The Virginia Gazette

WARSAW, February 6. There is a Report spread here, as if Things were in the utmost Confusion in the Turkish Empire. A Person of Distinction at Constantinople assures us, that there is scarce a Day passes without Mutinies and Insurrections; sometimes at the very Gates of the Seraglio. This, says he, our most able Politicians ascribe to the want of Union among our Ministers, and the intemperate Debates in the Divan. There are, in short, two Parties in the Council; one for carrying on the War vigorously against the Persians, and the other for turning the Arms of the Ottoman Porte against the Christians. The Ministry are at the Head of the First; and the Bashaw Omin, heretofore Count Bonneval, is the chief Support of the other. They are in a great Measure balanced, so that it is not easy to determine which Side will prevail. A few Days ago Orders were given to assemble 200,000 Men to be sent into Asia; but since, a Resolution has been taken to send thither 80,000 only, and to accept of Money from the rest that were to be employ'd in the Expedition. It has been proposed to demand of the Court of Vienna, a Cession of part of the Country on the Drave, as belonging to the Porte by the last Treaty of Peace. However, after high Debates, it was agreed to proceed no farther than to demand that Commissaries should be appointed by the Hungarians, to settle the Limits of our Frontiers on that Side. But the Design of forming a great Camp in the Neighbourhood of Choczim, will certainly take Place; which is the Reason that the Inhabitants of Turkish Wallachia are withdrawing and carrying off the best of their Effects. All our Advices from the Frontiers concur in affirming the same Thing; and that Count Bonneval, notwithstanding his Age and Infirmities, will command them.