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and the Sublime Porte, on the eve of a war, which
every thing conspired to render inevitable, our read
ers will not, we trust, be displeased by a retrofpeCf
to the refpeCtive situations of those two powers, in the
years 1768 and 1769, to be able to form some judg
ment of the probability of success on either fide; of
the resources each of them can find within their ex
tensive dominions, and a comparative view of what they
can now do by what they have done before..
Ruffian forces in the years 1768 and 1769.
Land forces. Grand army, 107,000. Ukrania
ditto, 40,000. North. Calmoarks of the Don,
30,000. Prince Heraclius, 42,000. Lefkis, &c.
12,000, South. Montenergrio, 10,000. Men in all,
261,000.
Navy. Under Romanzow, 13 ships of the line,
53 ditto small, 60 field-pieces, sailors 8910 ; soldiers,
1600. Navy. Under Elphinfton, 8 ships of the line,
39 ditto small, sailors, 3960; soldiers, 860. In all,
27,703.
Squadron of the Don, 65 ships ; sailors and soldi
ers, 12,400. Men in all, 283,603.
One thousand and 35 pieces of ordnance.
To the above forces the Turks opposed three grand
armies, viz. one in Poland, the second in Ukrania,
and the third towards Aftran, amounting altogether
to 300,000 fighting men. Magazines were built along
the Danube, and the main army advanced towards
Choczim, in order to cross the Niefter, and invade the
provinces of Podolia and Volhinia, whilst the kan of
Tartary received orders to make an inroad into the
Ukrania.
So early as in the firft of February the then reign
ing kan of the Tartars, Krim Ghirai, broke through the
Ruffian lines, entered New Servia, carried off 14,000
captives, destroyed by fire 184 towns and villages, and,
though opposed by the Ruffians, with whom he fought
a molt bloody battle, he found means to secure his
retreat, and carry off, in triumph, the spoils ofthe
delolated Servia.
This expedition turned out very fortunate in the
end, as it coll the kan bis life, who died of the ex
ceflive fatigues he had undergone. This prince was a
man of great, merit, and well versed in hittory, as
well as the political interests of the European nations.
His death was an irreparable loss to the Mahometan
party. The Turkish army did not reach Adrianople
before the latter end of April. Prince Gallitzin, on
the 30th of that month, engaged and defeated Cara
man Pacha, drove him under the walls of Choczim,
and afterwards recrossed the Neifter with the greatelf
precipitancy, without improving that advantage. Ihis
circumstance occasioned the divan to look on the re
treat of the Ruffian general as a victory; in conle
quence of which, the grand seignior went to the pub
lick mosque, where he was saluted by iman or prielt,
with the title of Gazi, or conqueror; in the interim,
General Ramanzow, having presented battle to the
Turks, was repulsed with conliderable loss. Mean
while Gallitzin repaffed the Neifter, laid liege once
more to Choczim, but was obliged to laile it, and put
again the Niefter between him and the lurks. The
prince on this occasion loft 30 pieces of ordnance, and
3COO men. The Turks pursued him into Poland,
but were by him compelled to repafs Niefter. The
vizir was then deposed, and Moldovanhi-Ali-Pacha,
a man ofa molt turbulent spirit, succeeded the former
in the command of the army. He crossed the Niefter
with the very belt of his forces and loft them ; and on
the 29th of September met with a second overthrow.
At lait the Turkish soldiery incensed againlt the vizir,
deferred their standard, when 230 Ruffian grenadiers
took poffellion of Choczim. The Turks retired on
the other fide of the Danube, and the Gregorio
Gikow delivered up to the Ruffians the provinces of
Moldavia and Walachia ; the grand vizir was deposed,
and notwithstanding the defection of the Turkish army,
Romanzow did not dare to venture too far up the
country they had abandoned. This campaign colt the
Ruffians large sums of money, and a great number of
men, without any other advantage to themselves, than
the taking of Choczim. The armies did nothing of
importance.
The Turkish minister, by commencing the war in
the Crimea, will stand chargeable with the fame fatal
mistake which our ministry made in America, by con
fiding in the assistance of those who may still have pre
ferred their allegiance. It is certain that even the
Ruffian accounts allow the defection not to be univer
sal• but still a small number of turbulent men have
ever been found more formidable, than an host of
peaceable ones ; and of course those Tartars who have
accepted the protection of the Empress will be found
the ftiongeft allies.
