A JOURNAL OF THE EXPEDITION, of Monsieur DE LA FUEILLADE, For the Relief of CANDY.  
Written in French (by way of letter) by a Gentleman who was a Voluntiere in that service: and faithfully Englished.  
LONDON. Printed for T. Williams at the Bible in Little Britain, and J. Starkey at the Mitre in Fleet street near Temple-Bar. 1670.   

A JOURNAL OF THE EXPEDITION of Monsieur DE LA FUEILLADE, For the Relief of Candy.  
SIR  
I Have neither presumption; nor ability enough to undertake the full satisfaction of your curiosity, but must freely acknowledge it beyond the reach of my faculties; You desire I should give you a particular account of the true motives inducing Mr. Fueillade to so dangerous and so painful an Enterprise. And 'tis my request that you would consider, my sincerity would be rendered very much suspected, should I take a liberty of inserting a●● thing, but what I have received either from 〈◊〉 ears, or eyes.  
You know well (SIR) and you have oft 〈◊〉 pressed it to me, how difficult it is to discover 〈◊〉 principles and Original motions by which manki●● is actuated, especially if in public employment the variety of motives which produce their action making it almost impossible to find out the source or first cause, of their commotion.  
I am of your judgement, that zeal for Religion interest of Conscience, and the honour of the mo●● Christian King, (who is Eldest son likewise of 〈◊〉 Church) are persuasions strong enough to exc●● the Generosity of a French Cavalier: But wheth●● the world may easily be persuaded that the Ga●● lantry of Mr. Fucillade was regulated by th●● principles, is a question I cannot readily dete●● mine.  
The manner in which the best, and most ill●● strious of his actions have been too frequently 〈◊〉 presented makes it evident, there is always mo●● of malice then equity in the judgement of Men.  
If Mr. Fueillade passes alone into Spain, to vi●● dicate the honour of his Majesty, against the Cou●● de S. One, who by an insufferable insolence in h●● discourse, had endeavoured to detract, and blemish it, 'tis looked upon as the Bravado only of a Capr●● cious Huff. If in Paris he appears at the head o●● 500 men, to support the Reputation of two Eminent Prelates who in some public writings ha●● been bitterly aspersed. If he enters himself into 〈◊〉 Bookbinders' Shop, and be so transported wit●● all, and affection to his friends as to give the after a box on the ear that dispersed them, 'tis cried as the action of a Madman, that could not ●●ffer such truths to be published, as reflected on Brother; In short, if it be affirmed that he has clared himself to certain of his friends that he ●d no other prospect in his Voyage to Candy but good of the Church, and advantage of his own ●ul, 'twill be replied immediately, that that declation is like several other things he has been made say, which he never so much as thought of himself, and that if he does really design the benefit the Church, 'tis but because his Holiness had ●mis'd him Ecclesiastical possessions.  
For my part I dare make no other judgement his motives, and designs, than what his own ●ords and actions do oblige me to; and I must ●eds say, it is not without some trouble that I 〈◊〉 it reported, that this Expedition of his was 〈◊〉 the effect of a disgust he took, for not being ●ade a Marshal of France.  
Not but this scandal carries some specious appearance of truth, for the whole world knowing Fucillade was not a person that could believe self further off from honour then Mr. Crequy, d'Humieres, and Mr. Bellefond. As soon as understood that his Majesty had confer'd that or upon them, and had not proceeded to him; as not to be doubted but his great spirit would ●nt it: And the News of his Voyage being ●ad abroad almost at the same time, it was ●●ght but reasonable to infer, 'twas indignation put him upon a design of manifesting to other Nations how worthy he was of that honour, wh●● was denied him at home.  
Nevertheless, if one has patience to consider t●● for the execution of this Enterprise, he had 〈◊〉 only his Majesty's consent, with supplies of Mor●● and Ships, but was accompanied likewise wi●● young Prince and a considerable number of yo● Cavaliers, of the principal quality in the Kingd●● in my opinion it must needs be confessed, that it 〈◊〉 so far from being the effect of any capriccio discontent, (as has been published) that it m●● with more reason be looked upon as proceed from the comparable prudence of his Majesty, 〈◊〉 being willing to comply with the pressing sollicitation of the Pope, for relief for the Venetian, unwilling without occasion to break openly 〈◊〉 the Turk, contrary to the inviolable fidelity his word; he could not with more wisdom dexterity prevent the discovery of these succo●● then by committing the affair to Mr. Fueillade, 〈◊〉 was the most proper person of the whole Cour●● conceal the design, under pretences of his 〈◊〉 vadoes, or the discontent he was suspected be in.  
I shall not detain myself to present such circ●● stances to your observation, as might fortify conjecture. You have heard with what noise commination his Majesty did publicly proh●● the going thither; and yet Mr. Fueillade in mean time listing, and engaging a great 〈◊〉 of Gentlemen: You know likewise he refused make any public disposal of places and C●● mands, which notwithstanding was done un●● hand; And last of all the Standard of Malta being set up in our Ships, instead of the French, leaves us no room to be doubtful.  
Thus far I have enlarged myself upon the design and intention of this enterprise, that I might entertain you with all passages from the very beginning. About the end of July we had new assurance of this expedition, by the great number of Reformed Officers and Gentlemen who engaged themselves daily with Mr. Fueillade, and by the several young Lords whom the example of the Count of S. Paul, had drawn into the same enterprise.  
Their Rendezvous was appointed at Lions, where they who were under the pay of Mr. Fueillade appeared first, to the number of about 300. about the latter end of August; but by reason certain Bravoes of the Town began to Troop together with the Soldiers of the Regiment of Lions, and form parties against our Nobless, (which in other respects were in no great favour with the Townsmen) a new order was obtained to continue their march to Toulon, which was the place they were to embark in. But there likewise they occasioned such disorders as cost 3 of their Companions their lives: Which caused Mr. Fueillade to repair thither with all speed to prevent the evil consequences of that accident.  
On the 8th of September he arrived there with Mr. S. Paul, and on the 10th to perfect the Rolls of such as were in pay (which was 20 sols per diem) he had a general Muster. He had present complete four hundred, which he divided into four Brigades, each of them bearing the name of its Commander. Besides which there remained near 200. Volunteers all of principal quality, which he disposed likewise into the several Brigades, and afterwards appointed the Commands as follow.  
The Commander in Chief. 
Monsieur de la Fueillade.   
Son aid de Campe.  
Mr. Le Chevalier de Tresmes.  
The Commanders of the four Brigades.  
Messieurs 


The Count of S. Paul.  
The Duke of Caderousse.  
The Count de Ville-maur.  
The Duke de Chasteau Thierry.     
Every Commander of a Brigade had under him Sub-Brigadiers, Aide-Majors, and one Ensign.  
The Sub-Brigadiers of Mr. S. Paul were  
Messieurs 


The Marquis de Chamilly.  
De Jovency.  
The Chevalier des Molets.  
The Chevalier de Sepe-Ville.  
Tambonneau.  
The Count of Chalain.  
Beauchevilliers.  
Des Fourneau.     
The Aide-Majors.  
Messieurs 


Du Pre.  
Des Roches.     
The Ensign  
Mr. Derlingue.  
The Sub-Brigadiers of the Duke of Chasteau Thierry.  
Messieurs 


Du S. Marcel.  
Du Moulin.  
De la Forets.     
The Aide-Majors.  
Messieurs 


De Rome-Cour.  
Poncet.     
The Ensign Mr. The Chevalier de Gonor.  
The Sub-Brigadiers of the Duke de Caderousse.  
Messieurs 


The Marquis de Refuge.  
The Chevalier de Suze.  
The Marquis de Tord.  
De Flavigny.  
De Bois-Commun.  
Clincault.     
The Aide-Majors.  
Messieurs 


The Chevalier Dampiere.  
De Rouvile.     
The Ensign. Mr. hunger.  
The Sub-Brigadiers of the Count de Ville-maur.  
Messieurs 


De Bois le Comte.  
De Ville-Maur the Son.  
De Charmont.  
De Virgini.     

