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A51890	The third 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 1645 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.	1691 (1691)	Wing M565CD; ESTC R33498	164,529	390

Instructions to the French Embassador at that Court requiring him to use all possible Means to cherish the Tumults in Naples and not neglect so fair an Opportunity of reducing that Kingdom under the Protection of France It will not appear strange That this great Genius should aim at the Conquest of Naples when we consider That this Kingdom abounds in all Manner of Riches to which its fortunate Situation contributes not a Little For it lies in the most Temperate Part of the World And the Inhabitants are not Second to any People of Europe in Martial Courage and Bravery This is a Bait which tempts the Cardinal who is not ignorant how valiantly the Ancestors of the present Neapolitans behav'd themselves in the Wars of Caesar and Pompey and those between the Romans and Carthaginians Nor are they less Celebrated for the stout Resistance they made against the Huns Goths and Vandals So that this Kingdom were it once brought under the French Dominion would prove a Nursery from whence this Monarch might draw many Thousands of excellent Soldiers to serve him in his Wars Besides it would be more commodious for him to make Incursions from hence into the Pope's Territories if there should arise any Difference between the Two Courts as there often do about the Rights of the Gallican Church the Franchises of the Embassadors of this Crown in Rome and other Privileges to which they pretend Therefore the French Embassador according to the Instructions of Mazarini sent Commissioners to treat privately with the People of Naples offering them Two Millions of Crowns Twenty Gallions with Eight and Fifty Gallies and other Vessels They accepted the Proposal being weary of the Spanish Government and desirous of Novelty Encourag'd also by what those Commissioners represented to them concerning the Success of the English who by standing on their Guard and using that Power which God and Nature had given them for the Defence of their Lives and Liberties were now in a Manner become a Free People having Abolish'd the Monarchy and set up a Commonwealth And this they told them was also done by Cardinal Mazarini's Counsels and Assistance Now all the Cry in Naples was Let France and the People of England flourish and let the Faithful Neapolitans assert their own Liberty So blind were these People as not to consider That in putting themselves under the Protection of the French they did but exchange One Bondage for Another it being impossible for any foreign Prince to keep this Kingdom and pay all his Officers Civil and Military together with those under their Commands with much less Charge than the Revenues amount to And the French are as good at inventing new Taxes as any Court in Europe However the Neapolitans were enchanted with the Thoughts of so much Gold and other Assistance offer'd by the French Commissioners and sweeten'd with their fair Words and glorious Promises So that they immediately sent Deputies to entreat the Duke of Guize who was then at Rome to come and protect them in taking on him the Chief Command of their Arms. This Prince thinking it a Generous Action to relieve the Oppressed And that at the same Time he should do a considerable Service to the King of France in rendring him Master of this Noble and Opulent Kingdom went to Naples Where at first he was receiv'd with Infinite Applause was made their General took an Oath of Fidelity to the People did many Notable Services but was in the End betray'd and sent Prisoner to Spain If the Generosity and brave Resolution of this Prince has acquired Commendation from some in attempting to rescue these People from the Tyranny of their Governours Yet his Conduct is call'd in Question by others who say He discover'd but little Prudence in trusting himself to the Neapolitans who had already sacrific'd Two of their Generals For after the Death of Masanello they chose another Captain whom they call'd the Prince of Massa This Prince falling under their Suspicion was beheaded by the Inconstant People 'T is certain that there is little Confidence to be put in the Multitude whose Passions Ebb and Flow and are more Tempestuous than the Sea Yet a Brave and Generous Mind will shun no Dangers to serve his Prince and his Country for whom it is a Glorious Martyrdom to die There is no great Undertaking without Hazards and he that is afraid to venture his Liberty and Life in a Good Cause is not worthy to bear Arms. Had the Duke of Guize succeeded his Conquest of Naples had made him Viceroy of one of the largest Kingdoms in Europe It is said to be Five Hundred Leagues in Circuit containing Twelve ample Provinces Twenty Archbishopricks Bishopricks One Hundred Twenty Seven Thirty Castles Barons One Thousand Four Hundred Earls Fifty Three Forty Marquises Thirty Four Dukes and Twenty Princes The Inhabitants of this Kingdom are said to be above Two Millions The ordinary Revenues of the King amount to Three