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BALTIC FLEET.
| The London Times says the French feet was
off Romsee in the Great Belt The English on
the 7th off the Gottska Sunde, north Of Goth;
land.
The Copenhagen correspondent Of the Chron-
icle states that on Friday at 2 2P. NJ, FIVE steam
frigates anchored at Eifsnaben; and at p NJ
the whole fleet sailed, excepting two vessels, a
man Of war and corvette
Cronstadt reported not impregnable.
The Times correspondent at Landsort in Swe-
den writes ON the 4th that the Amphion, Capt.
King, was reported to be on shore in the vicinity
OF Revel, and it is feared that her captain and
crew mad been made prisoners by the enemy.
ODESSA
May Inhabitants beginning to return to,
the town, and shops and places of business OPEN
ing again. With exception, however, of q few
additional vessels having been chartered to pro
coed to the mouth Of the Dnieper, for eargoes of
seed, there has been scarcely any resumption of
business
The bank had removed some distance from the
town
ST PETERSBURG
Letters state that only under the most favor
able circumstances could half the expected
100000 to 10000 casks Of tallow be sent
away, while the general calculations looking
at the means for transportation are, thai the
stock dispatched will not exceed from 20, 600 to
10000 casks
PRUSSIA S
The London Times leader says the fact that
the Prince Of Prussia has professionally ceased
to exercise the functions of Military Governor of
the provinces Of Westphalia and the Rhine is the
strongest possible proof Of the ascendaney AS
crlbed at Berlin BY the agents of the Russian
policy to which the Prince has been respectfully
but firmly opposed.
Paris, Friday, May IL, 1954.-Bourse pretty
firm, Funds closed 66.45 and $3.50. Tie Ma
tional Discount Office has lowered its rate Of
discount per cent.
Correspondence Of the Lenion TiusGJ
COMMANDMENT OF oDEssA-ENaLIsH ACCOUNT.
BRITIsH FLEET, off Odessa, April %.
The English Official declaration of war reached
the fleet, then anchored at Baltshik Bay, near
Varna, on the 9th of April, upon which the
steamer Furious was sent to Odessa to bring
away the English Consul. With f1ag of truce
flying at her masthead she hove to, and sent In
a boat, also carrying n flag of truce, to demand
the Consul. There was some delay in return
ing an answer, and the lieutenant in command
of the boat thought it right to return to the
Furious. upon which the Russians opened fire
upon the boat and in the direction of the steamer
Six or seven shots were fired, but, fortunately,
without effect. On the 18th ttle French official
declaration. of war having arrived, without
which Admiral Hameln was naturally enough
unwilling to proceed to extremities,) both fleets
sailed for Odessa. before which place they an
chored on the afternoon of the 29th. An ex-
planation was demanded of Gen 0sten Saeken,
the Military Governor here, as to his reasons
for outraging flag of truce, always held sacred
by all nations pretending to civilization. This
demand was also sent in under q flag of truce,
but the boat when backed by the fleets was not
molested. The General returned an unsatisfao-
tory and untrue answer, declaring that he did
not fire upon the boat, but upon the Furious,
which, not needing customary signals, was
steamiAg up the bay for the purpose Of examin-
ing 1t, whereas she was motioniess. Upon this
the Admirals sent in demand for all the ship
ping in the port, and in the event of no answer
arriving on sunset of the 21st, declared that
they would punish this outrage on the Law of
nations. On the morning Of the 22d the steamers
of the combined fleets attacked the Imperial
Mole at Odessa, and during the day completely
destroyed it and most of the Russian shipping
within it.
Here it is necessary to endeayor to give the
reader some idea of Odessa. It has often been
compared in general aspect to Brighton, but the
line of cliffs on which the town stands has a
slight curve inward, forming shallow bay,
with radius of some three miles These ellis
face the northeast, and toward the north they
sink into low sandy mounds and fiat endless
steppes. Stretching out from below them, at
the lower or southeasterly end of the town, runs
long fortified mole, at the end of which is a
lighthouse. This is called the Quarantine Mole,
and shelters great crowd of ships of oil ma
tions Their crews are never permitted to go
into the town, but are strictly imprisoned within
a small walled in and closely guarded quaran-
tine district at the foot of the cliffs even if they
should happen to be detained there six months
at II time.
Uncar ,,ra+o,s, f ~, o,,, f..,
disease, the Russians have made the quarantine
hateful political tyranny. At the time Of our
visit this mercantile prison of all nations was
very crowded, and On the morning of the aa2d
each vessel had her colors ut the mast head, as
if appealing for snecor and protesting against
cannon balls intended for the Russians. The
attacking force had orders to give this mole as
wide berth as possible, in order to be out Of
reach Of its fire. and so to avoid the necessity Of
returning the fire and iniuring any of the neu-
trails within. The following was tho attacking
force: tFrench.1 Mogador. Vauban, Descartes,
Caton; (English,1 Sampson, Terrible. Tiger,
Retribution, Furious, and adetaehment ofrock-
ct boats under Commander Dixon. The Sanspa-
reil and Highayer acted as reserve. This force
proceeded to another similar mole at the North
ern extremity of the oliaa, called the Imperial
Mole, enclosing a mass of Russian ships OF all
sorts, and some large stores or barracks, Both
moles had formidable array Of embrasures,
| and there was battery between them at the
foot of the cliffs, but, as far as we could learn,
| they were badly off for guns, We counted over
| 70 esabrasures. The steamers had orders te 80
as far as possible inshore, so as to rake and de-
| stroy the Imperial Mole and shipping, but to
avoid firing upon any part Of the town or upon
| the shipping in the Quarantine Mole About
20 min. to they began. the Sampson leaping in
| most gHilantly. fFonr ~ y aagge ships, about
th-~@s - esioir reffues esslost eurious
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