8 «—- OPigixal enmir's of the 
ig 
Burut 3d. Peace was concluded with 
Sweden, without the mediation.of any 
ether power. Auge 28th; 29th. An 
engagement cn the Euxine, not far from 
Chodfhabey, between the Rufian Admi- 
gai Ufkakoff, and the capudan pafha; . 
when the principal Turkith fhip, of $e 
guns, was burnt, one of 70 guns ana 
three others taken, the Admira! Said 
Bey being made prifoner, and another 
fSip funk, the reft made off. Sepremaer 
goth. A great victory obtained over the 
"Parks by General Germann, with much 
flaughter, the Serafkicr Batal Bey and 
the whole camp taken. O€tober 13th. 
Kilia furrenders to Major Ribbas.. No- 
wember 6th, 7th. The fortrels Culthha 
and the Turkih flotillataken. Decem- 
Ber rst. The important-fertrefs of H- 
mail, after a ftorming for feven hours 
without intermiflion,furrenders to Count 
Suvoroff Kymnikiki, with the garrifon 
of 42,000 men, 30,316 were flain on the 
fpot; 2000 died of their wounds, g00e 
taken prifoners, 265 picces of cannon, 
an incredible ftore of ammunition, &c. 
The Ruffians lof& only 1815 killed, and 
2450 wounded. ~ 
_m7gre Marck 2sth—31f%. The cam- 
paign opered by the troops under the 
coramiand of Prince Potemkin Tavritthe- 
Skoi, not far from Brailof, when the 
Turks were defeated in feveral battles, 
in which they loft upwards of 4000 men. 
June sth. The troops under General 
Golenitfhef Kutufoff, near Tuittha, 
drove the ‘Turks befend the Danube, 
and at Babada entirely routed a body of 
$5,000 men, of whom 1500 were left 
dead upon the place. 22d. Phe fortrefs 
Anap was taken by ftorm, when the 
whole garrifon, confiiting of 25,000men, 
were put to the ford, excepting 1000 
who were taken prvoners. 28th. The 
troops under the command cf Prince 
Repnin, attacked the Turkifh army, 
eoufifting of near 80,000 men, command- 
ed be che Grand Vizw Yuffuf Patha, 
$-Pathas, 2 Tartar Sultans, and z Boys 
ef Anatolia, and after a bloody battle of 
fix hours, entirely routed them; soco 
Purks were killed in their flight, June 
28th. Sudfkuk Kale taken. July 3xft, 
Admiral Ufhakoff beats the Purkith 
Feet on the coafts of Rumelia. 314, 
Phe General'in Chief, Prince Repnin, 
and the Grand Vizir, Yuffuf Pafha,con- 
¢lude and fign the preliminary articles of 
peace between the Ruffian empire and 
the Otreman Porte; by which the Dnie!+ 
te? ismade the boundary of the two em~ 
pires, with the caMion of tay counteics 
Late Emprofs of Raffa. © {Sup 
lying between the Bog and the Dnicter 
to Rufia, Anguft 15th, 16th, At Pill. 
nitz, near Drefden, a Congrels was hy 
by the Emperor of Germany, the King 
of Pruffia, the Eleétor of Saxony, the 
Count d’ Artois, &c. &e &e. 
Tt would be impoffible here to: do juf- 
tice to the chara¢terof this extraordinary 
fovereign. Born with frrong natural ca- 
pacities, the had negleéted no: means of 
their improvement ; and, from the mo- 
ment fhe afcended the threne, fhe feemms 
to have devoted her talents to the im- 
provement and profperity of her empire. 
Inthe bufinefs of goyernment her sy- 
duftry and application are almeft. unex~ 
ampled; while her minifters dilcharged 
the routine of their feveral departments, 
the was confulting the more arduous exi- 
gencies of both domeftic andforeign con- 
cerns, Her time of rifing was generally 
between five and fix in the morning, 
and, in the long winters of that chmate, 
the was ufually at buiivefs three or four 
hours before day-break. She was not 
lefs temperate than induftrious ; fhe ufu- 
ally fat down to dinner at one; never 
remained long at table; and: her time of 
going to reft was about ten at night. 
Fhe uncommon evenneis of her temper 
may, perhaps, be attributed in 2 great 
meafure tothe regularity and temperance 
of her life. Her perfpicacity was fuch, 
that fhe was feldom miftaken im pertons 
almoft at their firft appearance. So me- 
thodical was fhe in rhe difribution of 
her time, that, amid the various cares of 
adminiftration, the great benefits fhe was 
contriving and beftowing on-her vait em= 
pire, it was not one of the leat thag 
fhe could allot fo much of it to the edu 
cation of her grand-children. Atl ma- 
nifeftoes and ftate papers were of her 
original compofition. © She encouraged 
induftry; fhe liberally rewagded merit} 
fhe invited arts and talents from every 
foreign nation, to improve and adorn hex 
own extenfive empire. She was the mu- 
nificent patronefs of literature im every 
country of Europe; fhe majutatned the 
fecurity of her fubje&ts by» an impartial 
adminiftration of juice; the conveked 
deputies from all she pravinegs of the 
empire to preparea rational and uniform 
cade of laws, the inftruétiensfor which, 
being aevery thiok folio, is notonly of 
her own gompofition; but gntircly in her 
own hand-writing;-and what aboye all 
is worthy of being remcrobered: 40 her 
jmmortal honour, fhe gyanted qmany 
franchifes go the peafants on her owa 
demefnes; fhe onjained that ail canis 
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