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A51887	The second volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris : giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable transactions of Europe, and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1642 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, and from thence into English, by the translator of the first volume.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Bradshaw, William, fl. 1700.; Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing M565CA; ESTC R35015	169,314	394

People Those of the Latin Church reflect it as a Judgment on the English Nation that they have never been free from Conspiracies Seditions and Rebellions since the Time they shook off their Obedience to the Roman Mufti which was in the Days of King Henry VIII As if that Revolt in Point of Religion had been the Source of all the following Tumults and Disorders in the State 'T is certain Religion has great Influence on Mens Morals and where a Liberty of innovating is once allow'd it makes continued Progressions Some French Antiquaries say that the English embrac'd the Roman Communion for the Space of Seven Hundred Years and that during so long a Time they never had any Civil Wars but such as were made on the Account of Succession to the Crown But that after they had chang'd their Faith they were always restless still hatching some Alteration in the Government I know not how far these Observations are justifiable Men being generally partial to their own Cause But the present Stirs in that Island seem to owe their Increase if not their Birth to the Latitude which the Subjects take in Matters of Conscience Whilst every Man carves out to himself such a Religion as best pleases him without being accountable to the State or paying any Tribute as is the Practice of the Ottoman Empire Hence it is few Mens Ambition to conform to the Religion of the Prince but every Sect endeavours to perswade both Prince and People to subscribe to their Sentiments and the most potent Party threatens all the Rest with the ill Consequences of War in Case their Tenets be not establish'd Among all the Religions which divide the Inhabitants of that Island there is none for which they have so general an Aversion as that which they call the Roman Catholick though it were once the Establish'd Religion of the Country This is now become the publick Eye-sore and the rest of the Sects though they are at immortal Difference with each other yet all join Heart and Hand to oppose this Common Bugbear The French say That the Protestants are like the English Mastiffs Two of which I remember were presented to Sultan Amurath by the French Ambassador with this Character of them That though when they quarrell'd they would fight with each other to Death yet should a Bear be let loose upon them in the Midst and Heat of their Fury they would soon become Friends and turn the Battel upon their Savage Enemy Such they say is the Humour of the English Sectaries and the Factious have improved it so far as to fasten the Odium of the Vulgar on the King himself by suggesting That he designs to introduce the Roman Religion into that Country whereas according to the Relation of Travellers and knowing Men he is a zealous Protestant This is the Pretence of taking up Arms against him An Artifice by which Rebellion is generally usher'd in whilst the Defence of Religion is made a Cloak for Sacrilege and Treason The Infidels have found out a Way to divide a Man from himself by Metaphysical Niceties a Science wherein the True Believers are happily ignorant They are actually in Arms against their Sovereign yet they declare they fight for him Maintaining their Rebellion by this Sophistry That they fight against his Natural Person to defend his Political as if they could separate one from the other Some thinking Men say 't is well if they do not divorce his Soul from his Body by the Help of these Juggling Distinctions His Viceroy in Ireland has already lost his Head for no other Crime but his Loyalty to his Master who is blam'd for giving Consent to the Execution of so faithful a Minister Yet the Curious pretend to trace the Footsteps of Justice in this Man's Destiny since he fell a Sacrifice to the fame Democratick Principles whereof he had formerly been a zealous Patron having been observed to be once a great Opposer of the Royal Prerogative If this be true it seems as if Nemesis her self had brought him to his Punishment Thou wilt wonder at the Presumption of these People in divesting the King of the Military Power by Sea and Land and assuming it themselves Especially when thou considerest that this is the Essential Prerogative of Sovereignty without which it is but an Empty Title Our Invincible Sultans are possessed of such an uncontroulable Authority as cannot be transferr'd to any Subject or to all the Subjects of so vast an Empire put together but is only communicated at the Imperial Pleasure as Rays from the Sun whose Emanations though they are immense and infinite yet do they not in the least diminish or weaken that Immortal Fountain of Light But the English have not that Veneration for