And the Truth is, though there may be some use of a standing Guard and _Militia_, yet there are also many Inconveniences attending it, of which this is the chief. Their Emperor is very fearful of them, lest, having the Sword in their Hands, they should alter the Government as they pleas’d, of which there had been many Precedents; yet, there are ways also, whereby this may be prevented. While I was in their Camp, there came _Albertus de Ubiis_, a worthy and learned Person, born I think at _Amsterdam_, as an Envoy from my Master _Cæsar_. He brought with him some Presents for their _Sultan_, as some Goblets gilt with Gold, with a Clock neatly made, and carried like a Tower on an Elephant’s Back; as also some Money to be distributed, amongst the _Bashaws_. _Solyman_ would have me deliver these Presents in the Camp, that the Amity betwixt Him and my Master might be more publickly known, and so no Danger at all to be feared from the _Christian_ Arms. But to return to _Bajazet_, after the Fight at _Iconium_, who retired to his Government of _Amasia_, pretending to live quietly there, if his Father would permit him so to do. For why? He had sown his wild Oats, and for the future seem’d pliable to obey his Father’s Will; and for this he employed sundry Persons to carry submissive Letters to his Father, begging his Pardon: Neither did _Solyman_ pretend that he was averse to a Reconciliation with his Son, and therefore he admitted his Messengers into his Presence. He read his Letters, and answered them mildly: So that the Report was spread over all the Army, what an Agreement was like to be between Father and Son; what he had done amiss, was to be imputed to the hot Blood of his youthful Age, provided he would shew himself obsequious for the residue of his Life. This _Solyman_ did by the Advice of his _Bashaws_; for the cunning old Man would not declare himself, till he had brought _Bajazet_ into the Noose of his own Power. He was terribly afraid, lest out of Desperation he should march furiously into _Persia_ (his only place of Refuge,) with such furious Expedition, that all his _Sanziacks_ should not be able to get before him. To prevent which Mistakes, he sent many Letters to all the Governors upon the Borders, to watch _Bajazet_, and not to suffer him to escape, if he should attempt it. In the mean time, he put all those of _Bajazet_’s Party, that he could get into his Hands, to the Rack; and when he had sifted out of them what he could, he put them privately to Death; amongst which were some that _Bajazet_ had sent to clear him to his Father.