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A51890	The third volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscover'd 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) continued from the year 1645 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, and from thence into English by the translator of the first volume.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Bradshaw, William, fl. 1700.; Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.	1691 (1691)	Wing M565CD; ESTC R33498	164,529	390

of a Forest and by the Advantage of its Situation is always refreshed with Breezes from the Sea Besides the Impurity of these Infidels who empty all their Filth in the Streets so that the Dirt of Paris may be smelt some Miles off the Uncleanness of their Diet contributes in no small Measure to my Distemper being forced either to feed on Flesh with the Blood in it or live on Herbs They laugh at the Niceness of the Mussulmans who will eat no Meat that was knock'd down or strangled They seem to be greedy of Blood saving it in Vessels and mixing it with Flower of Wheat make a certain Bread thereof which they devour without the least Squeamishness A True Believer would tremble at the Sight of such Impiety I tell thee it is impossible to live among them and not be polluted They have no Methods of Purification They wallow and hug themselves in their Uncleanness they are worse than the Beasts Now the Spring has provided a new Banquet wherein there is no Impurity I am resolved to live like a Mussulman and conform to the Precepes of our Holy Lawgiver Who when he beholds my Zeal and Abstinence will send the Angel of Health from his Paradise to repair my decay'd Constitution The French Philosophers are busied in an Inquisition after certain Kinds of Birds which from the Second Day of this Moon they say are not be found in the whole Kingdom though the Woods and Fields were full of them during the Winter Some are of Opinion That they fly to the Moon asserting That if their Wings will but carry 'em beyond the Magnetick Force of the Earth it will be no Pain to glide through the Upper Aiery Region till they arrive within the Attractive Energy of that Planet where they will Naturally seek Rest Others with more Probability say That these Birds take their Flight to some other Region on Earth whose Climate is more agreeable to their Natures at this Time of Year I wish I could as easily once a Year take my Flight to Constantinople where my Heart is Winter and Summer Adieu Dear Hali and pity Mahmut who counts himself unhappy in Nothing so much as in being absent from his Friends Paris 7th of the 4th Moon of the Year 1646. LETTER XXIX To the Testerdar or Lord-Treasurer IT appears That France has some extraordinary Design by Sea When and where 't will be put in Execution is not yet known but the vast Preparations that are making seem to threaten some Foreign Invasion rather than a Naval Combat It looks as if they had an Expedition in Hand greater than that of Xerxes to make a Bridge over the Ocean and join the Separated Parts of the World together New Arsenals are built in several Maritime Towns and all the Forests are cut down to fill them with Timber for Ships of War The Mountains are left naked of Trees and the stately Woods are transplanted into the Havens An Infinite Number of Men are employ'd in making Cordage Chains Bullets Anchors Ordnance and all other Necessaries belonging to a Navy This is Cardinal Mazarini's Project under Pretence of setting the Poor of the Kingdom at Work and disburthening the Common-wealth of Vagabonds and Idle Persons But Mahmut is not placed here to be amus'd with State-Umbrages It is evident that this Minister designs to render his Master formidable on both Elements Agents are sent to buy Ships in all Parts and the very Peasants are forced from the Vineyards and Fields to Man the greatest Fleet that ever this Kingdom fitted out to Sea Last Moon the Sieur de Quesne was sent to assist Monsieur Chanut in purchasing Vessels in Suedeland It seems there had been some Demurrs in his Negotiation to remove which this latter was sent with fresh Instructions But Monsieur Chanut rejected him And Ten Day agoe came an Express from that Minister desiring That a more Intelligent Colleague might be sent him in Regard he found it difficult to treat successfully with a People too much elated with continual Victories Upon this the Court have sent a Courier to Stockholm with new Orders whereby he is forbid to make any farther Overtures in Order to the Continuance of the League between these Two Crowns That France may not always appear in a Suppliant Posture whilst the