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A32740	The history of the grand visiers, Mahomet and Achmet Coprogli, of the three last grand signiors, their Sultana's and chief favourites, with the most secret intrigues of the seraglio besides several other particulars of the wars of Dalmatia, Transylvania, Hungary, Candia, and Poland / Englished by John Evelyn, Junior.; Histoire des grands vizirs Mahomet Caprogli-pacha et Achmet Caprogli-pacha. English	Chassepol, François de, 17th cent.; Evelyn, John, 1655-1699.	1677 (1677)	Wing C3728; ESTC R3682	112,730	299

no difficulty of submitting to him His Authority increased daily and the little opposition he found to his new greatness made the Bassa of Aleppo so confident of success that he counselled him to reject the Sophi's Propositions who offered to assist him to conquer the whole Turkish Empire This Prince swelled with his prosperity and governing himself by Orcan Ogli's advice whom he made his Lieutenant General slighted these advantagious offers believing he should have no need of Succors that would cost him so dear to gain a Crown which he hoped to wear without sharing it with so powerful and dangerous a Prince as the King of Persia. Therefore he continued his march streight to Constantinople where the Bassa of Aleppo General of his Army intended to place him on the Throne not questioning but the Capital City of the Empire would open its Gates in obedience to their Emperor Soliman Amurat as many others had done already The noise of approach put all the world into a strange consternation The Divan knew not what counsel to give the Grand Visier but the extremity of Affairs made him find expedients in the greatest necessities He preserved his judgment as well now as before and studying how to prevent what was most to be feared seized on those Bassa's and Officers whom he knew to be ill affected and might forment the Rebellion and to suppress all murmurs immediately punished these Incendiaries Then he furnished the City with all sorts of Ammunition and commanded his Son Achmet Coprogli at the head of threescore thousand men with which he had design'd to oppose the Sophy to march under the conduct of Mustapha Bassa a man of integrity and great experience against Soliman Amurath and the Bassa of Aleppo and give them Battle as soon as he could The apprehension of some insurrection kept him from commanding this Army himself believing it necessary for him to remain at Constantinople to have an eye to all he had much ado to contain the Sultan who burned with impatience to be in the Field not induring to stay in the Seraglio while his Favourite Achmet who was almost of the same age exercised his Valour against his Enemies whom he would have chastised himself but the Grand Visier told him with the authority of a Governour that his Highness ought not to remove from Constantinople lest the Mutineers should raise some Sedition in his absence which would be of worse consequence than all the other mischiefs that threatned his fortune That he should not hazard his person against an Adventurer and a revolted Subject that he could acquire no glory by their defeat and that it became his greatness rather to punish them than to expose himself to the danger of a War which his Captains might terminate while he sate on his Throne to take care of the Affairs of his Empire and answer the Embassadors of Princes that arrived every day at the Port. The Sultan yielded at last to the Remonstrances of this great Minister and suffered Achmet Coprogli to go who made all the haste he could to meet the Enemies but he soon learnt that they having notice of his March discontinued theirs to Constantinople and made show to take some other way He immediately advertised the Grand Visier his Father of it who at the same time was inforthat the Sophy advanced towards Bagdet with thirty thousand Horse and fifty thousand Foot Mahomet Coprogli found that the Enemies design was to stay till the Sophy was come into the Grand Signior's Dominions to make a diversion which might facilitate their enterprize and that this consideration made them decline meeting his Son Achmet therefore this Minister judging truly of events hastned the march of the Army which he sent against the Bassa of Aleppo reckoning that it would come time enough after his defeat to the relief of Bagdet and the success answered his expectation Mustapha and his Son Achmet no sooner received his orders but they followed the enemy with such expedition that they overtook them when they least looked for them and gave them no time at all to look about them and put themselves in order to fight Achmet would not suffer his Troops to lose any of their zeal by resting after their tiresome march He represented