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A93025	A relation, or an account of the Imperial Court, by Sacredo, a noble Venetian-Senator. Given in an oration made by him to the Doge (or Duke) of Venice, in the Venetian Senate-House, of what things happened during the last war of the Emperor with the Turks, and during his embassy to the Emperor, at his return out of Germany to Venice. Done into English by T.G. Esq	Sagredo, Giovanni, 1616-ca. 1696.; T. G.	1685 (1685)	Wing S289A; ESTC R1667	30,651	128

a full and quiet Abundance and hath gained such an Interest in the Emperor that he leaves him so much the more willingly to advantage himself as he is assured that he can lose nothing Hereby he is always sure of a party in the Court where he knows so well how to set a value upon his late Losses that the Emperor is very well satisfied that he should make to himself a real and substantial Gain I had for my Secretary Monsieur The Author's Secretary Paul Resio Paul Resio who was not wanting in his Diligence suitable to the Occasion nor in his Care of writing to your Serenity as the Importance of Matters required His Exactness and Fidelity cannot be too much esteemed In short he has forgot nothing that concerned your Service or his Employment He is not one that aims at his own Interest for his accidental Charges have been extraordinary his Expences unknown and unheard of yet such as were necessary and profitable all which undoubtedly deserve to be considered by your Serenity As for my self Most Serene An Account of the Author and his Embassy Prince for I have but a little more to say None of your Serenities Ministers abroad were ever put upon an Embassy more full of Trouble than that I have met with For I found nothing but intricate Questions Conjunctures not heard of and Difficulties almost unsurmountable When the Emperor resolved to unite with this Republick and your Answers contrary to his Desire were too long delayed then was I looked upon with an Eye full of Disdain and he was pleased to tell me in one Fit of his Railery That I was only at Vienna to send joyful News to your Serenity of such a Diversion as you desired For he imagined that the Intentions of your Serenity were merely to gain Advantage by their Wars and put them to lay the Foundations of that peace which you purposed to conclude I forgot not timely to inform your Serenity of all the obscure and secret Negotiations which the Imperialists held with the Ottomans of all the progress of their Treaties as also the Success of their Arms without any regard of mine to the Expence I was to be at as is evident by the frequent Couriers and several Dispatches I sent I had always the good Fortune to keep a Correspondence in all the Frontier places and spared no Cost or Labour to gain the quickest and most certain Advice of all things that past I punctually transmitted to your Serenity the authentick Copies of the Missives of the Resident at Constantinople and was not wanting to let him know all the distinct Particularities and Discoveries of the first projects when they were but as yet in Idea Being satisfied in my own Conscience your Serenity will permit me to flatter my self so far as to say That I have surpassed my self in my own proper Strength having with Address eluded or overthrown the most unhappy Conjectures and if I have had the good Fortune to serve your Serenity according to your Desires I have over and above satisfied my own and cannot believe it to be in my power to frame any thing to my self that could be more sweet and glorious In the midst of these difficult Troubles Heaven was pleased to afford me the continued Affections of the Court and its Ministers who were so much the more favourable to me as they did believe that I held no Correspondence with the Hungarians or Count Serini I knew very well how to take my Times and manage my Opportunities so as to be freed of all Suspition and Jealousie I have found my self surrounded with so many pressing Troubles as necessarily called not only for my utmost Philosophy but even Constancy it self to master and overcome My Assignments The hardships he endured in his Embassy by the Incursions of the Tartars totally failed and so I fell into an extream Want of all Necessaries through my extraordinary Expences occasioned by the Disorders of the War the Dearness of Commodities and general scarcity of all things which almost amounted to a Famine I will not dissemble with your Serenity at all During the Incursions of the Tartars I was reduced to the last Extremity not knowing whom to follow in so general a Flight nor with whom to stay in such an Universal Consternation For the whole Country seemed to me to be totally abandoned However it was I accommodated my self to the Juncture of Time and Will of God with a full Resignation to Divine Providence