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A51883	The first volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscovered 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) from the year 1637 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, first translated into Italian, afterwards into French and now into English.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Saltmarsh, Daniel.	1691 (1691)	Wing M565BB; ESTC R29485	217,148	388

I have not are incessantly in Action They watch without ceasing as I do on what passes and thou mayst assure thy self that the Divan shall be fully and certainly advertized of all things The Pope keeps here as his Ambassador a Prelate called a Nuncio The Emperor of Germany the King of Spain those of England Swedeland Denmark and Poland the Electors and several other Princes of the Empire entertain also Embassadors to observe the Motions of this Prince who often breaks all their Measures The States of Italy do also the same there are in this Part of Europe Princes and Republicks These little Sovereigns are more jealous than others of their Interests and do more concern themselves in all Affairs which pass The Republicks likewise use greater Precautions in their Conduct than the Monarchs do The Republick of Venice has acquired a great Reputation France keeps a good Correspondence with her the Embassador of that State living here with all the marks of Grandeur and the same Prerogatives granted to those of Crowned Heads Neither Persia nor Moscovia keep any Publick Minister here yet perhaps they may have some that give Private Intelligence to their Masters As to what concerns the Princes of the Indies they seem not to me to have any Interest here so that they have I believe no Agent in these Parts either publick or private If the name of Spy be mean or dishonourable I know no body that is called one for I being unknown my Reputation therefore runs no hazard I serve without being observed But to speak plainly What are the Embassadors and Agents of Princes but secret Spyes as I am who under pretence of keeping a Correspondence between their Masters inform them of what they can discover in the Courts where they are sent Thou shalt be sufficiently inform'd by the Bassa of the Sea of Piccinino's Adventure he will shew thee what I have written However here are Sixty Galleys lost and our greatest Consolation is that we shall not want means to be revenged If the Christians have cut off one of our Fingers we ought to pluck out both their Eyes 'T is said here that this Admiral is made Prisoner by the Venetians if this be true his Confinement must be very uneasie to him But all People are not agreed whether he be a Prisoner or no for some maintain he is at Constantinople where he justifies himself with his usual Arrogance laying all the Fault on the Renegado who commanded the Admiral of Algiers I have recommended to the Bassa of the Sea the Enterprize of Loretto If thou hast leisure to examine the Project thou wilt find though I am no Captain nor Mariner what I have hinted is worth regarding The knowledge which I have of the World of the Manner of living of the Christian Princes and Priests of Rome together with the other Notices I have required by the reading of Histories should make me considered as a Man that is able to offer at great Things though I have not yet gained much Credit in the World The Embassador of Venice residing in this Court says That their Republick will satisfie the Grand Signior affirming that Ali is a Pyrate that the Africans have broken the Peace and that the Action of their General Capello is just and heroical and that Amurath himself will chastise Piccinino He moreover pretends that the Galleys which were taken will not be restored seeing it will be made apparent they have been lost by different Accidents I think he says they have been all sunk before the Isle of Corfou by the Senate's Order to prevent the Expectation of a Surrender the Admiral of Algiers only excepted which those Infidels have brought in Triumph into their Arsenal to preserve the Remembrance of an Event which they pretend to be very glorious to them but these Misfortunes are not extream nor past Remedy if God continues the Life of our Great Emperor and thy Health Paris 7th of the 2d Moon of the Year 1638. LETTER V. To the same THey have at length given over talking of our Losses but I give not over devising the means to be revenged of the Christians Remember that the Grand Vizir keeps in Prison a Man fit for great Things at this Time who can do the Nazarenes considerable Mischiefs and procure notable Advantage to the Mussulmen If the old Renegado of Dalmatia be yet alive he is capable of destroying all Places in the Mediterranean-Sea Advise with him about the Destruction of Lorerio There is no Corsary that has done more bold Exploits He has spent Sixty Years in coursing on the Archipelago and Adriatick-Sea where he has made horrid Devastations with infinite Prizes He has likewise most considerably damnified the Cossacks on the Black-Sea He began the Trade at Nine Years old in a little Vessel has been wounded in Twenty or Twenty two Oceasions