The Venetians are upon the most friendly footing
with the court of Russia, and ready to give the Em
press every assistance against their ancient enemy the
Turks, that may be consistent with the good under
standing that fubfids between them and other Euro
pean powers
Large orders have been received in Birmingham
for mufquets, which are to be flipped for Feterfburgh
for the use of the Ruffian army.
A very refpe&able force will in future be kept up
in the East-Indies by government; not only because
the European powers will do so, but because the coun
try of India have found the method of building men
of war in that quarter of the globe, as is instanced in
the 64 and two 50 gun ships taken at one of Hyder
Ally's ports when the place capitulated; it is very
likely, however, that they were building for the ser
vice of France, and that many articles are wanting
to complete them which are the produce of Europe.
I he Malabar coast abounds with a timber peculiar to
itfelf, it looks like cedar, but its texture is much like
that of our English oak in its belt state. The trees
grow large too, but they are in general very rough
and knotty. It is the only timber for fllip-building
in the country, a few pines excepted, which are of a
very diminutive nature, so that India does not pro
duce any thing for masts or spars, nor have they any
iron. The Dutch build meh of war at Batavia: they
have now two or three on the flocks. Their report
that a ship built in India is done at such a vast ex
pence, is by no means true, though it was political
to broach such an opinion, as it was likely to restrain
other powers on the score of expence, till they began
the experiment, and found out the duplicity of the
Dutch.
The late Sir John Miller's poetical vase at Path-
Eafton, being the lubjeCt of investigation among a li
terary society, the following question was difeuffed :
Whether the vase was productive of one piece of good
genuine poetry ? and it was going to be given in the
negative, when a gentleman, the only diffentient in
company, begged leave to read the following lines,
written by his friend, an ingenious Templar, which
had been inurned in the vale.
The reading of the above lines converted the whole
society, who gave their opinion, that Sir John's vase
had contained one piece of poetry, in which there were
taste, truth, point, and satire!
Sept. 29. It has beer averted, fays a correspondent,
that Dr. Franklin, in predilection for Oliver Crom
well, who had a predilection for the third of Septem
ber, the day of dis two greatest victories, had ma
naged it so that the Definitive Treaty was signed on
that day. If this predilection of the hoary Doctor
be true, he ought to be put in mind, that it was also
on the third of September that Oliver was summoned
by death to give an account of his tranfa&ions at that
awful bar, where no colouring, no drifting, no art,
will avail.
We have been favoured with the following opinion
on the piefent Rate of the funds, by the author of
" Every Man his own Broker." It does not appear
to me that there is any mystery whatever, in the pre
sent low price of the Stocks; neither does it relied
any dilcrcdit on the prelent ministry. The real cause
is, that we have gone on, year after year, borrowing
money on redeemable annuities, for want of a better
plan, till it became impoGblc to find real purchasers
to absorb such immenie sums as ten or twelve milli
ons sterling annually. But the publick has been de
ceived by the fallacious boastings of ministers at the
head of the treasury; whose adherents, after every
frefh loan, have constantly declared, that twice or
three times the sum wanted was offered on the terms
proposed. This might be the fad; but if the sums
10 offered had been taken up by government, who
does not forefee that the lenders would not have been
able to make good the latter payments when the Scrip
grew heavy; yet they would readily subscribe to any
amount (especially with a peace in view) in hopes of
gaining considerably, after the firft or second payments
on the nominal sums subscribed for. The loan for the
current year, however, is a convincing proof, that we
were arrived at the ne plus ultra of the old funding
system, from which no minister could be prevailed on
to depart, under the dread of losing his place, by try
ing new projects. Besides, no great influx of money
happened during the late, as in former wars ; immense
sums were sent to America ; and the Dutch have been
our foes, instead of allies. All these circumstances
combined to make the loan too heavy for the times;
but by degrees it must be absorbed : And, as govern
ment cannot possibly borrow any larger sum upon the
fame system next year ; those whose necessities do not
oblige them to part with the Scrip, will find their ac
count in keeping; and those who have unemployed
money to lay out, cannot do better than to veil it in
that fund.
Irish Volunteer Meeting.
ACCOUNT of the DUNGANNON MEETING
in IRELAND, Sept. 18.
At half past twelve, the Committee of Correfpon
Miller ! the urn, in ancient times, 'tis said,
Held the collected afnes of the dead;
So thine, the wonder of these modern days,
Stands open day and night for Ilfelefs lays !
