For some time, not for long.

Here, fast enough, comes, in disguised shape, the Catastrophe itself, ye poor plaintive Poles! JULY-OCTOBER, 1768.

Those Zaporavian and other Cossacks, with 20,000 peasants plundering about on both sides of the Dniester, had set fire to the little Town of Balta, which is on the south side, and belongs to the Turks: a very grave accident, think all political people, think especially the Foreign Excellencies at Warsaw, when news of it arrives.
Burning of Balta, not to be quenched by the amplest Russian apologies, proved a live-coal at Constantinople; and Vergennes says, he set population and Divan on fire by it: a proof that the population and Divan had already been in a very inflammable state.

Not a wise Divan, though a zealous.

Plenty of fury in these people; but a sad deficiency of every other faculty.