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A93025	A relation, or an account of the Imperial Court, by Sacredo, a noble Venetian-Senator. Given in an oration made by him to the Doge (or Duke) of Venice, in the Venetian Senate-House, of what things happened during the last war of the Emperor with the Turks, and during his embassy to the Emperor, at his return out of Germany to Venice. Done into English by T.G. Esq	Sagredo, Giovanni, 1616-ca. 1696.; T. G.	1685 (1685)	Wing S289A; ESTC R1667	30,651	128

pride of the Ottomans and created in them a Misunderstanding As to the Forces of the Imperialists 't is true they did appear feeble and intimidated and more than once their Troops retired into Transylvania and visibly avoided fighting but when the Turks saw that the Germans were awakened from their Lethargy and in a Condition and Humor of Defence and did behave themselves with so great Resolution at the Siege of Canisa and after Canisa besieged by Count Serini May 1. and the Turks defeated by Montecuculis Aug. 3. 1664. Rycaut's Hist pag. 150 168. so well beat them at the Battle near the River of Raab they began to lend an Ear to divers propositions of the Imperialists to hearken voluntarily to the several Envoys from them and their Fierceness being much abated they became more sweet and tractable in a Moment making no longer pretences to Comorra or Jawarin which before they declared they would I proceed now to the Correspondencies the Emperor holds with the Princes of Europe The Swedes were possest with The State of the Emperor's Affairs as to Sweden Enmities of old against the Empire but it seems have forgot their Bitterness and Prejudices because the Germans by bringing an unexpected Succor and Assistance to the Poles made the Danes lose the Opportunity the Civil Wars of Poland gave them Many brave Actions past on one Side and the other Denmark joyned to the Emperor to oppose the Swedish Invasion This was one brave and glorious Action As to the other the Germans themselves complained and blamed this indiscreet Generosity of the Emperor who preferred the Relief of Poland before his own Defence and divided his Troops in favor of that Kingdom which if united had not been sufficient to oppose the Force of the Swede or Turk However it was that Poland Poland undertook a Guarranty against the Incursions of the Swedes yet it fell under another Tyranny and found it self constrained to obey a Woman who knew how to dispose all things even her Husband himself under her power This Prince was so much the more complaisant to his Wife because of his Hopes of having Children by her The Queen's Desire for a Successor of her own Family being too apparent the Emperor began to oppose it and fearing lest that Empire should fall into the Hands of the French a Nation suspected and feared he redoubled his Negotiations conversed with his Allies fomented the last Troubles to make a Counterpoise to the Queen's Designs and at present he himself maintains Lubomirski the Grand Marshal of Poland in ill Intelligence with the Court on purpose to oppose the Kindness the Queen has for her Nation and Family As to the protestant Princes Brandenburgh of the Empire and especially Brandenburgh the Emperor relies upon him for Necessity rather than for Friendship 's sake For since that Ferdinand the Second with the formidable Army of Wallestein struck such a Fear into all Germany the most part of the Electors of the Empire have remained firm to France and had rather depend upon an uncertain Relief of Strangers than to a natural Dominion which might prove too absolute which was the sole Cause of the Confederation of the Rhine so much against the Emperor's Mind and has augmented extreamly the Fear and Jealousie he has of the prosperity of France This Kingdom since the peace France has employed it self in nothing but the Increase of its Treasures and quietly observes for its part the Storms of other mens Vessels and waits with more patience than good Will the Shipwracks of the House of Austria So as this first Jealousie has very much contributed to the concluding a peace with the Turks The Court of Germany earnestly Spain wishes to find out some way or other in Spain for hindering of the War with Portugal by telling the Catholick King That he is by it at the Expence of the greatest part of his Revenues The Emperor being united to this King by Blood and by Interest has always a very strict Allyance with him but because that Prince Portia would not owe his Favor to any thing but Fortune he never would have any Regard to the Spaniards in his Master's Court and profiting himself by the Example of the Marquess de Machera the last Embassador of Spain to the Emperor who had a very great Interest otherways he hindered all Freedom of their Councils and weakened them both as to the Reasons and the Importance of them The Imperialists are but indifferently The Pope satisfied with the Pope because his Holiness has not suitably relieved the Emperor by reason of Cardinal Carassa his Nuntio in his most pressing Necessities having not laid out in all above eight hundred thousand Rix-dollars a great part of which Summ was exacted from the Tithes of the States of Austria so that he owes nothing to his Serenity but the permission of levying it and it is as it were but drawn out of his own Fund and Blood let out of his own Veins His Holyness has not the same Zeal for the Emperor as his Predecessors especially Paul the Fifth who upon the like Conjuncture maintained an Army in Germany and sacrificed the Health and Life of his Nephew who died at Canisa Savoy takes part with France Savoy not by Choice but Necessity For the Neighbourhood of his Estates takes away his Liberty of separating either as to War or Intrigue Florence Altho' he be Neuter Florence has a greater Kindness for the House of Austria and his Grandeur and Ambition terminates in the quiet Encrease of their Correspondence The Duke of Modena is a Modena French-man rather by Alliance with Cardinal Mazarine than by Inclination and without doubt would be very weakly united to France were it not that he is so much engaged to its first Minister The Spaniards pay the Garrison Mantua of Cazal for Fear rather than good Will lest the State of the Duke of Mantua's Affairs should oblige him as he was wont to return to France and the Germans are perswaded that he would if the Empress his Sister who can do any thing with him had not broke off this Intrigue and kept this Prince firm to them The Quality of the Emperor Germany not having any Revenue annex'd and setled upon this Dignity his great and august Station carries nothing at all of profit and all the Advantage consists in the Majesty of so magnificent a Title and the Glory of so fair a Rank Germany of it self abounds more with Provisions than Money and affords the Emperor a Revenue very uncertain and unequal which amounts not to above six Millions of Florins His Hereditary Austria c. Estates are abundantly fertile and an Army of Fourscore Thousand Men might subsist and be provided for in his Country without any Disturbance and all of them distributed into Good Quarters in his respective Provinces according to ancient Custom The power notwithstanding of the Emperor is not

