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A35840	Polish manuscripts, or, The secret history of the reign of John Sobieski the III, of that name, K. of Poland containing a particular account of the siege of Vienna ... with the letters that passed on that occasion betwixt the Emperor, King of Poland, Pope, Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Lorrain, Republick of Venice ... : the whole intermix'd with an account of the author's travels thro' Germany, Poland, Hungary, &c. .../ translated from the French original, wrote by M. Dalerac ...; Anecdotes de Pologne. English	Dalairac, M. (François-Paulin)	1700 (1700)	Wing D127; ESTC R5247	177,325	306

The Sultan was likewise for Comforting his Son-in-Law by the Example of Solyman the Great who met with the same Misfortune before Vienna where indeed he was not defeated but only miss'd of his Aim in taking it However with all these Testimonies of Favour the Sultan order'd him to make amends for this Misfortune by covering the Frontier Places He consented to the Deposing of the Old Cham of Tartary who was succeeded by one of the Visier's Relations and at the Death of the Visier of Buda that Post was fill'd by Kara Mehemet Pacha the Grand Visier's Intimate Friend This Letter from the Prince of Transylvania contain'd likewise several other Particulars and concluded with this Compliment to the King That his Victory was so compleat and his steddy Resolution so commendable in carrying on his Design to the utmost that all Christendom must still remember his Name and have it always in their Mouths The Emperor for his part rewarded the Good Services of the Count of Staremberg on whom he bestow'd the Title of Felt-Mareshal that is General of his Army but he slighted those of the Duke of Saxe-Laonburg whose Deserts were equal to his Birth and who hop'd to have had the Dignity that was conferr'd on Staremberg This made the Prince of Saxony to withdraw in Discontent having the Satisfaction only of seeing the King of Poland approve of his Resentment and Retreat That King sent him a very rich Sabre as a Testimony of his Esteem by a Gentleman who waited upon him at Presburgh where he had left the Army Staremberg had likewise the Golden-Fleece bestow'd upon him and 100000 Crowns being part of 400000 sent by the Pope as a supply to the Army Thus have we given you a Faithful and Exact Account of this Great Action which will be a more Shining Ornament to the History of our Age by the Extraordinariness of the Event than by the greatness of the Matters of Fact For we shall in the Sequel meet with more Heroical and Considerable Transactions on one side as well as the other I shall now present you with the Particulars of the March and Encampments of the King of Poland from Tarnowits to Vienna and set down upon occasion the several Stages thereof The first Country the King of Poland entred after he had left his own Dominions was the Dutchy of Silesia This Province is one of the Hereditary Countries of the House of Austria and begins on the side of Poland at Bengin nine Leagues off Cracow From Bengin to Tarnowits three Leagues This is the Place which the Poles call Tarnosky Goury Most of those Towns of Provinces subject at present to the Republick going under two Names As for the Leagues from hence to Vienna they are to be reckon'd as German Leagues of the larger Measure the swiftest Courrier not being able to compass a Stage in less than two Hours and some will take above three Hours Riding From Tarnowits to Gleibwitz three Leagues a Stage and an half In this Road you will meet with great variety of Woods open Plains Sandy Fields and Fertile Grounds with some Villages that look better than those in Poland tho' the Houses are made of Wood The Towns are all wall'd even Gleibwitz it self which is the least upon the Road but yet this Town makes some shew has a great Clock in it its Gates are guarded and the Burghers are of a Manly Aspect The King encamp'd at this Place the first Day after he had left Tarnowits and din'd at Vessolo a Village between both From Glebwitz to Routh three Leagues a Stage and an half You still meet with the same pleasant Prospect of a mixt Country which hitherto is pretty good Travelling tho' Sandy Routh is only a small Village situated in the midst of a Wood but it has a very fine Abbey of the Cistercian Order and the Post-Office is within its inward Yard The King din'd at Pilikvitzé and lay in the Abbey Dutchy of RATIBOR From Routh to Ratibor three Leagues one Stage and an half They are very long Leagues and the Country very close and sandy but in going down the Hills that lie next to the Marshy Plain in which Ratibor is situated we discover'd a very pleasant Country This Marshy Plain makes the Avenues to the Town very difficult by reason of the Length of the Causeys made of Faggots Ratibor has Suburbs quite round