'The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis. Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan. To which is added, the coronation of the present King of Persia, Solyman the III.' [‎25] (54/594)

through the Black -Sea, and Colchis.
turn to France, and lay afide all thoughts of renewing the
League, at leaft if it were not a Thing firft fought and defir'd
by the Minifters of the Tort. Which Orders were deliverd
to him toward the end of the Year i not a little to his dif-
fatisfaftion. However he did not forbear to Vifit the Caima-
can at Conjiantinople, telling him that he had receiv'd Orders
from the King his Mafter to return homei to which purpofe
he expe£led the Arrival of the Veffels which his Majefty had
fent, and his leave of thefW, in order to his Departure; re-
quefting him withal to write to the Court, that he might be
fent for withal Expedition.
The Court was then at Lariffa in Theffaly, whither his High-
nefs was gone, to the end that being fomewhat the nearer to
Candy, he might be a means to haften theConqueft. And
therefore, before the Caimacan^ who is as it were the
Fiber's Lieutenant, would write, he demanded of Monfieur
de la Haye, Whether any other Ambaffador came in his Room ?
To which he anfwer'd, Not any i but that the Emperor his
Mafter had commanded him to leave a or a
Merchant for his Reddent, like the Reprefentatives of
landers and Genoefes. The Caim ask'd him, Wherefore
no Ambaffador was fent ? To which the other reply'd,
itnws not a Thing which he could puhlick; By which
Anfwer the Caimacan apprehending that he had fomething of
fecrefie to impart to him, gave him a private Audience. And
then it was that the Amballador difcover'd to him, the reafons
which oblig'd the Emperor of F to recal him, with a Re-
folution never to fend any more Amballadors to the
j
'Part. Firft, for that the Dignity of the Amballador
had not been regarded nor refpedted as it ought to be. . That
no heed had been given neither to the Complaints nor Requefts
which his Majefty had made for three Years together. That
they refus'd to renew the Capitulations of Peace, which was
an unlufferable Damage to the Merchants, who were
conftrain'd to pay Five i'the Hundred Cuftoms, whereas the
Englifh, Hollanders and Genoefes paid not above Three
dent. That they had entertain'd the latter in Turkje, contrary
to all his Remonftrances and Protefts, and had fore'd the
French to pay within lefs then three Years, above Two Hun
dred Thoufand Livres, for unjuft and opprefllve Impofitions.
To which Monfieur de la tiaye farther added, That if thefe
Grievances might be taken into Confideration, fo that the
Emperor his Mafter might be allur'd of Redvefs, he did not
H queftion