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A51890	The third 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 1645 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.	1691 (1691)	Wing M565CD; ESTC R33498	164,529	390

all the East granted her Petition and married her Afterwards she got such an Empire over him that he would do Nothing without her Advice and Consent At her Instigation he made War or Peace And to please her Cruel Humour he put out the Eyes of his Eldest Son But not satisfied with these Discoveries of his Love and resolving to make herself Famous by some extraordinary Action she never ceas'd solliciting the King with all the Arts of Female Policy till she had prevailed on him to surrender up his Authority to her for the Space of a Day In which Time having prepared all Things before-hand ready for her Purpose she caused Two Millions of Roupies in Silver and Gold to be coin'd and stamp'd with the Twelve Signs of the Zodiack contrary to the Fundamental Laws of the Empire the Express Prohibition of our Holy Prophet and the Vniversal Practice of the Mussulman's throughout the World who admit not the Representations of any Creatures that have Life This Relation I had from my Vncle Vseph who resided in the Indian Court Eleven Years He added moreover That during this short Female Reign she cut off the Heads of Seven Grandees the most zealous for the Mussulman Faith among all the Indian Princes and established as many Idolaters in their Places And that if her Orders had been fully executed she had quite changed the Government Consecrated the most beautiful Mosquees to the Service of Idols Exterminated the True Faithful and Restored the Ancient Abominations of the Infidels Which thou wilt not think Impracticable when thou considerest That the Number of the Vncircumcised in the Indies far exceeds that of the Mussulman's there being Ten Thousand of those to a Hundred of such as profess the Vnity of the Divine Nature But however there was Loyalty found even among those Pagans and they would not fuffer a Blind Zeal for the Worship of their Gods to supplant the Duty they ow'd their King The Description thou hast made of Candahar and the Method thou hast projected to take that Impregnable City discover at once thy Conduct and Diligence in procuring Liberty to survey so narrowly the most Important Place of the Indies and thy Skill in Fortifications with the Quickness of thy Invention which has suggested to thee that which all the Engineers of Asia have never so much as dreamt of This is the right Use of Travelling when a Man returns from Foreign Nations cultivated with Experimental Knowledge and stock'd with Improvements that may render him serviceable to his Country Thou condemnest the Injustice and Avarice of the Indian Mogul's who as soon as any of the Omrahs or Great Men die cause all his Estate and Goods to be seiz'd to their own proper Use Whereby it comes to pass that the Widow and Children of the Deceased are reduced to the lowest Condition of Poverty being many Times forced to beg for a Subsistence 'T is true this is an Oppression not to be justified especially in those who profess to Believe in One God Creator of All Things the Incorrupt Judge of the Vniverse But what thinkest thou then of our Sultans who not having Patience to wait till a Natural Death shall make them Heirs to the Wealth of a Bassa generally secure their Title and hasten their Possession by a Bow-string These are Royal Violences Though the Resignation of Subjects must not tax them with any Crime who are Accountable to none but God It was however a notable Piece of Raillery with which the Widow of a Rich Merchant reproved this Unreasonable Custom in the present Mogul Her Husband was an Idolater who had heaped together an Infinite Treasure by Trading and Usury and when he died left her Worth Two Hundred Thousand Roupies Her Son some Years after coming of Age demanded of her a Stock to set up with as a Merchant Which she either out of Avarice or for other Ends refused him furnishing him onely with such small Sums as served to nourish his Discontent and tempt him to a lewd careless Life But at length not being able to prevail on his Mother to part with so much as would answer his Expectations he complained to the Mogul disclosing also what Estate his Father had left The Mogul being inform'd of so much Riches sent for the Young Man's Mother and commanded her to send him Half her Mony ordering that the other Half should be divided between her Self and her Son The Widow not being