her Lover's Billet took a great share in the publick Joy Yet neither Zouglan's Letter nor all she heard in commendation of the Serasquier who had the Reputation not to suffer any Injustice could re-assure her She thought her Lover flatter'd himself and that his Passion gave him this great Confidence she remarkt in his Letters Cabstan perpetually troubled her and she fear'd the last day of the Siege would be the Beginning of her Misfortunes prepossest that this Bassa would seize of all her Father's Estate and of her self too without her being able to hinder it since her Father dy'd in that Will Zouglan appear'd to her a weak Protector against a Bassa so authoriz'd Her Love and her Fear made her see a thousand Dangers in the Assistance she might expect from her Lover for she doubted not but he had Resolution enough to kill Cabstan but she foresaw he would be immediatly punisht for it and that she should still equally lose him All these Reflexions cruelly perplext her and she saw some Moments when she knew not whether she ought to desire the raising of the Siege In fine after having a long time tormented her self she found some Consolation in thinking she might avoid Cabstan by casting her self at the feet of the generous Serasquier asking him his Protection and informing him of the particular Reasons she had to prefer Zouglan before this Bassa Animated with this Hope she fail'd not to wish the Siege were ended and was already meditating upon all she should say to the Serasquier that she might encline him to her Interest when one of her Slaves acquainted her That her House was guarded by Fifty Janisaries and that the Aga who commanded them desir'd to speak with her Her Fear or rather her Love alarm'd made her presently judge they were Cabstan Bassa's Emissaries who would secure themselves of her Father's Succession and perhaps of her Person but the Aga presenting himself before her told her He was of the number of those that entred into the Place the day before and that he had Orders from the Serasquier Bassa to continue near her Person with Fifty Janisaries and to obey whatever she would command him and if through Misfortune the Place should be assaulted by the Christians which was not probable not to abandon her but rather to be all cut in pieces than to let her fall into their hands Zaratima was extremely surpriz'd at the Aga's Discourse not being able to comprehend through what Motive the Serasquier should so much concern himself for a Person he had never seen Having reason'd long within her self to divine the cause of it she imagin'd the Serasquier had perhaps heard something to her Advantage and that he was without doubt of the same Humor with the greatest part of the Turks who always begin to satisfie their Love before they declare their Passion to the Person that causes it This Thought gave her a thousand Horrors and engag'd her to make Reflexions on the unhappy Condition of the Turkish Women who are rather their Husband's Slaves than Companions She was troubled at the Education her Father had taken so much Care to give her since it serv'd only to make her more severely feel the Infelicity of her State She thought nevertheless she should be the most happy Person of her Sex if she might pass her Life with her Lover and maugre all the Reasonings she had made she found a sensible Pleasure in reading over again Zouglan's Letter judging also that if it were true the Serasquier had a Merit proportion'd to his Reputation it was not impossible he might be her Lover's particular Friend and might seek to give him an essential Proof of it by the Care he took of a Person which was not indifferent to him Whilst Zaratima was busied with such like Thoughts the Elector of Bavaria who was vext that he could not fight the Serasquier visited the Attack of his Troops and finding it very much advanc'd made them mount to the Assault The Breach which was not sufficient oblig'd them to retreat and expect till a Mine that was to be sprung had made a greater Tho the Christians Army began to want Victuals and Ammunition and was extremely diminisht by the frequent Combats they had with the Turks by the ordinary Fatigues of so long a Siege and by the continual Sallies they were forc'd to oppose yet were they not rebutted The Duke of Bavaria also declar'd That he would not raise the Siege till the last Extremity sending to his States for other Troops for Munitions of War and Mouth and for Cloths to keep the Souldiers from the Cold which began to incommode them A French Engenier who had serv'd in the King's Armies being at that time arriv'd in the Imperialists Camp gave them new Hopes they being perswaded that a Man which had made War under a Monarch who never undertook Siege without Success might facilitate their taking of the Place The