taken Prisoner Four times by our Pyrates and thrice escaped out of their Hands And not being able to fly the Fourth time nor redeem himself by Money he redeem'd himself by his Religion which he quitted to embrace Ours and since he has been Circumcized he has brought to Constantinople above Thirteen Thousand Slaves in about Thirty Years Space He has pass'd full Five Years in the Cleft of a Rock along the Banks of the Adriatick-Sea which by his Industry he made a sure Place of Retreat Here 't was that he did himself with his Men and Vessel like a wild Beast in his Den and 't is hard to imagine how many Snares he laid during that Time for those of his own Religion He has been often pursued but could never be taken and his Name became so terrible amongst the Christians that there was no Place but dreaded him But in fine having as 't is said attempted to betray his Master in delivering into the Christians Hands the five Galleys he commanded he was sent by Order from the Grand Vizir into the Castle of Seven Towers although his Crime was not certainly proved 'T is above Two and fifty Moons since he has been there kept Prisoner and he is not onely very old but decrepid The long Penance which a Man has undergone that has done such great Things and who is accused of having done one ill one of which he is not convicted does plead for some Indulgence I shall never go about to solicit for the Liberty of a Traytor yet I must say That Men who have dared to execute great Crimes are often capable of Heroick Actions This Man was and is still at the end of his Life perhaps if thou wilt endeavour to procure him some Advantage and make him hope still greater he may repair his Fault by performing something for the good of the Empire or at least give some good Advice Thou knowest the Ancient Persians had a Law whereby their Kings were obliged Not to put a Malefactor to death for one Crime and private Persons not to chastise their Domesticks or Slaves for one Fault

without its being known whether 't was by his Fall or the Musket-shot which he received The Confederates with as little trouble seized on the Gallies and other Vessels in the Ports whence they drove the Spaniards they afterwards commanded the Vice-Queen to retire This Princess thought she ought in this occasion to insist on the Greatness of her Birth she threatned the Conspirators and afterwards flattered them assuring them of the Clemency of King Philip. She set before them the Greatness of his Power and forgat not to speak of the Authority of his Favourite who must needs be much offended in this Occasion exaggerating the Offence commitred against her both as a Princess and Depository of the Catholick King 's Power But as well her Promises as her Threats were in vain and she her self was at length glad to accept Conditions from them who a while before by Connivance from the Prince might have executed an absolute Power In Eight days time all the Castilians were subdued or driven out of the Kingdom All the Forts were rendered without any trouble to the new King except the Castle of St. John which having made some slight Resistance was sold for Forty Thousand Crowns by the Governour The Duke of Braganza appeared immediately afterwards in the City of Lisbon where the People soon shewed the Affection they had for him the Prison-Doors were set open and all poor Debtors freed and a great part of the Taxes taken off Such an astonishing Success was attended with what ever might set forth the Joy of the People who solemnized the Festival with the Sound of Trumpets and the Noise of the Cannon and by Shouts and Acclamations which reached up to Heaven whom the Portugueses thanked for the Liberty which they believed they had recovered This Event was accompanied with so many miraculous things that the Wisest as well as the Vulgar were persuaded 't was markt in Heaven from all Eternity by the Finger of God The Clergy the Nobility the Citizens and Peasants were profuse in their Liberalities on this Occasion to give their new Soveraign ample Marks of their Affection and even the Poor hid their Misery that they might not lessen the Publick Joy The Spanish Vessels which returned from the New World which then entered into the Ports of Portugal remained at the Disposal of the new King the Pilots not knowing what had hapned so that the Coffers of the Prince were filled thereby as 't is said with some Millions This King was exalted to the Throne in the last Moon of the last Year and wise People do hope he will reign very happily all the Planets being too well disposed not to make him finish his Reign with the same Fortune as he began it The vigilant Portugueses have ordered out several Vessels fill'd with good Soldiers and necessary Provisions to sieze of Places and Ports which this Nation possesses in the New World and in the East Indies and 't is to be supposed they will meet with good Success if Fortune prove as favourable to them in America and the Indies as she was to them in Europe As soon as the Duke of Braganza was proclaim'd King he sent Manifesto's into all Parts and dispatched Couriers and Ambassadors to give Advice of his Promotion in