HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. 



SHORT CHRONICLE 



OF EVENTS. 



[may 25. 1 791.] 



FOR.EIGK. 



J. HE campaign between the 

 Ruffians and Turks has al- 

 ready commenced. Whilftwe 

 thought that both their armies 

 were quiet in the r Winter 

 quarters. Prince Gallitzin paf- 

 fcd the Danube, below Ifaccia, 

 on the 6th April, with 4,000 

 men, and attacked a corps of 

 Turks encamped alonej the 

 river, whom they totally de- 

 feated. Two days after that, 

 they took Mackfchin, and made 

 prifonersof waraPachaofthree 

 tails, another of two, Haflan 

 Samfunzi Bafla, the greateft 

 favourite of the prefent Grand 

 V zir, and who was fent there 

 to regulate the warlike opera- 

 tions, befides Ibrahim Bafla, 

 and fixty officers, with a vaft 

 number of privates, and nine 

 pieces of brafs ordnance. The 

 Turks are faid to h?.ve had 

 2000 men kilkd, and among 

 them many foreign Officers. 



The plague, which has juft 

 fabfided in Conltantinople, has 

 been fucceeded by a dreadful 

 fire, which has dellroyed houf- 

 rs, v/arehouffs, &c. to a con- 

 siderable amount. 



A prophecy of Mahomet has 

 "cen very f.'sfonably produ- 

 d 



ced, that in the year 179T 

 (of our sra) the arms of his 

 children would be conftantly 

 viaorious, A fort of counter- 

 prediSlon has, indeed, been 

 ftarted againft this ; that, in 

 the fame year, the Ottoman 

 Empire would change its Maf- 

 ter : but the author of this, a 

 Prieft of the order of Lantons, 

 has been impaled alive, ani" his 

 prophecy has fallen into dlfre^ 

 pute. 



The congrefs at Siftove con- 

 tinues in a ilate of indecifion. 

 It has fat now more than three 

 months, and not one refolution 

 is the refult of their delibera- 

 tions. 



The Revolution has produ- 

 ced a rebellion in a fouthern 

 province of France called Com- 

 tat Venaiflin, which has occali- 

 oned much bloodflied, and we 

 fhall therefore relate the parti- 

 culars. 



The combined Army of the 

 Infurgents, or of that party, in 

 the Comtat, who oppofc its re- 

 union with France, and whofe 

 principal ftrength lies in Car- 

 pcntras, pofiTcfTed themfelves, 

 in the beginning of April, of Sar- 

 rians, Mnzan, Caromb, Bar- 

 roux, and a number of other 

 fmaller Municipalities. Oa the 



