The Virginia Gazette

Yesterday the Northern Post arrived here, and brought us several Publick Prints, from which we collect the following material Occurrences.

From the Pennsylvania Gazette, December 6.

By the Ship Dragon, William Neate, Commander, who arrived here Yesterday from London, we have the following Advices, viz.

VIENNA, September 7.

PEACE is at last concluded between the Emperor and the Porte, the Conditions of which were brought hither yesterday by the Count de Mercy d'Argenteau: The following Particulars of that Affair are the best we could collect.

General Count Neuperg staid so long with the Grand Vizir meerly to wait the Return of a Courier dispatch'd by the latter to Constantinople. Since that Courier's Return, the Negociations of Peace have been continued with Success: Preliminary Articles were drawn up and sign'd the 31st of last Month by the Grand Vizir, Count Neuperg, and the Marquis de Villeneuve, the French Embassador. It is agreed, that the Emperor Shall abandon to the Grand Signior, Belgrade and Servia, with the Fortreses of Orsova; that the Danube and the Save shall, for the future, be the Bounds of the two Empires; that the Bannat of Temeswar and the City of that Name shall remain to his Imperial Majesty, with all its Dependencies, including Media; that Orsova may remain in its present Condition, but that the Fortifications of Belgrade Shall be rased. It is said this Treaty of Peace is to be sign'd under the Guaranty of France. It is likewise agreed, that the Emperor shall withdraw from Belgrade not only his Troops, but also his Artillery, Magazines, Provisions, and Warlike Stores, and in general every Thing destined for the Use of the Garrison; that four Days shall be granted to the Inhabitants for retiring with their Effects; that the Imperialists should not be obliged to evacuate the Place until these Conditions were perform'd; but that in the mean Time one Gate should be deliver'd up to the Turks the same Day that the Articles of Peace were sign'd. Immediately after the Signing of those Articles, Count Neuperg sent Word to the Commandant of Belgrade that Peace was settled, and that he must deliver up one of the Gates; to which General Seckew made Answer, That he had Orders from the Emperor to defend himself to the last Extremity, that he would obey his Imperial Majesty, and that the Place was still in a Condition to hold out a considerable Time longer. The Grand Vizir growing impatient at this Refusal, Recourse was immediately had to Count Wallis, who sent Word to General Seckew, that he might safely conform to what Count Neuperg told him; that Peace was intirely concluded; and to remove all his Scruples, he informed him of the Extent of the full Power he had received from Court: Upon this, General Seckew delivered up the Gate of Wirtemberg to the Turks the same Evening.

This Condition being performed, and Count Neuperg's Presence no longer necessary in the Turkish Camp, he left it the 1st Instant. after receiving fresh Marks of the Grand Vizir's Politeness, that Minister having made him a Present of a Horse richly caparison'd.

The Count arrived the same Day in the Imperial Camp, where he caused the Cessation of Hostilities to be published, and at the same Time sent hither the Articles of Peace. The 2d, the Field-Marshal Wallis having repair'd to the Turkish Camp, his Excellency went afterwards to Belgrade with the Grand Vizir, and 3000 Men of the Garrison began immediately to demolish the Fortifications of the Place. Count Neuperg omitted nothing of getting Russia included in this Peace; the Marquis de Villeneuve laboured also for the same Purpose, and a Russian Minister arrived in the Camp on the same Errand; but the Grand Vizir declared that he had no Orders to include that Power in the Peace; and that the Grand Signior reserved to himself to treat with her according as he should see it convenient: Moreover, that Russian Minister's Full Powers were not ample enough. While the Articles of the Peace were negociating, Count Neuperg received Advice of the Advantages gain'd by the Russians in Moldavia; but the Grand Vizir feign'd to give no Credit to them, whatever Proofs might be alledged of the Certainty of them. Since the signing of the Peace, he has made a considerable Detachment from his Army, in order to pass the Danube at Orsova and Widdin, and march with all possible Diligence towards Moldavia. The Vizir has already set at Liberty several Imperial Officers, and made them Presents at their Departure.

The Troops he had sent towards the Save have been called in, and the Bridges they had begun on the River broke down. The Body of Turks in the Bannat of Temeswar, near the Banks of the Theiss, has received Orders to return to the Grand Vizir's Camp. General Neuperg does that Justice to the Marquis de Villeneuve, to own that his Excellency had a hard Task to overcome the Grand Vizir's Obstinacy in requiring exorbitant Conditions. The Russian Minister here has sent a Courier to Petersburg with the News of this Peace. The Court has likewise sent one thither to the Marquess de Botta, with Orders to represent to the Russian Court, the Reasons that determined the Emperor to treat definitively with the Porte; Reasons which have their Source in his Imperial Majesty's Love for his People, and his Desire to see his Subjects in Hungary delivered from the Calamities they suffered by the Plague and the War.

London, Sept. 19. The Defeat of the Imperialists at Panczova, the Siege of Belgrade, the Reduction of his Forces, the Exhaustion of his Military Chest, and the sad State of his Finances, (but to whose Counsels are these Evils to be attributed) afford strong Reasons for the Emperor's suddenly clapping up a Peace with the Turks; and, as far as we are at present inform'd, the Conditions are better than his Imperial Majesty, in his present Circumstances, could expect; but nevertheless, all this fully considered, as Russia is excluded, every generous Mind must inevitably beat strongly with Concern for the brave Count Munich and his Army, who, after an almost incredible March, attended with Success and Victory, must be left to fall a Sacrifice to the superior Forces of the Infidels, without Hopes of Relief.

Vienna, Sept. 16. This Day the Court has caused the following Declaration to be printed and published here:

The Imperial Court will soon make known to the World what has happened respecting the Preliminary Articles of Peace, concluded with the Ottoman Porte: In the mean Time his Imperial and Catholick Majesty has already written to the Empress of Russia, and has not only declared to the Russian Envoy at this Court, in a particular Manner, the Motives which have induced him to conclude a Peace with the Porte, but has also given him Assurances, that this Peace shall not be prejudicial to the Interests of Russia.
An Audience given him for that Purpose, his Displeasure at what has been done without his Knowledge, and contrary to his Intention, but has likewise ordered all his Ministers at Foreign Courts to declare, that Count Neuperg went to the Turkish Camp without his Knowledge, much less by his Order; that as well in what relates to Belgrade, as in all and every one of the other Articles, and particularly in the yielding to the strangely precipitate Execution of them, the said Count has not only very much exceeded the Full Powers intrusted to him, but even acted directly contrary to the Orders therein contain'd: So that neither his Imperial and Catholick Majesty, nor his Ministry, are in any Fault, having had no Part herein; for they had not the least Information of what was transacted in the Turkish Camp till after the Thing was done, and after the precipitate Execution; and consequently it being become impossible to apply any Remedy, his Imperial and Catholick Majesty does on the one Hand highly disapprove the Preliminary Articles so concluded, and will not fail at a proper Time to do what Justice requires: and on the other Hand, pursuant to the Ratifications, which have already pass'd, he will sacredly fulfil, and firmly observe and keep what is agreed upon with the Ottoman Porte.

It is reported, that the Government of the Bannat of Temeswar, which had been provisionally granted to Count Neuperg, is by his Imperial Majesty conferred upon Baron Succow, in Consideration of the brave Defence he made in Belgrade.