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A35840	Polish manuscripts, or, The secret history of the reign of John Sobieski the III, of that name, K. of Poland containing a particular account of the siege of Vienna ... with the letters that passed on that occasion betwixt the Emperor, King of Poland, Pope, Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Lorrain, Republick of Venice ... : the whole intermix'd with an account of the author's travels thro' Germany, Poland, Hungary, &c. .../ translated from the French original, wrote by M. Dalerac ...; Anecdotes de Pologne. English	Dalairac, M. (François-Paulin)	1700 (1700)	Wing D127; ESTC R5247	177,325	306

other Fortifications beside very thick Walls well built and Rampier'd defended with Towers Angles and other ancient Flankers by which the Walls of the Lower Town are joyn'd to those of the Upper That side which faces the Danube is very pleasant and the Communication of the Lower City with the Fortress very easie by paths than run along the Descent to a small Gate But the side which looks towards the Champian Country is very steep on the Top where is a Rocky Crest that surrounds the Fort and its Walls at the foot of which is a Pallisade in the nature of a Counterscarp to keep off the Enemy For as soon one has gain'd the foot of those Walls he is cover'd from all the Attempts of those that are upon them Over against this side is just such another Mountain parallel to the former and call'd in German Thomasberg where formerly was a sort of Fortress of which nothing is now remaining but the Foundations and from whence one might cannonade that of Strigonium The Lower City had several Houses in the out-parts upon the Plain a Mosque upon the Bank of the Danube near the Bridge to which they went through a small Gate open'd in the Wall over against it This Bridge was one of the longest that ever was seen the middle built on Boats the two ends on Piles The River is of an extraordinary Breadth its Banks pleasant its Current running in a strait line the passage all about of wonderful variety It was formerly a considerable Arch-Bishoprick whose Title is still bestow'd on Prelates of high Dignity And of late Years we have met in the Learned World with an Archbishop of Strigonium whose Writings have furnish'd matter of Dispute to the most Famous Universities of Europe and have establish'd a lasting Reputation to their Author This City is still the Metropolis of a Country of a large Extent which made up one of the best parts of the ancient Kingdom of Hungary BUDA Buda was the Capital thereof and the Residence of the King who had there a Magnificent Palace It lies below Strigonium six large Leagues and on the same side divided into the Upper and Lower Town the latter seated on the Declivity and at the Foot of a large Mountain the former stretch'd out on the Top of it where it stands being very narrow about the middle but very long and the two Extremities widened out like Places-d ' Armes Neither of these Towns have any Fortifications The Lower Town is inclos'd only with Walls the Upper flank'd with round Towers with a good Trench a double Circumvallation in several parts of the Ancient Mode and with those Pallaces of King Matthias at the end which enters into the very Substance of the Walls and make a principal part of them The whole is built with Brick and well rampier'd yet of easie Access the Declivity of the Mountain not being very rough and the Top being almost all of it commanded by other Risings proper to mount Cannon on The River runs behind that Hill on which the City stands so that one cannot get betwixt them and to cut off their Supplies one must either seise upon Pest which is on the other side at the Head of the Bridge or stop up the Danube below Buda towards the Isle of Saint Andrews which is not far from thence The Turks call the Place Boudim and have made it the Title of a Visier I likewise look upon it as one of the Chief Visiriats by the Extent of its Government and the Importance of the Province which is one of the richest and largest of the Ottoman Empire which comprehends the whole course of the Drave a very considerable River upon which or its Marshes on each side is the Famous Bridge of Esseck of near two hundred Leagues Length and which opens a Passage into Servia Bulgaria Bosnia and other Ancient Provinces of the Turkish Dominions The Province of Buda made a great part of Lower Hungary and one of the Ancient Pannonienses stretching it self from the Danube towards Sclavonia and across that River as far as the Mountains of Vpper Hungary and the River Theysse taking in the City of Agria with its Dependencies At present 't is the most considerable Province of the Ottoman Empire which reaches to the Borders of Austria on one side and to the Frontiers of Poland on the other HUNGARY But for the clearer Apprehending the course of this Country we ought here to say something in general of the Kingdom of Hungary one of the largest richest most fertile pleasantest and most populous Countries of all Europe Tho' it is in a great measure rob'd of those rare Qualifications and has been the Seat of War Revolts