I lay the first Night at _Wasserbourg_[8], and from thence went to PASSAU, which makes a Part of _Lower Bavaria_, and is a Bishoprick Suffragan of _Saltzbourg_.[9]_Passau_ is famous for the Treaty which was concluded there between the Emperor _Charles_ and _Mauric_ Elector of _Saxony_, whereby the Protestant Religion was establish’d and secur’d in _Germany_, where before it was only tolerated. This is a very pretty City, has fine Houses, and several Churches. The Cathedral, which is a quite new Structure, is very large, and in the Inside very magnificent, being adorn’d all over with Pilasters, and other Embellishments of Architecture, and the Roof painted in _Fresco_. I was at Divine Service there on _Whitsunday_, and as every body then made the best Appearance they could, I observ’d the meanest Women of the Town were dress’d in Gowns of black Velvet, and scarlet Petticoats with Gold Lace, and that some of ’em had Pearl Necklaces of Five or Six Rows; and others Gold Chains with Rings, and Ear Pendants of Diamonds. * * * * * From _Passau_ I went down the _Danube_ to _Lintz_, the Capital of _Upper Austria_; and from thence to VIENNA[10], the Capital of _Austria_, and the ordinary Residence of the Emperors, ever since _Maximilian_. This City, which was heretofore but a Bishoprick, was lately erected into an Archbishoprick, and the Archbishop takes the Title of Prince. The Cathedral Church, which is dedicated to St. _Stephen_, is an old Building, very magnificent, but dark: The City stands upon the _Danube_, an Arm of which separates it from the Suburb, which is call’d _Leopoldstat_: The _Turks_ have made more than one vain Attempt to be Masters of _Vienna_. _Soliman_ II. besieg’d it _Sept._ 25, 1529, but on the 14th of _October_ following _Charles_ V. oblig’d him to raise the Siege. In 1693 the _Turks_ made another Attempt, and besieg’d it with an Army of above 200,000 Men, when the Emperor _Leopold_ retir’d with all his Family to the Castle of _Lintz_, and left the Command of the City to the Count _de Staremberg_: The Count was forc’d to sustain terrible Attacks from the _Turks_, who push’d on their Works with Vigor, and the Place could hold out no longer, when _John Sobieski_ King of _Poland_ advanced to relieve it, at the Head of an Army of _Poles_. He came in Sight of the Enemy on the 11th of _September_, and next Day gave them Battle, and obtain’d a complete Victory; for the _Turks_ abandon’d both their Camp and their Artillery, and the Conquerors took a prodigious Booty, particularly such a vast Number of black Cattle, that ’tis said they were sold for Five or Six Florins apiece. The Emperor no sooner receiv’d the Tidings that the Siege was rais’d, but he set out from _Lintz_ for _Vienna_, where he visited the King of _Poland_ in the open Field, and made his grateful Acknowledgments to him for the signal Service he had then done him.