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A51894	The fourth 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 1642 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.	1692 (1692)	Wing M565CH; ESTC R35021	169,206	386

Inundations Tempests of Thunder and Lightning not usual at this Time of Year Monstrous Spectres seen rising out of the Seas Lakes and Rivers Armies in the Air with Comets and other Wonderful Apparitions The States of the Vnited Provinces have lost by Wreck Sixteen Ships of War and Thirty Seven Merchant Vessels It looks as if Aeolus and Neptune the Chief Gods of the Hollanders had enter'd into a League to punish 'em for struggling against their Fate whilst they maintain a Fleet to brave and plunder the English under whose Shadow they first rose to the Power they so Ungratefully now possess For besides these Losses at Sea the Winds and Waves have conspir'd to break down their very Banks the onely Guards they have against that Encroaching Element All the Low Countries are overwhelm'd with Water Insomuch as Five Miles within Land from Ostend there has been found a Whale newly cast up Seven Times as long as a Man This the Infidels look on as a Great Prodigy and the Fore-runner of some Strange Revolution Though it is but a Natural Event and frequently happens in those Seas where Whales are more plentiful The Naturalists say That this King of the Scaly Nations never makes his Progress through the Seas without his Guide which is a certain small Fish that always swims before him and gives him Warning of Flats and Shallows upon which he often strikes and sometimes on the main Shores if his little Guide chance to be devour'd by any other Fish or come to other Mishap And this may be the Reason why so many Whales are found on the Sands when the Tide Ebbs. They say also That when this little Fish is inclin'd to Rest it retires into the Whale's Belly reposing it self there for some Time during which the Whale rests also not daring to venture forward till his Guide comes forth and leads the Way If this be true it seems as if there were a League or Friendship contracted between these Two they Mutually performing all the necessary Offices of Love and Gratitude And how this can be done without some Species of Reason I cannot comprehend Let them at the Port call me Mynesih or what they please I cannot forbear doing this Justice to the Fish of the Sea as well as to the Animals on Earth to acknowledge That either they are indu'd with a Kind of Reason or that Faculty which we call so in Men is no other than Sence If the Brutes perform many Things without any Deliberation or Counsel so do most Men And no Man can demonstrate That even those Dumb Beings do not advise and project before they attempt any Thing of Moment towards their own Preservation or the Service of others And if they seem to do many Things rashly it may be attributed to the Quickness and Vivacity of their Sence which needs not the Slow and Flegmatick Methods of Human Counsel Suffer these Digressions Courteous Bassa and since I have led thee so far out of the Road take but another Step and I 'll shew thee a Great Monarch who commands Millions of Men carry'd away Captive by a Silly Beast The King of France t'other Day as he was a-hunting discharg'd a Fowling-Piece at a Partridge on the Wing The Bird dropt and the Monarch eager to take up his Game gave the Reins to his Horse who ran away with him over a great Plain for the Space of half a League And had not the King fallen off within Six Paces of a great Chasme or Hole in the Earth he wou'd have been Carry'd for ought I know to keep Company with Horatius Curtius the Venturous Roman of whose Exploit thou hast heard For the furious Steed not being aware of the Danger before him as soon as he had cast the King gallop'd full Speed into the gaping Precipice and was never more heard of This the Priests cry up for a Miraculous Escape and presage That the King is reserv'd by Providence for Great Things The King of Portugal has an Embassador here who in his Master's Name proposes a Match between this King and the Infanta of Portugal proffering Four Millions of Crowns as her Dowry But the Court entertains this Motion coldly the Cardinal being averse for what Reason is not known For the Infanta has an Illustrious Character and known to be a Princess of Incomparable Vertue This Minister is managing a Match of nearer Concern to himself designing to marry One of his Nieces to