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A51883	The first volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscovered 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) from the year 1637 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, first translated into Italian, afterwards into French and now into English.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Saltmarsh, Daniel.	1691 (1691)	Wing M565BB; ESTC R29485	217,148	388

say to thee in this Matter but I shall not end this Discourse without some violent Scruples of Conscience Pray the Great God with me That he will illuminate my Understanding with Inward Lights until the Man promised by our Holy Prophet the Man I say who ought to be born of his Race be descended upon the Earth who is to see all Kings humbled in his Presence and to unite with Jesus the Two Religions that they may make but One. In the mean Time let us live as honest Men who have Sin in horror like the Plague which poisons the Soul and apply our selves as much as in us lies to what is truly Good and above all things let us carefully observe this Precept writ in the Book of their Law but is not always imprinted in their Hearts Never do to Others no not thy Enemies that which thou wouldst not have done to thy self A Duke of Guise gave an Example of this to all France and 't is what thou oughtest to Preach in the vast Empire of the Mussulmans This Prince surprized a Villain that would have Assassinated him who confessed that the Interest of his Religion which was that of Calvin had obliged him to form a Design to take him away to deliver himself and those of his Party from so great an Enemy The Duke instead of causing him to suffer the Pains due to so black an Enterprise Pardoned him contenting himself to tell him Friend If thy Religion Obliged thee to Kill me without hearing me my Religion Obliges me to give thee thy Life and Liberty now I have heard thee Go thy ways and amend thy self This Prince was then General of Charles the IX 's Army Sage Bedredin our Mahomet never shewed such generous Sentiments when he prescribed in his Law this Precept against Christians that had never Offended him When you Encounter the Infidels kill them and cut off their Heads imprison them and keep them in Chains until they have paid their Ransoms or till you find it requisite to set them at Liberty Persecute them until they have all submitted or are entirely overthrown Observe in this Letter what may be of use to thee Pardon my Friendship the frank Manner of Writing and remember Mahmut in thy Prayers who personates a Christian and is in his Heart a most faithful Mussulman If it be in thy Power to succour me never do me any Injury God protect and govern thy great Age to the last Moment Paris 28th of the 2d Moon of the Year 1638. LETTER XII To Chiurgi Muhammet Bassa THE Queen is with Child when least expected which occasions much Joy at Court especially to the King who after so many Years of Marriage will become a Father Thou who hast applied thy self so long to the Studies of Astrology in the Schools of Egypt yet makest Profession of this Divine Art which discovers thee Things the most hidden to thee who readest so learnedly in the Book of Heaven whatever the Stars have traced there who hast found the Moment of their Rising and Disappearing with the Intervals betwixt these two Times and the Causes which render their Motion quicker or slower thou who penetratest into the most hidden Secrets of Men and knowest the Seasons of Famine of Shipwracks of Victories and of loss of Battels Divine in God's Name Great Interpreter of the Secrets of Nature Wiser than Albumazar and Ptolemy what will become of this Impregnation and whether it be true That this Child that 's to be Born has been more than two hundred and seventy Moons in forming If thou believest what I writ last to thee to be impossible say nothing of it it would be no Credit to me to pass for the Author of a Novel that has no Grounds of Truth The City of Paris is in an inconceivable Joy and this Joy is spread all over France Thou may'st perceive by that the Passion of this People to see their King a Father 'T is true they have much to hope by it but it is as certain they have yet much to apprehend seeing all their Hopes vanish in an instant Nature uses all her Power when she forms a Man the most perfect of all Creatures But there needs but a slight Fall to destroy this Workmanship before it is finished as well as after I have heard a great many People question much the Sex and Life of that which will be born All the Conversation at the Court at Paris and in all the Kingdom is no more of Wars of Leagues of Peace or Naval Preparations they all rowl upon the bringing to Bed of Women There will be other reasoning in some small time in Christendom and even amongst us if the Queen do not miscarry France being no less considerable amongst other Kingdoms than the Bourbone are amongst Men. Harry IV. who introduced the Crown into this Branch of the Family was a Prince very Brave and if we live long enough to see his Grand-Children we shall see whether they will have as much Courage as the Chief of their Family As for thee thou wilt have wherewith to divert thee and excercise thy Talent if this Queen be brought to Bed happily of a Prince I shall in the mean time be very Exact to mark not only the Days and Hours but the least Minutes to the End thou may'st know by the Situation of the Planets which ordinarily regulate the Inclinations of Men in what manner a Prince so long expected will regulate his Affairs and consequently those of others It is a great while since we have had any Commerce here with the Sun there being forty nine Days since this beauteous Planet appeared to us and the Cold is so violent that it has changed as I may say the Waters of the Seine a large River into Crystal Do not look upon these Effects as extraordinary it happens here frequent enough for when the Days are shortest the Cold is most intense Thou knowest that this Climate is very inconstant I have often seen in a little space of Time Rain Hail Snow and terrible Winds and presently after the Air become Fair and Serene This inconstancy of the Climate has its Advantages for if the fair Weather do not last long the foul is also of less Duration Fail not upon the Receipt of my Letter to communicate the News I send thee to the Grand Vizir without telling him the Reflections which I make They are of no Use to such great Ministers particularly by us who are in Comparison of them but vile Slaves always subject to the Sentences they pronounce of us Love me and consult the Stars to know whether thou wilt be always Faithful to me and if it be by Force or Inclination As for my self I assure thee that following the Inclination of my Heart I will conserve thee that Fidelity which I owe by Obligation Paris 28th of the 2d Moon of the Year 1638. LETTER XIII To Carcoa at Vienna THE Kaimacan commands me forthwith to send the

