_Cardassi_ (Brother in _Turkish_), I remember, I had once a Servant, an _Italian_, who was skilled in all Letters and Tongues, I do not question but he could have read the Letter; but, alas! he is lately dead. At last, they being at a stand what to do, thought it best to send the Letters, which they could make no use of, to me. I knew all the Matter by _Ebrahim_ beforehand, (neither could it be kept secret); whereupon I began to stamp and fret that they had intercepted my Letters against the Law of Nations, and in Contempt of _Cæsar_ who sent them; and, withal, I bid _Ebrahim_ stay, and to Morrow he should see that Letter translated for the _Bashaws_. The next day, when _Ebrahim_ appeared in the _Divan_, they asked of him, whether I could read those Letters? Read them, says he! as easily as his own Name; and thereupon he produced some of them translated before them, _viz._ what I had a mind to discover. Whereupon, says _Rustan_, this Ambassador is but a young Man, and yet we see he can understand what the old Patriarch could not so much as read; without doubt, if he live to be old, he will prove a very _Nonsuch_ of a Man. For that reason it was, or perhaps some other, that a while after, having Conference with _Rustan_ about our Affairs, he treated me more familiarly than he used to do, (which was a rare thing in him) and at last he ask’d me, why I would not turn to their Religion, and to the true Worship of God? If I would do so, he promised me great Honour and a large Reward from their Emperor _Solyman_. I told him, I was resolved to continue in that Religion, wherein I was born, and which my Master, _Cæsar_, did profess. Be it so, replied he; but what then will become of your Soul? I subjoined, I hope well for that too; whereupon he, after a little Pause, broke forth into these Words. ’Tis true, indeed, and I am almost of your Mind, that they who live holy and modest Lives in this present World, shall obtain eternal Life in the next, be they of what Religion they will. That’s an Heresy, that some of the _Turks_ have taken up, neither is _Rustan_ thought to be a true _Mussulman_ in all Points. The _Turks_ thinks it a Duty, and a work of Piety in them, to persuade a _Christian_ they have any good Opinion of, to their Religion; for then they think, they shall save a Soul from Destruction, and that they count a great Honour to themselves, and the greatest Charity they can do another Man, to make him a Convert to their Religion.