and an entire Submission to the Orders of your Serenity having left in Germany my Goods my Health and almost Life it self It is true the Emperor before The Presents made him by the Emperor and Empress my Departure Regaled me with a Diamond and the Empress with a Gallantry of Plate Those Presents were to me so much the more pretious because I could easily observe the Court did take some part in this Liberality and seemed as it were willing to confirm and approve the same by the Testimonies of their Joys FINIS THE TABLE THE beginning of the Emperor's Character Pag. 2 The Progress of the Ottomans Greatness their Designs 3 A strict Alliance is the joynt Interest of the Empire and Republick of Venice 4 The Turks enter Candia and take it the Effects thereof 5 Waradin and Newhausel when surrendered 6 The Preservation of Vienna of great Importance to all Christendom ibid. Present State of the Turkish Affairs and why their Forces are so much diminished 7 Of the Turkish Militia 9 An oversight of the Christian Officers in general 10 The Turks way of Discipline 11 The Turks Improvement in Fire-Works and other Warlike Exercises 12 The Reason of the Christians Miscarriage at the Siege of Canisa ibid. The Christians and Turks compared as to their Provisions for the Soldiery 13 Censures upon the Emperor's Proceedings in the beginning of the War 14 The Visier falls into the Emperor's Territories without Resistance 16 The cruelty of the Tartars ibid. Newhausel lost 18 The Raines hinder the further Progress of the Turks ibid. The Miserable Condition of Vienna 19 Complaints against Count Portia 20 His Character ibid. The second Compagne begins with loss to the Imperialists 21 Fort Zerin taken ibid. Death of Ismael Bassa with an account of the Battle of Raab 22 The Turkish Valour 23 An account of the Booty ond the relief of Canisa 25 The Behaviour of the Visier at this Battle and his gain by the Death of Ismael 26 The Visier hearkens to Peace with the reasons that induced the Emperor to it 27 The Weakness of the House of Austria 28 The danger of hazarding a Battle 29 The Hungarians hatred to the Turks keeps them in Subjection to the Emperor ibid. The Emperor makes a Peace blamed by all Christendom 31 The Peace prejudicial to the Hungarians ib. The Invasion of Transilvania by the Turks the first Cause of this War 34 Abafti established when ibid. Clausemburg when taken 35 The loss of Transilvania endangers all Christendom 36 Prince Ragotzki's Death and Character 37 Colourable pretences for a Peace 39 The Condition of the Christian Princes under the Turks ibid. The Conquest of Transilvania how advantagious to the Turks 40 Count Serini's Death and Character 44 Count Serini's Grandfather's brave defence of Zigeth 45 Count Serini's Character continued 46 Count Serini's Name a Terror and his Disgrace and death a joy to the Turks 47 Count Serini's Death differently resented by the Hungarians and Imperialists ibid. Count Serini's Generous offer to the Venetians 48 Count Peter Serini's Character 49 Secret Articles of Peace between the Emperor and Turks ibid. Death of Count Portia a loss to Pisino 51 The Duration of the Peace uncertain 55 Imperialists hinder the Venetians Peace with the Turks 57 Imperialists disswade the Turks from a Peace with the Venetians 59 Spain advises the Emperor to a Peace with the Turks 61 Canisa besieged by Count Serini 63 State of the Emperors Affairs with Sweden ibid. Poland Brandenburgh 65 66 France and Spain 67 The Pope Savoy 68 69 Florence Modena Mantua 70 Germany Austria c. 71 The German Emperor his farther Character 72 Character of the Empress Leonora 74 Death and Character of Arch-Duke Charles ibid Character of Prince Portia 75 Character of the Prince of Ausburg 79 Character of Prince Lewis and Don Hannibal de Gonzaga 80 Sieur Intendant of the Finances or the Lord High Treasurer 81 The Author's Secretary Paul Resio 82 An account of the Author his Embassie 83 The hardships he endured 86 The presents made him by the Emperor and Empress 87

defended with so great Clausemburg or Claudiopolis taken 1662. a Reputation the last Campaign under the Conduct of Reffano a Venetian There are some people that are apt to say That Portia out of Design neglected the Relief of these places thinking to make the World believe that the Inhabitants and Garrisons were the only Authors of their Revolts to remove by such Losses where he did not seem to contribute all Subject of Complaint and of War that might arise concerning their preservation The loss of Transylvania will without doubt one day be lamentable to all Christendom The loss of Tranfilvania endangers all Christendom especially to Germany This Province which might pass for a powerful and vast Kingdom is fair abundant and enlarged with rich and fertile Plains surrounded with Hills surmounting one another till