Count Bielk whom we have seen Ambassador from Swedeland in France and who was a Voluntier in the Imperial Army presented this Engenier to the Elector of Bavaria This Prince who neglected nothing that might contribute to the taking of Buda gave him Employ the same Day He wrought to make a great Mine of which the Effect would have been infallible had it not been overflown by the running in of Water from the Town The Turks who from the Beginning of the Siege foresaw that the Christians might take from them the Water of the Danow digg'd a prodigious number of Pits which were afterwards very serviceable to them for the Elector of Bavaria perswaded of his Engeniers Capacity had already dispos'd his Troops to go up to the Assault assoon as this great Mine should be Sprung but at the time when they no longer doubted of Success word was brought them that many of these Pits were broken into the Miners Work and had quite drown'd it This hindred not the Elector of Bavaria whom all these Difficulties could not rebut to give immediately new Orders for beginning a Mine on another side In the mean time the Serasquier having receiv'd a Reinforcement of Troops and seeing that the Besiegers Army daily decreas'd appear'd before the Christians Camp at the Head of a great Body of Horse The Besieged made at the same time a vigorous Sally Whilst a Part of the Imperial Army was busied in repelling it and the Serasquier amus'd the Horse by Skirmishes eight great Boats laden with Men and Provisions sent by the Bassa of Agria pass'd the Danow above Pest A Detachment of these Turks having charg'd a a small number of Imperialists who guarded the Redoubts drove them away without much difficulty because all the Troops were employ'd another way which was the Cause this Relief got easily into the Place Nevertheless this hindred not the Imperialists who expected great Effects from their Mines to dispose all things for the giving a general Assault but a Deserter of the Imperial Troops being at
THE SERASQVIER BASSA AN Historical NOVEL OF THE TIMES Containing all that pass'd AT THE SIEGE of BVDA Out of FRENCH LONDON Printed for Henry Rhodes next Door to the Swan Tavern near Brides-Lane in Fleet-street TO MADAM THE DAVPHINESS MADAM I Present you a Book compos'd of a Mixture of real Facts and gallant Intrigues It bears the Name of the Serasquier In the mean time this General is only the Hero of the Romance My Lord Elector of Bavaria being the real Hero The Glory he has acquir'd at the raising the Siege of Vienna and the great Actions he did before Buda in the frequent Sallies he oppos'd and the several Combats in which he repell'd the Serasquier shew that he is animated with the Blood of the famous Emperor Rodulphus one of your Ancestors who so often made the Ottoman Empire tremble I believed Madam you would be well pleas'd to read in repose the Particular of so worthy a Brother's glorious Actions which have given you so many Alarms and this only Reason oblig'd me to this Work to assure you that I am with a most profound Respect Madam Your most Humble and most Obedient Servant TO THE READER HAVING given you The Grand Visier and The Illustrious Genouese Two Novels mixt with Incidents of the Times which have been favorably receiv'd by every one I present you with The Serasquier Bassa of the same Author hoping you will be no less satisfied with it than you were with his two first Works This last contains nothing but what is grounded on faithful Memoirs in respect of Zouglan's Fortune and his Elevation to the Office of Serasquier As to the Circumstances of the Siege of Buda you will find them here such as the exactest Relations have Publisht them THE SERASQVIER BASSA An Historical Novel OF THE TIMES IT has ever been a Maxim with the Ottoman Emperors to Educate in the Seraglio a great Number of Young Persons without any Distinction of Birth or Country The Education they receive is so conformable to the Interests of the State that all these Young Men acknowledging no Kindred propose to themselves no other aim but the Empire 's Grandeur and the Sultan's Glory At their going out of the Seraglio they are usually put into the Troops with very small Pay having neither Goods Protection nor any other Refuge but the Hopes of Meriting Rewards by their Service Those that want Wit and Address to raise themselves pass their Lives in a Condition unhappy enough whereas those who have Merit attain sometimes to the greatest Dignities of the State It is certain that the most considerable Officers of the Ottoman Empire have had this Beginning which is the Cause that the Turks who are in the first Stations are ordinarily Men of Active Spirits and full of Address although for the most part of an insatiable Avarice which obscures all their good Qualities Zouglan who is at