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54 A Relation of th& Chap. X. 



CHAP. X. 



Of the Means, which the Grand Scigiior makes life of td 



augment his Treafures, befides what is done, by the 



ordinary Revenues of the Empire. 



The Principal Heads. 



The Prefents made by the Jaffa's to the Grand Seignor ; lichen they 

 enter into their Charges. TJx Trade driven by the Jews <~very 

 hazardous to them. The extraordinary Wealth of the BahVs. 

 The great Jhmtdges of the Chaznadar-Rachi, and the Pages 

 of the Treafury. The prohibition of lending ,'Mony upon inter eft. 

 1 he Perfians but poor Cafuifis. Formalizes obferVd in Turkey 

 about Schedules. 



B Elides what may be left every Year in the Treafury. or Exchequer, out of the 

 ordinary Revenues o* the Empire, after all charges dedu&ed, the Grand 

 Seignor has Two other Expedients very conducive to the augmentation of 

 both the Treafuries, to wit, the entrance of the Biffa's upon their Govern- 

 ments and their removal out of them, whether it be by fome difgracc, or by their 

 natural, or violent deaths. ° * J 



fht BafJa's ,, A , U * c B #' J > on whom the Grand Seignor beftowes Governments, and* generally 

 ' vntlnts u the a11 tnole ? who are remov'd out of the Seraglio, upon their advancement into Ch iraes 

 Grand Seig- are obhg d, before they take pofTeiTion of them, to make him fome Prefents evcrv 

 ™v£cZ$? r 2$ H w ^ bI V t0 the , bc » cht he ha * «*eiv'd from the Prince. For example, the BafTa 

 of O/rYiToon as ever he is nominated to that Government, knowes, that two Mil. 

 lions or Livers, that is, redue'd to the Englijb account, two hundred thoufand pounds 

 fterhng, will hardly make good the Prefents, which are expected from him at nV Port, 

 that is, thofe due to the Grand Seignor himfelf,and to the principal Snhaneffes -, as alfo 

 to the Monfu, the Grand Vizir, the Caimacan, and other Perlbns of Credit in the 

 Court, to whom he is cngag'd tor his advancement to that Charge, and of whom he 

 may ftand in need tor the future. The Prefent he makes the Grand Seignor himfelf, 

 amounts to Five hundred thoufand Crowns, and the relt will come to Two hundred 

 thouland. Add again to that, Five hundred thoufand Crowns, which will he ex- 

 pended m the Baffa's equipage, and fo, before he fets his foot in Cairo, his own Purfe, 



livers ' bC drain ' d ° f ThrC£ MiUi0nS aild fix hundred thoufanc * 



The betardoui . When he comes out of the Seraglio, if he want much of the aforefaid Summe there 



Trade of the is a neceflity of borrowing 5 and if the pur fes of his Friends cannot do it, thofe of the 



Jew, J^s arc : readily open'd for his fupply. F T&y run a great hazard, upon hopes of the 



great profit of making Cent, per Cent. intereft,which the Baffa does promife them. And, 



to be the fooner reimbursed of the Money they have fo haiarded, led his Government 



be but a (hort one they teach him a thoufand leud wayes, to fuck out the People's 



blood, and particularly to harafs the poor Cbriftians. If the Baft*, can but quietly 



enjoy their Governments for one year, nay for fix Months, the Jems make a *ood 



™ ° f tt » . and x f over the Sumines they had advanced. But, on the other tide, they 



for theTead T, fi J? Tf ^u ^^ many timeS > the Grand Sei §" or fends 

 tor the head of a Baffa, before he has had time enough to fettle hirtfeif in his new 



Govern- 



