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LETTERS A VURKISH SPY, de Forty Years Ue PARIS; veered ab Giving an impaetiat Accqgut to the Djuim at Couftantinonle of the nol Remtksble Tranfadtions of Europe, sud dil overingg feverul Muteigues and Secrets of the Crit ian Courre, (elpecially of that of France) from the Year 1637 to the Year 1682, Beit eviginely in Avaler, Tranflced cals Wales and from iain Eoglih OLUME fieatT AXEW FDCVON, LONDON: FRINTED FOR VERNOR & HOOD, J. CUTHELL, ASTLTY & SONS LACKINGTON, ALLEN, & CO. J. WALREX, EL NUNN, R. Lua, AMD OTKIDGE & SOM, Sy Bdusdbl (Son, Eidiabargh LETTERS Thwart 1859 ~____.. A SPY AT PARIS. wurrres or BOOK i. LETIER f.—Manmer the Arabion ot Paris, to Me numer, att cviled Bumach, at Grand Cairs in Baypt Wor raee a bean effete gf thy melancholy etter or of my own ugly conltation® I know not, but, Lam lete= ly grown very defperatey and cefolred upon death ; J am tired with whatforver Ehave yet eoyed in thir world, and U expe no greater fisting ould T Ue a thoue foud yer. Every pleafare apfean! ‘out the fame in dif feret forms 5 and they all age in leaving ws aflidcd svt the fthe or greater gain thay they found us in, which sa foficient argument to 2 man of Spt, that he onght to dt in plriuit of bi own cafe, ‘We walk here on earth in an enchanted citcle of ue dows apdguockerice; our whos life ia full of vanity and iake ; every man's fortune is beta repetition of that of Txion 5 we cutst clonds inead of divinhtia, and opr soofk charming frultions confit in mpd Poh PE. y y 2 LETTERS arRiTsEN By . Vok WET. Indeed all thie wife world io but a-mighty pageant, 4 pompous emblem, a gaudy type of thar javifille region which is the mother of fpirite, Gh ! that it were lawful for a mortal ta rcleafe Isis foul from its long irkfome exile incre helow, and find it home to ite native country, the kingdom of disine ideas! thes would I foon launch forth into the unknown bye: But we muft be reigned, and wot think much to bear our feveral deffinies, and patient- ly woit for the appointed hour of tranfinigration, for it is in v.in to thiuk of haftening or delaying our fates be fides, for ought we kaow, the nest flation may be worfe than thie} every thing is falj of myfterious darknels, and therefore, pr'ythce Mchemet, Iet thon and X lay afide all Sruitlefa care and fadnefa, be aa merry as will confit with the wifdor of a man, and when thou findelt this black dilkemsper appronching thee, rug away from it,,and thel- ur thyfelf in good company 5 arm thyfelf with wine and mufie againft the fallen’ demon of melancholy 5 but 1 counfel thee ta avoid women, far they will but increafe thy malady, . Tt is ons of chat fex bas given me this fit of grief, a ‘woman that I hiave Javed too much 5 but fhe in ungrate- fal, falle, and crupl dhe takes a fingular delight in cheat. ing me-with fale thows of hove and friendihip, and thea jn-vodeseiving me affiin®. The fame tongue which at fome thes wilhdrop.doft, kind, obliging words, at aoo- -ther feafon thal fees aothing but content defiances, and feorms, <5. "Thou it wonder that a man of rly age ihould be <eoncerned with any.putlion-for women. I tell thee, my fiend, it is impolible for me,to banith from my heart an affection which bes poffeffed.it for above thefe thirty years, The Tove of that fex is riveted in our nature, ‘ond our blood’mut firtt grow cold, and be congealed by Book I. AGPT ATHPARIS: 3 death, befole this flanie can be extingwithed 5 way; miny timey it is more fervent, though of a tbort ducation, jn cur latefL hours than in our prime ; as when the oll which feeds a lamp is almoft (pent, the flared Gaine begina to roufe iff and burn afreth, aa if it would fain fubGft a Titee longer, though on the very drege of its accultomed fie); it crackles and fafhea with greater notfe and lute than before, but prefently expires , fo docs this amarous fire, when we are acatel ‘o our dilution, Begin to truwe ble ua moft, and makes our foul to blaze with fevers of defice and grief, knowing its poriod is near. ‘Mebemet, let thou and I keep our affeGtions for the Deavtifel amd conftant daughtere of paradife, wha will never caft an eye on any man befide their own,” Doubl- Jefa this is pare of fupreme falicity. Pacis, adth of the roth Moon, of the Year 1673. To the Seeictan Aca, or Sword-Bearer to the Sqjion. ~ ‘Thuis has been a tersible campsign to, the Germans and their confederates ; for when theyefirft took the field in the fpring, their forces amounted to dixty thoufand meny but new at:the brenking op, dad going to their winter quartére, they could aot oumber above twenty thoufand fo that tity have loft two partetin, thice. of their army 5 whilft the French profper and are riGorious, taking Nhieir towne and caftlet, fabdiloy whols provinces to the cbe- dicsce of this invingihte monarch, and extending bis con- guefis fgg and wide through che French-Compte, Lor- ein, Alface, Brabant, Flanders, Catatonia, and even .to the iflze of the fer: E have formerly given an’ account to the minitters of aa