The Aide-Majors.  Messieurs 


De la Mondie.  
De Longuemar.     
The Ensigno  
Mr. de la Coste.  
Things being established in this order, all thoughts were employed in hastening the embarquement, which at length was finished the 20th of September, and on the 25 we set sail.  
The first place in which we came to anchor, was the Gulf of Palmo in Sardinia, about 4 leagues from Callari, where by reason the winds were contrary, we continued a day and a half, but we spent that time in providing ourselves with water, and such other fresh victuals as we wanted.  
At our landing in this Island it was no unpleasant surprise to us to see several great Savage fellows springing of a sudden as it were out of the earth with nothing humane about them, but their Guns, which they carried with them under their arms; and vanishing from our sight as suddenly as they appeared.  
We were informed they were the Inhabitants of that Island, that they had no clothing but skins, nor no other Palaces than such holes as they made themselves in the earth. There were 7 or 8 of us had a curiosity to go a little farther into the Isle, to see how things were disposed in their quarters.  
We were not advanced above musket shot towards the place where we saw them in first, but we perceived a long Caverne, at the mouth of which we found 3 Schiffs, or wherrys drawn up upon rulers. Our Guide called Charmont, Sub-Brigadier to Mr. the Ville-Maur● (who had had frequent affairs with those Savages) told us that they had most of them the same at their several Caves, and that they never used them but upon some certain design, which when they had accomplished, they drew them back again with incredible agility, and address.  
Being past a little way into this Den, we perceived light in several places towards the bottom, which made us believe there were variety of passages by which those Brutes might upon occasion go forth to what part they pleased of the Isle, especially towards the shore, where they lay their little Piquerons; all which was confirmed to us by our experience sooner than we desired, for having discovered a parcel of their hunted provisions, which they had very cleanly disposed upon a shelf hanging in the air, in a very obscure Corner, we took the boldness to ease them of that care; and returning to the Skiffs again that brought us ashore, very well pleased with our prize, we found ourselves suddenly invested with so great a number of that enraged kind of cattles, that they seemed to spring out of all parts of the shore in a moment, and that which surprised us most was that at the same time they were running after us with their Fusils upon the shore, at the same time a great number of little boats, and wherryes advanced to intercept us at sea: But by great happiness those who were sent from our Ships for fresh provisions, having discerned the danger we were in, came immediately in to our assistance, and were fain to make use of all the credit their commerce gives them with that Nation, to get us out of their hands; which yet they could not obtain, till we had paid sufficiently dear for what we had so unjustifiably stolen.  
We left this Gulf with a good gale of wind steering directly for Malta, where we arrived the 18th of October: so that we spent 25 days in making but 400 leagues, for they count it no more betwixt Toulon and this place.  
We continued there 4 days, during which time Mr. Fueillade had several private Conferences with the Grand Master: it was immediately believed it was to solicit him to send some relief too, and to persuade him with us to attempt something in favour of the Venetians, and the interest of the Church, that might be worthy of the honour of that Order.  
In short that very day we came aboard again, the Grand Master called all his Knights together, and in a long harangue represented to them how much more it was their interest to assist the Town of Candy, than the French, who had no other instigation, but the common concernment of the Church. He added that it would be great dishonour for them to do nothing for their relief, neither in the Town nor upon their coasts, and the French come so far with such undaunted courage and resolution, to sacrifice their lives in that place for the honour of their Religion, and the glory of their Prince; and at last desired all such as were disposed to follow so Generous an Example to declare themselves: at which word all the French Knights of that Order cried out they were ready to go along, and that they attended nothing but his commands: There were some Germans and Italians who made the same proffer, but amongst all the Spaniards there was but one that presented himself.  
The Grand Master loves that nation very well, but he took such displeasure to observe it, that he could not contain himself from reproaching them upon the place; and named 4 immediately which he obliged to go along with the other, that it might not be said the Spaniards (who are so much tickled and affected with being every where acknowledged the strictest and foremost of the Catholics) should indeed be the last in defending the interest of Religion and the Church, when they are so solemnly at stake.  
From Malta to Candia, is reckoned about 300 French leagues, which we made in less than 13 days, for on the last of October we found ourselves in the entrance into the White Sea, betwixt Morea and Candia, which are not above 25 leagues asunder, in which when we were a little advanced we discovered before us two little Islands hard by one another, the biggest of which runs out towards Canea and is called the Cerigues, and the lesser towards Morea, and is called little C●rigo.  
We had some difficulty in passing these Isles, by reason of a great number of Rocks interspersed, but after having well considered, we could not leave Cerigues to the leeward, without running up too near to Canea, nor Cerigo to the other hand, without fetching too great a compass, which would be no less dangerous, seeing we must have coasted upon Moria, the wind being gentle we resolved to pass amongst the Rocks, which we effected at last with great trouble, but no prejudice at all.  
The first of November we came into Standia, a little Isle some 6 or 7 leagues from Candia, which is nothing but a long Mountain which shelters the Vessels in its Harbour, and is the chief reason the Venetian Fleet lies there.  
This Isle is inhabited by Greeks, but no less barbarous and rude, than the before mentioned Savages in Sardinia: They have no other Trade with Strangers, but for powder and bullet, of which they have particular need, their employments and livelihood, being nothing but hunting, which is very plentiful in that Isle. The same day at 5 in the evening Mr. Fueillade put himself into a Galley (with Mr. de Fenelon and some other Volunteers) which attended there to bring him to Candy, where as soon as he was arrived he went with Mr. Morosini, Captain General of the place, to view the works at S. Andree and Saboniera.  
The second; Mr. de S. Paul entered into another Galley with the rest of the Volunteers and 50 Cavaliers of his Brigade, passing to the Fosse, which is a place by the Sea about half a league from Candy, where they might come to an anchor. Being got thither, he left his Galley and went into a Bark, the Volunteers, and the rest of the Company did the same, in order to their landing at the Port of Tramata: As soon as they appeared at the entrance of that Harbour, the Comte S. Paul was saluted by the Turks with five rounds of their Cannon, and they, which followed him received their proportion, but all got in without any considerable damage.  
As soon as Mr. S. Paul was landed, Mr. Fueillade went back immediately to Standy, with resolution to have landed all the rest, the next morning: but about 9 or 10 the next day, there appearing 36 of the Turks Galleys (which pretended to land men too, gave an alarm to the Town, and such encouragement to the Turks, that they pretended they would have fallen on forthwith. But the Venetian Fleet, which was at Standy, put to Sea with our 3 Ships, and constrained the Turks to return as they came. We thought to have landed in the Island, but being got already as far as the Trench, it was resolved we should take the benefit of the night, and put into Candy immediately.  
It was the 3 of Novem. that Mr. Fueillade presented himself with his Troops before the port of Tramata, and entered happily together into the Town.  
There was only the Comte de Fountain, Mr. de Fenelons sons boat shot thorough and sunk by three volleys of Cannon, which killed two men and took off both the legs of a third.  
All Mr. de Fenelons money and plate were in that boat which was sunk, but was happily fished up again the next day by a Turkish slave, who had his liberty given him for his pains, and he is at present in the service of Mr. de Fenelon in France.  
Whilst Mr. Fueillade was gone to Standia to put his troops in order, and to embark them, so as they might with most speed and convenience enter into the Town; They who were already arrived with Mr. S. Paul, had nothing to do but to visi●● the French Officers that had Commands there and to inform themselves of every thing. Of this number I was one, and having no less curiosity than the rest, I thought it more for my instruction to go singly about it, and to satisfy myself as particularly, and with as much order as was possible.  
The first thing I did, I went round the place, to take a view of the Fortifications, and began with the works of S. Andre and Saboniera, which lie at the two extremities of that side of the Town that runs along by the Sea.  
The Bastion of S. Andre is the highest part of the Town on that side towards the Sea, and is not more than about forty paces distant from it; on the other towards the Ravelin of the Holy Ghost, there are nothing but Rocks. The Bastion of Saboniera has one side washed with the Sea, and on the other (which is defended by the Fort of S. Demetrius) there is nothing but a continued Rock, shooting itself out into the Land. There being no earth to be had to make their approaches: on the side they were capable of being attacked, the Turks attempted not them there at first. They began with two of the inland Forts, Martiningo and Panigra, where by their frequent and desperate assaults they had taken most of the outworks, especially at Martiningo, which Fort they gained at length, and planted one their Colours, with the half Moon, upon it: But there being a Cavalier. or mount still left belonging to the Bastion, besides a strong retrench went lined with hewed stone (which they called a Retirade or retreat) and several other little platforms, they were so much incommoded and disturbed, that they grew desperate of making that Post good.  
Whilst they were in suspense of making good these two attaques, where they lost the best of their men, a soldier run to them out of the Town, and advised them, that all their endeavours would be to no purpose, till they fell upon those two Bastions next the Sea, and by that means stopped up the mouths of both the Harbours, that of Tramata by their approaches at S. Andre, and that of the Mole, (or the Port of the Galleys) by their intrenchments at Sabionera.  
The Turks were easily persuaded; but because they wanted earth to make their approaches on the sides where the Bastions were attackable, they quitted not their former Posts, till they had brought a vast prodigious heap and thrown it betwixt the Fort of Panigra, and the Ravelin of the Holy Ghost. The Venetian perceiving it, imagined at first it had been to raise a platform in that place, and plant a battery to play into the Town: but their earth increasing to so great a quantity, they were convinced it was in order to their approaches against S. Andre. A while after they saw all their forces drawn down on that side, and towards Sabionera, where earth being wanting as much as on the other, they were forced likewise to bring it a distance from the Mountain, by which means, with ●●finite labour, they have entrenched themselves about these two Forts, and that so strong, and effectually that within two years' time they hav●● brought them to very great extremities.  
The Bastion of S. Andre, runs out with a grea●● shoulder on that side next the S. Esprit, and 〈◊〉 the other towards the Sea it has only a line draw●● from the end of the curtain, to the point of th●● Bastion, without any Flancker at all, in stead 〈◊〉 which there is only a very obtuse angle, which 〈◊〉 the reason there remains near forty foot of lan●● betwixt the Bastion and the Sea. To stop up th●● space they have cut a kind of trench with a Ravelin that runs a long from the point of the Bastion 〈◊〉 the Sea, where it meets with the little Town 〈◊〉 Priuli, which with the whole work was den●● minated from General Priuli who built it. Th●● Bastion is descended without by a good half Moo●● at the point of it, which is called the Redout 〈◊〉 S. Andre, and another Fort before it, which 〈◊〉 Marquis de Ville caused to be thrown up, and th●● so commodiously, that it ruin'd the enemy's d●● signs, and facillitated the frequent salleys he ma●● with his French in such manner, that the Gra●● Visir who had taken up his quarters just ov●● against the S. Esprit, on this side the Joffa, or t●● River of Mount Ida, was forced for his security to remove to the other.  
There was nothing unattempted by the In●● dells, that could conduce to the destruction of t●● Post, but their success was but small, and the●● losses great. In so much that the great advantag●● and reputation it brought to the defenders, render at length the Venetians so jealous of the honour Marquis de Ville, that Morosini the General f●● the Venetian resolved to destroy him by the most infamous treachery in the world: For the General report in Candy is that he writ a letter himself to the Visir, that if at a time he mentioned, he would fall upon the Marquis de Villes Fort, he would dispose of things so, as he should not fail to become Master of it, and in case the resistance was extraordinary, he would assist them with the Artillery of the Fort, and a good body of Musquetteers placed commodiously to play amongst them: by particular providence, the messenger was taken, and brought to the Marquis by one of his guards.  
As soon as he had read the letter, and was assured of all the circumstances of this horrid design, by the disposition of the messenger, he resolved to keep all private, and having advised with some of the French Officers who were his friends, it was concluded no notice should be taken, till they had taken the best measures they could to secure their return to Venice, whither it was agreed their complaints against the General should be carried.  
All things being prepared for their embarquement, as was concluded, the Marquis de Ville attended by a good round number of French Officers, went to Morosini and upbraided him highly by his treachery. He was much discomposed and astonished at the news, but Mr. Marquis de Ville, stayed not till he had recollected himself, but le●t him in his surprise; and went immediately to Tramata, that he might not have any time to interrupt ●is passage: The General did what could to stop them in the Harbour, but the French that were with the Marquis were numerous enough to frustrate all his endeavours.  
The news of this horrid attempt was got to Venice before the Marquis arrived. The General had not failed in several of his letters to the Senate, to justify himself, and cover the blackness of the design, with the subtlest most exquisite dashes, and flourishes of art: But as soon as the Marquis had made his complaint, produced the letter, and the proofs he had in his hand, the S●nate perceived it could not possibly be kept from the world with all the pretences and disguisements imaginable, if the Marquis and the Officers he had with him had a mind to divulge it, for which reason they resolved at what rate soever, to oblige them to silence, and money they supposed to be the readyest way. Mr. de Vill●, quickly found their intentions, and judged it convenient to make use of this occasion for the full payment of his own arrears, and to oblige the Venetian to quit and discharge all the Tickets which were due to the Officers that accompanied him: But they saved him the labour o● desiring of that; for the Senate sent him very honourably whatever was his due and something more, and discharged the Officers so freely of their billets, that they did readily own the bounty o●● that Commonwealth, and promised to conceal the perfidy of the General, upon whom they might otherwise have drawn the hatred and aversion of other States.  
This Fort (which was as it were deserted after the departure of the Marquis and the French he carried away with him) in a short time after fell ●nto the hands of the Turks, who by that means gaining upon the half Moon that commanded it, blowed that up also, so that the Bastion having lost ●ll its outworks, they raised three great batteries, one of 4 great pieces upon the Redoubt which was pointed against the Ravelin of the Holy Ghost, another of three great pieces upon the shore, to play ●t the same time upon the Scotseze, the Port of Tramata, and that side of the Bastion, where it ●id much more hurt than two other great pieces that lay at greater distance, and thundered continually into the breach, which at that time was near sixty paces wide: The third Battery which consists but of two great pieces is raised upon the work of Priuli which they have demolished, flanck●ng the Scotseze, and the other works before it with great detriment and execution.  
Whilst their Canon are playing with this fury against the Bastion, the ruins of the Fort de Ville and the half Moon, were employed to make redoubts, and other Lodgments for the better seturity of their trenches, and having gained this ●arth which might be removed towards the Foss●, ●hey opened several trenches this way and that way which served for Lines of Communication, and ●un up as far as the point of the Bastion, and some ●imes under the very breach, for in some places ●heir Posts are so near, the Soldiers can hit the ends ●f their Muskets together, and reach one another Tobacco, there being nothing but a Palissado betwixt them.  
They have likewise a great number of Cappo●ieres, which are Pits cut deep in the ground, covered for the most part with earth, supported by great pieces of wood set a cross and boards laid a Top of them: and these Lodgments being made so as to open one into the other, do make such Galleries that under them they advance many times to the works of the Town, and some times under most of the streets; On the other side the besiegers not being behind hand with their Pyoneers, working under ground perpetually to countermine them, they have likewise their several Galleries, that run under most of the best Posts and Batteries of the enemy, and not seldom into their very quarters; so that sometimes as they are advancing thus in their several mines, they fall upon one another 〈◊〉 close before they are ware, that having no time to give fire to what they have prepared, without equal danger to both sides, instead of springing their Mines, they force and tear away the bags o●● powder with hooks, and sometimes come 〈◊〉 handy blows.  
The Breach at S. Andre seemed to me indifferently well repaired and fortified by a good Palissado, several redoubts, and a double retrenchment within the Bastion itself, to which they have added another of hewed stone since our arrival, righ●● over against the neck of the Bastion: it is in th●● form of a Tenalia, and stops up one side of th●● Scotseza (which is otherwise imperfect) so wel● that it ser●'s also for a retrenchment. The brea●● is stopped up likewise with ten or twelve embrazure● to each of which there is planted a great Gu●● loaden with pistol bullets, and nails, always ready to be showered in amongst them, in case 〈◊〉 assault. The Gate of S. Andre, is betwixt the bastion of that name and the Scotseze, in the midst of a small courtaine of about 35 paces; it is well fortified, and the enemy has his Posts there likewise, and, so commodiously placed, they do great mischief to them that defend it, in so much that this is one of the places in which the service is most hot and most frequent: For you most know, since the Turks ruin'd the Fort Priuli, and demolished the little Tower, they have made themselves masters of all the ground betwixt the bastion and the Sea, and have raised two great batteries (besides what they had raised before upon the Priuli) one, of four Mortar pieces against the breach, and the other of five pieces of Cannon against the Gate.  
