------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. THE WAR IN SYRIA. BY COMMODORE SIR CHARLES NAPIER, K.C.B., _&c._, _&c._, _&c._ ---------- _IN TWO VOLUMES._ --- VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND. --- M.DCCC.XLII. LONDON: HARRISON AND CO., PRINTERS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE. ADVERTISEMENT. -------------- In giving an account of the War in Syria, I have endeavoured to state the facts as they occurred, of most of which I was an eye-witness. The _Levant Papers_ have furnished me with much useful information, and I have endeavoured to make no statements that cannot be borne out either by them or by documents in my own possession. In writing a work of this kind I have been obliged to publish letters and extracts of letters from these Papers, in order to save the reader the trouble of examining them, and, indeed, it is not in the power of the public to get hold of Parliamentary Papers without a serious expense; this I trust will be a sufficient excuse for the numerous documents that I have thought it necessary to give. _May, 1842._ CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. -------------- PAGE CHAPTER I. State of Affairs in the Levant in August, 1839—The Author’s 1 Interview with Hosrew Pacha—Sir Robert Stopford at Constantinople; his Interview with the Sultan—Impolitic Junction of the English and French Fleets—Sir John Louis takes the command of the English Squadron—The Author tenders his Resignation CHAPTER II.