their Prince as is found in the Mussulmans They esteem Him but the Trustee of the Common-Wealth the Creature of the Populace having imbib'd the Principles of Aristotle Cato and other Democratick Philosophers who teach That the Sovereign Power is Originally in the People and but transmitted from them to the Prince by way of Deputation and Credence My Letter to the Prime Vizir will inform thee what the English Parliament is At this Time as I 'm inform'd it consists for the most Part of Men of this Stamp Yet they do not openly profess these Antimonarchick Tenents but under the Mask of Loyalty amuse the credulous Multitude with specious Pretences Of making the King the most Glorious Monarch and his Subjects the Happiest People in the World But 't is thought he will rather confide in his Arms the Justice of his Cause and the Protection of God than suffer himself to be any longer cajol'd by their false Rhetorick He has given them Battel once wherein they say the Victory was in an even Balance and neither Side could claim it The Rebels have put to Death the English Mufti whom they call the Arch-bishop They struck off his Head with an Ax in the open Street on the 10th Day of the 1st Moon of the Year 1644. Before I conclude this Letter I shall relate to Thee a Passage which happen'd in this King's Infancy worthy of Remark In former Ages there were a Sort of Philosophers or Prophets in England whom they call'd Druids and Bards These instructed the People in the Belief of a God the Immortality of the Soul and other Principles of Natural Religion They foretold Things to come and had acquir'd so great a Reputation that the Kings of that Country would undertake no Affair of Moment till they had first consulted these Oracles 'T is said there are yet living some of that Prophetick Race in the Mountains of Scotland One of which a Man of great Sanctity and Wisdom being an Hundred and Twenty Years old came to visit this King's Father at which Time he saw this King being then an Infant in his Nurses Arms whilst his Elder Brother and Heir of the Crown stood by The Old Man after his Complements to the Father takes the Infant

the turbulent Cardinal She Sojourned in Flanders Holland England and the Empire Her Travels being checquer'd all along with a Mixture of Good and Evil. Here meeting with Respect there with Indifference and Coldness if not Contempt In some Places her Misfortunes were pitied and the Cardinal blamed for Persecuting so Great and Good a Queen In others the Cardinal was Justified and her Conduct censured and condemned And she accused her self for raising him to the power of doing her these Injuries At length tired out with the Fatigues of State and grown sick of the World she betook her self to a Monastery in Colen where after she had spent some time in Religious Preparations for another World she expired the 3d. of this Instant Moon It was placed among the Remarkables by some that the same day she died the Cardinal of Richlieu fell sick which Sickness yet continues upon him But whether to appease the Ghost of his deceased Mistriss whom he had so unjustly persecuted or to mollify the Resentments of the People is uncertain Yet notwithstanding his dangerous Illness he every Day ventures to the Temple and performs the Mysteries of their Law for her Soul The whole Court and City is in Mourning for this Great Queen and general Murmurings and Complaints are raised against the Cardinal on this Occasion especially among the Common People who are so far from entertaining a better Opinion of him for his daily Appearance at the Altar on Behalf of the Queen's Soul that they esteem it but an Officious Hypocrisie a Medly of Priest-Craft and State Artifice Here is a Report about the City that the Queen 's Ghost appear'd to the Cardinal as soon as she was dead severely reproaching him with his Ambition and Ingratitude and telling him That tho' he was laying the Foundation of an Immortal Project yet he should never live to see it thrive but warned him to prepare for Judgment for that he should not see another Year in Mortal State upon which they say he immediately sickned And here are Prophecies privately scattered about foretelling his Death in a short time This is certain he labours under an unaccountable Distemper his Body strangely wasting as if it would evaporate it self into Air for he seems to be in a manner dried up My Duty and Devoir to thee Sage Minister would not let me be at Rest till I had prevented the Posts by giving thee a more timely Account of these Occurrences by a Merchant for whom his Vessel waits at Marseilles To morrow he takes his Leave of Paris and once aboard he makes directly for Constantinople whither he will bring the first News of the Death of one of the greatest Queens upon Earth in whose Royal Veins ran the Blood of the Emperors Ferdinand and Charles V. She was married to Henry the Great and besides her Son now Reigning in France she matched her Daughters to the Two Potent Monarchs of England and Spain The most High and Omnipotent sole Monarch of Heaven and Earth reward thy Services and Fidelity to our Invincible Sultan with the Supream Joys of Paradise Paris 20th of the 7th