1827	The Battle of Navarin	477

The Ottoman and Egyptian fleets amounted according to the statement made by the capitan bey's secretary, to 65 sail ; of which two were Turkish 84-gun ships, one 76-gun ship, fifteen 48-gun frigates, 18 corvettes, and four brigs. The Egyptian fleet consisted of four double-banked 64-gun frigates, eight corvettes, from 18 to 24 guns each, eight brigs, and five fire-vessels; making a total of 65 sail. There is a considerable discrepancy between the number of tie Turco-Egyptian fleet as mentioned by the secretary of the capitan bey, and in Sir Edward Codrington's letter, dated 24th of October, addressed as a general order to the captains, commanders, &c., in which he states that " out of a fleet composed of eighty-one men of war, there remain only one frigate and 15 small vessels in a state ever to be again put to sea. The comparative force in guns has been mentioned as 1324 on the part of the allied fleet, and of 2240 on the part of the Ottoman fleet. It musts however, be

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