7? tHE BEE, OR Jan. 21, 



tion of allies on either fide. Thus did thefe two potentates, 

 as ufual, contentedly fit down with their refpeftive loffes, 

 ■ivithout having obtained any other benefit by the conteft, 

 except a few empty laurels, which both monarchs were will- 

 ing to claim, as a finall indemnification for the great loffes 

 their fubjefts had fullained by the fruitlefs conteft. 

 Germany. 



The late Emperor, who was rafh in all his ent^rprizes, 

 defpotic in council, fickle in his temper, and mean in the 

 conduft of his private affairs, was continually projefting 

 n^w enterprifes, and ever unfuccefsful in executing them, 

 had brought himfelf into embarraffments, from which death 

 alone could happily have extricated him. At a time when 

 his condnft had alienated the affeflions of his Belgic fub- 

 je£ls, with the hope, no doubt, of extending his empire on 

 that fide, he had been induced by the court of Ruflia to 

 engage in a war againft the Turks; but having taken it 

 into his head to command his army in perfon, he had the 

 mortification to fe6 his baneful influence extended to the 

 army, and the fuccefs that might have been expe£led from 

 fuch mighty preparations retarded. 



l"he ignorance, obftinacy, and inhumanity of this man, 

 cannot be better exemplified than by the following anec- 

 dote, which I had from the beft authority. When in the 

 campaign of 1788, the Danube formed the boundary be- 

 tween the two armies, the Emperor took poffeflion of a fmall 

 itland in it, very near the northern fliore, on wliich lie 

 placed a picquet guard of thirty men. The Turks with that 

 ra(h bravery which charafterifed moll of their enterprifes, at 

 that time, attacked this fmall party from boats. They were 

 obferved approaching j and though nothing would have 

 been more eafy than for the Auftrians to have repulfed 

 them, by fending a fuperior force to fupport the picquet ; 

 and though all the generals folicited permiffion to do it, the 

 Emperor flood unmoved, and faw the Turks deliberately 

 cut off the heads of his thirty men, without making an at- 

 tempt to fave them, 



Af er he thought proper to withdraw from the fcene of ac- 

 tion, the general, infome meafure, retrieved his affairs in that 

 quarter, though at the time of the Er.-.peror's death, he had 