its Walls and is wash'd with the River Odar which we pass'd over a Wooden Bridge into one part of the Suburbs The Place is very large and set off with Stately Brick Houses It is the Capital City of a fine Dutchy which the House of Austria often pawns Casimir King of Poland enjoy'd it a long time under that Title and the Heirs of Queen Lewes his Wife pretended to great Reimbursements after her Death for that Territory to be made out of the Emperor's Demesnes The King who din'd the third Day at Samotitzé just step'd to Ratibor where he staid a little with the Lords of the Family of Henoff who had provided a Collation for him and went to lye at Pietrovitzé From Ratibor to Troppaw 4 Leagues two Stages This is an Uneven Country but Champian and well manur'd and this City is one of the finest in the Province surrounded with good Walls with Turrets and several pieces of Workmanship on the Gates the Churches are well built the Inhabitants of a graceful Mein It has a Governor and a well-disciplin'd Garrison On that side of it towards Ratibor the Suburbs are but indifferent through which runs the River Oppava which gives the City a Second Name being call'd by the Poles Oppava from the Name of the River The King din'd there the fourth Day The Marquisate of MORAVIA From Troppaw to Hauff four Leagues two Stages Upon leaving of Troppaw the Plains by which it is surrounded and which are very Champian go a League farther and with them is terminated the Province of Silesia separated on this side from the Marquisate of Moravia by a Ridge of large Mountains of six Leagues length which arising from those of Hungary on the Left are joyn'd to those of Bohemia beyond Breslaw on the Right These Mountains are very high cover'd with large Woods of Fir and at the Bottoms wash'd with Fountains and Rivulets where are some Villages ill built but pretty populous Such a Village as this is Hauff which might be reckon'd a large Town and would be a good City in Poland It is call'd in the Polish Language Dwortzè This Ridge of Mountains is terminated by a long rough and steep descent at the foot of which is the City of Sternberg which is properly no more than a Street with a Gate at each End but large rich and well built In the midst of this Mountain is a Castle of Ancient Structure very large and well kept as belonging to a Petty Prince or rather some Great Lord of Germany From Hauff to Sternberg three Leagues a Stage and an half

was in vain for me to explain to them the Expences of the Journey and the Length of the Way to Cracow to let them understand That all that Money was no more than necessary for it The Turks who are unacquainted with those Matters never troubled themselves with these Considerations and suppos'd me to be at least some Lord of Quality They were farther confirm'd in this Opinion by the foolish Behaviour of one of those Poles that were taken with me who being releas'd at ten Days end came and embrac'd me by the Knees according to the Polish Custom and thank'd me believing that the King would never have remember'd him but because he was one of my Company Upon this Demonstration of Respect the Bassa order'd him to be examin'd concerning my Quality and this wretched Creature thinking to recommend me by raising me above the Rank of an Ordinary Person expatiated upon the great Esteem which the King of Poland had for me and upon that high Post which I held in his Court which the Bassa took for granted and it cost me fourteen Months Slavery as I shall hereafter shew During this Negotiation the King of Poland carried on the Siege of Strigonium which at first seem'd resolv'd to stand it out The Elector of Bavaria was made acquainted with this Design who order'd part of his Troops to march on that side and led them himself Upon my Return from Cracow I found him encamp'd in the middle of Presbourg and his Troops a quarter of a League beyond the Town from whence they enter'd the Isle of Schut over the Bridge that had been rais'd in that place But the Elector never came up to the Army who carried Strigonium in two or three Days and afterwards dispers'd themselves into Winter Quarters the Imperialists in the Hereditary Countries and the Poles in Vpper Hungary possess'd by the Rebels whom they were oblig'd to force thence The King of Poland having order'd the German Army and part of his Infantry to pass the Bridges caus'd General Staremberg to carry on the Assault and remain'd with half of his Forces in the Old Camp on this side of the Danube being willing by this means to share the Glory of the Conclusion of this Campaign between the Poles and the Imperialists Hereupon the Germans open'd their Trenches and rais'd their Batteries against the Upper-Town that being all that was left for the Lower-Town had been burn and the Turks all retreated into the Fortress The Assault was carry'd on vigorously they