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Their New City of +<i>Petersburgh</i> built by the present Czar, begins now to look +like our <i>Portsmouth</i>, fitted with Wet and Dry Docks, +Storehouses, and Magazines of Naval Preparations, vast and +Incredible; which may serve to remind us, how we once taught the +<i>French</i> to build Ships, till they are grown able to teach us +how to use them.</p> + +<p>As to Trade, our large Fleets to <i>Arch-Angel</i> may speak for +it, where we now send 100 Sail yearly, instead of 8 or 9, which +were the greatest number we ever sent before; and the Importation +of Tobaccoes from <i>England</i> into his Dominions, would still +increase the Trade thither, was not the Covetousness of our own +Merchants the Obstruction of their Advantages. But all this by the +by.</p> + +<p>As this great Monarch has Improved his Country, by introducing +the Manners and Customs of the Politer Nations of <i>Europe</i>; +so, with Indefatigable Industry, he has settled a new, but constant +Trade, between his Country and <i>China</i>, by Land; where his +Carravans go twice or thrice a Year, as Numerous almost, and as +strong, as those from <i>Egypt</i> to <i>Persia:</i> Nor is the Way +shorter, or the Desarts they pass over less wild and uninhabitable, +only that they are not so subject to Flouds of Sand, <i>if that +Term be proper</i>, or to Troops of <i>Arabs</i>, to destroy them +by the way; for this powerful Prince, to make this terrible Journey +feazible to his Subjects, has built Forts, planted Collonies and +Garisons at proper Distances; where, though they are seated in +Countries intirely Barren, and among uninhabited Rocks and Sands; +yet, by his continual furnishing them from his own Stores, the +Merchants travelling are reliev'd on good Terms, and meet both with +Convoy and Refreshment.</p> + +<p>More might be said of the admirable Decorations of this Journey, +and how so prodigious an Attempt is made easy; so that now they +have an exact Correspondence, and drive a prodigious Trade between +<i>Muscow</i> and <i>Tonquin</i>; but having a longer Voyage in +Hand, I shall not detain the Reader, nor keep him till he grows too +big with Expectation.</p> + +<p>Now, as all Men know the <i>Chineses</i> are an Ancient, Wise, +Polite, and most Ingenious People; so the <i>Muscovites</i> begun +to reap the Benefit of this open Trade; and not only to grow +exceeding Rich by the bartering for all the Wealth of those Eastern +Countries; but to polish and refine their Customs and Manners, as +much on that side as they have from their <i>European</i> +Improvements on this.</p> + +<p>And as the <i>Chineses</i> have many sorts of Learning which +these Parts of the World never heard of, so all those useful +Inventions which we admire ourselves so much for, are vulgar and +common with them, and were in use long before our Parts of the +World were Inhabited. Thus <i>Gun-powder</i>, <i>Printing</i>, and +the use of the <i>Magnet</i> and <i>Compass</i>, which we call +Modern Inventions, are not only far from being Inventions, but fall +so far short of the Perfection of Art they have attained to, that +it is hardly Credible, what wonderful things we are told of from +thence, and all the Voyages the Author has made thither being +imploy'd another way, have not yet furnish'd him with the +Particulars fully enough to transmit them to view; not but that he +is preparing a Scheme of all those excellent Arts those Nations are +Masters of, for publick View, by way of Detection of the monstrous +Ignorance and Deficiencies of <i>European</i> Science; which may +serve as a <i>Lexicon Technicum</i> for this present Age, with +useful Diagrams for that purpose; wherein I shall not fail to +acqaint the World, 1. With the Art +of <i>Gunnery</i>, as Practis'd in <i>China</i> long before the War +of the <i>Giants</i>, and by which those Presumptuous Animals fired +Red-hot Bullets right up into Heaven, and made a Breach sufficient +to encourage them to a General Storm; but being Repulsed with great +Slaughter, they gave over the Siege for that time. This memorable +part of History shall be a faithful Abridgement of <i>Ibra +chizra-le-peglizar, Historiagrapher-Royal</i> to the Emperor of +<i>China</i>, who wrote <i>Anno Mundi</i> 114. his Volumes extant, +in the Publick Library at <i>Tonquin</i>, Printed in Leaves of +Vitrify'd Diamond, by an admirable Dexterity, struck all at an +oblique Motion, the Engine remaining intire, and still fit for use, +in the Chamber of the Emperor's Rarities.</p> + +<p>And here I shall give you a Draft of the Engine it self, and a +Plan of its Operation, and the wonderful Dexterity of its +Performance.</p> + +<p>If these Labours of mine shall prove successful, I may in my +next Journey that way, take an Abstract of their most admirable +Tracts in Navigation, and the Mysteries of <i>Chinese</i> +Mathematicks; which out-do all Modern Invention at that Rate, that +'tis Inconceivable: In this Elaborate Work I must run thro' the 365 +Volumes of <i>Augro-machi-lanquaro-zi</i>, the most ancient +Mathematician in all <i>China</i>: From thence I shall give a +Description of a Fleet of Ships of 100000 Sail, built at the +Expence of the Emperor <i>Tangro</i> the 15th; who having Notice of +the General Deluge, prepar'd these Vessels, to every City and Town +in his Dominions One, and in Bulk proportion'd to the number of its +Inhabitants; into which Vessel all the People, with such Moveables +as they thought fit to save, and with 120 Days Provisions, were +receiv'd at the time of the Floud; and the rest of their Goods +being put into great Vessels made of <i>China</i> Ware, and fast +luted down on the top, were preserv'd unhurt by the Water: These +Ships they furnish'd with 600 Fathom of Chain instead of Cables; +which being fastned by wonderful Arts to the Earth, every Vessel +rid out the Deluge just at the Town's end; so that when the Waters +abated, the People had nothing to do, but to open the Doors made in +the Ship-sides, and come out, repair their Houses, open the great +<i>China</i> Pots their Goods were in, and so put themselves in +<i>Statu Quo</i>.</p> + +<p>The Draft of one of these Ships I may perhaps obtain by my +Interest in the present Emperor's Court, as it has been preserv'd +ever since, and constantly repair'd, riding at Anchor in a great +Lake, about 100 Miles from <i>Tonquin</i>; in which all the People +of that City were preferv'd, amounting by their Computation to +about a Million and half.</p> + +<p>And as these things must be very useful in these Parts, to abate +the Pride and Arrogance of our Modern Undertakers of great +Enterprizes, Authors of strange Foreign Accounts, Philosophical +Transactions, and the like; if Time and Opportunity permit, I may +let them know, how Infinitely we are out-done by those refined +Nations, in all manner of Mechanick Improvements and Arts; and in +discoursing of this, it will necessarily come in my way to speak of +a most Noble Invention, being an Engine I would recommend to all +People to whom <i>'tis necessary to have a good Memory</i>; and +which I design, if possible, to obtain a Draft of, that it may be +Erected in our Royal Societies Laboratory: It has the wonderfullest +Operations in the World: One part of it furnishes a Man of Business +to dispatch his Affairs strangely; for if he be a Merchant, he +shall write his Letters with one Hand, and Copy them with the +other; if he is posting his Books, he shall post the Debtor side +with one Hand, and the Creditor with the other; if he be a Lawyer, +he draws his Drafts with one Hand, and Ingrosses them with the +other.</p> + +<p>Another part of it furnishes him with such an Expeditious way of +Writing, or Transcribing, that a Man cannot speak so fast, but he +that hears shall have it down in Writing before 'tis spoken; and a +Preacher shall deliver himself to his Auditory, and having this +Engine before him, shall put down every thing he says in Writing at +the same time; and so exactly is this Engine squar'd by Lines and +Rules, that it does not require him that Writes to keep his Eye +upon it.</p> + +<p>I am told, in some Parts of <i>China</i>, they had arriv'd to +such a Perfection of Knowledge, as to understand one anothers +Thoughts; and that it was found to be an excellent Preservative to +humane Society, against all sorts of Frauds, Cheats, Sharping, and +many Thousand <i>European</i> Inventions of that Nature, <i>at +which only we can be said to out-do those Nations</i>.</p> + +<p>I confess, I have not yet had leisure to travel those Parts, +having been diverted by an accidental Opportunity of a new Voyage I +had occasion to make for farther Discoveries, and which the +Pleasure and Usefulness thereof having been very great, I have +omitted the other for the present, but shall not fail to make a +Visit to those Parts the first Opportunity, and shall give my +Country-men the best Account I can of those things; for I doubt not +in Time to bring our Nation, so fam'd for improving other People's +Discoveries, to be as wise as any of those Heathen Nations; I wish +I had the same Prospect of making them half so honest.</p> + +<p>I had spent but a few Months in this Country, but my search +after the Prodigy of humane Knowledge the People abounds with, led +me into Acquaintance with some of their principal Artists, +Engineers, and Men of Letters; and I was astonish'd at every Day's +Discovery of new and of unheard-of Worlds of Learning; but I +Improv'd in the Superficial Knowledge of their General, by no body +so much as by my Conversation with the Library-keeper of +<i>Tonquin</i>, by whom I had Admission into the vast Collection of +Books, which the Emperors of that Country have treasur'd up.</p> + +<p>It would be endless to give you a Catalogue, and they admit of +no Strangers to write any thing down, but what the Memory can +retain, you are welcome to carry away with you; and amongst the +wonderful Volumes of Antient and Modern Learning, I could not but +take Notice of a few; which, besides those I mentioned before, I +saw, when I lookt over this vast Collection; and a larger Account +may be given in our next.</p> + +<p>It would be needless to Transcribe the <i>Chinese</i> Character, +or to put their Alphabet into our Letters, because the Words would +be both Unintelligible, and very hard to Pronounce; and therefore, +to avoid hard Words, and Hyroglyphicks, I'll translate them as well +as I can.</p> + +<p>The first Class I came to of Books, was the Constitutions of the +Empire; these are vast great Volumes, and have a sort of Engine +like our <i>Magna Charta</i>, to remove 'em, and with placing them +in a Frame, by turning a Screw, open'd the Leaves, and folded them +this way, or that, as the Reader desires. It was present Death for +the Library-keeper to refuse the meanest <i>Chinese</i> Subject to +come in and read them; for 'tis their Maxim, <i>That all People +ought to know the Laws by which they are to be govern'd</i>; and as +above all People, we find no Fools in this Country, so the +Emperors, though they seem to be Arbitrary, enjoy the greatest +Authority in the World, by always observing, with the greatest +Exactness, the <i>Pacta Conventa</i> of their Government: From +these Principles it is impossible we should ever hear, either of +the Tyranny of Princes, or Rebellion of Subjects, in all their +Histories.</p> + +<p>At the Entrance into this Class, you find some Ancient Comments, +upon the Constitution of the Empire, written many Ages before we +pretend the World began; but above all, One I took particular +notice of, which might bear this Title, <i>Natural Right prov'd +Superior to Temporal Power</i>; wherein the old Author proves, the +<i>Chinese</i> Emperors were Originally made so, by Nature's +directing the People, to place the Power of Government in the most +worthy Person they could find; and the Author giving a most exact +History of 2000 Emperors, brings them into about 35 or 36 Periods +of Lines when the Race ended; and when a Collective Assembly of the +Nobles, Cities, and People, Nominated a new Family to the +Goverment.</p> + +<p>This being an heretical Book as to <i>European</i> Politicks, +and our Learned Authors having long since exploded this Doctrine, +and prov'd that Kings and Emperors came down from Heaven with +Crowns on their Heads, and all their Subjects were born with +Saddles on their Backs; I thought fit to leave it where I found it, +least our excellent Tracts of Sir <i>Robert Filmer</i>, Dr. +<i>Hammond L...y</i>, <i>S....l</i>, and Others, who have so +learnedly treated of the more useful Doctrine of Passive Obedience, +Divine Right, <i>&c.</i> should be blasphem'd by the Mob, grow +into Contempt of the People; and they should take upon them to +question their Superiors for the Blood of <i>Algernon Sidney</i>, +and <i>Argyle</i>.</p> + +<p>For I take the Doctrines of Passive Obedience, <i>&c.</i> +among the States-men, to be like the Copernican System of the +Earths Motion among Philosophers; which, though it be contrary to +all antient Knowledge, and not capable of Demonstration, yet is +adher'd to in general, because by this they can better solve, and +give a more rational Account of several dark Phænomena in +Nature, than they could before.