by degrees they raise themselves to steep and inaccessible Mountains as if Providence with these strong and natural Ramparts were minded to defend them from the divers Irruptions of these Barbarians It is filled with strong Castles and Towns well peopled It is abounding in Mines fertile in strong and brave Horses and there is nothing wanting that is necessary to the life of Man The Emperor hath very much contributed to the Ruin of this Province by his extraordinary Negligences and abandoning the generous Ragotzkie That brave Man tho' he was forsaken by the Emperor and void of all Relief continued to defend his Estates with as much Prince Ragotzki's death May 1660. Glory as Courage Nor had he yielded to his ill Fortune had he been seconded by the Princes his Neighbours concerned in the War Notwithstanding his Despair encreased his Valor for after he had slain one hundred and seventy one Men with his own Hand he was enclosed by the Enemy and at last kill'd Fighting He inherited the Bravery His Character of his Father who maintained himself in this Province in spight of the Ottomans on whom he had many Advantages and won many signal Victories The Turks never gave over troubling him and would have forced him to resign his Principality and do Homage to the Port but neither their Commands nor Forces could work against so valorous a Resistance From hence it is that it came to pass that the Death of Father and Son and the taking of Waradin Waradin surrendered to the Turks 17 Aug. 1660. afforded so great Joy to the Infidels who have not only brought in Subjection all the Princes his Successors but made his Subjects Slaves and totally dependant upon their Empire Varadin being the chief Key of Hungary gives the Turks a free Entrance and secure Access and renders their Dominion so absolute and the Province so subject that the Emperor and Hungarians are apparently for ever excluded from the Recovery of this Country and its Liberty The Imperial Ministers took Colourable pretences for a Peace great care to give plausible Motives for a Peace and did endeavor to colour their Desires of extinguishing the Fire that was enkindled in Hungary and by consequence their weak Resistance in Transylvania They published in their Treaty That they had maintained Abafti in the same Estate that his predecessors were But these Reports were spread farther than believed and they that had the least Understanding of these Affairs were perswaded that notwithstanding all these Treaties and the differences of the Provinces this Prince should not be better used by the Port than those of Valachia and Moldavia who are The Condition of Christian Princes under the Turk under the entire and absolute Dominion of the Turks and he not be able to act but as the Port would have him and find himself not only deprived of his Authority but destitute of his Forces and not in a Capacity to take Arms as his Predecessors had done either to aggrandize or defend himself The Loss of this Province is The Loss of Transylvania fatal to the Christians and advantagious to the Turks so considerable that it will be fatal one day to Germany For the Fury of the Turks will not find any more a Defence to break their first Incursions The Emperor will not have any thing left to oppose their Inundation and his Countrey will be exposed to the first Fury of the Infidels The Turks themselves have gained this Advantage that they can raise their Troops there which they were forced to send back into Asia after a Campagne Now they can begin a Campagne sooner and retire into their Winter Quarters later and by reason that their Cavalry were constrained to wait the Growth and Maturity of Forage and the great Distance of places hindered their appearing in a Body upon the Frontiers before the beginning of August Now they can do it in the Month of June and so their Irruption will be so much the more destructive as their Campagne will be the longer The last War hath prepossessed the Christians with these unhappy Conjectures For the Turks durst not have taken the Field before the Season had covered the Earth with necessary Forage for the Subsistence of their Cavalry Horses of Artillery and Baggage and not coming to a Rendezvouz till towards August they had not time enough to make any more than one Enterprise But now having made a Conquest of so spacious and fertile a Countrey which they retain they are in a Condition to undertake all sorts of Enterprises almost at all times and it is always in their power to hurt the Christians and oblige them constantly to be upon their Guard Moreover these vast and fruitful Fields of Hungary so easily lost to the Ottomans have created a Desire in them to establish themselves in so good a Countrey In like manner the Emperor's Enemies have found themselves posted commodiously upon a Frontier for the