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IN the last Review, I brought the Oppressions of the Germans, and the Violences of the People, down to the very Article of Civil War, the Protestants Compos’d of and including Calvinists, Lutherans, Arians, Socinians and Greek Christians, call’d Rasciens, were all brought in, to make their Complaints rise up to a pitch, and heighten the Account of German Tyranny; these Complained their Privileges were infring’d, and taken from them; those Complain’d their Churches were taken away; and no doubt where the Soldiers prevail’d, the Priests under the Protection of the Military Power, made havock of the Protestants, and Sacrifized all to the Ecclesiastick Zeal; and Church-Tyranny as it always exceeds State-Tyranny, made the Cry of the Protestants, tho’ second to the Common Grievance, equal to it, If not Superiour in the Cause of Complaint.
We are now to suppose them up in Arms, and so universal the Insurrection, and the Emperor’s Affairs in such Disorder and Weakness, for want of Money and Management that almost on all Occasions, Count Paul Wesselini, the Palatine of Hungary, met with Success; the Germans were routed on several occasions, the Cities Revolted, and turn’d out the German Garrisons, or cut their Throats in their Quarters.
The Emperor’s Garrisons were ill provided, and worse paid; the Stores and Ammunitions embezzel’d; and in short every thing almost that was needful to oppose the Torrent of the Hungarian Success, seem’d to be wanting so that the Imperial Affairs went down on every side, and the Hungarians began to think of setting their Kingdom absolutely Independent of the House of Austria.
But Count Paul Wesselini, and the Hungarians, knew the Confusion of the Imperial Affairs, tho’ it was now their Advantage, would not always last, but that his Imperial Majesty would soon be rouz’d, and that they were not able at last to resist the German Power, when it should come on them with such Additions, as might be expected; upon these Considerations, They took Care to sollicit their Affairs at the Port, and by the help of their Agents, brought the Grand Seignor, to give all his Bassa’s and Commanders orders in their Favour, viz. To furnish them with Provisions, supply them with Arms and Ammunition; and upon all occasions, to permit ’em, if press’d by the Germans, to make their Retreat their Territories.
This occasioned several Encounters on the Frontiers, between the Imperialists and the Turks; and the Turkish Garrisons on the Frontiers made frequent Depredations and Excursions, which were plain Indicators of a Design to break with the Emperor. ’Twould be too long [250] for this Paper to insert how many Affronts and Indignities the Emperor was oblig’d to bear from the Bassa’s of Buda and Temeswaer, and other the Turkish Commanders on the Frontiers, which his Imperial Majesty return’d, only by Complaints by his Ambassadors at Constantinople; in all which Solicitations, it was easy see, that the Hungarians had prepossess’d the Turks, and gain’d them to their side, and that the Emperor had nothing to expect, but a War with the Turkish Emperor, as well as with his Hungarian Subjects.
But as a farther Confirmation of his Approaching sad Truth, that the Hungarians had Embark’d the Turks in their Quarrel; the Malecontents make an Inroade into Moravia, with 10000 Men of their own, and 2000 Tartars.
This was the first time, sure, in our Ages, that ever Christians brought down the Turks as Auxiliaries to aid them in ravaging their Fellow Christians.
We are told, that the Prisoners they carried away, were given to the Tartars for Satisfaction of their Charge in assisting them; I will not affirm that this was true, it would fill me with contemptible thoughts of the Hungarians Christianity, if I were sure it was so; but whether it were true or not, I cannot but regret, that I am forc’d to say the Protestants were the first Christians that ever call’d in the help of Mahomet to Establish the Christian Religion, that ever spread the half Moon and Cross both of a side, and brought one Devil to thrust out another.
Those Gentlemen that approve the Hungarians Practice in this Case, would do well to consider what infamous things we have said here of the French King, for soliciting the Emperor of Turks to fall upon the Germans; and as we say, tho’ I cannot affirm it was ever prov’d, furnishing the Turkish Army with French Engineers.
This I can remember of the French, and I shall never fail of doing his most Christian Majesty that Justice, that when the Emperor was hard push’d by the Turks, in the War before this, tho’ even then the Emperor and He were but upon indifferent Terms as to Peace, yet he sent him an Aid of 12000 Men, who by their Gallantry, were greatly Instrumental in the Victory of St. Goddart, where Montecuculi, the Imperial General, beat the Turks, and drove headlong into the Raab.
After this, when the Turks broke the Peace, and came down into Hungaria, when they Besieg’d Vienna, the French King Generously gave the Emperor assurance, that he would no way molest him, while the Turks were Invading the Empire, tho’ things were then ripening for a Breach, the very same, which afterwards happened.
Nay, some have been of Opinion that had not the English Revolution forced the Breach to be Universal, the King of France had not broke with the Emperor at all.
But the Relieving Vienna, by the help of the Pole, and the Wonderful Success of the Emperor afterward against the Turk, having furnisht the Emperor both with Strength and Leisure for a double War, he rather provok’d the King of France to a War than not.
