope, where the Turkish
ships, under command Of Osman Bey, were
at anchor, having been driven to anchorage
there day or two previously by stress of
weather. Nachilnof''s squadron consisted
of twenfysftour sail, Of which six were line
Of battle Ships Finding there was no help
but fight or surrender, Osman bravely threw
his own and some other of his ships across
the entrance to the harbor, and attempted to
keep the Russians at bay while the trans.
ports FASTENED to. land their men and stores.
From the confined position in which his ships
were, he labored at great disadvantage. The
Turks had to sustain the fire of over 600
Russian guns, and could not bring more
than 200 to play against them: =
Notwithstanding this fearful odds, the
| Turks4made no proposals to surrender, but
kept up-their. fire until ore after another$of
their ships sunk or blew up. Astonishing
to relate, they managed to sink and burn no
fewer than seven of the enemy. To. the
last Osnian refused to strike his flag, bnt
continued to blaze away from his shattered
ship at the Russian steamers that were tow
ing it towards Sebastorol. At length he,
was taken wounded on board Nachimof, S
ship, and his frigate sunk, SO that of all the
snnils Of this hrilliapt victor tho RSS IaS
slams took into Sebastopol only Il Jew
wounded men, but plank Of u Turkish
ship. 49,.
The following is a copy Of the bulletin
that was posted on the Bourse at Odessa,
December s.:
"The Russian fleet, under the command
of Admiral NachimoG, has met, i'll the Black
Sea, a Turkish and Egyptian fleet, composed
of eighteen ships-two decker frlgates, cor.
ve,,es, together with two steamers OF five
hundred horse power, and two Others of
three hundred horse power. After long
engagement. the following Turkish ships
have been destroyed or captured One OF
81 guns-no name given; do. 6O-no name
siyen; do. 52-Nezrami Eifendi; do 81
Almet Eli; do 4G-Nazim Fessim; DO. %
-ressi Mahmoud Steamers--Two OF 20
guns each; 9 transports; British trans
port. The engagement took place near
Sinope. Five thousand Turks have been
killed, and many taken prisoners. Osman
Bev, who was wounded, was also taken Pr.
soner. Several officers, both English and
French, were on board the Turkish ships"
From this bulletin it would appear that
onlv eleven Turkish ships were destroyed
two of them transports and detenceless-in-
stead of the thirteen frigates previouly an
nounced. Also, that il there were eighteen
Turkish ships, seven must have escaped.
And further, the "no name given" OF the
two heaviest ships Of "a and 60 guns, looks
suspiciously like as if there had been no
such ships. The 5000 Turks reported to
be killed would have been sufficient arma.
ment for the eleven ships, without the "many"
taken prisoners. And as the Russians lost
seven of their own ships, including two ships
of the line, their victory consists in surplus
of four ships only, namely three transports
and 90 gun seamerl Even these they
have not to show; and if they had, they
would not begin 10 pay for repairs to the
Russian .admiral's ship, which had to be
buoyed up before it could reach Sebastopol.
Two French and two English frigates
have gone to Sinope, nominally with medl-
cal assistance for the wounded
Immediately on the news of the disaster
being published, on the Sd instant, at Con.
stanIinople, grand divan was held, at
which all the foreign ministers were present.
The English and French ambassadors were
strongly called upon to order the combined
fleets into the Black Sea but they (the am
bsssadors) requested the audience of the
Sultan, and persuaded him that it would be
hetter not to send forward the whole fieet'
7 but only a ship or two to acquire more de-
finite information. This was agreed to.
The widest excitement prevailed in Con-
stantinople, and it was expected that the
whole fleet would be ordered to proceed to
the Black Sea forthwith. Their mission
there will be to prevent further conflict be-
tween Russian and Turkish ships.
PERSIA DECLARES WAR AGAINST THE
TuRKs.--Although no official confirmation
Of the declaration of war by Persia agains
Turkey has been received, the intelligence i:
considered quite probable. The Englisf
press, although dmitting that the circum
stance complicates the position of affairs, dc
not consider it of supreme importance, Per
sia, they say, although small in military
strength, has, it is true, the advantage Of {
geographical position which counterbalanc'
the deficiencies.
A considerable Persian force is usual,