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A51887	The second 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 M565CA; ESTC R35015	169,314	394

Temper For be assured that it will be of less Pain to thee to have an Eye pluck'd out of thy Head than to tear from thy Heart the first Object of thy Love In this and all things else have an especial Regard to thy Conscience and to the Observing Angel who writes down all thy Actions in a Book Do nothing which may merit the Chastisement of the Two Black Angels who shall visit thee in thy Grave He who deals unjustly and cruelly by Women on Earth shall be deprived of the Felicities which our Holy Prophet has promis'd us in the Company of that beautiful Sex in Paradise Keep the Law and thou wilt have thy fill of Love both here and in the Blissful Bowers of Eden Paris 1st of the 11th Moon of the Year 1642. LETTER XXIX To the Kaimacham THE Surrender of Perpignan to the French startles the World A Place inexpugnable by Arms and not to be reduced but by Famine Some that pretend to penetrate into Foreign Secrets lay the blame on the Duke d' Olivarez They say that when the King of Spain first heard that Lewis laid Siege to this Important Place he would have gone in Person to its Relief but that the Duke hindred his Design fearing lest his own Miscarriages should take Wind when the King was got on the Frontiers This they say put a stop to the Levies that were making in Arragon and Castile and damp'd the Courage of those who were actually in Arms. Whether this was the Effect or no 't is certain the Duke d' Olivarez had sufficient Reason to be Conscious knowing that the Grandees of Spain watched for an Opportunity to dislodge him from the King's Breast But it is strange that he should at such a Time neglect any thing that might confirm him in his Master's Favour as the saving of Perpignan must needs adone all the Successes and Miscarriages of the State in Peace or War being attributed to the Favourite Minister Where-ever the Fault lies I have heard no Man yet condemn the Governor of the Town 'T is said he has given all the Marks of a Valiant Souldier a Prudent Commander and a Faithful Subject These Vertues are to be honoured even in an Enemy They report That the Spanish King put a kind of Superstitious Confidence in the Marquess d' Avilla because one of the same Family and Title had formerly Defended the Place to Extremity till the Siege was raised Assuredly Vertue is not inherent in Names nor Victory entailed to all of the same Blood Both the one and the other are owing in a great Measure to Providence and Chance The Romans did not gain more in the Carthaginian War under the Conduct of Scipio the African than they lost afterwards when another of that Name was General of their Army 'T is said the Duke d' Olivarez is seized with a Phrenzy upon the Loss of this Town or at least counterfeits one I do not assert this as a Truth Illustrious Kaimacham but to shew thee how People are addicted to censure not only the Miscarriages of Great Men but the very Regrets which attend their Misfortunes as if it were a Crime in them to mourn for the Calamities which they could not prevent In the mean time Cardinal Richlieu has weathered a Tempest raised against him by the Duke of Orleance and his Party As if the Fate of these Two Ministers ran Counter and One must Rise by the Other 's Fall Olivarez had laid a Train for Cardinal Richlieu's Destruction but fell into it himself He had corrupted one of the Cardinal's Creatures who associated himself with the Duke of Bouillon and the Duke of Orleans Besides private Grudges they all suspected the Cardinal as designing upon the King's Death to take the Regency into his own Hands They acquaint Olivarez with their Grievances and enter into a private League with him He in hopes to rend the Kingdom of France into fatal Divisions as well as to ruine the Cardinal agrees to furnish the Conspirators with Twelve Thousand Foot and Three Thousand Horse Sedan was to be the Rendezvous of this Army But Cardinal Richlieu whom no Secret could escape soon discovered the Plot and acquaints the King with it who forthwith caused the Conspirators to be seized imprisoned and Two of their Heads to be cut off the rest were pardoned on Conditions of Surrender and perpetual Banishment from the King's Presence This happened much about the Time that Perpignan surrendred which was on the Ninth of the Moon Ribiul A little before the Conspirators had so obscur'd the Cardinal's Credit at the Court that the King denied him a Visit when requested in his Sickness upon which the Cardinal withdrew himself But the King was quickly glad to follow him having no other Refuge in the midst of his Pressures but him who was Master of all the Hearts both of his Subjects and Allies At that time the Count de Guische was defeated in Flanders and the Parisians were apprehensive that Dom Francisco de Melo would bring his Forces into the Bowels of France None was able to extricate the King out of so many Troubles but the Chief Minister Thus by