'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.' [‎126] (549/594)

The Coronation
i^TTdiifturbatice fo highly" provoking: and feveral of thefe
tricks did the 'Baflu play during the Reign of Hahas II.
After his deceafe, the Turks defirous to take the opportunity
of Sephie II. being come young and newly to the Crown,to make
an attempt upon Baf-ra in the lame manner as thirty years be
fore. Sultan Mourad whom we call Murat, took hold of the oc
casion, Sephy I. being newly advanc'd to the Throne, to Be-
fiege 'Babylon ; fo that altho he were then bulled in the War of
Candta, he undertook that Conqueft alfo, and to that effe6t gave
orders'to the Baflia s of Diarhehe, and other
Governors on that fide, to march againft JjiJ-yit, every one with
an embody d Army, of which he appointed the Baflia of Bagdat
or Babylon to be General.
Hojfein-Bajha (for fo was the petty Sovereign of Baf-ra call'd)
fends away into Perfia to make the fame Offer which he had al
ready made lb many times before to II. But he was not in
being; and his Succelfor minded only his pleafures,and had no in
clination for War. However, the chief Minifters, unwilling to
difcover the weaknefs of their prefent condition, anfwer'd the
Ambaffadors that they had no encouragement to hearken to
their Propofitions, after the Bajha their Mailer had fo frequent
ly and fo infolently baffled the Te Monarchy. That he had
drawn his own misfortunes himfelf upon his own head, and
that his fufferings were no more then what he well deferv'd.
However, the Bafha nothing difcourag'd for having mifs'd the
Succours which he expected on that fide, betook himfelf to an
other Stratagem , and being a perlbn that had heap d a vail
Trealure together by his Merchandize, he now employs it to
corrupt the Bafha of Bagdat General of the Turkifh Army and
the reft of the Grand Officers. Thereupon he treats with 'em,
upon condition of being Tributary, for the future, to the Grand
Seignior, to pay him every year a hundred thoufand Crowns,
and to give him in ready Money two hundred thoufand upon
the naile: fbme other conditions were likewile added of fmall im-
portance,and fo the Siege being rais'd,and the fent his Son-
in-law to Conjlantimple to have the Treaty ratifi'd, which was all
that happen'd in reference to this War in the year 1667.
Toward the end of the fame yeararriv'd fad tidings at l/pa-
ban from the Provinces adjoyning to the Cafplan Sea, that at
Shirvan, the Capital City of a Province of the fame Name, and
which makes a part of Armenia the greater, were the Ca
pital City of Georgia, an Earthquake had overturn'd the greateft
part of that City, and ruin'd four Villages near adjoyning : and