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<HEAD>A TRUE COPY OF A LETTER FROM COUNT <HI>STAREMBERGH,</HI> TO THE DUKE of <HI>LORRAINE,</HI> Concerning the pre&s;ent Condition of VIENNA.</HEAD>
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<P><HI>TO give you a True State of the Siege of</HI> Vienna, <HI>from the Eighth of</HI> July, <HI>that the</HI> Ottoman <HI>Army came before it, to the Eighteenth of</HI> Augu&s;t <HI>in|clu&s;ive, take this following Letter from Count</HI> Starembergh <HI>him&s;elf, to the Duke of</HI> Lorraine, <HI>as it is really Tran&s;lated from the Original Letter, Printed in</HI> High Dutch.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Vienna,</HI> <DATE><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 18. 1683.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>MY LORD,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>GOD be thanked, we have had once the good Fortune to hear that one of our Letters is come to your Highne&s;&s;es Hands, among&s;t many others that have been writ to you from hence. I humbly b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">g tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> you will believe, That it is none of our Fault that you have been no oftner informed of our Affairs: &s;o neither will we be want|ing for the future to let your Highne&s;s know how it goes with us here, as often as Opportunity &s;hall &s;erve. And to let you &s;ee how it is with us at pre&s;ent, give me leave to tell you, That we have di&s;puted every Foot of Ground with the Enemy, and that they have not gained any thing upon us, but what hath co&s;t them very dear; having been as often vigorou&s;ly re|pui&s;ed, as they have attempted to Lodge them&s;elves, with &s;o great Lo&s;s, that they dare not thru&s;t their Heads out of their Holes any longer, nor appear upon tho&s;e Hills which they have &s;lung up round our Counter&s;carp, and by which means they endeavour to &s;urround our Ditch. And as I have formerly informed your Highne&s;s, That the Enemies had made a De&s;cent into the Ditch of the Raveline, and blown up a part of the Wall, and there|upon made &s;everal A&s;&s;aults; but God be thanked, very un&s;ucce&s;sfully, we having beaten them out of their Works which they had made at the Foot of the Preach: But finding, that as &s;oon as our Men were retreated, they re|turned again, I thought it Prudence to u&s;e &s;ome Precaution about it, and to
<PB REF="2">have Mined it &s;o deep as to reach the Point of the Raveline; which I al&s;o did about the two Ba&s;tions they had attaqued, toward which the Enemy have not yet advanced any thing, keeping them&s;elves &s;till at the Foot of the Counter&s;carp. They made a de&s;cent on the 14th in&s;tant into the Ditch called <HI>Leb,</HI> lying before the <HI>Bastion,</HI> and the &s;ame night made another Lodg|ment in the Ditch, but &s;eeing that I could not very much incommode them neither by my Mu&s;queders not Cannon, they having buried them&s;elves over Head are Ears; I thought good to plant my Cannon again&s;t tho&s;e Moun|tains that &s;orrounded the Ditch, and at the &s;ame time made an Attaque upon them, and drove them from thence; but not having men enough the fir&s;t time to ruine their works, I made a &s;econd Attaque, and de&s;troyed them all, and having the wind favourable for us, we burnt their Gabions and a great part of their Gallery, &s;ince which time they never dur&s;t appear on that &s;ide the <HI>Raveline.</HI> On the 17th they endeavoured to &s;pring ano|ther Mine, but with no better &s;ucce&s;s then the former, for it blew up back|wards, and did little or no hurt to the <HI>Raveline,</HI> there is now already made in the middle of the <HI>Raveline</HI> a very good Retrenchment with a deep Ditch. The <HI>Ba&s;tions Leb</HI> and <HI>Delacour</HI> are al&s;o doubly retr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nched, and I am now b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ie at this very hour to make a Principal Retrenchment behind the two &s;aid <HI>Bastions;</HI> &s;o that your Highne&s;s &s;ees there is nothing wan ing in us to u&s;e all the precaution that can be expected from rational Men, for the pre|&s;ervation of the place, and I can a&s;&s;ure you, to render me worthy of the Con|fidence your Highne&s;s, and e&s;pecially his Imperial Maje&s;ty my Ma&s;ter, ground on my Services, I will never deliver up the Place, but with the la&s;t drop of my blo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d. Withall I find that our men are no ways dounted at the &s;ight of the Turks, who are ea&s;ily overcome, if attaqued with Courage, and God be thanked one of ours is able to beat ten of theirs. This day was brought to me a Janizary Pri&s;oner, who was taken in the <HI>Raveline,</HI> who among other things tells me, That they lo&s;t in the la&s;t attaque 11000 men, be&s;ides many Officers of the Janizaries, and the Ba&s;haws of <HI>Me&s;opotamia,</HI> and <HI>Albania;</HI> That they begin to be in want of Provi&s;ions both of Hor&s;e and Man, which they are forced to fetch from far; That they expect a Convoy from <HI>Ba&s;tedo</HI> with Ammunition, which if it could be met withall by the way, or that their Po ragers could be cut off, it would make them de&s;perate. God be thanked, as to my health, 'tis in a very good Condition again, having had the Bloody Flux for eight days together.</P>
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<P>The 19th of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1683. Since ye&s;terday (my Lord) the Enemy have cau&s;ed another Mine to be &s;prung in the <HI>Raveline,</HI> and made an A&s;&s;ault with about 1000 men, but our Cannon and our Mu&s;quetiers did &s;o warmly receive them, that 300 of them were killed upon the place, and forced them to con|tent them&s;elves to lodge upon a place called <HI>Berm,</HI> which I perceiving, cau&s;ed a Mine to be &s;prung this morning, which &s;oon di&s;lodged them, burying mo&s;t of them in the Ruines. I expect this very in&s;tant the like Regale from them, but if I can be ready &s;ooner than they, I will cau&s;e another to be &s;prung to the health of your Highne&s;s.</P>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-printed in the Year, 1683.</P>
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