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A relation of three embassies from His Sacred Majestie Charles II, to the great Duke of Muscovie, the King of Sweden, and the King of Denmark performed by the Right Hoble. the Earle of Carlisle in the years 1663 & 1664 / written by an attendant on the embassies ...
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Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?
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1669
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And it extended no further than a bare treaty of Amity for the security of both the Allies and as my Lord Ambassador was assured aimed not at the prejudice of any Prince much less of the King of Great Britain who was expresly comprised therein and might have been received into the Alliance if he pleased himself Mr. de Treslon staid in this Court not above three weeks and on the fifteenth of November he departed from Copenhagen for Stockholme where he had another Embassy to make from the King his Master But besides the feasting that was occasioned by the intimacy of these two Ambassadors there was one more than ordinarily remarkable on the seventeenth of November which was at the Christening the child of my Lady Ambassadress who was brought to bed about a fortnight before of a Son It was Christened by the King the Queen and his Royal Highness and was named Frederick Christian on a Sunday at night in the House where his Excellence resided As soon as our Chaplain had administred the Baptism according to the Liturgy of the Church of England the King went to salute my Lady Ambassadress in her Chamber which was near the Room where the Infant was Baptized The Queen accompanied the King in this Visit his Royal Highness with the two Princesses his Sisters several Ladies of the Court following them There were several of the chief Ministers of State came in also to congratulate her Ladiship upon her happy delivery From this Visit their Majesties past into a large Room where his Excellence had prepared a Noble and Magnificent Collation for them The King would not sit down but choose rather to stand on one side of the table as her Majesty did also on the other with the Prince Christian and the two Princesses His Majesty continued bare all the while drinking several Healths with the Ambassador and other great Persons of his Court amongst which the Lord Treasurer who had been lately his Ambassador to the King of England was one My Lord Morpeth his excellence's Son entertained the Queen all the time his Excellence taking only now and then opportunity to address himself to her Majesty The Gentlemen and Pages that were attending on his Majesty were in the same Room where they also had their share of this Entertainment as well as the rest of the more inferiour servants who remained in the Court below At length after about half an hours time his Majesty retired with the Ambassador waiting upon him Three daies after his Excellence treated his Royal Highness again very sumptuously and after dinner His Highness was pleased to divert himself in dancing some howers with his Excellence and his principal Gentlemen Besides these Collations and some others which I pretermit his Excellence had two or three daies recreation in hunting the Hare with his Royal Highness At other times he took a survey of whatsoever was most remarkable in the City and amongst other things the Arsenal and some other magazins for their Anmunition Instruments of War At our entrance into the Arsenal which we found very fine and in good order we were surprised at first to see a Coach passing before us as it were by a peculiar motion of its own but the motion was performed by wheel-work with a kind of rudder to steer it For which purpose there were two men placed secretly within it one to turn the wheels which was the reason it moved and the other to manage the Stern They shewed his Excellence the Rarities also in the Kings Pallace which were several very curious pieces of Mechanicks besides many Curiosities brought from the remotest Countries The Rareties were disposed in five or six several appartements on one floor and indeed were the only observable things almost we saw in that Pallace Amongst other things in one of these appartements we had a sight of an excellent piece of Art which was a little Ship ready rigged whose Mast Ladders Sailes and Cannon were all of Ivory But his Majesty having a particular desire to caress his Excellence he thought good to shew him his Pallace at Frederixburgh which without contradiction is is a most magnificent and exact Pile In the mean time the King had the Curiosity to go and see the Man of War which brought his Excellence from Stockholm and was then at Anchor in the Harbour attending his departure This Visit being made of a suddain and in the absence of the Captain and the greatest part of the other Officers of the Ship the Seamen were at no small loss to receive his Majesty as he ought to have been Nevertheless that hindered not but his Majesty left some tokens of his being there by a considerable Present which he sent to the Captain and all the Seamen The Captain at his return being desirous to publish his Majesties generosity thought he could not do it any waies more remarkably than by firing his great Guns which though in the Night he discharged so freely at his return to his ship that the noise gave the Town an alarm immediately the drums beating through the streets and all people running to their Arms till at last they understood the occasion and turned their apprehensions into laughter About this time my Lord Ambassador had advertisement from Mosco amongst other things that Calthof who was detained by the Tzar after our departure was constrained to re-engage himself for two Years in the Great Dukes service He had notice likewise that his Tzarskoy Majesty had dispatched an Ambassador to the King of Great Britain to complain of him as a person that had been deficient in his respects to the Tzar and his principal Boyars in the whole process of his Negotiation But the Ambassador having from time to time sent Copies into England of all that had passed betwixt him and the Commissioners and being otherwise well advised that the King his Master did well approve of what he had done he troubled not himself with what the Tzar should attempt being very well assured as indeed it afterwards happened that all his efforts would not be able to shake the reason and justice upon which his conduct was founded About the latter end of our Residence there there was a publick combat performed in the presence of the King with portable Pumps or Engins such as are used frequently in the quenching of great fires It was managed before the Pallace betwixt six or seven men one against another having several others appointed for the management of their Pumps and for supplying them with water from the Canal Every one discharged upon his adversary by lifting up the Pipe and levelling it against his Enemy exposing themselves to the force of the Engins within fifteen or sixteen paces and plying their business so well that they left one of the Champions but one eye to guide him back again to his House My Lord Morpeth departed for England on the first day of Dicember with four or five Gentlemen and some Footmen in