</p> + +<p>Thus our Modern States-men approve of this Scheme of Government; +not that it admits of any rational Defence, much less of +Demonstration, but because by this Method they can the better +explain, as well as defend, all Coertion in Cases invasive of +Natural Right, than they could before.</p> + +<p>Here I found two famous Volumes in Chyrurgery, being an exact +Description of the Circulation of the Blood, discovered long before +King <i>Solomon</i>'s Allegory of the Bucket's going to the Well; +with several curious Methods by which the Demonstration was to be +made so plain, as would make even the worthy Doctor <i>B------</i> +himself become a Convert to his own Eye-sight, make him damn his +own Elaborate Book, and think it worse Nonsence than ever the Town +had the Freedom to imagine.</p> + +<p>All our Philosophers are Fools, and their Transactions a parcel +of empty Stuff, to the Experiments of the Royal Societies in this +Country. Here I came to a Learned Tract of Winds, which outdoes +even the Sacred Text, and would make us believe it was not wrote to +those People; for they tell Folks whence it comes, and whither it +goes. There you have an Account how to make Glasses of Hogs Eyes, +that can see the Wind; and they give strange Accounts both of its +regular and irregular Motions, its Compositions and Quantities; +from whence, by a sort of Algebra, they can cast up its Duration, +Violence, and Extent: In these Calculations, some say, those +Authors have been so exact, that they can, as our Philosophers say +of Comets, state their Revolutions, and tell us how many Storms +there shall happen to any Period of time, and when; and perhaps +this may be with much about the same Truth.</p> + +<p>It was a certain Sign <i>Aristotle</i> had never been at +<i>China</i>; for, had he seen the 216th Volume of the +<i>Chinese</i> Navigation, in the Library I am speaking of, a large +Book in Double Folio, wrote by the Famous +<i>Mira-cho-cho-lasmo</i>, Vice-Admiral of <i>China</i>, and said +to be printed there about 2000 Years before the Deluge, in the +Chapter of Tides he would have seen the Reason of all the certain +and uncertain Fluxes and Refluxes of that Element, how the exact +Pace is kept between the Moon and the Tides, with a most elaborate +Discourse there, of the Power of Sympathy, and the manner how the +heavenly Bodies Influence the Earthly: Had he seen this, the +<i>Stagyrite</i> would never have Drowned himself, because he could +not comprehend this Mystery.</p> + +<p>'Tis farther related of this Famous Author, that he was no +Native of this World, but was Born in the <i>Moon</i>, and coming +hither to make Discoveries, by a strange Invention arrived to by +the <i>Virtuosoes</i> of that habitable World, the Emperor of +<i>China</i> prevailed with him to stay and improve his Subjects, +in the most exquisite Accomplishments of those <i>Lunar</i> +Regions; and no wonder the <i>Chinese</i> are such exquisite +Artists, and Masters of such sublime Knowledge, when this Famous +Author has blest them with such unaccountable Methods of +Improvement.</p> + +<p>There was abundance of vast Classes full of the Works of this +wonderful Philosopher: He gave the <i>how</i>, the <i>modus</i> of +all the secret Operations of Nature; and told us, how Sensation is +convey'd to and from the Brain; why Respiration preserves Life; and +how Locomotion is directed to, as well as perform'd by the Parts. +There are some Anatomical Dissections of Thought, and a +Mathematical Description of Nature's strong Box, the Memory, with +all its Locks and Keys.</p> + +<p>There you have that part of the Head turn'd in-side outward, in +which Nature has placed the Materials of reflecting; and like a +<i>Glass Bee-hive</i>, represents to you all the several Cells in +which are lodg'd things past, even back to Infancy and Conception. +There you have the Repository, with all its Cells, Classically, +Annually, Numerically, and Alphabetically Dispos'd. There you may +see how, when the perplext Animal, on the loss of a Thought or +Word, <i>scratches his Pole:</i> Every Attack of his Invading +Fingers knocks at Nature's Door, allarms all the Register-keepers, +and away they run, unlock all the Classes, search diligently for +what he calls for, and immediately deliver it up to the Brain; if +it cannot be found, they intreat a <i>little Patience</i>, till +they step into the <i>Revolvary</i>, where they run over little +Catalogues of the minutest Passages of Life, and so in time never +fail to hand on the thing; if not just when he calls for it, yet at +some other time.</p> + +<p>And thus, when a thing lyes very Abstruse, and all the rumaging +of the whole House cannot find it; nay, when all the People in the +House have given it over, they very often find one thing when they +are looking for another.</p> + +<p>Next you have the <i>Retentive</i> in the remotest part of the +Place, which, like the Records in the Tower, takes Possession of +all Matters, as they are removed from the Classes in the +Repository, for want of room. These are carefully Lockt, and kept +safe, never to be open'd but upon solemn Occasions, and have +swinging great Bars and Bolts upon them; so that what is kept here, +is seldom lost. Here <i>Conscience</i> has one large Ware-house, +and the <i>Devil</i> another; the first is very seldom open'd, but +has a Chink or Till, where all the Follies and Crimes of Life being +minuted are dropt in; but as the Man seldom cares to look in, the +Locks are very Rusty, and not open'd but with great Difficulty, and +on extraordinary Occasions, as Sickness, Afflictions, Jails, +Casualties, and Death; and then the Bars all give way at once; and +being prest from within with a more than ordinary Weight, burst as +a Cask of Wine upon the Fret, which for want of Vent, makes all the +Hoops fly.</p> + +<p>As for the <i>Devil</i>'s Ware-house, he has two constant +Warehouse-keepers, <i>Pride</i> and <i>Conceit</i>, and these are +always at the Door, showing their Wares, and exposing the pretended +Vertues and Accomplishments of the Man, by way of Ostentation.</p> + +<p>In the middle of this curious part of Nature, there is a clear +Thorough-fare, representing the World, through which so many +Thousand People pass so easily, and do so little worth taking +notice of, that 'tis for no manner of Signification to leave Word +they have been here. Thro' this <i>Opening</i> pass Millions of +things not worth remembring, and which the Register-Keepers, who +stand at the Doors of the Classes, as they go by, take no notice +of; such as Friendships, helps in Distress, Kindnesses in +Affliction, Voluntary Services, and all sorts of Importunate Merit; +things which being but Trifles in their own Nature, are made to be +forgotten.</p> + +<p>In another Angle is to be seen the <i>Memory's Garden</i>, in +which her most pleasant things are not only Deposited, but Planted, +Transplanted, Grafted, Inoculated, and obtain all possible +Propagation and Encrease; these are the most pleasant, delightful, +and agreeable things, call'd Envy, Slander, Revenge, Strife and +Malice, with the Additions of Ill-turns, Reproaches, and all manner +of Wrong; these are caressed in the Cabinet of the <i>Memory</i>, +with a World of Pleasure never let pass, and carefully Cultivated +with all imaginable Art.</p> + +<p>There are multitudes of Weeds, Toys, Chat, Story, Fiction, and +Lying, which in the great throng of passant Affairs, stop by the +way, and crowding up the Place, leave no room for their Betters +that come behind, which makes many a good Guess be put by, and left +to go clear thro' for want of Entertainment.</p> + +<p>There are a multitude of things very curious and observable, +concerning this little, but very accurate thing, called +<i>Memory</i>; but above all, I see nothing so very curious, as the +wonderful Art of <i>Wilful Forgetfulness</i>; and as 'tis a thing, +indeed, I never could find any Person compleatly Master of, it +pleased me very much, to find this Author has made a large Essay, +to prove there is really no such Power in Nature; and that the +Pretenders to it are all Impostors, and put a Banter upon the +World; for that it is impossible for any Man to oblige himself to +forget a thing, since he that can remember to forget, and at the +same time forget to remember, has an Art above the Devil.</p> + +<p>In his Laboratory you see <i>a Fancy</i> preserv'd <i>a la +Mummy</i>, several Thousand Years old; by examining which you may +perfectly discern, how Nature makes a Poet: Another you have taken +from a meer Natural, which discovers the Reasons of Nature's +Negative in the Case of humane Understanding; what Deprivation of +Parts She suffers, in the Composition of a Coxcomb; and with what +wonderful Art She prepares a Man to be a Fool.</p> + +<p>Here being the product of this Author's wonderful Skill, you +have the <i>Skeleton of a Wit</i>, with all the Readings of +Philosophy and Chyrurgery upon the Parts: Here you see all the +Lines Nature has drawn to form <i>a Genius</i>, how it performs, +and from what Principles.</p> + +<p>Also you are Instructed to know the true reason of the Affinity +between Poetry and Poverty; and that it is equally derived from +what's Natural and Intrinsick, as from Accident and Circumstance; +how the World being always full of Fools and Knaves, Wit is sure to +miss of a good Market; especially, if Wit and Truth happen to come +in Company; for the Fools don't understand it, and the Knaves can't +bear it.</p> + +<p>But still 'tis own'd, and is most apparent, there is something +also Natural in the Case too, since there are some particular +Vessels Nature thinks necessary, to the more exact Composition of +this nice thing call'd <i>a Wit</i>, which as they are, or are not +Interrupted in the peculiar Offices for which they are appointed, +are subject to various Distempers, and more particularly to +Effluxions and Vapour, <i>Diliriums</i> Giddiness of the Brain, and +<i>Lapsæ</i>, or <i>Looseness of the Tongue</i>; and as these +Distempers, occasion'd by the exceeding quantity of Volatiles, +Nature is obliged to make use of in the Composition, are hardly to +be avoided, the Disasters which generally they push the Animal +into, are as necessarily consequent to them as Night is to the +Setting of the <i>Sun</i>; and these are very many, as disobliging +Parents, who have frequently in this Country whipt their +<i>Sons</i> for making Verses; and here I could not but reflect how +useful a Discipline early Correction must be to a Poet; and how +easy the Town had been had <i>N---t</i>, <i>E---w</i>, <i>T. B--- +P---s</i>, <i>D-- S-- D---fy</i>, and an Hundred more of the +jingling Train of our modern Rhymers, been Whipt young, <i>very +young</i>, for Poetasting, they had never perhaps suckt in that +Venome of Ribaldry, which all the Satyr of the Age has never been +able to scourge out of them to this Day.</p> + +<p>The further fatal Consequences of these unhappy Defects in +Nature, where she has damn'd a Man to Wit and Rhyme, has been loss +of Inheritance, Parents being aggravated by the obstinate young +<i>Beaus</i>, resolving to be Wits in spight of Nature, the wiser +Head has been obliged to Confederate with Nature, and with-hold the +Birth-right of Brains, which otherwise the young Gentleman might +have enjoy'd, to the great support of his Family and Posterity. +Thus the famous <i>Waller</i>, <i>Denham</i>, <i>Dryden</i>, and +sundry Others, were oblig'd to condemn their Race to Lunacy and +Blockheadism, only to prevent the fatal Destruction of their +Families, and entailing the Plague of Wit and Weathercocks upon +their Posterity.</p> + +<p>The yet farther Extravagancies which naturally attend the +Mischief of <i>Wit</i>, are <i>Beau-ism</i>, <i>Dogmaticality</i>, +<i>Whimsification</i>, <i>Impudensity</i>, and various kinds of +<i>Fopperosities</i> (according to Mr. <i>Boyl</i>,) which issuing +out of the Brain, descend into all the Faculties, and branch +themselves by infinite Variety, into all the Actions of Life.</p> + +<p>These by Conseqence, Beggar the Head, the Tail, the Purse, and +the whole Man, till he becomes as poor and despicable as Negative +Nature can leave him, abandon'd of his Sense, his Manners, his +Modesty, and what's worse, his Money, having nothing left but his +Poetry, dies in a Ditch, or a Garret, <i>A-la-mode de Tom +Brown</i>, uttering Rhymes and Nonsence to the last Moment.</p> + +<p>In Pity to all my unhappy Brethren, who suffer under these +Inconveniencies, I cannot but leave it on Record, that they may not +be reproached with being Agents of their own Misfortunes, since I +assure them, Nature has form'd them with the very Necessity of +acting like Coxcombs, fixt upon them by the force of Organick +Consequences, and placed down at the very Original Effusion of that +fatal thing call'd <i>Wit</i>.</p> + +<p>Nor is the Discovery less wonderful than edifying, and no humane +Art on our side the World ever found out such a Sympathetick +Influence, between the Extreams of <i>Wit</i> and <i>Folly</i>, +till this great Lunarian Naturalist furnisht us with such +unheard-of Demonstrations.