this day so well known in Hungary by the Name of the Serasquier Bassa was Educated in this Manner He was Handsom very Generous and full of high Thoughts but so Proud that being yet in the Seraglio he disdained the greatest part of his Commarades which much contributed to the getting him Enemies It very often happens that these Young Men uncertain of their future Lot joyn themselves five or six together making a kind of Union or Society whereby they reciprocally engage themselves to a mutual Participation of Estates and Fortunes if they have one day the Happiness of being advanced which promise is afterward performed with very much fidelity Zouglan would never enter into any such Engagements with any one Ibrahim was the only Person of his Comarades whom he esteemed and familiarly convers'd with He lived in so great a Confidence of his Fortune that he many times promised Ibrahim to contribute to his Advancement without troubling himself to require from him the same Condition In fine Zouglan at his going forth from the Seraglio went to serve at Sea where he gave Proofs of his Courage on many Occasions meriting the Applause of his Generals but foreseeing he could at most arrive to be only Bey or Captain of a Galley because the great employs of the Sea were given only to very experienc'd Officers so limited a Charge not being capable to satisfie his Ambition he resolved to serve on Land putting himself in the Army the Grand Seignior had on foot against Poland He was not long there e're he acquir'd a great deal of Glory His Name became Famous in the Ottoman Army and they spake of him in all the Frontier Places as of an Adventurer that knew no dangers These happy Successes augmented his natural Haughtiness and also gave a jealousie to many Officers of the Army Cabstan Bassa who commanded the Cavalry hindring one day his going forth of the Camp with an hundred Horse he had chosen for a very bold Attempt Zouglan shewed himself not a little discontented at it saying publickly That he would complain to the Grand Visier of Cabstan Bassa's having made him lose a favorable Occasion to destroy the Enemies of the Port. Cabstan Bassa informed of it sent to seek him in his Tent and after having spoken to him in very outrageous Terms threatned to treat him very severely if he ever happened to fail of the Respect he ow'd him The fierce Zouglan penetrated with Spight and Choler laid his Hand on his Sabre The Bassa would have killed him on the Place had he not been stayed by some other Officers that were near him Zouglan was Arrested and the whole Army blam'd his Action The Bassa would not however have it brought before the Council of War being contented with sending him Prisoner to the Castle of Temisoüar of which Selim Aga was at that time Governor He was a Man of Service who had acquir'd a great Estate by the Favor of the Sultaness Valida his Protectress He had a great Authority in his Government living more like a Bassa than a particular Governor He had only one fair Daughter whom he lov'd with extream Tenderness She being born in Hungary he bred her up after the manner of the Country making her always eat with him and not Subjecting her to the particular and retir'd Life of the Turkish Women Zouglan being arriv'd at the Castle of Temisoüar Selim who knew his Reputation treated him with a great deal of Respect and seeking to sweeten the Discontents the loss of his Liberty might have caused in him gave him a Chamber commodious enough in the Castle where he was so strictly Guarded that none was permitted to see him Selim trusted no body with him but himself scarce suffering his Keaia or Intendent tho' he were a Man in whom he confided to enter with him into his Prisoners Chamber Zaratima this is the Name of Selim's Daughter having often heard her Father speak of Zouglan's Courage and the Gallant Actions he had done was touch'd with his Disgrace through a Sentiment natural to Persons of her Sex who
possest all his thoughts he told her farther That he had so much indifference for all other Persons in the World that he would not go one step to enjoy the fairest Princess on the Earth He presented her his Friends Letter beseeching her to look into it to the end it might the better serve to justify what he told her Zaratima judging by Zouglan's Submissions and the good opinion she already had of him that he spake sincerely to her found her self less unhappy than she thought for Zouglan was overjoy'd to see her Choler dissipated and went a little after forth of her Chamber that being alone with her Women she might more easily recover out of the disorder in which he left her As soon as he was alone he made a thousand Reflexions upon his adventure which appear'd to him very singular The remembrance of what he ow'd to Ibrahim put him at first