THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE 1821 TO 1833 BY W.ALISON PHILLIPS 1897

CODKINGTON AND IBRAHIM 255
now completed his great armada of ninety-two ships,
fifty-one of them vessels of war;
and, on the 7th of
September, this sailed into the harbour of Navarino,
raising the number of the Turko-Egyptian fleet in the
bay to a hundred and twenty-six sail.
Five days later Admiral Coclrington, who had
been unable to intercept the Egyptian fleet, arrived
off Navarino. He at once informed the Turkish admiral
of the terms of the Treaty of London, and told
him that any attempt on the part of the Turko-Egyptian
fleet to leave the bay would be undertaken at its
peril. Ibrahim, informed by the Capitan Bey of Admiral
Codrington's ultimatum, took time to think;
and, pending the arrival of the French admiral, no
further action was taken. On the 22nd of September,
Admiral de Rigny arrived, and on the 25th a conference
was arranged with the Egyptian commander-mchief
. The instructions of the admirals were precise ;
and Ibrahim, on his side, professed himself unable to
decide anything
from Constantinople.
until he had received instructions
It was calculated that it would
take twenty-five days for these to arrive,
and during
this period Ibrahim agreed to keep his fleet in the harbour
of Navarino, and to undertake no operations
against Hydra or Spezzia. Small squadrons were, however,
to be allowed to leave the bay in order to commu-