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A47670 Abra-Mulè, or, A true history of the dethronement of Mahomet IV written in French by M. Le Noble ; made English by J.P.; Abra-Mulè. English Le Noble, Eustache, 1643-1711.; J. P. 1696 (1696) Wing L1051; ESTC R13238 66,106 144

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Abra-Mulè OR A TRUE HISTORY Of the Dethronement of MAHOMET IV. Written in French by M. Le Noble Made English by J. P. LONDON Printed for R. Clavel at the Peacock near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street 1696. To his most Serene Highness Monseigneur the Prince of CONTI Monseigneur THe Unfortunate Abra-Mulè belov'd by two Sultan's and a Visir yet so that neither of the three could be happy in the enjoyment of her is come into France to unfold the secret Intreagues which her Beauty occasion'd in the Serraglio and which pull'd down Mahomet from the Ottoman Throne She begs to appear under the Auspices of your Serene Highness and she is in hopes Sir that a Prince who together with all the Vertues of a perfect Hero possesses all that Love is capable to inspire will not refuse a Sultaness so amiable and so vertuous the honour of his Protection She flatters her self with it Sir and the troubles that overwhelm her will meet with a pleasing Consolation if your serene Highness while you recreate your weary'd Thoughts in reading the fatal Success of a Tenderness so fatal as hers afford it some little sence of your Compassion But Sir Your serene Highness will not only behold in this short History the secret of an amorous Intreague you will see there the Events of War which will be yet more pleasing to that undaunted Courage which renders you the Glory of your Country This undaunted Courage supported by all that can form an accomplish'd Hero is the fire of that Royal Blood that runs in your Veins an Emanation of the great Soul of that invincible Prince that incomparable Condè whom France beholds with so much pleasure reviv'd in your vertues Continue Sir continue to tread the steps of that Gyant and may that formidable arm of yours the weight of which the Enemies of the State so often have felt be one of the most firm supports of the first Monarchy in the World My good Wishes follow you where ever you go and the chiefest wish I make at present while I take the liberty to offer you this little Piece is that so long as I live I may be Your Highnesses most Humble and most Obedient LE NOBLE THE PREFACE 'T IS not to be imagin'd that this is a Romantick Adventure grounded upon meer Invention for it is the real Truth of a secret Intreague carry'd on in the Serraglio which put Soliman upon attempting to set himself up in the room of his Brother meerly to gratifie an amorous Passion which render'd him his Rival I have writ nothing but what I had from the Memoirs of one of my intimate Friends who accompanying M. Gerardin in his Embassy and abiding with him a long time at the Port under Soliman's Reign unravell'd there the whole Secret of this Adventure concerning which upon his Return he deliver'd all the Informations into my hands at the same time that upon what I had div'd into by the Correspondencies which I held in several parts of Europe I publish'd those Dialogues which include an infinite number of Particulars not to be met with in other Historians This is therefore no chemerical Invention but a true History and if you take the pains to compare it with those that are more General you will find that I am very exact in all the Circumstances of Publick Events and that I do but unfold the secret Reasons that caus'd 'em The Actions of Soveraigns are always divided into two parts the one is the Publick Event which all the World knows and which is the Subject of Gazettes and the most part of publick Histories the other is that which they conceal under the Vail of their Politicks and those are the secret Motives of the Intreagues which cause those Events and which are only known to and reveal'd by those who had some share in carrying on those Intreagues or who by the penetration of their Genius knowing one part divine the t' other For Example we read every where of the taking of Buda by the Valour of Prince Charles of Lorrain seconded by the Duke of Bavaria that they carry'd the Place in view of an Army of Fourscore Thousand Men Commanded by the Visir in person who could not relieve it but the Relations never tell yee that the Conspiracy carry'd on by Prince Soliman Siaous and Cuproli who were plotting the Ruin of the Visir hinder'd the Succours and ty'd that Minister's Arm. In like manner we find in the Publick History of Philip II. King of Spain that he was two Years in Flanders without ever returning into England to visit Queen Mary his Wife not so much as during her mortal sickness but we do not see what motives of Love and Jealousy set 'em at variance Thus it may be said that seeing Action is the Body and that the motive is the soul of that Action there are very few or no Historians but what give us Bodies without Souls while they never tell us the Motives which cause Princes to Act and give Motion to their Intreagues Which is the Reason that particular Histories are always more pleasing and more profitable then those which are General They are more pleasing because there is more care taken to adorn 'em and for that they mention those things which are not to be met with in others And they are more profitable because they are more precise in the Characters of Princes and in the Private and Domestick Actions which are more proper to instruct then the general Relation of an Action of which we know not the Motive nor the Causes An Explication of the Turkish Terms contain'd in this History SUltan The Emperor of the Turks Sultaness Validè The Sultaness Mother of the Sultan Sultaness Asseki The principal favourite Sultaness Grand Visir Chief Minister of the Ottoman Empire Mufti Chief Priest Iman A Doctor or Preacher of the Alcoran Dervis A Turkish Monk Alcoran The Mahometan's Bible Mosquee A Mahometan Temple Seraskier A General of an Army Basha A Governor Kaimakan High Marshall of the Houshold and Governour of Constantinople Janisaries The Turkish Infantry the Sultan's Guards Aga. Collonel of the Janisaries Serraglio The Sultan's Palace Kiaia A Lieutenant Kisler Agasi Chief of the black Eunuchs and superintendent of the Serraglio Kisler Kiasi Deputy to the Kisler Agasi Grand Teftardar Lord Treasurer Bostangi Bachi Superintendent of the Sultan's Palaces Gardens and Buildings or chief Surveyor Bostangi A Gardner Dragoman An Interpreter Catacheriff A Decree of the Sultan Fetfa A decree of the Mufti Timar A Feofment for Life Abra-Mulè OR THE HISTORY Of the Deposition of MAHOMET IV. EMPEROR of the TURKS The First Part. THE Revolution which happen'd in the Ottoman Empire in the Month of November by the Deposal of Sultan Mahomet and the Advancement of Soliman his Brother to the Throne is one of the greatest Changes that have fallen out in this Age and of which the secret Circumstances that caus'd it not div'd into by many Persons are