The Virginia Gazette

This Courier adds, that two Turkish Commanders were among the Slain, and that those who escaped the Enemy's Sword fled to the Grand Vizir, and threatened openly to revolt against him if he did not immediately march in Person against the Russians, and redeem their captive Comrades; that the Grand Vizir, fearing they should keep their Promise, had marched at the Head of his whole Army to attack the Enemy, who, notwithstanding the Inferiority of their Forces, after a bloody Battle, entirely defeated the Ottoman Army; that the Grand Vizir was said to have been dangerously wounded; and that the Enemy, after this Victory, marched against Varna, most of the Inhabitants of which Place, fearing they should be pillaged by the Cossacks, had fled with the most valuable Part of their Effects.

These disagreeable Accounts have been confirmed by other Expresses, which arrived the 13th and 14th Instant, and have thrown the Grand Seignior and the Divan into the greatest Consternation.

The Divan assembled immediately on the Arrival of these Accounts, and Orders were sent for the same Number of Troops to march to the Army as have been either made Prisoners or killed in the late Actions, that the utmost may be tried to prevent the Russians from taking Varna.

At an Assembly of the Chiefs of the Janizaries, it was resolved that 60,000 Men were to be raised immediately, to whom the Grand Seignior has granted a Pay of thirteen Aspers a Day.