A Tour Up the Straits, from Gibraltar to Constantinople With the Leading Events in the Present War Between the Austrians, Russians, and the Turks, to the Commencement of the Year 1789

LETTER XVI.

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_Cause of the War--The Russian Minister is sent to the Seven Towers--Turkish Manifesto--Attempt on Kimbourn--A Russian Ship of sixty-four guns gives herself up to the Turks--Ambitious Views of the two Imperial Courts--The Interest of England greatly endangered by them--Necessity of our opposing the Empress_

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