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A51897	The fifth 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 M565CL; ESTC R35022	171,587	384

Excommunicated Girolamo Loredan and Giovanni Contarini in whose Custody the Chief Fortresses of the Island were accusing them of Cowardice and Treachery Offering also Two Thousand Sequins to any that seizes on 'em within the Dominions of Venice and Three thousand to him that kills 'em in another Country I know 't is in the Power of the All-Commanding Port to protect these Exiles if they are within the Territories of our Sovereign much more if they shelter themselves in that Sanctuary of the Distressed But thou and the other Supreme Ministers are best able to judge whether these Infidels merit so great a Favour Perhaps their Case may be like that of Nadast Governour of Buda when Solyman the Magnificent besieged that City For Nadast was a Man of Invincible Courage and Fidelity but was betrayed by the Soldiers who bound him in Chains and deliver'd up the City and Castle to the Victorious Sultan That brave Hero understanding their Treachery and the Resolution of Nadast set him at Liberty and presented him with Noble Gifts but commanded the Perfidious Garrison to be cut in Pieces A due Reward of their Treason For tho' Princes often make Use of Traytors to serve their own Designs yet when the Work is done they commonly pursue the Hated Instruments with the Effects of a Just Contempt and Indignation Plutarch the Greek Historian abounds with Instances of this Nature so does Herodian and other Roman Authors But no Example of Punishment in this Kind seems so Proportionate Regular and Ingenious as that which Brennus King of the Gauls caused to be Inflicted on a Virgin of Ephesus who when he besieged that City promised to deliver it into his Hands on Condition that his Soldiers would bestow on her all their Ornaments of Gold which they had Plundered in the Wars of Asia and wore about them as Trophies For when she had performed her Contract the Wise General to do his Part caused this Virgin to sit down on the Ground and then every Soldier in his Army casting his Plate into her Lap she was oppressed with the Insupportable Weight and buried Alive in a Heap of Gold I do not mention this as if the like were due to the Venetian Captains I refer the Judgment of such Things to my Superiours Ministers of the Blessed Sanctuary of Mankind 'T is possible the Vizirs of the Bench thought me dead or turned Renegado because they have not received any News from me these Five Moons But I tell thee neither Men nor Devils can corrupt the Faith of Mahmut By the God of my Vows there is not a more Trusty Man in the Vniverse All the Reason of my Silence was the Height of the Waters which seemed to threaten the Earth with a Second Deluge Germany was a Sea and Flanders a Lake for above Three Moons together so that 't was Impossible for the Post to travel There were seen also strange Spectres of Fire in the Air And the People of Brabant were Alarmed with Uncouth Noises in the Elements Perhaps Illustrious Kaimacham these are the last Preparations to the Grand Cholick of Nature when Wind Water and Fire shall strive to turn this World into its Old Chaos Paris 3d. of the 6th Moon of the Year 1658. LETTER VI. To Solyman his Cousin at Constantinople MORE Melancholy still Wilt thou have no Compassion on thy Exil'd Vncle but harangue him to Death with thy Religious Jargon Believe me thy Letters of this Kind are as Irksom to me as the Continual Din and Babling of Boys is to a Poor Weary Pedagogue I forbid thee not to write to me and that as often as thou wilt 'T is a Comfort in my Banishment to hear from those of my Blood But let me beg of thee to alter both thy Theme and Style Leave Spiritual Things to the Mollahs and Imaums And let thy Thoughts be taken up in Things belonging to thy Trade In that be as Inquisitive as thou canst Bend thy Mind wholly to make new Discoveries and Improvements in that and it will turn to thy Advantage At thy Hours of Leisure I counsel thee to read Histories and sometimes go into Company There is much to be gain'd by Conversing with Men of Sence Such will ferve as Mirrous wherein thou may'st behold Humanity in its Proper Figure and the Deformity of that Vizard with which Errour and Superstition disguize our Nature They will correct thy Mistakes without putting thee to a Blush Wit and Reason shall flow from their Tongues as soft Harmonies breathe from