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A51883	The first volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscovered 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) from the year 1637 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, first translated into Italian, afterwards into French and now into English.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Saltmarsh, Daniel.	1691 (1691)	Wing M565BB; ESTC R29485	217,148	388

which is due to thy sublime Grandeur whereunto thy Merit has raised thee And having cast my self at thy Feet in Spirit seeing I cannot really kiss them I obey the Orders thou sendest me which are to me inviolable Laws Banniere the Swedish General is dead when Picolicomini one of the Generals of the Emperor's Army lay just by him In half an hours time he saved himself the Army all the Baggage and Cannon and retired with incredible Swiftness over Mountains and Forrests where the Beasts alone could make Passages having continually the Emperor's Army at his back He was a Man of great Valour had been highly serviceable to the Crown of Swedeland and acquired the Reputation of an excellent Commander The Emperor had offered him some time before great Recompences and the Dignity of Prince of the Empire if he would change his Master and forsake the Confederates Party He had also offered thinking this might more move him to make him General of his Army against the Grand Signior but he refused all these Offers his Fidelity being unmoveable This great Captain was born in Swedeland and when a Child he fell down from a high Window without receiving any Hurt which made the King imagine Heaven design'd him for some thing extraordinary He travelled much in his Youth and he was seen never tired in running to all places where there was any War sometimes in Poland and otherwhiles in Muscovia And being become General of his King's Army he soon acquired the Reputation of one of the greatest Captains of the Northern Part. He was perfectly skilled in the Art of Encamping and no body could ever better draw up an Army for Battel His way of Retreat from before an Army stronger than his must needs be admired by all the World He ever chose good Posts and when once he was possess'd of them he knew well how to keep them so that he was never defeated whatever Forces his Enemy might bring against him He has destroy'd Fourscore Thousand Men in different Rencounters and Swedeland glories in having above Six hundred Standards He was so like King Gustovus tha● they have been often taken for one another He was never covetous but was observ'd to be a good Husband Among so many Occasions wherein he signaliz'd himself what he did when the Swedish Army was worsted at Norlinge is most remarkable he preserved the Rest though wholly forsaken by the Allies and so ordered the Matter that he raised fresh Troops almost in an instant and gave his Party Time and Courage to rise up And this is all I could learn of this great Captain whose Reputation has given thee Curiosity Although Don Duarte de Braganza the new King of Portugal's Brother served with great Reputation in the Emperor's Army yet 't is said the Spaniards had been very urgent with this Monarch to make him be apprehended as soon as ever they heard the King his Brother was raised to the Throne But 't is said the Emperor was scandaliz'd with such a Proposition alledging this would be against the Rules of Hospitality But the Empress's Confessor found such Reasons in his Divinity as brought over the Emperor to yield he should be delivered into the Spanish Minister's Hands who conducted him with a very strong Party to the Castle of Milan whence he is not like to stir out till his Brother shall restore the Crown of Portugal to Philip IV. of Spain I shall write what remains behind to the Kaimakan who has the Honour of being thy Lieutenant that I may not the thee who art to be reverenced as the instrument of the Wills of the Master of Lights and all whose Hours are destin'd to the Government of the World May it please him who of nothing has created all things that thou maist lay one day at the Feet of the Grand Signior the Crowns of all the Monarchs who command in the Infidels Countries and become thereby the Arbiter of the Universe Paris 18th of the 1st Moon of the Year 1642. LETTER XII To the Kaimakam at Constantinople THis King here has mortified his Parliament by the Advice of Cardinal Richlieu The Parliaments are Bodies of Learned Men who decide all Affairs in the Kingdom as well Civil as Criminal and the Parliament of Paris has a larger Jurisdiction than all others and as considerable Prerogatives What I have to say on this Subject has happened from the beginning of the last Year and I now relate it because I forgat to do it when the thing happened And I will inform thee before I enter on the Matter what obliged heretofore the Kings of France to set up this great Seat of justice The ancient Kings of France gave it Authority of approving and verifying the Edicts and Declarations which they should make which was a Bar which these wise Princes would fix between the People and the Sovereign Authority Whence it appeared that Monarchy was mix'd with Aristocracy without which the Wise have thought that States could not long subsist And the Princes of this Age have submitted to a Tribunal re-established by themselves the Resolutions they take to the end they may discharge themselves towards God to whom they are accountable as well as other Men and to obtain Confidence from their Subjects in taking from amongst them Arbiters to regulate them Yet they have ever reserved the Liberty of making use of their Absolute Power as is seen in their Letters Patents where they forget not to insert these Words For such is our Will and Pleasure These Monarchs also thought hereby to have found out a way to defend themselves from the Importunities of the Grandees who often demanded such things which could not be granted without Prejudice to the whole Kingdom The Authority of the now reigning King being out of danger of being shaken or destroyed this Monarch having his Exchequer well stored has valiant and experienced Captains stout Soldiers and numerous Armies and good Fleets of Ships at Sea whereby he would make known to this puissant Tribunal That if it had been set up to assist the Kings by its Counsels when required yet it must not pretend that its Decrees should become Laws to their Sovereigns He went to the Parliament with all the Marks of Grandeur with which he is usually attended on these Days of Ceremony and with such a great Company of Lords as made the Power of this Monarch easily discerned He gave these Gentlemen to understand he would have them ratifie without more adoe the Orders he would send them which they term Edicts requiring them to be immediately enregistred He afterwards gave them an express Charge not to concern themselves henceforwards in Affairs of State and to humble them the more he declared to them That he would be henceforward the Disposer of Graces and Offices and bestow Recompences to such as deserved them He added hereunto an Order of giving an account every Year to his Chancellour of their Deportments and to come and receive every year

