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of 25,000 rnateoematmanded by Ismael Bey; and that
he WAS preparing to attack Rudschuk with more thaw
60,000 men.
In consequence of this, the Commander in Chiq
crossed t!tu Danube on the 10th. On the 20th, at
I da)•aeak, a body of 5000 Turkish cavalry made A
reconnoissance upon our whole line ; General Viiin(i,
commanding the advanced pasts, am'. supported by
four battalion,s of infantry, led on by General Go..
guhaidt, loon forced the Turks to retreat with Some
lass. On the same day, the whole army took up a
position on the heights, four wersts before Rudschuk,
and then bivouacked in order of battle. The 21st,
both armies kept themselves quiet.
At five o'clock on the morning of the 22d, the
Grand Vizier proceeded from his entrenched camp
betwixt Kubikion and Gisanzenp and attacked thi lrc •
perial army, whose infantry was formed in nitre
squares and arranged in t*u lines. The cavalri was
in the thirst line, behind the vacant space of the
squares. The engagement gradually became gear.
ral, but was warmest on the left thug, maws:idea
by Lieutenant Geaeral Count de Lampe:on. Tat
Grand Vizier directed it in person.
nom six to eight is the morning it was renewed
five times ; but notwithstanding this, acd the fire of a
battery of 33 pieces of cannon, the Turks could Mat
gain an inch of ground. All their efforts wire in vain
against the invincible steadiness of' cur infantry. At
nine o'clock, the whole Turkish cavalry nearly $.!
thousand strong, advanced rapidly upoa oar left
wing, and outflanked it ; but being unable to make
any impression up.an the squares, passed betwixt the
vacant spaces.
Two regiments of cavalry belonging to the third
line were chiiged to yre..l to the impetuosity of this
charge, and to superiority of numbers. TheTurkisis
cavalry spread themselves behind the imperial army,
and penetrated to the walls of Rudschuk, which ano-
ther column that had marched along the Danube en-
deavoured to take by storm, believing the city to be
without a garrison ; bat the Commander in Chief had
left a strong garrison in that place, which at this mo-
meat made a successful sally, in conjunction with a
movement of the cavalry under General Voinoff ; the
Turks being thus placed between two fires, were put
to flight with considerable loss. While this took
place on the left, the enemy made a much feebler at.
tack upon the right. Generals Essen, Boulatoff, and
I En,gelhardt sustained and repulsed it with the greatest
bravery.
1
At eleven o'clock, General Kourousnff put the
whole line in motion, and directed the stprare of Count
I Worontaoff ag iiiist the enemy's centre, which had
I begun to throw up entrenchments. At wear, they
t commenced a retreat, and Were pursued to their camp
1 six wersts from the field of battle. The Imperial itt•
my rested till six o'clock in the evening.
It appeared to have been the intention of the Grand
Vizier to throw troops into tudschuk, and to en-
! trench himself upon the heights ; but this plan failed
:by the bravery of our army, and the judicious ar-
sa.;gements of our Commander in Chief, who during
this bloody affair was constantly explised to the heat
I viest fire. The Turks have lost thirty pair of ce-
• lours, and have had 1500 men killed, among whom
I is a sun of Murchtar Yacha, a great number of Alba-
! Mans. No prisoners were .made, as the enemy at-
' tacked with cavalry.. _ _

The great superiority of the enemy in point of num-
! bers not allowing the principal aimy to be weakened
by such a garfson as the city of. Rinischuk won d
require, and this fortress being besides commanded
from the mountains, and in a disinivantageous situa.
tion, the Commander in Chief determined to demolish
it. In c...msequence of uns determination, after hay.
ing made the army repass the Danube, and caused
the inhabitants to quit the city, on the 26th, he or-
dered all the. fortifications to be bl,wn up, and the
place to be set on fire. The conflagration sprenj
with astonishing rapidity, and complete desotatitat
ensued.

4,I4DI7'ERRANEA4 ,

SICILY, JUNE 6.

" A Greek vessei, loaded in the pert of Naplex,
navigating under an Ottoman flag, and carrying a
British licence, (the property entiiely British,) a sew
weeks since was encountered in the bay of Naples br
three Sicii;ari privateers. The vessel was boarded,
the crew plundered, and Mr. Campbell, a British mer-
chant, the proprietor of the cargo, with the whole of
the crew, three only excepted, were inhumanly turned
adrift. in a small boat, and left to the mercy of •he
waves. The vessel was afterwards brought int• ole
port of Pali rmo by these pirates, and the Sicilian
prize-court were proceeding to a summary Adjudica-
tion of the case, on the evidence given by th.• crews
of the privateers, that the vessel was found at sea
abandoned.

" Mr. Campbell; in the mean time, found his w.'y
once more to Naples, instantly made his regular pro-
test in the American Consulate there against tl:t. all-
thors of this piratical act, and hiring a small hoar,
soon afterwards reached the port ut Falerrpo ; where,
applying to the British naval Commander, Rear-Ad-
miral Bayles, and exhibiting his regular protest, he
demanded British protection, and permission to go
on board his vessel, chiefly for the purpose of preverz-
ins plunder, until the case was adjudicated, but incre
particol.trly to obtain possession of his British licence,
still conceded on board.
Rear. Admiral Boyles, falling in with his reason-
able request in this particular, immediately sent no.
tice to the British Consul, Mr. Fagan, requesting his
attendance, whilst he put Mr. Campbell and the crew
again on board the vessel. Mr. Fagan suggested the
propriety of giving notice previously to the Consul-
tore of the Sicilian prize tribunal of this inunt.un,
the propriety of which the Admiral acquiesced in,
' and notice was conveyed to the office to this effect by
the English Vice-Consul, Mr. Walsh. 'l* Consul-
tore, however, was not to be found ; but Mr. Fagan
dreading the consequence of delay, accompanied
met/lately the Admiral's boat, wit` the Lieutenant of
the Canopus, followed by Mr. Campbell and the
Greek crew, in their own boat ; and, by the Admi-
ral's direction, Mr. Campbell and the Greek crew
wefe put on board, intimating, at the same time, to
the Sicilian crew- of the privateer, that they might
likewise remain, until the case was decided by the
pro:ess of law.
46 The consequence of this proceeding was Mr. Ft.
gan's immediate suspension by the Sicilian Goverr•
mein from his official duties the Greek vessel was
_ .