Travels into Turkey: Containing the most accurate account of the Turks, and neighbouring nations, their manners, customs, religion, superstition, policy, riches, coins, &c.Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de
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Travels into Turkey: Containing the most accurate account of the Turks, and neighbouring nations, their manners, customs, religion, superstition, policy, riches, coins, &c.
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de
Turkey -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
The _Sanziacks_, as soon as ever they received _Solyman_’s threatning
Dispatches, began to bestir themselves, and to rouze up one another so
that happy was he, that could do most Damage to the growing Party of the
Impostor. Some of those that were going in to him, they intercepted;
those that had already join’d him, they laboured to discourage by
terrible Menaces and Denunciations of the Danger they were in. In the
mean time, the Forces of _Partan Bassa_ were marching on, and being
almost come up to the Place, the Party of the Tumultuous, which were
not yet fully settled, seeing so great Preparations, made against them,
began to be discouraged, (as is usual with Men in such Circumstances)
and to drop off one by one; and at last the whole Body of them most
shamefully left their Leader, and shifted for themselves, the belt they
could. Their feigned _Mustapha_, with his chief Partisans and Setters
on, would willingly have done so too; but he was so watch’d by the
_Janizaries_, that he was taken alive, and sent Prisoner to _Partan_,
who, with a strong Guard, sent him to _Constantinople_. When he came
thither, _Solyman_ put him on the Rack, and by that means found out
the whole Plot; how his Son _Bajazet_ was at the bottom of it, and had
resolved, if they had not been so soon dissipated, to have join’d them
with a considerable Force, and so either to have marched directly to
_Constantinople_, or else (if Opportunity had served him) to have fought
out his Brother; but being slow in his Actings, his Design was nipp’d
in the very Bud. When _Solyman_ had thus ferreted out the Design to the
bottom, he caused him and his Abettors to be thrown into the Sea at
Midnight, not thinking it convenient to have the Matter divulg’d among
his own People, or that foreign Princes should be acquainted with the
domestic Differences of his own Family.
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