at all surprized or cast down at this unjust Proposal made the Mogul this short Reply O King may the Gods make thee Happy My Son has some Reason to require his Share of his Father's Estate having his Blood running in his Veins but I desire to know what Relation Thou art to my Husband or Me that Thou claimest a Share in his Inheritance The Prince abash'd at so smart and bold an Address commanded her to give Half her Estate to her Son and so dismissed her I have heard some of our Chiauses praise the Magnisicence of the Mogul's Court the Infinite Number of his Attendants But above all they extol the Inimitable Grandeur of his Throne which is adorn'd with so many Topazes Rubies Emeraulds Pearls and Diamonds as amount to Thirty Millions of Roupies But were it not much better if in stead of all this Needless Glory he could boast That his Empire is founded in the Hearts of his Subjects He does not consider That such prodigious Heaps of envied Treasure are but so many Glittering Snares Golden Manacles which serve for no other Use but to chain him up from that Freedom and those more Innocent Delights that the Meanest of his Subjects enjoy Thou hast I perceive discoursed with the Indian Bramins Dost not thou discover even in these Idolaters a Contempt of Riches What mean Thoughts have they of the Splendor and Gayeties of the Court What a low Esteem of the Long and Proud Series of Titles with which the Moguls endeavour to exalt themselves Whilst they are call'd the Lights of the World and Companions of the Sun these poor Philosophers know That in a Little Time they shall be laid in Darkness and have no better Society than that of Worms What signifies their Pedigree or that the present Mogul is but the Tenth Descendent from the Mighty Temurlen who made all Asia tremble if he has lost the Vertue of his Glorious Ancestor 'T is that alone makes all Men truly Noble Thou tellest me That the Empire of the Mogul affords him more Revenues than the Dominions of any Two the most Potent Monarchs on Earth I have heard as much from Others which convinces me That thou hast inform'd thy self rightly of the Present State of the Indies But dost thou therefore esteem this Monarch the Richer Consider the vast Extent of his Dominions which are said to contain more than Six Hundred Leagues in Length and thou wilt find that to maintain so great a Tract of Ground both against his Foreign and Domestick Enemies he

Period than the Moon whose Crescent is her Arms and the Happy Omen of her Encreasing Lustre When thou beholdest that Noble Ensign of Mahomet on the Top of the Chief Temple of Jesus in Vienna let it augment thy Veneration of our Law and convince thee That all Nations must submit to the Messenger of God and Seal of the Prophets Be Faithful and Wise and thou canst not miss of Happiness Paris 28th of the 7th Moon of the Year 1645. According to the Christian Style LETTER II. To the Kaimachan SInce my Release I have inform'd my self of some Passages to which I was a Stranger during my Restraint The Transylvanian Agent continues still at this Court and his Negotiation is not now a Secret Monsieur Croissy is gone Ambassador Extraordinary to Prince Ragotski on the same Errand from this Crown The Subject Matter of both their Embassies is a League Cardinal Mazarini suspected Tergiversation in that Prince and that he would privately treat with the Emperor if the Grand Signior should withdraw his Assistance and Protection from him or if he himself should grow weary of the War Wherefore Monsieur Croissy according to the Cardinal's Instructions would not sign the League till Ragotski had call'd Home his Ambassadors who were treating with the Imperialists at Tyrne and sent away the German Envoy from his Camp The League being concluded he insisted on the Necessity the Prince lay under of marching his Army nearer to Torstenson the Suedish General that so they might support one another against the German Forces This was the Pretence but in Reality it was design'd to engage the Transylvanians beyond the Power of a Retreat and to post them under the Eye of the Suedish General who soon after possessed himself of Tyrne the Place appointed for Treaty between the Imperialists and Prince Ragotski It is a Town in the Lower Hungary not far from Presburgh The Suedes entred this Place the 17th of the 5th Moon but left a Garrison in it of Seven Hundred Hungarian Horse and Three Hundred Foot according to their Articles with the besieg'd These were soon forc'd to quit the Town by Count Forgatsch an Imperialist the Suedes and Transylvanians being march'd a great Distance off And 't is said this Hungarian Garrison yielded not unwillingly to the Imperial Arms. 