</p> + +<p>Nor is this all I learnt from him, tho' I cannot part with this, +till I have publisht a <i>Memento Mori</i>, and told 'em what I had +discovered of Nature in these remote Parts of the World, from +whence I take the Freedom to tell these Gentlemen, That if they +please to Travel to these distant Parts, and examine this great +Master of Nature's Secrets, they may every Man see what cross +Strokes Nature has struck, to finish and form every extravagant +Species of that Heterogenious Kind we call <i>Wit</i>.</p> + +<p>There <i>C--- S---</i> may be inform'd how he comes to be very +Witty, and a Mad-man all at once; and <i>P---r</i> may see, That +with less Brains and more <i>P--x</i> he is more a Wit and more a +Mad-man than the Coll. <i>Ad---son</i> may tell his Master my Lord +<i>----</i> the reason from Nature, why he would not take the +Court's Word, nor write the Poem call'd, <i>The Campaign</i>, till +he had 200 <i>l. per Annum</i> secur'd to him; since 'tis known +they have but one Author in the Nation that writes for 'em for +nothing, and he is labouring very hard to obtain the Title of +Blockhead, and not be paid for it: Here <i>D.</i> might understand, +how he came to be able to banter all Mankind, and yet all Mankind +be able to banter him; at the fame time our numerous throng of +<i>Parnassians</i> may see Reasons for the variety of the Negative +and Positive Blessings they enjoy; some for having Wit and no +Verse, some Verse and no Wit, some Mirth without Jest, some Jest +without Fore-cast, some Rhyme and no Jingle, some all Jingle and no +Rhyme, some Language without measure; some all Quantity and no +Cudence, some all Wit and no Sence, some all Sence and no Flame, +some Preach in Rhyme, some sing when they Preach, some all Song and +no Tune, some all Tune and no Song; all these Unaccountables have +their Originals, and can be answer'd for in unerring Nature, tho' +in our out-side Guesses we can say little to it. Here is to be +seen, why some are all Nature, some all Art; some beat Verse out of +the Twenty-four rough Letters, with Ten Hammers and Anvils to every +Line, and maul the Language as a <i>Swede</i> beats Stock-Fish; +Others <i>buff</i> Nature, and bully her out of whole Stanza's of +ready-made Lines at a time, carry all before them, and rumble like +distant Thunder in a black Cloud: Thus Degrees and Capacities are +fitted by Nature, according to Organick Efficacy; and the Reason +and Nature of Things are found in themselves: Had <i>D---y</i> seen +his own Draft by this Light of <i>Chinese</i> Knowledge, he might +have known he should be a Coxcomb without writing Twenty-two Plays, +to stand as so many Records against him. <i>Dryden</i> might have +told his Fate, that having his extraordinary Genius flung and +pitcht upon a Swivle, it would certainly turn round as fast as the +Times, and instruct him how to write Elegies to <i>O. C.</i> and +King <i>C.</i> the Second, with all the Coherence imaginable; how +to write <i>Religio Laicy</i>, and the <i>Hind</i> and +<i>Panther</i>, and yet be the same Man, every Day to change his +Principle, change his Religion, change his Coat, change his Master, +and yet never change his Nature.</p> + +<p>There are abundance of other Secrets in Nature discover'd in +relation to these things, too many to repeat, and yet too useful to +omit, as the reason why Phisicians are generally Atheists; and why +Atheists are universally Fools, and generally live to know it +themselves, the real Obstructions, which prevent fools being mad, +all the Natural Causes of Love, abundance of Demonstrations of the +Synonimous Nature of Love and Leachery, especially consider'd <i>a +la Modern</i>, with an absolute Specifick for the Frenzy of Love, +found out in the Constitution, Anglice, <i>a Halter</i>.</p> + +<p>It would be endless to reckon up the numerous Improvements, and +wonderful Discoveries this extraordinary Person has brought down, +and which are to be seen in his curious Chamber of Rarities.</p> + +<p>Particularly, a Map of <i>Parnassus</i>, with an exact +Delineation of all the Cells, Apartments, Palaces and Dungeons, of +that most famous Mountain; with a Description of its Heighth, and a +learned Dissertation, proving it to be the properest Place next to +the P---e House to take a Rise at, for a flight to the World in the +<i>Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>Also some Enquiries, whether <i>Noah</i>'s Ark did not first +rest upon it; and this might be one of the Summits of +<i>Ararat</i>, with some Confutations of the gross and palpable +Errors, which place this extraordinary Skill among the Mountains of +the <i>Moon</i> in <i>Africa</i>.</p> + +<p>Also you have here <i>a Muse calcin'd</i>, a little of the +Powder of which given to a Woman big with Child, if it be a Boy it +will be a Poet, if a Girl she'll be a Whore, if an Hermaphrodite it +will be Lunatick.</p> + +<p>Strange things, they tell us, have been done with this calcin'd +Womb of Imagination; if the Body it came from was a Lyrick Poet, +the Child will be a Beau, or a Beauty; if an Heroick Poet, he will +be a Bulley; if his Talent was Satyr, he'll be a Philosopher.</p> + +<p>Another Muse they tell us, they have dissolv'd into a Liquid, +and kept with wondrous Art, the Vertues of which are Soveraign +against Ideotism, Dullness, and all sorts of Lethargick Diseases; +but if given in too great a quantity, creates Poesy, Poverty, +Lunacy, and the Devil in the Head ever after.</p> + +<p>I confess, I always thought these Muses strange intoxicating +things, and have heard much talk of their Original, but never was +acquainted with their Vertue <i>a la Simple</i> before; however, I +would always advise People against too large a Dose of Wit, and +think the Physician must be a Mad-man that will venture to +prescribe it.</p> + +<p>As all these noble Acquirements came down with this wonderful +Man from the World in the <i>Moon</i>, it furnisht me with these +useful Observations.</p> + +<p>1. That Country must needs be a Place of strange Perfection, in +all parts of extraordinary Knowledge.</p> + +<p>2. How useful a thing it would be for most sorts of our People, +especially Statesmen, P----t-men, Convocation-men, Phylosophers, +Physicians, Quacks, Mountebanks, Stock-jobbers, and all the Mob of +the Nation's Civil or Ecclesiastical <i>Bone-setters</i>, together +with some Men of the Law, some of the Sword, and all of the Pen: I +say, how useful and improving a thing it must be to them, to take a +Journey up to the World in the <i>Moon</i>; but above all, how much +more beneficial it would be to them that stay'd behind.</p> + +<p>3. That it is not to be wonder'd at, why the <i>Chinese</i> +excell so much all these Parts of the World, since but for that +Knowledge which comes down to them from the World in the +<i>Moon</i>, they would be like other People.</p> + +<p>4. No Man need to Wonder at my exceeding desire to go up to the +World in the <i>Moon</i>, having heard of such extraordinary +Knowledge to be obtained there, since in the search of Knowledge +and Truth, wiser Men than I have taken as unwarrantable Flights, +and gone a great deal higher than the <i>Moon</i>, into a strange +Abbyss of dark <i>Phænomena</i>, which they neither could +make other People understand, nor ever rightly understood +themselves, witness <i>Malbranch</i>, Mr. <i>Lock</i>, +<i>Hobbs</i>, the Honourable <i>Boyle</i> and a great many others, +besides Messieurs <i>Norris</i>, <i>Asgil</i>, <i>Coward</i>, and +the <i>Tale of a Tub</i>.</p> + +<p>This great Searcher into Nature has, besides all this, left +wonderful Discoveries and Experiments behind him; but I was with +nothing more exceedingly diverted, than with his various Engines, +and curious Contrivances, to go to and from his own Native Country +the <i>Moon</i>. All our Mechanick Motions of Bishop +<i>Wilkins</i>, or the artificial Wings of the Learned +<i>Spaniard</i>, who could have taught God Almighty how to have +mended the Creation, are Fools to this Gentleman; and because no +Man in <i>China</i> has made more Voyages up into the <i>Moon</i> +than my self, I cannot but give you some Account of the easyness of +the Passage, as well as of the Country.</p> + +<p>Nor are his wonderful Tellescopes of a mean Quality, by which +such plain Discoveries are made, of the Lands and Seas in the +<i>Moon</i>, and in all the habitable Planets, that one may as +plainly fee what a Clock it is by one of the Dials in the +<i>Moon</i>, as if it were no farther off than +<i>Windsor-Castle</i>; and had he liv'd to finish the +Speaking-trumpet which he had contriv'd to convey Sound thither, +<i>Harlequin's Mock-Trumpet</i> had been a Fool to it; and it had +no doubt been an admirable Experiment, to have given us a general +Advantage from all their acquir'd Knowledge in those Regions, where +no doubt several useful Discoveries are daily made by the Men of +Thought for the Improvement of all sorts of humane Understanding, +and to have discoursed with them on those things, must have been +very pleasant, besides, its being very much to our particular +Advantage.</p> + +<p>I confess, I have thought it might have been very useful to this +Nation, to have brought so wonderful an Invention hither, and I was +once very desirous to have set up my rest here, and for the Benefit +of my Native Country, have made my self Master of these Engines, +that I might in due time have convey'd them to our Royal Society, +that once in 40 Years they might have been said to do something for +Publick Good; and that the Reputation and Usefulness of the <i>so +so's</i> might be recover'd in <i>England</i>; but being told that +in the Moon there were many of these Glasses to be had very cheap, +and I having declar'd my Resolution of undertaking a Voyage +thither, I deferred my Design, and shall defer my treating of them, +till I give some Account of my Arrival there.</p> + +<p>But above all his Inventions for making this Voyage, I saw none +more pleasant or profitable, than a certain Engine formed in the +shape of a Chariot, on the Backs of two vast Bodies with extended +Wings, which spread about 50 Yards in Breadth, compos'd of Feathers +so nicely put together, that no Air could pass; and as the Bodies +were made of <i>Lunar Earth</i> which would bear the Fire, the +Cavities were fill'd with an Ambient Flame, which fed on a certain +Spirit deposited in a proper quantity, to last out the Voyage; and +this Fire so order'd as to move about such Springs and Wheels as +kept the Wings in a most exact and regular Motion, always +ascendant; thus the Person being placed in this airy Chariot, +drinks a certain dozing Draught, that throws him into a gentle +Slumber, and Dreaming all the way, never wakes till he comes to his +Journey's end.</p> +<p align="center"><i>Of the</i> Consolidator.</p> + +<p>These Engines are call'd in their Country Language, +<i>Dupekasses</i>; and according to the Ancient <i>Chinese</i>, or +<i>Tartarian</i>, <i>Apezolanthukanistes</i>; in <i>English</i>, a +<i>Consolidator</i>.</p> + +<p>The Composition of this Engine is very admirable; for, as is +before noted, 'tis all made up of Feathers, and the quality of the +Feathers, is no less wonderful than their Composition; and +therefore, I hope the Reader will bear with the Description for the +sake of the Novelty, since I assure him such things as these are +not to be seen in every Country.</p> + +<p>The number of Feathers are just 513, they are all of a length +and breadth exactly, which is absolutely necessary to the +<i>floating Figure</i>, or else one side or any one part being +wider or longer than the rest, it would interrupt the motion of the +whole Engine; only there is one extraordinary Feather which, as +there is an odd one in the number, is placed in the Center, and is +the Handle, or rather Rudder to the whole Machine: This Feather is +every way larger than its Fellows, 'tis almost as long and broad +again; but above all, its Quill or Head is much larger, and it has +<i>as it were</i> several small bushing Feathers round the bottom +of it, which all make but one presiding or superintendent Feather, +to guide, regulate, and pilot the whole Body.</p> + +<p>Nor are these common Feathers, but they are pickt and cull'd out +of all parts of the Lunar Country, by the Command of the Prince; +and every Province sends up the best they can find, <i>or ought to +do so at least</i>, or else they are very much to blame; for the +Employment they are put to being of so great use to the Publick, +and the Voyage or Flight so exceeding high, it would be very ill +done if, when the King sends his Letters about the Nation, to pick +him up the best Feathers they can lay their Hands on, they should +send weak, decay'd, or half-grown Feathers, and yet sometimes it +happens so; and once there was such rotten Feathers collected, +whether it was a bad Year for Feathers, or whether the People that +gather'd them had a mind to abuse their King; but the Feathers were +so bad, the Engine was good for nothing, but broke before it was +got half way; and by a double Misfortune, this happen'd to be at an +unlucky time, when the King himself had resolv'd on a Voyage, or +Flight to to the <i>Moon</i>; but being deceiv'd, by the unhappy +Miscarriage of the deficient Feathers, he fell down from so great a +height, that he struck himself against his own Palace, and beat his +Head off.