by the entire defeat of the Count Óginski, chief of the Lithuanians, who have revolted against our troops, it has pleafed us to name you knight of our order of Alexander Newski, whofe decoration we fend you to take and wear. We hope that these diftinguished testimonies of our imperial benevolence towards you will cherish your zeal, and that you will confecrate your days to the advancement of our fervice. that expectation, we affure you of the imperial efteem of your affectionate. "CATHERINE.

"Peterburg, Dec. 20, 1771."

In

In the pofthumous works of Frederic the Great we read a flattering eulogium on the fubject of this most important victory, which was obtained on the 11th of September, 1771.

The confederates foon after furprised Cracow, which obliged Suworow to haften and blockade the place. After fome time it capitulated. On this occafion he fhewed his magnanimity to Monf. Choifi, one of the French officers, to whom he faid, on being offered his fword, "I cannot receive the fword of a gallant man in the fervice of a king, who is the ally of my own fovereign." Tranquillity was foon after reftored to Poland, where Suworow feryed during four years without interruption. Independent of the numerous inferior actions and multiplied fkirmishes, in which his courage was always difplayed, and his military capacity never failed to appear; he was covered with glory by the victory of Stalowiz and the

capture of Cracow; which gave the promife of that brilliant ca

reer that he has fince run.

In September, 1772, he was attached to the corps of General Elmpt, ordered to Finland by the way of Petersburg, where he arrived in the winter. In February, 1773, he was employed in infpecting the frontiers of Finland, where he heard every complaint, and made every neceffary communication to redress them.

Towards the fpring the Congrefs of the Turks at Soczan separated; the truce was at an end, and it appeared as if war would be rekindled. Our General now received orders to join the army in Moldavia, where he ferved under Field Marshal Romanzow.

He

The years 1773 and 1774 included the first Turkish war. In May, 1773, he arrived at Jaffy, and received a command. then paffed the Danube, and defeated the Turks at Tonkabay. On this victory, he dispatched an account to Marshal Romanzow, in the following terms:

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'Honour and glory to God! Glory to you, Romanzow! We are in poffeffion of Turlukay, and I am in it. "SUWOROW."

As a recompenfe for this victory the Empress tranfmitted to him the crofs of the order of St. George, In the month of June he was attacked by a violent fever, which obliged him to go to Buchareft for the recovery of his health.

Before he was completely recovered, he returned to the banks of the Danube; and, receiving the brevet of Lieutenat-General, commanded the fecond divifion

and

and the corps de referve. After joining General Kamenski, he defeated the Turks near Rafludgi. He then again went to Buchkereft, for the benefit of his heaith; and, the peace be ing concluded, he returned to Ruffia.

He was then employed to quiet interior diforders, and fuccefs ully encountered the Rebel Pugatschew, who was at length overcome and delivered up to him. Having got him into his poffeffion, he enclofed him in a large cage, placed on a carriage;

but afterwards removed him to a

waggon, with his fon, a boy of twelve years of age, who inherited, and at that carly period dif. played, the turbulent qualities of his father. On their arrival at Sinsbirsk, a town on the Wolga, he delivered him up prifoner to Count Panin, who ordered him to be conveyed to Mofcow, where he suffered the punishment due to his crimes.

In November, 1776, Suworow received a commiflion for the Crimea, where he was prefent at the elevation of Schahin Ghiray to the dignity of Khan. At

this time he was feized with an inflammatory fever; on his recovery from which, he rejoined his troops on the Cuban, and · erected fortifications on the banks. After the departure of Count Proforowfki, he went again to the Crimea, and received a command. In the execution of his duty, he compelled Turkifh flotilla to leave the port of Achtiar, and obliged the Captain Pacha to retire with a numerous fleet. By the command

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of the Emprefs, he brought away to Ruffia many Greek and Armenian families. Soon afterwards, a treaty of peace was entered into between Ruffia and the Porte, on which occafion the troops retired from the Cuban and Crimea to their own country. The forts were abandoned, and the troops were reviewed and infpected in the various camps. At Pultowa, Suworow received the command of the troops of Little Ruilia; and the Emprefs, as a teftimony of her approbation, gave him a fnuff-box, with her portrait fet in diamonds. At the beginning of the winter he returned to Petersburgh, and had the command of a fecret expedition on the Cafpian fea given to him. He was alfo prefented by the Emprefs with the star of the order of Alexander, embellifhed with diamonds; the fame he had worn herfelf on a habit of that order.

