The Virginia Gazette

The Imperial Court is very much alarmed at the Plot lately discovered in Transylvania, in Favour of Rogotski; and Orders have been dispatched to the Prince of Lobkowitz, who commands in that Province, to take a strict Search after all the Accomplices concerned in it, to examine those already taken, and send up their Depositions to Court.

In the mean Time there is Advice, that 40,000 Turks have actually entered Transilvania by different Ways; the Prince of Lobkowitz, with the Forces he had about him, bravely repulsed the first Detachment of the Infidels; but their Number increasing daily upon him, and finding he had an Enemy within to deal with as well as without, he was constrained to give way to such a Superiority of Force, and suffer them to penetrate into the Country.

April 10. An Express from Belgrade, has brought the Imperial Court the Particulars of the Surrender of Ufitza. The Turks having, with infinite Labour, planted a Battery upon the Brow of a Hill, overlooking the Town, and the Garrison having been for some Days without Provisions, they found it impossible to defend the Town any longer. In this Extremity, Capt. Lechner, the Governor, ordered the Chamade to be beat the 22d of March, and demanded a Capitulation. The Aga, who commanded at the Blockade, rejected this Offer with Disdain, and answered, that it was not for a common Captain, and a handful of Soldiers to expect a Capitulation, as if they were a Garrison of Importance; but if they hoped for a favourable Treatment, they must surrender Prisoners of War, and depend upon the Clemency of the Sublime Porte.

This haughty Answer, determined Capt. Lechner to abide the utmost Extremity, rather than trust to the Mercy of the Turks. In the mean Time, the Turkish Aga having informed the Bashaw of Zwornick of the Captain's Demand, he ordered him to accept of the Capitulation. The Articles were signed the 23d, and the Garrison marched out the 24th, being reduced to the Number of 50 Men, 10 of which entered immediately into the Turkish Service; the Remainder were conducted to Belgrade. By the Reduction of this small Place, the Infidels are become so insolent in those Parts, that they have sent Letters of Contribution into Croatia and Sclavonia, demanding large Sums of Money; and threatening, if they are not complied with, to destroy all before them with Fire and Sword, in those two Provinces.

Letters from Belgrade say, That 30,000 Turks have passed the Save, and are encamped between the River and the Danube; and that they have seized two small Posts which were possessed by the Imperialists. It is added, that the Citizens are ordered to be ready to assist the Garrison in Case of Need.

Letters from Constantinople, by way of Zwornick, confirm the Departure of the Grand Vizir for the Army; and by some extraordinary Preparations which are making at the Seraglio, it is thought the Grand Signior himself will do the same. It is said, the principal Design of the Infidels this Campaign, will be to hinder the Russians from joining the Imperial Army; for which Reason they will not begin with the Siege of Oczakow. The same Letters add, that Orders have been sent to the Bashaw of Bosnia to assemble a Body of 20,000 Men in that Province, to make an Irruption into the Imperial Territories.

The little Garrison of Uitza is arrived at Sabatch, with their Commander Capt. Lechner, who was so ill of his Wounds, that he could not sign the Capitulation, but by his Lieutenant. This brave Officer is to be advanced by his Imperial Majesty to the Rank of a Colonel, for his Fidelity and Valour.