</p> + +<p>Nor had the Sons of this Prince much better Success, tho' the +first of them was a Prince mightily belov'd by his Subjects; but +his Misfortunes chiefly proceeded from his having made use of one +of the Engines so very long, that the Feathers were quite worn out, +and good for nothing: He used to make a great many Voyages and +Flights into the <i>Moon</i>, and then would make his Subjects give +him great Sums of Money to come down to them again; and yet they +were so fond of him, That they always complyed with him, and would +give him every thing he askt, rather than to be without him: <i>But +they grew wiser since</i>.</p> + +<p>At last, this Prince used his Engine so long, it could hold +together no longer; and being obliged to write to his Subjects to +pick him out some new Feathers, <i>they did so</i>; but withall +sent him such <i>strong</i> Feathers, and so <i>stiff</i>, that +when he had placed 'em in their proper places, and made a very +beautiful Engine, it was <i>too heavy for him to manage:</i> He +made a great many Essays at it, and had it placed on the top of an +old Idol Chappel, dedicated to an old <i>Bramyn</i> Saint of those +Countries, called, <i>Phantosteinaschap</i>; in <i>Latin</i>, +<i>chap. de Saint Stephano</i>; or in <i>English</i>, St. +<i>Stephen</i>'s: Here the Prince try'd all possible Contrivances, +and a vast deal of Money it cost him; but the Feathers were <i>so +stiff</i> they would not work, and <i>the Fire within</i> was so +choaked and smother'd with its <i>own Smoak</i>, for want of due +Vent and Circulation, that it <i>would not burn</i>; so he was +oblig'd to take it down again; and from thence he carried it to his +College of <i>Bramyn</i> Priests, and set it up in one of their +Publick Buildings: There he drew Circles of Ethicks and Politicks, +and fell to casting of Figures and Conjuring, but all would not do, +<i>the Feathers</i> could not be brought to move; and, indeed, I +have observ'd, That these Engines are seldom helpt by Art and +Contrivance; there is no way with them, but to have the People +spoke to, to get <i>good Feathers</i>; and they are easily placed, +and perform all the several Motions with the greatest Ease and +Accuracy imaginable; <i>but it must be all Nature</i>; any thing of +Force distorts and dislocates them, and the whole Order is spoiled; +and if there be but one Feather out of place, or pincht, or stands +wrong, <i>the D---l would not ride in the Chariot</i>.</p> + +<p>The Prince thus finding his Labour in vain, broke the Engine to +pieces, and sent his Subjects Word what bad Feathers they had sent +him: But the People, who knew it was his own want of Management, +and that the Feathers were good enough, only a little stiff at +first, and with good Usage would have been brought to be fit for +use, took it ill, and never would send him any other as long as he +liv'd: However, it had this good effect upon him, That he never +made any more Voyages to the <i>Moon</i> as long as he reign'd.</p> + +<p>His Brother succeeded him; and truly he was resolved upon a +Voyage to the <i>Moon</i>, as soon as ever he came to the Crown. He +had met with some unkind Usage from the Religious <i>Lunesses</i> +of his own Country; and he turn'd <i>Abogratziarian</i>, a zealous +fiery Sect something like our <i>Anti-every-body-arians</i> in +<i>England</i>. 'Tis confest, some of the <i>Bramyns</i> of his +Country were very false to him, put him upon several Ways of +extending his Power over his Subjects, contrary to the Customs of +the People, and contrary to his own Interest; and when the People +expressed their Dislike of it, he thought to have been supported by +those Clergy-men; but they failed him, and made good, that Old +<i>English</i> Verse;</p> + +<p><i>That Priests of all Religions are the same</i>.</p> + +<p>He took this so hainously, that he conceiv'd a just Hatred +against those that had deceiv'd him; and as Resentments seldom keep +Rules, unhappily entertain'd Prejudices against all the rest; and +not finding it easy to bring all his Designs to pass better, he +resolved upon a Voyage to the <i>Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>Accordingly, he sends a Summons to all his People according to +Custom, to collect the usual quantity of Feathers for that purpose; +and because he would be sure not be used as his Brother and Father +had been, he took care to send certain Cunning-men Express, all +over the Country, to bespeak the People's Care, in collecting, +picking and culling them out, these were call'd in their Language, +<i>Tsopablesdetoo</i>; which being Translated may signify in +<i>English</i>, <i>Men of Zeal</i>, or <i>Booted Apostles</i>: Nor +was this the only Caution this Prince used; for he took care, as +the Feathers were sent up to him, to search and examine them one by +one in his own Closet, to see if they were fit for his purpose; +but, alas! he found himself in his Brother's Case exactly; and +perceived, That his Subjects were generally disgusted at his former +Conduct, about <i>Abrogratzianism</i>, and such things, and +particularly set in a Flame by some of their Priests, call'd, +<i>Dullobardians</i>, or <i>Passive-Obedience-men</i>, who had +lately turn'd their Tale, and their Tail too upon their own +Princes; and upon this, he laid aside any more Thoughts of the +Engine, but took up a desperate and implacable Resolution, +<i>viz.</i> to fly up to the Moon without it; in order to this, +abundance of his Cunning-men were summon'd together to assist him, +strange Engines contriv'd, and Methods propos'd; and a great many +came from all Parts, to furnish him with Inventions and equivalent +for their Journey; but all were so preposterous and ridiculous, +that his Subjects seeing him going on to ruin himself, and by +Consequence them too, unanimously took Arms; and if their Prince +had not made his Escape into a foreign Country, 'tis thought they +would have secur'd him <i>for a Mad-man</i>.</p> + +<p>And here 'tis observable, That as it is in most such Cases, the +mad Councellors of this Prince, when the People begun to gather +about him, fled; and every one shifted for themselves; nay, and +some of them plunder'd him first of his Jewels and Treasure, and +never were heard of since.</p> + +<p>From this Prince none of the Kings or Government of that Country +have ever seem'd to incline to the hazardous Attempt of the Voyage +to the <i>Moon</i>, at least not in such a hair-brain'd manner.</p> + +<p>However, the Engine has been very accurately Re-built and +finish'd; and the People are now oblig'd by a Law, to send up new +Feathers every three Years, to prevent the Mischiefs which happen'd +by that Prince aforesaid, keeping one Set so long that it was +dangerous to venture with them; and thus the Engine is preserved +fit for use.</p> + +<p>And yet has not this Engine been without its continual +Disasters, and often out of repair; for though the Kings of the +Country, as has been Noted, have done riding on the back of it, yet +the <i>restless</i> Courtiers and Ministers of State have +frequently obtained the Management of it, from the too easy +Goodness of their Masters, or the Evils of the Times.</p> + +<p>To Cure this, the Princes frequently chang'd Hands, turn'd one +Set of Men out and put another in: But this made things still +worse; for it divided the People into Parties and Factions in the +State, and still the Strife was, who should ride in this Engine; +and no sooner were these <i>Skaet-Riders</i> got into it, but they +were for <i>driving all the Nation up to the Moon</i>: But of this +by it self.</p> + +<p>Authors differ concerning the Original of these Feathers, and by +what most exact Hand they were first appointed to this particular +use; and as their Original is hard to be found, so it seems a +Difficulty to resolve from what sort of Bird these Feathers are +obtained: Some have nam'd one, some another; but the most Learned +in those Climates call it by a hard Word, which the Printer having +no Letters to express, and being in that place Hierogliphical, I +can translate no better, than by the Name of a <i>Collective:</i> +This must be a Strange Bird without doubt; it has Heads, Claws, +Eyes and Teeth innumerable; and if I should go about to describe it +to you, the History would be so Romantick, it would spoil the +Credit of these more Authentick Relations which are yet behind.</p> + +<p>'Tis sufficient, therefore, for the present, only to leave you +this short Abridgement of the Story, as follows: This great +Monstrous Bird, call'd the <i>Collective</i>, is very seldom seen, +and indeed never, but upon <i>Great Revolutions</i>, and portending +terrible Desolations and Destructions to a Country.</p> + +<p>But he frequently sheds his Feathers; and they are carefully +pickt up, by the <i>Proprietors</i> of those Lands where they fall; +for <i>none but those Proprietors may</i> meddle with them; and +they no sooner pick them up but they are sent to Court, where they +obtain a new Name, and are called in a Word equally difficult to +pronounce as the other, but Very like our <i>English</i> Word, +<i>Representative</i>; and being placed in their proper Rows, with +the <i>Great Feather</i> in the Center, and fitted for use, they +lately obtained the Venerable Title of, <i>The Consolidators</i>; +and the Machine it self, the <i>Consolidator</i>; and by that Name +the Reader is desir'd for the future to let it be dignified and +distinguish'd.</p> + +<p>I cannot, however, forbear to descant a little here, on the +Dignity and Beauty of these Feathers, being such as are hardly to +be seen in any part of the World, but just in these remote +Climates.</p> + +<p>And First, Every Feather has various Colours, and according to +the Variety of the Weather, are apt to look brighter and clearer, +or paler and fainter, as the <i>Sun</i> happens to look on them +with a stronger or weaker Aspect. The Quill or Head of every +Feather is <i>or ought to be</i> full of a vigorous Substance, +which gives Spirit, and supports the brightness and colour of the +Feather; and as this is more or less in quantity, the bright Colour +of the Feather is increased, or turns languid and pale.</p> + +<p>Tis true, some of those Quills are exceeding empty and dry; and +the Humid being totally exhal'd, those Feathers grow very useless +and insignificant in a short time.</p> + +<p>Some again are so full of Wind, and puft up with the Vapour of +the Climate, that there's not Humid enough to Condence the Steam; +and these are so fleet, so light, and so continually fluttering and +troublesome, that they greatly serve to disturb and keep the Motion +unsteddy.</p> + +<p>Others either placed too near the inward concealed Fire, or the +Head of the Quill being thin, the Fire causes too great a +Fermentation; and the Consequence of this is so fatal, that +sometimes it mounts the Engine up too fast, and indangers +Precipitation: But 'tis happily observed, That these ill Feathers +are but a very few, compar'd to the whole number; at the most, I +never heard they were above 134 of the whole number: As for the +empty ones, they are not very dangerous, but a sort of +<i>Good-for-nothing Feathers</i>, that will fly when the greatest +number of the rest fly, or stand still when they stand still. The +fluttering hot-headed Feathers are the most dangerous, and +frequently struggle hard to mount the Engine to extravagant +heights; but still the greater number of the Feathers being stanch, +and well fixt, as well as well furnisht, they always prevail, and +check the Disorders the other would bring upon the Motion; so that +upon the whole Matter, tho' there has sometims been oblique +Motions, Variations, and sometimes great Wandrings out of the way, +which may make the Passage tedious, yet it has always been a +certain and safe Voyage; and no Engine was ever known to miscarry +or overthrow, but that one mentioned before, and that was very much +owing to the precipitate Methods the Prince took in guiding it; and +tho' all the fault was laid in the Feathers, <i>and they were to +blame enough</i>, yet I never heard any Wise Man, but what blam'd +his Discretion, and particularly, a certain great Man has wrote +three large Tracts of those Affairs, and call'd them, <i>The +History of the Opposition of the Feathers</i>; wherein, tho' it was +expected he would have curst the Engine it self and all the +Feathers to the Devil, on the contrary, he lays equal blame on the +Prince, who guided the Chariot with so unsteddy a hand, now as much +too slack, as then too hard, turning them this way and that so +hastily, that the Feathers could not move in their proper order; +and this at last put the Fire in the Center quite out, and so the +Engine over-set at once. This Impartiality has done great Justice +to the Feathers, and set things in a clearer light: But of this I +shall say more, when I come to treat of the <i>Works of the +Learned</i> in this Lunar World.