The war between the Ottoman Porte and the Muscovites was of short duration.
The czar advanced so far into Moldavia, that he was cut off from all supplies, and altogether in the power of his enemy.

In this emergency, he found means to corrupt the grand vizier in private, while in public he proposed articles of peace that were accepted.

The king of Sweden, who was in the Turkish army, charged the vizier with treachery, and that minister was actually disgraced.

The grand seignor threatened to renew the war; but he was appeased by the czar's surrendering Azoph.
EXPEDITION TO CANADA.
The English ministry had conceived great expectations from an expedition against Quebec and Placentia, in North America, planned by colonel Nicholson, who had taken possession of Nova Scotia, and garrisoned Porte Royal, to which he gave the name of Anapolis.

He had brought four Indian chiefs to England, and represented the advantages that would redound to the nation in point of commerce, should the French be expelled from North America.