not live long, for it has been conjectured that the Turks had given him a potion, which in a few years attacked his life and carried him off. The Pacha, however, kept him in good case while the siege lasted, namely, about a month; and in place of his cuirass, gave him a dress of red velvet Tyrian stuff, which he wore and lay in night and day, and sent him from his own table meats and mixed drinks (probably sherbet), as daily prepared for himself, and even in course of time offered and gave him wine.[9] The Count, for special reasons, gave himself out for a Bohemian, being conversant in the Slav language, which is much in use with the Turks. When it came to the time appointed for the great assault, the Pacha said to him at table, “This evening will the great Sultan take possession of Vienna, and it will fare ill with your people,” and then asked him further, how strong the garrison was; and the Count answered, “All that he could tell was, that the garrison within were of that stamp that they would one and all be killed before they would surrender the city.” When the assault took place, the Count was left in the Pacha’s tent without any special guard, but loose and free of his person, and able to look about him in the camp; but when, by help of God, the Turks being repulsed broke up their camp, the Pacha took the Count with him the first day’s march, but in the morning after put another Turkish robe of velvet on him over the former, which is still preserved by his brothers, Francis and Hans von Zedlitz; and added a present of a hundred aspers, and also a cavalry prisoner whom the Count knew and had begged for, and caused them to be honourably attended and passed safe, so that on the following day they reached Vienna, where the Count was honourably received by the princes, counts, gentlemen, and officers there present. _Notice of the Devastation effected by the Turks, from Original Sources._