in a great perplexity It was difficult for him to resolve to fail him His particular Interest and the Sentiments he had for the fair Zaratima appeared to him of too feeble importance to hinder him from doing his Friend the Service he expected from his cares But when he represented to himself what he ow'd to Zaratima and made reflexion That he should never have known this Friend had she not given him the means by delivering him out of the danger he had been in he no longer question'd the puting himself on her side believing he embrac'd it only through a pure motive of acknowledgment The Pleasure he took in deceiving himself making him shut his Eyes against the different motives that shar'd in his Resolution he revok'd all the Orders he had already given and willing to draw some advantage from his Error he magnificently treated Zaratima causing her to be serv'd with what ever could be found most rare in Bithynia He afterward desired her to give him leave to wait upon her to Temisoüar with a Guard of five hundred Janisaries to secure her from all Attempts her extraordinary Beauty might inspire into those that should see her Zaratima was so satisfied to see that Zouglan gave not himself the Lye by any of his Actions and that she was not deceiv'd in the Advantageous Judgements she had made of him that she let him in fine understand she perceiv'd his Care and that he might assure himself she should always be dispos'd to render Justice to his Merit Zouglan who had never dar'd speak to her of his Love acquainted her that he had very passionate Sentiments for her from the first Moment he saw her making use of the strongest Expressions Love could furnish him with to demonstrate to her That his Life would be insupportable to him without the hopes he had to employ it for her Service Zaratima perswaded of his Love and mollified by these last words spake to him in very obliging Terms In the mean time she forbad him going along with her refusing also the Guard he offered her but Zouglan was too much interested in her safety to let her go without being well attended The Prohibition she had made him was to no purpose He caused her to be follow'd by thirty Janisaries of whose Fidelity and Valor he was assur'd ordering them not to leave her till she was near Temisoüar Zaratima departed very well satisfi'd with her Lovers Conduct and so far from being displeased with his not having obey'd her that the Care he had of making her be guarded tho against her Will finished the convincing her of his Passion and confirm'd her in the favorable Sentiments she already had for him So true it is That there are Occurrences in which Indiscretion passes with Ladies for Merit Zouglan in the mean time was not a little disquieted The Letter he had receiv'd from his Friend oblig'd him to give him an Account of what he had done and at the same time to set himself right in his Opinion but not being able to resolve on the making use of any Artifice to disguise the Truth to him he chose rather not to write Ibrahim some time after sent him word that he believed he had not received his Letter since he made him no Answer about a matter for which he relyed on him being throughly perswaded that he wanted not good Will to serve him when Occasion offered Zouglan without descending any farther into particulars answered him That he did him Justice in holding himself assured of the Zeal he had for his Interests About this time dy'd the Sultaness Valida which wrought a great Change in the Affairs of the Port. The Ministers who feared her had very great Respects for her not daring to decide any thing in important Matters without demanding her Advice Kislar Agasi governed within the Seragli◠and stood very fair in the Grand Seignior's Opinion Cara Mustapha the Grand Visier regulated all State Affairs Ibrahim Caimacan had the Direction of the Finances subordinate to the Grand Visier and Soliman Aga Master of the Horse was the Privado of the Sultan's Pleasures and kept a perfect Intelligence with the other Ministers However as they all knew the Address of Valida and were sensible how great an Ascendant she had over the Grand Seignior's Spirit when she would give her self the Trouble to cultivate it they liv'd with great Circumspection towards her and testified to her abundance of Attachment and Respect always fearing she would cause some Revolution in favor of her second Son Soliman but after the Death of that Sultaness they no longer kept Measures with this Prince His Party became in a little time very weak and as he had not any Relation with the Ministers to advance his Creatures the most part abandoned him to follow the Grand Visier There was soon after a Discourse of War and Cara Mustapha who during the Life of Valida durst not stir from the Port declar'd That at