a Fortunate Concurrence of Events the Cardinal is restored to his Master's Favour sees his Foreign Enemies humbled Perpignan taken and his Domestick Foes cut off and baffled I pray God whose Eye is over the Mussulman Empire to preserve thee from all the Machinations of thine Enemies and make thee to shine bright in the Favour of the Grand Signior Paris 12th of the 11th Moon of the Year 1642. LETTER XXX To Nathan Ben Saddi a Jew at Vienna THY Letter with Carcoa's Journal is come safe to my Hands and the Ring which he bequeath'd me That Legacy demonstrates his Affection and that I have not ill deserved of him For the Actions of Dying Men are void of Disguise His Memoirs will be of great Service to me containing a more accurate History of the German Court from the Year 1600 to the Time of his Death than I have yet seen extant I am not unacquainted with Relations of this Kind The Europeans make their Histories speak what their Affection or Fear suggests rather than the Truth The Liberty of Printing has debauched the Integrity of most Writers they study rather to please than inform the Age. For this Reason I reject the greatest Part of Modern History coveting onely the Manuscripts of such as Carcoa He speaks Impartially having no other Byass than the Service which he owed to the Grand Signior I speak this for thy Encouragement and Direction who succeedest that honest Old Man in his Post When thou committest any of thy Observations to Paper let them be of Things Remarkable and True The Banker to whom thou didst address the Bill for my Payment made a demurr at first but Eliachim clear'd up his Doubts I desire thee to order Matters so hereafter that I may not be taken for a Cheat That may prove of ill Consequence to us

the turbulent Cardinal She Sojourned in Flanders Holland England and the Empire Her Travels being checquer'd all along with a Mixture of Good and Evil. Here meeting with Respect there with Indifference and Coldness if not Contempt In some Places her Misfortunes were pitied and the Cardinal blamed for Persecuting so Great and Good a Queen In others the Cardinal was Justified and her Conduct censured and condemned And she accused her self for raising him to the power of doing her these Injuries At length tired out with the Fatigues of State and grown sick of the World she betook her self to a Monastery in Colen where after she had spent some time in Religious Preparations for another World she expired the 3d. of this Instant Moon It was placed among the Remarkables by some that the same day she died the Cardinal of Richlieu fell sick which Sickness yet continues upon him But whether to appease the Ghost of his deceased Mistriss whom he had so unjustly persecuted or to mollify the Resentments of the People is uncertain Yet notwithstanding his dangerous Illness he every Day ventures to the Temple and performs the Mysteries of their Law for her Soul The whole Court and City is in Mourning for this Great Queen and general Murmurings and Complaints are raised against the Cardinal on this Occasion especially among the Common People who are so far from entertaining a better Opinion of him for his daily Appearance at the Altar on Behalf of the Queen's Soul that they esteem it but an Officious Hypocrisie a Medly of Priest-Craft and State Artifice Here is a Report about the City that the Queen 's Ghost appear'd to the Cardinal as soon as she was dead severely reproaching him with his Ambition and Ingratitude and telling him That tho' he was laying the Foundation of an Immortal Project yet he should never live to see it thrive but warned him to prepare for Judgment for that he should not see another Year in Mortal State upon which they say he immediately sickned And here are Prophecies privately scattered about foretelling his Death in a short time This is certain he labours under an unaccountable Distemper his Body strangely wasting as if it would evaporate it self into Air for he seems to be in a manner dried up My Duty and Devoir to thee Sage Minister would not let me be at Rest till I had prevented the Posts by giving thee a more timely Account of these Occurrences by a Merchant for whom his Vessel waits at Marseilles To morrow he takes his Leave of Paris and once aboard he makes directly for Constantinople whither he will bring the first News of the Death of one of the greatest Queens upon Earth in whose Royal Veins ran the Blood of the Emperors Ferdinand and Charles V. She was married to Henry the Great and besides her Son now Reigning in France she matched her Daughters to the Two Potent Monarchs of England and Spain The most High and Omnipotent sole Monarch of Heaven and Earth reward thy Services and Fidelity to our Invincible Sultan with the Supream Joys of Paradise Paris 20th of the 7th Moon of the Year 1642. LETTER VI. To the Venerable Mufti Sovereign of the True and Undefiled Faith PErmit me to enter into thy Presence and withdraw thy Ravish'd Eyes awhile from the Contemplation of Sublimest Objects to cast them on a Spectacle of Mortality It is the Great