1687 The Hett man of the Armies is conftantly pitched in the General's Quarters. In the Morning Prince Galliczin fummoned all the Officers and Noblemen to attend him. The Boyar Generals took their Seats, and the unfortunate Hettman was brought before them; the Emperor's Order was first read to him, then they confronted him with the principal Coffacks, who were taught their Leffons, and accufed him of holding Intelligence with the Cham, and directing him privately to burn up all the Forage. The poor General found his Fortune quickly changed, and he, who had been the Day before among the Rank of Princes, inftead of Vielmozny, or moft Puiffant, was now faluted by the Name of Scourwecin, or Son of a Whore; nay, his own Servants loft all Reffect to him, and one of his Colonels named Dimitrouki, drew out his Sabre to kill him; but Galliczin prevented the Blow, and told him, the Hettman was brought there to be tried judicially, and not pofed. to be butchered. This Council of War being broke up, and the Hettman put under a ftrong Guard, a Courier was difpatched to Levanti Romanorrick, General of the Forces of Serene, with Orders to fecure the Hettman's Son, who had been fent thither fome Time Before with a Detachment of Men; but fome faithful Coffacks got to him Time enough, to give him Notice to fave himself. Romanorrick could not eafily come at him, for he kept with his Troops perpetually as far off as he could; but the principal Coffacks being acquainted with the Order to feize their Leader, the Compachiks, or Cavalry, agreed to deliver him up the Sardouchiks, or Infantry, encompassed his Tent, and would not permit him to be taken VOL. I. C at Coffacks de 1687 at firft; but they fuffered themselves to be preW vailed on at Length, and fo with a general Confent the Hettman's Son was put into Romanorrick's Hands, who, being pleased with this Opportunity of repairing his Credit, which he had very much hurt in a late Skirmish with Sultan Naradin near Kamifton upon the Nieper, returned with his Prisoner to the Army. Another chofe in his Reom. While they were thus making fure of the Son, the Boyar Generals confulted how to punifh the Father, and fet up another Hettman. Samuelerrick was fent into Siberia, and the Coffacks chofe one Mazeppa, Piftacy or Secretary of State, and proclaimed him Hettman: Of this Mazeppa, Monfieur de Voltaire, in his Life of Charles XII. of Suden, gives the following Account. "He was a Polish Gentleman, born in the Palatinate of Podolia, and had been "brought up as one of the Pages of the King " (John Cafimir) in whofe Court he had got "fome Tafte of the Belles Lettres ; but having, "in his Youth, an Intrigue with the Wife of "a Polish Gentleman, and being discovered, "the Hufband caufed him to be feverely "fcourged, and afterwards tied naked on a "wild, ungovernable Horse, which was turn"ed loose to go wherefoever it would. The "Horfe being brought out of the Ukrain, re"turned thither, and carried Mazeppa with "him, half dead with Fatigue and Hunger. "Some Country-men gave him Succour, with "whom he continued a long Time, and fig"nalized himself on many Occafions against "the Tartars. The Superiority of his Un"derftanding made him much regarded a66 mong the Coffacks; and his Reputation in "creafing creafing daily, obliged the Czar to make "him Prince of Ukrania. Although Prince Galliczin thus fucceeded in his Defign, yet a great Party of Coffacks, who were not invited to the Election, expreffed their Diflike of it; fome Towns revolted, and fome of the Colonels Houses were pillaged in their Abfence: The new Hettman, being willing to quell these Disorders, defired fome Troops of Prince Galliczin, who ordered Three Thousand Foot of the Forces of Smolensko, and a Thoufand Horse to attend him to Baturin, the ufual Refidence of the Hettmans. 1687 Their Czarian Majefties Order to disband the Army foon arriving, with a Letter, it was read in the Prefence of all the Officers, who, after having done nothing, were very well pleafed, although fome of them almoft afhamed, to hear themselves thanked for their good Services. Every General had a Gold Medal given him, with the two Czars Effigies on one Side, and the Princess on the other, faftened to a Chain of Gold, the whole worth about ten Ducats; every Colonel had a Medal without a Chain, worth a Ducat; every Lieutenant Colonel and Major, one of half a Ducat, and every Soldier and Strelitz had a Copeck of Gold, of about twenty five Pence Value. Prince Galliczin, by Means of thefe Prefents, which he obtained from the Czars, or rather from the Princefs, appeafed the Murmurs that were raised throughout the Army against him. He likewife gained the chief Nobility, by beftowing Employments upon them that reimburfed their Expences; in fo much, that at his Arrival at Moscow, he found very few against C 2 him; 1687 1688 him; he was received by the Princess with all the Marks of Favour he could wish, and took the Management of the State upon him, with as much Authority as ever. In the mean Time the Friends and Relations of the Czar Peter, being apprehenfive of the Designs of the Princefs and this great Favourite, were concerting Measures how to counterplot them; but finding they wanted fufficient Power, they engaged on their Side another Prince Galliczin, Coufin to this, but who was defpifed by him for his Drunkenness and Debauchery, and fo managed Matters, that in a fhort Time they made him the young Czar's Favourite. This was that Prince Borice Galliczin, who firft carried Peter to the Troitsky Monaftery, in the Time of CouvanSki's Rebellion, and who, for that Reafon perhaps, was the more readily received into his Favour. When they had accomplished this, the next Bufinefs was, under Pretence of doing Honour to the great Galliczin, to endeavour to oblige him to take upon him the Command of the Army a fecond Time; but he perceiving that Peter's Party gathered Strength every Day, and thinking it might still increafe by his Abfence, ufed all the Means he could, under-hand, to get the Command beftowed on fome other: This he found impracticable, and fo frankly offered himself, judging rightly, that it would be more to his Honour to propofe it voluntarily than to ftay till it fhould be forced upon him; and againft the opening of this Campaign he took fuch Measures as he thought might make it more profperous than the laft. Having obtained whatever he pleased to demand, it was re 1689 folved the Army fhould take the Field fooner 1688 than they had done before, fo all the Forces were ordered to be at their Place of Rendezvous on the firft of February 1689. The Troops began to march from all Parts in De cember, except from Siberia, the People of A fecond: which Province were excufed from fending into the Crim Expedition any Soldiers on Account of the War they maintained against their Neighbours, the Inhabitants of Great Tartary. The Preparations for this Campaign were much greater than for the laft, but the Taxes were no higher, which was only one Rouble for every House. The Troops were, for the most Part, commanded by the fame Generals as in the Expedition in 1687. They did not lie long in their firft Quarters, but were all or dered to march, before the Froft was broke, beyond the River Marle, which was prudently done, becaufe, when the Thaw happens, great Inundations are always made by the feveral Rivers they were obliged to crofs. The Foot encamped on the other Side the River at the Entrance of a Wood; the Cavalry was pofted in the Towns fituated on the Banks. PrinceGalliczin, being arrived, pitched his Tent on the fartheft Side of the River, on the first of April, the Generals did the fame; and on the 6th they marched towards the Samare, where all the Forces joined. The Hettman Mazeppa being come to the April 13 fame Place, on the thirteenth they all paffed the River without Delay, and, in a Month's Time, advanced as far as Precop. Every Soldier carrying with him four Months Provifions, their Baggage hindered them from making long Marches in a Day, which were like C 3 wife |