to his Captains and Souldiers that they ought to make use of the enemies disorder and without any longer delay he charged them so smartly that he not only remained master of the Field the Artillery and the Baggage but he took abundance of Prisoners and so routed the Army that the Bassa of Aleppo despairing of saving himself by flight perswaded Soliman Amurath to render himself to the Conqueror in hopes of better usage than if they should be taken flying At first he rejected this proposition but fearing some treachery from Orchan Ogli whom he began to mistrust and seeing his Army cut in pieces he suffered himself to be carried to Achmet who presently sent him and the Bassa of Aleppo to Constantinople The rest of the rebellious Troops yielded at discretion and he pardoned them on condition they would serve the Grand Signior faithfully for the future and having joyned them to his own Army he marched according to the Grand Visiers order to the relief of Bagdet The news of Achmet Coprogli's victory was as satisfactory to his father Mahomet as the arrival of Soliman and Orcan Ogli was welcome to the Sultan and the Sultana his Mother The Visier Azem was infinitely pleased to have so hopeful a Son and nothing diminished the Grand Signior's Joy to see himself delivered from a competitor who had shaken all his Empire but his melancholy for not having vanquished him himself But as if Fortune were weary of persecuting Coprogli and intended to bless him by an happy return she furnished him with fresh subjects of rejoycing by the pleasing news of the Sophy's retreat This Prince being informed that Achmet Coprogli was coming to meet him with a victorious Army and that the Mogul or Emperor of India at the Grand Signior's desire was ready to enter into his Kingdom returned the way he came to defend himself from the Mogol which made Achmet bring back his Army to imploy it where his Father thought fit but he would not return to Constantinople till he had chastised all the Bassa's and Governours who favoured the Bassa of Aleppo's Revolt and Soliman Amurath's enterprise The Grand Visier caused them both to be beheaded without regard to their Remonstrances that his Son had promised to save their lives and that they had not yielded but on that assurance Policy would not give way to the performance of this promise and Soliin in Amurath seeing he had no hope of safety reproached Orcan Ogli with his baseness in forcing him to yield when he might have died gloriously with his arms in his hand and have prevented the ignominy of dying by an Executioner The death of this Prince is no less worthy of compassion than his story is odd and

expedient to make advantage of their disorder and without more delay brought the Lithuanian Foot to force the Camp in the weakest place ordering his Horse to cover them and oppose the enemies sally while he attacked them in another quarter but when he saw that the Turks stoutly repulsed the Lithuanians and made the Poles themselves give ground he put himself at the head of the Palatine of Russia's Dragoons and alighting from his Horse in the sight of all the Army went to the assault in so difficult a place that he had much ado to climb up to the top from whence with a bravery no less admirable than that of Alexander the great when he leaped into the Town of the Oxidracans the Great Sobieski threw himself into the Ottoman Camp where he alone supported all the brunt giving some of his valiantest Souldiers who followed him time to level the bank and fill up the Trenches that the Horse might come in to their assistance The Hussars who are deservedly accounted invincible since by perpetual Victories they have ever gloriously maintained their reputation immediately incompassed their illustrious General who dispatch'd all that came in his way and having remounted him they followed him into the midst of the Battle where he faced the greatest dangers and dealing death on every side exhorted his Souldiers not to plunder yet since the vast riches of the Camp would be assured to them by the Victory His example was so prevalent that the most backward of his men durst not shrink from their Leader insomuch that the enemies after they had four hours together withstood a violent assault at last disobeyed their Generals commands and endeavoured to save themselves by flight Such a consternation seized on them that above ten thousand cast themselves down the precipices all the rest were put to the Sword in the Camp by the Poles and some who thought to retire to Caminieck were prevented by Colonel Miochenski who swam the Niester and cut them off This Defeat was so great that out of two and thirty thousand but fifteen hundred escaped amongst whom was Caplan Bassa the two other Generals Soliman