Millions of Crowns yearly besides the Voluntary Donatives which have been given by the Subjects of this State to their Kings within the Space of Forty Years amounting to Twenty Eight Millions and Six Hundred Thousand Duckats This Kingdom is water'd by a Hundred and Fifty Rivers besides Ten Lakes stor'd with all Manner of Fish among which is one called Averno over which if any Birds flie they immediately drop down dead The Ancient Pagans had strange Opinions of this Lake it being the Place where they used to Sacrifice Men to the Infernal Gods And hard by is the Cave of one of the Sybills There are Thirty high Mountains in this Country of which Adonai relates many strange and delightful Passages for 't is from him I receiv'd this Account of the Kingdom I will not trouble thee with a Repetition of all that this Jew tells me onely one Thing is worthy Remark He says That the Bodies of the Three Young Hebrews who were put into the burning Oven by the Babylonian Monarch because they would not adore his Idols are preserv'd in a Mosque on one of these Mountains And that on the said Hill no Eggs Flesh or Milk will endure an Hour without Putrefaction but presently breed an Infinite Number of Worms He speaks in the Praise of these Mountains which are cloath'd with Vineyards Gardens and Woods on the Top and Sides and in their Bottoms have very Rich Mines of Gold Silver Copper Iron Crystal Alabaster Adamant In fine Adonai who has travelled over all this Kingdom calls it The fertilest Region of all Italy which is esteem'd the Paradise of Europe Dost thou not think now Venerable Guide of the Elect that the Duke of Guize had Reason to prefer the Honour of conquering so Renowned a Kingdom to the Safety of his Person or wilt thou not rather conclude That the Reduction of this Happy State would be an Expedition worthy of the Ottoman Arms It is certain That the Riches and Plenty of this Region have tempted more Nations to invade it

tell thee my Obligations are infinite not only to thee but to many others of my Friends at the Port It is impossible for me to acquit my self of so many Engagements As for the Dignity to which the Sultan has rais'd thee I receiv'd the first News of it within these Fourteen Days And I dare affirm That none of thy Friends or of those whose Dependance is on thee could with greater Complacency behold thee Vested by our Most August Emperour than I read the Letter which conveyed to me this welcom Intelligence Long mayst thou Live to enjoy the Blessings which thy Good Fortune has heap'd on thee Yet I counsel thee to enjoy them so as not to forget thou must die Let not the Grandeur of thy Station render thee proud and wilful But remember when thou art surrounded with a Crowd of adoring Suppliants That Death shall level thee with the Meanest of thy Slaves Thus the Ancient Philosophers spar'd not to perform the Office of Monitors to their Kings and Princes and I hope thou wilt not take in ill Part the wholesom Advice of Mahmut who discovers a Temper void of Hypocrisie in the Freedom he assumes If thou givest Ear to Flatterers they will compliment thee to thy Ruine and when thou art on the Brink of a Precipice they will persuade thee there is no Danger though if thou goest on they know thy Fall is inevitable They will pride themselves in the Dexterity of their Malice and insult over thee with scornful Sarcasms whom not long ago they idoliz'd The Eminent Command thou hast requires thy frequent Presence in the Sovereign Divan And that thou mayst not sit there only as an Auditor of other Mens Counsels and incapable of making one in the Number of those who become Remarkable by their Orations or Reports of Foreign Events I will now entertain thee with some Passages which have happen'd in Europe since the Beginning of this Year whereof the other Bassa's may possibly be ignorant The Diet of Francfort which had continued for Three Years was dissolv'd on the 12th of the 4th Moon This may be known at the Port while they remain Strangers to the Reason of it There are a Sort of Christians in Germany whom they call Evangelicks These are opposite to the Roman Church both in Religion and Interest and their Cause is chiefly espous'd by the Dukes of Saxony and Brandenburgh It was to comply with these that an Assembly was appointed at Osnaburgh but the Emperour and the Catholicks were either for continuing that at Francfort or translating it to Munster While the contending Parties were bickering and striving to gain their several Ends the Deputy of the Duke of Bavaria tired out with such intolerable Delays departed from Francfort whom the Rest of the Deputies follow'd And this thou mayst report for the true Occasion of the Dissolution of that Diet. Thus at the Beginning of the Year the Disputes which these Infidels rais'd about Safe Conduct Exactness of Titles Priority of Address and many other vain Punctilio's hinder'd them from coming to any Conclusion about a Peace which was the Principal Cause of their Assembling And this is a Folly peculiar to the Nazarens That in all Publick Assemblies the very Strength and Vitals of their Counsels are spent in a vain