the Prince of Conti Brother to the Prince of Conde And 't is said this Prince receives the Cardinal's Proposals with less Scorn than did the Count of Soissons those of Cardinal Richlieu on the like Occasion Here is a Rumour as if the Prince of Conde wou'd be condemned by a Process of Parliament and that he will be put to Death in Effigie This Indignity is Common among the Infidels who esteem whatsoever Honour or Disgrace is shewn to Images as done to the Persons whom they represent They have no other Excuse for their Worship of Things made by the Hands of Men like themselves but that it is purely Relative and centers in the Prototype In the mean Time the Prince of Conde's Friends and Well-Wishers smile at his Imaginary Death knowing that if no Effectual Stroke of Fate carry him out of the World he will be at the Head of a Potent Army in the Spring to put many to Death in Reality and by the Edge of the Sword who fight for his Enemies A while agoe a Man was Imprison'd here by his own Folly having voluntarily declar'd That he was hir'd by this Prince to assassinate Cardinal Mazarini I have spoken formerly of the Count d' Harcourt and the Disgrace he was in at this Court for not continuing the Siege of Londa a Strong Hold of the Spaniards in Catalonia This General is a brave Man and has done Eminent Services to the Crown of France It is no Wonder therefore that he laid to Heart the Coldness and Contempt with which he was receiv'd at his Return from that Vnfortunate Campaign Great Souls are to be Caress'd with more than ordinary Affection in their Adverse Fortunes and Faithful Servants ought not to be reproach'd with every false Step or ill Success in their Affairs The Count resenting ill the King's Carriage toward him remov'd himself from the Court and then out of the Kingdom designing as is suppos'd to serve the Emperour of Germany Last Week his Two Sons that were detain'd as Hostages in this City made their Escape the Duke of Loraine having promised to give the Eldest his Daughter in Marriage That Duke roves up and down like a Free-Booter with an Army of Banditti at his Heels Renown'd Afis I make an Humble and Affectionate Obeisance wishing thee as many Years of Life as thou can'st pass without languishing for Death Paris the 17th of the 11th Moon of the Year 1653. LETTER XX. To Dgebe Nafir Bassa THOU succeedest a Righteous Minister Chiurgi Muhammet I wish thee a

from thinking too seriously on the Sentence he has Pronounc'd in Parliament against the Prince of Conde One knows not well how to blame the Prince of Conde's Proceedings nor yet to accuse the King of Injustice Neither is it proper for a Mussulman-Slave to decide the Controversy Our Principles and Laws are different from Theirs And he that is esteem'd a Patriot here in the West wou'd be Condemn'd for a Rebel without Hesitation in any Part of the East where but One God in Heaven and One Sovereign on Earth is acknowledg'd by the Subjects of every Kingdom and Empire But in France the Princes of the Royal Blood are Invested with such a Power as renders it difficult for those under their Command to distinguish 'em from Supream Monarchs Yet not One of them possesses a Government Equal to that of the Bassa of Egypt or Superiour to his of Aleppo I have spoken of these Princes formerly in some of my Letters to the Happy Ministers of Him who when he pleases can make the Greatest Sovereigns the Squires of his Stirrup And therefore 't will be needless to say any more on that Subject but only to acquaint thee That the French Court tho' they cannot relent of the Rigour they have us'd toward the Prince of Conde yet seem willing to compound the Business with his Son the Young Duke of Enguien and by a Subtle Artifice to strike Two strokes for the State at once A Great Duke of this Realm has been lately dispatch'd to the Duke of Orleans to propose a Match between his Daughter and Conde's Heir Whereby the Estate of the Prince of Conde will fall to the Duke of Orleans's Possession during the Minority of the Young Couple This is a Wheedle to reconcile the King's Uncle to the Court who has been a long Time estrang'd But 't is thought his Displeasure is of too deep a Dye to be wash'd off with Court-Holy-Water I have no more News to tell thee save the Death of a certain Prince whom they call the Duke of Elboeuf And it is of no Import to the Divan whether a Hundred of these Infidel Princes die every Day or no so long as the Grand Signior lives and