the Pipes of an Organ which chear the Spirits and serene the Heart that was clouded with Sadness The Imperial City is full of such both Natives and Strangers Cull them out from the mix'd Multitude and make 'em thy Companions without regarding the Difference of Religion whether they be Mussulmans Franks Armenians Jews or others Above all Things shun the Society of Bigots and number not thy self among those who are Opinionated because they profess the True Faith For what signifies that if their Lives be Vitious I tell thee they are worse than the Infidels Give no Heed to Fortune-Tellers and such as pretend to Astrology For whilst they boast of knowing other Mens Fates they are Ignorant of their own And if there be any Truth in that Science one may say their Ignorance in it affronts the Stars and often provokes 'em to hasten their own Ruine Assure thy self they only amuse the World with Portentous Stories to get Fame and Money Associate thy self with none but Prudent and Moderate men whose Morals are not leaven'd with a too Furious Zeal who look not Superciliously and with Disdain on a Frank as he walks along the Streets much less offer him any Indignity when he goes about his Honest Business under the Protection of the Grand Signior It becomes none but Janizaries and Ruffians to be guilty of these Incivilities to Strangers The Law of Nations and the Particular Commands of our Holy Prophet oblige us to treat such with all Humanity and Tenderness Besides 't is a Reflection on the Justice and Hospitality of the Magnificent-Port which is the Refuge and Sanctuary of all the Earth that a Stranger cannot walk the Streets in Peace Despise no Man on the Score of his Religion for there are no Factions in Paradise But consider that whilst Thousands of Mussulmans shall go to Hell for their Wicked Lives so an Equal Number of those we call Infidels may be receiv'd into the Mansions of the Bless'd for their Virtues Thou seemest to be much concern'd for thy Soul Thy Letter abounds with overmuch Care in this Point In being too sollicitous it is Evident thy Faith is small Every Line is tinctur'd with Sad Expressions about the Perils Snares Ambushes Hooks Gins and I know not what other Devices the Devil has to ruine thy Poor Soul as thou call'st it Cousin dost thou know what the Soul is about which thou keep'st such a Pudder If thou do'st 't is more than I do and

casta e Putana Errante I send thee these Verses in the Original knowing thou art a Critick in the Italian Language besides they will not found so well in Arabick Thou that hast been in Rome know'st what Pasquin is and art no Stranger to the Humours of that City Let not Lampoons of Morose Italians abate thy Charity for this Renowned Princess But let her Extravagances be an Argument of the Greatness of her Soul and remember the old Roman Proverb which says There 's no surpassing Genius without some Mixture of Madness Paris 30th of the 1st Moon of the Year 1656. LETTER XV. To the same HAving the Space of an Hour before the Post goes I cou'd not forbear to inform thee of a New Star which lately appear'd in these Parts moving in a direct Line from East to North. The Astronomers have made Accurate Observations of it and yet are at a Loss what to conclude Some say 't is below the Moon others place it in the Sphere of the Fixed Stars One will have it a Meteor a Second affirms it to be a Planet whilst the Jews report every where that 't is the Star of Jacob and a Sign that their Messias is at Hand Nathan Ben Saddi one of that Nation at Vienna sends me strange Stories concerning the Prodigies which shall go before and accompany the Appearance of the Deliverer of Israel as he calls him He says there shall speedily come a Sort of People from the Vttermost Parts of the Earth of a Black and Horrible Aspect so that whoever shall but cast an Eye on any of them shall immediately die as by the Glance of a Basilisk For every one of them shall have Two Heads and Seven Eyes glowing and sending forth Sparks of Fire as Poisonous as the Flashes of the Wind El-Samiel in Arabia They shall also be Swift as Stags And about the same Time an extraordinary Heat shall flow from the Sun which being dispers'd through the Elements shall corrupt the Air Earth and Waters and infect all this Lower World with such Pestilential Qualities that a Million of Gentiles for so the Jews call all that are not of their Own Nation shall die every Day And Men shall be in so great Consternation that