likewise batter'd down the Fortifications and the Wall to facilitate the Scaling of the Town In the mean time they were for coming closer to it and to spring a Mine for which purpose they carried the Pallisade within a foot of the Walls with their Swords in their Hands And whilst they were looking for a place to make a hole in for 't was almost all Rocky the Town Beat a Parley and desir'd to Capitulate The Germans who were for taking the Garrison at Discretion refus'd at first the Proposal of the Bassas but being oblig'd to acquaint the King of Poland with it who commanded the Army with the same Power as the Emperor himself would have done this Monarch accepted of the Capitulation and the Bassas surrender'd the Place into his Hands out of which they march'd Sunday Octob. 24. The King would have perswaded them to have retir'd into Poland for fear the Grand Visier should revenge the Loss of Strigonium upon them but they unhappy Creatures more subject than Slaves persisted in their Resolution of going to Buda giving out that they had done their Duty since they wanted Supplies in holding out the Place for 3 Days against a formidable and Victorious Army But the Plea stood 'em in no stead for upon their Arrival they lost their Lives by being beheaded or strangled Afterwards the King of Poland cross'd the River to take a View of the Place glorying in having forc'd the Turks to abandon it after they had been Possessors of it for 143 Years being settled there by their Emperor Solyman the Great He put the City into the Hands of the Duke of Lorrain who left a Governor with a very strong Garrison in it At last all the Army repass'd to the Old Camp from whence they broke up on All-Saints Day on which the King of Poland attended with a Body of Imperial Troops commanded by General Dunneval march'd by that Neck of Mountains which lie on the Left of the Plains of Barcan to enter into Vpper-Hungary and encamped that Day upon a River three Leagues beyond The Visier of Silistria and the Bassa of Caramania the Polish Great General 's Prisoners were conducted along with the Army and treated very Honourably by that Lord to whom the King had granted them as his Prize Tho' several Commonwealths-men grumbled and said They belonged to the Republick The Great General had at first sent them to his Polish Majesty as being his Sovereign and the Generalissimo of the Allies and afterwards brought them to Leopold lodg'd them in a Neat House and allow'd them as much Liberty as they could reasonably desire with Servants of their own that they sent for from Caminiec whom this Lord entertain'd to the number of seven or eight which my self saw He clothed them in Velvet treated them magnificently according to their Custom and order'd the Merchants of the City to supply them with whatever they wanted and I am sure that ' bating their Slavery those Turks far'd as well as if they had been in their own Country Tho' they had promis'd 150000 Crowns each for their Ransom and the Money came not in 7 Years after their being taken yet the General spar'd nothing of his Civility or Expences upon them which amounted every Year to 12000 Franks of that Sum. 'T is true they could not be blam'd for any Delay in this Matter since their Ransom was once brought as far as Caminiec but the Sultan was so far from contributing any thing towards it that even the Bassa of that Place seis'd upon the Money and made use of it to pay off his Garrison who were ready to mutiny for want of their Pay They wrote often to the Port desiring the Money might be re-imburs'd but they were so far from having Justice done them that on the contrary their Offices were afterwards dispos'd of to others and their Persons proscrib'd tho' they were men of great Note and an extraordinary Merit The Visier of Silistria had a Noble and Charming Aspect a comely Shape a grave Air Eyes full of Sweetness a venerable Beard a Face full of Majesty and Decorum with very fine Features His Carriage was Charming Honourable and Courteous but somewhat Stately and as of one far above the inferiour Persons of Quality His outward Form was perfectly agreeable to the Post he was in and to his Personal Merit In the Battle he gave Signs of an extraordinary Valour and when he was taken he shew'd a great deal of Constancy