'T is certain General Torstenson puts but small Confidence in the Hungarian Soldiers For above Six Hundred of the Common Sort deserted him the 29th of the 5th Moon and the rest raised such frequent Tumults and Mutinies that their Commanders stood in more Fear of them than of their Enemies It 's reported likewise That there has been lately no good Understanding between Ragotski and Torstenson about the designed Siege of Presburgh The former seeming too much to favour the Hungarians and being rather inclined to carry his Arms into the Emperor's Hereditary Countries Yet he would not consent that Presburgh should be in the Hands of the Suedes The French say that this Prince is humorous and wavering yet of a fair Intention but that the greatest Part of his Officers are corrupted by the Emperor And that therefore both they and the Common Soldiery were for Peace only his Wife his Son and some few of his Counsellors perswaded him to adhere to the Suedes They add that the Young Prince being instructed by his Mother one Day in a full Assembly of the Chief Commanders made the following Oration Ragotski himself being also present PErmit me most Serene and Illustrious Prince my Royal Father to perform the Part of a Dutiful Son a Faithful Counsellor and a Loyal Subject The Law of Nature and of Nations entitles you to my Obedience and the particular Honour you have done me in admitting me to your Cabinet obliges me to exemplifie it in an humble Remonstrance of my Sentiments at a Time when the Interest of Transylvania calls for freedom of Advice It is with no small Complacency that I now behold you encompassed with a Circle of Heroes whose Valour and Fidelity may give such a Lustre to your Victorious Arms as shall eclipse the Glory of the Roman and Grecian Conquerors The Alexanders Caesars Scipio's and Hannibals shall no longer draw the World into an Admiration of their obsolete Atchievements The Register of your Deeds shall foil their antiquated Histories whilst Plutarch Tacitus and Livy must veil to Modern Pens the Recorders of your Matchless Actions Let not the crafty Insinuations of the German Court warp your Resolutions and cajole you with the deceitful Umbrages of Peace only to gain Time that they may more successfully carry on the War Neither suffer your selves already in Part Victorious to be amus'd with feigned Treaties and Overtures which you cannot but suspect We are now in a Condition to give the Law and should Fortune turn the Scale it will still be in our Power to make our own Terms of Composition The Alliances of Sueden and France have rais'd us to a Capacity of braving all Europe Whilst the One with a Potent Army on the Rhine the Other on the Danube keep the Imperialists in such perpetual Action that it will be impossible for them to Barrier Germany from our Conquering Arms. Now is the Time to raise Transylvania above the Title of a Tributary Province and restore this Kingdom to her Ancient Renown If we miss this Opportunity we must for ever be Slaves to the Turks or Germans Let us not seek any longer Protection but from the justice of our Cause and the Dint of our Swords Let not France and Sueden boast of their Turenne their Torstenson as if no other Nation could furnish the World with famous Generals Whilst Prince Ragotski lives and lives at the Head of such an Army your Fidelity and Courage shall render his Name more terrible than that of Tamerlain and his Attempts more prosperous than those of Scanderbeg And our Posterity shall be oblig'd to raise Pyramids to your Honour and from your present Atchievements to date a New Epocha the Eternal Memoir of Transylvania's Redemption 'T is said that Ragotski was not very well pleas'd with his Son's Speech suspecting that he held some private Correspondence with Torstenson for whom he had no great Affection Last Moon he insisted earnestly on the Money and Men promised him by Rebenstock But General Torstenson thought it sufficient that he himself was so near him with his Forces Yet lest he should take an Occasion of Discontent he sent him a Supply of Money though he was not without some Apprehensions that the Prince having receiv'd it would underhand treat with the Emperor 'T is said here that a Chiaus was arriv'd in the Transylvanian Camp expresly forbidding Ragotski to enter into the Hereditary Provinces of the Emperor But that he trusting to the Strength of his Army which consists of Five and Twenty Thousand Germans Transylvanians Hungarians and Walachians was resolved to pursue his first Resolution Thou knowest what Reasons the Port had to send him this Prohibition The French