Moon of the Year 1642. LETTER VI. To the Venerable Mufti Sovereign of the True and Undefiled Faith PErmit me to enter into thy Presence and withdraw thy Ravish'd Eyes awhile from the Contemplation of Sublimest Objects to cast them on a Spectacle of Mortality It is the Great and Renowned Mary de Medicis Queen-Mother of France who lies now dead at Cologne I will not trouble thee with Impertinencies but because I know that various Reports will reach thy Ears concerning the Cardinal of Richlieu his being Instrumental to her Death by driving her to such a height of Indignation as was the Cause of her Voluntary Exile and wandring from France and from one Country to another I will here Insert a Letter from the said Cardinal to her Majesty wherein he vindicates himself and discovers if not his Integrity yet the best Counterfeit of that Vertue that I have seen any where penn'd It was written to her when she was in Holland and runs thus MADAM I Cannot but esteem it the greatest Infelicity that ever befell me that my Enemies have prevailed so far as to draw upon me Your Majesty 's displeasure That they have by all the Arts of Malice fastned the Publick Odium on me is a great Vnhappiness but this is the Master-piece of their Enmity to render me suspected by you I could pardon their frequent Attempts upon my Life by private Conspiracies and Assassinations though Humane Nature recoils at those who are our Murderers But to deprive me of that without which Life it self is a burden to me I mean your Royal Favour transports me beyond my self And I beg that it may pass for an Excuse of this Presumption I could easily have pass'd over in Silence all their barbarous Plots against me I could easily have parted with my Life and all those Honours and Dignities with which it has been bless'd But to rob me of your Esteem which first rais'd me to this Envied Greatness and which I value more than all the Grandeurs of the Earth breaks the Barrs which aw'd my Tongue and Pen and makes me bold to throw my self at your Royal Feet with All that I have for I received All from your Princely Hands Deal as you please Madam with your own Creature I cannot murmur at your proceedings But Madam let your Native Piety prompt you to favour the Purple of the Church with which your Bounty has Invested me Let it not lose its proper Lustre and Esteem because the Enemies of the Church and State have cast such Dirt upon it Is it possible that a Man the most obliged of all his Race should become the onely Pattern of the basest Ingratitude Besides the Ties of Conscience and the Natural Force of Inclination my Interest chains me to your Service How can I then withdraw my self from it and not proclaim my self at once a Traitor to the Rest of Queens and the most unaccountable of Fools to my self This Consideration Madam being well weigh'd is enough to acquit me of all Guiltiness before Your Majesty But if it be my Destiny to be condemned unheard I shall not appeal from your Royal Sentence since I owe a perfect Resignation to your Will I may complain to Heaven of my Misfortune but I will not expostulate with my Sovereign Patroness nor make the least Opposition against the Course of your Anger not even by carrying my Fortune to Rome For wheresoever I go all my study shall be to recover your Majesty's Favour if it be not a Crime And if ever I obtain that Happiness I shall not care whither I go tho' it be out of the World it self because I die hourly while your Majesty suspects that I am not what I ever was and still continue to be MADAM Your Majesty's Most humble Most faithful And most obedient Servant Armand Card. of Rich. I send thee this Transcript

of Grief streight disappear Not that I would have thee think I am fond of dying but I consider Death as the unavoidable Fate of all Men and that therefore it is reasonable to be chearful since that which no Man can escape will one Time or other release me and every Man from the Miseries of this Life This Thought recovers me from the worst Effects of Melancholy and I believe the Damned themselves would sometimes be in a good Humour if they had but the least Glimpse of Hope that they should one Day be deliver'd from their Torments For whatsoever sorts of Men there are in this Life I cannot think there be any Stoicks in Hell And now I have entertained thee with Company and Solitude with Books and Men with Life and Death with Earth and Hell let us take one Step farther and refresh our selves with the Remembrance of Heaven the Joys of the Bless'd in Paradise which certainly is the best Relief of Anxious Thoughts the most perfect Cure of Melancholy the Guide of Life and the Comfort of Death God grant that thou and I may see each other and drink together in the Arbours of Eden and kiss the Daughters of Paradise Paris 14th of the 8th Moon of the Year 1643. LETTER XIX To the Testerdar or Lord Treasurer KIngdoms and Empires like Men have their Lucky and Unlucky Seasons Spain seems for a considerable Time to have been under a Cloud as if her Guardian Fate began to droop and were not strong enough to check the rising Grandeur of France It has been an old Observation That those whom God consigns over to