HISTORICAL CHRONICLE, 



SHORT CHRONICLE 



OF EVENTS. 



[JUNE 15. 1 791.] 



FOREIGN. 



X HE RufTians continue pur- 

 fuing their advantages againft 

 the Turks. After the taking 

 of Mackfchin, Prince Gallitzin 

 marched to the peni'ifnia of 

 Kiichepanv, oppofite Brailow, 

 where he fonnd the flotilla un- 

 der General Ribas, who had 

 landed two batta'lions upon 

 the perinfula, which induced 

 the Turks to quit the redoubts, 

 and throw great part of their 

 cannon into the Danube : In 

 their flight thev fet tire to every 

 thing, and paflTed to an ifland 

 oppofite, where they entrench- 

 ed thcmfelves ; however, the 

 Ruffian troops purfiied them, ■ 

 and having raifcd a battery in | 

 the night, began to fire upon 

 them in the morning ; and not- 

 withflanding the Turkiih forti- 

 "fication was covered by the 

 iieavy artillery of Brailow and 

 the Tarkiili Ihips, yet the Ruf- 

 fians took it by ftorm. All the 

 Turkifli vcfll'ls were either de- 

 ftroyed or i:pndered ufelefs ;_ 

 the f^arrifon were moftfy either 

 cut to pieces or drowned in 

 the Danube; the Ruflians were 

 employed two days in defiroy- 

 ing the entrenchments. Out 

 ot tv,'ci;ty pieces of cann^^n, 



the R.ii(rians have taken feren- 

 teen ; befides which they took 

 prifoners a Pacha of threelail*, 

 and a hundred other officers. 

 The Ti.rks had 4000 men kil- 

 led or drowned, and twenty- 

 two large and fma'.I vefTels de- 

 ftroyed. After this important 

 victory, the Ruffians returned 

 to their poft with twenty-lix 

 pieces of cinnon, 9000 car- 

 touche boxes, 5 ftandards, and 

 27 pair of colours. 



In the beginning of May, the 

 Grand Vizir, after reinforcing 

 Brailow with 10,000 men, de- 

 tached fome corps aijainlt the 

 Ruffians, which were diftribut- 

 ed in different parts, and ob- 

 liged them to raife the blockad^ 

 of Zackanali, with the lofs of 

 700 men, and ■^6 officers killed, 

 belides many prifoners, and 19 

 pieces of cannon. The Turks 

 deftroyed or took all the vtlfels 

 laden with provilions which the 

 Ruffians had affembled at Za- 

 ckanali. 



The plague continues to 

 fpread in the Morea ; and all 

 that kingdom, two or three 

 cities and a few villages ex- 

 cepted, is now infected with it. 

 By the lafi advices it apn^'ars, 

 that there have died of that 

 dilbrder at Napoli of Romania 