From S. Andre I went to the Port of Tramata which lies at about 200 paces distance, in which space beyond the Gate of S. Andre is the Scotseze, a small bastion whose point is very sharp, and runs into the Sea: 'Tis properly but half a bastion, by reason that side which is extended upon the shore, falls in with the courtaine, and makes but one line of about 50 paces, upon which there are two little Redoubts not far from one another, at the end of which is another half Redoubt, near which ●he Sea running a good distance into the land makes the whole space it advances of the figure of 〈◊〉 reversed angle, the side of which that looks towards the Scotseza is of about 30 paces, and the other of about 50, which terminates in a great Demi-Redoubt, which is upon that point of land that makes the bending, and gives the Harbour an oval form. That part of the oval that runs far thest into the Town, makes almost a reversed angle, on which they have raised a strong Tenailla the sides of which make the greatest part of the oval. The entrance into this Haven being towards the Fort of S. Andre, and by consequence within reach of their batteries, and so unsafe for the Ships, they have made a new one on the other side, by which they can come in with greater security.  
The sides of this angle reversed being much above musket shot over, they have thrown up new works upon the sides of the Tenailla, and stopped up the cone, or corner of the place, with a long straight line, very well fortified, in the midst of which is the Gate of Tramata.  
From the end of the Tenailla to the Haven of Galleys is near 200 paces, all which space running along in a straight line by the Sea, and fortified only with a few acute, and reversed angles, is terminated by a rising ground, which runs about 110 paces into the Sea, and joins itself to a strong Castle built upon a Rock at the mouth of the Haven, and covers all that side which is on the right hand as they enter.  
That side next the Harbour is fortified by two Arsenals, and the Gate called the Arsenal Gate, by which they pass to the Arsenal, and to that rising ground which runs out to the Castle: That side which looks to the Sabionera, is secured by a fair Mole, forced in the Sea, from the foot of the great Arsenal wall, to the point over against the place where the high piece of ground joins itself to the Castle, which makes the mouth of that Harbour, which is called the Mole.  
The Mole joining itself to the Corner of the Grand Arsenal, (which is the farthest point that extends itself into the Harbour) serves as a flank●● to the side towards the Sea: and at the angl 〈…〉 is at the extremity of the same side, there is a ●●rong battery that commands the Sea, and 〈◊〉 long the shore, where the enemies have 〈◊〉 ●heir entrenchments: The other angle is secu●● 〈◊〉 flanker, raised upon the curtain, where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a battery that scowrs the breach; be 〈…〉 ●ount called the Cavalier Barbaro, is be 〈…〉 ●●lanker at the side of the inward angle of the A●●●●enal, which ●cowrs the Trench, and all long the Falsebray. After I had viewed the two A 〈…〉 and visited the Magazines, in which 〈◊〉 was nothing wanting either for the defence of a p●●ce, or the destruction of men, I passed to the Sabionera, which is no further from the Grand Arsenal th●n the length of the Courtine, and that is about a hundred paces.  
The Sabionera is a large Bastion, which shoulders ●ut towards the Royal Fort on one side, and the Sea on other, the point of 〈◊〉 Bastion 〈◊〉 beaten quite down, and the breach about 90 paces, but they have reinforced it with a good Pal●●ssado, several little platforms, and two retrenchments, one within the breach, and the other without, under ●he neck of land that is on the side towards the ●ea: But its chief defence lies in the Cavalier or mount de Zane, which commands it almost every where.  
The outworks being ruined I can say little of them unless it be that there is a large platform upon the close way, which defends the point, and another little one before the quarter, which was built by General Spaal.  
For the Entrenchments, and Posts of the enemies they are almost in the same manner as before S. Andre, unless it be that they have there a great: number of Redoubts, especially on that side towards the breach, where the Rock does not come. There are reckoned seventeen of that sort, beside; several entrenchments and mines to the very breach, to which, by the benefit of their approaches, and several trenches, they have cut both open, and covered, they can advance as they please nay even to the Falsebray: They have divers galleries likewise, many of them brought a good way under the Bastion, which do often fall in with those of the Town, who have their mines also under their batteries, and under all the principal posts of the enemy: by which means they often encounter under ground, as is observed already i● the Relation of S. Andre.  
That which is remarkable on that side towards the Bastion of S. Demetry, is that the quantity o●● earth the Turks have brought thither to shelter themselves, is so great, that they can march up and down to their several posts without so much as seeing the Rock.  
'Tis on this side the Janisaries have their post, towards the mouth of the Lazaret, the other troops being quartered up and down upon the mowtain and thereabouts.  
Near the mouth of the Lazaret, there is a tongue of land which runs into the Sea, upon which they have planted a battery of 7 great Guns, which command almost to the entrance of the Mole: besides which they have 3 one under the other upon the shore, the farthest of which consists of three great pieces, which play both upon the entrance of the Harbour and Mole. That which is under that ●s of three pieces which play only upon the Harbour, and the third (which is nearest) has but two pieces, which play upon the courtaine, and flank of the Arsenal. Besides these four batteries upon the shore, there are three more at greater distance, one of five Guns upon the Mount Marule, which plays upon the point of the Bastion▪ another of five upon a little eminence in the midst of their approaches, and the third of four pieces; They have two mortar pieces under the breach which do great mischief many times to the place, but that which gives them most trouble is a platform they have made in the Sea, near the Haven, from whence their Cannon can play into it, in despite of the protection of the Mole.  
At first the Artillery of the Castle rendered this post useless to the Turks, by dismounting their Guns as fast as they planted them: but they have since found out so good a way of sheltering themselves, that the Town cannot hinder them from shooting into which part of the Haven they please, in so much that they are in too great liklyhood to become masters of it, unless some way could be continued of destroying that platform, by mines or otherwise: And this is it that they are as serious upon, as so important an inconvenience does require.  
After I had observed the two Attaques of S. Andre, and Sabionera both within, and without, and all that side towards the Sea, which they commanded, I surveyed the other but in transitu as it were, yet to complete my Tour of the Town, I shall give a short touch of them, as I proposed.  
The first was the Bastion of Victoire, which is large and beautiful with a good Mount within it, that commands to the Royal Fort of S. Demetrius, 'tis a great work, which covers the whole Bastion, and part of the courtaine, on the Sabionera side, which Fort is likewise defended by it, and the Fort of Molina, which flanks the enemies works with four great pieces of Canon: The Fort Royal has two half Moons at its two extremities, with a good scarf and a fair Retirade within it: and for as much as the whole work is bending on the Sabionera side, it could not be but the other side next the bastion of Jesus must run out longer than the other. Before the point there is a kind of a spur, under the shutter of another work called the point of the Heartbreak.  
The bastion of Jesus which is the next has a horn work likewise before it, but much less. Betwixt the bastions de la Victoire, and Jesus, there is another work raised by the General Priuli, and called the Fort of saint Marie de la Presa, which is in the middle of the courtaine; All the other Bastions which are near it, have a good Ravelin betwixt every two of them about the midst of the courtaine.  
The Martiningo is upon the angle that runs furthest out into the land, towards new Candy. There is a good retreat within it, and a strong ●●mount nearer the Town, it is defended by a large work called Saint Marie without, which was utterly demolished when the Turks removed their attaques to S. Andre, as is observed before.  
The Bastion of Bethlem is something less than ●●he rest, but is defended by a good Halfmoon before it, called Moccenigo.  
The Panigra is sheltered without by a good work of the same name, and has good Retreat within it. The breach the Turks made there and all the ruins without, have been very well repaired, as well as Martiningo, by the diligence of an eminent Engineer of the order of S. Francis. To make these reparations they have pulled down several houses in the Town, there being scarce any other wood ●●eft for that purpose, and for these two last years their occasions in that nature have been so great (their works and lodgments being daily beaten down and repaired) that there are very few le●● standing, where one may lie secure: For this reason the Soldiers and Inhabitants, are glad of huts ●under ground (especially in those quarters which are nearest the Attaques) the showers of stones and fire-balls, and granadoes, are so frequent.  
The Gate of the same name is near the flanker towards Bethlem; and one that side toward S. Andre, on the middle of the courtaine, lies the Ravelin of the Holy Ghost, against which the enemy's Canon thundering continually have made no inconsiderable breach.  
Having thus finished my Tour of the Town, I returned to Mr. S. Paul, where I understood of the arrival of Mr. Fueillade and all his Troops in the Town.  
It was designed we should have been mustered the next morning which was the 14th of Novemb. but most of our men that were not used to the Sea being indisposed and out of order, it was thought convenient to allow them two days longer to recollect themselves. On the sixth they were drawn out, before Morosini the Captain General of the place, and Cornaro the Provider General of the Kingdom of Candy, who found them in very good order, and past many compliments upon Mr. Fueillade an●● the rest of our Officers.  
Mr. Fueillade taking occasion from their grea● civilities, desired we might have the guard at the bastion of S. Andre: but the Knights of Malta and other Officers of the Town, who had had the keeping it a long time before, opposed it very strongly, and protested they would not yield that honour to any persons whatsoever. Mr. Morosin● apprehending the contest might grow higher, to satisfy Mr. Fueillade, without disobliging his own Officers, gave him the guard of a little Chappe● above the bastion, and just by the breach, and because it lay somewhat too open to the enemies shot three or four works were thrown up immediately to secure it. On the 8th day of November about 6 i●● the morning Mr. S. Paul with his Brigade mounted the Guard, and was not relieved till the next morning at the same hour; he lost that day his Major Dupre, and Mr. Marienval whose head was so shattered with a great shot that Mr. Chamilly and Mr. Lare who stood by him, were both dangerously wounded with the splinters of his skull.  
On the 9th the brigade de Chateau Thierry went upon the Guard, for orders were given the brigades should relieve one another according to their ranks, and that each was to continue there 24 hours, that is from six hours in the morning, to ●he same hour the next: which is worth the observation, to distinguish what brigade was upon the guard when any considerable action happened in our post, without being necessary to name them particularly all along. That day there past nothing ●t S. Andre, but at night the Turks sprang a Mine under one of our outworks, and put fire to the Gabions that sheltered another, advancing at the same time with great shouts, and firing to the assault; but they were vigorously repulsed by the brigade of Chateau de Thierry, who slew several of them, without any loss except Mr. hunger, who was slain with an arrow in his eye.  
On the tenth the Town sprang a little Mine on S. Andres side under the forwardest post of the enemies, which blew it quite up, and a little work ●hey had made before the Gate of the bastion: The Turks repaired it again in a short time, but they were scarce settled there again, but another Mine was sprung in the same place, that cleared the gate absolutely.  
Ot the 14th they made another sally on Sabionera ●ide to surprise a new post of the Turks, but the design succeeded not that day; The next day they made a new attempt upon it, and demolished it quite.  
On the 19th on S. Andres side they gave fire to a Fougasse, and at the same time sallied out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men only, upon that place, and beat the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 back, but the Turks observing the smallness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, rallyed of a sudden, and returned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 others (which came in from all sides) to 〈◊〉, leaving our men scarce time to make 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●●he Town.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made a fierce sally on the Sabionera 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m●●n, who slew near 200 of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the heads of a Bassa and 3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Officers a long with them, notwith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not much above half our men 〈◊〉  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●●lly was made on that side, the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 assault upon S. Andre, which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and ●●pell'd at length the brigade of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon the guard with part of of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Harcourt, behind the bastion.  
On 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on S. Andres side they sprang another 〈◊〉 under a battery the enemies had raised near the 〈◊〉, and at the same time Mr. Marcel Sub-b●●gad●● Mr. Chateau Thierry made a sally with 〈◊〉 Gentlemen, and gained about 20 paces of ground which the enemy had possessed before the face of the bastion towards S. Esprit, advancing as it were under the Gate which is on that side: Mr. Furio 〈…〉 having notice of their success repaired immediately to them, and made a work be thrown up to hold ten or a dozen Musqueteers: at which place there were lost 3 or 4 Gentlemen of the brigade of Chateau Thierry,  
This work that Mr. Fueillade and S. Marcel caused to be made, bindred the enemy from stopping up the Gate of S. Andre, and from attempting any thing on that side under shelter, for which reason the Turks resolved to fall upon it before it was finished: As soon as they were perceived to advance upon that design, we drew out six musquetteers only, out of the same Brigade, and sent them to their relief, with which supply they ●eat back one Turks bravely, though they could ●ire but one after another, and that but half shelterd.  
The Turks being nettled to see themselves repulsed, came the same day to the charge again, with so great numbers, and such quantity of all sorts of fire, that they demolished that work, advancing to, and putting fire to the very Gate of S. Andre: Mr. Fueillade drew out 20 Musquet●eers to charge them, but they beat them back with such resolution, and persisted in that obstinacy to burn the Gate, that there was great danger ●f their taking the Town that day.  
Their fire balls, fire pots, Granades, and other ●orts of artifices they threw perpetually into the ●ost where the brigade of S. Paul was, were very terrible, and mischievous, yet that young Prince continued there all day at the head of his men, with Mr. Fueillade, who received a slight hurt on ●is lip with a Granadoe.  
During this conflict three pieces of great Canon were brought into the street, and pointed over against the Gate, and a good number of our brigades drawn out and disposed thereabouts, to ●epel the enemy in case they burnt it, and endeavoured to enter; but at night they drew off of themselves to our no small satisfaction.  
On the 29 Mr. de V●lle-Maur who was upon the guard, sallied out about break of day with Mr. Decourty one of the Officers that was with him and having beat back the enemy to a convenien●● distance he threw up a work some 5 or 6 paces before their post, which had two considerable effect for besides that the gate of the bastion was render●● more secure, the enemy could not work, without being discovered, which made them the next morning plant two great Guns against it, which did mu●● mischief, and broke the right arm of Mr. Fouca●● Captain of the Guards to Mr. Fueillade.  
The first of December the Venetians sprang: Mine under a battery the enemy had raised a whi●● before, and called it the Scotseze, it pointed upole the breach of S. Andre: which Mine succeeded 〈◊〉 well, that blowing up the battery entirely, 〈◊〉 buried all their Artillery, and the Bassa which commanded it, in the ruins, as we understood by a Turk that came running to us into the Town he informed us likewise that the whole Turkish force in Candy was not above 20000 fight me●●  
On the second they sprang a Mine on Sabione●● side, but without any effect; They sprang anothe●● on S. Andre with much more advantage, for 〈◊〉 threw down all their blinds of earth, under which they could securely fire into our works.  
On the fourth, there was a sally made by 2●● Gentlemen of our brigade, and a commanded part●● of twenty more of the Garrison, on the Sabioner●● side: they were led up by Mr. Fourneaux, Sub-Brigadier to Mr. S. Paul, who taking along wi●● him Mr. Chapestan, (Captain Major of the Town) went out with design to surprise one of the best and nearest posts of the enemy, which they performed so vigorously, that after they had made a great slaughter of those Infidels, they brought away one of their Colours, and a Renegado back with them.  
When this sally was in deliberation, several of our Volunteers made great application to Mr. Fueil●●ade, that they might go out with that Party: but ●●e refused them, and not without some indignation to see them so importunate.  
The Chevalier de Tremes, one of the gallantest, and bravest persons of the Brigade, dissatisfied with the refusal, went to that part of the breach, where the enemy's Cannon was the most hit, and leap●●ng over the Palissado, he ran most desperately ●●lone (with his sword only in his hand) to a post of the enemies, and returned with it all bloody to ●●he same place again: Mr. Fueillade seeing him ●●ome back in that posture, told him in some kind ●●f passion, he had as good have a butcher as he for ●●is Aide de Camp: in which command he was at ●●hat time.  
This desperate (rather than discreet action of ●●is,) had like to have been the occasion of great ●●isorders; Those who saw him vault over the ●●alissado, thought themselves obliged in honour to ●●oe the same, and had all of them hazarded to have ●●ollow'd the example, had not Mr. Fueillade been ●●dvertis'd, and with his utmost authority and ●●hreatnings restrained them.  
Yet all this could not hinder but Mr. Villefranche, nephew to Mr. S. Andre, took the same leap, and joining himself with the party drawn out, he behaved himself so, that by main strength he pulled a Turk out of their trenches, and brought him thorough all their fire to the foot of the bastion: but as he was entering with his prisoner into the Town, he received a pistol shot in his leg, and died of it afterwards. Mr. de la Mag●elane de Ragny was in the same party, without orders likewise, slain there with 9 or 10 of our brigades, and 7 or 8 of the Garrison.  
The sixth the Venetians gave fire to a Mine under a battery they had raised to command the Port of Tramata: but the effect was inconsiderable.  
