. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . sters of Kertsch, Tenikale, andKaffa. The Turkish fleet was destroyed in the bay of Chesme, by a Russiansquadron which had sailed from Cronstadt to the Mediterranean. The Russianadmiral was assisted by English officers, every indirect aid having been givenby the British government to Russia; which power, wrote lord Rochford, in1772, his majesty cannot but look upon as the natural ally of his crown, andwith which he is likely, sooner or later, to be closely connected.
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . sters of Kertsch, Tenikale, andKaffa. The Turkish fleet was destroyed in the bay of Chesme, by a Russiansquadron which had sailed from Cronstadt to the Mediterranean. The Russianadmiral was assisted by English officers, every indirect aid having been givenby the British government to Russia; which power, wrote lord Rochford, in1772, his majesty cannot but look upon as the natural ally of his crown, andwith which he is likely, sooner or later, to be closely connected. There wasan armistice after the Russian fleet returned to the Baltic, having been veryefiiciently resisted by Gazi Hassan, an adventurer who raised himself by hisgenius and daring to be capitan pasha.* Peace w^as concluded in 1774. Theacquisitions of Russia by the peace of Kuchuk-Kainarji may be thus summedup: Russia obtained the Great and the Little Kabarda, the fortresses ofAzof, Kilbarun, Kertsch, and Tenikale; the country between the Bog andthe Dnieper ; the free navigation of the Black Sea, and a free passage through. Turkish Troops. the Bosporus and the Dardanelles; the co-protectorship over Moldavia andWallachia; and the protectorship over all the Greek churches within theTurkish empire. The Khanat of the Crimea was declared independent, butit soon became a prey to Russia. • The sketch of this remarkable man inNote I)j Lord Mahon, rol. v. p. 473. Anastasius is held to he perfectly 1773.] SUPPRESSION OF THE JESUITS 327 The suppression of tlie Jesuits, in 1773, though it has been so longexpected, writes Burke, is so remarkable an event that it will stamp thepresent year as a distinguished era.* The event was expected, because theabolition of the society by Pope Ganganelli, Clement XIV., was a finalmeasure of the proscription which had been carried on against them, for someyears, by the Eoman Catholic powers of Europe. They had been expelled fromPortugal, in 17
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