Extract of a letter from Canton in China to Mr Pigou...',20 November 1771 (Series 79.01) - No. 0001

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Extract of a letter from Canton in China to Mr Pigou, dated the 20th of Novr 1771.

on the 23d of Septr  a small Vessel commanded by a Hungarian Baron, arriv'd at Macao;  he says, that he was first secretly sent by the Count of Hungary with a body of 5000 Men, which he commanded, to the assistance of the Catholick [Catholic] Confederates in Poland, who were at war with the protestant party of the same nation assisted by the Russians, that soon after his arrival in Poland, & joining the confederates, he had an engagement with the Russians, who defeated his army, & sent them into different Garrisons in Siberia, where being cruelly treated, the Colonel & party with him, resolved to make their escape, which they easily effected their guard being very weak, from