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164 After Jasinski's insurrection [compare p. 3 and note 7], when

the Lithuanian armies were retiring towards Warsaw, the

Muscovites had come up to the deserted city of Wilno. General

Deyov at the head of his staff was entering through the Ostra

Gate. The streets were empty; the townsfolk had shut themselves

in their houses. One townsman, seeing a cannon loaded with

grapeshot, abandoned in an alley, aimed it at the gate and fired.

This one shot saved Wilno for the time being; General Deyov and

several officers perished; the rest, fearing an ambuscade,

retired from the city. I do not know with certainty the name of

that townsman.

165 Even later still forays (zajazdy) occurred, which, though not

so famous, were still bloody and much talked of. About the year

1817 a man named U[zlowski] in the wojewodeship of Nowogrodek

defeated in a foray the whole garrison of Nowogrodek and took its

leaders captive.

166 [A town not far from Odessa, captured from the Turks in 1788

by Potemkin.]