ommons for
the seceding Members..... Pension Bill revived, and
lost..... Porto Bello taken by Admiral Vernon..... Hard
Frost..... Marriage of the Princess Mary to the Prince of
Hesse..... Strong Armament sent to the West Indies.....
Death of the Emperor and Czarina..... Proceedings in
Parliament..... Seamen's Bill..... Discontents against the
Ministry..... Motion for removing Sir Robert Walpole from
his Majesty's Councils and Presence for ever..... Debate on
the Mutiny Bill..... Proceedings in the House of Lords.....
Close of the last Session of this Parliament_

THE RUSSIANS TAKE OCZAKOW.

A congress had been opened at Niemerow in Poland, to compromise the
differences between the czarina and the grand seignor; but this proving
ineffectual, the emperor declared war against the Turks, and demanded
assistance from the diet of the empire. He concerted the operations
of the campaign with the empress of Muscovy. It was agreed that the
Imperialists, under count Seckendorf, should attack Widdin in Servia;
while the Russians, commanded by count de Munich, should penetrate to
the Ukraine, and besiege Oczakow, on the Roristhenes. They accordingly
advanced against this place, which was garrisoned by twenty thousand
men, and on the side of the Roristhenes defended by eighteen galleys.
The Muscovites carried on their approaches with such impetuosity and
perseverance, that the Turks were terrified at their valour, and in a
few days capitulated. Among those who signalized themselves by uncommon
marks of prowess in these attacks, was general Keith, now field-marshal
in the Prussian service, who was dangerously wounded on this occasion.
Meanwhile count Seckendorf, finding it impossible to reduce Widdin
without a squadron of ships on the Danube, turned his arms against
Nissa, which was surrendered to him on the eight-and-twentieth day of
July; but this was the farthest verge of his good fortune. The Turks
attacked the post which the Imperialists occupied along the Danube.
They took the fort of Padudil, burned the town of Has in Wallachia, and
plundered the neighbouring villages. The prince of Saxe-Hilburghausen,
who had invested Bagnalack in Bosnia, was defeated, and obliged to
repass the Saave. Count Seckendorf was recalled to Vienna; and the
command of the army devolved upon count Philippe. Count Kevenhuller was
obliged to retreat from Servia; and Nissa was retaken by the
Mussu