before being surpriz'd with the alarm of the skirmish came back thereupon and at length the business was composed but so that whereas we had usually five waggons before we went from hence but with four and the Page made the rest of his voiage without his Periwig The manner of our Treatment at this place perswaded us very strongly that the Ambassador was not known in this Town in which we found the People so unkind that we might perhaps with as much reason call it Poneropolis as that to which Philip King of Macedon gave that name being inhabited only by a sort of rude and raskally People The next day being arrived at Bremen we understood by the Gazette that my Lord Morpeth was prisoner at Wesel and that the Hollanders had taken him and his Train some two or three miles from Munster in his way to Cologne True it is the Gazette made not mention of his name but all the circumstances of the news were clear indications to us that it was his Lordship whom it meant which his Excellence applied to himself as a dangerous Omen And having designed to follow him upon the same Road he took all possible care to avoid the like misfortune for which cause he had a particular care to make a short stay in every Town and to assume only the bare title of a Gentleman In which act one might have said his Excellence seemed as well to represent the person of the King his Master in his Exile as he had lately done in the Pomp and Splendour of his Restoration In short we were no sooner arrived at Munster three days after our departure from Bremen but we understood the truth of the News and all the circmstances of my Lord Morpeth's being betrayed in that Town For by accident we lay in the very same Inn he had lain in before us And because it was very easy for us to have been discovered by the Liveries though the same were something disguised to prevent all intelligence that might be given to the Governour of Wesel his Excellence thought good to remove with all speed from Munster lest we should be surprised in the same manner So that we staid at Munster not above four or five hours which Expedition was so fortunate to us that we escaped the like danger thereby After we were gone a day or two's journey from the Frontiers we were not much sollicitous any more unless it were in our passage betwixt Calais and Dover but his Excellence managed this Voiage with that prudence and caution that at last we arrived very happily in England At Rochester we understood that the Ambassadors Lady was arrived at London fifteen days before and as for himself that the Court did not expect his coming so soon after they knew the condition of my Lord Morpeth Insomuch that the Court was altogether surprised with his arrival as they were soon after with that of his Son who arrived three days after my Lord his Father the States having released him and his Train after some days confinement at Wesel The Ambassador being returned to London in this manner went immediately to pay his Duty to his Majesty carrying with him the Letter which the Tzar had delivered him at Mosco The King having first signified the satisfaction he received to see him returned from so long a Voiage at length amongst other things spake to him about the Embassy which he had lately received from the Tzar and commanded him in order to his justification to give in writing a Narrative of all that had passed relating to himself in his first Embassy Which he performed to the confusion of the Ambassador that brought the accusation against him And for fear I should leave this work imperfect I thought it necessary to adjoyn to it my Lords Apology for without doubt it would have been a great indecorum having brought the Reader thus far to leave him in suspence in a business of so great Importance True it is the most things that are contained in it have been mentioned by me before yet there are several passages also which I reserved for this place to give the Reader more satisfaction and entertainment The Style being plain is therefore the more proper for this Relation whose business it is only to give an ingenuous Narrative entirely conformable to the truth and which answers directly to the Articles which the Tzars Ambassador presented against his Excellence I thought it not necessary to introduce the Articles by themselves because they are all of them particularly refelled in his Answer made in the following form â—n his Excellencies behalf as a justification â—f his proceedings The Lord Ambassadors Apology HAving received a writing from His Tzarskoy Majesties Embassadors whereâ— they testifie the extraordinary affection of His Tzarskoy Majesty toward his Royal â—ajesty and the great honours therefore â—ewn to the Earle of Carlisle His Royal â—ajesties late Embassador justifying moreâ—er all the proceedings of his Tzarskoy Majesties Commissioners treating with the â—d Earle of Carlisle and laying on the â—ontrary an hainous charge of several Arâ—les against the said Earle of Carlisle conâ—rning his Demeanor and Conduct in the â—d Embassy We therefore return for anâ—er a Narrative of the whole matter of â—ct as the said late Embassador extraordiâ—ry upon his Royal Majesties Command â—th stated it for his own just and necessary â—dication And first at the said Earle of Carlisleâ— first descent upon the bridge of Archangel there met him one Bogdan declaring he was appointed his Pristaf whom therefore the said Earle of Carlisle saluted and respected accordingly And when they should have gone toward the place appointed for his lodging the said Pristaf took the right hand of the Ambassador and said that he had such orders from Knez Sherbatof the Governour of Archangel Which the Earle of Carlisle refusing to submit to was forced to stand upon the open bridge in the sight oâ— so many strangers of several Nations about half an hour till the Pristaf might send up to the Castle for the Governours further pleasure who at last sent and altered the Pristafs orders Moreover the Earle of Carlisle being upon his journey from Archangel towards Vologda the Pristaf sent before to Knez Ivan Machailovitz Governour of the Vaga that meâ— might be ready at Arsinoa for drawing up the boats But the said Governour threatned the Strelitz that was sent reviled thâ— Pristaf and spoke slightingly of the Embassador nor took any care for providing meâ— necessary Insomuch that the Embassador was left there in a strange Countrey noâ— knowing how either to go forward or backward till by his own great care he got meâ— together being inforced to hire them at his own expence from Arsinoa to Yagrish Which money indeed at the Ambassadors departure from Mosco was repaid him Further the Stolnick Offonassy Evanovich Nestrof and the Diack Evan Stepanovich Davidof coming to Vologda as new Pristaves to conduct the Ambassador to Mosco the said Stolnick at his