On the 8th they made another small sally with 8 men only, who forced away a Colours from a post they attempted, and bringing it back with them they planted it in the breach.  
From that day to the great sally on the sixteenth, there was no considerable action, only some little disputes and skirmishes for small parcels of ground, with which notwithstanding our brigades being daily diminished, we began to complain, that instead of attempting some brave and considerable enterprise, as they had promised us, we were continually exposed to the Mines, Granades and Fire-balls, and employed night and day in trifling services, in which we lost the best of our men.  
For these reasons it was the General desire of our whole party that we might be employed upon some action worthy the bravery of the French, before our number was utterly dis-abled, seeing it was that only which engaged us in that voyage: In short we expressed so much dissatisfaction to see ourselves cut off insensibly every day, without doing any thing of importance, and so impatient of performing some honourable thing in a sally by ourselves, that Mr. Fueillade resolved to propose it in Council to the Venetians.  
The Venetians were at first surprised with the proposition, and represented to Mr. Fueillade the truth and no more, that there was indeed honour to be hoped for by the French in so daring an enterprise, but that there was also great prejudices would follow upon the Venetians, nor could that little honour be acquired, but at a very dear rate.  
In short there was but small appearance, that 300 men (as we were no more) should attaque the trenches of the Turks, which were guarded with 2600 to be seconded upon occasion with far greater numbers, and ●ortify'd with good redoubts, from whence they could fire upon us on all sides within the shelter of their works.  
To this they added that it was not in their power to afford us any relief in case of disaster, which was too likely to befall us, yea though we contrary to all probability should beat off the enemy, yet all the ground we should gain would be of no advantage, seeing they had neither men to make good, nor pioneers to throw it down, and in a word that they wanted Soldiers much more than ground: By this it was clear how useless this enterprise was esteemed by the Venetiaas, and how dangerous to the French.  
Finally they left it to Mr. Fueillade and his Council to consider to what purpose it was to expose such a handful of Nobless, against such a numerous enemy, so well entrenched, especially having no expectation of relief.  
By the great instances he made to the Venetians, to engage themselves in this sally, 'tis manifest his reflection was greater than usual, proposing a way of effecting it, without so visible a destruction to his men, and it was to fall upon the enemy on S. Andre side by the retrenchment of the Holy Ghost: but Mr. S. Andre Monbrun opposed that immediately, representing that he had tried that way himself with eight hundred men, and had left six hundred behind him, without doing any thing considerable for the advantage of the Town.  
But all these discouragements could not alter the resolutions of Mr. Fueillade, though against the judgements of the Venetians, and all the Officers of the place, I will not give you his reasons, for to speak truth, I can see none; Perhaps the end of his expedition being to perform something worthy of the Nobless he carried with him, he thought he could not in honour return without attempting something extraordinary: But if he could not undertake any thing whilst his force was entire, I see no reason why he should do it, when they were harassed out, and reduced to a moiety of the number. It may be also he thought the action would be the more illustrious; and I do not doubt but without any great violence to his inclination the gallantry and cheerfulness of the young Cavaliers which were with him, contributed much, amongst whom the glory of so great an enterprise does often take away the sight of those dangers that are otherwise too evident and conspicuous.  
But the greatest part of those who were not to bedaze●d by the false lustre of an exploit so evidently dangerous, were of opinion, it had been better conduct to have managed the remainder of his forces to the benefit of the place he came on purpose to relieve. And to have attended further order from his Majesty, who pressed him not to return as he testified to him himself when he came back. This sentiment was but just, yet when money gins to fail, and soldiers every day to be paid, one is glad to embrace any occasion of acquitting himself without any strict examination of the consequences.  
I am not certain whether Mr. Fueillade was in any such exigency or not, this I know he desired a young Nobleman of my acquaintance, to let him have two Bills of Exchange, which he had to receive. But that I may lose no more time in making conjectures at the reasons of so great a piece of gallantry, it is sufficient you know the news was very acceptable to all our young Nobless, and that they expressed very great joy when Mr. Fueillade assured them he was preparing all things for a general sally, as they had often desired: And on the fourteenth when orders were given out to all the Brigades to be ready the sixteenth by break of day, they were so transported, it was easily visible that Mr. Fueillade was not so much induced by reason to this enterprise as by a compliance and inclination to passion and precipitancy, to which he was as much addicted as the rest of the young Nobility were about to be sacrificed.  
However this resolution appeared irrational and desperate to the Venetians, it is to be believed the vigour, and cheerfulness wherewith our youngsters prepared themselves to execute it, gave them some hopes the success might not be so fatal as was to be expected in reason; seeing General Morosini gave them 100 men of the garrison, which were disposed into the several Brigades, and mounted several pieces of Canon on that side where the sally was to be made, lining the wall with Musqueteers and all sorts of Granades, which did much increase the slaughter of the enemy, as I shall give you an account with as much exactuess as can be performed by the eyes of one single person.  
Orders being given thorough our Brigades for a general assault on the 16 of December, at break of day, every one employed that evening in rectifying his conscience, and in the night about two a clock they stood all to their arms at a rendezvous appointed, where new orders were immediately given out for the sally: Our four Brigades, and the 100 General Morosini lent us, made up about 450 fight men, besides servants which marched for the most part by their Master's sides, having each of them a pair of pistols at their girdles, and a kind of half pike in their hands, with a long and very sharp iron at the end of it, for their swords are but of little use against the Cymeters of the Turks, who fear nothing but our fire arms, which yet they manage with more dexterity than we, especially their Muskets, when they shoot from their works, or have leisure to take their aim; for ●●n those cases they seldom miss, besides the meanest amongst them are so curious in their Muskets, that the worst they have may compare with our best: And for the half pikes I am speaking of, they have so peculiar a dexterity in putting them by with a kind of buckler or target they use, that 'tis rare ●●ut the hand that forces it, is upon the turning aside, ●●ut of with their Scimitar: We had no want of back, or breast, or head pieces, nor of any other ●●ort of defensive arms of proof. The Arsenals were full of them, and every man had liberty to go in and choose, but no body thought it convenient to make use of them, by reason of the ditches, and pits and rubies we were to pass over. Some there were took Casques for their heads, which they were forced to throw away when they came to engage, the great heat they were in not suffering them to endure them.  
When our four Brigades had taken their posts in the place of Arms, they were drawn out into three divisions.  
The first consisted of five and thirty out of each Brigade, which made up seven score men, commanded by Mr. le Marquis de Chamilly, with whom marched Mr. Chapestan (Captain Major of the Town) as guide, who had a particular knowledge of all the enemies quarters.  
The second was of fifteen out of a Brigade, making sixty in the whole, which was commanded by Mr. Beauchevilliers, Sub-Brigadier to Mr. S. Paul.  
The third was of forty men being ten out of a Brigade, which Mr. Marcell commanded.  
There were near a hundred and fifty Gentleme●● in S. Paul's Brigade, and in the 3 other about 〈◊〉 hundred a piece, besides their servants, so tha●● having drawn out of each Brigade sixty Gentlemen there remained no more than 90 in that of S. Paul and forty in each of the other, which made up 210●● which were kept in a body as a reserve.  
All things being in this Order, we march●● toward Sabionera about two in the morning to fa●● down into the Falsebray, where, we were to hav●● lain on our bells till break of day: But our Officers met with no small trouble to put us in orde●● out of the Town: for the Venetian having grea●● apprehensions of this ●ally, instead of opening u●● a gate, by which we might have more conveniently got to our appointed place, and concealed ou●● selves till the morning, had ordered two holes t●● be made on purpose in the wall of the Falsebray by which there could pass but one man at a time, fo●● which reason we could get down but in files, an●● one after another: after this the three division●● were drawn up, each of them with their fro●● towards the place they were to attack, and so disposed that they might fall on all at a time, without incommoding one another at all.  
The Brigade of Ville-Maur followed as a reserv●● to reinforce such as should be beaten back: th●● rest which were kept as the main reserve had order to continue behind near the Falsebray, to secure their retreat in case of a repulse.  
We were all in this posture upon our bellies in the Falsebray, expecting morning with impatience, and the signal, which was a Granado to thrown towards the enemy, when we found our ●●ves prevented: For having got notice of our de●●n, they had pointed all their Artillery towards 〈◊〉 place of our sally, which began to thunder ●●on us with so great fury, when we least expected ●●m: that they killed two of our men with the 〈◊〉 of the wall, they beat down upon us: but the ●●atest inconvenience was their granadoes, and fire●●s, which they threw amongst us, which confined Mr. Fueillade to give the signal sooner than ●●s intended.  
Mr. de Chamilly advanced first, along ●he False●●ay, and fell on upon their redoubts on that side ●●ere the breach was: Beauchevillier fell on, on ●●t side next the Sea, and S. Marcell in the ●●ddle: The Turks who expected us in their Tren●●s, gave us immediately so great volleys of shot, 〈◊〉 so great quantity of Granades and other fireworks, that we were as it were buried in flames, a sudden, which were the more terrible, be●●se the smoke and the dust took away our sight: 〈◊〉 the most horror of all was from their Canon, ●●ich they plied freely from all parts, especially ●●m that where the Venetian the night before had ●●nted, on purpose, three ranks of great guns, which ●●ved very much to our advantage, and did great locution upon the enemy.  
After some resistance Mr. de Chamilly threw himself into their Trenches, and having fallen upon ●●ir first redoubt, he forced them to leave it. Here ●●as at the entrance of this work the Marquis of ●●anes, who was at the head of that party with Mr. de Chamilly, and gave great testimony of his valour, received two shots, one in his lif● ey●● which pierced his head, and came out a little abo●● his right ear, the other about his temples on th●● same side, where it made only a contusion. Th●● Count de Beaumond his Brother, about sixte●● years of age, was then fight by his side, a●● seeing him fall down dead at his feet, and tw●● more, (of which one was the Son of Monsie●● l'Intendant of Toulon, who had his belly ripped ope●● with a slug out of a Musket) remained undaunt● notwithstanding, in the midst of so many dange●● and deaths, and without more ado, giving tw●● of his servants order to carry his Brother's bo●● into the Town, and give him an account, he thre● himself into the middle of the throng with mo●● fury then before: as if his sorrow was not to 〈◊〉 washed away but by the blood of those Infidels.  
When Mr. Chamilly had taken the first redou●● with his party, Mr. Fueillade whose eyes we●● every where, observing how honourably that diurn sion had done, he drew out sixty men out of th●● body of his reserve, and sent them to re-info●● him under the Command of Mr. Jovency: Th●● supply relieved them so vigorously, and well, that 〈◊〉 their coming up the enemy was beaten from his 〈◊〉 con redoubt also. The Brigade of Chateau Thie●● perceiving the disorder that began to be in the e●● mies quarters, advanced also to charge them, 〈◊〉 which the young Duke performed excellently we●● In the mean time the other Squadrons under Bea●● chevilliers and S. Marcel, backed by Mr. de V●● Maur, with the rest of his Brigade charged the●● so well near the quarter where Mr. Chamilly ha●● gauged, that they augmeneed the disorder of ●●ofe who were tottering before, and beginning to ●●ke their heels: after which marching up with the 〈◊〉 rest, and drawing as it were into one body, ●●y behaved themselves so, that the enemy was ●●ten off of 7 of his redoubts.  
The care we had all taken the night before to put 〈◊〉 consciences in order, had settled it strongly ●●on the spirits of most of us, that we were fight 〈◊〉 for our Faith, and the interest of our Religion, ●●d that dying in that cause we could not fail of a ●●rious crown of Martyrdom, and in this persuasion we were much encouraged by the example a brave Capuchin, called Father Paul, who ●●rching at the head of our party with his Crueifix 〈◊〉 his hand, exhorted us both with voice and ●●sture, to fight courageously for Heaven: Nor ●●d the gallantry of Mr. Fenelon contribute little to ●●e ardour of those which aspired to this Martyrdom, for marching up and down with his Son, ●●e Comte de Fontaine, where the danger was ●●eatest, and the firing most hot, he added great ●●gour to the whole party: Monsieur his Son was ●●ounded in this charge in the most fibrous part of ●●s foot, and near the place where he was shot at ●●s landing, of which he died within few day's ●●er.  
'Tis undeniable that Mr. Fueillade exposed himself in all places, and upon all occasions as far as ●●y body, and that without any thing but a thin ●●it, and a switch in stead of a sword in his hand: ●●d this you may be assured, that even those who ●●ndemn'd the enterprise as rash, are obliged at least to confess, it could not have been manag●● with more conduct, nor executed with more co●● rage and address; his excellence appearing in 〈◊〉 places, and upon all exigences so opportunely, a●● his Orders were so apposite to the purpose, that 〈◊〉 seemed to have foreseen all the several accidents o●● the sally.  
For my part I am persuaded that by his vig●●lance, and activity (which rendered him prese●● in all places of danger, where there was occasions to encourage the t●●erous, or to restrain those wh●● were transported) he did much more execution than he could hope for himself, what confiden●● soever he could have in his good success.  
In short who could ever have imagined that 〈◊〉 few of our young Gentry, falling upon Retrenchments so well fortified, man'd with 2600 me●● and backed by a much greater number, had be●● able to have take seven of their Redoubts, kill 1200 the defendants, and put all the rest in disorder. Ye●● this Mr. Fueillade has done with so many Fren●● Gentlemen, If you will give credit to a Turk, wh●● came the next day into the Town, and assured 〈◊〉 of the truth of it, and that they had lost a Bas●● that commanded them, and six Colonels.  
In the heat of this execution, Mr. Fueilla●● whose eye was not idle, observed the Turks ra●● lying on all sides, and preparing to renew the charg●● according to their custom: and began to appr●● heard the difficulty he should have to preserve th●● remainder of his Nobless, if he did not suddenly recall them from the fight, which they had already maintained two long hours and more: But his great ●●rouble was to get them off, he beat a retreat, but they were so warm in the blood of those Infidels; ●here was nothing almost could stop them; Mr. Fueillade was constrained to go himself and force Mr. S. Paul out of the fight: he sent one expressly 〈◊〉 Mr. Chateau Thierry to inform him of the dan●●er he and all his party were in, if they advanced. ●●he Comte de Beaumond (excited by is passion for ●●he loss of his Brother the Marquis of T●●vanes) was engaged so far amongst the enemies, there was ●●o body, but the brave Chevalier de Tremes could ●●et to him, or prevail with him either by force or ●●treaty to come back, for he returned not into the ●●own till the heat of the engagement was quite ●●er: But that which gave the most trouble and discomposure to Mr. Fueillade, was that during ●●e time he sounded a retreat, and that he himself ●●ok the pains to stop the most forward. Father ●●aul (of whom we have spoken) was on the other ●●de, at the head of a party of desperadoes, whom the eloquence of his zeal and the sight of the Crucifix 〈◊〉 carried in his hand, had infallibly drawn to ●●eir destructions, had not he run to them himself, ●●d obliged them to consult their security rather by 〈◊〉 honourable retreat, than to be deluded by the ●●in hope of Martyrdom, as the Priest persuaded ●●em: Notwithstanding the Crucifix he held in ●●s hand, Mr. Fueillade could not contain but ●●amed the indiscretion of his zeal, yet he did it ●●ith that devout moderation, he still made use of ●●e name of God, in his reprehensions.  
As soon as we were come off from the fight, and ●awn up in good order under our Colours, the Brigades of S. Paul, and Caderousse, who were left in the Falsebray to secure our retreat, had order to march some paces towards us, both together in front, that they might appear the more numerous, which contributed much to our safety: for the Turks who were just ready to fall upon us, seeing them advance, imagined they were fresh forces sent out of the Town to relieve us, and to enable us for a new engagement, whereupon they chose rather to stand upon their guard, than to assail us: We no sooner observed their resolution, but we began our retreat immediately, and to make the more advantage of their mistake, we retreated step by step, very slowly, faceing about ever and anon, as if we would return to the charge; When we came near that place in the Falsebray, where the two holes were made for our coming out: The two Brigades which appeared so opportunely, entered into it, and at the same time we began to file off, two and two, to get in again, as we got out, but so as every rank discharged before they entered; This made the Turks look upon it as an artifice to draw them into some ambuscade, and they were the more gulled into that opinion, by observing the Brigades of S. Paul, and Caderousse to disappear at the same time we drew off. In so much as it may be truly asserted that this stratagem (which cannot be attributed to any thing but the good conduct of Mr. Fueillade, saved the lives of all of us that were left: for it is clear, had the Turks charged us again but with their swords in their hands, there had been scarce any of us alive; But by good fortune, and their diffidence, we came safe into the Town, where the pleasure we might have taken after we had escaped so many dangers, was totally disturbed by our sorrow for our loss, having left near six score Gentlemen dead and wounded, behind us in their Trenches, whose heads were next day set up upon pikes before the Viziers quarter; who above all the rest admired the head of the Marquis de Doradour, for the delicacy of its tincture, and the excellence of his hair, which he had got tied up in tresses the night before, that it might give him no trouble in his charge. He made that be set up upon a large Pillar in the midst of all the rest, after he had kept it several days, to show it as a wonder to his friends.  
Of six hundred Gentlemen that arrived in Candy, after this sally there remained not above 230 of which there were fifty at least wounded and sick, most of which number are since dead. The ensuing List will give you the names of the most considerable, with the manner how they were killed or wounded, either before the sally, or in it.  