and Bloody Catastrophes for two hundred Years together still it is the best of all the Estates that belong to the House of Austria It wants nothing and what it has is altogether Admirable Its Mountains furnish you with Golden Mines its Coasts with the richest Wines in the World for the Best comes not near those of Hungary made in certain Parts and of certain rich Grapes dry'd in the Sun call'd Vvae siccae Vvae passae The Fruits of the Country are likewise Extraordinary You there meet with a kind of black Plums of a delicate Taste and so suitable to the Constitution of an Humane Body that the Physicians say proverbially That they will do you no harm eat as many as you will of ' em unless you swallow down Tree and all The other Fruits so much boasted of in hot Countries grow here in great plenty Water Melons and others on dry Land without meeting with so much as one of 'em naught And there are three or four sorts of them or of different colours being white green red within Hungary abounds no less in all other things requisite for the Pleasure or Necessities of Life so that it needs not to borrow any thing from its Neighbors but on the contrary can lend to them of its own stores This has render'd it very populous and enrich'd it with great Cities large Towns and stately Castles Most of the first owe their Original to the Ancient Romans who planted Colonies in this Country the Names of which are still retain'd in that general corruption of Languages Such are Poson Sabine and Tyrnau which are Famous Cities of this Kingdom founded formerly by Piso Sabinus and Tyrnavius The Inhabitants of those Places still retain the purity of the Language of their ancient Masters 'T is certain that no place of Europe speaks so good so Proper Elegant and Fluent Latin as Hungary Even the Language of Augustus's Time is not degenerated neither in the Stile nor the Pronunciation 'T is still cultivated with Care in the Universities of this Kingdom of which the Colleges of Tyrnau and Cassovia are the most Famous and noted as the Best Universities of France and the Ancient Conimbrian and Complutensian Academies of Spain The Post-Masters are not admitted into that Office unless they

Visiers The simple Beys are only either Governors of Castles or Colonels of the Cavalry But to return to the Relation After the Emperor was come to Vienna he sent the King of Poland Word that he passionately desir'd to see him and to thank him in Person for the Signal Service he had done him which one might easily have believ'd he would have done However one would not have thought That the Emperor after such a piece of Service would have stood so much upon the Punctilio's and Formalities of it In short 't is most certain that after several Debates upon that Subject it was agreed between the Ministers of the Imperial Court and Guinsky Vice-Chancellor of Poland that the Interview of the two Princes should be in the open Field and on Horse-back to avoid those Niceties upon which his Polish Majesty was once a-minded to go away without seeing the Emperor It was on the Fifteenth of September when they came to an Interview about a League and an half off of Vienna or a little more The King of Poland had decamped in the Morning and tho' the Emperor to stop his March had sent him word that he was coming to wait upon him yet he still continued it that he might oblige the Emperor to follow him and remov'd his Camp a quarter of a League farther The Troops were still a filing off when they perceiv'd a Body of Cavalry which was compos'd of the Lords of the Imperial Court who had quitted their Coaches and mounted on Horse-back when they were about two hundred Paces from the Army The King of Poland at the same time order'd his Troops to draw up into a Line of Battle and afterwards advanc'd towards the Emperor who was making to him with full speed After these two Princes were met the King of Poland unvailing his Bonnet at the same time that the Emperor clap'd his Hand to his Hat told him in Latin That he was very glad that he had been able in such a Critical Juncture to give him any solid marks of his Friendship After this short Compliment he presented the Young Prince his Son to him adding That he had brought him along with him to teach him how he ought to succour his Allies He likewise presented to him the two Generals of the Crown who saluted the Emperor without alighting Lastly seeing that this Prince was stiff and mute without returning a word of Answer or shewing any token of Honour not so much as saluting the Young Prince the King left him very bluntly and said Without doubt Brother you have a mind to take a view of my Army there are my Generals whom I have order'd to shew it your Majesty With that he turn'd his Head from him and march'd away and the Emperor with the same Indifference that he had heard this Discourse suffer'd him to depart whilst he for his part went to visit the Lines Two Days after he sent 3000 Ducats of Gold to each of the two Polish Generals and a Sword set with Diamonds of about a thousand Pistols value to Prince James As to him the Emperor willing to make amends for the Fault he had committed in not