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A93025	A relation, or an account of the Imperial Court, by Sacredo, a noble Venetian-Senator. Given in an oration made by him to the Doge (or Duke) of Venice, in the Venetian Senate-House, of what things happened during the last war of the Emperor with the Turks, and during his embassy to the Emperor, at his return out of Germany to Venice. Done into English by T.G. Esq	Sagredo, Giovanni, 1616-ca. 1696.; T. G.	1685 (1685)	Wing S289A; ESTC R1667	30,651	128

A RELATION Or an ACCOUNT of the Imperial Court By SACREDO a Noble Venetian-Senator Given in an Oration made by him to the Doge or Duke of VENICE in the Venetian Senate-House of what things happened during the last War of the Emperor with the Turks and during his Embassy to the Emperor at his Return out of Germany to Venice Done into English by T. G. Esq LONDON Printed for W. Crooke at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar and G. Wells at the Sun in St. Paul's Church-yard 1685. TO MY TRULY NOBLE AND WORTHY FRIEND Capt. William Legg Honoured Sir WHen I considered the Greatness of your Merit and the suitable Character the World gives you I was in doubt with my self whether I should adventure to dedicate this small Piece to you had not I been well assured of its real worth Your liberal and ingenuous Education refined by your being bred up to Arms and your Employment at Court the two chief Schools of Experience Advantages which by your Industry you have to the utmost improved makes you the only Person I could at present think of as a fit Judge of it and the only Person having born a Publick Character abroad that I could believe could imitate or out-do our Author You as well as our Sacredo have laid Foundations adapted to a future Greatness and the excellent Qualifications and Perfections you are Master of have made you sufficiently known to be an expert Souldier and a compleat Courtier highly esteemed and beloved by all so that when His Majesty shall think fit to raise you to a higher Station you will sit easie For you will have this Happiness added to the other you enjoy to be Great and not Envied The Freedom you have allowed me made me give you some small Account of my future Studies and here you have the first Essay of it And as you are pleased to afford a Diversion to the present Course of them by an extraordinary Favour and Kindness to me I shall endeavour to make up the Loss of Time by my future Diligence Yet can any one be said to lose his Time who is in the happy Occasion of an Example of so great Vertue whose Care and Industry is so early that it seems to out-strip the quickness of his Master's Bounty All my aim in this my Dedication to you is only as I have received great already and am still in the opportunity of receiving greater Obligations from you so I am in Gratitude and Duty bound publickly to own and upon all occasions shew my self January 24 1684 5 Honoured Sir Your most faithful and most obedient Servant Tho. Garfoote THE English Translator's PREFACE TO THE READER THIS small Piece was writ by that famous Minister of the Venetian State Sacredo whose Abilities have raised him co that high Degree that he bename the present Duke of Vetice's Competitor A Piece writ with that Care and Curiosity that the Remarks are like that of Julius Caesar's concerning the fighting of the Ancient Gauls Heyl. Corm l. 1. p. 148. Lasting and permanent and an indelible Character fix'd upon their Posterity and will continue as long as the Air they breath in and the Earth they tread on The Remarks are suited to the probable Inconveniencies that may attend for the Future as well as the time he wrot in the Imperial Armies that I dare boldly say the Imperial Officers need not have Recourse to a Council of War if they do but read this Book Or at least it will very much facilitate the Work So as to give ready guesses at the true Reasons of the last Year's ill Success and how it came to pass that that Great and Magnanimous Prince the present King of Poland should appear Colossus-like to bestride not cross the Niester and lessen and eclipse the radiant and resplendent Glories of his former Atchievements Nor can we wonder the same Causes should produce the same Effects We live I confess in an intreaguing Age and Policy as well as all other Arts and Sciences is soaring to its highest Pitch and however blindfold and groping in the Dark we may censure repine and murmur at the Actions of great Princes abroad as our present Humours or Affections lead us a true and lasting Settlement of the Peace of Christendom is a blessing rather to be wished than