rainy, cold and tempestuous Season; and my Message too was so severe, that I was like to have no Thanks for my Labour. Here, perhaps, you may twit me in the Teeth, what! Twice to the same Place? To which I answer, twice, and oftner, if there be need; for commendable Enterprizes, the mere hazardous, the more Praise-worthy. ’Twas in _November_ when I left _Vienna_, to undertake my second Voyage to unhospitable _Pontus_. I will not grate your Ears with the Relation of the Enterprizes of my _second_ Journey: I was too vexatious, I fear, in giving you an Account of my _first_. It may suffice to tell you, that I went the same Stages, in a manner, that I did at first. So then, to _Constantinople_ I came, in the beginning of _January_, having lost one of my Retinue, who died of a Fever in the way. There I found my Collegues in good Health; but a mighty Change was made in the _Turkish_ Affairs: _Bajazet_, _Solyman_’s youngest Son, had escap’d a great Danger, and was reconciled to his Father: _Achmet Bassa_, the _Grand Vizier_, had been strangled, and _Rustan_, his Predecessor, was restored to his Place of _Grand Viziership_, of whom more hereafter. But, at present, I shall acquaint you what coarse Entertainment I met with from their _Emperor_, his Bashaws, and other great Men among them. For their Bashaws (as the manner is, before they introduce an Ambassador to their Prince) being desirous to hear of me, in general, the purport of my Message; as soon as they understood, that my Master _Cæsar_ would not recede a jot from his Right, but did punctually insist upon it, as just and equal, that the Transactions with the Widow of _John_ late _Vaivode_ of _Transylvania_ and her Son (being made without Fraud, Force or Covin,) should be strictly observed, they were in a mighty Chafe: For you must know, that a long Series of happy Success, hath so elevated the Minds of this People, that they make their own Wills, forsooth, the sole Rule of all Reason, Right or Wrong. On which presumptuous Principle, they carried it very haughtily towards us; and told us the extream Danger we should run into, if we offer’d to appear before that Prince with such an imperious Message. When such menacing Words could not deter us from demanding Audience, they gave us to understand, that they would have no hand in our Admittance; for do ye think, (said they) that we are such brazen-fac’d Fellows as to bring you, with such sawcy Answers, to our King? No, said they; it will be a plain Mockery to him, which he will never take well at your Hands. Do you not know, proceeded they, that he is come back from _Persia_ with a victorious Army; where, his Successes have so exalted him, that he hath put his own Son to death, as emulous of the Empire? Whereby you may guess at the severity of his Passion. He longs for, and courts, a fair Occasion to send his hardy and well-disciplin’d Army into _Hungary_, to enrich them with the Spoils of that Country, and to add the residue thereof to his Empire.