they shall run up and down the Streets crying Wo Wo to us and our Children They shall dig their own Graves and go down into them of their own Accord expecting Death But that all this Time the Jews shall be in Safety and Health This Hebrew adds That the Light of the Sun shall be totally extinguish'd for the Space of Thirty Days during which horrible Darkness the Christians and Mahometans shall acknowledge their Errors and many of them shall embrace the Law of Moses for which God being mov'd to Mercy will restore that Planet again to its former Brightness But what he says next is an Unhappy Presage to the Romans whose Empire according to this Tradition shall be extended over all the Regions of the Earth for the Space of Nine Moons After which Term God shall send the First Messias the Son of Joseph who shall gather the dispers'd Tribes of Israel and conduct them to Jerusalem From whence he shall issue forth with a Victorious Army and lay waste the Roman Empire sack Rome it self and carry away the Immense Riches of the Christians to Jerusalem And the very Fear of him shall reduce all Nations to his Obedience He shall fight with Armillai Harascha the Antichrist of the Christians and shall destroy Two Hundred Thousand of Armillai's Followers but in the End shall be slain himself and the Good Angels shall transport his Body to the Apartment of the Fathers The Jews hold That this Armillai shall spring out of an Image of the Virgin Mary in Rome made of Marble with which the most Wicked and Profligate among Men shall be enamour'd and commit the most execrable Uncleanness that can be nam'd The Result of these Adulterous Congresses shall be That the Statue by a Supernatural Power shall prove Impregnate and cleaving asunder shall be deliver'd of this Young Antichrist who is to vex and persecute the Jews and afflict them with greater Calamities than either they or their Fathers felt since the Beginning of the World They shall be forc'd to flee into the Desarts and hide themselves in the Dens and Caves of the Earth living onely on the Grass and Herbage with the Leaves of Trees till the great Michael the Archangel shall Thrice wind his Horn. Then shall the Second Messias the Son of David with Elias the Prophet appear who shall rescue 'em out of all their Troubles and lead them Triumphant to Paradise This is the Sum of what Nathan and all the Jews believe concerning the Last Times which they say are now approaching As is evident by the Rising of this New Star accompany'd with terrible Thunders and Lightnings And the Chief Patriarch or Prince of the Jews is come from Jerusalem to Vienna to prepare those of his Nation in these Western Parts for the Grand Revolutions which they believe are ready to fall out in the World All the Jews in that City went out a League to meet him with great Pomp and Solemnity In the mean while I hear that the Son of the late Vizir Azem makes a Confusion amongst you at Constantinople and the Parts adjacent being at the Head of Fifty Thousand Men on Pretence to revenge the Death of his Father But really to recover his Ravish'd Mistress the Fair Soltana Zamiouvre who was forc'd from his Seragl ' by the Grand Signior's Command Women and Wine according to the Proverb of the Franks make all the Disturbance in the World And without calling to Remembrance the Trojan Wars the Unhappy Effects of Helena's Perfidy we may conclude That Women are the Occasions of many Quarrels among us There is a Peace lately concluded between the French and the New English Common-wealth By which Means the Exil'd King of the Scots was forc'd to depart from this Realm which has been his Sanctuary for many Years He went away at the Beginning of the Treaty and has wandred up and down Germany ever since sometimes keeping a Court like a King at other Times living Incognito and very privately with onely Two or Three Attendants That poor Prince is very Unfortunate yet they say he bears his Calamity with singular Moderation and a certain Royal Stiffness of Mind which will rather break than bend This Pope is a great Peace-Maker and has sent Nuntio's with Letters to all the Princes of Christendom within the Pale of the Roman Church earnestly perswading them to Unity and Friendship that so their Arms may be turn'd against the Mussulmans His Predecessor was of another Sentiment and wou'd not inter-meddle in the Quarrels of any One Day as he was looking out of a Window of his Palace with some Cardinals they spied Two Men a fighting in the Street whereupon they desired the Holy Father to interpose his Authority and command