Liberty to ask of thee If the King of Portugal accepted the Combat and killed the Duke of Medina which of the two would have been declared Infamous Whether there be any Certainty in the Decisions made by Arms I am willing to think Justice is on the Side of the Conqueror But if on the contrary the Event of the Duel be uncertain I take it to be a foolish thing for the Duke to expose himself and thus Affront the King his Brother-in law In short the Duke's Prudence is not to be admired in this Occasion and Braganza has had the Advantage on his Side seeing he has shewed by his Conduct that he is effectually King of Portugal I cannot but call these Christians Fools who suffer such Customs among them and yet adore a Messias who is a God of Peace and who calls us Barbarians when they are the only People that teach us and all other Nations the Arts of single Combats which is the most pernicious Custom that can be introduced amongst Men who cut one anothers Throats oftentimes on slight Occasions and become Prodigals of that Treasure with which the Immortal has intrusted them Neither can I any more approve of Kings and Princes of the same Beliefs making War with one another as we see every Day amongst those who profess the Christian Religion which yet as far as I can find scarcely permits any Wars but such as are Defensive Pardon this tedious Letter excuse my Conjectures in it and honour me with thy Commands which will be respected by me as so many Obligations Paris 25th of the 6th Moon of the Year 1642. LETTER XXV To the Invincible Vizir Azem at Constantinople WE hear of nothing now-a-days but Wars and Conspiracies Seditions Treasons Infidelities and Revolutions of State and it is in the Kingdoms of Vice wherein these Plagues of Heaven make these Disorders I mean in the Christians Countries Infidelity reigns amongst the People of Catalonia England and Portugal the Revolutions which have hapned in Barcellona have no Example the Defiance or the Challenge of a Subject to a King as is that of the Duke of Sidonia to the King of Portugal as his Brother-in-law and his Enemy does equally surprize all the World We have reason to think that God is angry with the Christians when we consider Flanders Germany Italy and the Frontiers of Spain pestered with Wars which they make one against another The Animosity of most of the great People of France against the Cardinal Favourite enduces them to lay Plots against his Life whence we may see that great Places are good for nothing but to expose men to great Dangers The last Conspiracy discovered against the Life of D. John IV. of Portugal raised to the Throne by the Nobility and betrayed by the same Nobility not by the whole Body of them but by a small Number of those who had taken an Oath of Fidelity to him as well as the rest does plainly shew us That there is nothing in this World whereon a Man may rely with any Certainty and that here are many People who undertake just Actions by the Motions of an unjust and turbulent Spirit which cannot suffer Things to remain long in a quiet State and aspire continually after Change and to whom every Thing is good that is new I shall relate to thee in few Words this last Event Thou hast been informed of the others by the Letters I have written to thee Invincible General of the Ottamon Armies and Steward of the Emperour's Laws who is the Soveraign of Soveraigns and by those which the Kaimacam and the Bassas have received from me who are obliged to give thee an Account of whatever comes to their Knowledge Several of the great ones in Portugal and amongst them some of the new King's Kindred hatched a Conspiracy against him and resolved to put the Kingdom again into the Spaniard's Hands and entirely ruin the Family of Braganza The principal Author of the Conspiracy was D. Sebastian de Mattos Archbishop of Brague the Count Duke d' Olivarez's Creature to whom he owed his Fortune The chief who conspired with this Seditious Priest were the Marquis de Ville Reale and the Count d' Armamar these two Men of great Birth and Credit soon drew several others into their Party some by the Hope of Recompences and others through Weariness of obeying their new Sovereign or weary with the new Form of State which they thought might change to their Advantage They long held a secret Intelligence with the Catholick King 's Council who promised them all possible Assistance for the Execution of their Design and after that infinite Recompences This Conspiracy was to produce a dreadful Tragedy wherein all the Bloud of the Royal House and Family of Braganza was to be spilt The King was to be the first Victim with his Children and the Queen his Wife D. Duart also was to be put to Death who was kept close Prisoner in the Castle of Milain A Domestick affectioned to his Master and who was attentive to what past delivered the King and Family of Braganza out of this Danger He was ordinarily employed in secret Intrigues and made frequent Courses into Spain to discover the Designs of the Court of Madrid He met by chance in an Inn a man who seemed of a mean Condition born in the Kingdom of Bohemia with whom having entered into a strict Friendship as it happens usually amongst Travellers he came to discover he was often dispatched by the Catholick King 's principal Minister on Affairs of great Weight and that he expected in a short Time to raise his Fortune to a considerable Pitch being entrusted with Packets of Letters containing Things of the highest Importance to the State The crafty Portuguese soon discerning he might get out Secrets of great Concernment from this imprudent Man for the good of his Master resolved to kill him in a desart Place where they were to pass which he did having first made him drunk with strong Wine Assoon as he had done his Work he stript him and found Letters and Instructions to the Conspirators which he speedily carried to D. John who thereby discovered the whole Conspiracy Others say that D. Alphonso of Portugal Count de Vermissa having been solicited by the Achbishop of Brague who thought he could easily bring him into the Conspiracy being discontented at the King for taking away from him a great Office went to his Soveraign and freely discovered to him the Conspiracy which had been made to deprive him both of his Crown and Life And 't is added That this Count appeared since one of the hottest of the Accomplices till the very Instant wherein they were to execute their Project at which Time they were apprehended and punished as they deserved Others say the Duke of Medina Sidonia the King's Brother-in-law who appeared to the Accomplices to be of the Plot gave notice of it to the King his Brother In fine the Conspirators were executed