hoped for and we must wait Gods leisure e're it be effected And tho' we here in these Islands enjoy Peace and have been preserved from utter Ruin and Destruction by Miracle as well as His Majesty when as we might have been involved in as ill or worse Circumstances than our Neighbour-Nations is all entirely owing next under God to his Majesties great Care Prudence and Conduct The Misfortunes of the present Times are the Products and natural Results of the Miscarriages of an Age or two past And it would a little sedate the Minds of Men if they would seriously look upon with due Reverence and Esteem the great Goodness and innate Clemency of His Majesty That he never suffered during His whole Reign over us which God long continue amongst us any to be put to Death but willful and malicious offenders hath spared many Many Acts of his Grace and Favour may be instanced in not one of Injustice or Oppression and in all our foreign Characters of him he is represented to us as one inclinable to Mercy the Glory as well as Delight of Mankind far from taking any delight in Blood that when he might have scourged the Rebellion here he gently and mildly received his own and without noise and tumult except only the Acclamations of his Subjects attended with good Wishes for his Happiness Health Peace and Safety vouchsafed to Exercise his Regal Authority amongst us to the great Joy and Comfort of his People and condescended so far as to receive us under the Wing of His Royal Protection If an Otho for one compassionate Read Martial's witty Epigram upon Otho lib. 6. Epig. 32. Act could have the Praises and Encomiums of all the Writers of his time what ought His Majesty to have for a constant and continued Exercise of it Were he ambitious he might make Pretences as well as other Princes abroad For I leave any English man nay the whole World to judge what might not this King of England do whose Bravery in Feats of War is conspicuous witness that unfortunate Battel of Worcester supported by that Heroick and Magnanimous Prince his Brother the Duke of York and once more make the Name and Title terrible abroad as heretofore in France He is a Prince that is sufficiently experienced in the Art of War and has shew'd the World that he knows how to behave himself both as a General by Land or an Admiral by Sea He is a Prince fit for the English Nation answerable to their great courage and if we do but call back to our Thoughts our late Army we might believe we were capable of doing great things still having such a Prince

pride of the Ottomans and created in them a Misunderstanding As to the Forces of the Imperialists 't is true they did appear feeble and intimidated and more than once their Troops retired into Transylvania and visibly avoided fighting but when the Turks saw that the Germans were awakened from their Lethargy and in a Condition and Humor of Defence and did behave themselves with so great Resolution at the Siege of Canisa and after Canisa besieged by Count Serini May 1. and the Turks defeated by Montecuculis Aug. 3. 1664. Rycaut's Hist pag. 150 168. so well beat them at the Battle near the River of Raab they began to lend an Ear to divers propositions of the Imperialists to hearken voluntarily to the several Envoys from them and their Fierceness being much abated they became more sweet and tractable in a Moment making no longer pretences to Comorra or Jawarin which before they declared they would I proceed now to the Correspondencies the Emperor holds with the Princes of Europe The Swedes were possest with The State of the Emperor's Affairs as to Sweden Enmities of old against the Empire but it seems have forgot their Bitterness and Prejudices because the Germans by bringing an unexpected Succor and Assistance to the Poles made the Danes lose the Opportunity the Civil Wars of Poland gave them Many brave Actions past on one Side and the other Denmark joyned to the Emperor to oppose the Swedish Invasion This was one brave and glorious Action As to the other the Germans themselves complained and blamed this indiscreet Generosity of the Emperor who preferred the Relief of Poland before his own Defence and divided his Troops in favor of that Kingdom which if united had not been sufficient to oppose the Force of the Swede or Turk However it was that Poland Poland undertook a Guarranty against the Incursions of the Swedes yet it fell under another Tyranny and found it self constrained to obey a Woman who knew how to dispose all things even her Husband himself under her power This Prince was so much the more complaisant to his Wife because of his Hopes of having Children by