Disgrace than the Danger Moreover of what Consequence soever the Loss was he did not fail gaining extreamly The Death of Ismael a great Advantage to the Visier by the Death of Ismael his Competitor having no more to fear from him who had a great Heart and Merit That which surprized him most was the Valor of the French to see what a Slaughter they made and what a Shock they gave the Victory However he more readily The Visier harkens to a Peace lent his Ear to a Treaty of Peace which was soon after concluded and agreed amongst the parties I was so much the less surprized because I foresaw it before-hand Having at large represented it to your Serenities by my Dispatches that this War his Majesty was necessitated not advised to and therefore would be willing to accept the best Conditions of peace he could and endeavour the Restitution of Newhausel a Frontier place which secures not only Hungary but covers Moravia and Silesia and his hereditary Countreys and is only distant from Vienna a hundred Italian Miles The Reasons that induced the Emperor to a Peace The Reasons that led the Emperor to this Peace so imprudently and hastily in a Time when all parts of Christendom promised the Empire more Assistance than ever and the pride of the Turks so sensibly abated and in short when all things did appear to make for the Christians the Reasons I say were The weakness of the House of Austria the Non-age of the King of Spain and the Apprehension that the Germans had That through his Catholick Majesty's Fault the House of Austria remained feeble and troubled in Spain either by Domestick Factions or by the Diversion in Portugal And too much entangled in Germany by reason of this War undertaken with Forces too unequal besides these Entanglements laid open the passages for the King of France to invade the Territories of the one and the other Branch of Austria and he might easily prevail over their Weakness and in Spite of them both establish and secure his Power in their Countreys The little Money the Emperor hath and the feeble slow Succors of the Empire very much encouraged him to this Resolution But Foreign The danger of hazarding a Battle Considerations entirely determined the Council of the Emperor for the great Force of the Turkish Arms hindered the hazarding a Battle in the Heart of Hungary of which the ill Success would put all the States of the Empire into evident Danger besides the natural Aversion between the Germans and Hungarians daily gave some new Alarm The Hungarians hatred to the Turks keeps them in Subjection to the Emperor On the other hand the Imperial Ministers were but too too justly perswaded that the Hungarians are not retained in their Duty and Obedience in respect to the Emperor but out of hatred to the Turks not for Love of their Sovereign but Fear of their Enemies These natutural preventions are the only Cautions that keep in these unruly Creatures and hinder them from undergoing the Yoak For this their giddy Frame of Spirit is the Reason why the Germans do not desire entirely to get the Kingdom of Hungary out of its Subjection to the Ottomans being of that Belief that if this People should recover their former Liberty and were freed from the Fear of the Turks they would infallibly revolt from the Empire nor would obey them any longer and would in the end chuse a King of their own Nation as they have done heretofore These Imaginations are so strong and of that weight with them that the Austrians had much rather consent to the Loss of Newhausel one of the Bulwarks of their hereditary Countreys than insist upon the Restitution of that place which being as it were the Center of Hungary would encrease their Oppression and Servitude This considerable Loss was a Comfort The Emperor makes a Peace blamed by all Chrystendom to them because it would be a Grief to the Hungarians and precipitated them into a dishonourable Peace blamed by all the World and done in a time when all Europe being in peace might send powerful Succors and vigorously beat back these Infidels The Hungarians as they are The Peace prejudicial to the Hungarians most concerned so they were most surprized they had conceived some hope of being able to break their Chains and were in expectation of some sort of Relief from a General Peace amongst Christians They could never imagine that any one could acquiesce in a Treaty so disadvantageous by which their Fetters should be fastened and their Slavery secured Without doubt no one knows how enough to deplore their Misfortune For they find themselves beset on all Hands by the Turks for they are tormented by their continual Courses surprized every Moment in their Vineyards and Villages in such sort that let the peace be what it will that is made these unfortunate Hungarians do not cease having War being exposed to Incursions to Reprisals and to all other Hostilities so that they are obliged to have their Arms in their Hands and be always on their Guard notwithstanding their Forces are unequal to their Enemies They were from Day to Day destroyed and all to no purpose against a greater Force Also adding loss after loss it is very Difficult to think they should long delay an entire Submission and the rather because they are seated between two powerful Enemies the Turks that would oppress them and the Germans that would not defend them And for this Reason as well as that they were not of themselves capable of making War without an evident hazard of being ruined they found themselves constrained to dissemble their Misfortune and to wait a more favourable time for their Liberty without Murmur without Complaint through Fear of a more insufferable Slavery And altho' this might be one Reason to oblige the Germans to a peace it was not the only one the unfortunate Loss of Transylvania was a second and not less urgent This Province was the first The Invasion of Transilvania by the Turks the first Cause of this War Subject of the War and occasioned rather by the ill Conduct of the Emperor's Ministers than by any ill Fortune of his own For it was as it were abandoned Business was neglected Sixteen Musters-pay due to the Soldiers The Officers ill used and driven out of places and constrained as it were thro' Despair to treat with Abafti This * Prince had presently the Consent of the Port and Abafti established 1661. Orders to receive well the German Soldiers that fled to him for Refuge and give them their pay due from the Emperor and so take in the places were given them in Custody without giving them wherewithal to keep them By this means without so much as drawing a Sword the Emperor found himself despoiled of the principal places delivered to him as a pledge of Fidelity by Kemin Janos and lost Clausemburg it self that had been