is ever supply'd with Faithful Ministers For His Health I pray before the Sun peeps o'er the Tops of the Eastern Mountains and after he hides himself in the Valleys of the West Neither do I rise from my Knees at the Five appointed Hours without an Oraison for Chornesan and the other Bassa's of the Port. Paris 10th of the 6th Moon of the Year 1654. LETTER XI To Sale Tircheni Emin Superintendant of the Royal Arsenal at Constantinople THOU that hast the Charge of the Ammunition design'd for the Conquest of the World art fittest to receive the News of a Terrible Blow lately given to a City of the Infidels in Flanders This Place is called Gravelines whereof I have made Mention in some of my former Letters On the 29th of the last Moon the Powder of the Magazine there took Fire whether by Accident or Design is not certainly known But the Damage it has done is very great It is reported That a Third Part of the City is blown up and the Chief Fortifications about it with the Outworks of the Cittadel Three Thousand Mortals had their Breath exhausted by the Violent Convulsion of the Air and were sent into Another World well season'd with Salt-Peter Besides a vast Multitude of all Sorts that were bury'd in the Ruines of the Houses Some say a certain Person coming to buy some Powder of the Steward of the Magazine as they were knocking out the Head of a Powder-Barrel the Hammer struck Fire Others report That this Person who pretended to buy Powder was a Spy or Private Agent of Cardinal Mazarini in those Parts And that by his Master's Order he had prepar'd a certain Artificial Fire enclos'd in a Shell or Box and that at a certain determin'd Period of Time it would cause the Box to flie in Pieces and scatter Flames almost as subtle and penetrating as those of Lightning Having therefore this little Instrument of Mischief ready and being instructed in all Things he with the Steward enter'd the Vaults where the Powder lay under Pretence of buying some for the Governour of Brussels And when they had open'd one of the Barrels he thrust his Hand among the Powder as though he wou'd take up some to look upon at the same Time dextrously conveying his little Shell or Box into the Barrel knowing that in an Hours Time it wou'd work its Effect In the mean while seeming to dislike that Barrel they open'd another which he bought and so departed Within an Hour afterwards all the Countries round about were astonish'd at the Dreadful Blow which made the Earth to tremble They say it was heard beyond the Seas into England Thus the Contrivance of this Tragedy is fasten'd on Mazarini and such is the Hatred the People bear to this Minister That if an Earthquake shou'd happen in these Parts I believe they wou'd accuse him as the Author of it But it seems as if all the Elements were at War against the Netherland Provinces I have already acquainted the Ministers of the Ever Happy Por● what Disasters befell these People by Storms at Sea and Inundations on Land After which the Element of Fire took its turn to Chastise them For in the First Moon of this Year a certain Wind-mill in the Low Countries whirling round with extraordinary Violence by Reason of a Furious Storm the Stone at Length by its Rapid Motion became so Intensely hot as to fire the Mill from whence the Flames being dispersed by the High Winds to the Neighbouring Houses set a whole Town on Fire And now the Wrath of Heaven has been kindl'd again to destroy these Infidels Yet those that survive will not be Converted Perhaps they will be ruin'd Piece-Meal even to a Final Extermination like the People of Aad and Thamod of whom at this Day there remain no Footsteps I pray God guard the Imperial City and Arsenal from all Casualties of Fire from Inundations of Water and from Earthquakes And thy own Watchful Care and Prudence will defend the Magazines in thy Custody from the Sly Attempts of Traytors and Villains Paris 10th of the 6th Moon of the Year 1654. LETTER XII To Mehemet an Eunuch in the Seraglio I Acquainted thee formerly with the first Necessity I had to drink Wine that I might the better conceal my being a Mussulman when I was made a Prisoner by Cardinal Mazarini's Order I tell thee now this Liquor is grown Habitual to me it being the Natural Beverage of the Country where I am But the French temper it with Water the better to allay their Thirst and prevent Fevers Which Custom agrees not with the Stomach of a Mahometan who when he drinks either Water or Wine loves to have them Pure without Mixture I use it moderately for my Health and to create an Appetite But