adjusting of empty Ceremonies It is credibly reported here That the King of Poland earnestly sollicits a Match with Queen Christina of Suedeland It seems he had formerly sent an Embassador on that Subject to the Suedish Court but he return'd without any positive Answer or effecting any Thing in it In the Second Moon of this Year that Queen sent an Embassador to give the King of Poland an Account that she had taken the Government upon Her While he tarried in the Polish-Court there were not wanting such as by the King's Order sifted his Inclination in Reference to this Affair It was propos'd to him That this Match would be a happy Occasion to Unite the Two Kingdoms in a firm and durable League That the Evangelicks in Poland would be much eas'd thereby That Vladislaus was not much decay'd in his Natural Vigour That Suedeland might in the mean while be govern'd by the Council With many other Proposals and Encouragements to this Purpose Among which I must not omit that it was suggested How easie 't would be for Two such Potent Crowns in Conjunction not only to humble the Germans but also to put a stop to the Victorious Arms of the Ottoman Empire But all this came to Nothing that wary Queen suspecting that there was a deeper Design in the Courtship of this Old Fox And that by such a Match the Kingdom of Suedeland in Default of the Issue-Royal might be subjected to a Foreign Crown However it is easie to apprehend from this That if the Poles maintain at Present their Accord with the Sublime Port 't is for want of Strength to break it and that they only wait an Opportunity to make some Potent and Firm Alliance which may second the Designs formed by that Court against the First Throne on Earth whereof thou art One of the Principal Pillars Remain firm in thy Station and let neither the Tempests of War nor the Convulsions of State which are the too frequent Products of Peace shake thy Constancy But above all suffer not thy Integrity which is the Basis of all Virtues to be undermin'd by Bribes If thou followest this Counsel God and his Prophet shall Establish thee all Men will Honour thee thy Sovereign shall Exalt thee and Mahmut will rejoice to see thee in Time become the Atlas of the Eternal Empire Paris 5th of the 10th Moon of the Year 1645. LETTER X. To Ikingi Cap ' Oglani Praeceptor to the Royal Pages of the Seraglio THere is a vast Difference between thy Letter and that of Shashim Istham He is Eloquent in the Acknowledgment of his Crime thou Rhetorical in thy own Justification Thou hast plunder'd Demosthenes and Cicero and robb'd 'em of all the Flowers and Tropes of Oratory to dress up a faint liveless Excuse Such an artificial Apology instead of cancelling heightens thy Offence It might have procur'd thee the Applause of the Academy but it comes short of giving me Satisfaction for the Injuries I have receiv'd at thy Hands I have Reason to esteem them such because so design'd although they took no Effect For Wrongs of this Kind ought to be measur'd by the Intention of the Author not by their Success The Ministers of the Divan will hardly be prevail'd on to suspect Mahmut who has given Substantial Proofs of his Fidelity Tell me in the Name of God and Mahomet what was the Motive that induced thee to slander me Wherein have I merited this Persecution at thy Hands It could not be Revenge because I never gave thee Occasion unless thou still retainest a Grudge on the Score of my studying in the Academies and that at my Return from Palermo thou wert not able to expose me in

of their Cities to let in his Armies whom they look on as the Hope of all Christendom The Helvetians who are Allies of this Crown will not fail to perform their Part. The Suedes have already pluck'd many Feathers from that Ravenous Eagle And the Forces of this Crown have blunted her Talons Another Campagne will quite deplume her enervate her last Vigour and end the tedious Controversie Let not therefore an Untimely Peace with the Emperour so much talk'd of stop the Current of the French Triumphs Let not the Sinister Practices of German Pensioners in the Suedish Court occasion a Rupture between Two the most Potent and Victorious Crowns in Europe Or rather let not Queen Christina reap the sole Glory of so fortunate and profitable a War His Majesty has a Formidable Army by Land and in a short Time will have an Invincible Fleet by Sea Continual Victories court the Perseverance of the French Valour whilst the Justice of your Cause invites to the Battel All Things conspire to put a Period to the Austrian Grandeur Only snatch the present Opportunity which once lost may never be recover'd again 'T was only the sudden and unexpected Fate of Henry IV. this King's Grand-father of Eternal Memory that hinder'd him from putting in Execution the same Design I now propose And if Lewis XIII did not prosecute it 't was because he wanted a favourable Juncture Now behold it offers it self 'T is in your Power Supreme Director of the State under his Majesty to build the Fortune of France so high that all the Nations of Christendom may repose under its Shadow Pursue the Success which Heaven has already granted