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accounts I have reced in Letters Extracts of wch I have sent you herewith from his Brother, of the Sales treaties
it he has given the Prince by ting him of the Vermicular
Squadron of Barges wch the Prince wch called the Imperial Vermicular was intended to convey the Empress
part of her way to in her return from Chars tho' I don't find She a
actually embarked in it herself owing to some
particular Circumstance, that called her another
way wch by my Son Jeremy's last Letter to me he tells
me was to Pulto to review her Army there & from
whence she went by Land back to Petersburg.

you have heard I dare say that the Turks have
actually declared war with Russia I think it
was upon the 19th of last month, & wch they are said to
have done most decidedly by cCommitting
Bulgacow the Russian Minister to the 7 Towers
and this it is imagined they were determined to do
from the Supposition that the Emperor wod be
diverted from assisting the Empress by his having
his head & hands employed in the Contest with
his own Subjects the Bragantiani — but surely
the Turks will find ymselves mistaken in
imagining they shod find that the Emperor & Empress
map for such an Event as save from the nearness
of their maten when they were together at the upon the Borders
of the black Sea they cod not be wholly ignorant
of the measure the Turks were about to take, &
of the preparations that must necessarily be
carried on to that purpose.

This Event it is not improbable may cull out
work for my Son Saml of some kind or other tho' it may
be difficult to conjecture whether it be by Land or
by Sea as by a Lr from him Brother Letter from his Brother dated the 13/24
July an wch I reced so lately as ye 20th inst and before any

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