In March, 1780, he went to Aftracan, where he made the neceffary difpofitions, and procured the most exact information refpecting Perfia, in which empire fome troubles had arifen, and a bloody war commenced between the Khans, after the death of Nadir Schah. He reconnoitred the feven mouths of the Wolga, and the neighbouring coats of the Caspian; but the expedition did not take place. He remained at Aftracan fome months, after which he received the command of the di vifion of Cafan, in which province he arrived in 1781.

For feveral of the following years, he was employed amongst

the

the Tartars, and in July, 1783, was honoured with the followletter from the Empress:

TO OUR LIEUTENANT-GENERAL DE SUWOROW.

"IN the affairs confined to your care, and particularly in the commiffion you have borne under the direction of our General Prince Potemkin, for the reunion of the various nations of the Rufian Empire, you have fhewn a zeal and activity for our fervice, which has excited our particular attention and favour. Willing to give you a public teftimony of our approbation, we hereby grant you the Grand Crofs of St. Wolodimir, of the first class of which we fend you the decorations. We command

you to receive and wear them, according to the statutes. We are affectionately

CATHERINE,"

Czare file, July 28, 1783.

In 1786 he was named General in Chief, and quitted Petersburg for Krementfchuck; and, on the Emprefs's journey to the Crimea, was appointed to command the corps diftributed in the environs of Kiowie and Pultawa; and foon after that of Cherfon, of which Kinburn made a part. This laft place was furprifed by the Turks, but was defended by Suworow with great intrepidity. On this occafion he received a musket fhot in his left arm; and in the end, after a long and bloody engagement, victory declared for him, with great flaughter of the Turks, of whom not more than feven hun

dred, out of fix thousand men, escaped. In a few days after the battle, he erected redoubts of communication, which he furnished with fufficient garrifons, and difmiffed the rest of the troops to winter quarters. He himfelf remained at Kinburn.

His next fervice was at the taking of Ockzakow, where he commanded the left wing of the army, and where he was dangerously wounded in the neck. On the 21st of July, 1789, the battle of Forhani was fought, in which Suworow, with the Prince

of Cobourg, was again victor; and on the 22d of September, more laurels were added to his

brow, by the decifive battle at Rymnik, where the enemy loft ten thoufand men. The taking of Bender and Belgrade were the immediate confequences of

this victory.

On this occafion, the Emprefs, truly fenfible of his great and important fervices, overwhelmed him with her favours. She inftantly fent him, as well as to Prince Cobourg, a fword enriched with diamonds, with a branch of laurel, bearing for its device-To the Conqueror of the Grand Vizier." He received alfo the order of St. Andrew, decorated with brilliants. Thefe prefents alone were eftimated at fixty thousand roubles. In a fhort time after, he receivcd the diploma of Count of the Empire of Ruffia, with the title of Rymnikski, and the order of St. Andrew of the first class. He alfo was created, by the Emperor of Germany, a Count of the Empire; and, by a fingular coincidence, the two Imperial

diplomas

diplomas were executed by their refpective Sovereigns at Vienna and Petersburg on the fame day. In November, Suworow received an order from Prince Potemkin to repair to Ifmailow, and take that place at all hazards. He was aware of the great danger and risk of fuch an enterprize, from the advanced feafon of the year, and the improbability that any thing decifive could be accomplished against fo ftrong a place, which the Turks regarded as impregnable. Nevertheless, he inftantly obeyed the command which he had received. He scaled the walls; and, after a bloody affault, of which hiftory affords no parallel, the victory of the Ruffians was complete, and they were abfolute masters of the place by four o'clock P. M. on the 10th of December. The terrible defence made by fo many thoufand Turks had the appearance of rage and fury, and even women fell upon the Ruffran foldiers with poniards and other weapons. The town being taken by affault, the foldiers were permitted to plunder during three days, as had been promised; a fcene which could not pafs without fresh bloodshed, because many of the Turks preferred lofing their lives to parting with their property.

