The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter from Constantinople, April 14.

The Grand Vizier has frequent conferences with the Ambassadors of France and England; and it has been remarked that at the close of each, an express is dispatched from this capital. The Porte is making the greatest preparations for war; immense trains of artillery are daily sent off towards the Black Sea, and the frontiers near the Pruth and Danube, so that it looks as if an attack both on the side of Russia and Hungary is apprehended by the Divan. Some European officers who arrived in this capital, at the particular desire of his Sublime Highness, have received instructions to set out for the different towns to which they are appointed, for the purpose of repairing the old fortifications, and adding new ones, where they think them necessary: these officers are chiefly engineers. Sophia the capital of Bulgaria, and Nizza and Widin, which command the entrance into Hungary, are to be strongly fortified and garrisoned. The best and ablest General of Baham in the whole Turkish army has been lately appointed to command at Belgrade. The Captain Pacha, or High Admiral, is preparing to set out early in May, on a cruise to the mouth of the Black Sea: in a word, every thing around breathes war.