54. A Relation of the Chap. X. 



CHAP. X. 



Of the Means, whicn the Grand Seignor makes ufe of, td 

 augment his Treaiures, 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, yphen they 

 enter into their Charges. The Trade driven by the Jews (very 

 hazardous to them. T]->e extraordinary Wealth of the Bafla's. 

 ITtf gnat Advantages of the Chaznadar-Bachi, and the Vages 

 of the Treafury. The prohibition of lending SMonyupon inter eft. 

 The Perfians but poor Cafuifls* Formalities obferVd in Turkey 

 about Schedules. 



Efides what may be left every Year in the Treafury, or Exchequer, out of the 

 ordinary Revenues of the Empire, after all charges deducled, the Grand 

 Seignor has Two other Expedients very conducive to the augmentation of 

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

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

 natural, or violent deaths. 



Bafla's ^ t ^ ie ^ a -ff^ s -> on wnom tne Grand Seignor beftowes Governments, and generally 

 Prefents t*the a ^ tn0 ^ e -> w h° are remov'd out of the Seraglio, upon their advancement into Charges, 

 Grand Seig- are oblig'd, before they take pofleffion of them, to make him fome Prefents, every 

 nor, upon thtir one, anfwerably to thé benefit he has receiv'd from the Prince. For example, the Bafps 

 advancement}. f Cairo, alfoon as ever he is nominated to that Government, knowes, that two Mil- 

 lions of Livers, that is, reduc'd to the Englijh account, two hundred thoufand pounds 

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

 that is, thofe due to the Grand Seignor himfelf,and to the principal Sultaneffes j as alfo 

 to the Motif ti, the Grand Vizir the Caimacan, and other Per ions of Credit in the 

 Court, to whom he is engag'd for his advancement to that Charge, and of whom he 

 ma^s ftapd; in need for the future. The Prêtent he makes the Grand Seignor himielf, 

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

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

 pended in the BaJJa's equipage, and lo, before he fets his foot in Cairo y his own Purfe, 

 or thofe of his Friends, will be drain'd of Three Millions and fix hundred thoufand 

 Livers. * 



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

 Trade of the is a neceiïity of borrowing -, and if the purfes of his Friends cannot do it, thole of the 

 Jews, fences are readily ôpenM for his fupply. They run a great hazard, upon hopes of the 



great profit of making Cent, fer Cent. intereft,which the Bajfa does promife them. And, 

 to be the fooner reimbursed of the Money they have fo hazarded, left his Government 

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

 blood, and particularly to harafs tfee poor Chriftians. If the Buffo's can but quietly 

 enjoy their Governments, for one year, nay for fix Months, the Jerves make a good 

 hand of it, and recover the Summes they had advanc'd. But, on the other fide, they 

 run a great hazard, in regard that it happens, many times, the Grand Seignor fends 

 for the head of a Baffa^ before he has had time enough to fettle himfelf in his new 



, Govern-" 



