The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1828-08-14
kGusIy lee LAas.pua before Rndschuk, and

che Turks at Bayne. They defended them.
selves with desperate ValOr,bu were at length
defeated with the lOss Of $4,000 men in killed
and wounded and Radschuk was compelled
Ia surrender, and all the Turkish fOtllla lying
before it, and GiurdziO on the other side. In
order to create diversion, the Turks now
sent feet into the Black Sea, and threaten
cd an attack on the Crimea. NOtwithstand-
ing this. the Russians concentrated their for
ces in Bulgaria,and the Grand ViZir was obi
ged to retreat before them, reCrOss the Bacan,
and take up position at Adrianope; leaving,
however, the strong and impregnahle fortress
SEES of Varna on the sea-cOaSt, and Shumla at
the ascent of the mountains, well secured at
the other side. The feeble Selin, and his
successor Mustapha, had both been strangled;
and Mahomed had been called to the throne,
who eventhen displayed the vigOr which has
since distinguished him. He set up the stand
ard of the Prophet at Daud Pasha, a large
plain two miles from ConstantinOpIe, and is
sued hatti-sherif, that all Mussulmen should
rally around it, In this way he assembled,in
short time, large army; and appointed a
new Grand Vizir, whom he sent on with the
troops, and returned to the city. The new
Vizir, Ahmed Aga, was man of the same
energy as the Sultan. He Immediately de-
tached corps of Russians in Bulgaria to re-
cross the Danube, and made fierce attack
upon Rudschuk, defended by the Russian
General Kutusof The Russians, hard pres
sed, transported the inhabitants to the other
side of the river, set fire to the town in four
quarters, and then retreatrd themselves. The
Turks rushed into the burning town, put
stop to the confagration, and took up their
position there. The Grand Vizir having thus
driven the Russians to the opposite shore,
was determined to follow them: and he made
the attempt in three places, Wddin, Rad
schuk, and Sistia. He succeeded at Widdin,
and established thirty thousand men at Wal
lachia. He also succeeded at Radschuk, took
possession of large island in the river called
Slobodse. and. in perfect confidence, passed |
the greater part ofhs army to the other side,
and established them 10 an intrenthed camp. |
Kutusof was not idle he Immediately avail |
ed himself of the Vizir's passing over, and de- |
tached eight thousand men, under the com
mand of Gen. MarkOf, to attack the camp he |
left behind. A Turkish camp is formed with |
out any regularity. The Grand Vizir's tent |
is always conspicuous in the centre, and be |
comes the nucleus round which all the rest |
are pitched, as every man chooses to place
them. 1t is, however, their strong hold, to
which they always retire, as Il wild animal to
its lair; and they defend it with the same |
ferceness and Obstinacy. On this occasion |
they were completely suprizrd ; the whole of
the camp, including the generals tent, fell in
TO the hands of the Russians, and tie fugitive
Turks crowded into Rudschuk. Here they
were cannOnaded by the artillery of their
own abandoned camp. and General LANCE
ron, from the other side, directed an hundred
pieces Of cannon to bear upon them. This
was the last effort Of the combatants. The
Turks who had entered Wallachia at Widdin,
retired to the other side, and the Grand Viz
ir, having received great reinfOrcements, con-
centrated them at Rudschuk : hut while the
cOmbatants were preparing to renew the san
culinary conflict, the exhausted state of the |
one, and the critical state of the other inva-
ded by the French, induced them to come to |
an accommodation; and the peace Of Bucha-
rest, concluded in 1919, gave another acces-
sion of territory to the Russians, extending
their frontier from the Dniester to the Pruth,
and assigning to them all the country that lay
between the two rivers, Bessaraba, and
considerable part of Moldavia. The Russians
withdrew from the provinces of Walachia
and MOdavia, which they had occupied for
seven years, and have never since entered
them.-They are now, however, in appear
ance about to renew the: desperate conflicts,
and dye the Danube with blood and the
general opinion is, that they will meet with
no effectual opposition in their further pro
press but certainly the events of the last
Campaign should induce us to adopt differ
ent opinion. They awaited themselves of a |
moment of their enemy's weakness, and ad-
yanced. with little opposition, to that river:-
here they stopped; and after very san.
culinary and persevering conflict of six years,
we find them, at the end of that period. still |
on its shores. Whenever they attempted to
proceed beyond it, they We're driven back
with carnage and single town, scarcely
fortified, as contemplate in the eyes, as it |
would be weak in. the hands of European
troops, efftctuay arrested their career. Should
they force this artificial barrier, they have to
encounter natural one, infinitely more for
midable, and that u.s. the Balkan mountains
Over this great rampant there are five practi-
cable passrs-one from Sophia to Tartar Baz-
argic two from Ternoya, by Keisanlik and
Selymina and two from Shumla, by Car
habat and Raidhos. The three first lead to
Adrianople; and the two last directly to Con-
stantinople. Ofthese, the roads by Ternova
are the most difficult. Any Of the passes, how
ever. do not appear impracticable for Turkish
spahls. These are a kind feudal cavalry,
possessing hereditary lands on the tenure Of