Gazette Of The United States

The Ruffians are now masters of the mouth and of both sides the Dniester, and when the accounts came away, were going to turn the blockade of Bender into a regular siege. This town, it is thought, cannot hold out long, as all communication with it, both by land and by the Black Sea, is now entirely cut off.

The messenger who brought this news to Vienna carried with him some links of chains, in which the Grand Vizier intended to have bound the Austrian troops, whom he hoped to have made prisoners of war. A great many waggons were loaded with chains which fell into the hands of the Prince de Coubourg after his victory at Martinesti on the 22d of September.

One of these chains weighed two quintals and a half, and was 14 feet long, and was calculated to bind five prisoners.

As the Grand Vizier expected to make the whole of the Prince's forces prisoners of war, some judgement may be formed of the number of those chains, as well as of the waggons which carried them.

The Emperor gave orders that these horrid trophies should be placed in the arsenal, there to remain as monuments not only of the savage cruelty of the Turks, but also of their shameful defeat.

Three regiments have received orders to march to the Netherlands, two of them are horse, namely, Coubourg's and Keifer's light dragoons.

Accounts were received at Vienna from Jassy, in Moldavia, that the Austrians had again defeated the Turks near Brailow, taken 30 pieces of cannon from them and made themselves masters of that town.

Vafow was taken without a shot.

Marshal Laudohn intends, before he puts his army into winter quarters, to penetrate further into Servia, in three different directions: one by Zwornick and Ufilzai, another by Nya, and the third by Orfova.

Widdin is to be bombarded; and 18 battalions of foot, and all the light horse, had been actually sent on that service.

The Marshal gave a magnificent entertainment to the late Governor of Belgrade and his principal officers, before they were sent away to a Turk fortress.

It is reported that the Marshal asked the Pasha what could have been his reason for surrendering, in so short a time, a fortress of so much importance, that was so amply provided with stores and ammunition, and might, in the opinion of all the Austrian officers, have stood out at least a week longer.

Osman replied, "My soldiers refused to stand by me. They sulked into the casemates when your dreadful fire opened from all your batteries. I could not, thus abandoned, withstand alone, your formidable attacks."

"But," said Marshal Laudohn, "what will the Porte say on the occasion? In a Government such as yours, do you think that allowance will be made for the necessity imposed upon you by the desertion of your troops, to surrender the fortress? Do you think your life in danger?"

"All the Officers in the garrison," replied Osman, "pressed me to capitulate; and all have signed the minutes of capitulation. Upon this circumstance I chiefly depend for my personal safety."

The total loss of the Imperialists, from the day they crossed the Save, to the day they took Belgrade, amounted to no more than 289 sergeants and rank and file killed, and 732 wounded; and 11 officers killed, and 27 wounded.

The military chest at Belgrade, when the place surrendered, was totally empty. It was thought the Pasha had divided the money among his officers.

Osman Pasha is about forty years of age: he speaks Italian extremely well; in his harem there were only four women.