Ruine he first infatuates It was a Grand Oversight in Don Francisco de Melo to constitute the Duke of Alburquerque General of his Horse For he thereby so disgusted the Spanish Officers in his Army that emulating the Honour of this young Portugueze the greatest Part of them deserted in the very Nick of Time when their Presence was most necessary to confirm the Battalions already shrinking from the furious Onset of the French This gave the young Duke of Anguien an intire Victory and has crowned him with glorious Laurels while Don Francisco de Melo by this ill Conduct has quite lost his Reputation and is forced to resign up his Commission to another This Battle was fought before Rocroy and may be reckoned as a Parallel with that Bloody Battel of Leipsick between the Imperialists and Suedes on the 7th of the 9th Moon of the Year 1631. A Day which was remarkable at Constantinople on the Account of that terrible Lightning which surprized the late Sultan Amurath in his Bed Many other extraordinary Events signalized this Day in England France Germany and other places which occasioned the great Astrologer Herlicius to call it a Day of Blood Such another was this Unfortunate Day to the Spaniards at the forementioned Battel of Rocroy where they lost an infinite Number of Men with all their Field-pieces and a Hundred and Fifty Colours He that created the Moon and the Constellations in Heaven to distinguish the Times and Seasons guard thee from the Influence of Malignant Stars and from the Destroyer who ranges the World on certain Critical Days Paris 12th of the 9th Moon of the Year 1643. LETTER XX. To the Vizir Azem at the Port. IT is Time it is high time most Sage Minister for the Ottoman Sword the Sword of Justice to be unsheathed not against an open Enemy but against its professed Friends and Subjects The Head of the Bassa of Cyprus is become a Burden to him as likewise those of Mitylene Sio and Lemnos They plot Mischief against the Throne that is established in Equity they are ungrateful to their Sovereign who hath exalted them they are become unworthy of the Honours with which they are dignified I could hardly believe the first Reports of this Treason till I were at length fully convinced by undeniable Testimonies that it was too true Yet it is a Secret even in the French Court I alone have discover'd this Mystery by the Means of a Jew and a Grecian both my Agents in those Parts and Men whom I can confide in The Business is this The Bassa's and Governours of the Isles before-mentioned have conspired together to divide themselves from the Body of the Ottoman Empire and to make the Islands of the Aegean Sea a Commonwealth Independent on the Throne which governs the World The Bassa of Cyprus is the Ring-leader of this Conspiracy and that Island is to be the Capital Seat of their New Republick The Governours of the Five Greater Isles are to be called the Sovereign Counsellors of State By these all the Affairs of the Archipelago are to be managed Onely the Bassa of Cyprus shall be supreme and have the casting Voice in all Cases of Dispute The enclosed Papers contain the perfect Model of their New Government the Articles and Propositions on which this Rebellious designed Commonwealth is to be built with the Names of the Chief Conspirators subscribed Permit me Sage Minister to set before thy Eyes the Occasions of these Treacherous Designs It has been the Custom of the Port to connive for a considerable time at the Oppressions Rapines and Exactions of the Bassa's and Governours of Provinces to suffer them to harass the People under their Jurisdiction to pillage and spoil them of their Moneys Goods and Estates till they have amass'd together vast Sums of Money And then it has been as usual for the Sultans upon the least Complaint to send the Bow-String to the Criminal Bassa Whatever may be pleaded in Defence of this Method in former Times my Opinion is that it may prove dangerous now And if I may be permitted to speak freely I have Reason to think that this was one Ground of the designed Treason in the Isles of the Aegean Sea Formerly those who were removed to these Commands were not so well versed in the Maxims of Policy nor so apprehensive of the Cabinet Secrets of State But now the Age is refined Men are more subtle jealous and selfish than they were Nature teaches all Men to preserve their Lives with utmost Diligence The Bassa of Cyprus who is the Ring-leader of this Conspiracy has been let alone in a long Course of Tyranny and Oppression over his Subjects by which means he has heap'd to himself prodigious Treasures His guilty Mind told him that Complaints would be made against him and that one time or other he must be strangled He knew that his Gold would be thought better to become the Sultan's Seraglio than his own and that he had been long enough in his Office to serve the Politick Ends of State Revolving these things in his Mind he quickly concluded that the Crimes he had been guilty of in his Government would draw upon him inevitable Ruine unless he prevented it by committing greater And that as Oppression of his Subjects had made him Rich so Treason against his Sovereign must make him safe He