'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.' [‎38] (67/594)

The Trawls of Sir John Chardin Perfia,
convenient for him and the Ambaflador to have any Perfonal
Interviews and IDifcourlc together, till all A flairs were con'
eluded and fully agreed, for fear left any Exceptions or Diffe
rences fhould happ'n between em, which though but upon
flight and impertinent (pKwSfz/w s, might break or put a flop to
the Negotiation, and hinder its good fuccefs. To which
naioti added, as it were in Confirmation of the Fillers Judg
ment, That Affairs in Turkey were never well manag'd, un-
lefs it were by a Third Perfon, in regard the and the
Ambaffador being equally concern'd to preferve the Honour
and Interefts of two great Empires, neither of the two would
be the firft that fhould forego the fmallefl Tittle of their Pre-
tenfions; but that a Treaty carry'd on by their Interpreters
could not eafily produce thofe unlucky Accidents either in the
One or the Other. In fhort therefore, the defir'd that
favour of him, that he might not give him Audience, but only
to deliver into his Hands the new Articles of Peace and Agree
ment. M. de Nointel could have wifh'd with all his Heart, it
might have been otherwife : but there was a Neceflity of con-
defcending to the Grand Vizier's Pleafure, which was to Treat
by the Intercourfe of Interpreters. Thereupon took
the Letter which M. de Lyonne had written to the Vizier, ^nd
the Memorial of the Conditions upon which his Majefty vVas
refolv'd to renew the Alliance, and no otherwife, as the Am-
baffador alledg'd •, and fo took his Leave, after he had made
a Thoufand Vows and Proteftations to the Ambaffador of the
Services he would do in that Negotiation. Particularly he
told him, That he took it for fo great an Honour to have the
Management of this New League between the
and the Emperor of France, that there was no way or means
which he would leave unftudy'd that he might bring it to a
Conclufion, to the Satisfaction of his moft Chnftian Majefty.
But Time difcover'd, that his Proteftations were altogether
deceitful and fallacious, and that had not the fame In
clinations for the Interefts of Fra as for thofe of the
Vizier.
Firft then, the Vizier read over the Ambaflador's Memo
rial, and then gave it to be examin'd in the It was
not fo long by half as that which he had prefented the time
before, as not containing above Eleven Heads. Neverthelefs
he found it to be very Extravagant. So that when the moft
Confiiderable Articles were read, he would ftill cry. The
will never grant 'em. Upon others he would pafs Sentence,
+ faying,