The Massachusetts Spy

Letters from Lower Podolia say, "The Turkish manoeuvres are so altered for the better that we hardly know them again, for now they observe both order and art. They take the most happy precautions to deceive the Russians, both as to their force and their march, which General Panin has lately experienced.—This General had drawn a line of troops to guard his magazines and conceal his march towards Bender, where he expected to surprise a body of 4000 Tartars; but it seems this body of men were shewn him by way of allurement, for he found himself surprised by three numerous bodies of Turks and Tartars, who penetrated through his line, by which his cavalry was much hurt and part of his artillery taken, with the officer who commanded it. They took a great number of Cossacks prisoners, which are the only people to whom the Turks give quarter in the day of battle, for they massacre all others whom they think allied to the Russians."