Hijlorical Chronicle. 



IX 



The Peace betwixt the Cza- It may appear extraordinary, 

 rina and the Porte was finally that the burial ground around 

 concluded at Galacz on the nth Conftantinopk extends now in 

 of Auguft, on the terms pro- , every direftion fourteen miles', 

 pofed bv the Britifli and Pruf- | fo great for fome years have 

 iian mediators. been the ravages comoiitted on 



■ The Plague, according to the i the human fpecies. 

 lateft accounts, j-ages with un-j Sir Robert Ainflie, and all 

 common furv at Grand Cairo, \ the Foreign Ambalfadors, re- 

 in Egypt. During one tort- fide on the oppofite (ide of the 

 hight about 1600 p.rfons had 1 Bofphorus, where the dread- 

 periflied e?.ch day : and great fill cffcds of the malady havs 



apprehenfions wei'e entertain 

 cd by the inhabitants that this 

 public calamity would rather 

 encreafe than diminiih, till the 

 fall of the Nile, when it gradu- 

 ally fubfides. 



Conftantinople had' alfo ex- 

 perienced its fatal effedts ; for 

 nearly one month upwards of 

 500 a-day having died. The 

 narrownefs of the ftreets, by 

 which the ingrefs and t-gerf; 



not been felt. No intercourfe 

 whatever is held with the 

 neighbouring families, the im- 

 pending danger impelling every 

 Ambaffador to provide for his 

 own fafety. 



It continues to rage with e- 

 qual violence at Adrianople ; 

 and the troops who have arriv- 

 ed fi'om that part of the army 

 appointed tooppofetheprogrcfs 

 of the Ruffians, havefuffered fe- 



of carriages have always been verdy, 5000 having been buri- 

 preciuded, renders the malady ed in the courfe of ten days. 

 much more infccTl'ous and 1 Smyrna has likewife been 

 alarming. I vilitei by this irrefiftible difor- 



It is, hoNrever, a curious der ; and the natives have been 

 fadt related by traveller', thit obliged to fuflain a temporary 

 the plague is fel lom equally ftagnation of commerce v?ith 

 deitrudtive to the various na- foreign powers, 

 tions who refide in this c ty. [ Tne Nile has rifen higher 

 Of the Turk«^, J-r.vs, Armeni- this year than known for ages 

 ans, and Gr eks, who form the paft. It .had early in the month 

 prir.cipal inh.bitants, thL car- of J- y rif.-n 19 cubits, 

 nage ha b. en ch.cfly coi'fined j T e Pachas )r Diarbeck,Da- 

 to the firft dcfcription of i-:*o- ' mas, Acre, and Aleppo, have all 

 pie, while few, in compcirifon ■ renounced their allegiance to 



of t'le others, have fallen vic- 

 tims to itsfiry. 



The rcmedik.s applied by an 

 inhabitant of the (hores of the 

 Eiixine Sea, who forne years 

 ago cured 700 perfons of the 

 plague, have been adminiftred 

 in vain to the affli(fled. 



the Grand Signior. The Pacha 

 of Damas has plundered the 

 caravan going to Mecca, and 

 difperfed all the pilgrims ; and 

 the Pacha of Acre has expelled 

 the French merchants, not- 

 withftandingthe firmand which 

 they received from the Sub- 

 lime Porte. 



