The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Extract of a Letter from Brussels, March 1.

" At two o'clock this morning, Prince Charles received an express from Vienna, with an account that the Imperial army of Russia, after their retreat from the suburbs of Bender, had retired as far into Poland as the environs of Konetzpo, where being joined by sixty-nine thousand chosen Russian troops, they immediately advanced to Bender, at which place they arrived at night, the 1st of February, the eve of the grand festival of the Mussulmen, and at one o'clock the following stormed the gate of St. Sophia, of which they were in possession after a short contest ; forty thousand Russians immediately entered the city, the Turks being in their Mosques. An incredible slaughter and plunder was made before any quarter could be granted. The loss of the Russians was inconsiderable, in comparison of the bloody slaughter of the Turks, of whom, it is imagined no less than thirty thousand have perished by the sword. One hundred and thirty-nine pieces of brass ordnance; two hundred and fifty iron cannon, the latter mostly unserviceable ; forty-seven quintals of powder ; the baggage of the new grand Vizir ; the Batons of five Bashaws ; the Seraskier's tents and women; fifty pair of colours ; nineteen standards; three hundred camels, the military chest for the payment of the Janizaries lately sent from Constantinople, and an incredible quantity of rich baggage, were taken in Bender.

Such was the ardour of the Cossacks, that they pursued the Tartars tho' the gate of Barlot, and, when the express left Bender, the Russian light troops had made a continued slaughter of them as far as Oblancece, upon the Danube, where the regiments of Livonia and Novogorod, forming a body of six thousand grenadiers, with twelve thousand light troops, and a train of light artillery, were in full march. "