'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎48] (597/1024)

49 d- Relation of the Grand Seignors S e r a g lTo~
Books, and fo they remain there as a Monument of fomc ViA^T~^r-
the Chrifttans. vlW0I y gam’d <
A remarkable
Story of the
JBajfa Ruftan.
The Herokli
Sentiment of a
Titrk.
floe pri ncipal
Sources of the
Wealth of the
Empire,
The Fourth Chamber of the Trcafury is very dark, and has no other U
what it receives from a little Garret-WindoWj which looks into the C glt
has three ftrong Iron-bars, one over the other* Over the Door there 011115
words Engrav’d in the 2W/#-Language ; . Afey acquired by the m mce /p/a
Take here an account of what occahons this Monument, which they wer i
to Ere6L to perpetuate the memory of a Grand Fifa as I have been
feveral Perfons in Conftantmfle. He was the Son of a Cow-keeper and } Jv
lowed the fame Employment himielf: but he had a Genius that might h ^
a Pcrfon of the higheft Extraftion, and which raifed him to the Charge of
Vifr, and the Honour of being Son-in-lawto Solyman, He had many travel f
Fortune and was for fome time out of Favour : but in fine, who l°!
great Affairs to manage, and was engaged in a War with Verfa coming to a iS!
indigency of Money, fent for Rufian, and beffowed on him theSuperintenden v
his Revenues. He knew him to be a Man of great Abilities, and capable of p Jh
them, m a fhort time, into a good pofture ; and accordingly his pains and dil
gence in the management thereof proved lb fuccefsfuL that he prefenrlv fifiJ
Solymoris Coffers, and re-efiablifh’d the Affairs of the Empire. ^ d
Upon which oceafion I fhall here fet dojyn a thing which is {fill frclh in the
remembrance of many Turks ^ who receiv’d it from their Fathers. The turh
have fo great a zeal for the welfare of the State, that one of the Grandees of the
Port, an Enemy of Ruftans, and one, who, upon other occafions, Would gladlv
have ruin’d him, proteffed to one of his Confidents, That, though it were in his
power to do him an ill turn, yet he would not do it then, bccaufe he had by his
Induffrey and Labours, upheld the State, which he retriv’d from the Precipice of
defiruftion, and Was in a fair Way to make a coqfiderable augmentation of its
Revenues. This generous and heriock Sentiment in the Soul of a Tm^ wheat
his firft rife Was but a Emple Slave, would meet with but few Examples araondt
Cbriflians. b
But, to reafftime onr difeourfe concerning the Fourth Chamber of theTreafury.
It is full of Cheffs _ of two foot in length, and a breadth and depth proportionable
thereto, fortify’d with plates of Iron, and made faff, each of ’em, with two Chains.
The number of them is not always the fame, becaufe the Money is coming in, and
going out oUhat Chamber, and the Coffers are tranfported thence according tathe
occurrent exigencies,. for the payment of the Janizaries^ and the maintenance of the
Armies.
All the Gold and Silver which is brought into the Treafury rifes out of the
Revenues of the Empire, and out of the Sale of what Goods the Baffas leave at their
d parture out of this World. As to what is rais’d out of the Empire, which dilates
f° *! lto t ^ ie ^ iree parts of our great Continent, and comprehends lb mar '
Kingdoms, it may be eafily imagin’d, that it muff fupply the Treaftiry with nii
Sums; but it is not eafie lb to afeertain them. Its revenues confift principally in the
collection of the 1 ributes, and in the Cuffoms : and the three Tefierdars, or Treafu-
rers-General, give^ an account to the Grand Vizir of the Receipts of the Provinces.
Thar Principal Minifter has the cuffody of one Key of that fourth Chamber of the
Treafury, and the firft Tefterdar has that of another, and befides that, it is always
ieal’d with the Grand Seignors Seal. It is ordinarily open’d, but upon thofe days,
qn Which the Divan fits, that is, on Council-days, either for the reception of
Money into it, or for the taking of any out, to defray the Charges of the
Empire.
, What is fo receiv’d into it is for the moft part in Silver 5 and as to the Species of
Gold Coins that are brought into that Chamber, they come from four Sources, two
hereof are upon a Foreign account, and the other two upon that of the Couni
trey. One of the two former confifts in the Commerce of the French, Englifhj VffK
Italians, Mofcovites, and Polanders, who bring in Ducats out of thofe Provinces* The
other is the annual Tribute, which the Cham of the Leffer Tartary, the Princes ol
Tranfylvania, Moldavia, and iValacbid, the Republick of Ragtifa, and part of Mingtdis
and Ruffia, are to pay die Grand Seignor in Gold, which amounts to very g reaC
Sums. One of the twb Sources of the Country pocceds from what is found up^