and Renowned Mary de Medicis Queen-Mother of France who lies now dead at Cologne I will not trouble thee with Impertinencies but because I know that various Reports will reach thy Ears concerning the Cardinal of Richlieu his being Instrumental to her Death by driving her to such a height of Indignation as was the Cause of her Voluntary Exile and wandring from France and from one Country to another I will here Insert a Letter from the said Cardinal to her Majesty wherein he vindicates himself and discovers if not his Integrity yet the best Counterfeit of that Vertue that I have seen any where penn'd It was written to her when she was in Holland and runs thus MADAM I Cannot but esteem it the greatest Infelicity that ever befell me that my Enemies have prevailed so far as to draw upon me Your Majesty 's displeasure That they have by all the Arts of Malice fastned the Publick Odium on me is a great Vnhappiness but this is the Master-piece of their Enmity to render me suspected by you I could pardon their frequent Attempts upon my Life by private Conspiracies and Assassinations though Humane Nature recoils at those who are our Murderers But to deprive me of that without which Life it self is a burden to me I mean your Royal Favour transports me beyond my self And I beg that it may pass for an Excuse of this Presumption I could easily have pass'd over in Silence all their barbarous Plots against me I could easily have parted with my Life and all those Honours and Dignities with which it has been bless'd But to rob me of your Esteem which first rais'd me to this Envied Greatness and which I value more than all the Grandeurs of the Earth breaks the Barrs which aw'd my Tongue and Pen and makes me bold to throw my self at your Royal Feet with All that I have for I received All from your Princely Hands Deal as you please Madam with your own Creature I cannot murmur at your proceedings But Madam let your Native Piety prompt you to favour the Purple of the Church with which your Bounty has Invested me Let it not lose its proper Lustre and Esteem because the Enemies of the Church and State have cast such Dirt upon it Is it possible that a Man the most obliged of all his Race should become the onely Pattern of the basest Ingratitude Besides the Ties of Conscience and the Natural Force of Inclination my Interest chains me to your Service How can I then withdraw my self from it and not proclaim my self at once a Traitor to the Rest of Queens and the most unaccountable of Fools to my self This Consideration Madam being well weigh'd is enough to acquit me of all Guiltiness before Your Majesty But if it be my Destiny to be condemned unheard I shall not appeal from your Royal Sentence since I owe a perfect Resignation to your Will I may complain to Heaven of my Misfortune but I will not expostulate with my Sovereign Patroness nor make the least Opposition against the Course of your Anger not even by carrying my Fortune to Rome For wheresoever I go all my study shall be to recover your Majesty's Favour if it be not a Crime And if ever I obtain that Happiness I shall not care whither I go tho' it be out of the World it self because I die hourly while your Majesty suspects that I am not what I ever was and still continue to be MADAM Your Majesty's Most humble Most faithful And most obedient Servant Armand Card. of Rich. 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and he that steers not his Course in the Golden Mean may soon precipitate himself into Ruine But it is also necessary for thee to have an Eye to the Satisfaction of the Subject as well as to the Prince's Prerogative It will not be safe to immolate the Peoples Interests and Liberties to the Humours and Caprices of their Sovereign Neither will he thank or reward thee for such a dangerous Piece of Zeal Nay should he himself command thee to do any Thing which would intrench on their Rights and Privileges thou oughtest rather to shew thy Fidelity in humbly remonstrating to him the ill Consequences of such a Proceeding than by a blind Obedience to betray both him and thy self to the Publick Odium On thee to be sure it will fasten however thy Master may escape and thou must fall a Victim to appease the incens'd Multitude and save him harmless This was the Case of the Duke d' Olivares the late Minister and Favourite of the King of Spain He was endued with all the forementioned Vertues requisite in a Statesman but his immense Zeal to advance the Kings Prerogative betrayed him to such Measures of Oppression and Tyranny as were the Occasion of his Ruine The Spaniards claim certain Franchises and Immunities which when granted them they pay a voluntary Homage to the Castilian Crown D' Olivares sought to bereave them of these their Native Customs and Liberties which by degrees gave so general a Disgust to that apprehensive Nation that they broke out into an open Rebellion Hence sprung the Revolt of Catalonia and Rossilion and the total Defection of Portugal He thought by Rigour to drive these People to Extremes making them fall