Whether these particular Remarks are just or not, I shall not undertake to determine; but this is certain, That as we never did the King of France Justice, in the Article of his Refraining to attack the Empire, while the Turks lay heavy on his Hands at the Siege of Vienna; So we have not spar’d to Insult His Majesty upon the head of Solliciting the Turks to Invade Hungaria, and Assisting him with Money, Arms, and Engineers, whether it were True or no.
How often has he been Stil’d the French Grand Seignor, the Most Christian Turk? how have Our News-Writers exclaim’d at the Infamous Attempt to bring the Turks into Christendom, and the like? And yet here are Protestants, I had rather say Hungarians, joyning with the Tartars to invade Moravia, calling in the Turks to fall upon the Christian Empire, and Joyning all their Forces to Assist them in the Taking Vienna, and letting in Turkish Power to overrun all the Protestants, as well as Popish Princes of the Empire.
ADVICE from the Scandal. CLUB.
THE following Letter being sent the Society, and the Answer to it being something Difficult, they thought fit to Recommend it to the Author of the Flying-Post, to Explain it, if he knows how.
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PRay, Gentlemen, favour me with your opinion on the following Articles of the Flying-Post; From the Camp before Ulm Septemb. 7. Deserters tell us, that our Cannon does great Dammage to the Towns, one of our bullets having kill’d two Drummers, one Soldier, and a Horse, &c.
Who has the French King Honour’d with the Title of King of Bavaria? Vide the French King’s letter in the Flying-Post, Septemb. 21. 1704.
As to the town Ulm, no doubt the Cannon from the Imperial Camp annoy’d them very much, but what Damage the Killing two Drummers and a Horse, &c. was to the Houses, remains a Mystery and is like to do so, till that Gentleman Explains it.
The Society was in hopes, the Exactness both in Care, as well as Skill in Forreign Translations, peculiar to the Author of the Daily Courant, would have sav’d them the Trouble of any more Animadversions on that Head.
But they are oblig’d to take Notice of the following Paragraph, because the Original is so exceedingly wrong’d, and the French, which is very Correct, render’d so much to the Disadvantage of the Sence,
Daily Courant, Sept. 30. from the Paris Account of the Fight at Sea.
The Fight began about 10 a Clock, To the North and South of Mallaga.
Now as First, this is impossible, the shore at Mallaga lying East and West, and by consequence some of the Ships must Fight upon the Sierras Morenas; Mountains in Spain, to the North of Mallaga? So neither does any such Absurdity appear in the Original.
And that this Gentleman, who is a little too apt to be angry, may not question the Matter of Fact, we have caused the French to be Inserted here, out of the Paris Gazette of Sept. 20. 1704. That all Men may Judge of the Case.
Le Combat Commenca, a dix heures, Nord & Sud de Mallaga, a Dix ou Onze Lieües.
The proper English of this Phrase, if we may be allow’d to Translate, must be like this:
The Fight began about 10 a Clock North and South, about 10 or 11 Leagues off of, or from Mallaga. The Translator of the Paris Gazette, a New and very Useful Paper, Publish’d 2 Days since, has come very near this Sence, as follows.
The Fight began at 10 a Clock, 10 or 11 Leagues North and South of Mallaga; if he had said off of Mallaga, which is certainly the Meaning of the French, his Translation had been very Just; but to say, to the North and South of Mallaga O Hominem! O Daily Courant!
The Society Receiv’d a Letter Sign’d LMNOPQ,, with Queries Relating to the Victory Obtain’d by Sea, and a Demand on Our Club to give their Opinion on that Head.
The Society Declares they are of the very same Opinion with the Gentleman who Wrote that Letter; but as the Persons he speaks of there, may be lyable to some Publick Trouble, on account of their indecent Liberty in that Case, the Club desire to be excused from handing Men on to their own Misfortunes.
If the Gentleman thinks fit to state his Queries in Terms to the same purpose, without pointing out Persons for the Publick Resentment, he shall have a suited Answer.
They have Receiv’d several Letters, requesting their Opinion of the Sea Fight, between the English and the French, and have hitherto declined it—; Chiefly because they have not yet seen the Accounts from Abroad: but since the Gentlemen are so Importunate, they do purpose to give as Impartially as they can, their Opinion of that Affair, in the Monthly Suppliment promised it that last Review; to which the Readers are Referr’d for Satisfaction.
E R R A T A.
The Author being out of Town, the Reader is desired to Correct the following Errors in our last.
Pag. 246. Col. 1. dele in; ibid. line. 51. read were found shutting; Col. 2. Line 15. for Westelini, read Wesselini; Pag. 247. Col. 2. line 14. for are degenerated, read as degenerated; Pag. 248. Col. 1. line 17. for for ought I know, read perhaps; ibid. line 27. for 5s. read 5l.
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