The Russians had hardly finished their Polish-Election fighting, when they decided to have a stroke at the Turk,--Turk always an especial eye-sorrow to them, since that "Treaty of the Pruth," and Czar Peter's sad rebuff there:--Munnich marched direct out of Poland through the Ukraine, with his eye on the Crimea and furious business in that quarter.

This is his second Campaign there, this of 1737; and furious business has not failed.

Last year he stormed the Lines of Perecop, tore open the Crimea; took Azoph, he or Lacy under him; took many things: this year he had laid his plans for Oczakow;--takes Oczakow,--fiery event, blazing in all the Newspapers, at Reinsberg and elsewhere.

Concerning which will the reader accept this condensed testimony by an eye-witness?
"OCZAKOW, 13th JULY, 1737.

Day before yesterday, Feldmarschall Munnich got to Oczakow, as he had planned,"-- strong Turkish Town in the nook between the Black Sea and the estuary of the Dnieper;--"with intention to besiege it.