the beginning of the Spring he would go into the Campaign at the Head of a powerful Army Zouglan who was accustomed to the Fatigues of War and to lead a Tumultuous Life very opposite to the Tranquillity in which he was with Soliman without hope of seeing his Mistress and far from Opportunities of acquiring Glory fell into a Languishment which dayly decayed his Health His Generosity and the Remembrance of what he had promised Valida obliged him to force his Temper and to suffer all the Incommodities which the Violence he did himself rendred inevitable to him but the Rumors of War which were spread about on every side awaked his first Ardor and gave him new Inquietudes He represented to himself that being engag'd in the Service of Soliman he could not abandon that Prince without offending his Honor and particularly since it was every where said That the vast Designs of Valida would come to nothing and that this Reason had already made Soliman lose many of his Creatures Zouglan was continually tormented with these Reflexions not being able to resolve either upon living any longer
extremity Zouglan who already knew of the Siege of Buda was at his arrival at Belgrade inform'd of the Turks Defeat and of the great Consternation all their Troops were in He apply'd himself with extraordinary care to give order for all things and the sole Hope of speedily seeing his Mistress comforted him for the ill Condition in which he found all the Affairs of Hungary He was already preparing himself to go to her whil'st the Troops he destin'd for the Relief of Buda were drawing together when he learnt that Cara Mahomet Bassa of Mesopotamia who commanded in Buda being sick at the time he was advertiz'd that the Christians thought to attack him had sent order to Selim Disdar or Governor of Temisouar of whose Valor and Experience he was satisfy'd to come and assist him with his Counsels and Command in the Place if his Sickness continu'd and that the Disdar to answer the Bassa's Confidence and shew him that he fear'd not the Christians was gone to join him having taken with him whatever he had most precious and also his Daughter Zaratima judging she would be in greater Security with him than any where else This News was not a little displeasing to the Serasquier who saw his Hopes frustrated by it and his Mistress expos'd to all the Perils and Incommodities that are suffer'd in a Besieged Town This Reason augmented the Hatred he already had for the Christians and made him redouble his Cares speedily to relieve the Place He wrote 〈…〉 Grand Visier to acquaint 〈…〉 the State of Affairs and to 〈…〉 him new Succors He sent Couriers on all sides to press the March of the Troops he would assemble He visited all the Places to the end he might see whether he could not draw out a Party from the Garrisons without exposing them to be assaulted and distributed also store of Money to make Recruits His great Reputation his Liberalities and the Confidence that appear'd in all his Actions greatly contributed to raise the fallen Courage of the Ottoman Troops In the mean time tho he were a Man of very great Merit the Newness of his Office of Serasquier fail'd not to impose upon the People who were so prepossest in his favor that they spake of him as the Restorer of the Empires Affairs even before he had attempted any thing Being arriv'd at Zighet he went to visit Cabstan Bassa in his Prison and having askt him whether he knew him the Bassa who was already inform'd of his Advancement and perswaded he would cause him to be Strangled answer'd him fiercely That he must not expect to see him guilty of so much Mean-spiritedness as to ask him a Life he well knew he had resolv'd to deprive him of as himself would not have fail'd to treat him in the same manner had he not escap'd from him at Temisouar but that Fortune having dispos'd it otherwise it was reasonable he should be punisht since he was the most unfortunate The Serasquier surpriz'd at so haughty an Answer and so beseeming a Man of War gave him his hand and told him That the only Revenge he would take of him was to desire his Amity and to give him the Command of an Army for to put a great Convoy into Caminiec and to oppose the Attempts the Polonians might make upon that Place He would not so much as require of him any Condition as to oblige him to think no more of Zaratima being throughly perswaded that his Love and his Fortune would cause him to be preferr'd before his Rivals Cabstan confounded at the Serasquier's Generosity kiss'd the Hem of his Garment assuring him he should have an eternal Acknowledgment of the Favor he did him The Serasquier being departed from Zighet to go to Alba Regalis learnt by the way that he must no longer expect to receive any Succor from the Bassa of Possega because Count Lesly