the Courts of France England Holland Swedeland and Denmark 'T is not to be imagined the Joy which this Adventure gave to the Catalonians The King imparting to them what had happened offered them also his Assistance and these People answered him with the same Offers And this is the end of Sixty Three Years of the Despotick Authority which the Spaniards have exercised on the Portugueses The News of so strange a Revolution having been carried unto Madrid hear and consider well the unhappy Condition of the Catholick King to whom his Favourite declared this News Sir said he I come to rejoyce with your Majesty at the good News I bring Your Majesty is now become Master of a considerable Dutchy Dom Juan de Braganza has had the boldness to make himself be proclaimed King of Portugal has thereby faln into the Crime of Laesae Majestatis All his Estate belongs to you and is devolv'd to the Crown and his Person will soon be in your Power Dom Juan was Son to Theodosius Duke of Braganza Grandchild to Donna Katharina who was the Daughter of Dom Duarte Brother to Henry King of Portugal and Philip II. King of Spain took away the Crown from this Katharine to whom it is said it did rightly belong The Titles he assumes are King of Portugal of Algraves Africk on both sides of the Sea Lord of Guinea of the Navigation and Commerce of Aethiopia Arabia Persia and the Indies This new King is not above 37 Years Old of a middle Stature but well proportioned his Face marked with the Small Pox his Hair enclining to Yellow an Aquiline Nose high Forehead lively Eyes his Mouth indifferent great and a Masculine Voice His Carriage is grave affects great Modesty in his Cloaths is temperate in his Dyet affable to all sorts of People unless Slaves and such as he believes are Hypocrites and his common Word is That mean Cloaths will keep out the Cold and ordinary Meats satisfie Hunger This Prince is not much versed in Books is of an healthfull Constitution loves laborious Exercises especially Hunting wherein he 's never tired He 's also Musically given and so light of Heel that there are few People can out-walk him He is wont to go to Bed late and rise early as knowing that Sleep does take off much from Man's Life and to compleat his Happiness he has Children of both Sexes His Wife is a Spanish Lady of extraordinary Merit to whose marvellous Courage and good Qualities he owes his Crown The Kingdom of Portugal contains 120 Leagues in Length 40 in Breadth and has several Millions of Subjects comprehending those in the Two Indies It has Three Archbishopricks and Eight Bishopricks keeping ordinarily Forty Vessels which find Ports in Eight places of the Country They can maintain Thirty Thousand Foot and several Regiments of Horse The Revenue of this Kingdom may amount to Twenty Millions of Gold reckoning in the Riches which come from the Indies Brasil Angola and several other Islands The French Monarch will hold a good Intelligence with the House of Braganza England will enter into an Alliance with her the Pope will concern himself on neither side the Emperour united by Bloud and Interest to the Spaniards will be an irreconcilable Enemy but unable to doe them any Hurt and the States of Holland will find greater Advantage than all others in this strange Revolution These are the Sentiments of those that pretend to penetrate into the Future and to know more than others And if it be true that this new Soveraign has had as all men in his place would have had a secret desire of being King he has so well concealed his Ambition that 't is to be supposed he

other Predecessors had been before him He began to govern his Kingdom ruined by so many Wars Pillages and Concussions made by all sorts of People and so repaired it by his good Government that he was soon in a Condition to embellish it He built several magnisicent Bridges raised stately Edifices and forgot nothing which might re-establish those good Orders which the Licentiousness of the Times had overthrown But what this King designed against us as soon as he was setled on the Throne will appear at the same time to thee both dreadful and admirable As soon as ever he had made a general Peace with his Enemies he laid the Foundations of the most Heroick Design that ever Man invented wherein he shewed himself not inferior to the first of the Caesars nor the Conqueror of Asia He undertook to overthrow all the Monarchies of the World to give a new Face to all the Affairs of it and to destroy in a short time the Empire of the Ottomans But before he began such a great Enterprize he was for paying all the Debts of the Crown and his own in particular which amounted all together to near an Hundred Millions and 't was a prodigious thing to find so much Money without selling the Kingdom or engaging the People yet it is true that he got this Money and paid those Debts with it He was for dividing Christendom into Fifteen equal Dominations Five of which should obey Kings that were so by Succession and Six to be subject to Kings that were Elective and the Four remaining should be Republicks By this Division he left the Pope the Countries belonging to the Church and added thereunto the