Suedes seem careless to conserve a Friendship which they themselves first coveted These Misunderstandings may in a short Time proceed to a greater Alienation and in the End to an open Rupture Which has the more Probability in that General Koningsmark lately stopp'd some French Troops in their march under Pretence of seeing their Passports but really as 't is thought to corrupt the Soldiers and withdraw them from the Fidelity they owe their Sovereign This is highly resented here and they begin to discourse of making Peace with Germany What the Issue of these Things will be is yet in the Dark but God from whose Throne hangs the Chain of Destiny which reaches to the Center of the Earth will I hope so dispose of all Humane Events That the Quarrels of the Nazarenes shall minister Occasion to the Osmans to encrease the Territories of our Puissant Emperor Paris 1st of the 5th Moon of the Year 1646. LETTER XXX To Nathan Ben Saddi a Jew at Vienna I Cannot but highly Applaud the Resolution thou hast taken as thy Letter intimates to enquire into the Grounds of the Religion thou art of This shews that thou settest a Value on thy Reason and thinkest thy self beyond the Pupillage of a Child that thou esteemest thy self of Years to make a Choice of thy Religion and not to take it up on the bare Credit of thy Forefathers 'T is certain that Error may be Traditional as well as Truth And the Pagan Idolaters pleaded a Greater Antiquity for the Altars of their Gods than could the Followers of Moses for the Temple of Jerusalem the Tabernacle in the Desart or for the Promulgation of the Law it self on Mount Sinai Since there was scarce a Region on the Continent which had not Establish'd Rites and Ceremonies of Worship long before Moses or even Jacob the Great Father of the Israelites were born Among the Rest of the Nations Arabia my Native Country was peculiarly bless'd with the Footsteps of the Illustrious Ibrahim Grandfather to Israel from whom the Jews descend In this Happy Country that Renowned Prophet sojourned conversed with Angels And with the Majesty which cannot be Uttered he preached the Vnity of the Divine Essence Converted the People from their Idolatry built an Oratory at Meccha and was taken up into Paradise Ismael his Eldest Son and Heir of his Father's Spirit as of his Territories trod in the Footsteps of the Assumpt of God He brake down the Idols asserted One God the Resurrection the Day of Judgment the Joys of Paradise and the Torments of Hell His Off-Spring Multiplied and Peopled all the East The Princes of this Holy Line subdued the Infidel Nations and rooted

in Nothing so much as in educating their Youth hardily and free from the Effeminate Softnesses of other Nations They esteem'd Infancy and Youth the Spring time of good Manners when Vertue is in the Blossom If that be nip'd or blasted the Fruit must prove abortive and unprofitable Therefore they took Care to season their Early Years with wholesom Instructions and Masculine Exercises Who among the warlike Osmans does not laugh at the unmanly Education of the Persian Sophi's who being for so many Years confin'd to the Company and Discipline of Females seem fitter to be made Overseers of a Nursery than to ascend a Throne But thou wilt say I take large Leaps from the North of Europe to one of the most Southern Tracts in Asia I was discoursing of the Moscovites and the Assistance they afforded the Cossacks in recovering Asac I passed from thence to the Manner of their Education Permit me now to divert thee with Something peculiar and uncommon in the Character of the Russian Women I am acquainted with a Gentleman in this City who has travelled through all that Part of Europe and resided some Years at Mosco He says The Russian Wives think themselves not beloved by their Husbands unless they beat them every Day They take his Correction as a Mark of his Favour and Esteem If these silly Females are angry or peevish he has no other way to court 'em into a better Humour but by Stripes This is the only convincing Argument of his Sovereignty over them the Demonstration of his Manhood the Charm which fastens both their Love and Obedience He highly applauds the absolute Resignation which this People shew to their Great Duke in that they pretend not to Possess their Estates and Lives but through his Favour and during his Pleasure He says the Succession of the Czars or Great Dukes of Russia was in former Times determin'd after this Manner A great Stone was plac'd in a large Field belonging to the City of Mosco When any Czar died His Sons or the next of Kin were conducted into this Field and placed all at an equal Distance from the Stone