Peace But he refus'd saying Let them fight it out and then they 'll be good Friends of Course And turning to the Spanish Embassador he said So will it fare with your Master and the King of France When they have sufficiently wearied out one another with Wars they will gladly embrace the Proposals of Peace Here is great Rejoicing for the Reconciliation newly made between the King and his Uncle the Duke of Orleans who have been estrang'd a long Time the latter having espous'd the Prince of Conde's Cause But now he has abandon'd it and is come to the Court. These Infidels are as inconstant as the Winds which vary to all the Points of the Compass Paris the 30th of the 1st Moon of the Year 1656. LETTER XVI To Solyman his Cousin at Scutari I See thou art given over to a Spirit of Discontent Nothing can please thee Thou murmurest at Providence and castest Obloquies on the Ways of God As if the Order of All Things and the Establish'd Oeconomy of the Vniverse must be Chang'd to gratify thy Humour Formerly thou wert troubl'd with dull Melancholy Thoughts about Religion Now thou art angry with thy Trade and pinest that thou wert not Educated in the Academy A Mechanick Life thou say'st is Tedious and Irksome Besides that it is beneath one of thy Blood to be always employ'd in making of Turbants Thou wishest rather to have been a Courtier Soldier or any Thing save what thou art Cousin let not Pride and Ambition corrupt thy Manners Dost thou not consider that all True Believers are oblig'd to exercise some Manual Occupation and that the Sultan himself is not exempted from this Duty Did not the Prophet himself practise it and enjoin it to all his Followers Hast thou not heard of his Words when he said No Man can eat any Thing sweeter in this World than what is acquir'd by his own Labour Doubtless all the Prophets and Holy Men have gain'd their Bread by their Lawful Employments Adam was a Gardiner Abel a Shepherd Seth a Weaver Enoch a Taylor Noah a Ship-wright Moses Saguib and Mahomet were Shepherds Jesus the Son of Mary a Carpenter Abu-Becre Omar Othman Gali and Gabdorachaman were Merchants Dost thou esteem thy self of better Blood than Adam from whom thou receiv'dst thine For Shame prefer not thy self to Noah the Restorer of Mankind to Jesus the Messias to Mahomet our Holy Lawgiver and to the Rest of those Excellent Persons who thought it no Contempt to work at their several Trades and eat the Bread of their own Labours Besides dost thou consider the dangerous Intrigues of a Prince's Court. Art thou sufficiently arm'd with Wit and Dexterity to secure thy Station against the Wily Trains of designing Men I do not reproach thy Abilities Yet I think thou wilt do better in the Post allotted thee by Destiny that is in thy Proper Calling than in the perillous Condition of those who stand or fall at the Pleasure of Others Whereas thou art now thy own Man and needest fear no Tempests of State or Frowns of thy Prince so long as thou pursuest none but thy private Affairs Many Sovereign Monarchs have envy'd such as thee when they have seen how chearfully and quietly they pass'd away their Time under the Vmbrella of an Obscure and Private Life Whereas at the Court there is Nothing but Intriguing Plotting and Treachery one Undermining another to make Way for their own Advance The Court is a perfect Theatre of Fraud Dissimulation Envy Malice and a Thousand Vices which there act their various Parts under the Habit and Disguise of seeming Vertues There a Man must flatter the Great and speak against his own Sence and the Truth to procure the Favour of some dignify'd Fool Than which Nothing is more Ignoble and Base This puts me in Mind of a pleasant Repartee which Diogenes the Philosopher gave to a Courtier The Spark passing by Diogenes as he sat in a Tub Eating of Turneps put this Scoff upon him Diogenes said he If thou wou'dst but learn the Art of Flattery thou need'st not sit here in a Tub scranching of Roots To whom the Philosopher reply'd And thou vain-glorious Man if thou wou'd'st but learn to live contented with my homely Fare need'st not condescend to the Fawning of a Spaniel But Cousin let not this Passage cause thee to emulate the Philosopher's Manner of Life For he had his Vices as well as other Men. If he was no Flatterer yet he was Proud and Opinionative He laid Trains for the Applause of Men in all his