Revolt of Normandy Gascoigne and Provence with many Eminent Cities were very prevailing Motives But that which was of greatest Force was the Want of Money and Men to carry on the War which could not be rais'd without vast Difficulty during these Publick Alienations Whatever were the Inducements a Peace was concluded about the latter End of the Third Moon at a Place call'd Ruel not far from Paris where the King has a House of Pleasure seated in the Midst of a little Paradise In one of my Letters to the Kaimacham I formerly describ'd the King's House and Garden at St. German en Lay. This is but a little Chiosc or Bower in Comparison of that Stately Palace Yet what is wanting in the Grandeur of the Fabrick is supply'd in its elegant Contrivance and the Richness of its Ornaments And as for the Garden it comes not far short of the other there being in it all Manner of curious Water-works Groves Solitudes Fountains Statues and whatsoever the Ingenuity of these Western Artists could suggest as proper to render this Place agreeable to the Melancholy Humour of the late Queen-Mother Mary de Medicis to whom it belong'd during her Life When you enter this delicious Eden your Eyes and Ears are presently deceiv'd by the Counterfeit Notes and Motions of all kinds of Birds which perpetually Sing as the Water tunes their Throats A little farther you see several old Gentile Statues adorning Two Fountains And among the rest a Crocodile big as the Life who by the Harmony he makes seems to have a Consort of Musick in his Belly as Regular and Sweet as that of the Italian Society at Constantinople which thou hast often heard As we depart from this full of Complacency and Admiration at the Exquisite Imitation of Nature in these Contrivances we fall insensibly into a Place exactly like what the Poets describe when they speak of Elysium It is a Grove the Tops of whose Trees are so thick interwoven that the Sun appears no otherwise through them than as if he were behind a Cloud or in an Eclipse So that the Darkness of this Place and solemn Murmur the Winds make on high among the Tops of the Trees fills it with a Kind of Sacred Horror Which has often made me think this Wilderness something like that which Historians describe when they speak of the Avenues to the Temple of Jupiter Ammon in Egypt For in the very Center of this Grove stands the House A Place one would think fitter for a Convent than a Prince's Court. At best it appears but like a Royal Hermitage a Cell consecrated to Kingly Melancholy I could not forbear making this Digression when I mention'd Ruel to be the Place where the Peace was concluded between the Court and the Parliament This Encomium is a Tribute which I ow'd for the Satisfaction and Pleasure I have often receiv'd in this Retirement Besides I thought an Idea of such a Garden would not be unwelcom to thee who art a Lover of Solitude The Coadjutor of Paris who is an Arch-Bishop is highly affronted that this Peace was concluded without him who had a chief Hand in beginning the War He labours to inflame the People again and reduce all to the old Confusion being an Irreconcileable Enemy of Cardinal Mazarini So that we expect another Insurrection in a short Time For the French cannot be long Idle Happy Minister I leave thee under the Wings of that Spirit which guards the Elect and bid thee Farewel Paris 15th of the 4th Moon of the Year 1649. LETTER X. To Dgnet Oglou SHall I tell thee I mourn for the Death of our Friend Egry Boinou whom thou sayest a Fever snatch'd from us the First Day of the Moon Regib That Fever it seems was the Effect of his continual and excessive Grief for the Loss of his Eyes so that we may say he has been dying ever since the Hour that Fatal Sentence was put in Execution And shall we grudge our Friend a Release from so lingring a Death At best it was but the Winter of Life wrapt up in Clouds and Darkness Now like the Serpent he has cast his Slough lifts up his Head with new Vigor sports himself in the Meadows of Paradise and basks in the Warmth of an Eternal Spring 'T will not therefore be a Mark of our Affection to him but only a Discovery of our Self-Love to condole the Occasion of His Happiness because it has lessen'd Ours by robbing us of his beloved Company and Friendship Besides we know not but that he may still continue to be our Friend even in that Invisible