Invincible Leader of his Armies in whom God has placed his Authority of governing the Earth our Envoys are not esteemed where-eve● they come unless amongst the most Rational an● Honest part of Mankind which are always the leaf Number Not only the Common Sort run to see our Ambassadors for the Vestments they wear to which their Eyes are not accustomed but even considerable Persons have the same Curiosity Some silently approve others lift up their Hands to note their Astonishment and others by an insolen● Murmur discover their Contempt not understanding the Justice due to Strangers whose Manners and Fashions ought never to be blamed it being impossible but whole Nations must have good Reasons for their Customs and Practices since so many Ages But he was not thus received at Court where the King and his Ministers do all things with great Prudence being respected as a Man that brought good News and sent by the greatest and most puissant Emperor in the World As to the Subject of his coming every body speaks diversly The Ministers of Foreign Princes are fearful left the new Sultan should attempt the entire Ruine of Christendom and prove more terrible than Amurath In the mean time this Heathenish People shew incredible Joy at the burning of the Imperial City of Constantinople But the King has no part in the Sentiments of his Subjects Many say that the King of Red Heads will renew the War with the Empire and is persuaded to this by the Great Mogol and there are some who affirm he has already laid Siego to Babylon But those who speak with more Sense and less Hatred affirm that all the Port's Enemies are like Reeds exposed to the Wind which will be easily overthrown if the French take not part with them and it is the Folly of this Nation who believes it self superiour to all others and the Arbiter of the World to think too well of its self because she is respected as a Friend to the faithful Mussulmans The Jews Invincible Vizir principal Minister of the Empire favoured of God are the cursed'st Race of all Nations the Christians accuse them of having set Constantinople on Fire and greatly praise the Greeks for quenching it to which say they they have no less contributed by their Hands than by the Fervency of their Prayers and that Heaven has preserved it from a total Ruin because of the Sacred Relicks of so many Christians whose Bodies lie buried in our Mosques The News which comes from Foreign Countries does every day denote the Disorder there is in all parts there being nothing heard from the side of Spain but secret Conspiracies and publick Revolts The People of Catalonia are in a continual commotion and so irritated that they give no farther Quarter to the Spaniards And from Portugal there comes more surprizing News London is as full of Disquiet new Parties every day forming themselves against their Sovereign Charles Master of those Three so famous Islands whence it appears that the God of the Nazarenes is angry with these unbelieving People I shall not fail to inform thee in due time of such Events as deserve thy knowledge For if things do not soon change their Posture these Countries forsaken of Heaven seeing the true Law established by our Prophet is not received here will soon change their Masters their Manners and Religion I adore with the profoundest Humility and with my Head lying at thy invincible Feet the Authority which the Sultan has intrusted thee with and which thou deservest as well for thy Faithfulness as the Greatness of thy Actions Paris 20th of the 1st Moon of the Year 1641. LETTER XXI To Cara Haly the Physician at Constantinople SInce I received thy Letter and the marks of thy Remembrance I imagin my self much better I make two Meals a day I walk about in the Morning my Appetite increases I have no more of those nauseous Belches I can read longer and I sleep a-nights more soundly Yet I cannot say I am in perfect Health so long an Illness has deprived me of that which I do not find return There 's wanting to my Intellectual Faculties a certain kind of Vivacity and Readiness in their Operations which is extreamly abated but I know not whether this be an Effect of the Pain I suffered or whether it comes not from Nature weakned as fast as our Life advances to throw it self as it were into the Arms of Death which is what is most certain for me I would willingly entertain thee on the Condition wherein I find my self could I overcome the Weakness of my Disposition and the Coldness of the Season which pierces me maugre all my care to prevent it in this Icy Climate The Ink I write with freezes on my Pen and a Body may say the Fire freezes too wanting as it does its usual activity the Cold being so sharp that it extinguishes the natural Heat The City where I dwell appears on a sudden transformed into Crystal the Northern Wind has in one night frozen the River and all the Fountains which were wont to quench the Thirst of a Million of People are dried up All Trade seems to have ceased the Rich are retired to their Fires and the Poor are creeping about the Streets where notwithstanding the Exercises they use to oppose the Cold they seem already starved The Bread is become like Marble or an hard Stone all things are frozen and ancient People affirm never the like has happened in their Days or in the Times of their Fathers There has been found some few Miles from Paris in the great Road two Men clad in very course Stuff without Shifts their Legs naked Heads shaved and Cords about their middle dead with Cold. They were found embracing one another thinking thereby to communicate mutual Heat to keep off or at least retard their Deaths These People are Dervises of the Latin Church which are called Capucins whose Life is a continual Penance they rise in the Night to their Devotions and spend their time in Contemplation They live upon Alms which they receive of the Christians which consist of Bread Roots and Herbs and if the Charity of these Nazarenes extends to the giving any thing more they use it with Sobriety They sleep on Straw and are obliged to wear the Habit Night and Day which is dreadful to look on and in which they are buried when they die When their Occasions require them to travel they are not permitted to go on Horseback in a Coach or Chair but only in Vessels when they go by Sea or on Rivers so that they have only that granted them which Cato was so afraid of and every body else but Fools which is To Travel by Water In fine their Life is accounted a continual Hell and they will be finely choused if they find not a Heaven when stripp'd of their Mortality These Religious are under the direction of one General observe a long Silence which is a great Vertue amongst them and