and Vssain were killed upon the place the first of them having the honour to be slain by the Great Sobieski who encountering him in the heat of the fight dispatched him with his Sword and took his Scimitar from him which he now wears himself This Camp is fatal to the Turks Osman the first of that name was defeated there by the Poles in the year 1621. commanded by young Prince Vladislaus King Sigismund's Son and Chodkieuiki Lubomirski and Sobieski the Father of the Great Sobieski now King of Poland The news of this Victory was as unwelcome to the Sultan and his Grand Visier as it was the contrary to the States of Poland who were met together to elect a King They believed they could not bestow the Crown on any one that deserved it more than he who had supported and preserved it when it was exposed a prey to its most dangerous enemies therefore they offered it him as a just recompence of his desert and vertue and with one accord proclaimed him King acknowledging him to be their lawful Prince preferably to all other pretenders The Grand Visier who before this Defeat had rejected all overtures of Peace with Poland now advised the Sultan to name his Deputies for a Treaty but the difficulties that were raised as well by the Tartars as the Grand Signior hindered the conclusion of it The Tartars who cannot endure to be at rest and cannot live without War required the Turkish Emperor to make the Poles agree with them about the bounds of their Territories which had been the occasion of a tedious War The Sultan on the other side being unwilling to restore what he had usurped would not relinquish his Conquests in Poland unless they would pay him a very considerable yearly Tribute But the Great Sobieski being invested with the Sovereign Dignity looked on the payment of Tribute as a mark of dependence unworthy a Diadem which owns no Superior Power and rejected the Grand Signiors Propositions who soon took the Field and advanced with the Grand Visier as far as Caminieck where having received news of the Sophies prepara●ions and the revolt of some Governours he granted a Truce to the Poles leaving Commissioners to treat with King Sobieski's Deputies and returned to Adrianople Though the Sultan suffered great losses in this War yet it caused no great change in the State The Grand Visier having pacified the Provinces and allayed the tumults which the Mili●ia raised in his absence applied himself to regulate the affairs of the Port endeavouring to make the people sensible of the blessings of Peace by easing them of the extraordinary taxes which the Sultan had laid on them to defray the expences of the War and to replenish his treasury which was exhausted by it This great Minister by his industry and prudence has so gained the esteem and friendship of all the world that he is no less respected by the Army and the people than the Emperor himself whom he governs as he pleases having obtained an absolute power over him which is not so much to be attributed to the Sultan's weakness as to his perfect knowledge of Achmet Coprogli's vertue and desert who at this time keeps the City of Constantinople in obedience which is so dissatisfied with his Highnesses ill usage that had it not been for his first Minister and the Sultana Valide it would lately have revolted when the Grand Signior threatned to take away its priviledges Nevertheless what a version soever this Prince has for the chief City of his Empire he would have returned thither if the Grand Visier had not hindered him for some secret reasons which I may hereafter publish in the continuation of his Ministry and the sequel of the History of the Ottoman Family when I shall be furnished with new Memoires of the most curious affairs of the Seraglio and the Grand Signior's Court● where nothing is concluded without the advice of Achmet Coprogli So that one may affirm that this Minister shares the Sovereign Authority and is the supreme Arbiter of the powerfullest Empire in the world But that which is wonderful in the pre●erment of this great man is that his vertue and merit is so universally known that all Nations think him worthy of his good Fortune FINIS END 〈…〉 A 〈…〉 〈◊〉 ● give over 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 abidit b. suffred adode received adode b. tarrying abrayde b. arose recovered abrayde b. brake off up-start a●eding upbraiding ablusions l. cleansings acale d. cold accesse b. ague accidie l. wanhope accoy f. asswage acoyed f. panpered made quiet achecked b. stayed acheked b. choked ackele b. cool acloyeth b. overchargeth accoke b. aw●y acquite f. match to dispatch adassed b. abashed adawed b. awaked adiacent l. adjoyning aduertence l. audience also mind or thought aduert l. mark adbentasse f. coat of Armour asy●e f.