Queen's Pardon and telling her That a particular Devotion had oblig'd her to take that Course for several Mornings but if it offended Her Majesty she would hold her self dispensed with and would forbear The Queen seeming satisfied with this Answer dismissed her Thus the Amours of the Cardinal and the Countess remain'd a Secret and there are but Three Persons besides themselves that know any thing of it among which Mahmut is one Thou seest Illustrious Minister that the Reputation of my Secrecy has gain'd me the Confidence of One of the Cardinal's Privados for I had this Relation from the Italian whom I mentioned at whose House the Cardinal chang'd his Disguize I am not without Hopes by the prudent Management of this Discovery to penetrate farther into the Court Intrigues For he that told me this Story consider'd not that he made me thereby Master of his Fortune and that it is no longer safe for him to deny me any Intelligence I require of him He has put a Key into my Hand which will open his Breast at my Pleasure Yet I need not magisterially claim Discoveries from him as the only Conditions on which he is to expect my Concealing what he has already disclos'd There is a more dextrous and serviceable Way to become his Confessor without such an ungrateful Insult whilst with a well acted Candour I feign a Relation of such Things as I suspect yet cannot be certain are true till attested by himself professing at the same Time not to believe those pretended Reports I heard If I shall be so happy as to do any effectual Service to the Grand Signior by this Engagement it will answer my Ends and I shall not repent of my Craft Mahmut Salutes thee Sovereign Bassa in the humblest Posture of Adoration lying prostrate on the Ground in Contemplation of thy Grandeur Beseeching God That he would grant this Favour to thee To live happily and to die in thy Bed Paris 20th of the 11th Moon of the Year 1645. LETTER XIII To Egri Boinou a White Eunuch THOU givest me abundant Proofs of thy Affection and Friendship in frankly telling me what they say of Mahmut in the Seraglio I do not expect to be free from Censure and am so far from being discouraged at the Obloquies some Men fasten on me that it adds to my Comfort it being an assured Mark of Innocence To be traduc'd I am not desirous that the Arabian Proverb should be verified in me which says That he deserves no Man's Good Word of whom all Men speak Well I dread to be Popular at such a Price and will rather court the Slanders of the Envious by a stedfast Perseverance in my Duty than lay a Train for the Compliments of Flatterers by favouring Sedition Thou knowest what Reason I have to say this There needs no Interpreter between us Though the Black Eunuch has recanted his Aspersions yet there are others who persist in their Malice and it will be difficult for the Master of the Pages with his best Rhetorick to exempt himself from the Number I have received both their Apologies and have answered them I wish they would reform this Vice not so much for my Sake who am Proof against their Accusations as for their own For the Injury they intended to do me will redound most to themselves Misery is on him that persecuteth his Neighbour He that is Merciful and Gracious who hath separated the Brightness of the Day from the Obscurity of the Night defend both thee and me from the Malice of Whisperers from the Enchantments of Wizards and such as breathe Thrice upon the Knot of the Triple Cord. Paris 20th of the 11th Moon of the Year 1645. LETTER XIV To Mustapha Berber Aga. THOU wilt laugh at the Hypocrisy and Folly of the Nazarenes when thou shalt know the Articles agreed upon between the Elector of Saxony and Knoningsmark one of the Suedish Generals on the 27th of the 8th Moon The Suedes had prevail'd on the Son of the Elector to intercede with his Father for a Truce but the Old Duke would not hearken to any Thing of that Nature till Torstenson gave Orders to the Suedish Army in those Parts That they should oppress the Elector's Subjects by exacting from them unreasonable Taxes and Contributions and that they should lay desolate all the Countries about Dresden if they refused to pay what was demanded of them Accordingly they took a Castle which commanded a large Valley of Meadows and Corn-fields The Suedes burnt the Corn on the Ground led away the