A List of such persons of quality, as were Slain or Wounded, under the Command of Mr. Fueillade, in his Expedition to Candy.  
In the Brigade of Mr. S. Paul, before the Sally. 

SLAIN.  
Messieurs 

De la Magdelaine de Ragny.  
Du Pre.  
De Marienval.  
De Villefranche.  
De la Fontaine.  
De Bouteville.  
Bernier.  
De Rouverais.     

WOUNDED.  
Messieurs 

Des Roches.  
Du Menou.  
De la Sabloniere.  
De Vaudevil.  
Girault.  
De la Campe.  
Ranvie.  
Odebert.      
In the Sally on the 16 December. 

SLAIN.  
Messieurs 

Le Marquis de Tavanes.  
De Jovancy.  
Le Marquis d'Oradour.  
De Neufville.  
Seneschal.  
Desquoys.  
De S. Quentin.  
De Gaillard.  
De S. Baville.  
De Fontaines.  
Le Chevalier de Ville Serin Vernueil.     

WOUNDED.  
Messieurs 

Loyal, wounded to death.  
De Chamilly, with a Pike in his leg.  
De Tambonneau, with a Musket shot thorough his jaws.  
De Torigny, with a Granade in his cheek.  
De Sepville, with a Granado in his leg.  
Le Chevalier Molets, slightly in his face, and his thigh.  
De Beauchevillier, with a musket in his leg.  
De Chavigny, with a musket thorough the side of his head.  
De Lare, with two musket shot in both his arms.  
Dinfreville, had his leg broke with a musket shot.  
De Mantalor, shot thorough the neck.  
The Chevalier de Ville-Bussiere, in his shoulder.  
De L●●geliere, thorough both his shoulders.  
De Mantalor, in his hip.  
Des Fossez, in his arm.  
Des Essars, in his shoulders.  
De la Laude, with a stone in his head.  
De Sonotte, with a musket in his shoulder.  
De Sauvager in his thigh.  
De la Colombiere, in his hip.  
Le Sueur, with a stone in his head.  
De Monton, in his arm.  
Oury, in his thigh of which he is since dead.  
De S. Aubin, in his hip.  
Coulon, with a stone in his head.  
De la Roque, with an arrow in his shoulder.  
De Boemar, in his leg.      
Of the Brigade of Chateau Thierry, before the Sally. 

SLAIN.  
Messieurs 

De Saint Michael.  
De la chivalry.  
De Launer.      
Upon the Sally on the 16 December. 

SLAIN.  
Messieurs 

De Ville-Neuve.  
De la Matpliere.  
De ●a Sablonniere.  
Melet.  
Le Bouc.     

WOUNDED.  
Messieurs 

De S. Marcel, with a musket in his belly, two fingers cut off, and dead since.  
Le Count de Fountain, shot in his leg, and hurt in his foot.  
Poncet, shot in the shoulder.  
De la Forets, with a stone in his head.  
De Rome-Cour, with a Granado in his shoulder.  
De Besaudun, had an arm cut off, and since dead.  
Vergon, with a granadoe in his hand and leg.  
De Chaludet, with a musket in his leg.  
Lesleu, with a musket in his head.  
Le Blan, an arm cut off, since dead.  
De Pastres, with a shot thorough his body, since dead.  
De Crole, with a shot in his thigh.  
De la Mothe, with a shot in his arm.  
De Mont-Cornet, with a shot thorough his body.  
De Cerigot, with a stone in his arm.  
De Milieu, with an arrow in his reins.      
Of the Brigade of Caderousse, before the Sally. 

SLAIN.  
Messieurs 

De Loste●nau.  
Le Comte de Montbrison.  
Fleury.  
Ba●●das.     

WOUNDED.  
Messieurs 

The Marquis de Refuge, with a shot in his shoulder.  
De Montredent.  
●e Bon.  
De Broquetieres', with a granado in his hip.      
In the Sally on the 16 December. 

SLAIN.  
Messieurs 

De Casteret.  
Soulage.  
Richet.  
De la Branetiere:     

WOUNDED.  
Messieurs 

De Flavigny, with a shot thorough his thigh.  
Hongres, with an arrow in his head, since dead.  
Suarts, with a stone in the head.  
De Marinville, in the thigh, dead since.  
De Bas-dovart, with a shot in his shoulder, and another in the knee.  
D'Agaignes, with a shot thorough his jaws, that carried away half his tongue.      
Of the Brigade of Ville-Maur. 

SLAIN.  
Messieurs 

Le Comte de Ville-Maur, Commander of the brigade.  
De Bois le Comte.  
De Lusignan.  
De Chinol.  
Martigny.  
Chateau Guillaume.  
De Liran.  
Du Taro.  
De Chaseras.  
Du Bevil.  
De Bois Peraux.  
De la Brunetiere.  
Le Chevalier de Lusignan.     

WOUNDED.  
Messieurs 

De Moliere, with a shot in the elbow.  
De Charmon, with an arrow in the arm.  
De Narbonne, with a stone in his leg.  
Descouris, his leg cut off, since dead.  
De la Coste, in his head.  
Coupe, in his knee.  
De Rochefort, his arm broke.  
De Pressi, in his thigh.  
De la Payo, in his head.  
D'Hotel, in his head.  
De la Haudonnier, in his arm.  
De Maison Neufve, in his leg.  
De Sourillon, in his head.  
De Moriniere, in his head and arm.  
Du Plessi, in his head.  
De Goguery, shot through the belly.  
De la Roche Monmorin, in his leg.  
De Vaubourg, in the belly.  
Le Chevalier de Vausel, in his arm with an arrow.  
Du Cour, with the splinter of a granado in the head.      
Of Mr. Fueillad's family, before the Sally. 

SLAIN.  
Monsieur de la Tour.   

WOUNDED.  
Messieurs 

Foucault.  
Cour-Landon.  
Deschaunis.      
Upon the Sally. 

SLAIN.  
Messieurs 

Boesle Cour.  
Artificie.     

