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12] ANNUAL REGISTER For the YEAR 1772. [13

May 14th. They marched thither, to the amount of ten thousand; and began by attacking the gold mines, where they cut the guards to pieces, massacred all the whites they met with, and set all the negro and Indian slaves at liberty. They then proceeded to attack the town, and soon became masters of the larger part of it, which lies without the walls; but the inhabitants having retired to the inner town, which is fortified, and the Indians having suffered severely from the fire of their cannon and small arms, and finding that they were incapable of taking it, in their rage set fire to the suburbs, which were entirely consumed, including three fine churches, an hospital, and several religious houses. 
The accounts we can receive of transactions in that part of the world, must, from situation, the nature of the government, and other obvious causes, be extremely defective. Some accounts mention the entire destruction of Baldivia; and that they afterwards attacked Saint Jago, the capital, and seat of justice, a great part of which they also burnt. However imperfect, or defective these accounts may be, it is certain that this insurrection was thought of such importance, that the viceroy of Peru immediately ordered a body of 4000 men, to be assembled at Lima, and to march from thence to oppose the insurgents, and that a very considerable armament has been sent out from Spain for the same purpose, under the command of Don Juan de Castro, an officer, from whose experience and abilities, the most sanguine hopes are formed by the ministry.
Upon the whole, it is to be apprehended, that the present insurrections upon the continent of America, are only preludes to much greater which are to succeed; and that the Europeans will sooner or later have too much cause to repent, the infinite number of Africans whom they have naturalized in that part of the world. The Negroes are much more cunning, ingenious, and enterprizing, than the native Indians; they carry with them, some share of the arts, boldness, and knowledge of arms, which they acquired from their masters; the Indians also, have their peculiar and distinct qualities and character, strongly marked; it is not unlikely that such an union may produce an extraordinary fermentation.
However eligible it may be, to employ an immense number of slaves, in islands where they are circumscribed by narrow and impassable boundaries, the case is very different upon a boundless continent, covered with endless forests, mountains, and lakes, and containing such numberless tribes of people, that the enquiries of several ages have not been sufficient, even to obtain a knowledge of their names. We see already, that their common sufferings frequently unite the Africans and natives in a common cause. Every insurrection therefore, however it may be quelled for the present, will leave behind it the feeds of many future ones. The fugitives will spread their knowledge, their griefs, and their animosities, wherever they go; and they can converse with no people, that are under any obligations of good-will to the Europeans.
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Negociations for a peace. Armistice concluded. Congress held at Foczani in Walachia. Count Orlow, and Osman Effendi, are appointed the principal plenipotentaries. The congress breaks up without effect. The Grand Vizir renews the negociations with General Romanzow. The Armistice is renewed, and another congress opened at Bucharest. M. Obrescow and the Reis Effendi, are appointed plenipotentaries. Treaty between Russia and the Crim Tartars. Turky. Mousson Oglou, appointed Grand Vizir. Ali Bey, is defeated and driven out of Egypt by Mahomet Aboudaab: flies into Syria, and is affectionately received by his friend the Cheik Daher; account of that extraordinary man; the war in Syria. Conduct of the partitioning powers. Enormous exactions and oppressions of the Prussian troops in Poland.

Negociations for a peace had been carried on during the winter between the Turks and the Russians, through the means, and under the apparent mediation of the courts of Vienna and Berlin. The conditions proposed by Russia appeared very severe to the Porte. The ultimatum presented to the court of Vienna, and from which, it was repeatedly declared, she would not depart in a single instance, insisted, that the Crimea, Budziac Tartary, and in general all that vast tract of country on the coasts of the Blacksea, as far as the north shore of the Danube, should continue for ever under the dominion of Russia; that she should enjoy an unlimited freedom of Navigation on the Black Sea, together with the possession of the city of Asoph, on the mouth of the Don; and that as the Porte had entered into this war upon frivolous pretences, and without any just cause, she should also be indemnified for the expence of so unjust a proceeding.
Notwithstanding the distracted situation of the Ottoman affairs, these hard conditions were unanimously rejected by the Divan. The desire of being extricated from their present embarrassments was, however, so prevailing, that they proposed fresh terms through the same medium, which though more equitable, would not have been without advantage to Russia. It is more than probable, that the mediating powers did not yet wish for a peach between the contending parties; and that from a full sense of the inefficacy of compacts, when the immediate causes upon which they were founded cease to operate, they rather chose that Russia fhould continue embroiled in the war, until those arrangements which they had concluded with respect to Poland, were carried finally into execution.
However this might be, the negociations, which languished in the hands of the mediators, were found to resume vigor on the banks of the Danube, by a direct intercourse between General Romanzow and the Grand Vizir. By this means, a
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