And when all Europe is thus settled in a Durable Peace either making Honourable Friendships with or entirely submitting to this new Gallick Empire then will be the Time to call the Ottomans to an Account for the Ravages and Spoils they have committed in Christian Countries and to carry Our Arms to the Walls of Constantinople and drive these Barbarians back to their Primitive Rocks and Desarts from whence they have thus long straggled to ruine the most desirable Provinces of Asia and Europe nay and of the Whole World There is no other Way but this in my Judgment to stop the Progress of the Turkish Victories Since it is impossible to make a Durable Peace among Christian Princes but by Conquest I mean such a Peace as will inspire them with the Resolution and put them into a Capacity to unite all their Forces in a War against the Mahometans As for the present Condition of the Republick if their Losses were greater than they are like to be yet they will be inconsiderable in Comparison of the mighty Gain which will afterwards accrue not only to them but to all the Christian Nations by advancing the French Crown to that Height of Grandeur design'd for it by Fate Hitherto the Christian Princes have only endeavour'd to apply a Remedy to the Part particularly affected from whence if by Fortune they chas'd the Distemper it soon brake out in some other Member Whence it came to pass that we lost Province after Province and the Turks are almost gotten into the Heart of Europe If therefore We design to drive them thence it is necessary to follow this Method which will be found the only Way to pluck this Evil up by the Roots Go on then Most Prudent and Illustrious Guardian of the Crown destin'd to Command the Earth Go on and lift up our Great Master to the Wreath with which the Tutelar Angel of Europe is ready to environ his Sacred Temples Let not the German Deputies at Munster any longer amuse You with feigned Overtures of Peace But pursue the Propitious Fate of France which waits to lead Our Armies to Victories Triumphs and Glories and to establish a New Empire in the World to which all Nations shall pay Homage and fly for Protection Thou seest Illustrious and Serene Vizir That I have us'd much Flattery in this Address It is a necessary Vice in the Court of France where no Diogenes can have Audience It cannot be expected That I should discover by the Cardinal's Answer What his Sentiments were of my Project He is of a debonair Humour and will rather feign Vertues to commend in another Man than put him to the Blush by mentioning his Real Vices This is an Effect of his Natural Disposition which he is wise enough to improve to the End of Policy There being no subtiler Artifice to gain a Popular Esteem than by the Reputation of a Generous Temper However I think I said Nothing that could justly offend Him unless he were endued with the Incommunicable Gift of discerning Hearts For otherwise at the Worst he could but tax me with a Loyal Presumption and Mistake in proposing Things altogether Impracticable These were such thou wilt easily discern when thou considerest That though they appear fair and easie in the Attempt as the Circumstances of Europe are at present yet the Revolution of a few Moons may quite change the Face of Affairs new and unthought of Difficulties may arise the Emperor may make a Peace with Suedeland the Pope might interpose his Mediation and Authority the Assembly at Munster might have a Conclusion according to their Wishes the Electoral Princes might be more firmly fastned to the Interest of the Empire Besides another Campagne may prove as fatal to the French as the former have been propitious After all if they should find Encouragement to begin this Enterprize and should meet with answerable Success in the Prosecution of it yet a Thousand Occurrences would emerge to hinder them from enjoying their new-gotten Empire long or from being able to maintain a War against the Empire whose Subjects are Infinite and Treasures Inexhaustible If thou who art the Light of the Osman Monarchy shalt approve of what I have done my Happiness will be great nevertheless thy Reproofs will not make me Miserable since they are Arguments of thy Condescension and Favour Paris 10th of the 6th Moon of the Year 1646. LETTER II. To Ismael Mouta Faraca a White Eunuch THY Letter is come safe to my Hands accompany'd with a Munificent Present from Egry Boinou who thou tellest me is depriv'd of his Eyes by the Grand Signior's Order I condole the Calamity of my Friend yet accuse not the Justice of Him who is Master of us All. We are Mussulmans and must not dispute the Pleasure of Heaven or the Commands of our Sovereigns It is an Argument of their Clemency when they retrench their Anger and spare the Lives of their Slaves The Sultan is merciful in a higher Degree in not extending his Hands to the Wealth of our Friend but has left that and his Liberty untouch'd Whereby he is still in a Capacity of enjoying many Pleasures which are denied to Thousands who have their Sight I do not write this as if I were void of Compassion toward my Friend I owe him still the same Affection