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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27013	Learne of a Turk, or, Instructions and advise sent from the Turkish Army at Constantinople, to the English Army at London faithfully and impartially communicated by M.B., one of the attendants of the English agents there.	M. B., one of the attendants of the English agent there.	1660 (1660)	Wing B138; ESTC R4935	19,201	26

themselves ☜ durst deny them nothing if complaints of any insolencies or injuries were made to the chief Vizier or Magistrate they answered none durst meddle with them that had murthered their own King and desired the Complainants patience and ☜ that they would bear a part with the general sufferings By this time the wickednesse of some of the chief Leaders in these commotions was ripe for vengeance and their day is come The great Vizier Georgi envying the authority of Daout Bassa brother in law to the Emperour Mustapha who had been the Counsellor and the instrument to murther Sultan Osman scorning that he should underhand Govern in his Reigne he therefore practised to put him to death but not daring to do it by his own Authority and knowing it to be in vaine to think to procure it from the Court he stirred up the Spahies to demand justice upon him for the death of the last King This looked further then the first assent for the subtle Vizier who was faithful to his true Lord knowing the rage of an unguided multitude aimed at a by-revenge upon others who he hoped would be involved and accused of the order The soldier soone raised and mutinied in the Seraglio demanded Daout he fled But now that the businesse was on foot if he were no found the Vizier himself is in danger but the poor man was taken and brought to the Divan and there being called to publick Justice he must excuse himself upon some greater person wherein the Emperour and his Mother ran a new hazard which was the secret end Therefore both of them forsook him and left him to the Law and without any tryal he was brought before the souldiers stript and his Turbant taken off and on his knees ready to receive the stroke of death But suddenly the Janizaries came to his rescue and carried him away to their Chambers The Spahies who began this action took it in ill part and followed with great out cries that they would have him die the ☞ others demanded that he might be heard in publick Justice Thus those two mutinied faction were ready to come to blows Daout Bassa now in some hope of life bribed the Janizaries and that day distributed fourty thousand Chequines of gold and they promised to protect him Who did not now think but he was taken away for safety But the Spahies followed their first resolution and to appease the dissension it was agreed he should die They that meant to save him could not but reserved him for a greater example of Justice They would not let him now loose his head in the Court that death was to honourable for him that had murthered his Prince Therefore they put him into the same Couch wherein he had sent Sultan Osman to Execution Twice in the way being dry with sorrow he drank at the same Fountain where his late Master begged drink and so was conveyed into the same Chamber wherein he had murthered him The Executioner beginning to tye him himself shewed the very corner where he had committed that foul fact and desired that there he might if possible expiate it And so at last he was miserably strangled An here observe the justice of God even for the wicked who seldome suffers the blood of any scarce if at all the blood of Kings to passe without an exemplary retaliation the same Couch the same Chamber the same Corner the same Death And observe again the power of conscience even in a mahometan able to make him if not his own Executioner yet almost a voluntary sacrifice to the Ghost of his murthered Prince Which yet is not so appeased but must and will have yet more sacrifice and to demand them comes the Bassa of Arrivum with a great Army towards Angria marching the direct way to Constantinople He held a general Counsel in his Camp and sent to the Port to desire the presence of the Mufti Cadees Bassa's and ancient Beghs to take knowledge and to punish the Traytours that murthered the late King and to settle a New one lawfully that should be able to governe to reduce the mutinied City ☜ souldier to obedience and discipline and to place about the Emperour some great Vizier chosen by the State able to direct and applie remedies to the diseases then grown to a Crisis Complaining that every three or four moneths by the change of the Vizier the Provinces were destroyed for ☜ they placed and displaced the Governour according to their own Factions and so contrary orders were s●nt abroad daily insomuch that no man knew whom they should obey These were his pretences and if the present State would not assent to this Assembly he then resolved to come to the Port and settle all things at his pleasure by the sword The Great Officers in possession of the Emperour and Government loath to be called to account by the souldier took a worse resolution to make a Warre and make choice of Cigala Bassa for General which he refused upon the same pretence that in his absence alterations would be so frequent and that he should not please or at least uncertainly and according to interpretation Therefore he would have an absolute Dictatorship for the time equal to that of the great Vizier or else he would not stirre This was granted him and money given out and order to passe the water speedily enrolling for his Army 15000. Janizaries and 30000. ☞ Spahies But those did demur and alleadge it was a War against their own