Independent Journal, Or, The General Advertiser

VIENNA, June 29.

We have been favored with an authentic account of the new city of Cheron, of which some public papers give a very poor description. The city contains a great number of houses, chiefly built with hewn stone, and the rest with wood; they are for the most part one story high, but very commodious and neat. The streets are very large and in straight lines, intersecting each other, which makes the city very airy. With regard to its situation, it is placed on the Dnieper, on a large plain, with neither mountains nor hills near it. There are three great warehouses, two Russian and one Polish, and a considerable number of Greek merchants are come from the Archipelago, Smyrna, Salonica, and Constantinople, to establish themselves there. About 40 or 50 merchantmen annually trade to that port, without including the small vessels which traffic to Crimea, and along the coast of the Black Sea. All these vessels carry no other flag than the Russian or Austrian, but they belong to divers nations. At present there is no other Consul at Cheron than that of his Imperial Majesty, who took possession of his charge the 26th of May last with the usual forms, after having had the honor of being presented to the Empress. In a little time they say the other powers, such as France, the Republic of Venice, &c. will send Consuls to Cheron. It has been said the air of the new city is very unwholesome, but its fine situation and experience demonstrate to the contrary. The number of its inhabitants are about 15,000, without including the garrison, which is very numerous. We can affirm all these details to be very true and exact, they having been transmitted to us by a person of credit, who made these observations upon the spot.