</p> + +<p>This is hinted here only to inform the Reader, That this Engine +is the safest Passage that ever was found out; and that saving that +one time, it never miscarried; nor if the common Order of things be +observed, cannot Miscarry; for the good Feathers are always +<i>Negatives</i>, when any precipitant Motion is felt, and +immediately suppress it by their number; and these <i>Negative +Feathers</i> are indeed the Travellers safety; the other are always +upon the flutter, and upon every occasion <i>hey for the Moon</i>, +up in the Clouds presently; but these <i>Negative Feathers</i> are +never for going up, but when there is occasion for it; and from +hence these fluttering fermented Feathers were called by the +Antients <i>High-flying Feathers</i>, and the blustering things +seem'd proud of the Name.</p> + +<p>But to come to their general Character, the Feathers, speaking +of them all together, are generally very Comely, Strong, Large, +Beautiful things, their Quills or Heads well fixt, and the Cavities +fill'd with a solid substantial Matter, which tho' it is full of +Spirit, has a great deal of Temperament, and full of suitable +well-dispos'd Powers, to the Operation for which they are +design'd.</p> + +<p>These placed, as I Noted before, in an extended Form like two +great Wings, and operated by that sublime Flame; which being +concealed in proper Receptacles, obtains its vent at the Cavities +appointed, are supplied from thence with Life and Motion; and as +Fire it fell, in the Opinion of some Learned Men, is nothing but +Motion, and Motion tends to Fire: It can no more be a Wonder, if +exalted in the Center of this famous Engine, a whole Nation should +be carried up to the World in the <i>Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>'Tis true, this Engine is frequently assaulted with fierce +Winds, and furious Storms, which sometimes drive it a great way out +of its way; and indeed, considering the length of the Passage, and +the various Regions it goes through, it would be strange if it +should meet with no Obstructions: These are oblique Gales, and +cannot be said to blow from any of the Thirty-two Points, but +Retrograde and Thwart: Some of these are call'd in their Language, +<i>Pensionazima</i>, which is as much as to say, being Interpreted, +a <i>Court-breeze</i>; another sort of Wind, which generally blows +directly contrary to the <i>Pensionazima</i>, is the +<i>Clamorio</i>, or in <i>English</i>, a <i>Country Gale</i>; this +is generally Tempestuous, full of Gusts and Disgusts, Squauls and +sudden Blasts, not without claps of Thunder, and not a little +flashing of Heat and Party-fires.</p> + +<p>There are a great many other Internal Blasts, which proceed from +the Fire within, which sometimes not circulating right, breaks out +in little Gusts of Wind and Heat, and is apt to indanger setting +Fire to the Feathers, and this is more or less dangerous, according +as among which of the Feathers it happens; for some of the Feathers +are more apt to take Fire than others, as their Quills or Heads are +more or less full of that solid Matter mention'd before.</p> + +<p>The Engine suffers frequent Convulsions and Disorders from these +several Winds; and which if they chance to overblow very much, +hinder the Passage; but the Negative Feathers always apply Temper +and Moderation; and this brings all to rights again.</p> + +<p>For a Body like this, what can it not do? what cannot such an +Extension perform in the Air? And when one thing is tackt to +another, and properly <i>Cosolidated</i> into one mighty +<i>Consolidator</i>, no question but whoever shall go up to the +<i>Moon</i>, will find himself so improv'd in this wonderful +Experiment, that not a Man ever perform'd that wonderful Flight, +but he certainly came back again as wise as he went.</p> + +<p>Well, Gentlemen, and what if we are called <i>High-flyers</i> +now, and an Hundred Names of Contempt and Distinction, what is this +to the purpose? who would not be a <i>High-flyer</i>, to be Tackt +and <i>Consolidated</i> in an Engine of such sublime Elevation, and +which lifts Men, Monarchs, Members, yea, and whole Nations, up into +the Clouds; and performs with such wondrous Art, the long expected +Experiment of a Voyage to the <i>Moon</i>? And thus much for the +Description of the <i>Consolidator</i>.</p> + +<p>The first Voyage I ever made to this Country, was in one of +these Engines; and I can safely affirm, I never wak'd all the way; +and now having been as often there as most that have us'd that +Trade, it may be expected I should give some Account of the +Country; for it appears, I can give but little of the Road.</p> + +<p>Only this I understand, That when this Engine, by help of these +Artificial Wings, has raised it self up to a certain height, the +Wings are as useful to keep it from falling into the <i>Moon</i>, +as they were before to raise it, and keep it from falling back into +this Region again.</p> + +<p>This may happen from an Alteration of Centers, and Gravity +having past a certain Line, the Equipoise changes its Tendency, the +Magnetick Quality being beyond it, it inclines of Course, and +pursues a Center, which it finds in the <i>Lunar World</i>, and +lands us safe upon the Surface.</p> + +<p>I was told, I need take no Bills of Exchange with me, nor +Letters of Credit; for that upon my first Arrival, the Inhabitants +would be very civil to me: That they never suffered any of <i>Our +World</i> to want any thing when they came there: That they were +very free to show them any thing, and inform them in all needful +Cases; and that whatever Rarities the Country afforded, should be +expos'd immediately.</p> + +<p>I shall not enter into the Customs, Geography, or History of the +Place, only acquaint the Reader, That I found no manner of +Difference in any thing Natural, except as hereafter excepted, but +all was exactly as is here, an Elementary World, peopled with +Folks, <i>as like us</i> as if they were only Inhabitants of the +same Continent, but in a remote Climate.</p> + +<p>The Inhabitants were <i>Men</i>, <i>Women</i>, <i>Beasts</i>, +<i>Birds</i>, <i>Fishes</i>, and <i>Insects</i>, of the same +individual Species as Ours, the latter excepted: The <i>Men</i> no +wiser, better, nor bigger than here; the <i>Women</i> no handsomer +or honester than Ours: There were Knaves and honest Men, honest +Women and Whores of all Sorts, Countries, Nations and Kindreds, as +on this side the Skies.</p> + +<p>They had the same Sun to shine, the Planets were equally visible +<i>as to us</i>, and <i>their Astrologers</i> were as busily +Impertinent as Ours, only that those wonderful Glasses hinted +before made strange Discoveries that we were unacquainted with; by +them they could plainly discover, That <i>this</i> World was +<i>their</i> Moon, and <i>their</i> World <i>our</i> Moon; and when +I came first among them, the People that flockt about me, +distinguisht me by the Name of, <i>the Man that came out of the +Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>I cannot, however, but acquaint the Reader, with some Remarks I +made in this new World, before I come to any thing Historical.</p> + +<p>I have heard, that among the Generallity of our People, who +being not much addicted to Revelation, have much concern'd +themselves about Demonstrations, a Generation have risen up, who to +solve the Difficulties of Supernatural Systems, imagine <i>a mighty +vast Something</i>, who has no Form but what represents him to them +as one <i>Great Eye:</i> This infinite Optick they imagine to be +<i>Natura Naturans</i>, or Power-forming; and that as we pretend +the Soul of Man has a Similitude in quality to its Original, +according to a Notion some People have, who read that so much +ridicul'd Old Legend, call'd <i>Bible</i>, That <i>Man was made in +the Image of his Maker:</i> The Soul of Man, therefore, in the +Opinion of these Naturallists, is <i>one vast Optick Power</i> +diffus'd through him into all his Parts, but seated principally in +his Head.</p> + +<p>From hence they resolve all Beings to <i>Eyes</i>, some more +capable of Sight and receptive of Objects than others; and as to +things Invisible, they reckon nothing so, only so far as our Sight +is deficient, contracted or darkened by Accidents from without, as +Distance of Place, Interposition of Vapours, Clouds, liquid Air, +Exhalations, <i>&c.</i> or from within, as <i>wandring +Errors</i>, <i>wild Notions</i>, <i>cloudy Understandings</i>, and +<i>empty Fancies</i>, with a Thousand other interposing Obstacles +to the Sight, which darken it, and prevent its Operation; and +particularly obstruct the perceptive Faculties, weaken the Head, +and bring Mankind in General to stand in need of the <i>Spectacles +of Education</i> as soon as ever they are born: Nay, and as soon as +they have made use of these Artificial Eyes, all they can do is but +to clear the Sight so far as <i>to see</i> that <i>they can't +see</i>; the utmost Wisdom of Mankind, and the highest Improvement +a Man ought to wish for, being but to be able to see that <i>he was +Born blind</i>; this pushes him upon search after Mediums for the +Recovery of his Sight, and <i>away he runs to School</i> to Art and +Science, and there he is furnisht with <i>Horoscopes</i>, +<i>Microscopes</i>, <i>Tellescopes</i>, <i>Cæliscopes</i>, +<i>Money-scopes</i>, and the D---l and and all of Glasses, to help +and assist his <i>Moon-blind Understanding</i>; these with +wonderful Skill and Ages of Application, after wandring thro' Bogs +and Wildernesses of <i>Guess</i>, <i>Conjectures</i>, +<i>Supposes</i>, <i>Calculations</i>, and he knows not what, which +he meets with in <i>Physicks</i>, <i>Politicks</i>, <i>Ethicks</i>, +<i>Astronomy</i>, <i>Mathematicks</i>, and such sort of bewildring +Things, bring him with vast Difficulty to a little Minute-spot, +call'd <i>Demonstration</i>; and as not one in Ten Thousand ever +finds the way thither, but are lost in the tiresome uncouth +Journey, so they <i>that do</i>, 'tis so long before they come +there, that they are grown Old and good for little in the Journey; +and no sooner have they obtained a glimering of this Universal +<i>Eye-sight</i>, this <i>Eclaricissment General</i>, but they +<i>Die</i>, and have hardly time to show the way to those that come +after.</p> + +<p>Now, as the earnest search after this thing call'd +<i>Demonstration</i> fill'd me with Desires of seeing every thing, +so my Observations of the strange multitude of Mysteries I met with +in all Men's Actions here, spurr'd my Curiosity to examine, if +<i>the Great Eye</i> of the World had no People to whom he had +given a clearer Eye-sight, or at least, that made a better use of +it than we had here.</p> + +<p>If pursuing this search I was much delighted at my Arrival into +<i>China</i>, it cannot be thought strange, since there we find +Knowledge as much advanc'd beyond our common Pitch, as it was +pretended to be deriv'd from a more Ancient Original.</p> + +<p>We are told, that in the early Age of the World, the Strength of +Invention exceeded all that ever has been arrived to since: That we +in these latter Ages, having lost all that pristine Strength of +Reason and Invention, which died with the Ancients in the Flood, +and receiving no helps from that Age, have by long Search arriv'd +at several remote Parts of Knowledge, by the helps of reading +Conversation and Experience; but that all amounts to no more than +faint Imitations, Apings, and Resemblances of what was known in +those masterly Ages.</p> + +<p>Now, if it be true as is hinted before, That the <i>Chinese</i> +Empire was Peopled long before the Flood; and that they were not +destroyed in the General Deluge in the Days of <i>Noah</i>; 'tis no +such strange thing, that they should so much out-do us in this sort +of <i>Eye-sight</i> we call <i>General Knowledge</i>, since the +Perfections bestow'd on Nature, when in her Youth and Prime met +with no General Suffocation by that Calamity.</p> + +<p>But if I was extreamly delighted with the extraordinary things I +saw in those Countries, you cannot but imagine I was exceedingly +mov'd, when I heard of a <i>Lunar</i> World; and that the way was +passable from these Parts.</p> + +<p>I had heard of a <i>World in the Moon</i> among some of our +Learned Philosophers, and <i>Moor</i>, as I have been told, had +<i>a Moon</i> in his Head; but none of the fine Pretenders, no not +Bishop <i>Wilkins</i>, ever found Mechanick Engines, whose Motion +was sufficient to attempt the Passage. A late happy Author indeed, +among his Mechanick Operations of the Spirit, had found out an +Enthusiasm, which if he could have pursued to its proper Extream, +without doubt might, <i>either in the Body or out of the Body</i>, +have Landed him somewhere hereabout; but that he form'd his System +wholly upon the mistaken Notion of <i>Wind</i>, which Learned +Hypothesis being directly contrary to the Nature of things in this +Climate, where the <i>Elasticity</i> of the Air is quite different +and where the <i>pressure of the Atmosphere</i> has for want of +Vapour no Force, all his Notion dissolv'd in its Native Vapour +call'd <i>Wind</i>, and flew upward in blew Strakes of a livid +Flame call'd <i>Blasphemy</i>, which burnt up all the Wit and Fancy +of the Author, and left a strange <i>stench</i> behind it, that has +this unhappy quality in it, that every Body that Reads the Book, +<i>smells the Author</i>, tho' he be never so far off; nay, tho' he +took Shipping to <i>Dublin</i>, to secure his Friends from the +least danger of a Conjecture.