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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[224 S. Ne 23., June 7. 56, 
news is worth extracting, as bearing on the Rus- 
sian question : 
«“ Vienna, Feb. 8.— Letters from Adrianople, of the 
28th of January, advise, that the whole Ottoman Army 
was to rendezvous there the 28th of March, and immedi- 
ately to march to Jassy in Moldavia, 40 Leagues from 
Bender. The Sultan, who was there with his whole 
Court, had sent a principal Aga to the King of Sweden, 
for his Majesty to move with his whole Army, which, it 
was believ’d, would be done before the End of January. 
The Cham of Tartary had Orders to conduct his Majesty, 
and to fall upon his Enemies wheresoever he met them. 
Many Polish Noblemen were lately come again to Bender, 
who assur’d, that most of the Poles would declare for 
Stanislaus and join the King of Sweden as soon as his 
Majesty appear’d in Poland. It is believ’d at Adrianople 
that the Sultan’s Design is to drive the Muscovites out 
of the Ukrain, to make the Natives of that Country in- 
dependent of Muscovy, and by that Means to obstruct 
the Czar’s raising any Recruits of Foot there, as also to 
secure Crim Tartary. We are not here without Appre- 
hensions of the Turks attempting something against the 
Emperor, because of his obliging the Imperial Minister 
to depart before his Time, on Pretence that he gave Ad- 
vice to the Polish Envoy Goltz, who lay at his House, 
and to the Muscovite Ministers, against the King of 
Sweden, and appear’d partial for them.” 
It is now matter of history, that the king of 
Sweden (Charles XII.) did penetrate into the 
Ukraine, but was defeated at Pultawa (1709), and 
that he took refuge in Turkey ; that the Sultan 
(Ahmed III.) tried in vain to get rid of him; 
that he deposed his Grand Vizier, Ali Chorlili, 
who had brought the king into the Ukraine, and 
raised Baltagi Mohammed to the Grand Vizir- 
ship; but that the intrigues of Charles prevailed 
in the Divan, and war was declared with Russia. 
Peter the Great, flushed with his late success, 
allowed himself to be surrounded on the Pruth, 
and eventually purchased the peace of Falezy by 
the restoration of Azof, and by other humiliating 
concessions. Here, however, it seems.that a more 
severe blow might have been struck had it not 
been for the usual policy of Russia, corruption by 
bribery, the timid policy of the Porte, and the 
treason of Baltagi Mohammed. The emperor 
here spoken of, in the last paragragh, was Charles 
VI., against whom the Porte declared war, un- 
wisely fancying that, because Austria was then 
weaker than Russia, it was more to his benefit 
and that of his country to subdue her. The re- 
sult, however, was the defeat at Peterwaradin, the 
disbanding of the Turks at Belgrade, and the 
peace of Passarowicz, by which the Sultan ceded 
to Austria the banat of Temesvar, the western 
arts of Wallachia and Servia, with Belgrade, as 
well as all his Venetian conquests, except the 
Morea. From this blow, Turkey never recovered 
her influence in Europe. 
Then follow extracts from the Gazette a la 
Main, and a postscript (equal to our second edi- 
tions) containing the latest news from Holland. 
We have also a list of Sermons for the week 
[‘‘ Mr. Sherlock” among the preachers], the bills 
of mortality [‘christen’d 313, bury’d 343! de- 
creas'd in the latter 69”]; the prices of corn, 
the assize of bread, prices of stocks (speet prizes*), 
standing orders for the lotteries, course of ex- 
change, and state of the exchequer. A few 
advertisements follow; the first for a periwig- 
maker’s shop in Threadneedle Street, and the 
other three for quack medicines of the all-heal 
kind: the last being singular for stating, that 
“acute rheumatism and gout are cousin-german 
in degree,” and are therefore only to be cured by 
a “German gentlewoman at a linendraper’s shop, 
next door to the ‘Fountain Tavern.” The im- 
print runs thus: 
“ Pondon : Printed by Hugh Moore [Meere] at the 
Black Fryer in Black Fryers. Where, and at the Sun-Fire- 
Office, Advertisements are taken in.” 
The whole newspaper amounts to six pages of 
foolscap, which might easily be got into a column 
of the Times, if set in their smallest type. 
I have compared the extracts in the above with 
the original, and have made a few corrections. 
Avon LEA. 
OLD JOKES. 
“ When Porson was told that Prettyman had been left 
a large estate by a person who had a him only once, 
he said, ‘It would not have happened the person had 
seen him twice.’ ”— Table Talk of Samuel Rogers, “ Por- 
soniana,” p. 319. 
“T owe, says Metius, much to Colon’s care; 
Once only seen he chose me for his heir. 
True Metius, hence your fortunes take their rise, 
His heir you were not had he seen you twice.” 
The epigram is in most collections. The names 
Metius and Colon suggest a Latin original, but I 
have not been able to find it. 
Horses and men (2™ §. i. 114.) — 
“A society called the Hippophagi has been established 
in Paris. ‘hat well-known writer, Alphonse Karr, says, 
‘The horse has carried the man long enough; it is now 
time for the man to carry the horse.’ ” 
“Bene me admonuit domina mea. In prospectu ha~ 
buimus ursine frustum, de quo cum imprudens Scintilla 
gustasset, pene intestina sua vomuit. Ego contra plus 
libram comedi, nam ipsum aprum sapiebat. Et si, inquam, 
ursus homuncionem comest, quanto magis debet homun- 
cio ursum comesse?” — Petronti Arbitrt Satyricon, cap. 
Ixvi. p. 196., ed Anton. 
“A, Muxkés ya aos odTos. 
B. ’AAN’ arav xaxov.” — Acharnenses, 1. 909, 
Expanded by Dryden: 
“With all his bulk there’s nothing lost in Og, 
For every inch that is not fool is rogue.” 
Absalom and Achitophel, pt. ii. 
Spoiled by Bulwer : 
“Dicxopolis, in the Acharnenses, in presenting a gen- 
* What does this mean? Query, is it not a misprint 
for “spelt prizes.” It is spelt so in orig. 
