Eleventh Emperor of the Turfa.

To which the $ailo mada Anfwer,Tbat hisMaje?
Ay was ill informed of che true ftate of thofe Mat*
ters , for that the Pore to which the Maltefbs
came, had neither Calile nor Fortrefs belonging
toit, but was an open, wide, and unforufiea
place -, for if the Grand Signier is not aMg to
defend fe Ships from careening* as they have
often done before Rhodes it fèjf, how was it
poûîble for the Venetians to: drive- them from the
Seas, and den; them the ufe of that Salt Water,
which hath neither Fort nor Caille to reach and
command them ? With which Anfwer Ibtukm
feetrnd to remain fatisfied ; and Matters appeared
(b appeafed on the fide o/ the Verietaans,
that So/rnçgi, though a Perfon, of a molt
acute and penetrating Judgment, Imagined no­
thing left than a War : and though he was affared
otherwise, by Ibraething that the Engli/h
AmbaJIàdor, had difcovered in that Matter 5
yet becaufe it came not hx-ft from the Report J|pf
one of his own Interpreters, he would not fecm
to believe or give credit thereunto« notwithstanding
the flrong Probabilities that might peris
it.
^Tttdeed, Chriftian Miniftcrs mult ncceflarily,
with much Difficulties, and lefs Infpecìion, goera
and penetrate Amurs in the Turkifh Court
gai in any other, becaufe accefs to the great
iniffcers is fêldom privately or familiarly adrted,
fron» whence wifeW[en, molt commonly
a ke their Mea fores and Obfervations i but on
the contrary, arc forced to act all by the. Negotiation,
of theii; Pruggermen or Interpreters,
and as they hear with jEhjenj Ears, fo arç t'hşsy,
often-times beholden to their Reflections,,'
which how fubject they may be to Error, tş beft
fcnown to thofe Miniflers who have practifbd
much and long iş that Court.,
And in this manner lkfmm covered his Dc-
flgn againffc C*ttdİ4% by pretence of making
War upon M*lta, to wjhjch he had lately recei­
ved fb juft a provocation.
*To this Epterprize, nonç infÜgated him more
than a certain Hagia, or Tutor, which had accompanied
him in jfjg time of his Solitude, and
had inftructed him in the firft Principles of the
Mahometan Doctrine ; he was a fubtil and] un-1
derftanding Mao» and one who kept a fecrct Correfpondence
in the Chriftian Courts j for being
Malter of what Gold he pleafcd, he paid for his
Intelligence with Liberality and Secrefy; and
though he was no Prophet» yet he pretended to
be a Magician, or Conjuras or one that had a
Command or Soveraignty over Familiar Spirits,
an Excellency greatly admired and reverenced by
the Turks. This Man had for a long Seafön attended
an opportunity to nromote % War a-
gainft fenice i eftecming their Territories very
convenient to be laid to the Turkifh Dominions,
and their Force an under-Match for the Puif 1
fance of the Ottoman Empire- And now this
Accident provoking the Delire of the Turks to
iş War, and the Opportunity appearing commodious
to cover the Defign, under pretence of
Sailing M$it*, it was fecretly refolved to attempt
the Ifland of Cavdin, for as its Strength
and Situation made it the Key to all the other
liltto the jircbipeUğo, fo it would be the Bullwarfc
of Maritime Countries, from whence
the Paflàge would be fhoit and eafy into ^rà«,
from whence the Gallies might advantagioufly
relieve £)pr#*, and guard the Fleet from Egyth
and from thence might be opened a Door to invade
Sidfy, and the other parts of Ittfy, On
thefe Confiderations, War being refolved againfb
CCMSM, Reports divulged the Defign only agaiuft
I 'twelfth Emperor of the Turfy
àfolta, an4 for that end, Orders were iflued for
building and fitting an hundred Gallies, and as
many Ships of War