</p> + +<p>But to return, to the happy Regions of the <i>Lunar +Continent</i>, I was no sooner Landed there, and had lookt about +me, but I was surpriz'd with the strange Alteration of the Climate +and Country; and particularly a strange Salubrity and Fragrancy in +the Air, which I felt so Nourishing, so Pleasant and Delightful, +that tho' I could perceive some small Respiration, it was hardly +discernable, and the least requisite for Life, supplied so long +that the Bellows of Nature were hardly imployed.</p> + +<p>But as I shall take occasion to consider this in a Critical +Examination into the Nature, Uses and Advantages of <i>Good +Lungs</i>, of which by it self, so I think fit to confine my +present Observations to things more particularly concerning the +<i>Eye-sight</i>.</p> + +<p>I was, you may be sure, not a little surprized, when being upon +an Eminence I found my self capable by common Observation, to see +and distinguish things at the distance of 100 Miles and more, and +seeking some Information on this point, I was acquainted by the +People, that there was <i>a certain grave Philosopher</i> hard by, +that could give me a very good Account of things.</p> + +<p>It is not worth while to tell you this Man's <i>Lunar Name</i>, +of whether he had a Name, or no; 'tis plain, 'twas a <i>Man in the +Moon</i>; but all the Conference I had with him was very strange: +At my first coming to him, he askt me if I came from the <i>World +in the Moon</i>? I told him, <i>no:</i> At which he began to be +angry, told me <i>I Ly'd</i>, he knew whence I came as well as I +did; for he saw me all the way. I told him, I came <i>to the World +in the Moon</i>, and began to be as surly as he. It was a long time +before we could agree about it, he would have it, that I came down +from <i>the Moon</i>; and I, that I came <i>up to the Moon:</i> +From this, we came to Explications, Demonstrations, Spheres, +Globes, Regions, Atmospheres, and a Thousand odd Diagrams, to make +the thing out to one another. I insisted on my part, as that my +Experiment qualified me to know, and challeng'd him to <i>go back +with me</i> to prove it. He, like a true Philosopher, raised a +Thousand Scruples, Conjectures, and Spherical Problems, to Confront +me; and as for Demonstrations, he call'd 'em Fancies of my own. +Thus we differ'd a great many ways; both of us were certain, and +both uncertain; both right, and yet both directly contrary; how to +reconcile this Jangle was very hard, till at last this +Demonstration happen'd, the Moon as he call'd it, turning her +blind-side upon us three Days after the Change, by which, with the +help of his extraordinary Glasses, I that knew the Country, +perceived that side the <i>Sun</i> lookt upon was <i>all Moon</i>, +and the other was <i>all world</i>; and either I fancy'd I saw or +else really saw all the lofty Towers of the Immense Cities of +<i>China:</i> Upon this, and a little more Debate, we came to this +Conclusion, and there the Old Man and I agreed, That they were +<i>both Moons</i> and <i>both Worlds</i>, this <i>a Moon</i> to +that, and that <i>a Moon</i> to this, like the Sun between two +Looking-Glasses, and shone upon one another by Reflection, +according to the oblique or direct Position of each other.</p> + +<p>This afforded us a great deal of Pleasure; for all the World +covet to be found in the right, and are pleas'd when their Notions +are acknowledg'd by their Antagonists: It also afforded us many +very useful Speculations, such as these;</p> + +<p>1. How easy it is for Men to <i>fall out</i>, and yet all sides +to be in the <i>right?</i></p> + +<p>2. How Natural it is for <i>Opinion</i> to despise +<i>Demonstration?</i></p> + +<p>3. How proper mutual <i>Enquiry</i> is to mutual +<i>Satisfaction?</i></p> + +<p>From the Observation of these Glasses, we also drew some +<i>Puns</i>, <i>Crotchets</i> and <i>Conclusions</i>.</p> + +<p>1<i>st</i>, That the whole World has a <i>Blind-side</i>, a +<i>Dark-side</i>, and a <i>Bright-side</i>, and consequently so has +every Body in it.</p> + +<p>2<i>dly</i>, That the <i>Dark-side</i> of Affairs <i>to Day</i>, +may be the <i>Bright-side to Morrow</i>; from whence abundance of +useful Morals were also raised; such as,</p> + +<p>1. No Man's Fate is so dark, but when the <i>Sun</i> shines upon +it, it will return its Rays, and shine for it self.</p> + +<p>2. All things turn like the <i>Moon</i>, <i>up</i> to Day, +<i>down</i> to Morrow, <i>Full</i> and <i>Change</i>, <i>Flux</i> +and <i>Reflux</i>.</p> + +<p>3. Humane Understanding is like the <i>Moon</i> at the First +Quarter, <i>half dark</i>.</p> + +<p>3<i>dly</i>, The <i>Changing-sides</i> ought not to be thought +so strange, or so much Condemn'd by Mankind, having its Original +from the <i>Lunar Influence</i>, and govern'd by the Powerful +Operation of Heavenly Motion.</p> + +<p>4<i>thly</i>, If there be any such thing as Destiny in the +World, I know nothing Man is so predestinated to, as to be +eternally turning round; and but that I purpose to entertain the +Reader with at least a whole Chapter or Section of the Philosophy +of <i>Humane Motion</i>, Spherically and <i>Hypocritically +Examin'd</i> and <i>Calculated</i>, I should inlarge upon that +Thought in this place.</p> + +<p>Having thus jumpt in our Opinions, and perfectly satisfied our +selves with Demonstration, That these Worlds were Sisters, both in +Form, Function, and all their Capacities; in short, a pair of +<i>Moons</i>, and a pair of <i>Worlds</i>, equally Magnetical, +Sympathetical, and Influential, we set up our rest as to that +Affair, and went forward.</p> + +<p>I desir'd no better Acquaintance in my new Travels, than this +new Sociate; never was there such a Couple of People met; he was +the <i>Man in the Moon</i> to me, and I <i>the Man in the Moon</i> +to him; he wrote down all I said, and made a Book of it, and call'd +it, <i>News from the World in the</i> Moon; and all the Town is +like to see <i>my Minutes</i> under the same Title; nay, and I have +been told, he published some such bold Truths there, from the +Allegorical Relations he had of me from our World: That he was +call'd before the Publick Authority, who could not bear the just +Reflections of his <i>damn'd Satyrical way of Writing</i>; and +there they punisht the Poor Man, put him in Prison, ruin'd his +Family; and not only Fin'd him <i>Ultra tenementum</i>, but expos'd +him in the <i>high Places of their Capital City</i>, for the Mob to +laugh at him for a Fool: This is a Punishment not unlike <i>our +Pillory</i>, and was appointed for <i>mean Criminals</i>, Fellows +that Cheat and Couzen People, Forge Writings, Forswear themselves, +and the like; and the People, that it was expected would have +treated this Man very ill, on the contrary <i>Pitied him</i>, wisht +those that set him there placed in his room, and exprest their +Affections, by <i>loud Shouts</i> and Acclamations, when he was +taken down.</p> + +<p>But as this happen'd before my first Visit to that World, when I +came there all was over with him, his particular Enemies were +disgrac'd and turn'd out, and the Man was not at all the worse +receiv'd by his Country-folks than he was before; and so much for +the <i>Man in the</i> Moon.</p> + +<p>After we had settled the Debate between us, about the Nature and +Quality, I desir'd him to show me some Plan or Draft of <i>this new +World</i> of his; upon which, he brought me out a pair of very +beautiful Globes, and there I had an immediate Geographical +Description of the Place.</p> + +<p>I found it less by Degrees than Our <i>Terrestial Globe</i>, but +more Land and less Water; and as I was particularly concern'd to +see something in or near the same Climate with Our selves, I +observ'd a large extended Country to the North, about the Latitude +of 50 to 56 Northern Distance; and enquiring of that Country, he +told me it was one of the best Countries in all their World: That +it was his Native Climate, and he was just a going to it, and would +take me with him.</p> + +<p>He told me in General, the Country was Good, Wholsome, Fruitful, +rarely Scituate for Trade, extraordinarily Accommodated with +Harbours, Rivers and Bays for Shipping; full of Inhabitants; for it +had been Peopled from all Parts, and had in it some of the Blood of +all the Nations in the <i>Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>He told me, as the Inhabitants were the most Numerous, so they +were the strangest People that liv'd; both their Natures, Tempers, +Qualities, Actions, and way of Living, was made up of innumerable +Contradictions: That they were the <i>Wisest</i> Fools, and the +<i>Foolishest</i> Wise Men in the World; the <i>Weakest</i> +Strongest, <i>Richest</i> Poorest, most <i>Generous</i> Covetous, +<i>Bold</i> Cowardly, <i>False</i> Faithful, <i>Sober</i> +Dissolute, <i>Surly</i> Civil, <i>Slothful</i> Diligent, +<i>Peaceable</i> Quarrelling, <i>Loyal</i> Seditious Nation that +ever was known.</p> + +<p>Besides my Observations which I made my self, and which could +only furnish me with what was present, and which I shall take time +to inform my Reader with as much Care and Conciseness as possible; +I was beholding to this Old <i>Lunarian</i>, for every thing that +was Historical or Particular.</p> + +<p>And First, He inform'd me, That in this new Country they had +very seldom any Clouds at all, and consequently no extraordinary +Storms, but a constant Serenity, moderate Breezes cooled the Air, +and constant Evening Exhalations kept the Earth moist and fruitful; +and as the Winds they had were various and strong enough to assist +their Navigation, so they were without the Terrors, Dangers, +Ship-wrecks and Destructions, which he knew we were troubled with +in this our <i>Lunar</i> World, as he call'd it.</p> + +<p>The first just Observation I made of this was, That I suppos'd +from hence the wonderful Clearness of the Air, and the Advantage of +so vast Optick Capacities they enjoy'd, was obtained: <i>Alas</i>! +says the Old Fellow, <i>You see nothing to what some of our</i> +Great Eyes <i>see in some Parts of this World, nor do you see any +thing compar'd to what you may see by the help of some new Invented +Glasses, of which I may in time let you see the Experiment</i>; +<i>and perhaps you may find this to be the reason why we do not so +abound in Books as in your</i> Lunar World; <i>and that except it +be some extraordinary</i> Translations <i>out of your Country, you +will find but little in our Libraries, worth giving you a great +deal of Trouble</i>.</p> + +<p>We immediately quitted the Philosophical Discourse of Winds, and +I began to be mighty Inquisitive after these Glasses and +Translations, and</p> + +<p>1<i>st</i>, I understood here was +a strange sort of Glass that did not so much bring to the Eye, as +by I know not what wonderful Operation carried out the Eye to the +Object, and quite varies from all our Doctrine of Opticks, by +forming several strange <i>Phænomena</i> in Sight, which we +are utterly unacquainted with; nor could <i>Vision</i>, +<i>Rarification</i>, or any of our School-mens fine Terms, stand me +in any stead in this case; but here was such Additions of +<i>piercing Organs</i>, Particles of <i>Transparence</i>, +<i>Emission</i>, <i>Transmission</i>, <i>Mediums</i>, Contraction +of <i>Rays</i>, and a Thousand Applications of things prepar'd for +the wondrous Operation, that you may be sure are requisite for the +bringing to pass something yet unheard of on this side the +<i>Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>First we were inform'd, by the help of these Glasses, strange +things, which pass in our World for Non-Entities, is to be seen, +and very perceptible; for Example:</p> + +<p><i>State Polity</i>, in all its Meanders, Shifts, Turns, Tricks, +and Contraries, are so exactly Delineated and Describ'd, That they +are in hopes in time to draw a pair of Globes out, to bring all +those things to a certainty.</p> + +<p>Not but that it made some Puzzle, even among these Clear-sighted +Nations, to determine what <i>Figure</i> the Plans and Drafts of +this undiscover'd <i>World of Mysteries</i> ought to be describ'd +in: Some were of Opinion, it ought, to be an <i>Irregular +Centagon</i>, a Figure with an Hundred <i>Cones</i> or Angles: +Since the <i>Unaccountables</i> of this State-Science, are hid in a +Million of <i>undiscover'd Corners</i>; as the Craft, Subtilty and +Hypocrisy of Knaves and Courtiers have concealed them, never to be +found out, but by this wonderful <i>D---l-scope</i>, which seem'd +to threaten a perfect Discovery of all those <i>Nudities</i>, which +have lain hid in the Embrio, and false Conceptions of <i>Abortive +Policy</i>, ever since the Foundation of the World.