saluting him of which there were loud and severe Complaints made he in my mind committed a fresh one by writing to the Prince of Poland a very submissive Letter wherein he cast all the Blame of that Disrespect on the Surprize he was in in remembring the Danger and seeing the Person who had deliver'd him from it 'T is said that he wrote as much to the Castellan of Livonia Baron of Felkerzen Prince James's Governour but this I am no farther assur'd of than that it was the common Discourse of our Court but the other Letter I saw with my own Eyes September 16. the Army rested the Seventeenth it broke up and encamped at Fichau four Leagues off Vienna and in the mean time the Bridge of Toulm was order'd to be brought down and to be put on the Right Branch of the Danube below Presburg by which they enter'd the Isle of Schut which they were to cross because the Country from thence to Raab through which the Turks had made their Retreat was all laid waste and the other side towards Presburgh was not in a better condition by reason of the Encampments of that Body of an Army which Count Teckeley had brought thither in the beginning of the Campaign and likewise because of the Neighbourhood of Newhausel The Army was divided into four Parts for the better conveniency of Forraging The King of Poland led the Van-guard of the whole with his Troops posted about two or three Leagues in the Front towards the Enemy The Duke of Lorrain came next with the Emperor's Cavalry marching a little towards the Right The Count of Staremberg being march'd out of Vienna at the Head of the Infantry which he had thrown into that Town led them on the Left side of the Isle by Goutta and other Towns that border'd on the Plains of Newhausel The Regiments of Croatia brought up the Rear at 3 or 4 Leagues distance The King by the way went to visit Presburgh when the Army was encamp'd over against it He likewise visited Raab or Yavarin going out of the Isle with a small Attendance over which a great Party of Rebels lodg'd in some Gentlemen's Houses thereabouts might have had the Better being near the place where the King din'd but they durst not attempt any thing and the King repass'd the River the same Night to rejoyn the Army in the Island The Rejoycings and Feasts which his Presence occasion'd in these two Places had nothing in them extraordinary The Prince of Poland threw a great many Ducats in Presburgh among the People that were gather'd under the Windows At Raab a great deal of Wine and Powder was spent The Bishop of the Place harangued the King whom he stil'd the King of Hungary and their Deliverer The Governor made him a very Noble Feast under the Salvo of an hundred Cannon Whilst the King of Poland was crossing the great Isle of Schut the Elector of Bavaria with his Troops was posted between Vienna and Presburgh The Count Waldeck likewise made a Halt with those of the Circles and the Elector of Saxony drew off all his Forces But his Polish Majesty not willing to leave any thing for the Germans to do after he had done so much in this Notable Juncture continued his March always at the Head of his Army to put an end to the Campaign and to return to his Estates by the way of Vpper Hungary During this he receiv'd a Letter from Michael Apaffy Prince of Transylvania full of Compliments upon the Success of his Arms. He sent him word of the Arrival of the Grand Visier at Buda whom the Sultan had pardon'd for the Miscarriage before Vienna having sent him a Vest and a Sabre a Standard and other Trophies of the Dignity of Grand Visier as an Assurance of his being still in his Favour

Visier Successor to Cara Mustapha Pacha took particular care to secure his Frontier-Cities and rais'd a Body of his Best Troops to be as a Supply to those whom the Germans should offer to besiege being not in a capacity of entring upon the Offensive this Year The Council of Vienna resolv'd upon Assaulting Buda leaving Newhausel behind them knowing it would surrender of it self after the Taking of that Capital City from whence it had all its Supplies For 't is to be observ'd That notwithstanding the Taking of Barcan Lewents and Strigonium yet the Turks had free Communication between Newhausel and Buda where they had a Bridge The new Bassas sent to Newhausel in the Year 1684 arriv'd there without any obstruction and the Bey my Patron went once during the Winter to Buda and return'd back as easily only making use of the Night and the Windings of the Mountains Upon that occasion I had a Sight of that Famous City which was the best fortified of any in Hungary and was rich populous full of Jews and Merchants The Grand Visier after the Raising of the Siege of Vienna had put into the Place his Friend Cara Mehemet Pacha and appointed for his Assistant a Brave Soldier call'd by way of Exaggeration The Devil his Name was indeed Chaitan Ibraham Pacha as if the first Word which signifies Satan was the Sirname of his Family The Duke of Lorrain open'd the Campaign be-times and march'd directly to Strigonium where his Bridge was laid Part of his Army pass'd before Newhausel a little on the Left almost within reach of their Cannon and encamp'd