Then at a certain Signal given they all ran together toward it and he that first reach'd it so as to stand on the Top of it was establish'd in the Throne The Reverence which these People pay to their Prince may in Part be ascribed to his seldom appearing in Person to them and then surrounded with his Boyars or Nobles in the most Magnificent Equipage that can be supposed proper to strike a Terror and Awe into his Subjects and cause them to Honour him as little less than a God The Eyes of the Vulgar are dazl'd with so many Splendors of Silver Gold and Jewels And when the Great Duke makes his solemn Appearance or Cavalcade they are almost ready to think That Heaven has descended to Earth to do them the Honour of a Visit These are the Arts of Russian Policy by which such an Infinite Number of People are charmed into an Obedience to the Sovereign Doubtless the Majesty of a King receives no small Lustre from External Ornaments the Multitude being captivated with whatsoever is Gay and Glittering Yet our Glorious Sultans scorn to borrow Advantage from or owe their Grandeur to any Thing but their Exalted Blood and sublime innate Vertues But every Nation have their peculiar Customs and distinct Reasons of State The Constitution of all Governments is not alike The Model of Lacedaemonian Policy would suit ill with Athens Thou whose Education was in the Royal Seraglio of the Osman Emperours that hast been instructed to imitate the Bee which sucks Honey from every Flower Thou that knowest how to make a Choice of Good Examples and to reject the Ill practise the Valour of One Nation the Prudence of Another the Frugality of a Third so shalt thou be consummate in Vertue and acquit thy self a good General Paris 15th of the 11th Moon of the Year 1646. LETTER XVIII To Solyman Kyzlar Aga Chief of the Black Eunuchs I Am just now return'd to my Chamber from the Palace of the King As I pass'd along the Streets I saw in every Face the Signatures of a profound Sorrow which seems to have diffused it self over their whole Bodies for both the Court and City have put on Mourning for the Death of Henry Bourbon late Prince of Conde He was not full Sixty Years of Age when he left this Visible World to be new-born in a Region utterly unknown to Mortals The French not without Reason lament the Loss of a Man who to speak the Least of him buoy'd up the Domestick Interest of this Kingdom which seemed otherwise inclining to totter He was the Balance which pois'd the different Passions of the Court and City by his Prudence and Justice calming both into a peaceable Mediocrity He was born some Moons after his Fathers Death whom the most execrable Method of Murdering would not suffer to Spin out those Years which Nature would have indulg'd him being snatch'd away by Poison Henry IV. so long as he remain'd without Issue fix'd his Eyes on this Posthumous Young Prince and gave him an Education suitable to one whom Fate had designed to be the Heir of the Crown Yet afterwards Jealousie cool'd his Affection when the Prince had married Charleotte the Duke of Montmorency's Daughter whom Henry IV. loved to a Degree of Passion It is dangerous to have a Sovereign Prince ones Rival in Love That Match had well-nigh ruined the Young Prince of Conde He was forced to fly into Holland with his Princess and make that Province the Sanctuary of her Honour From thence he travelled through Germany and return'd not to France till after the Murder of Henry IV. During the Minority of Lewis XIII he Headed the Factions affecting to become Popular Were it not for this Ambition his Life had been without Blemish and he might have blown out Diogenes his Mid-day-Candle But no Man is free from Fault All the Difference between the Vertuous and Vicious consists in this That one commits fewer Crimes than the other and those not by Intention or Habit but through the Insuperable Proclivity of Nature Every Man has his Genial Vices his Constitutional Errors and though he may appear a Saint in all Things else yet in these he will still be a Sinner He suffered Five Years Imprisonment in the Bastile which is a Place put to the same Use as the Castle of the Seven Towers in Constantinople The Princess his Wise was his Companion all the Time and shared in his Misfortunes as well as his Prosperity During that tedious Confinement he became Father of a Daughter who was afterwards Married to the Duke of Longueville And when he was set at Liberty he begot the Duke of Enguien now Prince of Conde and the Prince of Conti. The French speak well of the Departed Prince He was of a lively Spirit chearful and affable in Conversation mixing daily Recreations with his severer