beginning of Sieges in good time and so have it in their power to profit themselves of all Seasons On the other hand the Emperor depending upon the unsteady Resolutions of the several Dyets and not being in a Condition to receive but slow Succors and Troops afar off he will remain exposed to the Mercy of his Enemies and find a powerful Army upon him capable to undertake all things before that he is in a Condition to defend himself The Articles of Peace between the Emperor and the Turks have been sufficiently handled in the last Dispatch of the Great Chancellor who might have spared the Circumstances of Count Serini's Death which he supposes to be violent contriv'd and of a premeditated Design whereas it was merely casual as I have written to your Serenity For the sole Ardor which he had equally for Count Serini's Death by a Wild Boar 1664. the Chase as for the War was the true and only Cause of it His great Courage made him wilful and stifly to maintain a Fight with a wild Boar already wounded and become furious by seven Wounds that it had received The Count being Rycaut's Hist p. 176 thrown upon the Ground and by many

Strokes disabled from speaking one Word yet gave many Marks of his Reason and Piety often smiting his Breast he did lift up his Eyes to Heaven and made it appear that he died content and a good Christian He was a Cavalier of great His Character Birth great Merit and a sworn Enemy to the Turks His Hatred to them was hereditary and common to his Family Your Serenity knows very well what his Grandfather did in Croatia at the Siege of Zigeth attacked by Solyman at the Head of an Army of two Hundred Thousand Men. That when Provision for Mouth and War were absolutely wanting Count Serini's Grandfather's brave defence of Zigeth 1566. and the place open on all Sides he would never hearken to a Composition but resolved rather to perish than treat and becoming more fierce in the Extremity he saw himself reduced to he changed a generous Defence into a vigorous Attack for encouraging the weak feeble and languishing Remnant of the Garrison to follow him he furiously threw himself upon his Enemies and after a thousand Exploits worthy of eternal Memory his Vertue fell being oppressed by meer Number he gloriously died with his Cymeter in his Hand and lost not the place but with his Life The Valor of the Grand-son His Character continu'd was not less eminent though he finished his Life with less good Fortune A person of that Extraction and Desert his frequent Attempts in great and hazardous Occasions not sparing himself in the most apparent Dangers well merited a more happy Destiny and a more glorious Death An Ambuscade or a Battel ought to have ended a Life so fair and it was an unspeakable Loss that so brave a Man as he who had devoted himself to the Fatigues of War should be destroyed in the pleasures of Peace and that a Prince so formidable to so many of the Infidels his only Enemies should be torn in pieces by one only fierce Beast This Loss is so much the more Sereni's Name a Terror and his Disgrace and death a Joy to the Turks to be lamented by Christendom be cause the very Name of this Heroe was sufficiently capable to strike a Terror into the Turks and to repell their most hardy Attempts Yey the very Disgrace of this Count Nicholas de Serini was looked upon by the Ottomans as one of their greatest good Fortunes but his Death caused so much Joy among them that they made Bone-fires and discharged all the Cannons of Canisa The Hungarians on the other The Loss of Serini differently resented by the Hungarians and the Imperial Court and why side were in extream Grief they perceived very well the Importance of so great a Loss they found themselves without a Head without Counsel and without Protection and were doubly afflicted to see the careless Concern of the Cesarean Court for him who rendered this Misfortune agreable to the Emperor's Ministers which was regretted by the rest of his Subjects For they looked upon him as an Obstacle to Peace a Fomenter of War his natural Valor an Enemy to Repose and that his boyling Courage would never wave an Occasion to kindle a War However it was for I cannot dissemble to your Serenity his Country has not only lost in his Person a generous Defender of his Estates but a powerful Hinderance against the Inundations of the Infidels A little before this sad Adventure being in Despair by the Peace which the Emperor had concluded to so ill a purpose and so much to his Disadvantage * Sereni's generous Offer to the Venetians He himself proposed to me That he would go a Voluntier to serve this Republick with Six Thousand old Soldiers every one of them a choice Man wherever you should have Occasion and that he feared nothing so much as the Rust of Repose and the Debauchery of Idleness In short he wished for nothing more than