</p> + +<p>Some were of Opinion, this Plan ought to be Circular, and in a +Globular Form, since it was on all sides alike, full of <i>dark +Spots</i>, untrod Mazes, <i>waking Mischiefs</i>, and sleeping +Mysteries; and being delineated like the Globes display'd, would +discover all the Lines of Wickedness to the Eye at one view: +Besides, they fancied some sort of Analogy in the Rotundity of the +Figure, with the continued Circular Motion of all Court-Policies, +in the stated Round of Universal Knavery.</p> + +<p>Others would have had it <i>Hyrogliphical</i> as by a <i>Hand in +Hand</i>, the Form representing the Affinity between <i>State +Policy</i> here, and <i>State Policy</i> in the Infernal Regions, +with some unkind Similies between the Oeconomy of Satan's Kingdom, +and those of most of the Temporal Powers on Earth; but this was +thought too unkind. At last it was determin'd, That neither of +these Schemes were capable of the vast Description; and that, +therefore, the Drafts must be made single, tho' not dividing the +Governments, yet dividing the Arts of Governing into proper +distinct Schemes, <i>viz.</i></p> + +<p>1. A particular Plan of <i>Publick Faith</i>; and here we had +the Experiment immediately made: The Representation is quallified +for the Meridian of any <i>Country</i>, as well in <i>our World</i> +as <i>theirs</i>; and turning it to'ards <i>our own World</i>, +there I saw plainly an <i>Exchequer shut up</i>, and 20000 Mourning +Families selling their <i>Coaches</i>, <i>Horses</i>, +<i>Whores</i>, <i>Equipages</i>, <i>&c.</i> for Bread, the +Government standing by laughing, and looking on: Hard by I saw the +<i>Chamber</i> of a great City shut up, and Forty Thousand +<i>Orphans</i> turn'd adrift in the World; some had no +<i>Cloaths</i>, some no <i>Shoes</i>, some no <i>Money</i>; and +still the City Magistrates calling upon other Orphans, to <i>pay +their money in</i>. These things put me in mind of the Prophet +<i>Ezekiel</i>, and methoughts I heard the same Voice that spoke to +him, calling me, and telling me, <i>Come hither, and I'll show thee +greater Abominations than these:</i> So looking still on that vast +Map, by the help of these Magnifying Glasses, I saw <i>huge Fleets +hir'd for Transport-Service, but never paid</i>; vast Taxes +<i>Anticipated</i>, that were never Collected; others Collected and +<i>Appropriated</i>, but Misapplied: Millions of <i>Talleys</i> +struck to be Discounted, and the Poor paying 40 <i>per Cent</i>, to +receive their Money. I saw huge Quantities of Money <i>drawn +in</i>, and little or none <i>issued out</i>; vast Prizes taken +<i>from the Enemy</i>, and then taken away again at home by +<i>Friends</i>; Ships <i>sav'd</i> on the Sea, and sunk in the +<i>Prize Offices</i>; Merchants <i>escaping</i> from Enemies at +Sea, and be <i>Pirated</i> by <i>Sham Embargoes</i>, <i>Counterfeit +Claims</i>, <i>Confiscations</i>, <i>&c</i> a-shoar: There we +saw <i>Turkey-Fleets</i> taken into Convoys, and Guarded to the +very Mouth of the Enemy, and then <i>abandon'd for their better +Security</i>: Here we saw Mons. <i>Pouchartrain</i> shutting up the +Town-house of <i>Paris</i>, and plundring the Bank of +<i>Lyons</i>.</p> + +<p>2. Here we law the State of the War among Nations; Here was the +<i>French</i> giving Sham-thanks for Victories they never got, and +some body else adressing and congratulating <i>the sublime Glory of +running away:</i> Here was <i>Te Deum</i> for Sham-Victories by +Land; and there was Thanksgiving for <i>Ditto by Sea:</i> Here we +might see two Armies fight, both run away, and <i>both come and +thank GOD for nothing:</i> Here we saw a Plan of a late War like +that in <i>Ireland</i>; there was all the Officers <i>cursing a</i> +Dutch <i>General</i>, because the damn'd Rogue would fight, and +<i>spoil a good War</i>, that with decent Management and <i>good +Husbandry</i>, might have been <i>eek't out</i> this Twenty Years; +there was whole Armies hunting two <i>Cows</i> to one +<i>Irishman</i>, and driving of black Cattle declar'd the <i>Noble +End of the the War:</i> Here we saw a Country full of Stone Walls +and strong Towns, where every Campaign, the Trade of War was +carried on by the Soldiers, with the same Intriguing as it was +carried on in the Council Chambers; there was Millions of +Contributions raised, and vast Sums Collected, but no <i>Taxes +lessen'd</i>; whole <i>Plate Fleets</i> surpriz'd, but no +<i>Treasure found</i>; vaft Sums <i>lost</i> by Enemies, and yet +never <i>found</i> by Friends, Ships loaded with Volatile Silver, +that came away <i>full</i>, and gat home <i>empty</i>; whole +Voyages made to beat <i>No body</i>, and plunder <i>Every body</i>; +two Millions robb'd from the honest Merchants, and not a Groat +sav'd for the honest Subjects: There we saw Captains Lifting Men +with the Governments Money, and letting them go again for their +own; Ships fitted out at the Rates of Two Millions a Year, to fight +but once in Three Years, and then <i>run away</i> for want of +Powder and Shot.</p> + +<p>There we saw <i>Partition Treaties</i> damned, and the whole +given away, <i>Confederations</i> without <i>Allies</i>, +<i>Allies</i> without <i>Quota's</i>, <i>Princes</i> without +<i>Armies</i>, <i>Armies</i> without <i>Men</i>, and <i>Men</i> +without <i>Money</i>, <i>Crowns</i> without <i>Kings</i>, +<i>Kings</i> without <i>Subjects</i>, more <i>Kings</i> than +<i>Countries</i>, and more <i>Countries</i> than were worth +fighting for.</p> + +<p>Here we could see the King of <i>France</i> upbraiding his +Neighbours with dishonourably assisting his Rebels, <i>though the +Mischief was, they did it not neither</i>; and in the same Breath, +assisting the <i>Hungarian</i> Rebels against the Emperor; +<i>M.</i> Ld <i>N.</i> refusing so dishonourable an Action, as to +aid the Rebellious <i>Camisars</i>, but Leaguing with the Admirant +<i>de Castile</i>, to Invade the Dominions of his Master to whom he +swore Allegiance: Here we saw Protestants fight against +Protestants, <i>to help Papists</i>, Papists against Papists <i>to +help Protestants</i>, Protestants call in Turks, to keep Faith +against Christians <i>that break it:</i> Here we could see +<i>Swedes</i> fighting for Revenge, and call it Religion; +<i>Cardinals</i> deposing their Catholick Prince, to introduce the +Tyranny <i>of a Lutheran</i> and call it Liberty; <i>Armies</i> +Electing Kings, and call it Free Choice; <i>French</i> conquering +<i>Savoy</i>, to secure the Liberty of <i>Italy</i>.</p> + +<p>3. The Map of State Policy contains abundance of Civil +Transactions, no where to be discover'd but in this <i>wonderful +Country</i>, and by this prodigious Invention: As first, it shows +an Eminent Prelate running in every body's Debt to relieve the +Poor, and bring to <i>God</i> Robbery for <i>Burnt-Offering:</i> It +opens a Door to the Fate of Nations; and there we might see the +<i>Duke of S--y</i> bought three times, and his subjects sold every +time; <i>Portugal</i> bought twice, and neither time worth <i>the +Earnest</i>; <i>Spain</i> bought once, but loth to go with the +<i>Bidder</i>; <i>Venice</i> willing to be Bought, if there had +been any Buyers; <i>Bavaria</i> Bought, and run away with the +<i>Money</i>; the Emperor <i>Bought</i> and <i>Sold</i>, but Bilkt +the Chapman; the <i>French</i> buying Kingdoms he can't +<i>keep</i>, the <i>Dutch</i> keep Kingdoms they never +<i>Bought</i>; and the <i>English</i> paying their Money without +<i>Purchase</i>.</p> + +<p>In Matters of Civil Concerns, here was to be seen +<i>Religion</i> with no out-side, and much <i>Out-side</i> with no +Religion, much Strife about <i>Peace</i>, and no Peace in the +<i>Design:</i> Here was Plunder without <i>Violence</i>, Violence +without <i>Persecution</i>, Conscience without <i>Good Works</i>, +and Good Works without <i>Charity</i>; Parties cutting one anothers +Throats <i>for God's Sake</i>, pulling down Churches <i>de +propoganda fide</i>, and making Divisions by way of +<i>Association</i>.</p> + +<p>Here we have <i>Peace and Union</i> brought to pass <i>The +Shortest Way</i>, Extirpation and Destruction prov'd to be the Road +to <i>Plenty</i> and <i>Pleasure:</i> Here all the Wise Nations, a +Learned Author would have Quoted, <i>if he could have found +them</i>, are to be seen, who carry on Exclusive Laws to the +general Safety and Satisfaction of their Subjects.</p> + +<p><i>Occasional Bills</i> may have here a particular Historical, +Categorical Description: But of them by themselves.</p> + +<p>Here you might have the Rise, Original, Lawfulness, Usefulness, +and Necessity of <i>Passive Obedience</i>, as fairly represented as +a System of Divinity, and as clearly demonstrated <i>as by a +Geographical Description</i>; and which exceeds our mean +Understanding here, 'tis by the wonderful Assistance of these +Glasses, plainly discerned to be Coherent <i>with Resistance</i>, +<i>taking Arms</i>, <i>calling in Foreign Powers</i>, <i>and the +like.</i> --- Here you have a plain Discovery of <i>C.</i> of +<i>E.</i> Politicks, and a Map of Loyalty: Here 'tis as plainly +demonstrated as the Nose in a Man's Face, <i>provided he has +one</i>, that a Man may <i>Abdicate</i>, drive away, and +<i>Dethrone</i> his Prince, and yet be absolutely and intirely free +from, and innocent of the least <i>Fracture</i>, Breach, +Incroachment, or Intrenchment, upon the Doctrine of +<i>Non-Resistance:</i> Can <i>shoot</i> at his Prince without any +Design to <i>kill him</i>, <i>fight</i> against him without raising +<i>Rebellion</i>, and take up Arms, without leaving War against his +Prince.</p> + +<p>Here they can persecute Dissenters, without desiring they should +Conform, conform to the Church they would overthrow; <i>Pray</i> +for the Prince they <i>dare not Name</i>, and <i>Name</i> the +Prince they <i>do not pray for</i>.</p> + +<p>By the help of these Glasses strange Insights are made, into the +vast mysterious dark World of <i>State Policy</i>; but that which +is yet more strange, and requires vast Volumes to descend to the +Particulars of, and huge Diagrams, Spheres, Charts, and a Thousand +nice things to display is, That in this vast Intelligent Discovery +it is not only made plain, that those things are so, but all the +vast Contradictions are made Rational, reconciled to Practice, and +brought down to Demonstration.</p> + +<p><i>German Clock-Work</i>, the perpetual Motions, the Prim +Mobilies of Our short-sighted World, are Trifles to these Nicer +Disquisitions.</p> + +<p>Here it would be plain and rational, why a Parliament-Man will +spend 5000 <i>l.</i> to be Chosen, that cannot get a Groat Honestly +by <i>setting there</i>: It would be easily made out to be +rational, why he that <i>rails most</i> at a Court is soonest +receiv'd <i>into it:</i> Here it would be very plain, how great +Estates are got in <i>little Places</i>, and Double in <i>none at +all</i>. 'Tis easy to be prov'd honest and faithful to Victual the +<i>French</i> Fleet out of <i>English</i> Stores, and let our own +Navy want them; a long Sight, or a large Lunar Perspective, will +make all these things not only plain in Fact, but Rational and +Justifiable to all the World.</p> + +<p>'Tis a strange thing to any body without doubt, that has not +been in that <i>clear-sighted Region</i>, to comprehend, That those +we call <i>High-flyers</i> in <i>England</i> are the only Friends +<i>to the Dissenters</i>, and have been the most Diligent and +Faithful in their Interest, of any People in the Nation; and yet so +it is, <i>Gentlemen</i>, and they ought to have the Thanks of the +<i>whole Body</i> for it.</p> + +<p>In this advanc'd Station, we see it plainly by Reflexion, That +the Dissenters, like a parcel of Knaves, have retained all the +<i>High-Church-men</i> in their Pay; they are certainly all in +their <i>Pension-Roll:</i> Indeed, I could not see the Money paid +them there, it was too remote; but I could plainly see the thing; +all the deep Lines of the Project are laid as true, they are so +<i>Tackt</i> and <i>Consolidated</i> together, that if any one will +give themselves leave to consider, they will be most effectually +convinced, That the <i>High-Church</i> and the <i>Dissenters</i> +here, are all in a Caball, a meer Knot, a piece of Clock-work; the +Dissenters are the Dial-Plate, and the High-Church the Movement, +the <i>Wheel within the Wheels</i>, the Spring and the Screw to +bring all things to Motion, and make the <i>Hand</i> on the +<i>Dial-plate</i> point which way the <i>Dissenters</i> please.</p> + +<p>For what else have been <i>all the Shams</i> they have put upon +the <i>Governments</i>, Kings, States, and People they have been +concern'd with? What Schemes have they laid on purpose <i>to be +broken?</i> What vast Contrivances, on purpose to be ridicul'd and +expos'd? <i>The Men are not Fools</i>, they had never V---d to +<i>Consolidate</i> a <i>B---</i> but that they were willing to save +the Dissenters, and put it into a posture, in which they <i>were +sure it would miscarry</i>. I defy all the Wise Men of the +<i>Moon</i> to show another good reason for it.