The Eight Volumes of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy Who Livid Five and Forty Years Undiscover'd at Paris, 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1734 Excerpt: ...a Place of no great Strength: Especially, considering how soon Lei;stck surrender'd to the fame Forces: a Town well fortisied, and stored with all Things necessiry to sustain a long Siege. By this thou may'st observe, how much the Fortune of War many Times depends on one successful Battel. When Torstenfin sirst lay down besore teipstek, it was generally believed, he would sind a stout Re.' sifiaiuc - LETTER XIII. To the Kaimacham. WHBNI sent thee word of the Death of Cardinal Richlieu, I thought it the fame thing as if I had presented thee with the Head of one of the most dangerous Enermes of the Ottoman Empire. That Head, which, while the Owner liv'd, was always plotting of Mischies, had it not been diverted by nearer Intrigues, would not have fail'd to put some horrid Design in Execution against the Sublime Port, which, of all the Thrones in the World, seems alone to o'er-top the Grandeur of France. But this Court seems to play the Hydra; for no sooner is the Head of one of her Prime Ministers laid, but up springs another in the Rooin of it, equal in Vigour and Subtilty. And we have still as much Reason to apprehend the Counsels of Cardinal Mazarini, as besore we had to suspect thofe of Richlieu. The Generality of the People at sirst looked for another Conduct in the King towards the Creatures of the late Minister; since he himself, toward the latter End of his Lise, seem'd to subsist in the Court rather through the-Necessity the King had of his Counsels, than any Motive of Affection. However, the King has exactly complied with the Cardinal's dying Requests, in honouring several of his Relations and Friends with Places of considerable Trust. And 'tis to his last, Recommendation Cardinal Mazarini is obliged for the Authority he now poilesses. In using ..