WOUNDED.  
Messieurs 

De Vaudeville, his right hand cut off.  
Ranviere.  
Vigniole.  
●arguin.  
D'Aubusson, alias de Chambon.  
De Senau.  
Mariniere.       
Besides these which I have inserted into this List, by reason of the eminency of their birth and qualities, there were more than two hundred Gentlemen, of whose names I could not inform my sel●● 'Tis no wonder therefore if after so sad an engagement, there were nothing but sorrow and dejectio●● to be seen amongst us that remained: there bein●● scarce one amongst us, but had either some relations or some friend to condole, some dead person to bury some wounded to assist, or some sick person t●● relieve.  
In this manner we were all of us employed, di●● charging our melancholy devoires, and preparing four our return, our condition not permitting 〈◊〉 to attempt any new design, nor to perform a●● considerable duty in the Town. From the very da●● of our Sally, our posts were committed to the defence of the Knights of Malta, from whence seve●● were arrived since our coming, besides what w●● found upon the guard at the breach of S. Andre.  
We were obliged notwithstanding to attend 〈◊〉 fair wind for 18 days, which we endured wit●● much trouble and impatience: To divert the ca●● and disquiet that was upon me, I thought good 〈◊〉 the mean time to make a visit to a certain Grecians Priest of my acquaintance, a person of great wort●● and honour in all his proceed.  
These kind of Priests amongst the Greeks, a●● not unlike our Parish Priests, unless in this th●● they have the liberty of marrying once.  
They are habited in a long violet coloured Robe, girt about the middle with a great Rope of the same colour, with pendants at each end: They wear an odd unusual kind of hats, much different from ours, for besides that their brims are very broad, and their crowns like a sugar-loaf, and about two ●●cubits high, they carry a great many Taffeta bands about them, of several colours, fastened length wise, from the top to the bottom, and have their brims covered with the same.  
They behave themselves like true Pastors of the people, who pay them a reverence as if they were their Fathers, depositing whatever is most dear, and precious to them, in their hands. In short there is not a family amongst them, which puts not their whole affairs into their management, making them umpires in all their differences, referring their very marriages and alliances to their Conduct, and regulation.  
This Priest had a young Niece, came lately to live with him, of an excellent proportion, an amiable air, and a certain sweetness in her eye, that rendered her beauty (though otherwise not extraordinary) more greatfull and agreeable, than the most exact.  
She speak Italian excellently well, but my skill in that language being but small, I addressed myself principally to her Uncle, who loved French likewise, and having contracted a friendship with him, I did believe he would give me leave to wait upon her, and entertain her sometimes at his house. But I had scarce began my proposition to him, but with a deep sigh he interrupted me, and told me, that the late misfortune of his Niece made him apprehensive of some all consequence or other, if she should accept that honour: Is it (said I) that you imagine me so dishonourable as to solicit so fair a Lady, (and so nearly related to a person for whom I have so great veneration) to any action of scandal? He replied, I take you Sir for too Noble a person, to design any such thing: But it may be you are ignorant that my Niece is married to an Italian Officer, a cruel, treacherous, and violent man, who having been forced to marry her after he had shamefully abused the simplicity of her youth, ceases not to retain an implacacle jealousy of her, and a furious desire of being revenged, the effects of which I cannot but fear, from his actions a while since to one of the bravest Gentlemen among you.  
His last words made me forget the resentment his Niece's dishonour began to excite in me; and to desire to be informed who that Gentlemen was, and what that deplorable accident. Which he related to me very civilly in this manner. A certain Cavalier of Normandy, called the Baron de S. Gille, a person of great strength and courage, and one that was very eminent in France for his resolute prosecutions of all kind of desperate erterprises, either good or bad, having attempted several times, (but in vain) to obtain from my Niece those favours, which the Law forbids, though Nature requires; at length he resolved with the Chevalier de Tremes, after they had been in a debauch, to go and make her a visit at her chamber, and to take such a time as they might most probably find the Italian Officer within, upon whom they looked but as a pretended husband, and one who kept her company for his divertisement only.  
Accordingly these two Cavaliers were as good as their words: They waited upon her in the evening, and found her husband with her, who seeing them enter, advanced to meet them, and to know their desires. They replied briskly, they ●ame as he did to entertain themselves with that Lady, and without attending his answer, addressed themselves to her: having past some preliminary compliments, according to the ordinary civility of the French, they began to cajole her, and to take some liberty that she did not approve, in so much that she was obliged to rebuke them something ●●owder then usual: The Baron S. Gille replied in her own note, according to the false opinion he had of her, telling her that having been so liberal of her favours to a pitiful Italian, she ought not be disgusted at what they requested with so much civility.  
The husband stole out in the beginning of the discourse, and having in great haste fetched a pair of Pistols, and concealed them in his breeches: he enters just as they finished the conference, when taking as it were the word out of their mouths, smiling he told them he had often heard say, that ●●t was the custom in France for Ladies to have their Gallants to relieve and assist their Husbands in their Matrimonial functions, and it was but reasonable those Gallants should taste the pleasures of that Sacrament, seeing they performed the duties of it: But by misfortune that custom was not as yet come thither, which in his judgement was very convenient. You have (replied the Chevalier) a more commodious way of easing yourselves in your Nuptial fatigues, seeing your Grecian Marriages are only for such a certain time as is agreed on: For which reason Sir there being great probability that you have not married this Lady for longer time, than others of your profession do ordinarily in this country, (which is never above 3 months) I suppose the term of your contract may be expired, and we permitted to enter into 〈◊〉 new and short Matrimony, for a few days only, during which time you may have opportunity 〈◊〉 you think fit, to go see your uncle. I shall readily consent Gentlemen (said he) when I am assured the date of my marriage is out, which as yet I do●● not know, but if you please to let the business depend till to morrow, I shall in the mean time endeavour to inform myself.  
These Gallants perceiving the Lady was stolle●● away, whilst they were rallying in this manne●● with her husband, they took their leaves continuing their mirth still, and he answering with great pleasantness and hypocrisy: till on the middle of th●● stairs (whither he had waited on them in compliment) he drew out his two pistols, on a sudden and firing upon them both together, he shot th●● Baron S. Gille thorough the heart, but the othery went only thorough the Chevalier de Tremes slee●● and his shirt, burning them both without any other hurt.  
Whilst the Chevalier was endeavouring to kee● up his friend who was then sinking down upon th●● stairs, the Italian got away, and took sanctuar●● with the General of that Nation, where he remained not above two days, before he appear● again, no body concerning themselves to revenge this murder, because it was known, he only a●●ticipated the Justice of France, who had prepar●● a more ignominious death for the Baron, for several crimes he had committed, the last of which ●as running away with the King's money in Briony.  
Yet this reason satisfied not me so, but that in ●●ome kind of passion, I told him, that I was equally surprised that the French should have no ●●ore resentment of it, and that the Venetian General should have more care to save the life of that ●●urderer, and stifle the memory of the action, ●●en to do Justice, as if the crimes charged upon 〈◊〉 Baron were sufficient to expiate a murder.  
He was making his answer, when a noble Gre●●an came in, (to desire something for his family, schich was deposited in his hands) and interrupted ●●ur discourse, which I could not renew till two ●●ays after: But then the subject was altered, for ha●●ing received the letter you did me the honour to ●●rite, the latter end of November; importing a ●●esire in you to understand something of the faith ●●nd Mysteries of their Religion, but especially their ●●utward policy. I made that the subject of our entertainment, to the end I might give you the more ●●act account, when ever I should have opportunity.  
He enlarged immediately upon the extent of their Religion, enumerating the several people of the ●●ast, which have submitted to the Jurisdiction of ●●he Patriarches of Constantinople, of Antioch, of Alexandria and Jerusalem, which are the four, ●●hat do properly compose the Greek Church, ●●eing bound together in the same Communion and Errors: He would have discoursed to me likewise ●●f several Christian Societies, and Sects, which their Bishops and Patriarches have apart; but the ide●● which he gave me of them being so vast and confused, that my memory I found would be too weak●● to retain them, I desired he would in few word●● instruct me only, in the Orders observed in the present Government of the Church, and in the principal points in which they dissented from th●● Roman.  
He had the humanity to grant my request, an●● to inform in this manner. That the Greek Church which extends itself almost quite thorough the Eas●● is governed properly by the four Patriarch a foresaid: The next after them are the Metropolitans who have several Churches, and several Bishop under them: Next them are the Arch-Bishops, an●● Bishops in great numbers, of which there are no le●● then 150 in the Patriarchate of Constantinople, 〈◊〉 this day, and of those 150, there are 35 Metropo●● litans: The Arch-Bishops have generally no Su●● fragans, and the Bishops are always superior 〈◊〉 the Priests, from whom they receive their ordin●●tion as in the Church of Rome.  
The Patriarches are chosen by their Metropol●●tans, but the Patriarch of Constantinople is oblig●● to give a certain sum of money to the Gran●● Seigneur chief Bassa, to have his privileges con●●firm'd.  
The Metropolitans are chosen by right of seni●●rity and age.  
Their Arch-Bishops, and Bishops are select●● from amongst the Friars, and after their ordination, are obliged to observe the vows of a Religious life, that is to say, to celibacy and abst●● nence from flesh, in which they cannot dispense with themselves during life.  
After these we may consider the Abbots or Archimandrits, which bear the habits of their Order, living in the same austerity and retirement with their several Monks, but with more regularity and exemplariness, in respect there is never any scandal or disorder, amongst them. Nor is it much to be admired, the strictness of their Penances, and their assiduity at their prayers, employing them day and night, and not exposing them to those temptations wherewith others are entangled.  
The Religious are all of them of the Order of S. Basil: They are so numerous, that upon Mount Athos alone, there are no less than 4 or 5000 of them disposed into several Monasteries: The severity of their fasts, exceeds the ancient rigour of the Church: for besides their fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the year, they observe four Lents: the first is of seven weeks, during which time they have not the use so much as of milk or fish, living for that time upon dried meats, only upon Sundays and Saturdays: (which being the Jews Sabbath is never fasting-day with them) they are allowed milk, and fish, and wine, and oil: For the assiduity of their devotions, it is greater than the Chartereux, amongst us, for they being obliged to prayers but every three hours, these are obliged every hour and half.  
Their Priests and ecclesiastics, we may distinguish into two sorts: For there are those which live like Regulars in their Cloisters, where they have their Deans, Subdeans, Arch-Deacons, Lecturers, and other Canonical Officers: they are called Layick Monks, and are properly the same with our Canons: The other are Seculars, who say Prayers for the People, and administer the Sacraments to all under their Cure: But the chief and most venerable amongst them, are the Papas we have mentioned before, which are selected ordinarily from amongst the Religious, and hold the same rank with our Parish Priests almost, only they are more venerable, and have greater authority in temporal affairs.  
For what respects the Doctrine of the Greeks in point of Mystery: it will not be imper●●nent to take notice by the way, what books and writings they make use of, before we speak of their differences from our Church:  
1. They have no less esteem and adherency to the ancient traditions of the Church, than we.  
2. They do● admit with the same veneration and respect all the Books of the Holy Scriptures, but have no other Translation of it, but the Septuagint.  
3. They give the same reverence almost, to the Acts of the seven Greek Synods, to the writings of S. Basil, of S. chrysostom, and S. John de Damas.  
4. They have a great value likewise for S. Gregorys Morals.  
5. And addicting themselves much to the study of School Divinity, they read the writings of Thomas Aquinas with great admiration, especially his Sum of Theology.  
6. Their Liturgy is in the ancient Greek language, which the most of them do not understand 〈◊〉 They use S. Basils' Lyturgy on Festival days, and S. Chrysostom's upon others.  
If their Books, and their principal Doctors be well considered, 'tis no hard matter to believe, their opinions in Points of Faith and Mysteries, cannot be much different from ours, unless in three particulars only.  
The first in which they descent from the Roman, ●●is, about the procession of the Holy Ghost: which they will have proceed from the Father alone: For (say they) it from the Father and the Son, he must necessarily have a twofold understanding, and a twofold will: Yet they forbear not to worship him, to acknowledge the equality of the three Persons, and to baptise in his Name.  
The second is about the C●libation of Priests, who amongst them are allowed to marry once, and this opinion is founded upon the fourth Canon of the Council of Gangra, which prononces an Anathema against all such as do scruple to receive the Sacrament from the hands of a married Priest. Nevertheess it is to be believed they do not absolutely disapprove of the Celibacy in them, seeing (as we said ●efore) those which hold the first rank in their Church, are obliged after their Ordination to the observance of all the vows of Religion, of which Celibacy is the first.  
The third concerns the state of the Soul, after he death of the body: They believe not as we ●oe, that they go immediately to Heaven, to receive the recompense either of their good works or ●ad: but they are of opinion they are reserved, (the good in places of pleasure: the bad in pain and horror) till the day of Judgement, otherwise say they that day would be to no purpose all people being sentenced before.  
Upon this score it is they reject Purgatory, ye●● the Custom of praying for the dead is receiv●● amongst them (as amongst us) for an Apostolical Tradition, and a thing practised by all the Saints and the whole Church from age to age: and th●● they assert that (betwixt two places where the●● suppose the good, and the bad, to attend) th●● is a third for those who had a desire to turn b●● deferred it too long, and that it is those Soul's whi●● receive benefit by the prayers and sacrifices ma●● to God for them: Which is an opinion not ve●● remote from our Purgatory.  
But if it be considered that the Greeks admit o●● the seven first ecumenical Counsels, rejecting 〈◊〉 that succeeded them, by reason that in the sever●● called by Pope Adrian, it was decreed, that all th●● Decisions of that Council should ●●e inviolab●● and perpetual, and whoever should call any Cou●●cel after that, should be accursed, it will be 〈◊〉 hard matter to conceive why the Greeks, who di●● so little from the Romans, in points of Doctrin●● and Faith, should be at that distance notwit●●standing in matters of practice and discipline.  
For the Greeks having no regard to all the alte●●tions in the Church of Rome, since the said sev●● Counsels, but looking on them as innovations a●● corruptions, they think themselves obliged to st●● the closer to their ancient discipline, by th●● adherency to that, upbraiding us as Heretics. T●● Catholic on the other side considering the dis●● pline, and Ceremonies of the Church, but as things indifferent and changeable in themselves, the utility of them depending upon certain circumstances that might be altered: they do not think themselves obliged to esteem them as indispensible precepts, but as practices left wholly to the authority of the Church, who having established them at one time for particular reasons, may retrench them upon another occasion that they shall think just, and substitute new in their places, reserving still a veneration for those which they change; for the Church may lawfully introduce a new discipline, and make the people submit to it, without condemning what was practised before. And this they have done several times as they judged it convenient: But the Greeks regarding the points of their discipline, and the ancient practice of their Church, as inviolable precepts, have retained them as firmly, as their Articles of Faith. And this is the great difference betwixt the Greek Church and the Roman.  
These two Churches have the same Sacraments, but they agree not in the form of administration. The Greeks baptise with water like the Latins, and ●●n the name of the three Persons of the Trinity, but they continue the way of immersion, which was ●●he ancient way of the Church. The Romans on the other side considering very well that sometimes ●t may happen, they cannot have water sufficient, and sometimes not vessals proper to plunge the whole body of the child, they would baptise, and that moreover the cold of the water in which it is plunged, did many times alter its health, and prevail with the Parents to defer its baptism, with great danger of their Souls, they did conceive aspersion might be as well, seeing in the primitive times (though rarely) it was allowed upon certain occasions.  
The Greeks have the same opinion of the real presence of Jesus-Christ in the Eucharist, and of the Transubstantiation of the bread into his body, They adore the Host as we do upon their knees, and as it is removed from one place to another, they prostrate themselves like us: But the first difference betwixt us is, they think it Judaical and contrary to the very institution of the Sacrament, to use any bread, but bread without Levain; the reason they give is from the words Recumbentibus Discipulis, for, say they, if the Disciples were sitting at the Table, when Jesus-Christ took the bread and changed it into his most adorable Body, it is manifest it was not leavened bread, for it was the custom of the Jews to eat that standing, as in the Geremony of the Passeover.  
Another difference is, they give the Communion to the people in both kinds, following the ancient practice of the Church, whereas the Church of Rome (believing Christ to be entirely in either) have thought fit to administer it separately, and upon consideration of divers inconveniences, have changed that practice in their ordinary distribution.  
They have another peculiar ceremony, and that is to consecrate several Hosts upon Holy Thursday, reserving them apart to be communicated to those that are sick during that year.  
Confession, Extream-Unction, Ordination of Priests, and Marriages they do use in the same manner almost with us: Nevertheless the bonds of their Marriages are not so strong as ours, seeing they do break them frequently upon trifling occasions, but this is but in some particular occasions, and principally in Moscovy.  
Their fasting, and abstinence from certain meats, much more austere then amongst us; they observe all the ancient fasts, that is they eat but once a day, towards the evening, and besides their observation of Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the year, they have four Lents, which the Laity keep with almost the same severity as the Religious: The first is the same with ours, and lasts seven weeks. The second gins the morning after the Octaves of the Pentecost. The third is of fifteendays, commences the first of August, and holds ●●o the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, which is their principal Feast: The fourth lasts all the time of the Advent, which gins fifteen days before ours.  
The Laiques do not imitate the Priests and Monks, less strictly in the assiduity of their prayers, then in the austerity of their fasts. There is a great number of them, which recite the Breviary, as they do, and on Sundays and Festivals, man, woman, and child fail not (without great necessity) to be present at Church from 2 a clock in the morning, singing of Hymns till Sun rising, after which time they retire till nine, and then meet again, to be present at Mass: After dinner they 〈◊〉 to Vespers as the Catholics do, but with much more exactness: most of the Priests and the people place their principal devotion in the worship of the Virgin Mary: They have no Music in their Churches: The women never sit intermingeled with the men, but are placed apart where they can neither see nor be seen, but thorough a lettuce. Preaching they use but very seldom; nay one of their Monks being accused of having preached in Lent, Easter, and Christmas, was banished to Mount Sinai, by the Patriarch of Constantinople.  
Their prayers for the Dead, their Invocation of Saints, their confidence not only in their prayers and intercessions, but in their merit and assistance, their veneration for Relics, and their worshipping of Images, is the same with ours, with this small difference only, they have no statues, nor images embossed in their Church, but in flat painting great store, yet they do not absolutely reject them, for they are to be found sometimes in the Chapels of their Canons.  
And this is in few words what I could learn of the Doctrine, and discipline of the Greek Church: I suppose it is sufficient to confirm you in the opinion you have always had of it, that unless it be in the question about the Procession of the Holy Ghost, the estate of Souls after the death of their bodies, and the Celibacy of their Priests, there is no essential difference betwixt that and ours: For which reason I shall return to my first subject, in which it remains, that I give you a short account of the number of men in the Town, the diversity of Nations of which they consist, their several Posts, and which way they have subsisted so long, at the expense of the Venetian.  
When we came away, we left the Garrison much weakened, as well as the Auxisiary Troops: The number of Companies was large enough, but the Soldiers that composed them were very few: Some there were which had not above 4 or 5 men left; the rest were generally not above a dozen or fifteen, and the fullest Company of all had not above 25. In so much as there were in a manner, as many Officers as Soldiers.  
The Regiment of Savoy, which at first was 6000 men, was reduced to 2000 Yet all these relics put together, amounted to near 7000 men, besides the Inhabitants, which were about 4000, and all at the charge of the Venetian, as well as the Soldiers.  
The force of the Garrison is composed, of Greeks, Slavonians, Italians, Germans, some Swisseses, Savoyards (which is their greatest foreign force) French (most Officers) and Knights of Malta, who alone have the Guard of the Breach of S. Andre: The French, Savoyards, Germans, and the few Swiss there are there, have their Posts in the outworks and places attacked: The Greeks, Slavonians, and Italians have the Guard of the General's doors, the Gates of the Town, and other places where the enemy have not made their approaches. The Towns men in all places, being obliged upon the least alarm, to be in arms, and if after the beat of the Drum they be found without, they are shot immediately upon the place.  
Those who understand nothing of the address and policy of the Venetian do wonder how they have been able to sustain the charges of so redious a war, against so potent an enemy. And indeed to consider the provision for that Garrison, the Ships they are constrained to keep at Sea, the frequent levies they are forced to make, the recruits, the Ammunition, the Officers pay, the Convoys, and the quantity of Victuals they are constantly sending, not for the Garrison only, but the Inhabitants themselves, both men, women and children, one would think so great a charge would have exhausted the treasury of that Republic, and ruin'd its Citizens. For which reason I shall give you an account of their oeconomy, according to the best information I could gain.  
You know very well already that the auxiliary forces, as the Popes, the Malteses, the Savoyards, are no charge to that Republic, no more than the Germans and we were, when we were there; but it may be you do not know that these supplies do contribute to the subsistence of those who are under their pay, and that they have a cunning way of paying their Officers without money, and this is it I desire you would understand.  
The whole trade of Candy, and the rest of the Isles under the dominion of the Venetian, being managed to the advantage of that common wealth, under the direction of a Proveditor General, and the Inhabitants restrained from transporting, or selling their commodities to any body else; it must necessarily depend upon him to set what price he pleases upon such provisions as are brought ●nto the Town. In so much as the auxiliary f 〈…〉 constrained to pay three or four times as much as they cost, which yields them very great gain, and facilitates the payment of the Soldiers, which is done commonly with Tickets, which they discharge with very little money; For they having no less need of provisions than the Officers of the Auxiliary Troops, are forced to take them off at the same price, in payment of their Tickets, by which means they discharge Tickets of 100 Crowns, with 25, and by this piece of conduct and oeconomy, they maintain 3 or 4000 Soldiers in that Town, at less charge than 500 in an other place.  
Yet notwithstanding this policy of the Venetian, in paying their forces with Victuals: The Officers have had great reason to complain of the stopage of their money, for indeed they give them but little of that: which renders them all very poor and miserable that engage in their service. For if it be true that want of money is the greatest misery a Soldier can suffer amongst all the perplexities of a Siege, 'tis most certain their condition in Candy, cannot but be extreme, seeing they not only are always without money, but without hopes of any hereafter, their Tickets being paid, without receiving a farthing. Upon which consideration, amongst all the Reformado Officers, that were with us, there was but one (how indigent soever they were) who would take employment under them, except two more, which had scaped hanging very narrowly at Paris: True it is there were two or three of our most considerable Volunteers, who for particular reasons desired to have stayed: But Mr. S. Andre would by no means hear of it, but told them they would be counted fools or mad men, by all that knew the condition of that place, if they persisted in that humour: In short he acquainted Mr. Fueillade, who obliged them to go along, in spite of all their importunity to the contrary.  
The fourth of January we took our leaves of Candy, under the favour of a darkish evening, yet we could not do it so privately, but the enemy discovered it, though it was so late, we were got out of the reach of their Canon, before they began to give us their salvos, which they did very liberally, firing into all parts of the Harbour, out of which we passed with our 3 Vessels, the Duke Admiral, the Mermaid, and another, in which our wounded and sick men were put, to the number of fifty or threescore.  
By the way Sir I think it not amiss to let you understand that in Candy, and almost quite thorough the Levant, they have a way of treating their sick, very much different from ours, yet very convenient and of little expense; They suffer them to have neither flesh, nor eggs, nor broths, nor syrups, nor gelleys: The use of these things being observed to be mortally dangerous; for the whole nourishment they give them, is only a certain drink made of water and slices of bread crumbled into it, and boiled upon the fire, to such a degree till the bread and the water be brought to a kind of a consistence, which they call a Panade, which is to be taken as hot as broth: This liquor is indeed not over pleasant to be taken, nor proper to recover one's strength, (for it is observed, all those who take are on the other side very weak and feeble) but it carries this advantage along with it, that the fever being once gone, they need not above 3 or 4 days to recover their health and their flesh.  
We returned by Standia, where we were at anchor as we came. The weather being cross we were forced to stay there to the 24, at which time our impatience made us resolve to take the opportunity of a very strong gale of wind, which however dangerous, might carry us with full sails a great way in a little time: But that wind blowing hard into the m●●th of the Harbour, our greatest difficulty was to get out to Sea; The Venetian Galleys that came on purpose to tow us out, were not able themselves to keep at Sea: Three times they attempted to hale us out by force of oars, but all three times they were disappointed, and we left in great danger of the Rocks that are there about, for our Ships being forced together now and then, to avoid the Rocks, they struck against one another so violently, they were in great danger of miscarrying: But at last they managed things so well we got the wind in our sails, making the whole Tour of Candy, and passing as far as Cerigo, over those Rocks which we scaped with so much difficulty as we came.  
We were scarce out of sight of those Islands but were taken with a furious tempest, which dispersed our 3 Ships: The Admiral wherein Mr. Fueillade was, was carried with great impetuosity upon the coast of Barbary, where he had been irrecoverably run on ground, had not one of the crew by accident discovered Mount Gibel in Sicily, and (without knowing what Mountain it was) given us the alarm that we were upon the coast of Barbary within three leagues of Cape-Bon, where we found the Vessel with our sick men: from thence we set sail for Malta, but could not make it in two days time, by reason of the variety of winds from several points; we were forced to coast up and down there for some time by little and little to gain the entry into that Harbour, where we found the Mermaid with Mr. S. Paul, his family, and the rest of his Brigade: We stayed there only two days to refresh ourselves, and went away the fourth of February.  
Mr. le Comte de S. Paul, whose design was to pass thorough Italy, went on shore for some days to ease himself of an infirmity in one of his legs: he kept only such of his servants as were necessary about him, and sent the rest in the Mermaid along with us, which was very happy for him, for the same Ship happened to be visited with the plague by the way: and 60 of his men to die of it.  
He having not seen the Grand Master when he was there before, by reason of a certain scruple he made to receive with the Title of Highness, notwithstanding the assurance was given him that his Highness de Longueville his Brother, had given him the Principality of Neuchatel in Switzerland: But this difficulty was accommodated at his return by an ingenious expedient: It was contrived that Mr. S. Paul should make his compliment in French, and the Grand Master his return in Italian, and that the Interpreter in repeating the words of Mr. S. Paul should have care to give him the Title of Highness in this manner, His Highness gives your Eminence to understand. And in explaining the words of the Grand Master, to Mr. S. Paul, he should say, His Eminence tells your Highness. And this expedient was found very agreeable, as not engaging, either one or the other, beyond the the rules of their Ceremonies in any of their entertainments by which means they had two or three meetings, with great satisfaction on both sides. From Malta with came with a fair wind into the Tuscan Sea, coasting all along upon the shore to gain Porto longon (between the Isle of Corpse, and the Elbe) from whence the passage is not a little dangerous to Genoa; from whence we passed (without coming to an anchor any where) to the Isles of Years, which are not above two or three small leagues from Toulon; where during the Quarantine we made, I had leisure to look over my Memoires, and to reconsider the variety of dangers we had past both by Land and by Sea, in this expedition, thereby to give you as full and as exact a Relation as you desired.  
FINIS.   

