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| Ukraine in the News The Boston Weekly News-Letter 1736 |
Just in
case you're not reading the newspapers permit me to bring you up to speed on
events in Crimea, the Ukraine, Russia, and Europe as a whole - in February 1736
as reported in the Boston Weekly News-Letter.
Headlines
of the day include a report from London on the wreck of the William of Hamburg
Capt. by Cleaves worms which the English admiralty valiantly attempted to save
from from plundering and looting from small fishing vessels - ineffectively it
turns out. The ship's master, a man and a woman passenger were drowned, while the
mate and seven seamen save themselves in the long boat.
The report continues
from Petersburg, Russia as follows:
"That the Russian Court in order to give a stronger Proof
than hitherto of their Resolution to keep a strict Correspondence with Sweden,
has engaged to reimburse the Which the Late King Charles XII, Borrowed in
Holland, during the Last War, and for Which He Mortgaged the Customs of Riga,
One of the Concord Towns since Yielded to Russia by the Treaty of Nystadt. And
the Condition of this Reimbursement is actually comprised in the Treaty renewed
by the to Courts. These Letters added, that the Crim Tartars actually made an
Incursion into the Ukraine, and committed great Disorders, but were repulsed
with Loss by the Russian Troops."
The Crim
Tartars are the invaders from Asia who settled in the Crimea and eventually became
vassals to the Ottoman Sultan helping themselves to slave [Slavs] as a money making enterprise. Earlier accounts noted vast empty spaces, much
like the American Great Plains, that were in need of settlers. In order to fill
the great spaces of the Ukraine, a bounty was offered to anyone from the
regions around Moscow who would go and settle these border regions.[1]
Transcribed by John Peter Thompson. March 3, 2014.
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