Actions and so taught others to become Flatterers tho' he was none himself All his pretended Humility Mortification and Rigour were but so many Decoys for Fame Of this Plato was sensible who was a far more Excellent Philosopher than he As this Sage was one Day walking with some of his Friends in the Fields they shew'd him Diogenes standing up to the Chin in Water whose Superficies was frozen over save one Hole that Diogenes had made for himself Puh says Plato don't regard him and he 'll soon be out For had he not seen us coming this Way he wou'd not have put himself to this Pain Another Time this Philosopher came to Plato's House And as he walk'd on the Rich Carpets with which the Floor of the Hall was cover'd See said Diogenes how I trample on Plato 's Pride Yes said Plato but with greater Pride Certainly the greatest Philosophers Doctors and even Saints themselves have their Errors and Failings Do not therefore affect to change thy Calling for the Life of a Student or a Contemplative Man For the same Discontent will still haunt thee in that State which makes thee so uneasy now Thou art a perfect Stranger to the Intolerable Anguish of Mind which afflicts Thinking Men and such as apply themselves to the Study of the Sciences They labour under a Perpetual Thirst of Knowledge and the more they learn the greater and more Ardent is their Desire of farther Discoveries So that the most accomplish'd Sages are no more satisfy'd with their own Acquisitions than he who has never meddl'd with Books Then as to their Bodies they are always vex'd with one Malady or other proceeding from the violent Agitation of their Spirits the Intenseness of their Thoughts perpetual poring upon Books and their Sedentary Life In all that I have said I do not disswade thee from seeking after Knowledge I rather counsel thee to read Books and I gave thee the same Advice in a former Letter But do it with Moderation Let not thy Studies entrench on the Affairs of thy Calling Read Histories or other Tracts according to thy Fancy when thou hast nothing else to do But do not follow it so close as if thou aspired'st to the Character of a Compleat Historian or Philosopher Still remember that thou art a Turbant-Maker and that by the Decree of Fate thou art born for this Business Follow it with Alacrity and Mirth When thou art at thy Work

yet I have been searching and prying into it above these Thirty Years I mean from the Time that I First began to think and consider of Things but am as far to seek as ever I was Neither cou'd all the Wise Men of Old the Philosophers and Sages for ought I perceive agree in their Verdict about this Mysterious Thing which we all the Soul One will have it to be Only the Finest Part of Matter in the Body Another says 'T is the Air which the Lungs suck in and diffuse through all our Members A Third Sort affirm it to be A Mixture of Air and Fire A Fourth Of Earth and Water A Fifth call it A Complexion made up of the Four Elements a Kind of Quintessence and I know not what The Egyptians call'd it A certain Moving Number And the Chaldeans A Power without Form it self yet Imbibing all Forms Aristotle call'd it The Perfection of a Natural Body All these agreed That it was Corporeal and as it were Extracted from Matter The best Definition among them is not worth an Aspre But there were Men of Sublime Speculations who affirm'd the Soul to be A Divine Substance Independent of the Body Of this Opinion were Zoroaster Hermes Trismegistus Orpheus Pythagoras Plutarch Porphyry and Plato This last defin'd the Soul to be A Self-Moving Essence endu'd with Vnderstanding But when they have said all I prefer the Modesty of Cicero Seneca and others who acknowledg'd they were altogether Ignorant what the Soul is There was no less Disagreement among the Philosophers about the Seat of the Soul Hippocrates and Hierophilus plac'd it in the Ventricles of the Brain Democritus assign'd it the Whole Body Strabo was of Opinion it resides between the Brows Epicurus in the Breast The Stoicks lodg'd it in the Heart and Empedocles in the Blood Which last seems to be the most Current Opinion of the East to this Day In Regard both Moses the Lawgiver of the Jews and Mahomet our Holy-Prophet asserted the same and for that Reason forbid Flesh to be eaten with the Blood But be it what it will either Corporeal or Incorporeal a Substance or an Accident whether it dwell in the Head or in the Feet Within or Without the Body there is no Certainty