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 According to the statement made by the Capitan Bey’s Secretary, the force opposed to the allies consisted of two Turkish 84-gun ships, one of which had no less than 650 men slain; one 76-gun ship, whose killed amounted to 400; fifteen 48-gun frigates, eighteen corvettes, and four brigs:– four Egyptian doubled-banked frigates, of 64 guns each; eight corvettes, of from 18 to 24 guns each; eight brigs, and five fire-vessels:– total, sixty-five sail. Sir Edward Codrington, however, in a general order issued by him to the allied squadrons, four days after the battle, declares that the enemy had “eighty-one men-of-war” of which number only one frigate and fifteen smaller vessels remained “in a state ever to be again put to sea.”

It appears, by a letter from Zante, dated Dec. 14th, 1827, that the harbour of Navarin was reconnoitred by the Pelican sloop on the 17th Nov., at which period there were twenty-nine men of war lying there, viz. “one Turkish ship of the line, and four frigates, much damaged; two frigates fit for service one of the Egyptian razées, in tolerable condition; and five corvettes, eleven brigs, and five schooners in good condition.” A letter from Alexandria, dated Dec. 29th, states, that on the 27th of that month, “four frigates, eight brigs, and four cutters, with several transports,” arrived there; and that “a ship of the line (meaning, we presume, the razée) and two frigates had separated from them in a gale of wind:” there is no mention made by the Capitan Bey’s secretary of any fore-and-aft rigged vessels. The following list will shew the strength of the combined squadrons, and the loss sustained by each ship and vessel composing them: