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A57997	The history of the Turkish Empire, from the year 1623, to the year 1677 Containing the reigns of the three last emperors, viz. Sultan Morat, or Amurat IV. Sultan Ibrahim, and Sultan Mahomet IV, his son, the thirteenth emperor, now reigning. By Sir Paul Rycaut, late consul of Smyrna.	Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.; Knolles, Richard, 1550?-1610. Generall historie of the Turkes. aut; Manley, Roger, Sir, 1626?-1688. History of the Turkish Empire continued. aut; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700. Memoirs. aut; White, Robert, 1645-1703,	1687 (1687)	Wing R2407; ESTC R8667	720,857	331

Affairs at present that would not permit him time to perfect all matters with the Ambassadour whom they should assure that at his return with Glory and Victory from the Enterprizes in hand those requests should be granted and his promises performed and in the mean time his Nation should remain secure in these Dominions as in former times and the League and Friendship continued and maintained The Ambassador was strangely surprised at this last Farewel but being a Gentleman of great Morality and Vertue knew no doubt how to bear such a disappointment with an equality of mind agreeable to the greatness of his Soul and therefore with a due resentment of the injury received he returned to Constantinople whilst the Sultan and his Vizier proceeded in their March towards the Confines of Poland But before I enter into a relation of the motives of that War and the success thereof which is the Subject of the following Year let us return to the place from whence we have digressed and observe in this Year of Peace and repose of this Empire what the Sultan contrived for security of himself by the death of his Brothers We acquainted you formerly in what manner the Sultan was disappointed in his designs against his Brothers by means of his Mother to whom the Janisaries had committed the care of their safety which she according to her promise had maintained and tendered equally with her own But now the Vizier being returned from the Wars and the most seditious amongst the Janisaries withdrawn from Constantinople it was thought fit to make a new attempt on the Princes still residing in the old Seraglio which was performed with those duc preparations and secrecy that it took effect on Sultan Orchan the eldest of the two who in the Month of September 1671. Sultan Orchan put to death by his Brother dyed by a draught of poyson which was administred to him as a Present from his courteous Brother some say he was strangled and that before he submitted his neck to the Bow-string he killed one of the Executioners with his Hanjarre This Prince was reported by the people to be a comely Person of a strong and robustious body of large and black eyes like Sultan Morat his death was lamented by all and presaged as fatal to the Empire in regard that that very night that he was murthered the Moon suffered a greater Eclipse than it had done for many years before which happening out in this conjuncture was interpreted as ominous and served to increase the maledictions and evil speeches which the Turks in all places cast out upon those who gave this counsel to the Sultan About this time the State of Genoua desirous to change their Officers in Turkie sent a new Resident to Constantinople A new Resident sent from Genoua and a Consul to Smyrna which change was prinicipally obtained at the request of the old Ministers who weary of an employment so tedious without a benefit corresponding to their melancholy life and perceiving their Trade decline before it was arrived to any tolerable state or degree of reputation by the assistance and mediation of friends sollicited their Letters of Revocation For the Trade of Genoua being cheifly founded on hopes of those advantages which they expected from a coarse or base alloy of mony did instantly decay so soon as the Turks discovered themselves to be abused by the vast quantities of Temins imported as we have before related after which their profit failing the Consulage consequently decayed which is the only subsistence and encouragement of such Officers as are necessary to reside for the continuance of that Peace which but a few years before they unadvisedly made with the Turk The new Resident had no sooner arrived at Constantinople and considered the poor and mean estate and ill foundation of their Trade the growing charge of the Residency and the great debts thereof that were to devolve upon him from his Predecessor but he perceived into what a Labyrinth of troubles he had ingulfed himself instead of being preferred according to his hopes into a place of Honour and happy retirement In which confusion of thoughts arising one morning before day from his bed and sitting on his Close-stool as the servants of the house report reached at a Towel which being intangled within the Lock of a Carbine that hanged always charged near his bed unfortunately drew the Trigger too hard which with that gave fire and shot the poor Gentleman into the belly with a brace of Bullets of which being mortally wounded after Confession and some Prayers in a few hours he passed to another life unhappy mischance if it may be called a chance for I have understood from a sober person of that Nation that the anguish of mind which he conceived at the evil condition of his Affairs wrought in him a deepness of melancholy and despair under which languishing some days did at last most miserably lay violent hands upon himself And now it is time to recal to mind the Conspiracy of Count Serini The Conspiracy of Serini Frangipani and Nadasti Marquess Frangipani and Count Nadasti Persons of Quality and of great Power in Croatia and Hungary who as we said before had sent their Messengers to the Great Vizier then remaining in the Leagure of Candia with overtures of submission to the Ottoman Power It was strange News to the World to hear that the House of Serini should abandon the Christian Party and those renowned Defenders of their Country should apostatize though not from Christianity yet from that Cause and Liberty which their Ancestors and themselves had defended with Blood Treasure Valour and Constancy But dissentions and animosities sown by Satan the Enemy of the Christian Church did strangely corrupt the minds of those famous Persons and raise in them a Spirit resolved to avenge the neglect and injuries put upon them by the Ministers of the Imperial Court though at the expence and hazard of their fortunes and lives and ruine and shiprack of their Honour and Consciences For the neglects and affronts undeservedly cast on Nicholas Serini during the late War as before related and the contempt and scorn put on the Croatian and Hungarian Nobility was supposed to have fired the hot and ambitious Spirit of these Persons who could more easily endure the slavery of the Turkish yoke than condescend to the Government and prevalency of a contrary Party Wherefore in prosecution of their design the complices of Serini being resolved to submit to the Turk dispatched two other Gentlemen to the Ottoman Court besides those which were sent the year before to Salonica who arrived at Adrianople the 11th of February 1670 / 1 demanding the protection of the Sultan for which they promised a Tribute of thirty Purses or fifteen thousand Dollars every year for those Lands they held in Croatia To make Answer hereunto a Divan or Council was called in which were weighed all the Arguments and Reasons on one side

Nuns which they prostituted to their Lust thence they passed over to the side of Dalmatia and in sight of Cataro took a Vessel and made Prize of all Ships which they met in those Seas the Rumor of which made great noise over all Italy the People exclaiming against their Princes for suffering their Lives and Estates to remain subject to the petty Force of a few Pirats For the Vessels of Malta and Florence were disjoined and roving after purchase in the Archipelago took little notice of what was acted in the Gulf. The Spaniards after their fashion were slow in Arming and spent the Summer in Preparations till the Pirats laden with Booty were departed towards the Winter so that none remained to take care of Italy and the Venetian Gulf but Venice only to whom the Dominion of those Seas are rightly appropriated To suppress therefore the Insolence of these Pirats the Republick set forth a Fleet consisting of twenty eight Gallies and two Galleasses under the Command of Marin Capello with Instructions to sink burn and destroy those Pirats either in the open Seas or in Harbour of the Turks for that by the Articles of Peace between the Grand Signior and the Venetians it was agreed That no Port or Harbour of his should be priviledged to afford entertainment or protection to any Free-booter or Pirat of that nature It happened about that time that the Malteses and Florentines crusing in the Archipelago had done great Mischief to the Turks in those Seas to revenge which and to prevent farther damage the Captain-Pasha sent Orders to these Vessels of Barbary immediately to come to his Assistance to which they were now more easily perswaded for being already laden with Booty and Spoils they contented themselves with a change of their Station But to give a farewel to those Parts they first resolved to spoil and plunder Lissa aliàs Lesina an Island belonging to the Republick but being overtaken by the Venetian Fleet in their Voyage thither near to Valona a Port and Harbour belonging to the Turks they put themselves under the