BRETHREN and sought any excuses rather then come to blowes But the secret was it was then Ramazan or their holy Lent at the end of which they were to receive their pay and therefore they ☞ would not move but pretended Religion Next day after their Feast when they should march they shewed themselves carelesse having first held many consultations and would not march at all unlesse the Emperour or great Vizier would go in person so every day brought forth new trouble and the Empire to a great deal of hazard and danger That State for fifteen moneths after the death of Osman was a stage of variety the souldiery usurping all Government placing and displacing as the winde of favour or disfavour moved them In that time there were three Emperours seven great Viziers five Agaes of the Janizaries Two Captain Bassaes three Treasurers six Bassaes of Cairo and in proportion as many changes of Governours in all the Provinces Every new Vizier making use of his time displacing those in possession and selling their honour to others so as the whole Empire was in a manner fined four or five times over Hurein Bassa the last Vizier of them consumed the public treasure so fast and exacted money of private men so violently to maintaine his Faction with the Janizari●s that even the receivers themselves were afraid and weary and the wisest of them foresaw their own ruine in the general consumption when there was any

of Factions which untill they were All cut off there was no hope of good Government and peace The Grand Signior gave them mild words and promised to do Justice and to punish all such as should be found guilty but nothing was done to satisfie them and being conceived that the new Chimacham connived and had been a party to all their Counsels at least his preferment made him obnoxious to that suspition and it was true that Segmen Bassa and his faction were the contrivers of the fall and murther of Georgi Mechemet Bassa and very probable that he of favoured if not practised by the new Ministers the Janizari●s rose again and by force brought down the Galleys neer the City and landed and held a Counsel very secret in their Chambers This bred much suspition and feare But the day of publick audience being come according to the custome they repaired all to the Seraglio and waited in their Order their Segmen Bassa onely did not appear and it was thought he absented himselfe purposely by agreement with the Chimacham lesr there should be some occasion offered to examine the past businesse which would not endure the light The Divan being finished the Viziers and Cadeleschers coming towards the Gate they were stopped by the Janizaries and told plainly they would speak with the King such perswasions as were requisite were used but there was no remedy they would deliver their own message The young Emperour at first was afraid and retyred but to avoyd greater inconveniences resolved to come out to them Order was instantly given to send for the Mufti and the ancients of the Law and many Santons for the Segmen Bassa and others of quality to be present at this action In the mean time a Throne was brought out and placed in the great Court and the Grand Segmen came forth and sate in his Majestie attended and assisted by all the great Officers and Ministers of his Empire to strike a reverence and fear into his souldiers whose purposes were not yet discovered Contrary to all expectation an Electo spake for them In all humble manner professing their obedience and lamenting the sicknesse of their State and the daily insolencies and declaring that as they were not guilty of the last mutiny so they were ready to spend their blood in defence of their PRINCE And for the Reformation of those disorders to which there could be applied no remedy but by the sword of Justice to cut off all those heads that held Conventicles and plotted daily alterations onely to governe the whole Empire at their Will They desired their Petition might be accepted and those disturbers of the Peace sought out and executed in which they would assist and that new Names and Titles might be forbidden which many had taken up as heads of Factions and the Souldiery reduced to their ancient Discipline which if his Majesty would grant and speedily put in practise they were ready to die in his service otherwise as there was no hope of quietnesse so they did foresee greater mischiefs daily which they would oppose as they were able At the end of this Oration which might have become a Cato yea a Christian Vade tu Miles Anglicane fac Simile Go thou English souldier and do likewise they delivered a brief Petition in writing wherein they modestly accused the new Chimacham of confederacy and connivence with their Segmen Bassa whom they anew appealed and gave up the Names of their Officers and Spahies upon whom they laid the burthen of their daily tumults The Emperour gave them a short but satisfactory answer yeelding to their request yet mingled with some admonition such as became a Prince And so they departed every man to their own rest But the Segmen Bassa having some intimation that his name was renued in that list of death took the first opportunity fled and hid himself and divers others conscious of their own merits retyred and thereby condemned themselves With much diligence the Segmen Bassa was apprehended and brought to the Court he was examined rather to finde his own Treasure which was infinite then to discover other men The Grand Signior sent for him and after a few words gave sentence to have his head struck off which was instantly done before the door afterwards divers of both Orders that is Janizaries and Spahies were taken to the number of twenty two were taken and