Kingdom of Naples with the Homage of Sicily and the greatest part of Italy modelled into a Republick with Obligation to give the Pope every Year a golden Crucifix and Four Thousand Sequins Only Venice was left in the Condition 't was in with its Laws and Customs But there were allotted to this Republick Kingdoms and Isles which were to be taken from us in the Archipelago with an Homage to the Roman Prelate of an Embassy to kis his Feet and at the End of every Twenty five Years a small Statue of Gold representing St. Peter whom they term God's Vicar on Earth Flanders should make a Republick with therest of the Low-Countries which would be a Loss for the Spaniards and to this Republick should be added some of the neighbouring States The Franche County Alsatia Tirol and Trante were added to the Democratical State of the Swisses with the Homage every Fifteen Years of an Hunting Dog with a golden Collar about his Neck fastned to a Chain of Gold which this Republick should present to the Emperor of Germany This Emperor should be obliged to renounce the aggrandizing of his Family and only dispose of vacant Fiefs the Investiture of which he should not bestow on any of his Kindred and there should be a Law inviolably observed in the Empire That never Two Princes of the same Race should enjoy successively the Imperial Crown The Dutchy of Milan should be added to the other Provinces belonging to the Duke of Savoy together with the Title of King of Lombardy The Kingdom of Hungary should be enlarged with the Principalities of Transylvania Walachia and Moldavia And the King who was to be Elective should be chosen by the Suffrages of the Pope the Emperor of Germany the King of France England Spain Swedeland Poland and Denmark and Bohemia should be submitted to the same Laws France England Spain Poland Swedeland and Denmark should not change their Form of Government when for the general Affairs these Kingdoms were to be subject to the Universal Republick of which the Pope was to be the Head Things thus established Henry was to be the Umpire of all Christendom to decide all Differences which might happen between the aforesaid Princes and States with Fifteen Persons chosen from amongst the most famous for Learning and Arms which could be found among these Fifteen Dominations and besides these there was to be established a great Council consisting of Sixty other Persons for all the Differences which might happen in all the Kingdoms and Republicks between those who govern'd them and this great Assembly should make their Residence in the Capital City Rome Every State was to be obliged to furnish a certain Number of Troops and Summ of Mony to make War against the Turks and the Business of Poland and Swedeland should be to make War together against the Moscovites and Tartars There were afterwards Three Generals to be chosen by common Consent for the conquering of Asia one for the Sea and Two for the Land and Three hundred Thousand Foot entertained with One hundred and fifty Thousand Horse and Four hundred Pieces of Canon and the Naval Army was to consist of an Hundred and fifty Vessels and one Hundred Gallies and a Fund was to be raised for this of an Hundred Millions of Gold This Treasure was to be put into the Pope's Hands the Isle of Malta was to be the Store-house of all things belonging to the Sea the Port of Messina the Arsenal for the Gallies and the City of Metz one of the principal Magazins for the Land Forces All the Christian Princes were to be obliged to lessen their ordinary Expences and to contribute to this great Design according to their Ability There were to have been several Spies in Constantinople in the Habit of Greeks who were persectly skill'd in the Eastern Languages to observe the Motions of our Empire And besides these Forty resolute Men who were at a certain Time and Signal to set Fire to the Seraglio and Arsenal and several other Quarters of the Town There was found in this Hero's Closet after his Death a Memorial written with his own Hand wherein he had already markt Twelve Embassadors for several Places in Christendom for the negotiating of so great an Affair and the Pope and Republick of Venice and Duke of Savoy had been already acquainted with it In the mean time this King had an Army already of Forty thousand Foot with Eight thousand Horse and he was under Petence of visiting the Frontiers of Flanders thence to begin the Execution of his Project affirming That as to his own part he had no other Pretension but the Glory of delivering Christianity from the Tyranny of these Barbarians 'T is said he applied himself for Ten Years together in searching the Means to make his Project take he gave great Pensions to the Cardinals at Rome and in Germany to several Officers and he had in France besides the Troops I have already mentioned Four thousand Gentlemen who were so devoted to him that they were ready to mount on Horseback on the least Order from him He had already Fifteen Millions in the Bastil and he that had the Superintendancy of his Treasure promised to add thereunto in less than Three Years Forty other Millions without touching the ordinary Revenues I have no