into Treason and then taking advantage of their Crimes to make his Master more absolute But these indirect Courses never prosper'd and we now see the Duke of Braganza by this Means established in the Throne of Portugal that Kingdom quite rent from Spain and the other Provinces in the Hands of the French The Spanish Grandees sensible of the Male-administration of the Favourite Duke grew disgusted with-drew from the Court and from their Charges leaving the King almost destitute of Attendants at home or Officers abroad yet none durst discover the Grounds of their Discontent till the Constable of Castile broke the Ice on the following Occasion This Constable is one of the Prime Nobility of Spain deducing his Pedigree from a Race of Kings Him had Olivares made his Mortal Enemy by proposing a Match between a Son of his and the Constable's Daughter This Son whether Natural or only Adopted is not certainly known but he had lived an obscure and debauch'd Life not so much as taken Notice of unless for his dissolute Manners and enormous Crimes which had once expos'd him to the Sentence of Death had he not met with better Fortune than he deserv'd All the Nobles were highly disgusted when they saw this Prodigal own'd by Olivares for his Natural Son and Heir invested with the highest Dignities of the Kingdom and made Master of prodigious Riches especially since he was no Ways worthy of such Preferment retaining still his former Vices and giving every where Proofs of an abject and base Genius To see such an one made President of the Indies and at the Height of Honour in a fair Way to succeed the Duke in his Ministry irritated the whole Court and drove the Constable of Castile to Impatience He utterly refuses the Match disdaining that his Daughter should be linked to such an Upstart He remonstrates to the King the exorbitant Ambition of Olivares In fine being seconded by other Lords of the Court and by Letters from the German Emperour he so far prevailed on the King that his Eyes began to be opened and he now clearly saw that all the Disorders of the Government ow'd their Origin to the ill Conduct of Olivares Wherefore taking the Advice of his faithful Counsellors he banish'd him the Court depriv'd him of all Authority confin'd him first to a Place not far from Madrid and afterwards to Thoro a City in Old Castile Thus fell that great Minister through his own Ambition to rise Seeking by unwarrantable Methods to secure his Master's Favour he incurr'd the Height of his Displeasure and brought upon his own Head an irrecoverable Disgrace and Ruine I send thee this Example as a Testimony of my Friendship and Fidelity and that thou mayst inform the Divan of the true Grounds of this Man's Misfortune The King has now taken the Reins of Government into his own Hands though 't is thought too late I wish thee an Encrease of Vertues and Happiness and that thy Moderation may keep thee stedfast in the Sultan's Favour Paris 4th of the 11th Moon of the Year 1644. LETTER XXII To Dgnet Oglou IT is thou knowest a considerable Time since I was Love-smitten with the Beautiful Daria who was Fair as an Angel and discreet above any Mortal Creature It 's hard to say whether the Beauty of her Mind or that of her Body struck deepest Impressions on my Soul How long were the Nights and how short my Slumbers and what a general Distraction of Thoughts were I in I could not abide my Chamber and when I went out no other Place could please me I knew not what I said or thought whether I dreamt or was really awake stood or sate went backwards or forwards all Postures and Places being alike seeing none of them could afford me the Relief I sought after I imagin'd no less but that I must thus languish on yet I find That Time and Absence have at length made Way for Reason Marvel not dear Oglou I have suffered these Transports Our Passions are not in our Power we cannot love and hate when and whom we please There is a Conformity of Blood wherein the Stars they say work Wonders It 's true no Man can love and be wise at the same Time but prithee tell me didst ever know any Wise Man who was not one Time or other in Love Remember thine own Passion for the same Object which will make thee the easier to excuse mine I 'll tell thee a Story which I have some-where read which if it does not palliate yet will not aggravate my Weakness A certain Country-Man having lost his Ass came to the Muezin or Cryer desiring him to give Notice at the Door of one of their Mosques which he did for Three several Festivals But no News being heard of the Animal the Owner urged the Muezin to continue his Proclamations with the Reward of a fat Pig to the Finder The Muezin being an arch Wag and tired with the Fellow's Importunity one Day when the Ceremonies of their Superstitious Worship was ended and People flockt amain out of the Mosque he made this following Proclamation If there be any Man here amongst you who will come forth and solemnly profess he never was in Love he shall have a fat Pig An ungainly loobily Fellow who was leaning listning on