Peasants Captives and demolish'd many Towns and Villages yet not without some Loss on their Side For the Saxons one Night stole upon them while they were securely sleeping and slew an Hundred and Twenty taking above Three Hundred Prisoners Those who were left in Possession of the Castle met with no better Fortune being compell'd in a few Days to surrender this their new Conquest with Five Ensigns and a Hundred and Fifty Prisoners which were all carried in Triumph to Dresden One would have thought That these Successes should have confirm'd the Elector in the Aversion he had already conceiv'd for a Treaty that he would rather have pursu'd his good Fortune with Arms Especially when by entering into a private separate Treaty with the Suedes he must needs give a great Suspicion to the Assembly of the Deputies But the Old Duke doated and what neither the repeated Solicitations of his Son nor the continual Ravages which General Koningsmark made in his Territories could procure from him that he granted to the charming Addresses of a Beautiful Lady The Elector's Son adhering much to the Suedish Interest and finding all other Means ineffectual to oblige his new Friends It was agreed upon between him and Koningsmark That he should at least perswade his Father to a Truce of a few Days That during this Cessation of Arms the Son should invite his Father to a Banquet where Koningsmark should be present with some of the Principal Suedes in his Army All this succeeded according to their Wishes The good Old Man consented to a Cessation of Arms and to give Koningsmark a Meeting at his Son's Banquet The German Gallantry and indeed that of all North-Europe consists much in their Excessive Drinking He is esteem'd the most polite Man who can bear most Wine with least Alteration of his Temper This they call Carousing The Son had provided Plenty of those Wines which grow on the Banks of the Rhine esteem'd the wholsomest and most delicious of all these Parts It is not necessary to repeat particularly their first Salutes and Addresses Both Parties seem'd emulous to exceed in Civilities They fell to their Wine with Freedom and Mirth after the Manner of the Country When in the Midst of their Glasses whilst the Heart of the Old Duke was elevated with the Juice of the Grape came into the Room a tall Personage all in Armour and making his Obeisance to the Company deliver'd a Letter to General

and the Empire divided by the Sword of Strangers Ragotski is the onely Obstacle That Prince is wavering and we cannot trust him The Bassa of Aleppo with those of Sidon Damascus and Babylon are ready to cover the Fields of Asia with their Armies If Things were as secure on the Side of Europe the Blow should soon be given There pass'd some other Discourse between them which Osmin could not distinguish in Regard they removed to the Window and spoke low But this was enough to rowze his Curiosity and put him on a farther Inquisition As soon as the Room was void by their Absence he came forth from his Retirement and fell to examining the Papers which lay on the Table hoping to discover more of this Plot but he was disappointed and only met with a few Letters from his Agents in England Wherein among other Matters they gave the Cardinal an Account That they had hunted the Lion into the Toils past all Hopes of an Escape By which I suppose they meant the English King whom the Rebels have confined to a certain Castle in their Possession Osmin transcribed some of these Letters and brought them to me A Copy of one of them I here send thee enclosed 'T was written from the Council of the Irish Rebels By which thou mayst see what a Share the Cardinal has in abetting these Traytors Else how could they Demand of him The Performance of the Queen-Regent ' s Promise to assist them with Money and Men There is one also Dated this present Year and Subscribed by Monsieur Bellieure the French Embassador in England But Osmin had not time to transcribe that being prevented by the Cardinal's Return which made the Dwarf snatch up his Tools and abscond under the Table Yet he remembered some of the Contents of that Letter and told them me at his next Visit The Ambassador in that Letter informs the Cardinal of a certain German Prophet who foretold That there should be a great Revolution in the Government of England and that One of the Mightiest of all the Eastern Princes should be Deposed this Year and Murdred by his Subjects I pray Heaven avert the Omen from the Seraglio He acquaints this Minister also That he had succeeded in his Negotiation