The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

We learn from Constantinople, that the Captain Pacha is employed half the day at the arsenal and in the docks, where he opens his purse very freely to encourage the workmen, whilst at the same time he keeps up a severe discipline. He keeps also a vigilant eye on the police of the capital, to prevent any tumults, and preserve the peace. The Asiatic troops are deluging in great numbers to the army, and a considerable train of artillery went the latter end of February to the grand Vizir. The Captain Pacha persists in his plan of attempting a descent on the Crimea, and he has requested to have 24,000 men to embark on the flotilla and the grand fleet for this purpose. This plan is proposed to oblige the Russians to reinforce the army of Prince Potemkin, and draw their troops from other parts. An army of 100,000 men, under a Seraskier, is preparing to face that hitherto commanded by Field Marshall Romanzow, and the grand Vizir is to oppose the Austrians on the Danube. Independent of these three general points, the Turks will have a fourth army in Bosnia of 50,000 men, which are near the army formerly under Marshall Laudohn.

If we add these terrible preparations to those that are making in the North, two Belligerent Fleets in the Baltic, and several light squadrons, two armies in Finland, the motions of the Danes, the fire which a single spark may light in Poland, and the designs which are manifest enough in other powerful courts, the present moment may be deemed pregnant with events of the first magnitude and importance.