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Podolia, and the Ukraine, fhould be restored J.C. 1699. Heg.1110, them in all their extent, and as they had be- & 1111. longed to Poland before the invafion of Mahomet; Poland restored to the Porte three small places in Moldavia. The agreement made with the Venetians was, that they should have all the Morea as far as Hexamilium; that the Turks fhould poffefs the main land, with Lepanto; but that the Venetians fhould remain mafters of the ifle of Saint Maura, as likewife of the neighbouring islands. In Dalmatia, the republic of Venice gained fix places. Venice retained likewife the castles of Caftelnovo and Rifano; each might erect new fortreffes on the limits or repair those that had been demolished. It was agreed that this treaty fhould be ratified by the contracting powers, and that the two emperors of the East and Weft fhould mutually fend ambaffadors to each other.

Thus terminated this general peace fo much defired by the contracting parties. The plenipotentiaries and the mediators refigned themfelves to the public teftimonies of joy, which people came to divide with them from all the neighbouring countries. The Germans made fountains of wine run, which at firft offended the Turks; but presently these good Ottomans, drawn by a spirit of concord, yielded to the invitations of their new allies, and drank with them. The mediators, paffing through Belgrade in their return to Conftantinople, were received

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J.C. 1699. with all the marks of acknowledgment that a
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people efcaped from great danger confidered as due to their deliverers. They received every where on their paffage the fame marks of joy and gratitude; at Adrianople, where the fultan was at that time, the rejoicings recommenced on the arrival of the mediators. The grand vizier loaded them with honors, prefents, and praise. It is to be remarked, that in this treaty, the name of count Tekli was not even mentioned; the it. He Turks left him an afylum at Pera, in which he Turkey. paffed an obfcure old age with fome fuccours

Tekli is

not men

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remains in

The em

peror of

furnished him by Lewis XIV. We fhall fee in
the fequel prince Ragotski, who married his only
daughter, the inheritor of the pretenfions and
misfortunes of his father-in-law.

One article of the treaty of Carlowitz imported, the Turks that the Hungarian rebels fhould obtain their a territory pardon, and that thofe, who, being too much

diftributes

to fourteen

families of

hundred exasperated against the Auftrian power, would
Hungarian not remain in their own country, fhould have.
refugees. liberty to remove to Turkey. Fourteen hundred

families took advantage of this claufe; the grand
feignior caused lands to be diftributed to them,
which they cultivated as they pleased, enjoying
liberty of confcience, under condition of paying
the tenth after ten years' eftablishment, and of
furnishing, whenever they fhould be called upon
for that purpose, one man out of five in a ftate
to bear arms, from fixteen years old to forty.

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The grand feignior having learned that both J.C. 1699. the people and the janiffaries murmured at his 1. too long refidence at Adrianople, which deprived Return of his capital of the fplendor and opulence which feignior to the court of the emperor and the numerous odas tinople. of janiffaries and fpahis drew thither; being defirous likewife to give more folemnity to the ratification of the treaty which an ambaffador was to bring from Vienna, he thought it proper to return to Constantinople.

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The exchange of the two ambaffadors was J.C. 1700. made in the beginning of January 1700 at Salanakem. Count Hottinguen, the Auftrian am- The baffador, was conducted to Belgrade to receive mutually the honors and prefents which were prepared for baffadors him he paffed two days in that town in fump- ther to tuous entertainments, which fhewed more and the peace. more how agreeable the peace was to the Ottoman court. The ambaffador received the fame. honors at Adrianople as at Belgrade: at length, being arrived the first of March within fight of Conftantinople, he ftopped to prepare for his entry, which he made the eighth with a magnificence worthy of the mafter that he reprefented, of the power to which he was fent, and of the importance of his miffion. The emperor and the grand vizier gave him audience fucceffively. Inftead of a fimple caftan of filk, which the Chriftian minifters had 'till then received, they dreffed count Hottinguen on thefe two occafions in a veft of fable. The prefents on both fides

were

J.C. 1700. were of the greatest magnificence.

The ratiEeg.111, & 1112 fication of the treaty being but a mere ceremony, the refidence of the Austrian ambaffador was not long at Conftantinople, nor was that of the Ottoman minifter at Vienna. They both returned at the fame time, and were exchanged at the fame place and with the fame form as when they came. Venice and Poland, alfo fent ambaffadors, who brought the ratification of the treaty : they were received likewife with honor; but it was easy to perceive, by their reception, by the replies of the fultan and of the grand vizier, and even by the style of their equipage, that king John Sobieski was dead, and that the Turks were more afraid of prince Eugene, than of all the Polith and Venetian generals together.

The fultan

retires to

tiran.

Immediately after the departure of the amKarifch- baffadors, the grand feignior retired to Karischtiran palace, which is a small town between Conftantinople and Adrianople, an agreeable place for hunting and fhooting. Mahomet IV. had built a pleasure-house there. The fojourn of his fon in this place where Mahomet had addicted himself fo long to idleness and pleasure, against the made the people murmur, who highly blamed this peace purchased with the finest provinces. Mustapha experienced that a nation governed defpotically is often the lefs under fubjection for it; that the flave who fhakes off his chains with indignation, is much nearer rebellion than the citizen who knows how much the convulfions of

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peace.

a ftate

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a ftate are dangerous for himfelf. They com- J.C. 1700.
plained of this prince, who at firft had given the &1112.
greatest hopes, but whom the love of repose, of
ruftical amusements, and of debauchery, had for
fome years paft wrefted from the cares of his em-
pire, and who had just lost a confiderable part of
the territory which his ancestors had conquered.
This was ftill worfe when they learned from all
parts that the czar Peter of Mofcovy was em-
ploying the time of the truce in making great
preparations for war; that he was raising troops
and difciplining them like the French and Ger-
mans; that he was building a large fleet; and
that fortreffes were erecting at equal distances
along the Borifthenes. The people cried that
war must be declared without delay against this
dangerous neighbour, or he would foon extend
the bounds of his empire at the expence of the
Ottoman poffeffions, as the emperor Leopold
had juft done. The khan of the Tartars, more
interested than any one else to put a stop to
thefe enterprises, fent frequent intelligence to
the Porte. Notwithstanding the affurances which
the vizier repeatedly gave his mafter that the let-
ters of the Tartarian prince contained nothing
but falfities; that these people defired ardently a
war on account of the booty which they could
not well do without, the Tartars knowing better
how to maffacre human beings than to cultivate
the earth, and that if panic terrors were liftened
to, the peace would never be enjoyed which had

been

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