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me no molestation, They attacked my 
left wine vo late; but yet they would 
have? ‘5‘) -€ roughly, had it not been 
for four battalions of the second line, 
and the artillery, which I sent very oppor- 
tunely to repel their cavalry, and make a 
breach in the entrenchments. It was 
six in the evening. The Turks, assaulted, 
and their entrenchments forced in all 
points, hurried in crowds to the bridge 
and choked it up, so that they were 
obliged to throw themselves into the 
Teisse, where those who escaped drown- 
ing were killed. On every side was 
heard the cry of Aman! aman! which 
signifies Quarter! At ten, the slaughter 
still continued; I could take no more 
than 4,000 prisoners, for 20,000 were 
left dead on the field, and 10,000 were - 
drowned. I did not lose a thousand 
men. Those alone who first betook 
themselves to flight at the commence- 
ment of the battle, rejoined the corps 
which had remained on the opposite 
side of the river. It was the 1ith of 
September: I sent Vaudemont with the 
account of this affairto Vienna. I then 
went and took two forts and two castles 
in Bosnia, burned Seraglio, and returned 
to Hungary into winter-quarters. 
I set out for Vienna, where I expected 
to be received a hundred tines better 
than I had ever yet been. Leopold 
gave me the coldest of audiences; more 
dry than ever, he listened to me without 
saying a word. [ instantly perceived 
that somebody or other had been at 
work during my absence, and that while 
I was ridding myself of the Turks, some 
good Christians at Vienna had been 
trying to get rid of me. I went away 
from the audience with a feeling of indig- 
nation, which grew still stronger when 
Schlick, in great consternation, came 
and demanded my sword. - I delivered it 
into his trembling hand with a look of 
the profoundest disdain, which served to 
increase his dismay. It was reported 
that I said: ‘*Take it, yet reeking with 
the blood of enemies; I have no wish 
to resume it, except for the benefit of his 
majesty’s service.” One half of this 
sentence would be a gasconade, and the 
other a mean resignation, My rage was 
silent. I was put under arrest in my 
hotel. Here I was soon informed that 
Gaspard Kinsky, and some others, wished 
me to be brought to tral for disube- 
dience and rashness, and that 1 was to 
-be tried by a court-martial, by which I 
“should probably he sentenced to die. 
This repgit was soon circulated through 
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the whole city. The people assembled 
about my house; deputies from the body 
of citizens offered to guard me and to 
prevent my being taken away, in case 
of any attempt to put the above-men- 
tioned design in execution. f entreaied 
them not to violate their duty a3 loyal 
subjects, nor to disturb the public tran- 
quillity; I thanked them for their zeal, 
by which I was moved even to tears. 
The city of Vienna is small. This 
assemblave of the people was known at 
court in a’ few minutes. | Hither from 
fear or repentance, the emperor sent me 
my sword, with the request that f would 
still continue to command his army in 
Hungary. T replied that L would, on 
condition that I should have a curte 
blanche, and be no. longer exposed to 
the malice of his generals and ministers. 
The poor emperor durst not publicly give’ 
me these full powers, though he did 
privately in a note signed with his 
own hand; and with this I thought 
proper to be content. 
This anecdote of Leopold, whom £ 
pity for not having felt that a more signat 
reparation was due to me, fully demon- 
strates the falsehood of a sayiny which 
has been ascribed to me; that of the 
three emperors whom f have served, the 
first was my father, the second my 
brother, and the third my master. A 
_ pretty sort of a father truly, to cause me 
te lose my head for having saved his 
empire! 
1699.—This year I began my -fine 
library, and conceived a taste for gardens 
and palaces. jak 
I purchased, from time to time, some 
beaxtiful paintings and drawings that 
were not known. Twas not rich enough 
to form a gallery, and was not fond of 
engravings, because other persons may 
possess the same. I never liked copies 
of any kind, and those talents which rua 
away sith valuable time. A few wind. 
instruments, martial airs, hunting-tunes, 
flourishes of trumpets, or pleasing airs 
of the comic opera, relieved me, during 
dinner, from the necessity of speaking or 
listening to tiresome persons. 
1700.—After the peace of Carlowitz, 
France was so polite as to send us M. 
Villars as her ambassador: He wag 
received with great distinction by all 
those with whoin he had been acquainted 
in Llungary, where he had gained great 
reputation as a volunteer, aad by the 
whole city, who thought him extremely 
amiable. But intrigues were carried’ on 
at his courte against ours*withoat: his 
khowledge, 