her The Queen's Desire for a Successor of her own Family being too apparent the Emperor began to oppose it and fearing lest that Empire should fall into the Hands of the French a Nation suspected and feared he redoubled his Negotiations conversed with his Allies fomented the last Troubles to make a Counterpoise to the Queen's Designs and at present he himself maintains Lubomirski the Grand Marshal of Poland in ill Intelligence with the Court on purpose to oppose the Kindness the Queen has for her Nation and Family As to the protestant Princes Brandenburgh of the Empire and especially Brandenburgh the Emperor relies upon him for Necessity rather than for Friendship 's sake For since that Ferdinand the Second with the formidable Army of Wallestein struck such a Fear into all Germany the most part of the Electors of the Empire have remained firm to France and had rather depend upon an uncertain Relief of Strangers than to a natural Dominion which might prove too absolute which was the sole Cause of the Confederation of the Rhine so much against the Emperor's Mind and has augmented extreamly the Fear and Jealousie he has of the prosperity of France This Kingdom since the peace France has employed it self in nothing but the Increase of its Treasures and quietly observes for its part the Storms of other mens Vessels and waits with more patience than good Will the Shipwracks of the House of Austria So as this first Jealousie has very much contributed to the concluding a peace with the Turks The Court of Germany earnestly Spain wishes to find out some way or other in Spain for hindering of the War with Portugal by telling the Catholick King That he is by it at the Expence of the greatest part of his Revenues The Emperor being united to this King by Blood and by Interest has always a very strict Allyance with him but because that Prince Portia would not owe his Favor to any thing but Fortune he never would have any Regard to the Spaniards in his Master's Court and profiting himself by the Example of the Marquess de Machera the last Embassador of Spain to the Emperor who had a very great Interest otherways he hindered all Freedom of their Councils and weakened them both as to the Reasons and the Importance of them The Imperialists are but indifferently The Pope satisfied with the Pope because his Holiness has not suitably relieved the Emperor by reason of Cardinal Carassa his Nuntio in his most pressing Necessities having not laid out in all above eight hundred thousand Rix-dollars a great part of which Summ was exacted from the Tithes of the States of Austria so that he owes nothing to his Serenity but the permission of levying it and it is as it were but drawn out of his own Fund and Blood let out of his own Veins His Holyness has not the same Zeal for the Emperor as his Predecessors especially Paul the Fifth who upon the like Conjuncture maintained an Army in Germany and sacrificed the Health and Life of his Nephew who died at Canisa Savoy takes part with France Savoy not by Choice but Necessity For the Neighbourhood of his Estates takes away his Liberty of separating either as to War or Intrigue Florence Altho' he be Neuter Florence has a greater Kindness for the House of Austria and his Grandeur and Ambition terminates in the quiet Encrease of their Correspondence The Duke of Modena is a Modena French-man rather by Alliance with Cardinal Mazarine than by Inclination and without doubt would be very weakly united to France were it not that he is so much engaged to its first Minister The Spaniards pay the Garrison Mantua of Cazal for Fear rather than good Will lest the State of the Duke of Mantua's Affairs should oblige him as he was wont to return to France and the Germans are perswaded that he would if the Empress his Sister who can do any thing with him had not broke off this Intrigue and kept this Prince firm to them The Quality of the Emperor Germany not having any Revenue annex'd and setled upon this Dignity his great and august Station carries nothing at all of profit and all the Advantage consists in the Majesty of so magnificent a Title and the Glory of so fair a Rank Germany of it self abounds more with Provisions than Money and affords the Emperor a Revenue very uncertain and unequal which amounts not to above six Millions of Florins His Hereditary Austria c. Estates are abundantly fertile and an Army of Fourscore Thousand Men might subsist and be provided for in his Country without any Disturbance and all of them distributed into Good Quarters in his respective Provinces according to ancient Custom The power notwithstanding of the Emperor is not