State and either manage our Interests Above or at least protect us from Dangers here Below We are ignorant of the Laws and Constitution of that Kingdom of Spirits and for ought we know the Souls of just Men after Death may become the Tutelar Genii or Guardian Angels of their Surviving Friends and Relations Let it be how it will doubtless Egry is Immortal and Happy and 't will be Envy in us to repine at it Rather let us congratulate the Time of his Decease as the Day of his Nativity and leave Mourning to the Crowd of Mortals who do a Thousand Things without ever thinking what they are about They tread in the Steps of their Fathers never examining whether they be Right or Wrong Custom and Education have almost banish'd Reason from the Earth Is it not a pleasant Spectacle to see the Kindred of an Old Rich Miser for whose Death they had long waited like Harpies for their Prey now flock about his Lifeless Carcase howling out a Thousand forc'd Lamentations whilst in the mean Time their Blood dances in their Veins for Joy Yet however this carries a Shew of Civiliz'd Manners and is better than the Barbarous Custom of the Scythians and Massagetes who when their Old Men grew Useless and Troublesome were wont to Sacrifice them and make a Banquet with their Flesh or the Thebarenes who threw their Aged Friends alive down Precipices These were Salvages But much more so were the Hircanians and Bactrians who cast their Aged Parents yet living to be devour'd by Dogs Which Inhumanity when Stasanor the Deputy of Alexander the Great endeavour'd to suppress they had like to have Depos'd him from the Government So prevalent is the Force of a Receiv'd Custom on the Minds of the Unthinking Herd Let thou and I therefore not supinely take up with Common Practices but like Men of Reason let us adjust the Last Offices we owe to our Friend whilst we pour forth some Devout Oraisons for the Health of his Soul without disturbing his and our own Repose with fruitless Lamentations And since we are bereav'd of his Society on Earth let us prepare to follow him and render our selves agreeable Company at our next Rendezvous in Heaven It was an Unjustifiable Rigor in Sultan Ibrahim to deprive him of his Eyes because he had only cast 'em unhappily on one of the Sultana's as she

fighting under the Commission with the Seal I have sent a Letter to the Bassa of the Sea acquainting him with the News of this Expedition of the Cossacks Since which I am informed that these People are Headed by a famous Pirate in those Parts a Man of a daring Spirit and capable of the boldest Undertakings The French Merchants who have traded in the Black Sea give him a High Character and portend great Injuries to the Ottoman Empire from the Success of his Arms For they say he is a Good Captain both by Sea and Land I have heard several different Stories of his Birth and Education But this I am going to relate comes from the best Hands and seems most probable His Name is Pachicour a Circassian by Birth but bred up in a Sea-Town of the Vkrain near the Mouth of the Niester He left his Native Country at the Age of Twelve Years out of a Desire to see Foreign Parts Embarking himself unknown to his Parents in a Vessel of Podolia which then was ready to set sail from Bala-Clag He carry'd with him a small Sum of Money which he had purloyn'd from his Father and serv'd as a Fund of his future Fortune For arriving at a certain Town in Podolia he frequented the Keys and offer'd his Service to several Merchants one of which observing in his Face the Marks of a Promising Genius entertain'd him in his House He liv'd with him Seven Years and perform'd his Office so well that he made him his Factor to Constantinople Pachicour discharg'd his Trust there with much Profit to his Master and Honour to himself So that at his Return several Merchants entrusted him with their Goods and sent him to trade at Caffa and other Towns on the Black Sea His Judgment and Reputation encreasing with his Years he became in Time famous in all the Trading Towns And such was his Credit in the Vkrain that all the Merchants put their Vessels and Goods into his Hands So that he sail'd many Times with a Fleet of Twenty Ships having the Disposal of all the Goods committed to his Management He grew so Rich in Time by his Dealings that he was able to drive a Considerable Trade for himself And then it was he began to lay the Foundation of a Design which he has since executed His Genius was too