'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎29] (578/1024)

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A Relation of the Grand Seigndrs Seraglio.
they fcornfully chruft back the difticsj and by that a&ion diicover their dif-
content./ ‘ . .,• • , .
1 Jhe Grand Seignor is preiently advertis’d of it, ^nd fends to them the Cdfou-Aga%
Grand Maher of the Seraglio, to know what their pleafure is, and what they defire.
Then they depute one of their own Body to go, and (peak on the behalf of them
all, and that perfon whifpering the Capon-Agafi in the Ear, declares to him the oc-
ca/ion of their difeontent. That Eunuch prelently carries it to ( the Grand
Seignor; And if they have a peek again!! a Vizir or a Cadikfquer^ or fome-
fimes again ft their Aga , or Colonel, it often happens that to appeafe thofe
mutineers, the Grand Seignor orders theni to be ft tangled, and fends them their
heads. ' . ^
Sunday and Tuefday ate the principal days of the Vivan, and then it is properly a //w the Gr(tr g
Council of State, and of publick affairs. The Grand Seignor moft commonly seignor is pre~
affifts at it, but is not feen ; and that keeps in awe as well the Grand Vizir, as die feat at the Di-
other Officers. He can come thither from his own Appartment, through a clofe van ’
Gallery, and feat himfelf at a window, which looks into the DiW-Hall, and has
always a velvet Curtain before it, which he draws when he pleafes, and efpecially
When he perceives that they have not done Juftice. I ftiall produce here, an example,
famous enough as to that particular, Which happen’d in the Reign of Sultan Achmet, /
the Father of Amumb and one of the jufteft Princes, that ever the Ottoman Empire
had.
The Reader is to call to mind, what I faid at the beginning concerning the ‘fimar- „
Spahf on whom they beffow, during their lives, the Government and revenue ofJf e a 5 xil ^f
fome Town, according as they have deferv’d by their Services. The Saplri, whole spahi,w>/w
ftory I am going to relate, had a c timar, between Aleppo and Vamas, which might a Grand Vifir y
bring him in a revenue of fifteen hundred Crowns. T he Grand Vizir, either out of andis Moon'd.
fome aveffion to the Spain, or upon fome falfe reports which had been made of him*
and which he had been too forward to believe, without taking an exadl informati
on of things, took away from him the timdr. Whereof he was poflefs’d, and beftow’d
it on one of his own Creatures. . v ,
The Spahi, finding himfelf fo unjtiftly difpoflefs’d comes to Conflanibiopk, enters
into the Divan, and prefents a Petition to the Grand Vizir, wherein he remonftrates
to him his long Services, and how he never was chargeable with any negligence of
his duty. The Grand Vizir having read it, tears it in his prefence, which was to
fignifie as much, as that he would not anfwer it, and that there was nothing for
for the 'Spain to hope for. The Petitioner withdrew, without fayiqg any thing: but
fome days afterwards, he returns to the Vivan, and prefents a fecond Petition, which
the Grand Vizir likewife tears, as he had done the former, without mak
ing iny arifwef thereto. Upon fhis fecond injury, the Spabi, full of fury, and juff-
ly exasperated, draws his Poniard, falls upon the Vizir, and kills him.
• The Grand'Sdignor, who was then at the Window, having obferved that a£fion s
draws the Curtain, and with a loud Voice commanded that no hurt fhould be
offer’d to the perfon who had done it. He thereupon orders the Spain to approach*
and ask’d him the Rcafon of his having demean’d himfelf with lo rhuch' violence.
The othef much afliam’d, humbly makes anfwer, but with refolufcioii enough,
That he could not forbear dfeing what he had done, upon the fight of fp great a
piece of injuftice : and thereupon prefenting to him the Petition, which had been
torn to pieces, the Grand Scignbr caus’d it to be read, and patiently hearkend to
the juft complaints which it contain’d. Having fully examin’d the Affair, his High-
nefs commended the Spain for the Action he had done, ufing the word Afemi, which
is as much as to fay, ’Tb ibeil done, and which is ordinary in that Language, when,
they approve a thing; and thereupon, there was an additional Liberality made by
the Grand Seignof to the Command which he £ave, that he fhould be re-eftablifhed
In his Timar. He thereupon took occafion to fpeak to the other Vizirs, and to tell
them, That that Example fhduld teach them to do juft, things^ and not to
fuffer themfelves to be fo blinded by favour, as not to obferve Equity. The v
Violent action of the Spain is certainly not to be*approv’d, though the injuftice
of the Vizir was manifeft, but the procedure of the Grand Seignor , cannot
be look’d On btherwife then as rfisoft conimendable, and a great Model of perfect
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