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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49902	Memoirs of Emeric count Teckely in four books, wherein are related all the most considerable transactions in Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, from his birth, anno 1656, till after the Battel of Salankement, in the year 1691 / translated out of French.; Histoire d'Emeric, comte de Tekeli. English	Le Clerc, Jean, 1657-1736.	1693 (1693)	Wing L822; ESTC R39725	143,365	368

The Baron de Merci began also with some Regiments the Blockade of Agria altho he had much ado to subsist about this Place the Bassa having cut off or spoil'd all the Forage in the apprehension of a Siege The Turks being in pain for themselves did not consider Teckely who in the weak Circumstances he was in suffered Tokai to be taken with some other Places of small note About the end of September the Count Caprara was dispatch'd with new Recruits to command the Army of Upper Hungary in the place of Schultz He marched directly to Cassovia and invested it the second of October without being able notwithstanding to prevent the Counts of Astrowitz and some others from throwing themselves in it with Troops They made a very vigorous Resistance immediately and found themselves in a condition of holding out a good while but Teckely who had a Body of 7 or 8000 Men only was not in a state of relieving it and feared with reason that it would be taken if not supported He had a long time demanded Succors of the Bassa of Great Waradin to maintain himself against the Imperial Army without receiving any and he redoubled his Instances as soon as Cassovia was besieged The Bassa replied that he could undertake nothing without the express Orders of the Grand Signior which he expected every day A little while after he sent to inform Teckely that he had received Orders with positive Commands to discover them to none but him and that he pray'd him to repair to Waradin in order to confer together Thereupon Teckely accompanied with his Army advanced that way with Petrozzi and his chief Officers The Bassa came to meet them and invited them into the City which they entred at the Discharge of all the Artillery The Army encamped about the Place whilst the Officers were regaled by the Bassa who was extreamly civil to them But at the conclusion of the Feast when Teckely expected to enter into a private Conference certain Janizaries came into the Room with Chains wherewith they bound him by the Direction of the Bassa who said he had received this Order from the Port. As for the other Officers he civilly sent them back to their Troops and told Petrozzi that he might put himself at the Head of them and conduct Affairs till new Orders In all appearance the Serasquier or some other Turkish Officer had accused Teckely to justify himself in the sense of the Grand Signior whom the ill Fortune of the War had incensed against his Generals as if it had been by their fault that the Imperialists had obtained so many Advantages and taken so many Places It seemed that if Teckely had discharged his Duty as he should he must have made a greater Diversion of the Imperial Troops and they have gained considerably less The unseasonableness of the ill Policy of the Turks had like to have ruined entirely the Malecontents Party and really brought it a Prejudice which it could never since repair Petrozzi either frighted at the Imprisonment of Teckely or else weary of the Fatigues of War disposed the Officers and Troops which he commanded to accept the general Pardon which the Emperor offered to those who would embrace his Party This Body being without a Head and not knowing what course to take without the Assistance of the Turks was easily perswaded and Deputies were sent in his Name to Caprara to know if he would receive him Caprara joyfully received them all and engaged himself to let them enjoy the general Pardon after which they all repaired to his Camp They took a new Oath of Fidelity and those who had a mind to be concerned in the Emperor's Troops remain'd there The Garison of Cassovia understanding how things were carried judged Count Teckely to be absolutely lost and followed their Example The Conditions of its Surrender were almost the same with those of Eperies They likewise seized upon other Places of Hungary whereof the Malecontents were possess'd and they found in Zolnock's considerable quantity of Provisions About the same time the Imperialists sent Petrozzi with a Convoy to Mongatz to let the Princess the Wife of Teckely know what had befallen her Husband and to dispose her to resign this Fortress to the Emperor and also that of Patack which she still maintained since at least there was no possibility of saving her Husband nor re-establishing the Party She answered that she could not believe her Husband had been seized on and that if so be he was advanced into the Turkish Territories it was only to consult of Measures with the Grand Signior for the ensuing Campaign Upon this Reply Patack was assaulted which was taken in a few days and they began the Blockade of Mongatz 1686. In the beginning of the following Year the Princess published Letters as dated from Belgrade by her Husband wherein he observed to her that his Innocence had been acknowledged at the Port and that a Bassa who had accused him and arrested him without Order was condemned to give him Reparation of Honour He added that he only waited for the new Serasquier in order to take the Field with him and that he would soon raise the Blockade of Mongatz exhorting his Wife to hearken to no Proposals of Peace Whether these Letters were real or no it is certain that the Turks were soon convinced of the fault they had committed in arresting the Head of the Malecontents at so dangerous a Conjuncture and instead of misusing him he was set at Liberty to see whether they could act with Success under his means against the Imperialists Caprara about this time wrote a Letter to the Princess and represented to her that in the Extremity to which the Affairs of the Party were reduced the Count her Husband being arrested by the Turks and the greatest part of the Malecontents returned to their Duty it was time for her likewise to indemnify her self with her Family in having recourse to the Mercy of the Emperor She answered that she was not of opinion that she had offered this Prince any occasion of making War against her and that being Guardian to those Children she had had by the Prince Ragotski she was obliged to preserve to them as much as possibly she could the Places which had appertained to their Father That it was no occasion of surprize to find a Mother defending the Rights of her Children or a Wife not declaring against her Husband That what was affirmed of his Imprisonment was nothing but a Fiction since he would appear the following Campaign In short that there was no Reputation for those who used their Endeavours to dispossess Orphans and to force a Castle defended by a Woman Caprara thereupon disposed himself to the Siege of Mongatz which required much time this Place being seated upon a very high Rock steep on all sides and hardly to be reduced but by Famine It is upon the River Torza between Vngwar and Zathmar and has above three hundred Towns in