beginning of the Year 1684. to sound that Prince in favour of the Holy League in order by that means to give the Crim Tartars a powerful Diversion Upon their return Father Vota stopt in Poland to wait there for a more favourable Conjuncture to his pious Design giving out that the Czar had not hearkened to his first Overtures The King received him very pleasantly all Novelties are pleasing to the Learned and above all at this Court where every thing runs in the Excess as the Heat and the Cold he carried him to the War lodged him defrayed him and at last made him his most intimate Secretary Much about the time of the arrival of all those Persons extraordinary each in his Sphere arrived also one from France no less illustrious distinguished besides his Personal Merit by his great Birth 'T was the Marquis de Bethune heretofore Ambassador Extraordinary of France in Poland who returned thither without any other Character than that of Brother-in-Law to the Queen and without any other Design than to follow the King into the Army being out of Employment in France where the Peace had just extinguished the new Differences between the two Nations after the taking of Luxemberg in the Year 1684. which the Marshal de Crequi joined that very Year to the Conquests of Louis le Grand The Austrian Ministers being naturally suspicious according to the Genius of the Germans believed that the Voyage of the Marquis de Bethune comprehended some Politick Mystery Count Wallestein dropt some Words to that purpose in a Conference with the Marquis d'Arquyan who telling him one Day that he Count Wallestein would doubtless be glad to see a Lord in Poland whom he had known at Vienna and honoured with his Friendship that Minister answered smiling That he had rather see him elsewhere but the Marquis d'Arquyan replying That his arrival was without Mystery and only upon the Score of a Relation who came to see the King his Brother-in-Law after the happy Success of his Campagnes the Count de Wallesteine added with the same Tone That the Pretence of his coming was very plausible and the Colour well contrived However all those illustrious Persons lived in this Court in a perfect Union of Civility and honest Correspondence There had not been so great a Number of Foreign Grandees at that Court of a long time The end of the Campagne also increased it more with Officers of the Elector of Brandenburg's Troops Besides the young Prince of Courland his Brother Prince Ferdinand also repaired thither from Germany to get some Post in the Army The Rendezvouz of those illustrious Persons was in the House of the Marquis d'Arquin who kept an excellent Table and made a Figure worthy of the high Rank of Father to a great Queen They played a great Game there all the Winter whilst the King of Poland was taken up about calling of the General Diet whose Session happened in the following Year 1685. It ought to have been held in Lithuania as being the third according to the Regulations made for that purpose however the King of Poland with the Advice of most of the Senators assembled them at Warsaw on the sixteenth of February 1685. to save the Nobility the Trouble of a long Journey after so tedious a Campagn and that they should not be at so great a distance from the Frontiers to the end that they might be in a readiness to repair thither betimes upon all Occasions This raised great Difficulties in the Republick by the obstinacy of the Lithuanians as we shall see in the Second Part of these Memoirs In the interim Count Wallestein returned to Vienna leaving the Care of Affairs to a Resident called Chemoski a Relation of the Baron Jarowski who came afterwards and took it upon himself Secretary Alberti fixed himself also in this Court and Father Vota began his Intrigues in favour of the Confederate Princes This was the Face of the Court and of the Affairs of Poland when I arrived there after I came out of Slavery The Officer that Pr. Lubomirski had sent to Comorra to make the Exchange conducted me to Presburg by the Isle of Schit and from thence to Vienna I found the Country Peopled with new Inhabitants who were rebuilding the Villages and the Flying Bridge of the first of those Towns was re-established I tarried in the other five or six Days with my Deliverer who filled up the Measure of his Kindnesses to me by solid and effectual Services my Acknowledgment wherof can never be sufficiently testified It is certain that without the pressing Sollicitations of the Marquis d'Arquin the Queen's Father and without the Intercession of Prince Lubomirski who negotiated my Liberty at his own Charge which cost him above 400 Pistols whereof the Court of Poland repaid him nothing and of which he would not suffer me to reimburse the least Penny without these two Lords I say I had been killed at Nehausel either by Famine or by Arms for that Place having been besieged six Months after there was only found therein about 40 or 50 Slaves of nigh 1400 that I left in the Place as well in the Prisons as in private Houses the rest having been killed upon the Ramparts and in the Breach where the Bassa's exposed them to work to cover the Turkish Soldiers The Germans also massacred a great Number of them in the general Storm without distinguishing them from the Enemy in the heat of the Conflict At this Rate my Deliverance cost nothing to the King nor Queen of Poland all the Charge of it fell on Pr. Lubomirski Indeed the King had a great