to end his Days in an Occasion glorious to his Memory and profitable to Christendom Count Peter Serini succeeded his Brother in his Command Count Peter Serini's Character He is a brave Soldier and great Captain but not looked upon as a man so great in Bravery as his Brother was Two Articles of this Peace Secret Articles of Peace between the Emperor and the Turk notwithstanding they were kept very secret were nevertheless discovered and divulged amongst the Hungarians and those that were men of the greatest Interest among them endeavoured to penetrate into this Treaty and did it sooner than the Germans The First was That the Emperor The first Article might freely chastise the Insolence of the Hungarians and reduce them by all sorts of ways to their Duty without any Opposition from the Turks or Hinderance of the Resentments of the Imperial Court in punishing his Subjects The Second was That the The second Article Emperor should not oppose the Turks as to any Attempts they should make upon Italy but leave them a free passage thro' Friuli I took an extraordinary trouble upon me to dive into the truth of these things kept with so much Industry hid and secret by the Germans yet as hastily published by the Hungarians And if the first Article proved true I shall have but little trouble to perswade the world to believe the Second All things carried so likely a Semblance in themselves as well as in my Opinion that I shall take but little Care to illustrate altho' it was a great deal of pain to me to believe them The Death of Prince Portia The death of Count Portia a great Loss to the States of Pisino was a great Loss and Misfortune to the Estates of Pisino through which the Tartars when they had a mind must pass towards Italy as also to the Defence and Guard of those strait and difficult Passes For his Authority and particular Interest secur'd them against divers Hazards procured them a great Number of Soldiers to put them out of all Fear and protected them against all sort of incursions of their enemies The County of Pisino bought by the Brother of the Prince of Ausburg since the Death of Portia found little Support in his Successor who had no small Share in the Councils of his Imperial Majesty tho' this new Count did do his Endeavor to divert all the Disgraces from his own Lands which the Necessity and Freedom of a passage of it self more difficult than one can well imagine might bring upon them The Emperor as well as his Subjects will first feel this Damage The great Damage the Emperor is like to sustain For the Tartars who make no Distinction between Friend and Foe and whose Cruelty treats all alike and carry Disorder Rapine and Bloodshed along with them might easily make him sensible of the Effects of their Barbarity and Violence and he knows no other way to hinder this Army from posting it self in the Bowels of his own proper Territories without great prejudice to himself of the Consequence whereof your

Vienna the only place of Refuge but the Ordinary Slothfulness of his Imperial Majesty made him one of the last to retire altho' all were fill'd with pannick fear and was the occasion that the Capital City was not entirely forsaken by its Inhabitants At last a Courier put Courage Newhausel lost into the fainting and perplexed Germans by bringing the News of the Turkish Armies march to Newhausel this City notwithstanding well provided with all things necessary yielded to the force of the Infidels The Visier spared nothing of Bravery or of Money for he gave generously a hundred Rix Dollars a Head to the Janizaries that should fix upon a Breach the Turkish Standards hoping by his Liberalities the more readily to become Master of the Fortifications and to be before-hand with Autumn which standing upon a Moross would have rendered the Attack more difficult and the Success much more doubtful The Rains hinder the further Progress of the Turks The advantages of this Campagne were notably retarded by the Protection Heaven was pleased to afford the piety of the Emperor for to repair his and his Ministers Negligence It rained so abundantly that the ways were broken so that the Visier was constrained to defer his progress and to make a halt at Buda for at least Fourty days to have his Cannon drawn back It is almost certain that if God gave a fair Game to the Turks at first he at the same time blinded them and that if the Visier instead of attacking Newhausel The miserable condition of Vienna had advanced in sight of Vienna he had found it without Provision without Souldiers and without Inhabitants filled with Despair Diseases and great Necessities open and exposed to his Army and entirely submitted to his Disposition which he did not want being blamed for and his Excuse was says he I could never have imagined that the Defence of a Capital City and well fortified could