Defence of the Town and Castle which received them willingly to their Protection notwithstanding all Articles and Agreements to the contrary The Venetian Fleet saluted the Castle without a Shot Capello blocks up the Pirats in Valona desiring that according to the Capitulations of Peace the Pirats might be rejected and commanded to abandon their Port in answer hereunto the Turks replied with a Shot making known their Intentions to defend their Friends wherefore the Venetians retiring at some distance came to an Anchor designing to block up the Port. Many days had not passed before the Pirats endeavoured by help of their Oars and a gentle Gale to make their escape and being with the gray of the Morning advanced without the Port they were espyed by the watchful Venetians who dividing their Fleet into two Squadrons charged them with high Courage the Fight continued for the space of two hours during all which time the Castle of Valona fired at the Venetians and shot down a Mast of one of the Galleases a Splinter of which wounded Lorenzo Marcello the Commander at length five of the Gallies of the Pirats being disabled any many of their People killed they began to fly and retire again under the Protection of the Town as also did the Venetians to their Place of Anchorage A distinct Advice of all Particulars being dispatched to Venice the Senate wrote to Capello That since the respect which the Republick owes to the Ottoman Court was not unknown to him he should by no means make any attempt against those Pirats upon the Land but meeting them fairly at Sea he ought then to make use of all the valour and force he was able In the mean time the Duke of Medina las Torres Vice-King of Naples dispatched an Express to Capello with Letters applauding the generosity of the Design wherein he was now engaged for the Glory of his Republick and the Common Good of all Christendom proffering to supply him with Refreshments and Ammunition and what else might supply his Occasions expecting that by such Encouragement as this he might be induced to Assault the Enemies in Valona without respect to the Grand Signior or any Inconveniences which might arise thereby On the contrary the Governour of the Castle and Kadi of the Town wrote a Letter to Capello putting him in mind that he was within the Grand Signior's Dominions and that he should be careful how he offered any Violence to those Places which would certainly prove a Violation of the Peace and be the Original of an inevitable War. Capello had now lain a whole Month before the Port having all the time injoied fair Weather and a smooth Sea against the hope and desire of the Turks who expected that by means of some Storm the Enemy would be forced to remove their Quarters to some secure Harbour and thereby afford them an opportunity to escape He assaults them in the Port. But Capello growing weary of such tedious Attendance resolved to expect no longer nor yet to lose the present Advantage of rendring himself Master of the Vessels of the Enemy wherefore dividing his Fleet into several Squadrons he advanced near the Port firing several Shot at the Tents of the Pirats of which one from a Galeass struck a Mosch and arming with store of Men the Galeots and Brigantines they entred the Port and to the astonishment and vexation of the Turks possessed all the sixteen Vessels and brought them to their Admiral which though they had disfurnished of all their chief Booty yet their Cannon and Arms remained of which there were twelve Pieces of great Brass Guns besides others of Iron with divers Falcons and lesser Arms. The Intelligence hereof being carried to Venice Orders were given that all the Vessels should be sunk in the Port of Corfu excepting only the Admiral of Algier which was to be brought to the Arsenal of Venice there to remain as a Trophy of Victory and for a perpetual Memory of this Glorious Atchievement Howsoever this Exploit was variously interpreted at Venice and approved or disproved according to the diversity of Humors The younger Men applauded it as an Action of great Gallantry excusing his Transgression of the Senats Orders by a transport of Passion and Zeal towards his Country and desire of Glory But the Senators and Men of mature Judgments highly resented this Breach of their Orders which as they are strictly Enjoined so they expected that they should be punctually Obeyed That this action was a sufficient and Just Cause alone to kindle a War and that it was a matter intolerable that a single Citizen should of his own Head and Humor presume to act such things as must necessarily involve the Publick in a War contrary to their Pleasure and in opposition to their express Commands For which Crime and other subsequent Defaults Capello was afterwards forced to justify himself as will be signified