A RELATION Of the Siege of CANDIA.  
From the first Expedition of the French Forces under the Command of M. de la Fueillade, Duke of Roannez, to its Surrender, the 27th. of September, 1669.  
Written in French by a Gentleman who was a Volunteer in that Service, and Faithfully Englished.  
LONDON. Printed for T. Williams and I. Starkey, and are to be Sold at their Shops, at the Bible in Little Britain, and the Mitre in Fleetstreet, near Temple Barr, 1670.   

A CONTINUATION Of the Siege of CANDIA, From the Departure of M. de la Fueillade to its surrender.  
THe forces under the Command of M. Fueillade having been harassed out which continual duty since their arrival, and reduced in their last Sally to a third part of what they were at first, though the Enterprise was brave, and performed with as much gallantry as could be Expected from so inconsiderable a number, yet they found to their Cost that ●●iracles were ceased, and that resolution and rea●on must go together when any great action is undertaken, or any success extraordinary to be ●op'd for.  
Was it possible four hundred men, drawn out with so much difficulty and disadvantage, incapable of any Arms for their defence, and desperate of relief, should dislodge two thousand six hundred, well entrenched, well accommodated with provisions, well furnished which Cannon, Morter-peices, Gernadoes, Firebals, Mines, and all things the mischievous invention of mankind could contrive for their destruction? Yet such was their Courage, and so far were they fortunate, they beat them out of seven of their redoubts, routed them in four several charges, and repelled them to such a distance, that could they have received any proportionable supply from the Town, or interrupted the coming in of the Turks from all other parts of the Leaguer, they had probably cleared that side, and performed an Action would have been as wonderful in this age, as incredible in the next.  
But probable means being always a necessary ingredient to the consection of any Extraordinary Exploit, they paid dear for the Experiment, and that insatiable gallantry which was not to be satisfied of late but by raising the Siege, starts (as i●● were) now at the very noise of the Turks, and i●● shrunk and come down to that pass, a retreat is th●● greatest of their designs, and to save their ow●● stakes, as much as any of them desired.  
Mr. Fueillade having indeed expressed himself excellently well, and with no less conduct tha●● hazard, brought the unhappy remainder of h●● Brigades once more into the Town; having view what were left, and sadly observed the postur●● they were in, he called a Council of his Officers forthwith to advise what was to be done, he represented the Condition of his men, the smallness of their number, the jealousy and diffidence he had in the Officers of the Town, who had neither given them the Assistance nor encouragement they might fairly have expected; and concluded upon the whole, that the rest were to be preserved, and that all convenient preparation should be made in Orders to their return.  
The next day M. Fueillade making a visit to the Generalissimo Morosini, gave him an account of their resolutions, he let him know with wha● Zeal they had undertaken the Enterprise, with what Valour and fidelity they had pursued it hitherto, and were still ready to persist were there any visible hopes of excountring the Enemy; that the siege was like now to be carried on with approaches, and mines, to which it was not fit the Nobility in his Squadron should be exposed, without possibility of action; that in that respect they were reduced to an incapacity of doing any thing Considerable for the future; that the Turks might be indeed encouraged by their departure, but that the number he should carry with him would not be so great, as to give them any real advantage; That the Lunenburgers, Bavarians, and other supplies from Venice were at hand, and would abundantly recompense the loss of them: That he hoped by their Comportment since they came, they had given such testimony of themselves, they were in no danger of any dishonourable aspersion. That there was nothing to be expected, but by raising the Siege, which would be the work of a Considerable Army, and not a handful of men; that he would with his utmost endeavours move and excite his most Christian Majesty to undertake it again, and give him a faithful account of the danger they were in; that he was unwilling to leave them in an Exigence, and his whole Brigade were of the same Judgement, but that by continuing there he should but defraud his Majesty of so many of his Nobles, as might Command a considerable part of the new force he did hope would be sent, without doing any thing of importance for the benefit of the Town.  
To which General Morosini replied, that he was sorry for their departure, but most of all for the Occasions; that in the name of the whole State of Venice, and all Christendom besides, he gave him thanks for what he had done; that their Enterprise had been noble and honourably managed; that he had assisted him more vigorously in his last Sally, had he not wanted men, and apprehended too rationally, lest the Turks should have laid hold of the Opportunity, and (falling on the other side) have carried the Town; he acknowledged their Fidelity, applauded their Valour, and having earnestly desired him, as much as in him lay, to dispose his Majesty once more to their relief, he promised him what accommodation th●● Town could afford in Order to their embarkment.  
Things being acted in this manner, some few days were allowed to the refreshment of the wounded and sick, and to the repose of such as were well and in the mean time all Convenient preparation was in order to their return.  
In the beginning of January all things being ready, they went aboard their Galleys in the Fort or Tramatra. The Town expressed some sorrow for their departure, and paid them some formalities at their Shipping; and that the Turks themselves might bear a part in the Geremony, they gave them several Volleys from the platform of Priuli, and all their Batteries on that side, but without any Considerable prejudice; they hoisting sail and falling off to Standia immediately.  
The weather being ruff, he was forced for some time to attend at Standia for a fair wind, which at length coming happily about he embraced, and in short time came safely to Malta thorough all the rocks and difficulties of those seas.  
The Grand Master understanding his arrival, sent one of the principal of his Officers to Compliment him, and to let him know, how great an honour he should have esteemed it to have seen him himself, and to have received the deplorable relation of his Misfortunes from his own mouth; that he had heard of the Gallantry of his attempt, and that the miscarriage was not imputable to any want of courage or conduct on his side, but to the Common fate and uncertainty of War. That he was sorry the custom of that Island would not admit him (coming from a place infected) till his Quarentine was made: That if he were perswadable to that, he would promise him a suitable Reception afterwards; if otherwise, that he would take such orders as should supply him with whatever the Island could afford in the mean time.  
M. Fueillade returned him his thanks, accepted the kindness he proffered for the supply of his Fleet, and three or four days he stayed there to refresh; But the minds of his party being at home, and the memory of their misfortunes too heavy upon their hearts, they could not relish the civility they received there, nor be satisfied with any thing but the quickness of their return.  
M. S. Paul having designed to make a visit in Sicily, and from thence pass by Rome and Italy into France, was persuaded to stay in Malta for some time, where at length, after a just attendance, being admitted to his first visit to the Grand Master, to avoid some punctilios of Ceremony, which he had been otherwise obliged to, he was received in bed, and two days after his visit returned at his own Lodging, with no small kindness and civility: In short M. St. Paul received many honours from him, the last of which was, that he Commanded two of his Galleys to attend him to Messina for his security and Guard.  
M. Fueillade's resolution being to go along with his party, he set sail for Thoulo●, gratifying thereby the impatience of his Soldiers, who were already weary of those parts, and importunately desirous of the Compassion of their friends. But his Calamity being yet incomplete, it pleased God to afflict him once more, and to visit one of his ships with so surious a plague, that it swept away most of them before they came a shore; as if providence had been offended at his departure, and judged it ignoble and indecent for him to desert so pious an Enterprise with so many men.  
Having brought the remainder of his forces to the Isles of Years (which are certain small Islands at no great distance from Toulon) he left them there till further Orders, himself hasting thither before: which being done, and such quarters and accommodation as was necessary provided for them, they were Landed forthwith, and disposed in such manner as with least prejudice to the Inhabitants, was most convenient for them.  
It was not long before his affairs at Toulon were so well settled, there remained nothing for him to do, but to make his personal account to his Majesty, not only of his own Conduct and occurrences, but of the present posture and Condition of the Town, which how courageous soever within, and supported with promises from abroad, was notwithstanding so pressed and overlaid by the daily supplies and advancements of the Turks, that without a more vigorous and speedy assistance, there was but small hopes of defending it long.  
For the Turks had not only received considerable recruits, great quantity of Provisions, and all the encouragement that ready money, and fair promises could give them, but they had lodged themselves at the foot of the Bastion of St. Andre, possessed themselves of the Pruili and Scotthere and raised such platforms there as played upon occasion so Effectually into the Harbour of Tramatra, the Galleys could neither enter nor remain there but with great hazard and insecurity.  
Besides the Grand Visier upn the news of the Retirement of M. Fueillade, imagining he should find the Town under some weakness or discouragement, resolved upon a storm; accordingly having drawn up 16000 of his men as privately in the night time as was possible, and divided them into two bodies, he fell on in two places with great clamour and fury. Never did the Turks show more courage than now: Never was the service more desperate on both sides; The Visier himself was assistant, exhorting, encouraging, and threatening his men; the ladders were placed to the breaches, the Turks ascended with their Fire-balls, Granades, and such pernicious instruments of mischief. Sometimes the Turkish Cressent was advanced by them, and immediately pulled down again by the Town; sometime they proceeded, and gained upon the place, when on a sudden they were repelled, and lost what advantage they had gotten before, so that at the last observing their progress but small, and the Garrison invincibly pertenacious in defence of the Town, he sounded a retreat, leaving the ground covered next morning with the dead, besides what they buried and carried off in the dark.  
Neither was this the only Considerable assault or repulse that did happen; not a week but some attempt or other was made upon it without, not a week but some Signal Exploit or other was performed in its defence within, and though in this and several other assaults he had lost many thousand of his men, and the wants and distresses of a Leaguer were not sparingly amongst them, yet having received constant supplies from Morea, and new provisions coming in hourly from all parts, the Grand Signior urging and upbraiding him by his delay, the Grand Visier went on resolutely with his designs; his approaches were advanced with all possible industry, his Batteries renewed, his Mines, his Galleries, his pits, and all manner of preparations doubled, his Guns playing incessantly from a new mount they had raised near the Monastery di Santo Spirito to disturb them in their retrenchments, which they were beginning to throw up within the old works, as foreseeing the other would be inevitably destroyed; and as if all this would have been too little to have ruined them, he perfected his Mines with that privacy and diligence, he brought many of them not only under the Walls, and Outworks, but under the principal Streets and Quarters of the Town.  
Besides all these advantages which the departure of the French, or his own assiduity had given him, he was quickened and excited by the noise of new Commotions at home: The Common people in Constantinople had a long time been sensible of a ●ence of the Grand Segniors Court, their Trading was grown dead and inconsiderable, and their Spirits turbulent and tumultuous; the length and desperateness of the service in Candia was become terrible to his Remoter Colonies in Asia, and Africa; at Alexandria and other places the new eveys which were made mutining, Kill their Officers and desperse; Nor were the Janissaries more obedient than they, they had no affection for an ●mployment had devoured so many of them already, they saw no visible hopes of gaining it suddenly, and they had such an alarm of the vast preparation was making all over Christendom for its relief, they could not believe there was any great likelihood of being Masters of it at last; and to foment their disorders yet more, it was given out (whether by way of Artifice or otherwise is not known) that private Orders were given by the Grand Signior for the secret strangling of two of his Brothers, for whom they had some pretended kindness and Compassion: Upon this score all things were in Confusion there, and without speedy and propitious success in this siege, the Grand Visier was not only like to run great hazard in his own fortunes and reputation, but there would be great danger of some violent revolution in the State.  
All these reasons put together were enough to have invigorated a Complexion much more phlegmatic than his; no wonder therefore if he doubled his Zeal, renewed his assaults, multiplied his Mines, and pressed with all possible importunity for recruits, which the Grand Signior knew very well were but necessary, commanded several of his new raised men to be drawn down and transported, but so great an impression the terror of that leaguer had made upon them, that they despised his Orders and disbanded; in so much that he was Constrained to send six thousand of the Janissaries attending his person, and to Command several of his standing forces in Dalmatia thither, for his reinforcement.  
Nor were the Christian's less serious on their side; They considered solemnly the Condition of the Town; they foresaw the dishonour it would be to have a place that was the Frontier and Bulwark of Christendom, ravish ' doubt of their hands; they were sensible how much the loss of that Town would expose them to his Armies in Italy or Sicily, as he pleased himself, and therefore with no less diligence than they were attaqu'd, did they begin to prepare for its relief.  
The Lunenburg forces, and others from the Dukes of Bavaria and Brunswick, being happily landed in few days after the departure of M. Fueillade, put the Town into a condition of sustaining itself for a while, and gave them leisure to attend their greater supplies; They were Commanded by General Waldeck in chief, and one Mollison a Scotchman had a Regiment, both of them Officers of great Valour and Experience, and worthy of such Soldiers as they brought with them: This Brigade raised up their Spirits, and gave them such Confidence of the security of the Town, that General Morosini thought fit to take the Opportunity and put out to Sea with his whole Fleet, to retard (if not intercept) the Viziers supplies, which his intelligence informed him were coming from all parts of Greece, of Egypt, of Asia, and Bar●ary, and to facilitate the access of new forces he expected himself.  
Having left the Command of all things in the hands of M. Andre Monbrun who had given so frequent and considerable Testimonies of his Conduct, he divided his Fleet into 3 Squadrous, one of them was Commanded into the Archipelago to attend the motion of such forces as were expected from Asia, or Africa, another was to ply about the Coasts of Greece for the same purpose, and the third to be cruising about the Island of Candia, to pick up those that by the means of the weather or any other Accident, should escape from the vigilance of the other.  
Nor was the design absolutely ineffectual, though it took not to that degree it was hoped: General Morosini took several Saiches and other small vessels intended for Canea, and forced the Grand Signior to march most of his forces from Constantinople and other ports (where they lay ready to be embarked,) to Morea by land, to evade the danger of being taken by Sea, from whence by the connivance of the night, (it being not above ten hours' sail) they could with more certainty and convenience convey them to the Grand Visier.  
This March, and the impediment the Venetian Galleys gave them by their daily appearance upon that shore, gave them no small interruption in their progress before the Town, in so much that the Grand Signior himself began to be impatient, and to upbraid the Visier with his delay; But at length in spite of their watchfulness on bothsides, the Visier had 7000. new raised men, and 2000 Janissaries landed at Spinalonga, to the great Corroboration and encouragement of his Camp: and General Morosini returned with 2000 fresh men, seventeen hundred barrels of Powder, and such other recruits of money and provisions as might encourage and enable them to hold out till they should receive more considerable supplies.  
And now the Alarm being taken on all hands, and the condition of that Town known all over Christendom; it was not to be doubted but all Christian Princes would be concerned, and contribute their assistance, according to their interest or affection.  
His Holiness being Father of them all, and by consequence most proper for so general a Negotiation, by his Nuntios in Spain and in France, he solicits very earnestly for their assistance, he tells them the importance of the place, of what advantage to Christendom, not so much in respect of the native Commodities, or the convenience of the Port, as that it was as it were a stop and period to the Tyranny of the Turks; That the Venetian had hitherto maintained it at his own charge, though the benefit accrued to them all: that after two years contest and reluctance, as it were upon their own bottom only, it was no wonder if they tottered at last having so powerful and so wealthy an enemy to deal with; That it would have great reflection not only upon the policies, but the Religion of the Christians, should they sit still and suffer so serviceable a member to be cut off, without endeavouring by timely applications to repel the fury of the Gangreen. That the Turks had made a progress beyond what could have been imagined, had brought their mines into the middle of the Town, and with their platforms and Batteries, gone a great way in stopping up the Harbours, yet the Town was not desperate, nor their danger insuperable; if their Exigence was great, it must be great Princes must relieve them, and whither could he address himself with more Confidence, then to them who were always the greatest enemies to Paganism, and the greatest propugnors of the Christian faith.  
The Spaniard acknowledges the proposal, laments the condition of the Town, promises his Galleys of Naples and Sicily, and some Land forces from Milan, and pretends, his assistance should have been much greater, but that the King of France his late invasion of Flanders, and his new pretences, kept them in so constant and chargeable an apprehension, that they could not rationally part with any more, unless they would expose themselves too grossly, and give him an advantage they might never recover, to which they suggested the minority of their Prince.  
But the King of France to remove that objection, and incline them to as vigorous an engagement in that Enterprise as himself, assured his Holiness upon the Honour of a King, he would in no manner whatever disturb them for a twelve month, and as if he had feared his word alone would not have been taken by the Spaniard, he applies himself so ardently to the sending of relief, that they might be certain he was not able to drive on two such Erterprises at once, neither his stock nor his time being sufficient to bear it.  
He acquainted his Holiness with his Resolution of sending eight thousand men under the Command of the Duke of Navailles, and that he would give orders to the Duke of Beaufort (his Admiral at Sea) to prepare against May such a number of his Galleys and men of War as should be sufficient to transport and secure them; he desired that his Holiness would in the mean time make use of his paternal influence upon the Princes of Italy, that there would be necessity of intermediate supplies, to keep up their spirits and support them till more came; That the Duke of Modena Mantua, and Parma in respect of their situation; and vicinity to the Sea were to be solicited for leveys, which in a short time might be Embarked, and at Candia before others on Shipboard: and that his Holiness Galleys (which he had intimated should be sent) might be ready at such a Rendezvouz as should be agreed on in the mean time.  
And that his words and actions might correspond, and the World take notice and observe how little he considered the distance of the place, the dangers by the way, nor the difficulties there, when honour and Religion called so loud for his assistance, the Duke of Beaufort is Commanded immediately to the Fleet to fit up such a number of his Ships with all practicable diligence as he should think Competent for the design. And the Count de Vivonne dispatched with the same Orders to Toulon to be ready at a precise time to attend him with his Galleys and all the power he could make.  
All stones being turned in this manner that might contribute, and all hands employed that might hasten their relief, His Majesty gave Order for the raising five thousand foot and 700. Horse to be Commanded by the Duke of Navailles, of which the Regiments already marching for Rossillon and those in Dauphen for more Expedition were to be part, besides which four hundred and twenty men were to be drawn out of his Regiment of Guards, two hundred of his Musqueteers, and two hundred Reformades, to which 300. of the Army horse were to be added under the Command of the Marquis de Francier, and two hundred more reformed Officers in the room of so many of the Guards de Corpse who were Countermanded. The King's Musqueteers were given men to M. Maupertuys, and M. de Montbrun, being divided into two Squadrons; the Regiment of Guards to M. Castelan, all of them persons of great Gallantry and Experience. The Rendezvouz was appointed at Toulon, and that nothing might be able to discourage or retard them by the way, five hundred thousand Livers were ordered to be pay●● them, one half at Lions by Bill of Exchange, th●● other in Provence out of the receipts of that Province; seven and twentyd ays being allowed them for their march, and seventeen more for their repose when they came there.  
The 28. of February the Duke of Beaufort too●● his leave of his Majesty, repairing with all spee●● to his charge, accompanied with the Chevalier d●● Vendosme his Nephew, and several great Officers and persons of quality.  
He was no sooner arrived at Toulon but he fe●● immediately to his business with all imaginabl●● Providence and dexterity, preparing all thing necessary for his Voyage; he viewed the Ships surveyed the Equipage, encouraged the Officers and rewarded the Seamen; in short whatever wa●● wanting was provided, and what everwas necessary was done.  
Nor was the Duke of Navailles less active at home, having finished his Leavys, and taken what care was possible for their accommodation by the way, Orders were given for their march, and as in great Actions there are no passages, so trivial slight, from whence the capricious will not take occasion to make their conjecture and presage, so in this there was an accident (though sad in itself yet otherwise of no great importance as to the main of the design) which possessed many people with an ominous presage, and was no small discouragement to the expectation of the World:  
As they were drawing down from all parts to the Rendezvous, for greater Expedition it was thought Convenient to Embark some of their Companies upon the Soane, and so it fell out that either by the badness of the Vessels●, the soulness of the weather, or the unruliness of the Soldiers, two of them sunk down to the bottom, and about fifty or threescore of the Soldiers were drowned ●he Officers all of them escaping, but one Ensign which conducted them into the other world.  
On the tenth of April, the Duke of Navailles ●ook his Congey likewise of his most Christian Majesty, with all speed hastening to his Enbark●ent, he was attended by sixty supernumerary Officers, to supply the vacancies in case of indisposition or death, each Captain having received or his encouragement five hundred Livers, each lieutenant three, and each Ensign two hundred.  
About the beginning of May, he arrived with ●s whole Train at Toulon, where joining his ●lligence with the Duke de Beaufort's, all things were got ready with inconceavable Expedition.  
And if the French were thus solicitous, at such a distance, whose incitement was rather honour, and Compassion for their friends, than any peculiar interest of their own, it cannot be supposed but the Pope, the Venetian, and all the Princes of Italy were obliged to it much more, the Conflagration being so near, and their houses next like to be on fire.  
According to the intimation before, his Holiness had prevailed for three thousand men to be raised in Germany, and dispatched immediately for Venice, the Dukes of Modena, Parma, and Mantua, had engaged for a Considerable number, to be leavy'd partly at their own charge and partly at the charge of the Venetian, who was obliged to provide them with shipping, and all other accommodation for their Voyage: Besides which several Companies were Ordered by his most Catholic Majesty to Final, to Embark there in the Duke of Tur●●s Galleys, and a thousand select foot raised and maintained by the Duke of Modena himself, all which were, as they had opportunity, conveyed into the Town, but rather as a reinforcement, than relief; their expectation of raising the Siege being placed upon the more Considerable supplies from France, and from Spain.  
And because valour without recompense is seldom long lived, and the Coin is the cause men generally fight for, the Venetians sent considerable sums along with their Fleet, and his Holiness consigned a hundred thousand Crowns of the Mount of Piety, and his whole stock of gold which had been brought into the Datary since his promotion.  
Besides which, that others might be provoked to the same merit and fidelity, Leonard Moro Commissary extraordinary to the Venetian Fleet, having, during the whole series of the war, given large testimony of his Conduct, upon his solemn request was permitted to resign, and made a Member of the Grand Council as a reward of his service.  
And as if the living were too few, to afford objects, for their piety; Cattarino Cornaro, (a person of Singular Eminnece and worth, and often entrusted with their greatest affairs) having been unfortunately slain in a sally upon the Turks, his body was Ordered to be conveyed to Venice, where he was afterward interred with extraordinary solemnity, and an honourable Monument erected to his memory, at the charge of the State, and his Brother ennobled with the Order of Knighthood.  
In this manner the Munificence and liberality of the Senate, vying as it were with the courage of the Soldiers, all things went on cheerfully and well, nor could all the Mines, the Cranadoes, the assaults from without, The Duty, the dangers, the distresses within, dismay or affright them to the least overture of a surrender, but with invincible constancy and Vigilance they Encountered all the difficulties of the Siege, and frustrated all the Stratagems of the enemy.  