of these Things neither can we be assur'd what will become of it after Death Therefore 't is in vain to disquiet thy self in Search of a Mystery that is hid from Mortals And Equally foolish it will be to frighten thy self with an Imagination of Hooks Gins and such like Chimera's which thou supposest the Devil is busy with to entrap thy Soul 'T is a Wonder thou art not afraid to sleep lest he should catch thee Napping and steal thy Soul from thee I wou'd fain know what Sort of Tools he must use to take hold of a Substance more Thin and Imperceptible than a Shadow or how he will be able to seize and run away with a Being Active and Free as Thought Cousin serve God after the Manner of thy Forefathers love thy Friends pardon thy Enemies be Just to all Men and do no Injury to any Beast If thou observest this Rule thou may'st defy the Devil for thy Soul is in Safe Custody God is nearer to thee than thou art to thy self He is in the Center of Every Thing and is Himself the Centre of All Things In a Word He is All in All. Paris 3d. of the 6th Moon of the Year 1658. LETTER VII To Afis Bassa NOW the Scenes are changed in Europe Enemies are become Friends and those who professed a Mutual Friendship are at open Defiance Constancy is a Vice in the Politicks and a Dextrous Way of shifting from one Engagement to another for Interest is esteemed the only State-Vertue I have already Intimated to the Divan the War which broke out last Year between the Suedes and Danes The latter begun it by Solemn Proclamation sending a Herald at Arms to the Suedish Court and dispatching Embassadors to all his Allies in Christendom to give them an Account of his Proceedings Now I shall entertain thee with a short Idea of this War By which thou wilt comprehend That the Danes are either much degenerated from the Valour of their Ancestors who formerly made the most terrible Figure of all the Nations in the North Or else they are less obliged to Fortune who has not favoured them with so many Successes and Triumphs of late but rather exposed 'em to the Insults of their Enemies and the Contempt of all Men. When the King of Denmark first proclaimed this War he had a fair Advantage of the Suedes who at that Time were sorely entangled between the Polanders Germans and Moscovites and had more Need of Helps than Hind'rances Yet King Gustavus turning Part of his Forces into Holstein Schoneland and Juitland he took one Part after another till he had over-run those Provinces in the Space of Six Moons And reduced the Danes to a Necessity of Composition and that on such Dishonourable Terms as renders them the Scorn of the Neighbouring Nations On the 13th of the 3d. Moon the Two Kings had an Interview near Copenhagen the Capital City of Denmark For so far had the Fortune of the Suedish Arms carried their Victories They Eat and Drank together several Times and Conversed privately some Hours At last a Firm Peace was Concluded between them and they concerted the Measures of a Perfect Friendship But before this the Dane had been forced to yield up Schoneland with Elsimberg which commands Half the Baltick Sea He surrendred also the Provinces of Blakin and Halland with a very strong Castle the Island of Burtholme Ten Ships of War and obliged himself to pay a Million of Dollars and to maintain Four Thousand Horse and Foot in the King of Suedeland's Service and give Free Quarter to all the Suedish Forces till the 5th Moon These are such Dishonourable Articles that the King of Denmark has quite lost himself in the Esteem of all his Allies They call him a Poor-Spirited Prince not Worthy of Support or Assistance In a Word Serene Bassa it is like to fare with him as with other Unfortunate Men who when they are once falling every Body will help to throw them down Therefore conserve thy Honours as the only Bulwark of thy Interest and Life Paris 3d. of the 6th Moon of the Year 1658. LETTER VIII To the Mufti BY the Faith of a True Believer I swear the Christians are Enemies to themselves if they do not embrace the Project of a certain Jesuite They are no Friends to their Messias if they reject so Regular an Idea so Reformed a Model of the Nazarene Empire as this Sage has lately proposed to the Pope and the Cardinals He lays his Foundation very deep and draws his Examples from the Practice of Peter the Prince of the First Twelve Christian Caliphs whom the Franks call the Apostles of Jesus the Son of Mary For according to their Traditions the Messias before