80 FROM CONSTANTINOPLE 
CHAP, received of the safe arrival of the British fleet, 
V -y— ' with Our army, in the Bay of Marmorice. The 
Capudan Pasha, on board of whose magnificent 
ship, the Sultan Selim, we had been with our 
ambassador, previous to the saiHng of the 
Turkish squadron for Egypt, ordered a corvette 
to be left for us to follow him; having heard 
that the author's brother. Captain George Clarke, 
of the Braakel, was with the fleet in Marmorice, 
to whom he expressed a desire of being after- 
wards introduced. Nothing could exceed the 
liberality of the Turkish admiral upon this oc- 
casion. He sent for the captain of the corvette, 
and, in our presence, gave orders to have it 
stored with all sorts of provisions, and even 
with wines ; adding also, that knives, forks, 
chairs, and other conveniences, which Turks do 
not use, would be found on board. 
Departure ^^^ sailcd iu this vcsscl ou thc sccoud of 
irom Con- 
stantinople. March ; and, saluting the Seraglio as we passed 
with twenty-one guns, the shock broke all the 
glass in our cabin windows. Our Turlcish crew, 
quite ignorant of marine afl'airs, ran back at the 
report of their own cannon; trusting entirely 
to a few Greeks and some French prisoners, to 
manaQ:e all the concerns of the vessel. We 
were not sorry to get away from the unwhole- 
some place in which we had lived, and to view 