three Days above within sight of the City during which time the Bassa sally'd out with all his Cavalry to harass the German Army from whom they took a great many Men and Women with Provisions in abundance After this the Army continu'd its March pass'd the Danube carry'd in a few Days two strong Places scituated upon the Hills on the Right side of Strigonium and afterwards went to lay Siege to Buda Whereas the Imperial Army was not very numerous it could not form any large circumvallation nor could it entirely surround the Place There were great Intervals in the Line by which the Grand Visier had several Opportunities of throwing Men and Ammunition into the City The Duke of Lorrain assaulted first the Lower Town where he carry'd two very large and well-guarded Trenches He caus'd the Town of Pest on the other side the Danube to be carry'd by Storm where he broke the Bridge of the Turks and left a small Detachment to hinder the entring in of any Succours that might be brought upon the River He had the sole conveniency of this very River which might have brought all necessary Provisions into his Camp with Recruits and fresh Troops without any danger of being intercepted Yet the Germans did not either know how or else could not take any Advantage from that Conveniency for the Army wanted every thing at the end of the Siege Bread being as scarce with them as in the besieg'd City The Ammunition was scarcer and I have heard of very creditable Persons that they were forc'd to eat Man's Flesh besides that of Horses The Lower Town was taken in a short time The D. of Lorrain continu'd his Assaults on the same side to come up to the Wall of the Upper Town stretch'd as I observ'd before on the Edge of the Hill widen'd at each end and fortify'd with a double Retrenchment That Prince omitted nothing that might make himself Master of the Place no more than the Bassa did to defend it The Jews serv'd him herein very zealously push'd on with a desire of preserving their Riches which was as dear to them as their Religion and Country The Supplies of Men and Provisions which he receiv'd by several Reprisals refresh'd his Garrison and besides it was but faintly attack'd They carry'd their Works to the very bottom of the Wall and endeavour'd to undermine it in two several Places and the Mine that was made at one of the round Towers was charg'd three times together to make a Breach The Turks countermin'd it and the first time took the Powder out of it the second had no effect and at last when it was blown up it threw it towards the City instead of throwing it into the Trench and so fortify'd the place on that side They were no more successful in other parts The Assaults were frequent but always repuls'd with Vigour The Artillery play'd constantly but without success and they cast in not above three or four Bombs in a Night In a word they spent three whole Months together before this City without being able to make the least Lodgment upon it and they ruin'd the Imperial Army which lost near 28000 Men among whom are reckon'd 500 of the Bravest German Officers The Elector of Bavaria arriv'd at the Camp towards the end of September with his Troops and took his Post on the Right of the Imperial Army over against the Palace of King Matthias which is the Point opposite to that which had been attack'd The Council of War held after his coming concluded to carry on a fresh Assault on that side as being the most easie to batter and force The Elector of Bavaria sent before-hand a Trumpeter to the Bassa to summons him to surrender The Bassa admitted the Trumpeter into the City hearken'd calmly to his Proposal told him That he understood of that Prince's Arrival and had not fail'd to have beaten any one but himself by Cannon-shot from an Eminence where he was one Day posted to take a View of the City but that he was willing to spare him and had that consideration for his Person Afterwards the Bassa order'd him to be shewn the Place and an inner Intrenchment which render'd it stronger than at the beginning of the Siege He shew'd him his Magazines furnish'd with Provisions and Ammunitions for above six Months longer and his Garrison standing to their Arms being very Numerous and very Resolute After this the Bassa ask'd him upon what account he was oblig'd to surrender and then dismiss'd him with a Present of 20 Ducats of Gold The Siege therefore continu'd with fresh Vigour and new Attempts In the mean time the Bassa of Newhausel made his Advantage of the Enemy's besieging that City He had plac'd Detachments of his Cavalry for half a League round his Town and went often to visit them Every Week he went out in Parties sometimes towards Lewents another time towards Komorne and then towards the River Wag to Goutta to Nitria and to all the Parts round about his Government to seek for Provisions and never return'd empty-handed So that he preserv'd his own Stores and supply'd the City very plentifully with the Spoils he took in the Enemy's Country Twice or thrice he advanc'd towards Buda to get Intelligence of the Siege One Day he entred at Noon into the Isle of Schut and ravag'd the Borders of it In a word this