at the Head of an Army he had rais'd in Croatia had besieged the Fortress of Wierovitza the taking of which facilitated that of the Bridge of Esseck which had oblig'd the Bassa of Possega who knew of what Importance the conservation of that Fortress was to them to draw together all the Troops that were in the neighbouring Places and to endeavor the Relief of Wierevitza but that the Imperialists had repell'd him and constrain'd him to retire after he had lost the greatest part of his Troops which had so much intimidated the Garrison of Wierovitza that they had Surrendred on the single Summons of the Christian General The Serasquier was sensibly afflicted at this ill News He learnt others at his arrival at Alba Regalis which comforted him for the loss of Wierovitza for he had advice That Cara Mahomet Bassa who commanded in Buda was perfectly recover'd since the Christians had besieg'd his Place That he wanted neither Victuals nor Ammunitions That he had Seven thousand Men of the old Troops not counting the Inhabitants and Jews who did almost as much Service as the Souldiers and in fine that he made vigorous Sallies which much incommoded the Besiegers These Advices made the Serasquier judge he should have time to get together Troops sufficient to relieve the Place but when he made reflexion on the Inquietudes of his Mistress who was in a besieged Town and had not of a very long time heard from him he was asham'd he had so long delay'd to let her know his Arrival and determin'd immediately to write her the following Billet I Was come to be near you with a Design of never parting from you I learnt at my arrival you were at Buda with your Father and that the Christians had besieged that Place I will never pardon them the sensible discontent they have given me in depriving me of the Pleasure to see you to speak to you of my Love and to give you account of all I have suffer'd being away from you I hope to punish these Infidels and to make them experiment what a man can do who at the same time serves his Prince and defends what he loves I also flatter my self that your Father will put some difference between Cabstan and me and that he will not find me altogether unworthy of you He would not send her word of his new Dignity of Serasquier either through Modesty or perhaps to surprize her more agreeably when he should see her He forbad also a dextrous Renegado who was got out of Buda and who undertook to return thither to tell Zaratima that it was the Serasquier who gave him that Billet His Love hindred him not from making use of this Occasion to exhort Cara Mahomet to a sedulous Performance of his Devoir telling him that he had already given an account to the Grand Visier of the Resolution he testify'd to make a good Defence of his Place that he could assure him he should soon be reliev'd but that he pray'd him to remember that if the Christians should succeed in their pernicious Enterprises the Mosques of the
that time got into Buda discover'd to the Besieged the Place where the Mines were telling them also That if they had their Effect it was impossible to avoid the Places being taken This Advice gave no little Disquiet to the Turks and oblig'd them to work with an extreme Diligence to discover the Mines by opening the Earth in many different places to meet with the Besiegers Works Tho they had labor'd a whole day to no purpose yet did not this ill Success discourage them They resolv'd on the contrary to hazard all that they might hinder the Effect of these Mines and having made a Sally with all the Troops they had left in a Condition to fight they drove the Imperialists as far as the Batteries after having Kill'd them above Two hundred Men. A great Number of Laborers who were come out of the Place got in the mean time to the Mouth of the Mines and drew out the Powder All the Imperial Army took Arms to repel this great Sally The Elector of Bavaria ran thither in Person and animated all things by his Example Many Squadrons were made to March The Turks who would give their Laborers time to draw out the Powder made many Discharges before they retreated They lost a great many Men upon this occasion but they re-entred not into the Place till after the Mines were empty'd and the Imperialists Works entirely ruin'd Prince Charles of Lorrain seeing that the Army was very much weakned that the Souldiers were discourag'd by so long a Siege that the Serasquier continu'd to tire them out by such frequent Alarms and that the Cold and continual Rains would quite destroy the Troops call'd a Councel of War to deliberate upon the Resolutions they ought to take in so contrary Conjunctures Some of the General Officers were for a continuation of the Siege as expecting yet a good Effect from a new Mine the Troops of Bavaria had made but the