Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-10-06

fren. me entrance OF the Tpgks into !,
81 TIL the obstruction Of kan.aAuz.,,.
corps.
after the Greeks left StinL, q,
resolved TO intrench themselves ~, ~
right Of the Pruth. near SkuIem
there wait for the Turks. The lnt,ana"
ments which were thrown up n.,, "
house of one PsPasoslu, opposite to sI'
leni, were occupied BY Kanlakuze,o b'"
self; Pendedeka advanced On tie ro.a.
Wasilli; another corpse under Tfi,r.,
Bascha moved towards Roman. to ,scon
nol,re the strength Of tie Turks W.
Pendedeka saw that the Turks were a
yancing towards Skuleni, he wisbso y.
anticipate them, and set out thi,ber
the night or lie 26th. On the 9th SOW
Arnsuts were sti!l at Jassy, plumber
the church OF saint Ssws snG some hon..
At eleven liz the forenoon some sbo,.a
heard The Arnauts fed out of the to,.
and FROM the roof OF the houses. and 80
er elevated situations, the Turks NO.,
seen In full march to the place. All tL,
could, sought to escape. Among tbsr
was the writer, who went 10 Skuleni hr,
on account Of the number of fusi,,e.
could not pass the Pruth till the 18th
On the same Gay kautakuzeno aud POI,
Oedeka went into the Russian terri,s,v
Towards evening, some shots were heard
on the side Of Stinka, and the confu.io,
gradually increased. On the zsth, at
4. NJ the Turks advanced, anc sttsclsi
the Greeks in their intrenc hmenn Tia
latter had some cannon, but the Turkish
artillery had not come up The fgktjps
continued eight hours without much 3D.
vantage to the Turks, till at last their
artillery arrived, and they opened oe..
tructive fire, by which the Greeks wee
reduced 40 or SO men. These ende,.
vored to escape by fight, but most OF them
persisted In the attempt to swim over the
Pruth, which was much swe!led Scarce.
ly was this combat over when about 700
Arnauts came up, under the command of
the sersian Wolwode Milanowich, Of
Tehtschi Bascha, and capt. Spiro. Igno.
ran, of what had PASSED, they at first
took the Turks for their friends. Wien
they saw their mistake, but were not in.
formed of the strength Of the enemy,
they attac Sed them, and discovered 90
late that success was not to be expet.
ted. Tuftschi and Spiro with about
40 men, fell into the hands of the Turks.
The others escaped to the other SIDE OF the
Pruth, to The Russian quarantine house, No.
2. Milanow icb, with Capt. Gika and 40 0,
fifty men, stood al the pass near Skull n,
where the Scbiset falls into the Pruih. and
defended themselves braveIy ill night The
Turks could not u e the heavy artillery, be-
cause the opposite bank was covered with
thousands OF spectators, and the Russian
commander replied TO the Turks, OF their
! inquifing whether they could fight near Their
frontier, that he could not Interfere in this
respect, hut be wsrned them 10 take care
that no ball tell on the Russian territory SO
TO do any damage there. As the Turks could
not hinder such an ACCIDENT, and could nO
from any other side they tell back. and Nj
IanowIch seized this opportunity to escaP,
with Ten or fifteen men, IL Is not known WhI
lher. The others fed into the Russian Ter
rllory. The Russian commander in Tkslen
was the whole tiTe on the left bank OF ih'
Pruth. AID reminded the Turks 81 h4s warn
ing when they appeared TO forget II fb'
Greeks. " IN kaniahuzeno, were taken Il
the Quarantine al Skuleni, registered, y io
the pres ent placed under guard.
On HE frontiers near Zureni, many dis
persed Greeks are wandering about 10 at
tack Turks that they may meet alone.
Deli Pacha, who commands small dr.
vision IN Bottuschan, showed himself very
friendly to tn Austrian Agency, and promI
Sc that not the slightest INJURY should be dot
TO any Austrian subject. tigh cen Turks "
were at SuezaWa, and obtained boIses lTol
the BoyaIds, v,nt TO Molds'ia, and arrived
safety al Bo,uscLan In short time, II Il
probable, there u III not be Greek remain
ing in Mo!dayia."
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