deal of Trouble to find the two Spahi's demanded by the Bassa He called Mehemet was found with a Polander of whom his Majesty bought him to put him into the Hands of the Marquis d'Arquin The other who was called Ali Spaha could not obtain the same Liberty Miogenski who had him in Custody refused to release him The first had all reason imaginable to praise his Bondage not only because of the good Treatment that he received in the House of the Queen's Father but also because of the fair Dealing that was observed for his Interest I had been exchanged with 28 Turks of Zetchin and had signified it so from Vienna without specifying any thing of the Conditions I had sworn to Upon the first News the Marquis d'Arquin not knowing what I had promised thought to procure me an advantage by causing this Mehemet to ran some himself it being said that the French Man for whom he was designed to be exchanged had obtained his Liberty by other means The Spahi offered 500 Crowns and a Turkish Envoy who was detained at Leopold by way of Reprizal for him of Poland at Constantinople paid the same After which he retired to Caminiec with all imaginable Security and Conveniency At my arrival the Marquis d'Arquin presented me with that Summ but I explained to him the Circumstances of my exchange and thanking him

the Grand Visier having made me his Universal Legatee The Booty that was taken in this Action is infinite and inestimable The Field of Battle was sowed with Gold Sabres with Pieces of Stuff and such a prodigious Quantity of other things that the Pillage which has already lasted three Days will scarce be over in a whole Week although the Besieged are come out of the Town in great Companies to partake of the Booty with the victorious Soldier both the one and the other being scarce able as yet to perswade themselves that this happy success is real it is so extraordinary Insomuch that the whole Army which nevertheless has done its duty very couragiously can't forbear to attribute this great Victory to the mighty God of Battles who would make use of the Hands of the King of Poland to overthrow the Enemies of his Name for which let him be honoured and glorified for ever and ever The King did not taste all the Joy that Christendom will feel as well because his great Spirit is accustomed to Victories as by the Reflection he made upon the lamentable Spectacle wherewith he was pierced when he entred into the Camp of the Turks at the sight of an infinite Number of Slaves whose Throats the Infidels had cut after their defeat and whose Bodies yet chained were extended confusedly amongst the dying and the wounded The King was particularly touched with a Child of about four Years of Age who seemed to be admirably beautiful notwithstanding he was coverd all over with Blood from a wound he had received on his Head The Desolation was nothing less in the City of Vienna where the King entered the Day after the Battle and found heaps of Ruines rather than Houses and even the Emperor's Palace reduced to Ashes hy the Cannon and Bombs but he was eased of the Grief which this dismal Spectacle had occasioned by the Acclamations of the Inhabitants who thinking no more of their past Calamities were transported with Joy for their unexpected Deliverance The City not being able to hold out two or three Days more Some kissed his Hands some his Feet and others his Robe And all cryed out that they might be permitted at least to see and admire the Hand that had delivered them from the Bondage they had been so near reduced to They called him their Saviour And some of them dropt out that they must have such an Emperor as this magnanimous King His Majesty would have willingly put a stop to those Acclamations and desired the German Officers to silence the People but all in vain for it was impossible to stop the Current of the Burgers who repeated their Cries of Long live the King wherever that victorious Monarch went After having visited some Churches where he returned thanks to God for the happy deliverance of Vienna he dined with Count Staremberg the Governour where he was no less fatigued with Embraces than he had been with the Acclamations in the Streets The Elector of Bavaria the other German Princes the Officers and all the Army as one may say run thither as soon as they had Notice of it to see him near at Hand whose valour they had so much admired in the Battle The Princes imbraced and kissed the King with such Transports as are easily pardoned in extasies of Joy where Respect is a little neglected which cannot be attributed to any want of Considaration for they had given him very great Marks of it by the Submission with which they had always obeyed him and which that Monarch had wrote to the Queen was with more promptness and less reserve than that of his own Troops He returned afterwards into the Camp followed by the Princes