Ill 



Lord Chancellor Bacon makes mention 

 of it in 1624: he says, " the Turks have a 

 drink they call coffee, made with boiling 

 water from a berry reduced into powder, 

 which makes the water black as soot, and is 

 of a pungent and aromatic smell, and is 

 drunk warm/' 



M. La Roque, who published his journey 

 into Arabia Felix, in 1715, contends that 

 his father having been with M. de la Haye, 

 the French ambassador at Constantinople, 

 did, when he returned to Marseilles, in 

 1644, drink coffee every day ; but the same 

 author acknowledges that it was M. Theve- 

 not, who taught the French to drink coffee 

 on his return from the East, in 1657- 

 It was made fashionable and more known 

 in Paris, in 1669, by Soliman Aga, am- 

 bassador from Sultan Mahomet the Fourth, 

 who gave coffee at all his parties with great 

 magnificence; and it could not fail being 

 pronounced an agreeable beverage by the 

 Parisian ladies, after they had received it 

 from his slaves with bended knee. If it were 

 a matter of policy with the Turks to get 

 coffee introduced into France, the ambas- 

 sador's splendid porcelain, equipage, and 

 gold fringed napkins, were the best recom- 

 mendation that could have been given to 



