Eleventh Emperor of the Turfa.

Twelfth Em
T(f4o. took high contentment and fàtisfaction. His
t^*v"\j other Recreations were» Horfè-races, and Shoot-
;'.-; ing with the Bow, rewarding the moll dextér
K n rous Archers. Bufincfs was a Stranger to him,
he knew not what it meant, nor thought there
was other Employment for the Emperor than to
[,. - ftudy thole Pa/linics, which moll correfponded
P.,' with his Youth and Nature : only the Vizier
would fomctimes, in Matters of high Importance,
demand his Aflênt, which was either out
of formality, or elfe to fecure himfclf with the
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The Year 1641 being now entered, the Sul- 264.1.
tan palled a moll Luxurious Life in his Seraglio, \j-y>J
confiuning an imraenfe Treafurc on his Women ;
and whiiit thtfe two Fleets were preparing to
proceed on tfuir rcfpe&ive Expedition, that idtended
for Afac- had almoft been diverted by
the Rumors and Dillurbances on the Frontiers
of Hungary ; but they werefoon afterwards appealed,
by an appearance of an Envoy from the
Emperor, and return of a Chiaus to Vienna,
with Ratification of all the former Articles and
\ Name and Authority of his Mailer. 2 '• Conditions of Peace. Howfòevèr the German
The News of Sultan Ibrahim's promotion to Internuncio was braved at the Port, for not ap­
the Throne being arrived at Penice, the moil pearing fooner with his Preterits and Comple­
fèrene Republick difpatched Pietro Fofcarini as ments of Congratulation, for the happy En­
. , -. their Amballador Extraordinary to complement trance of Sultan Ibrahim to the Ottoman
imfuttt the Sultan. The Prince of Tranjyhania in like Throne ; fo apt are the Turks to believe Acts of
compiontnt- manner lent his Tribute, which was Ionie Hawks, •Civility, or Ceremony, to be Parts of Obedi­
SMIUB lb- and twelve Vefléls of Gilded Plate, as feudatary ence and Submiffionj and what Chriftians have
t^òm. Acknowledgments for the Lands held, and for once given them voluntarily, is afterwards ex­
H his Confirmation in the Principality. j§ acted as a Matter of Debt or duty.
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The Miniflers of other Princes having palled And being thus freed from a Sulbicion of
the like Addrefle«, which were cuiloniary, the Troubles in Hungary, and exempted from the
Ambaflädors of Poland made Complaints of the Fears of waging two Wars at once, ( which the
Tartars, whole Incuriions againil them, the Turks always fludloufly avoid ) they dilpatched
Turks, by Conditions of Peace, were obliged . a Letter into Poland, to demand paflağe for
to reitrain, but in this, as in other Occasions their Army, through that Country, to the Siege
(ince that time, the Poles conld obtain no Re- of Afac ; but that not being confènted unto,
drefs from the Turks, who willing to have the the Turks prepared to open their way by Force*
Chriftians oppreflêd or ruined, either feem- and the Poles to defend the Paflage. in which
ed not to give Credit to the Subject of Com­ interim, many Difâfters concurred, iufficient to
plaints, or elle to find out Excufês to acquit the difcourage the Turks in their Defign i who are
Tartar; which being fo known and common a a People, that fuperftitioufly calculate the Sue-*
Practice with the Turk, it is to be wondrcd why cefs of their Enterpriies, by the difficulty or
the Poles have fent fo many late Meflâges of fmooth iùecefs of their firft beginnings :_ For*
•this Nature, which in former, as well as m this when the Vizier was ready to depart, a dreadful
prefênt Age, have proved fruitlefs ; a pregnant FJre happened in Cdnßatttittople, to the quench­
Example of which we fhall find in the Reign of ing of which, applying not only his Orders, but
his own Perlon ; he adventured fo far, that he
Sultan Mohamet, Son of this Ibrahim.
burned both his Hands, and fmged his Beard in
ıongffc other Corruptions of thefê Times, that mannet» that he was forced tò take his Bed
Alpers were fo cut and dipt, that the Dollar for leverai Days, where he Was honoured with
role from eighty to an hundred and twenty A- a Vifîtof the Sultan.
Ipers *, which Traegularity being complained of
in the Divan, aO Monies were reduced to their News allò came at the fame time, that Taurus
intrinfick Value ì and the Afpers called in to be or Ecbatan, on the Borders of Perfa, was mi-
coined in the Mint, to the great Damage of the ferably ruin'd by an Earthquake 1 and what was
People.
worffe, the Sultan himlëlf was fcized with an fi
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But this Matter will not appear ftrange, if it Apoplexy, which turned to a Paralytical Difteni-
be compared to the Vellion of Spain, and to jthe per, the 'Càule whereof was attributed to his
Perrailfion in Turkey, of the bale AHoy of Te- exceffive ufe of Women ; to whom he was fo
mins, by which never any Nation before was immoderately addicted, that he confumed his
ever fo cheated and abufed.
Days and Nights in their Apartments. This
And now the Storms of War, which threat- Difealc, whiJi İs rarely or never cured, being
ned from ferpa, being blown over, it was joined to a Report given out by his Ladies, that
judged fcafonable to reaflume the thoughts of notwithltanding his Venereal Heat, he was yet
War fo long meditated againfl the Collàcks : In Impotent as to Women\ created a Belief, or at rv
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order unto which, Gallies were commanded to •leali a ftrong probability, that he might die
be built, which mould draw little Water, and without Iflnè, which caufed high Confufìon in
purpofêly made to pais the Shoàls on the Black the Cou n Ills of the Grandees, that no Defign
Sea near Afac, for the recovery of that Place i could make any chearful Progrefs. until Provi-
ontof the Hands of the Enemy. Another Squafion was firft made for Supply of the Ottoman
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dron alfb of Gallies was defigned for the Archi­ Houle ; for the SuccelEon of the Tartar was İn
pelago, to oppofe the Gallies of Malta and Na- no manner convenient or fêcure ; but rather that
pfj which much infêfredrJioieSeas.
the Throne Ihould be furhilhcd with the Son of
To the firft Enterpriie, the Tartar much ex­ a Si (1er, or òf a Niece, than to fubject them- Q|
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the Turk, by reafbn that Afac did not on­ 1 felves to the Rule and Partions of a Foreign
ly hinder his Incu/fions by Land, but rendred his Prince. And though the Sultan did afterwards
Navigation in die Black Seas very nnfècure. To \ recover his Health, yet all iïïlpcciedand feared,
the lecona, The Gallics of Malta much pro- that by the Immoderate Heat of his Veneri 1 In*
voked them, Onder the Command of Fredericks clination, he would die without Children ; eve«
rjie Landgrave of Hefle; who by the Perfwa- ry one difcourûng, as moved by his Paillon, .01!
fions of the* Cardinals of Savoy, and Barberini, his Intersil,
from a Protefrant was become a Roman Catfjo- About dûs time arrived an Amballador at
Hck7 and "had obtained the great Crofs of Malta ; Ç from the Softs of* Ptrjia, bringing
and with fêveral Gallies and Ship's, performed a Ratification of the Peace ; who was fo much
fome Exploits at Biferta, and at the GoBetta near 1 the more welcome, by how much nJbre the pire*
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