where he was joined by the Duke of Lorrain and Elector of Saxony who had not seen the King since the Morning before the Battle because they had been always imployed at the head of the left Wing The King was afterwards obliged to change his Camp and to remove it two Leagues beyond the Field of Battle because the stench of the dead Corps began to be infectious He proposed to himself at the same time to pursue the Enemy close to give them no respite in their flight and was so pushed on with the Ardor of his Zeal that he could not give himself a Minutes rest In the mean time the Emperor advanced in great diligence to see him and arrived at Vienna two Hours after his Majesty departed thence But the King did not retard his March for it preferring the Security of his Victory and the Interest of of the Party to the Joy which doubtless he would have had to see the Emperor who likewise ardently desired to see him He marches then directly after the Enemy whom he had resolved to pursue into Hungary whither he had directed his flight the Electors of Saxony and Bavaria resolved also to follow his Majesty even to the end of the World as they themselves told him those Princes having joined themselves in strict Frindship to his Person as had the Elector of Bavaria to the Prince of Poland in particular with whom he would have divided his Spoils This victorious Army may justly be compared to that which Godfrey of Boulogne led in triumph thro' the Holy Land and ought to be the more satisfied with their Glory for that the Victory though bloody cost them but very few Men of Note among whom is reckoned only the Prince de Crouy of the Germans and of the Polanders the Starost Halitski Son to the Castellan of Cracow Potoski and Mordreoski Treasurer of the Court whom the King particularly regretted This surprizing success ought also to be attributed to a visible Protection of the Lord according to the Vision of Father Marc d'Aviano a Capuchin of a very Holy Life who administred the Sacrament to the King and the Prince his Son on the Morning of that memorable Day who positively affirms that he saw a white Dove fly in a Circle over the Christian Army during the whole Action and it was observed during the King's march that an Eagle followed his Majesty 7 Leagues and proportioned its flight so as to be always over his Head One may observe an Effect of this Protection upon the sacred Person of this Hero who exposed himself like the meanest Soldier and upon that of the Prince his Son who was always by his side wherever he went The same may be also said of the Elector of Bavaria who in the most dangerous Places testified a Courage worthy of the Origin he comes of and who was always by the King's side during the Battle I ought not to forget the Count de Maligni the Queen's Brother to whom the King in his Letter gives an Account of the Valor and good Conduct of that French Lord whereof he was an Eye-witness Let us conclude this Account as the King hath done his and let us return Thanks to God for this memorable Victory in which he did not suffer the Infidels

to scoff us nor to ask Where is the God of the Christians seeing they have felt his Power upon this Occasion Every thing shews the greatness of the Victory which the King obtained and the sole Number of the things that were found in the Enemy's Camp renders it still more considerable Here follows a LIST or State of the Ammunitions of War that was found untouched afther the Defaet of the TURKS as Count Staremberg himself confessed besides what was embezled 400000 Weight of Powder besides the like Quantity that was burnt by our Men after the Battle 400000 of Lead 18000 Hand-Granadoes of mixed Mettle 20000 Hand-Granadoes of Iron 100000 Pick-Axes 30000 several Instruments for the Mines 4000 Spades 4000 Baskets 600 Pound of Match 5000 Pound of Pitch 1000 Pound of a kind of Oil for Workmanship and a Quantity of Linseed-Oil 5000 Pound of Cordage of different sizes 200000 Sacks made of Hair 100000 Sacks made of Cloth 6000 Pound of Nails for Horse-shoes 5000 Pound of several sorts of Nails for the Cannon 20000 Powder-Bags 16 large Anvils a Quantity of great Cordage for the Carriages of the Artillery 1000 Caldrons to boil the Pitch and Gums in 20000 Pound of Thread made of Hair and Lint 20000 Halbards 4000 Sythes 5000 Muskets of the Janisaries 600 Sacks full of Cotton spun and unspun 30000 Pound of Grease or Suet. 20000 Powder Horns for the Janisaries 4 Pair of Great Bellows 5000 Pound of new Iron 200 Waggons for the Artillery 4 huge Bars of Iron for the great Cannon 8 Great Iron Wheels for the same use 8000 Waggons for Ammunition 1000 Great Bombs 18000 Ball for the Cannon of a Middle bore 20000 red Bullets 160 Pieces of Canon among which were many 48 and 24 Pounders 'T is said that all this was set apart with a design to be put into Vienna after they had taken it The Visier having taken Care to provide it with Ammunition all at once in order to put it in a state of Defence in case the Christian Princes should have a mind to retake it after having not been able to hinder its being taken This Account was wrote in Polish and Latin and translated into French 'T was printed in Holland in French but as 't is much disfigured by the Alterations they have made sometimes by diminishing and other times by adding to it I thought the Publick would be glad to see it in the Original as it came from the Hands of the Polish Author and the French Translator AN HARANGUE Made to the POPE September 27. 