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A58003	The present state of the Ottoman Empire containing the maxims of the Turkish politie, the most material points of the Mahometan religion, their sects and heresies, their convents and religious votaries, their military discipline ... : illustrated with divers pieces of sculpture, representing the variety of habits amongst the Turks, in three books / by Paul Rycaut Esq. ...	Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1668 (1668)	Wing R2413; ESTC R18075	228,446	228

prevented troubles in the beginning or wisely compounded them before they made too far a breach It is worth observation that the Turks make no difference in the name between an Embassadour Resident Agent or any petty Messenger sent or residing upon a publick Affair the name Elchi serves them to express all and though the Turks on occasion of Ruptures and other Discontents lose their respect towards the person of Embassadours yet still it is commendable in them that they commonly abstain from the spoil and plunder of the Merchants estates with whose Prince they are at enmity for they look on Merchants as men whose profession is best advanced by Peace and as their own comparison is like to the laborious Bee which brings Honey to the Hive and is innocent industrious and profitable and therefore an object of their compassion and defence CHAP. XX. How Embassadours and publick Ministers govern themselves in their Negotiations and Residence amongst the Turks EMbassadours in this Country have need both of courage and circumspection wisdom to dissemble with honour and discreet patience seemingly to take no notice of Affronts and Contempts from which this uncivilized people cannot temperate their Tongues even when they would seem to put on the most courteous deportment and respect towards Christians The French Embassadour Mounsieur la Haye sent once to advise the great Visier Kuperlee that his Master had taken the strong City of Arras from the Spaniard and had obtained other Victories in Flanders supposing that the Turk would outwardly have evidenced some signs of joy and return an answer of congratulation but the reply the Visier gave was no other then this VVhat matters it to me whether the Dog worries the Hog or the Hog the Dog so my Masters head be but safe intimating that he had no other esteem of Christians then as Salvages or Beasts and with no other answer then this due to an officious Courtship towards a Turk the Messenger returned There is no doubt but of all those means wherewith Kingdoms and States are supported there are two more principal and chief of all others The one is the substantial and real strength and force of the Prince which consists in his Armies and interest and the other is the honour and reputation he gains abroad which hath sometimes proved of that Authority and consequence as to make the State of the weaker Prince to appear more considerable or at least equal to the greater forces of the other This reputation is principally maintained by a prudent manner of negotiation and depends on the discretion of the Representative in which for many years the Republick of Venice had great advantages in the Turkish Court through the caution and policy of their Ministers who nourished in the Turks an opinion of their strength of Arms and force of Wisdom beyond the reality thereof 〈◊〉 before the War broke forth no Nation in amity with the Turk had their affairs treated with more honour and respect then this Common-wealth An Embassadour in this Court ought to be circumspect and careful to avoid the occasion of having his honour blemished or of incurring the least violation of his person for afterward as one baffled in his reputation he becomes scorned loses his power and interest and all esteem of his worth and wisdom for having endured one affront their insolence soon presumes farther to trespass on his patience for certainly Turks of all Nations in the world are most apt to crush and trample on those that lye under their feet as on the contrary those who have a reputation with them may make the best and most advantageous treats of any part of the world according to that of Busbequius Ep. 1. Sunt Turci in utramque partem nimii sive indulgentia cum pro amicis se probare volunt sive acerbitate cum irati sunt To reply according to the Pride and Ignorance of a Turk is properly to blow up fire into a flame to support with submission and a pusillanimous spirit his affronts and indignities by negotiating faintly or coldly is to add fuel and wood to the burning piles but solid reason and discourse accompanied with chearful expressions vivacity and courage in argument is the only manner of dealing and treating with the Turks That which is called good nature or flexible disposition is of little use to a publick Minister in his treaty with Turks a punctual adherence to former customs and examples even to obstinacy is the best and safest rule for the concession of one point serves to embolden them to demand another and then a third and so their hopes increases with the success having no modesty nor wisdom to terminate their desires one act or two of favour is enough afterwards to introduce a custom which is the chiefest part of their Law and to make that which is meerly voluntary and of grace to become of obligation But a principal matter which a publick Minister ought to look to is to provide himself of spirited eloquent and intelligent Interpreters spirited I say because many times the presence is great they appear before and the looks big and soure of a barbarous Tyrant and it hath been known that the Embassadour hath been forced to interpose his own Person between the fury of the Visier and his Interpreter whose offence was only a delivery of the words of his Master some of whom have notwithstanding been imprisoned or executed for this cause as we have partly intimated in the foregoing Chapter The reason of which Tyranny and presumption in these prime Officers over the Interpreters is because they are most commonly born subjects of the Grand Signior and therefore ill support the least word mis-placed or savouring of contest from them not distinguishing between the sense of the Embassadour and the explication of the Interpreter and therefore it were very useful to breed up a Seminary of young Englishmen of sprightly and ingenious parts to be qualified for that Office who may with less danger to themselves honour to their Master and advantage to the publick express boldly without the usual mincing and submission of other Interpreters whatsoever is commanded and declared by their Master It is certainly a good Maxime for an Embassadour in this Country not to be over-studious in procuring a familiar friendship with Turks a fair comportment towards all in a moderate way is cheap and secure for a Turk is not capable of real friendship towards a Christian and to have him called only and thought a friend who is in power is an expence without profit for in great emergencies and times of necessity when their assistance is most useful he must be bought again and his friendship renewed with presents and farther expectations howsoever this way of negotiation by presents and gratuities is so much in custom amongst the Turks that to speak truely scarce any thing can be obtained without it but it is the wisdom of the Minister to dispose and place them with