privately strangled and thrown into the sea these principally branded were hidden or fled And suddenly as if peace were risen out of the old Chimachams grave there was an end of the tumults and disorders among the souldiers the Spahies shrunk not one revenging Spahie to be seen in all the City and the Janizaries as their glory took upon them an austere Reformation and all things were so calme as if Astrea had come down from heaven among them THe reading of History having in it no recompense but delight unlesse it look forward to use and action either to correct errors past or direct wayes for the future it will not be unprofitable upon the foregoing discourse to raise som Observations First Theological Secondly Moral and Political First Theological There are in this discourse several things of God discovered worthy our taking notic of As first the absolute and uncontroulable Soveraignty of God over the greatest Monarchs and Emperors of the world Behold one of the greatest Monarchs of the earth suddenly turned out of all by his own Vassals who at their first rising intended no such thing He cuts off the spirit of Princes he is terrible to the Kings of the earth Psal. 76.12 Secondly observe here the infinite wisdome of God who can by the Passions and lusts and furies of men accomplish his own wise and just holy ends This Army in all their mad fury did not what themselves plotted and intended but what God decreed Thirdly behold here the exact justice of God in revenging first the blood of Osman then the blood of Georgi though wicked men to his Enemies shall he not much more avenge the blood of his Elect Fourthly observe here the wonderful power of God over the spirits of men how soon can the Lord calme their greatest rage and fury and none can do it but he he stilleth the raging of the sea and the tumults of the people For Moral Observations take these First how dangerous a thing it is for any supream power to stand in need of a constant standing Army they do but bestride an unruly Camel which they cannot manage as this unfortunate Osman dreamt before his death Secondly what a dangerous thing it is for the Civil Power to permit the souldiers and Officers of the Army to hold their Counsels and Conventicles These were the root of all these troubles in the Turkish Empire Thirdly how much better it is to be under the worst of Monarchies then at the courtesie of a mutinied Army appears by this story Fourthly that the common souldier having been debauched by their own Officers may at last prove honest and delivering their misleaders to Justice may return to their duty and obedience Amen FINIS The Army upon an apprehension of a design to disband them Mutiny Demand some chief Officers of State to justice which the King denying They assemble in Arms next morning Cut the Vizier in pieces Force the Emperour to hide himself The mutiniers 〈…〉 g him et up ●● mock-King The true King addresseth himself to the souldiers They begin to relent But being anew enraged by the rashness of one of his attendants they Attach him Arraign him as a disturber of the peace Commit him to prison Where he is murthered The Army mutinies a second time Occasions the Creation of a new Vizier Against whom they also rise in mutiny All from the greatest to the least at the courtesie of the Army Against whom the Lawyers and Church-men unite for the publick good The souldiers demand the Churches Revenues and all Offices of gain The Spahies set on by the present Vizier demand justice for the death of their King though occasioned by themselves Upon which the Army is divided into two Factions and ready to light To prevent them he that mu●thered the King is delivered to justice The Army abroad under the conduct of a great Commander rise to avenge the death of their King who calls a general Councel Makes Declarations of his honest intentions Against whom the Governor set up by the mutinied Army guilty of Osmans blood proclaim a War But the mutiniers demur pretend loathness to fight against their brethren held consultations refuse to march Yet at length perswaded to move But upon new discontents the Spahies mutiny again Which quieted They march But no mind to fight The Councel at Constantinople at their wits end They consult Resolve upon the onely expedient for safety Which is to declare for the right heir and make him King which is also done Yet the Janizaries mutiny again for their pay The Army in Asia still prosecute their pretences Cruel to the Ianizaries but just friendly to all others Whereupon the Ianizaries demand to be led out to fight them War proclaimed the Army to march within four days Whereupon the Army held a Counsel and change their Mindes By which news all Asia's left to the other Army The Bassa of Asia taken into the Emperours favour Promiseth to lay down Arms New Vizier chosen at the Port. And withdraws his forces The Spahies again mutiny And Cause the old Chimacham to be put to death The Ianizaries rise Declare against this act of their fellow souldiers the Spahies Desire justice against divers o● their own Officers and the Officers of the Spahies as men that had debauched the Army and led them into and encouraged them in all thier mutinies Accusing them of Factions and holding Conventic●es and Counsels The Ianizaries come to the Port and desire Peace All the Grandees of the Empire assemble together One in the name of the rest delivers first a speech then a Petition Both sitter for Stat●s men then souldiers for Christians then Turks The Segmen Bassa the man principally accused hides himself but being found is put to death with some 2● others of both Orders After which the Army returns to their duty and peace to the Empire