A Particular ACCOUNT Of the Sudden and Unexpected Siege of Vienna, The Capital City of AUSTRIA, And Residence of the Emperor of GERMANY, At present Besieged by the Turkish Army, Consisting of a Hundred and Fifty Thousand Men, (the 8th. of July, 1683.) under the Command of the Grand Visier, and what passed during the Siege, as well within the City, as without it.  
THis famous City took its Name from the River Wien, which flows into the Danube, and is the Residence of the Emperor, and Metropolis of Austria, a Royal Fortification, Surrounded with thick Walls, Bastions, deep Ditches, and lofty Towers, in such sort as She may well be Styled the Bulwark against the Turks, the Key of Germany, and of the Christian World, as She made it appear in the Year 1529. When Solyman the Magnificent, Emperor of the Turks, Sat down before it, with Three Hundred Thousand Men, and after Six Months Furious and unusual Attacques, was forced to withdraw, whereupon that Christian City was delivered.  
The Turkish Emperor, in this present Year, 1683, Like a Tyrant thirsting after Christian Blood (by the Encouragement of the Rebel Count Teckley) sent again into Hungary, Two Hundred Thousand Men, under the Conduct of the Grand Visier to Commence a War with the Christians, which is now carried on with great Fury: The Turks have lately made an Incursion near Raab, in which the Regiment of Dragoons Commanded by the Duke of Savoy, were Routed, the Duke himself, and the Prince of Arembergh Wounded, so that they Died; Whereupon the Imperial Infantry retreated to the Isle of Schut, and the Cavelry to Vienna, near the Danube. After which the Grand Visier passed the Cities of ●●●orra and Raab, and (the 8th. of July) Besieged the City of Vienna, with a Hundred and Fifty Thousand Men; and ordered the Rest of the Forces, to lay waste the Country in their March, so as utterly to extirpate Christianity. The Besiegers immediately raised Three several Batteries before Vienna, and Fired thence into the Town, Day and Night, with great Fury, but the brave Governor, Count Starembergh made a Vigorous Defence, leveled the Batteries, and in many Assaults happily repulsed the Enemy, so as there were Slain of the Turks in these Attacques above Twenty Thousand, and of the Besieged about Twenty Persons killed, and some Wounded: The Turks sent several times their Proposals for a short Respite to Bury their Dead, which was refused them, so as in the End, the Annoyance from dead Bodies, and those they found in the Mines, that Died of the Pestilence, Obliged them to draw some distance off from the City. In the mean time, the Besieged were refreshed, and Vowed to Defend it to the last drop of Blood. All Things in the City Remained in a good Posture, and at length they seizeed two Incendiaries, who had privately conveyed Matches of Gunpowder with Artificial Fires into many Houses with design to Burn them, and to Fire the Scotch Monastery and Church; but their Designs were timely Dicovered, and the Contrivers were first Torterd, then cast alive into the Fire.  
The Besieged did then believe the Enemy had forsaken the City, but they returned and raised new Batteries, on which they mounted Six large pieces of Ordinance and many new Mortar— pieces, which they Discharged with greater Vigour than before. They gave out, that the Grand Signior would come in person before his Army, and bring extraordinary Supplies with him. Notwithstanding, the Besieged supported themselves with great Resolution, for there came over not long before an Engineer who brought with him a Draught of the Turkish Camp to the Duke of Lorraine, and assured him, that the Turk wanted Provisions; and therefore that if the Three Mines they had sprung were ineffectual, they must speedilly raise the Siege: The Enemy blew up two of them, which were between the Castle and Karndter Gate; One of which was countermined, and in it many of the Turks slain: but the Second, weakened the Counters Carp, and the Turks lodged themselves in the Ditch, but by a brisk Sally, they were beaten off again,  
The 29th. of the last Month, were slan in a general Assault more than Ten Thousand Turks. In short, the City of Vienna would endure, with the help of God, four or five Months longer, being so well stored with Provisions that Governor Starembergh sent as much Bread for two Pence to the Turkish Camp as would cost with them six Crowns: We hope by the Divine Assistance, that the Chief Christian City will be preserved from the Cruelty of the Turkish Emperor, and that he may languish in his Desires and return to Mahomet's Stables, and that the great God will dwell in the Garrison of Vienna, consisting of twenty Thousand Men Effective, besides the Scholars and Young Men, the Auxiliary Forces of Poland and those of the Empire.  
Made English from the High— Dutch.   

LONDON, Printed for John Smith, 1683.