1683. By the Abbot d'Henoff Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Poland when he presented the Great Standard of Mahomet which was sent by his Majesty to his Holiness in the Presence of the Sacred College Ambassadors Prelates and Lords of the Court of Rome Most Holy Father IT has been a Custom no less Ancient than the Time of Hero's to lay the Colours of a conquered Enemy under the Feet of the Victors in order to conduct them by so beautiful a Path to the Temple of Glory through the Acclamations and loud Praises which they have merited But John III. King of Poland my Master entertaining no other than elevated Thoughts forgetting himself had no other Object in view by the Victory he has so lately obtained but the advantage of the Church as his Piety towards God and his Respect to your Holiness and the Holy Apostolick See equal his Valour 't is also at your Feet most Holy Father that he would have me lay the great and principal Standard of the Infidel Army which his Royal Hand has snatched from the Turks in the middle of their Camp and in this Standard he by my Ministry abases all the Pride of the Ottoman Power before you This great King came saw and conquered He came I say but how He left his Dominions he quitted and almost abandoned the Queen his Spouse and the Princes his Children and hastened to the succour of Vienna besieged in order to deliver it and to save the Empire but the merit of this extraordinary Action redounds Most Holy Father even to you who incited my King to the Enterprize and 't is the Glory of that Prince to have rendred to your Holiness an unparallel'd Obedience He also saw but without being appal'd the redoubtable Squadrons of the Infidels and the extream Danger wherewith all Europe was threatned but your Holiness had foreseen that this Prince was the Buckler that must oppose the infinite Darts of so terrible an Enemy and by a particular Inspiration of the Holy Ghost knew that he was designed of God to be the Defender of the Christian Religion In fine He conquered and to tell it in a few Word his Arm swift as Thunder but overthrew so prodigious a Number of those Infidels that when they lay upon the Ground the Field of Battle could scarce contain them Et tu vois dans cette Victoire Rome de tes Cesars renaitre lés lauriers Jean Troisiéme te rend laiseul toute la Gloire Des triomphes des tes Guerriers But most Holy Father this great Victory was obtained under Your favourable Auspices You have both of You conquered You with Your Prayers and my King with his Sword You by lavishing your Treasures for this Holy War and my King by exposing his Blood and Life Cast Your Eyes most Holy Father upon this Standard receive it with Pleasure seeing in future Ages it will be the Ornament which will shew forth the Glory of your Pontificate And may you long enjoy this Glory upon Earth as the Fruit of your Vertues and of the invincible Monarch who makes you this Present A LETTER FROM The Elector of Brandenburg TO The King of Poland Written upon the Subject of Raising the Siege of VIENNA Most Serene and most Potent King Lord Kinsman and most Honourable Brother VVHen it was published throughout the World That the most numerous Army of the Turks and Tartars had been happily beaten off by the Christian Forces and chiefly by the Valour of your Royal Majesty from the Siege of Vienna and defeated we thought it no small Argument of your high Esteem and good Will towards us that it should please your Royal Majesty not to let us understand the same meerly by common Fame but also by Your most kind Letters dated the 14th Instant from the Visier's Tents Which as we received with a most grateful Affection as we ought to do so we heartily congratulate Your Majesty on this illustrious Addition to Your Great Merits at the Hands of Christendom and do sincerely rejoyce at this Your Increase of Splendor and Glory praying God always to assist with his Divine Blessing Your Royal Majesty's Generous Design of pursuing the Enemy to render the Course of Your Victories for establishing the Security of the Christian World and augmenting your own Glory both most happy and perpetual and to preserve Your Royal Person long in Health Given at our Castle of Postdam Sept. 24.