with the Officers of the Rebels Army There were other obscure Passages in the Letter which Osmin has forgot But these are sufficient to demonstrate how busie the Cardinal is and what a Hand he has in Foreign Affairs Another Opportunity I hope will bring to Light more of this Minister's Secrets Adieu Paris 4th of the 6th Moon of the Year 1648. LETTER XV. To Pestelihali his Brother THE oftner I peruse the Journal of thy Travels the more I am delighted with it For it is evident That the Countries through which thou hast pass'd have been as so many Schools of Wisdom to thee Wherein thou hast learn'd even from Mens Vices the Way to Perfection much more from their Vertues Thou hast found that though Mens Natural Dispositions differ as do the Climates which afford them Breath yet they all agree in Common Frailties There are also Vices peculiar to certain Countries 't were to be wished they could be match'd with as many National Vertues But Human Nature is a Rank Soil more fertile in Weeds than wholesom Products Yet there are Gardens as well as Desarts And thou hast observed some Persons Illustrious for their Goodness and the Noble Endowments of their Minds I am extreamly pleased with that rare Example of Generosity which thou relatest of an Indian Merchant who not content to give Alms to all that ask'd him or whom he knew to be Poor sought daily Occasions to exercise his Charity hunted out the Indigent and Unfortunate And where-ever he discovered the Lineaments of Poverty in a Man's Face or trac'd the Footsteps of it in his Behaviour he could not rest till he had relieved his Wants and made him Happy to his very Wishes I tell thee Poverty is a Hell upon Earth and he that has this Curse anticipates the Torments of the Damn'd It eclipses the brightest Vertues and is the very Sepulcher of brave Designs depriving a Man of the Means to accomplish what Nature has fitted him for and stifling the Noblest Thoughts in their Embryo How many Illustrious Souls may be said to have been Dead among the Living or buried alive in the Obscurity of their Condition whose Perfections have rendred 'em the Darlings of Providence and Companions of Angels yet the insuperable Penury of all Things has ranked them among the Castaways of the Earth in the Eyes of Men To such as these our Divine Lawgiver commands us to extend our Charity giving us certain Characters and Marks by which we may distinguish them from the Crowd of the Unfortunate And I like the Indian's Bounty the better in that he so exactly seems to comply with this Precept of the Alcoran generously preventing the Requests of the Indigent and by an Excess of Benignity courting them to except of Relief In this he also verifies the Arabian Proverb which says He gives Double who gives unask'd Thou commendest the Industry of the Chinese the Advances they have made in Arts and Sciences which thou concludest is to be attributed to the Force of their Laws which oblige the Son to follow his Father's Trade throughout all Generations In this I must dissent for it seems rather a Curb than a Spur to Ingenuity to be confin'd to Employments for which a Man may have an Aversion The Son not seldom aborring those Things wherein his Parents took Delight Or if not so yet he may be cast in a Finer Mold have a more subtile Invention and consequently be capable of making greater Improvements in any Trade of his own Choice Since Delight sets an Edge on the Mind gives Vigor to the Body and adds Wings to Business Besides I do not think this to be so much thy own Remark as the Insinuation of some of that Country who are the most Conceited People in the World ever extolling their own Policy Laws and Government and imposing them as a Pattern to all other Nations One Thing I grant they boast of with a great Deal of Truth that is their Antiquity and unmix'd Race Though since the Conquest the Tartars have made of that Country they are like to undergo the Fate of other Nations and Corrupt their Genealogies with the Blood of Strangers Thou camest away before that Conquest was begun or perhaps before 't was talked of And I can give thee but a very Imperfect Account of it All the Intelligence we have from that Kingdom of late comes in Fragments For the Ships which bring this shatter'd News left China in an Uproar and Confusion Only they assure us That the Tartars had passed the Celebrated Wall which divides them from China that they entred and subdued the Northern Provinces with an Army of Six Hundred Thousand Men that very little Resistance was made against them not