By this time the Men of War were come about from Rochel, and Breast, the day for their Embarkement growing sudden at hand: That their provisions might be suitable to the greatness of their number, and his men not liable to any indigence at Sea, the Duke of Beaufort pressed the Merchantmen in all the Harbours of Provence, whilst the Count de Vivonne wanting Slaves for his Oars, by reward and persuasion prevailed with his own men to supply them, so ready were they to serve for the honour of Christendom in any capacity whatever.  
Whilst these things were in agitation, his Holiness sent his Pontifical Standard to his Excellence the Duke of Beaufort, which was to be carried in the French Admiral though Don Vinzenzo Rospigliosi was to command as Generalissimo when the Fleets were together, but in his absence, or in case of mortality, the Duke was to succeed.  
The Banner was very costly and rich, with our Saviour represented betwixt S Peter, and S. Paul, all very lively, and exquisitely wrought, which was set up with great Solemnity, all the Artillery and small shot giving their volleys, besides the incredible acclamation of the people and Soldiers.  
I cannot omit in this place to make mention of the Count de S. Paul, in M. Fueillades Expedition, he had more than his share, not only in the Gallantry, Glory of his actions, but in the greatness of his sufferings, he had been upon all Duties, upon all sallies, under all the anxieties and incommodities of the Town, yet all this was no●● sufficient; spurred on by a generous indignation fo●● his former misfortunes, or a pious compunction for the danger of Christendom, he was no sooner in France, but he reassumes the design, and would go thither again, from whence he escaped so hardly before, and had not the King by his Express Command required him to desist, he had gone along with the rest, and perhaps made the loss more considerable by his own.  
On the fifth of June, having received the Benediction of the Pope, and the acclamations of the people, after all the Ceremonious formalities were over, they set sail for Candia, the greater Ships being Ordered before, and the Galleys coming after, the Rendezvouz being at Cherigo, an Island, some three and twenty leagues distance from Candia, and not far from the Coast of Morea.  
The weather and the wind did seem to conspire to the success of the Enterprise, conveying them in a short time to the Road of Malta, and from thence to Cherigo, but the Galleys meeting with some accidents were forced in at Civita-vecchia, where they were Complemented from his Holiness, and the Count de Vivonne, and the rest of the Officers presented with Medals of Gold and of Silver.  
The Pope's Galleys were not long after them, but the weather being not altogether so propitious, they were glad to put in at Naples, and take those Galleys along with them, from whence they passed away for Messina, where they joined with those of Sicily, and advanced with all speed to the Rendezvouz.  
The Turks having the alarm of their approach, thought it no time to be idle; they plied their Mines, renewed their Batteries, multiplied their assaults, and with perpetual and indefatigable industry, possessed themselves of most part of the Bastion of St. Andre: and because the Town had made two Retrenchments within that Bastion, which gave them impediment, and hindered their advancement into the Town, by continual thundering upon them with Canon of extraordinary bigness, they made two such breaches that thirty men might march in a breast.  
This was an opportunity not to be dallied with, all their forces were drawn up, and with as much privacy as could be, the Attack was begun, and urged with as much Valour and Eagerness as was possible; but the besieged expecting what followed, and being prepared as vigorosly to receive them, they were several times repulsed with the loss of a considerable number of their Soldiers, and many of their principal Officers into the Bargain. Yet not without great mischief to the Town Geacomo.  
Contarini was hurt dangerously in the arm, the Marquis de St. Andre in the thigh, and Colonel Pini slain; all which were persons of no small Eminence, and importance to the Garrison.  
On the sixteenth of May, the French Fleet touched at Sapienra, a small Island on this side of Morea, two days after which, the Pope's Galleys, and the Galleys of Malta arrived at Corfu another Island in the Mouth as it were of the Adriatic Sea, to whom on the three and twenty, the French Galleys came up, and all hasting to the General Rendezvouz.  
On the nineteenth of the same Month the Duke of Beaufort appeared with his Fleet in Candia Road, being precipitated from the Rendezvouz by a Letter from the Captain General in the Town, representing the pregnant Exigence of the Garrison, that the Turks had made themselves Masters of the Bastion of St. Andre entirely, that they had made so considerable breaches in the Retrenchment, that they were not secure of defending it two days: that they encroached hourly upon the Ports, and were in a fair way with their Platforms, and Batteries, of Commanding them quite, and interrupting all possibility of Relief. That without present assistance all things would be desperate, and the whole charge and preparation for their rescue, frustrate and ineffectual.  
His Excellence being surprised at this news, Sails immediately to Standia an Island some three leagues distance from Candia, he sends orders forthwith to Cherigo for the Galleys to follow him with all speed, and the next day advances for the Town, where he no sooner arrived, but he was attended by M. Castelan, and received a punctual account of the condition of the place, which was too bad to admit of any delay, or so much as the staying till the Galleys came up.  
Whereupon he set Sail immediately for Candia, and going himself presently on shore, a Council was called, in which it was concluded, that no time should be lost, that all the forces under the Command of the Duke de Navailles should be instantly Landed. That in respect, the Turks had not only got possession of the Bastion of S. Andre, planted their Canon there, and done irreparable prejudice to both their Retrenchments, but on the Saboniera side also advanced their approaches, cut off their sally-Ports, and raised with incredible labour a platform in the Sea, which would in a short time block up the Haven, beat down the Arsenal, and endanger the Town, that therefore it would be expedient, they should the next morning attempt to remove them on that side, in pursuance of which resolution, for as much as they had certain intelligence their forces on that side were 8000. strong, well entrenched, and accommodated with Artillery, Granades, and all things requisite for their defence, that the whole power they could make, (without leaving the Town too naked and exposed) should be drawn out as privately and as early as was possible, in Order to which the Duke of Beaufort went himself that evening, with the Duke of Navailles to make choice of their ground, and to descry the face and posture of the enemy, in which speculation the Duke de Beaufort, as an unlucky prognostic of his following misfortune, received a slight hurt with a Granadoe, to the Consternation of them all.  
The forces being landed, and the General Morosini engaged to assist them with six hundred Pioners, and what men he could possible spare out of the Garrison, having concluded, the rear of the Enemy to be most accessible, and the Fort of Demetrins most convenient for their Sally, a new Council was held, and the Army resolved to be drawn out in this manner.  
In the front there marched four hundred select men out of each Squadron with fifty Granadiers at the head of them, and three Troops of horse in the Rear; next them followed the Regiments of Lorraine and Britain, Commanded by Gaures and St. Valier, with four Troops of horse upon the wings; after them marched the Regiments of Montague, Jonsal, and Grance. The Reserve was Commanded by M. Choiseville consisting of the Regiments, of Harcourt, Conti, Ligniers, Montpezat, and Vendosme, with four Troops of horse on the wings also, to attend Emergencies: there were placed betwixt the first and second line fifty Commanded Musquetiers and a hundred Reformado Officers: On the other side of the Sabionera next the Sea, the Duke de Beaufort (who his death being decreed) had been inexorable to all persuasion to the contrary, had drawn up about three hundred of his Seamen, a number much short of what he did propose, with which he undertook by the assistance of M. Colbert, to beat them upon that side of their Entrenchments, and give the other some diversion.  
Being marched out with great silence, they were ●rawn up in a large plain leading to the enemy's Camp, where they were put in very good Order, ●nd to attend a Signal which was to be given:  
But the Turks having perceived, and endeavoured what they could to give obstruction to ●heir Landing, imagined very well they were not ●o be long without action, for which reason they doubled their Guards, multiplied their perdues, ●nd took such Courses as were most likely to give the alarm of their approach, in so much that they were no sooner advanced into distance, but they were saluted with Canon, and small shot, from all quarters on that side.  
M. Dampire, had Order to fall on thereupon, which accordingly he did, and with invincible Courage beat them out of two Redouts in an instant, killing divers of the enemy, and leaving their works, to the possession of the Regiment of Lorraine; the Regiment under the Command of St. Valier, with the Commanded men and the Companies of Guards, fell on upon another work, which they carried immediately; from that they pursued them to another, and from thence to a third, till in a short time they forced them out of all, and observed them drawing up upon a rising ground, with intention to Engage them together.  
The General advances to charge them, and did it with that briskness and effect, he beat them from that place, slew many of their men, and put them into no inconsiderable disorder: Thus far things were prosperous and well, the enemy was beaten on all hands, their quarters deserted, their Canon seized, their mortar pieces taken and overturned▪ and all things portending Victory and success: But as there is nothing more uncertain than the Event of a battle, and no conclusion can be made from a happy beginning; so here in the midst their Triumph, when the day was almost their own, and nothing to be expected but the acclamations of the people, an unlucky accident interposed which altered the scene, and put them al● into confusion.  
Having beaten them, and taken possession of their principal Battery, which the Turks had forsaken in disorder, and left their Granades and Mortarpeices behind them, with several Fire works thrown up and down in their distraction, it happened some of them by accident took fire, which passing from one to another on a sudden, made so violent an impression upon the apprehension of the Soldiers, that all the Authority of their Officers, their threats, nor their prayers, nor their Examples could not prevail with them to stand; but their imagination having once possessed them, 'twas their Mines, and that the whole Field was to be blown up where they fought, the terror increased like the fire, and running from one party to another, put the whole Army into a Combustion.  
And here it was the Officers were at a loss, the Soldiers intractible, and the Commanded men themselves not to be Commanded, M. Castelan ●mployed all the persuasion, all the violence, all ●he Artifice he could, but to no purpose. M. St. ●alter exhorted, and threatened, and wounded, ●ut in vain, their fear was so great, they thought ●hey could not be safe but in the Town, and their discretion so little, they did not consider after so ●gnominions, a flight, there would be no security for them long there. Nor were the there hun●red Seamen on the other side in less confusion than ●●ey: Though they had no such accident amongst ●hem, yet they must share in the distraction, and ●ake as much haste to their Ships, as the other to ●●e Town, as if it had been dishonourable not to follow their Comrades, though in the most ignoble action of their lives.  
Long, it was not before the Turks had descried their condition, and rallying immediately, came afresh to the charge: The Admiral and M. Colbert did what was possible to support them, they joined with what were left of the fifty Musqueteers and the first Battalion, and received them Courageously; but overpowered with numbers they were broke, and dispersed: M. le Bret, and M. Choyseville took as much pains in the Reserve, and with the few that would stand, made an honourable defence; but fresh Companies being powered upon them from St. Andre side, and the whole force advancing against them on that; they were forced to give ground, and submit to the impetuosity of the Turks.  
The French (by Computation) lost in this engagement about six hundred of their Common Soldiers, and of Officers 365. many of them persons of great Quality and Command; nor had their fortune been so moderate, had not the Duke of Navailles after all was desperate, with incredible temper and magnanimity with M. Tullad●t, M. Argellon, and five or six Gentlemen more, made good a Courtin, and favoured their escape, and after that charged thorough their whole Battalion, and come off.  
But that which made their loss most deplorable was the death of the Duke de Beaufort, who being abandoned by all (but M. Bourgneuf slain immediately by his side, and M. Hoquette wounded in th● leg) fell in desperately amongst the Enemy, an● was k●●d himself.  
One of the Troopers reported he saw him wounded in the Field, that he endeavoured to have got him upon his horse, but that his Excellence had not strength, nor he time to effect it: that he dragged him a while by the Arm, but the Enemy pressing on and he unable to follow, he was forced to forsake him, and that looking back he see them kill him immediately, but what ever was his fate, his body was not to be found; M. Mar the Captain of his Guard going out with a Trumpet on purpose to inquire.  
Never was Action more prudently disigned, never more happily commenced, never more unfortunately concluded: Never were there better Officers then here, nor had they ever more occasion to show it: by their unequal and disadvantageous Charges, by their frequent, though inconsiderable rallies, by their importunity to their Soldiers, they satisfied the Turks how unusual it was for them to run, and that this Victory was due to the pucilanimity of the Soldier, rather than any ill Conduct in them.  
And as if yet those Infidels had not been sufficiently happy, nor the French sufficiently unfortunate, the Duke of Navailles either by pains, and fatignes in that Sally, or by a sense and apprehension of the dishonour, he was like to undergo, or as some have reported by the unkindness, and injustice of the Venetian, who neither sent him the six hundred Pioners that were promised, nor gave them that assistance he might in reason have expected besides,) was so strangely disturbed, he fell in a short time into a , and was carried to Standia for the recovery of his health.  
But as yet the Galleys were not come up: on the 24th. of May they put in at Zant, on the 29th. at Cherigo, were receiving the Admiral's Orders, they made no stay at all, but in the beginning of July came safely to Candia, where the Count de Vivonne finding the Fleet without an Admiral took possession of the Charge, and Executed that Office to the time of his return.  
The same day arrived also the Malta Squadron with 800. fresh men, which with those in the French, and 1500. Germans which Landed over night, it was hoped might encourage them to some other attempt that might perhaps be more successful than the former: But the Duke of Navailles indisposition, put them off of that design, besides which the Turks had fortified themselves so strongly in their Camp, and received so considerable a supply, there was no visible probability of doing any thing extraordinary.  
On the 25. of July, all the Frenchmen of War, Galleys, and other Vessels being brought towards the Lazareto, and as near as they could get, Order was given for the firing upon the Turks with their great Guns, which was performed with considerable Execution, but by an unlucky accident at home, or some Mortarpeice from the Enemy, the Santa Teresia, the Duke of Navailles Ship, was blown up into the air, four hundred of his men killed, and five and thirty Officers, besides all his money and goods.  
To which misfortune another was added, which was that General Geronimo Battaia, a person that upon all occasions had with much Valour and judgement hazarded his life for the defence of that place, was wounded mortally in three places as he was giving Order against a new approach, the Enemy was making towards the Sabionera, to the great affliction of the Town.  
The face of affairs being thus bad, the Duke of Navailles sick, and the Turks so well entrenched and recruited, there was no good to be done: he resolves therefore to return, and immediately sends this account to his Majesty.  
That it being in his Orders to return in case he had no hopes of freeing the Town, he was Embarking accordingly: That by the last Action and several other services since he came, his forces were reduced to a third part of their number. That the Turks gained daily upon the Town; that they had carried the first Retrenchment, and constrained the Garrison to think of a third, about which 2500. men were constantly employed. That his men being harras'd and sickly, and 2000 fresh ●en coming in under the Command of the Duke of Mirandola, his stay would be of no great concernment to the place.  
His most Christian Majesty having received this Advice, and being informed they might hold out ●ill the spring, resolves upon new leavies, which were to be joined to new forces to be raised by his Holiness, and commanded by the Mar●shal de Bellefors, who had been once before in nomina●on for General: but the Town was surrendered in short time, and that design lost.  
About the beginning of September, the Duke of Navailles Embarked in order to his return, and fell off to Standia, from whence, (after small attendance) the wind coming right, he set sail for Malta, where his indisposition detaining him, he reserved the Marquis de Grantys Ship for himself, and sent away the rest: 8. of which came in to Toulon, the first of October with near 2000 men, but above 1500. of them wounded or sick.  
The Visier having received supplies from Morea, and courage from the departure of the French, it was no wonder if he pressed daily upon the Town. He made several assaults, sometimes three in a day, and though he was constantly repelled, and with very great loss, yet it was not without great injury to them: He had raised a Mount upon the Bastion of St. Andre, which played so effectually upon the 2d. Retrenchment, there was scarce any security at all: in so much that the Church of St. Francis being filled with Earth, and twenty great Guns, planted on the top of it: was the greatest defence they had for that breach: On the other side they grew so fast upon the haven, and battered the Arsenal so continually from their Platforms, it was conceived there was no way to prevent shutting up the first, but by filling the latter with Earth likewise.  
But all this being done, and all the art, and industry used that might be expected from humane nature, could not stop the Career of the Turks; They had received vast supplies from Morea to reinforce them, they had received vast sums of money to encourage them, they abounded with all manner of provisions for the sound, and all sort of Medicaments for the sick; they were promised large Rewards if they carried the Town, and to have them doubled if speedily: They knew it was impossible for any considerable relief to arrive that Winter, and therefore resolved with all their diligence and power to distress it in the interim: They had forced their way over the Graft, possessed themselves of the first Retrenchment, demolished the second, were Mining the third, and had scarce left them ground enough within for the throwing up a Fourth: They had on the other side with their Mines, and their Batteries, and their Granades, made the Sabionera, untenable, endangered the Arsenal, shut up both the Harbours, and in short reduced the whole Town to rubbish and dust, in so much as it seemed indefencible for the one, and uninhabitable for the other; and besides all this the length of the siege, the Narrowness of their ground, the slaughter of their men, and the incommodities they suffered for want of provisions, had brought their men into such a condition, they had not above 3600. left able to bear Arms, which was not sufficient to do the ordinary duty.  
All these considerations being represented in a Council of War, it was unanimously resolved, they should submit to their fate, and give notice of their desire to Treat, which being accordingly performed, and the proposition received with great joy through the Viziers Camp, Colonel Arnardi, and Signior Scordeli the Vice Chancellor were employed to manage it, and on the first of September sent out on the side of the River Giofro, where the Grand Viziers Quarters was, to meet with the Commissioners in the behalf of the Turks: But there was nothing Concluded that day more than that the conference should be renewed the next in the open Field in a large Tent, the Visier would cause to be set up before the Fort of Dametrius, where they met and having continued the Treaty to the fift of September, at length the Articles were agreed upon and Hostages given on both sides, viz. for the Venetians, Signior Calbo Commissary of the Provisions, de Riva Lieutenant of the General's Guards, and Zaccaria Moccenigo; for the Turks, the Beglerbeg of Temiswar, Mahomet Bassa, the Agi of the Janissaries, and CassiBey, the Tefferdat of Romilia.  
The Turks Hostages were sent immediately into the Town, and the Venetians into their Camp, where they were received by the Grand Visier with great humanity, a rich apartement assigned them, a Guard of Janissaries to attend them whither they pleased, and a Table of thirty dishes a Meal allowed them, to which was added the civility of several Visits from the Visier himself, and all the chief Officers of his Army.  
The Articles agreed upon, and afterwards on the 19 of September ratified by the Senate, and the Grand Signior, were these.  
1. That the City of Candia should be surrendered into the hands of the Grand Visier, to enjoy absolutely, and freely dispose of as a place belonging to the Grand Signior.  
2. That all Forts, and Principal Ports of the Island of Candia, with the Insulets adjacent which are now in the Possession of the most Serene Republic of Venice, shall still remain under the Obedience of the said Republic, as they were before the beginning of the War.  
3. That all the Islands in the Archipelago, and other Seas, that are in the Possession of the most Serene Republic of Venice shall contive as before under the entire and absolute Jurisdiction of the said Republic.  
4. That the Fort of Clessa, and all other places in Dalmatia, and Albania, conquered by the most Serene Republic of Venice, from the Turks, shall remain to the said Republic, in sovereignty, and independent.  
5. That neither of the two parties shall be bound or obliged to supply the other with any sum of moneys, or any other thing whatsoever, under pretence of reimbursement of the Charge and Expense of the War, or by way of pension, present, or any other Title whatsoever.  
6. That the Grand Visier permit, and grant the Captain General so much time as is Convenient and Necessary for the carrying all Ammunition, either for War or food out of the City of Candia: That he freely consent that all Soldiers march out of the place with their Arms and Baggage. That he permit the Inhabitants who have no desire to continue there, to retire with their Families, Rings and Jewels, whither they please. That he consent that the Captain General may carry away all the Republics sacred vessels, and all Ornaments whatsoever belonging to their Churches.  
7. That the Captain General may take out of the City of Candia 320. Brass Guns, which are to be in the power and at the free disposal of the most serene Republic of Venice.  
3. That the Prisoners and Slaves taken on both sides during the Siege of Candia, be immediately restored, the Captain General and the Grand Visier issuing out their Orders required for the Execution of this Article.  
9 That all these Articles agreed and faithfully Executed, both parties shall swear and promise to preserve the Peace reciprocally and inviobably for the advantage of the Trade, and the mutual quiet of both their subjects.  
On Friday the 27 of September, the forces were drawn out of the City of Candia, according to the said Articles, and the Keys sent the same day to the Visier, who received them with much satisfaction, rewarding the person that brought them with a large sum of money: having received them, he sent immediately into the Town to cleanse the Streets, and those few houses which were left, and to remove the dead bodies out of the Churches of St. Francis, St. Titus, St. Salvator, and St. Peter, which he designed as Mosques for the worship of Mahomet.  
On the fourth of October the Town being cleansed, and the Articles (to the immortal honour of the Grand Visier) punctually performed, he made his Solemn Entry into it at the Breach of St Andre, with his whole Army consisting of about 15000. Soldiers, and eleven thousand pioners, besides his necessary attendants: he found the Town naked of all provisions, and inhabitants, there being left only two Greeks, three Jews, and eight more Strangers, whom the Visier would have permitted to departed, but they chose rather to change their Religion, than their Quarters, and continued there.  
The Peace being Concluded and ratified in this manner, and the Town in the possession of the Turks The; Generalissimo Morosini, committing the conduct of the rest of the Fleet, (which was then at Standia,) to the management or M. St. Andre Mo●●brun, went himself with a Squadron, furnished with Ammunition and Provision, and several Officers of Quality, (that were Natives,) to Suda Spinalongas and the rest of the Garrisons reserved by the Articles, to reinforce and furnish them with all things convenient and necessary incase of any danger, or insult.  
This done, the Generalissimo having certified the loss of the Town, and the number of the inhabitants that had deser●●d the Island, and were at present without any habitation, he recmomended to the Senate the appointing of some place and way for their subsistence, and Orders were issued out accordingly for their reception in the Town of Pola, and Perenzo in Istria. The Archbishop of Candia having lost his Bishopric was recompensed with the Church of St. Gregory in Venice, and the Revenue that belongs to it: to which places having recommended and transported them all, he returned himself to Venice, and in acknowledgement of his great services, was with great Solemnity chose one of the Grand Council, which was honour Extraordinary, because at that time the number was complete, and no Vacancy at all.  
And thus the City of Candia, that with so much honour for so many years had opposed itself to the puissance of the Ottoman Empire, was at last (after three years continual Siege, after more Execution of men, and more Stratagems of War, than perhaps is legible in the Chronicle of any age,) forced to a serrender, but with this honour and apology, that it had slain and destroyed near 100000. of their men, that it had given so long opportunity for their tumults, and confusions at home, and though at last by their Mines under the Town, and their Granades playing perpetually into it, they were reduced to the greatest necessity imaginable, yet could not they be forced to dishonourable conditions, or persuaded to do any thing at last incongruous with the bravery of their Comportment during the whole Siege.  
FINIS.