possibly at the first and false Reports have been so negligently and suddenly abandoned At this time the Murmurs and Complaints against Count Portia Complaints broke out against the Ministry of Count Portia who remained as one asleep in so great a Noise and in the midst of so many Alarms To speak His Character Truth his Shoulders were not broad enough to bear so great a Burthen The deplorable Loss of Newhausel ended this unfortunate Campagne and gave some Relaxation to the divers Inquietudes and unworthy dejections of the Emperor's Spirit reduced to look upon such a Loss as a Happiness to him nor could have any Hope or Assurance but from the flattering Treasons of his Favourite who dissembled all things and amused him by fair and vain Appearances in such sort that two days before the Loss of Newhausel I asked his Majesty if he had good News He answered me That the Turks daily battered the place but gained not any Advantage The second Campagne of this The second Campagne begins with Loss to the Imperialists War did not appear at its beginning more prosperous than the first by reason of the unfortunate Siege of Canisa the taking of Fort Zerin by Assault Fort Zerin taken 1664. with a Remarkable Loss of the Besieged However the Victory obtained in Hungary on the other Side the Danube by Count Zouches and yet farther that of Montecuculis's at the River Raab sweetn'd the End But the known Loss of Turkish Officers and Soldiers and amongst others of Ismael Bassa the Sultan's Brother-in-law Death of Ismael Bassa and General of the Cavalry so much the more encreased the Christians Joy which cut short the Progress of the Infidels By this considerable Defeat not only the Misfortunes of the Emperor seemed to cease but divers Beams of a good Fortune began to shine out For besides the Honour of the Victory he had yet the Advantage of a great Booty which the Imperialists got The Victory was thus obtained Six Thousand Turks having rashly passed the River An Account of the Battle of Raab they were as soon set upon by the Christian Army consisting of near Fifty Thousand Men. The time was not long in their being all cut to pieces or thrown over and drowned in the River Yet these Wretches sold The Turkish Valour their Lives at a dear Rate and far from yielding to Discretion they defended themselves as much as they were able with as much Courage as Valour and seemed in dying to out-brave their Conquerors and all the Dead were found with their Cymeters in their Hands and they made Prisoner but one only Janizary that lay fainting on the Ground through the number of his Wounds who was sent to the most Christian King with many Ensigns taken from the Infidels by the French Certainly their Bravery contributed very much to this Victory and as to the Glory of the Success if other Nations who fought ought to be partakers of the Honour the Decision of this Battle which was a long time doubtful is due only to their valour and they were well recompensed in the Field for the Officers and Soldiers enriched themselves with the Spoils from the Dead Bodies upon the place and the drowned which they fished for The Turks being for the most part Officers or Commanders were either richly Armed or clad The Presumption of a certain Victory had engaged the Bravest of the Turkish Officers to this Rashness and without any Consideration to pass the River not making any Reflection as to the Danger or the Consequences of it They could not imagine that a Fear so great as the German's was could be so easily vanished and that a People so astonished could so quickly take Courage or dare to make any Resistance so that rushing on to a Triumph before they were assured of a Victory they got on their best Habits instead of arming themselves with their best Arms There An Account of the Booty was found Silver Furniture for Horses with Silver-gilt Saddles embroidered Cymeters set with Diamonds Turbants garnished with precious Stones and particularly that of Ismael Bassa adorned with a Feather set on with a Garniture of Diamonds of great price This Disgrace a little abated their Pride and gave an Overture to Propositions of Peace The Turkish Army already fatigued with the relieving of Canisa and the Cavalry wanting Forage the Canisa relieved An. D. 1664. Visier was constrained to pull off the Leaves of the Woods that were nearest him to serve instead of Hay for the Subsistence of his Horse As for him whether Business took him up or that he was not a good Soldier he stayed The Behavior of the Visier at this Battle on the other side the River during the whole Battle and seemed rather to observe as a Philosopher than as a Warriour the Misfortune and Rout of his Army For he did not make the least offer as if he were willing to relieve them whether looking on it as a thing impossible or chusing rather to undergo the