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felf, to the place where the cannonading 
was, which had come remarkably nearer. 
After walking ten miles, a» Coffack’s 
horfe came running full fpeed againft me ; 
I mounted him, and followed the report 
of the diftant cannon. One may now 
imagine all the mifery of human life to 
be here united.——For feven miles and 
a half on this fide the field of battle, I 
found the dead and wounded lying on the 
ground, fadly cut in pieces, ‘Ihe farther 
I advanced, the more thefe poor creatures 
Jay heaped one upon another. ‘This f{cene 
I fhall never forget.—The Coffacks, as 
foon as they faw me, cried out, O! wa- 
ter, water! water !—-—Righteous God, 
what a fight! men, women, children, 
Ruffians, and Pruffians, horfes, oxen, 
powder-chefts, baggage. waggons, and car- 
riages, all lying in one heap, over this 
immenfe fpace, to’ the height of a man! 
—Seven of the moft opulent and fneft vil- 
lages in this neighbourhood all on fire, and 
the inhabitants cither mafflacred or thrown 
into the flames. 
“¢ The wounded ftill fired at each other 
in the greateft exafperation, and I was in 
no little danger of my life among them. 
—The field of battle was a fine plain, al- 
moft two miles and a half long; and this 
whole plain was fo covered with the dead 
and wounded, that there was not room for 
me to fet my foot without treading on 
fome of them.—-—Several brooks were fo 
filled up with the Ruffians, that I can af- 
firm with truth, they lay heaped up one 
upon another as high as two men, and 
appeared like hills+-—I could fcarcely 
recover myfelf from.the fright occafioned 
by the great and miferable out-cry of the 
dying..-—-A noble Pruffian officer, who 
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had both his’ legs fhot off, cried out to 
me, ‘* Sir, you are a Prieft, and preach. 
mercy 3 pray fhew that compaffion to me, 
which God has not for me, and difpatch 
me at once.”” This fo touched my heart, 
that I rode off as faft as poffible. - 
** I count the lofs of the Ruffian army 
to be twenty thoufand killed ; and in all,. 
thirty-fix thoufand. The fire from the 
cannon has done the greateft flaughter, 
fince it was no otherwife than as if for 
four hours running one had heard but a 
continued’ thunder-clap. Our whole 
lofs does not exceed nine thoufand.” 
ABRIDGMENT OF THE BREVIARY, 
THE JESUITS. 
It is well known that the Romith church 
enjoins her priefts daily to recite the dre- 
viary, confifting of a long colle&tion of 
prayers and pfalms, and legends, &c. &c. 
called matins, lauds, vefpers, &c. Bue 
BY 
to eafe them of this burthen, the follow- 
ing fubftitute was found out, which does 
honour tothe inventive genius of the con- 
triver. It is copied from a loofe printed 
leaf in an old breviary, formerly belonging 
to the Jefuits. 
Ritus breviffiimus recitandi Breviarium. 
Primuim dicatur Pater et Ave, deinde - 
a.o.c.d.e.f.g hi. k.l.m.n.o. p 
Gers site mw. x.y. 2, 
V. per hoc alpbabetum totum. Allelujia. 
R. compofitum Breviarum totum. Allelujia. 
Oremus. Deus, qui ex viginti quatuor 
litteris totam Sacram Scripturam et Ere 
Viarium iftud’ componi voliifti, junge, 
disjunge, fac, difpone, accipe ex his viginti 
quatuor litteris Matutinum cum Laudibus, 
Primam, Sextam; Nonam, Velperas et 
Completorium. 
noftrum. 
a 
-PROCEEDINGS.OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. . 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 
FRANCE, 
NOTICE of the LaBowurs of the cLAss of 
LITERATURE and FINE ARTS, during 
the FIRST QUARTERLY SITTING of 
the YEAR NINE; 4y F. J. G. LAPORTE 
DU THIEL. 
HERE had hitherto remained to Eu- 
ropeans a confiderable void in the 
annals of Weftern Afia; Citizen Lanc- 
LES has attemped to fil] up this void, by 
prefenting us with a Chronological Abridge- 
ment of the Hiftory of the Khans of the 
Crimea. It was in the year 1237 that 
this country paffed under the domina:: 
_ the too famous Djingugz Khan. 
tion of the Moghols, commanded then by 
Tt con- 
tinued under the obedience of that con- 
queror and his defcendants, till the time 
wherein one of the princes of his race, 
Mengheli-Guérat, aflited by the Sultan 
Mohhammed, eftablifhed »himfelf in the 
Crimea, and formed it into a particular 
ftate under the immediate protection of 
the Sovereion Othoman, who referved to 
himfelf the right-of naming and of de- 
pofing the Khan of Little Tartary. Af- 
ter numerous and bloody revolutions, of 
which Citizen Langles traces out a fylla- 
bus and remarks. the’ authentic dates, the 
Crimea, which the Czars of Ruffia had ha- 
marty. Wee _ bitually 
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