Our

General announced his victory to Prince Potemkin by this Spartan epistle : "The Ruthan colours wave on the ramparts of Ifmailow."

In this one dreadful day the Ottomans loft, by the fuperiority of the Ruffian arms, though their numbers were far inferior, thirty. three thousand men killed or

dangerously wounded, and about ten thousand, as well bachas and officers as foldiers, were taken prifoners; among whom were two hundred Tartars. Six thoufand women and children, two thousand Chriftians of Moldavia and Armenia, and above five hundred Jews, must be added to the number. Among the dead were fix Sultans, the ferafkier and a bacha of Arnauts, both with three tails the two governors of Kilia and Akerman, a bacha commandant, an aga of janiffaries, and about fifty bimbachas, topfchi-bachas, and others. Among the prifoners were the Sultan Mach-ful-Gharay, the governor of Ifmailow, who was a bacha of three tails, and several other bachas. The lofs on the part of the Ruffians was 1,830 killed, and 2,500 wounded.

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It is worthy of remark, that of fo large a garrifon as that of Ifmailow, only one man escaped. Being flightly wounded, and having fallen into the Danube, he accidentally caught hold of a plank, on which he reached the oppofite bank. It was this man that carried the Grand Vizier the first news of the lofs of the town.

The total value of the riches found at Ifmailow was estimated at ten millions of piaftres. Suworow, who was inacceffible to any views of private intereft, abftained, according to his cuítom, from appropriating to himself the fmalleft article; he did not even take a horse. Satisfied with the glory he had gained there, he departed from Ifmailow, as thither he arrived. In January, 1791, he arrived Petersburg, and in

at

December,

December, the fame year, peace was concluded with the Turks, From 1793 to 1794 no pulitical events called forth Suworow

to fignalize himfelf by military exploits, an interval during which he enjoyed the fweets of repofe at Cherfon, on the utmost borders of the Ruffian empire, towards Turkey; but he was loon after again employed in the kingdom of Poland, where infurrections, aided by French principles, began to make a rapid progrefs. His addrefs, courage, enterprife, and fuccefs, in many critical fituations, and on many important occafions, particularly in the defeat and taking of Kofkiofki, the affault of Praga, the entry into Warfaw, will be long held up as examples to future warriors, who will thereby learn firmnefs before victory, and moderation after it.

The career of General Suworow, the wisdom of his meafures, the diftribution of his forces, the undaunted character of his operations, and the progreffive continuance of his fucceffes, are dazzling proofs of the fuperiority of his talents. But though it may be faid with truth, that thefe

great qualities were manifested in all his enterprifes, in his laft campaign in Poland he seems to have furpared himself. There is only to collect the events of it, to prove that a fmall army may work wonders, when a General, by the vigour of his refolution, and the skill of applying the means he poffeffes, can give ftability to fortune.

This illuftrious warrior is now called to the command of the Auftro Ruffian armies in Italy. He came into that country to fave it, and he has been its faviour. His first entrance into it was attended by victory, and victory has accompained his march through it. He brought his brave and hardy bands from the North, to drive back the profligate, pillaging, and blood-thirsty armies of France to their own country; and they are driven back with difgrace and flaughter. They already approach its confines; and with the fame rapid ftep he will follow them, and with the fame avenging fword, we truft, will punish them there.

(To be concluded in our next.)

AND whereas We your underfigned Petitioners, will both by Night and by Day, and all Night and all Day; and we will

come and go, and walk and ride, and take and bring, and fend and fetch, and carry; and we will fee all, and more than all, and

nothing