Europe he refreshed himself after the ●oils of War in the Arms of a charming Persian Lady who far out-shined all his other Favorites This beautiful Persian was Sister to Emir Gumer who to obtain the Grand Signiors Favor when he basely surrendered Revan to him presented him also with his Sister Rachima The effect which her Charms had on the Sultans Heart made the Sultaness Roxana who had followed him to the Persian War extremely Jealous This Princess was not wont to suffer a Rival her Reign had been long and uncontrolled and she had often sent the finest Women in the Seraglio into the other World so soon as she was informed that they indeavoured to seduce her Gallant Amurath being acquainted with and fearing her humor to prevent her resentment and free himself from her importunate Jealousie sent her away before him to Constantinople where all the extraordinary Honors that were paid her were not sufficient to ballance her vexation for being supplanted by another but not being able to revenge her self on her Rival she resolved to fall upon those who rejoyced at her disgrace Her Jealousie and cruelty made her formidable to all the World but none had more reason to mistrust her than the Grand Signiors Brothers Bajazet Orcan and Ibrahim the two first whose Valor equall'd their Birth were tired with her persecutions they knew her to be the cause that their Brother kept them in Prison and how she had done her utmost to destroy them that none might remain to dispute the Empire with her own Son The fear of death which threatned them had hitherto kept them from shewing themselves justly sensible of the wrongs which the Sultana Valide their Mother and the Princesses their Sisters had suffered at her hands but having learnt that she had lost much of Amuraths esteem they laid aside their former moderation and began openly to complain of Roxana who was so inraged at it that she vow'd their ruin to let her Enemies see that her Authority was not at all diminished and that none should go unpunished who offended her nothing was left undone that might conduce to the accomplishment of her design By fair promises she gained the Caimacan or Lieutenant to the Grand Visier to whom the Sultan had left the charge of his two Brothers to act without acquainting Amurath left that should discover her Treason She counterfeited Letters which assured him that these Princes had intelligence with their Brothers Enemies and after she had prepared all things necessary to justifie what she was about to do she produced a false Order of the Sultans and was so cruel as to go herself attended by the Executioners to tell the unfortunate Princes that she sacrificed them to her own hatred rather than to the interest of Amurath Bajazet after he had reproached her with all her crimes and given her thanks for taking away that life which he could not imploy in destroying her submitted to the Mutes who came to strangle him Orcan was not so patient for without upbraiding her he stood upon his Guard and having slain two disabled two more from having any hand in his death which he was forced to undergo at last as well as his Brother The Murder of these two Princes caused an universal sorrow and consternation their Courage had given the World great hopes and their death so inflamed the People against the Sultana that had not the Grand Signior arrived they had torn her out of the Seraglio and made her a victim to the Public hate Amurath was received in Triumph with more magnificence than was ever afforded any of his Predecessors after their most Signal Victories He had left Rachima at Damas which made Roxana believe that she was not quite blotted out of his Heart and that she should soon recover her ground To this end she made it her whole business to appear more charming in his Eyes besides she brought him to thank her for the death of his Brothers as an extraordinary service by which she had diverted the dangers that threatened his Person and Empire She had indeed a greater Ascendent over Amurath than she could hope for and found it no difficult matter to rekindle in him all those flames which the fair Rachima seemed to have extinguished He now heaped new favours on her and abandoned himself to such excess of Love as proved fatal to one of the Princesses his Sister As she came one day to cast herself at his Feet to complain of Roxanas injurious carriage towards her and of the unjust death of her two Brothers he was so inraged at her that with a Battle-ax which he held in his hand he gave her a blow on the head of which the Young Princess died on the place Roxanas hatred was not satisfied with this Murther she would have added that of the Grand Visiers Achomat because he was of the Sultana Valides party of whose Authority she was Jealous Besides the intention she had of putting the Caimacan who was wholy her creature into his place she found means to render him criminal by accusing him of being acquainted with and favouring the designs of the Princes This was enough to ruin him but the fall of this great Favourites head made such a noise that it awakened all the Grandees of the Empire they complained loudly of the injustices which the Great Sultana made the Emperor every day commit they ript up all the Murders she had been guilty of and caused the Mufty in behalf of the Public to complain of her to Amurath He had no sooner begun to acquit himself of his dangerous Commission but the Sultana Kiozem Amuraths Mother came and presented her self to him together with a Slave whom she brought to discover the Plot that Roxana had formed against her Life The Sultan at first would believe nothing but the Eunuch whose remorse had made him acquaint the Sultana Valide with what was contrived against her protested so earnestly that after he had discharged his Conscience of those secrets which filled him with horror he was not afraid to die that at last Amurath was convinced Roxana was sent for to answer to the crimes that were laid to her charge which she did with so much Pride and Disdain that not being able longer to defer her punishment by burying his Poynard in her heart he endeavoured with his own hand to repair all those ills she had been the cause of She was three and twenty years old and was thought the handsomest woman that ever came into the Seraglio Her Picture that Amurath ordered to be Drawn in the first transports of his Passion which he always kept in his Closet shews her to have been an accomplished Beauty She was tall and well shaped her Min was noble and her Gate becoming her Hair of a fair light Brown the turn of her Face was Oval her Complexion was very Clear and Smooth her Eyes full and sparkling her Nose well made her Mouth little her Lips Vermillion