by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Hockings… (1823)
“ His next appointment was, Dec. 26th, 1820, to the Medina ship-sloop, in which he afforded protection to the European consuls and merchants at Smyrna, during the horrid outrages perpetrated there, in June 1621, the whole of whom would, probably, have fallen victims to the ungovernable fury of the populace, had they not found an asylum on board the shipping in the roads; the ferocious and undisciplined band, after assassinating the Turkish governor, having compelled the Pacha of Cesarea to give them license to do what they chose. ”
