• The victory in Syria would seem to have laid
the Turkish em- pire at the feet of MEH EMET ALL Following closely upon the news of the Turkish army's defeat by IBRAHIM, conies intelligence that the Ottoman fleet had been delivered by its commander into the hands of MEHENIET j whom the chief Beys at Constanti- nople had invited to assume the protection of Turkey and of the young Sultan. There is even a report that MEHEMET had reached Constantinople with a portion of his own and the Turkish navy. Notwithstanding these events and reports, the impression seems to prevail that the Great Powers will not permit the Egyptians to derive benefit from their present triumphant position, but will maintain the Sultan in the entire possession of the dominions his late father bequeathed to him.
A rumour ftom Toulon, that Russian vessels of war had entered the Dardanelles, and that the French fleet had been summoned by
Admiral ROUSSIN to Constantinople, was mentioned in last evea,.. Courier ; but it is scarcely credible.
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