Active always to be confin'd to this slow Way of growing Great Therefore he was resolv'd at one Blow to raise his Fortune to the Pitch he aim'd at He was the only Broker Banquier and Merchant where-ever he came It was no difficult Thing for a Man of so vast a Credit to raise an extraordinary Stock and Pachicour could easily silence the Alarms of Conscience There happen'd also a Juncture very proper for his Design For while he was at Isgaou a Port of Circassia Day and Night projecting how to exalt himself a War broke out between his Countrymen and the Mingrelians The Latter appear'd with a Navy at Sea which alarm'd all the Maritime time Parts of Circassia Pachicour whose Invention was always busy took a Hint from this to accomplish his Plot. Expedition was his chiefest Game Therefore he speedily made the utmost Use of his Credit among the Podolian Merchants and other Foreigners residing at Isgaou And when he had amass'd together prodigious Sums of Gold for which he only gave them Bills of Exchange he privately sends away this huge Treasure with all his Jewels Tissues and other Rich Merchandise to his Fathers House who liv'd not many Leagues from this Town Within Two Days after this the Mingrelian Fleet made a Descent at Isgaou sack'd it carry'd away Two Thousand Captives and went to their Vessels again Pachicour who knew how to make an Advantage of this Opportunity privately fled after his Wealth as soon as the Mingrelian Fleet appear'd before the Place And it happ'ned that most of his Creditors were made Slaves and transported to Mingrelia He had no Need to take any farther Care but how to secure his Riches from his Pilfering Neighbours For the Circassians are all Profess'd Thieves He therefore makes haste to his Father and having gratified him for his Trouble he in a short Time purchas'd Four Men of War with which he sets up for a Pirate infesting those Seas and Robbing all the Merchants except those who had formerly entrusted him His Bounty and Valour charm'd all that serv'd him And his Fame spreading with his wonderful Success many Circassians put out to Sea and join'd with him So that in a little Time he made no small Figure in the Kingdom of Neptune Seeing himself Commander of a Powerful Navy he found out quickly the Mingrelian Fleet and engaging with them got a Glorious Victory Soon after a Peace was concluded and Pachicour was declar'd Admiral of all the Circassian Sea-Forces To whom the Mingrelians were oblig'd by Treaty to join theirs and to obey Pachicour's Orders In a little Time this fortunate General became so famous that the Cossacks sent to him an Agent and enter'd into a League furnish'd out Three Hundred Vessels and join'd the Circassian and Mingrelian Fleets This is the Bottom of the New Expedition which makes so loud a Noise in these Parts Thou who art Master of the Arsenal wilt know what Measures are fittest to be taken against this bold Infidel if he persists to break the Peace of the most Serene Empire Yet though he is an Enemy let us not envy him the Praises that are due to his Wit and Courage He seems to surpass the Sneaking Thieves of his own Nation and undertakes Nothing but Sovereign Cheats and Noble Thefts such as would pass for Vertuous Actions in a Man of a Higher Birth I do not plead for Robbery nor take the Part of an Infidel but if I had Time to tell thee some Heroick Passages of this Pirate thou wouldst say he is worthy of a Generous and Favourable Usage should he become a Captive In another Letter I will oblige thee with a Relation which will not be unwelcome to a Man who gives not Sentence with the Vulgar I had more to say on another Subject but I am interrupted Pardon the Effect of my Duty to the Grand Signior Paris 19th of the 8th Moon of the Year 1649. LETTER XV. To Melec Amet Bassa THere is News arrived here lately of the Murder of the English Embassador at the Hague His Name was Dorislaus He was sent by the New Governors in England to make an Alliance with the States of Holland and to satisfie them in Reference to their late Proceedings against their Sovereign 'T is said his Negotiation would have had but little Success in Regard the Prince of Orange who is President or Chief over the States and who married the Daughter of the English King takes to Heart the untimely Death of his Father-in-Law and cannot be reconciled to his Murderers Yet 't is to be thought that Princes are no farther touch'd with one anothers Misfortunes than concerns their