Leave not unfinifh'd, then, the well-form'd plan,
Complete the work thy classic taste began;
And, oh ! in future, ere thou doll inurn them,
Remember firft to raise a pile and burn them !
The report being closed, the Committee proceeded
to lay before the Assembly a system of ideas on the
fubjedt of a reform ; and proposed them paragraph by
paragraph—all of which were with very few alterati
ons in point of expression unanimously carried.
The Bishop of Derry, who was a delegate from
the Derry corps, made a very eminent figure in the
debate—till seized with a gouty complaint, he was
under the necessity of retiring. His firft essay was
adjulling some historical fads, relative to the early
Rate of the representation of the Commons, after the
Norman conquest, in which he exhibited admirable
quickness and perspicuity. But in consequence of its
being urged in the course of the debate, that “ As
" the object of the meeting was a reform of the Com
" mens' House of Parliament, the interference of the
" Peerage was informal and unnecessary :" He deli
vered one of the most animated and interesting orati
ons that we remember to have heard. He avowed,
that he was not afraid to fay that he preferred that
meeting, as a faithful, honett, and spirited represen
tation of the people, to every other meeting or senate
he was acquainted with in either kingdom ; —and in
the close of his speech he drew a very mortifying pic
ture of the present state of the House of Lords. He
declared the highest reverence for the Volunteers;
their permanence, and their objects; but defied the
most spirited among them to point out a length for
the service and dignity of this kingdom, to which he
would not lead or follow. He concluded by faying,
that he would rather have an opportunity of serving
Ireland, in the national convention of Volunteer De
legates, or even in the very lowest of their Commit
tees, to any other mode of doing it in any other as
sembly.
His speech was received with universal and marked
applause ; soon after which he retired from the meet
ing, having been seized with a flight gouty complaint,
which has since we find subsided.
The meeting of the eighth of September, as far as
- Before the business of the day was entered into, the
Chairman read a letter from Lieut. Colonel Francis
Dobbs, claiming his feat as the representative of a vo
lunteer company: Before the question on his request
was put, it was explained to comprehend the idea that
the assembly of Volunteer Delegates could not with
propriety debate with any Fenlible Officer. The
question thus explained and carried unanimously was,
" 1 hat the consideration of the letter be postponed
till the second day of the meeting."
I his matter being carried with a shew of spirit and
happy presage of a coincidence of opinion, a venera
ble old gentleman, Mr. Stewart, of Kellymoon, arose,
and in a tremulous voice, expressive of fire, good sense,
and a warm heart to the glorious business of the day,
urged the necessity of that alTembly discovering in
their conduct the most complete unanimity, as such a
line of conduct must infallibly lead to success. The
reverend figure from whom this animated address
came, and the manner of it, were felt by every person
present, and did not a little tend to promote the per
fect union which <hara&erifed the glorious proceed
ings of the day.
I he Committee of Correspondence, througrftheir
Chairman and Secretary, read a report of their pro
ceedings, in which it appeared that they had opened
a CQi relpondence with a number of the firft characters
in England; and had received answers fraught with
most important information, all of which expressed
the utmost zeal and certainty of success, in the great
undertaking. It appeared also that the vast and po
pulous county of York, in England, that has made
such noble struggles in a parliamentary reform, had
in consequence of the spirited conduct of Ulster and
Munster, called a meeting for the cause of the present
month—in order that the zeal of the two kingdoms
operating at the fame time, may level every difficulty,
and restore the representation of the people to that
purity, without which, to use the words of the Ulster
address to the other three provinces, “ The unanimated
" forms of a free constitution would be a curse, and
“ life itfelf cease to be a blefling." Such ardour
has that country difeovered already, that the society
for constitutional knowledge, compared of the fov
and some of the most illustrious characters in Britain,
have published the address of the 45 corps to Ulster
in the publick prints, and circulated copies of it gratis
over that extensive kingdom, in order to excite a si
milar spirit to that which promises such glorious ef
fects in this.
Colonel James Stewart, with unanimous consent,
was called to the Chair, who opened the business by
reading the call of the 45 corps met at Lilburn ill
July last, and their address to the Province, which had
confined itfelf to the single point of a more equal re
presentation of the people in the Parliament of Ire
land.
dence having taken their places, the remaining dele
gates, to the number of at least 500, from 278 corps
of Volunters, were admitted by tickets into the lower
part of the dissenting meeting-house; an amazing
crowd of ladies and gentlemen occupying the galle-