I have not heard that he has since been able to throw any succours into Oczakow; but the garrison, which is numerous and well supplied, defend themselves with great resolution; and, in a grand attack which Prince Potemkin made on the out-works, he was repulsed with very considerable loss.
The Russian fleet, though it co-operates with the army, may be said to be itself blocked up by the Captain Bashaw; and, as there is every reason to suppose that the garrison of Oczakow will be able to sustain itself till the severe weather sets in (which, in that climate, surpasses what people in England can conceive), Prince Potemkin will be obliged either to keep the field during the whole winter, to the extreme distress, and probable mortality of his army, or to risk the destruction of his fleet, which will be frozen up, and exposed to the attacks of the Oczakowians.
The following is the Imperial account of the coup de main attempted by the Captain Bashaw:
"The Captain Bashaw, being at anchor
with his fleet near Oczakow, sent
all his light vessels, gun-boats, and
small craft, to the number of fifty-seven
sail, to attack the Russian vessels,
consisting of twenty-seven sail of the