is so commonly used that it is publickly drank without cautions or fear of giving scandal the great men because in office are more careful how the world discovers the delight they take in that Liquor least the miscarriages of their office should be attributed to the excess of Wine or the knowledge of their use of that which deprives them of their reason render them uncapable of their trust and dignity For the Turks account it impossible to drink Wine with moderation and are ignorant of the benefit of it for correction of crude humours and indisgestions of the stomach and wonder to see it by English French or Italians tempered with water for unless they may drink it with full-bowls and have sufficient thereof to give them their Kaif as they call it that is to transport them into a dissolute Mirth or the ridiculous actions of drunkenness or to a surfeit or a vomit they esteem it not worth the drinking and a provocation to the appetite and palate to remain with a desire of demanding more But such as would appear Religious amongst them and are superstitious morose and haters of Christians abstain wholy from Wine and are of a Stoical pride melancholy temper and censorious of the whole world These men who drink only Water and Coffee enter into discourses of State Matters censure the actions and pass Characters on the Grandees and great Officers Assumtâ Stoicorum arrogatiâ 〈◊〉 quae turbidos negotiorum appetentes faciat Tac. lib. 14. And this was the reason why the great 〈◊〉 Kupruli put down the Coffee-houses in 〈◊〉 and yet priviledged the Taverns because the first were melancholy places where Seditions were vented where reflexions were made on all occurrences of State and discontents published and aggravated but Wine raised the spirits of men to a gay humour and would never operate those effects to endanger his condition as the Councels which were contrived in the Assemblies of those who addicted themselves to a more melancholy Liquor The drinking Wine in young men is esteemed amongst the extravagancies of youth but in old men is a crime more undecent and scandalous in a higher degree But why Mahomet should so severely forbid the use of Wine to his Disciples is recounted in a fable on this occasion That their Prophet being once invited by a friend to an entertainment at his house chanced in his way thither to be detained a while at a Nuptial Feast where the Guests raised with the chearful spirits of the Wine were Merry embracing and in a kind temper each towards other which pleasing humour Mahomet attributing to the effect of the Wine blessed it as a sacred thing and so departed But it happening that in the Evening returning again and expecting to see the love and 〈◊〉 he had before blessed to be augmented he found the house to the contrary full of brawls and noise fightings and all confusion which he also having understood to be another effect of the Wine changed his former blessing into a curse and for ever after made it Haram or an abomination to his Disciples CHAP. XXVI Of their Morality Good Works and some certain of their Laws worthy of observation THough according to the preceding discourse the Character that may thence result from the nature and temperament of the Turks doth not promise any long Treatise concerning their deep morality vertues and elevated graces yet in the minds of all mankind though never so barbarous God having wrote the Law of nature and made that impression of doing right to our neighbour which tends towards the conservation of the world we may well expect to find the same principles in the Turks especially their Victories and Spoils abroad having procured them conversation with other Nations and their Wars and Treaties with Christians having refined their minds in a good part of that rude temper they brought with them out of Scythia it will not be strange for us to find amongst them men whom Education hath made civil polished in all points of vertuous deportment and made Heroes of their Age though I must confess I cannot applaud the generality of this people with so high Encomiums as I have read in the Books of some ingenious travellers and do believe without partiality that they come short of the good nature and vertues are to be found in most parts of Christendom Howsoever wherein they conceive a great part of charity is placed and meritorious works it will not be unworthy nor unpleasant to consider Aud in the first place they esteem it a good work to build houses though from thence they obtain a Rent because it is a habitation for those who have no Lands or Estates to have them of their own But especially such as are Princes and great men who build Chans or Inns which are receptacles for travellers at night are ranked in the first order of sacred Benefactors and are blessed and prayed for by the weary Guests who have found repose and refreshment through their munificence And in these buildings the Turks are extraordinary Magnificent in most parts of the Empire having united to many of them a stately Moschs Baths and Shops for Artisants and Trades-men to supply all the necessities of the travellers and some of them are so endowed that every night the Guests are entertained at free cost with a convenient Supper be their number more or less according as the Chan is capable to receive The form of these buildings is for the most part according to the model of the highest and stateliest of our Halls covered with lead though not altogether so high-roofed yet some I have observed for their breadth and length very Magnificent yet by reason that they have been somewhat lower have only in that come short of the pride of the stateliest Fabricks though in few of them are apartments for different companies yet every one is sufficiently retired having at a convenient distance different Chimnies for all parties of Guests to dress their meat and in the winter for their fire the greatest inconvenience to men of watchful spirits and used to quiet retirements is the want of sleep which untill I have been over-tired with labour and accustomed thereto by divers dayes journeyes hath been alwayes a stranger to my eyes by reason of the molestation of various companies some of which are alwayes awake some mending their Carts others dressing meat others upon their departure that in those publick places never want noise to disturb those who sleep but of one ear These stately Chans or Inns which with the Moschs are the only durable and magnificent buildings of the Empire are the Edifices of certain great men who fearing to be deprived of their riches by a hasty death should they endeavour to continue them to their family chuse to perpetuate their names and secure their conditions by these publick works Those who would appear of a compassionate and tender nature hold it a pious work to buy a Bird from a