most part were of Opinion That they ought to retreat in the best order they possibly could to save the Remainder of the Army The Elector of Bavaria who hearkned only to his Glory made a great Difficulty of consenting to it General Serini who commanded this Prince's Troops seeing that the Imperialists were determin'd to retreat represented to him that he was not responsible for the the Success of the Siege of Buda since it was not he that undertook it who only went to assist the Imperial Troops mov'd by the Zeal he had for Religion That he ought to be very well contented with the Actions he had done in the frequent Sallies his Troops had born and in the several Combats in which they had beaten back the Serasquier That he might also assure himself the whole World would do him Justice not having had less Ardor to take Buda than he had shewn the year before to drive the Infidels from the Gates of Vienna That if the Success had not been equal his Glory was not therefore less since it is certain That if the other Princes of Germany had imitated his Example they might not only have taken Buda and chas'd the Turks out of all the Places they held in Hungary but have driven them also as far as Constantinople and made the whole Ottoman Empire tremble That after all great Princes are often expos'd to lose Forces but that the Glory they have acquir'd is immortal and continues always with them and that they find Means to raise other Armies in their States That in fine an Assault was no longer to be thought of since they could not give it without exposing themselves to be all lost nor avoid fighting between two Fires the Garrison which had made good Retrenchments being yet very strong and the Serasquier always ready to charge the Christians as soon as they should make any Motion to give a general Assault The young Prince maugre the Heat of his Courage let himself be perswaded by such good Reasons Orders were given for Transporting by the means of a Bridge of Boats Eight thousand Sick and Wounded with the Artillery and heavy Baggage into the Isle of St. Andrew All the Army about Thirty thousand strong Decampt afterwards and having pass'd the Danow took their March by old Buda for to go to Gran. The Serasquier who held it for a Maxim That one must make a Bridge of Gold for his Enemy when they will retire and who had an extreme Impatience to see his dear Zaratima made not any Motion to charge the Imperialists in their Retreat but entred into Buda as soon as the Christians had pass'd the Dahow He was receiv'd with Acclamations and Shouts of Joy which for a very long time hindred him from being able to make himself heard He gave a thousand Commendations to the Garrison and Inhabitants and forgot nothing to perswade the Aga who commanded that he might expect all manner of Recompence for the great Service he had done the whole Ottoman Empire He found every where good Retrenchments which made him judge that the Germans had ruin'd their Army if they had given a general Assault as they would have done He got rid with all the speed he possibly could of the Aga and other Officers and feigning he would honor the Memory of Selim who had so well defended the Place caus'd himself to be conducted to his Daughter Zaratima who was preparing to go forth of her House to cast her self at the Serasquier's Feet and desire his Protection against Cabstan Bassa but as soon as she faw Zouglan appear the Presence of this dear Lover re-assur'd her She thought no longer of visiting the Serasquier she had even a great deal of Difficulty to conceal the Transports of Joy she felt and to keep up in presence of the Officers that environ'd this General the Personage she represented of a Daughter afflicted for the Death of her Father She was so busied with her Love and found so much Pleasure in seeing her Lover after so many Alarms and so long an Absence that she perceiv'd not the Respects every one gave Zouglan who having an Infinity of Orders to give was oblig'd to quit his Mistress and to delay till another time the giving her account of his Elevation to the Office of Serasquier and of all other things that had befallen him since he saw her Zaratima let him go out perswaded she should soon see him again She began to relish without constraint the Joy this agreeable Interview had caus'd in her when a Letter was brought her from Cabstan Bassa who writ to her That not doubting but she was in the Resolution to execute Selim's last Will he sent her a Man in whom he confided who should take care of all her Affairs and should Conduct her to Temisouar where he promis'd to meet her as soon as the Campaign was over Zaratima who always foresaw that Cabstan Bassa would give her some Trouble would not see the Man he sent her determining to follow her first Thought and secure