</p> + +<p>Methinks I begin to pity my Brethren, the moderate Men of the +Church, that they cannot see into this <i>New Plot</i>, and to wish +they would but get up into our <i>Consolidator</i>, and take a +Journey to the <i>Moon</i>, and there, by the help of these +Glasses, they would see the <i>Allegorical</i>, <i>Symbollical</i>, +<i>Hetrodoxicallity</i> of all this Matter; it would make immediate +Converts of them; they would see plainly, that to <i>Tack</i> and +<i>Consolidate</i>, to make <i>Exclusive Laws</i>, to +<i>persecute</i> for Conscience, <i>disturb</i>, and +<i>distress</i> Parties; these are all <i>Phanatick Plots</i>, meer +Combinations against the Church, to bring her into Contempt, and to +fix and establish the Dissenters to the end of the Chapter: But of +this I shall find <i>occasion</i> to speak <i>Occasionally</i>, +when an <i>Occasion</i> presents it self, to examine a certain +<i>Occasional Bill</i>, transacting in these Lunar Regions, some +time before I had the Happiness to arrive there.</p> + +<p>In examining the Multitude and Variety of these <i>most +admirable Glasses</i> for the assisting the <i>Opticks</i>, or +indeed the Formation of a new perceptive Faculty; it was you may be +sure most surprizing to find there, that Art had exceeded Nature; +and the Power of Vision was assisted to that prodigious Degree, as +even to distinguish <i>Non-Entity it self</i>; and in these strange +Engines of Light it could not but be very pleasing, to distinguish +plainly betwixt <i>Being</i> and <i>Matter</i>, and to come to a +Determination, in the so long Canvast Dispute of Substance, <i>vel +Materialis, vel Spiritualis</i>; and I can solidly affirm, That in +all our Contention between <i>Entity</i> and <i>Non-Entity</i>, +there is so <i>little worth meddling with</i>, that had we had +these Glasses some Ages ago, we should have left troubling our +heads with it.</p> + +<p>I take upon me, therefore, to assure my Reader, That whoever +pleases to take a Journey, or Voyage, or Flight up to these +<i>Lunar Regions</i>, as soon as ever he comes ashoar there, will +presently be convinc'd, of the Reasonableness of <i>Immaterial +Substance</i>, and the <i>Immortality</i>, as well as +<i>Immateriality</i> of the Soul: He will no sooner look into these +Explicating Glasses, but he will be-able to know the separate +meaning of <i>Body</i>, <i>Soul</i>, <i>Spirit</i>, <i>Life</i>, +<i>Motion</i>, <i>Death</i>, and a Thousand things that +<i>Wise-men</i> puzzle themselves about here, because they are not +<i>Fools enough to understand</i>.</p> + +<p>Here too I find Glasses for the <i>Second Sight</i>, as our Old +Women call it. This <i>Second Sight</i> has been often pretended to +in <i>Our Regions</i>, and some Famous Old Wives have told us, they +can see <i>Death</i>, the <i>Soul</i>, <i>Futurity</i>, and the +Neighbourhood of them, in the Countenance: By this <i>wonderful +Art</i>, these good People unfold strange Mysteries, <i>as</i> +under some <i>Irrecoverable</i> Disease, to foretell <i>Death</i>; +under <i>Hypocondriack</i> Melancholy, to presage <i>Trouble of +Mind</i>; in pining Youth, to predict <i>Contagious Love</i>; and +an Hundred other Infallibilities, <i>which never fail to be true as +soon as ever they come to pass</i>, and are all grounded upon the +same Infallibility, by which a Shepherd may always know when any +one of his Sheep <i>is Rotten</i>, viz. <i>when he shakes himself +to pieces</i>.</p> + +<p>But all this Guess and Uncertainty is a Trifle, to the vast +Discoveries of these <i>Explicatory Optick-Glasses</i>; for here +are seen the Nature and Consequences of Secret Mysteries: Here are +read strange Mysteries relating to <i>Predestination</i>, +<i>Eternal Decrees</i>, and the like: Here 'tis plainly prov'd, +That <i>Predestination</i> is, in spight of all Enthusiastick +Pretences, so intirely committed into Man's Power, that whoever +pleases to <i>hang himself to Day</i>, won't Live till to Morrow: +no, though <i>Forty Predestination Prophets</i> were to tell him, +<i>His time was not yet come</i>. There abstruse Points are +commonly and solemnly Discuss'd here; and these People are such +<i>Hereticks</i>, that they say <i>God's Decrees</i> are all +subservient to the means of his <i>Providence</i>; That what we +call Providence is a subjecting all things to the great <i>Chain of +Causes and Consequences</i>, by which that one Grand Decree, That +all Effects shall Obey, without reserve to their proper moving +Causes, supercedes all <i>subsequent Doctrines</i>, or pretended +Decrees, or Predestination in the World: That by this Rule, he that +<i>will kill himself</i>, <b>GOD</b>, Nature, Providence, or +Decree, will not be concern'd <i>to hinder him</i>, but <i>he shall +Die</i>; any Decrees, Predestination, or Fore-Knowledge of Infinite +Power, <i>to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding</i> that it +is in a Man's Power to throw himself into the Water, <i>and be +Drown'd</i>; and to kill another Man, <i>and he shall Die</i>, and +to say, God appointed it, is to make him the Author of Murther, and +to injure the Murtherer in putting him to Death for what he could +not help doing.</p> + +<p>All these things are <i>received Truths</i> here, and no doubt +would be so every where else, if the Eyes of Reason were opened to +the Testimony of Nature, or if they had the helps of these most +<i>Incomparable Glasses</i>.</p> + +<p>Some pretended, by the help of these <i>Second-sight +Glasses</i>, to see the common Periods of Life; and Others said, +they could see a great way beyond <i>the leap in the Dark:</i> I +confess, all I could see of the first was, that holding up the +Glass against the Sea, I plainly saw, as it were on the edge of the +Horizon, these Words,</p> + +<blockquote><i>The Verge of Life and Death is here.<br> +'Tis best to know where 'tis, but not how far.</i></blockquote> + +<p>As to seeing <i>beyond Death</i>, all the Glasses I lookt into +for that purpose, <i>made but little of it</i>; and these were the +only <i>Tubes</i> that I found Defective; for here I could discern +nothing but Clouds, Mists, and thick dark hazy Weather; but +revolving in my Mind, that I had read a <i>certain Book</i> in our +own Country, called, <i>Nature</i>; it presently occurr'd, That the +Conclusion of it, to all such as gave themselves the trouble of +making out those foolish things call'd Inferences, was always +<i>Look up</i>; upon which, turning one of their Glasses <i>Up</i>, +and erecting the Point of it towards the <i>Zenith</i>, I saw these +Words in the Air, <i>REVELATION</i>, in large Capital Letters.</p> + +<p>I had like to have rais'd the Mob upon me for looking +<i>upright</i> with this Glass; for this, they said, was prying +into the Mysteries of the Great <i>Eye</i> of the World; That we +ought to enquire no farther than he has inform'd us, and <i>to +believe</i> what he had left us <i>more Obscure:</i> Upon this, I +laid down the Glasses, and concluded, that we had <i>Moses</i> and +the <i>Prophets</i>, and should be never the likelier to be taught +by <i>One come from the</i> Moon.</p> + +<p>In short, I found, indeed, they had a great deal more Knowledge +of things than we in this World; and that <i>Nature</i>, +<i>Science</i>, and <i>Reason</i>, had obtained great Improvements +in the <i>Lunar World</i>; but as to <i>Religion</i>, it was the +same equally resign'd to and concluded in <i>Faith</i> and +<i>Redemption</i>; so I shall give the World no great Information +of these things.</p> + +<p>I come next to some other strange Acquirements obtained by the +helps of these Glasses; and particularly for the discerning the +<i>Imperceptibles</i> of Nature; such as, the <i>Soul</i>, +<i>Thought</i>, <i>Honesty</i>, <i>Religion</i>, <i>Virginity</i>, +and an Hundred other nice things, too small for humane +Discerning.</p> + +<p>The Discoveries made by these Glasses, as to the <i>Soul</i>, +are of a very diverting Variety; some <i>Hieroglyphical</i>, and +<i>Emblematical</i>, and some Demonstrative.</p> + +<p>The <i>Hieroglyphical</i> Discoveries of the Soul make it appear +in the <i>Image of its Maker</i>; and the Analogy is remarkable, +even in the very <i>Simily</i>; for as they represent the Original +of Nature as <i>One Great Eye</i>, illuminating as well as +discerning all things; so the <i>Soul</i>, in its +<i>Allegorical</i>, or <i>Hieroglyphical</i> Resemblance, appears +as a <i>Great Eye</i>, embracing the Man, enveloping, operating, +and informing every Part; <i>from whence</i> those sort of People +who we falsly call <i>Politicians</i>, acting so much to put out +<i>this Great Eye</i>, by acting against their common +Understandings, are very aptly represented by <i>a great Eye, with +Six or Seven pair of Spectacles on</i>; not but that the Eye of +their Souls may be clear enough of it self, as to the common +Understanding; but that they happen to have occasion to look +sometimes <i>so many ways at once</i>, and to judge, conclude, and +understand <i>so many contrary ways</i> upon one and the same +thing; that they are fain to put double Glasses upon their +Understanding, as we look at the <i>Solar Ecclipses</i>, to +represent 'em in <i>different Lights</i>, least <i>their +Judgments</i> should not <i>be wheadled</i> into a Compliance with +the <i>Hellish Resolutions of their Wills</i>; and this is what I +call the Emblematick Representation of the Soul.</p> + +<p>As for the Demonstrations of the <i>Soul's Existence</i>, 'tis a +plain case, by these <i>Explicative Glasses</i>, that <i>it is</i>, +some have pretended to give us the Parts; and we have heard of +Chyrurgeons, that could read an Anatomical Lecture on the Parts Of +the Soul; and these pretend it to be a Creature in form, whether +<i>Camelion</i> or <i>Salamandar</i>, Authors have not determin'd; +nor is it compleatly discover'd <i>when</i> it comes into the Body, +or <i>how</i> it goes out, or <i>where</i> its Locality or +Habitation is, while 'tis a Resident.</p> + +<p>But they very aptly show it, like a Prince, in his Seat, in the +middle of <i>his Palace the Brain</i>, issuing out his incessant +Orders to innumerable Troops of <i>Nerves</i>, <i>Sinews</i>, +<i>Muscles</i>, <i>Tendons</i>, <i>Veins</i>, <i>Arteries</i>, +<i>Fibres</i>, <i>Capilaris</i>, and <i>useful Officers</i>, call'd +<i>Organici</i>, who faithfully execute all the Parts of +<i>Sensation</i>, <i>Locomotion</i>, <i>Concoction</i>, &c. and +in the Hundred Thousandth part of <i>a Moment</i>, return with +particular Messages for <i>Information</i>, and demand New +<i>Instructions</i>. If any part of <i>his Kingdom, the Body</i>, +suffers a Depredation, or an Invasion of the Enemy, the Expresses +fly to the Seat of the Soul, <i>the Brain</i>, and immediately are +order'd back <i>to smart</i>, that the Body may of course send more +Messengers <i>to complain</i>; immediately other Expresses are +dispatcht to the Tongue, with Orders <i>to cry out</i>, that the +Neighbours may come in and help, or Friends send for the +Chyrurgeon: Upon <i>the Application</i>, and a Cure, <i>all is +quiet</i>, and the same Expresses are dispatcht to the Tongue <i>to +be hush</i>, and say no more of it till farther Orders: All this is +as plain to be seen in these Engines, <i>as the Moon</i> of <i>Our +World</i> from the World in the <i>Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>As the Being, Nature, and Scituation of <i>humane Soul</i> is +thus <i>Spherically</i> and <i>Mathematically</i> discover'd, I +could not find any Second Thoughts about it in all their Books, +whether of their own Composition or by Translation; for it was a +General received Notion, That there could not be a greater +Absurdity in humane Knowledge, than to imploy the Thoughts in +Questioning, what is as plainly known by its Consequences, as if +seen with <i>the Eye</i>; and that to doubt the Being or Extent of +the Soul's Operation, is to <i>imploy her against her self</i>; and +therefore, when I began to argue with my Old Philosopher, against +the Materiality and Immortality of this Mystery we call +<i>Soul</i>, <i>he laught at me</i>, and told me, he found we had +none of their Glasses in our World; and bid me send all our +<i>Scepticks</i>, <i>Soul-Sleepers</i>, our <i>Cowards</i>, +<i>Bakers</i>, <i>Kings</i> and <i>Bakewells</i>, up to him into +the <i>Moon</i>, if they wanted Demonstrations; where, by the help +of their Engines, they would make it plain to them, that the +<i>Great Eye</i> being one vast Intellect, <i>Infinite</i> and +<i>Eternal</i>, all <i>Inferior Life</i> is a Degree of +<i>himself</i>, and as exactly represents him as one little +<i>Flame</i> the whole <i>Mass of Fire</i>; That it is therefore +uncapable of Dissolution, being like its Original in Duration, as +well as in its Powers and Faculties, but that it goes and returns +by <i>Emission</i>, <i>Regression</i>, as the <i>Great Eye</i> +governs and determines; and this was plainly made out, by the +Figure I had seen it in, <i>viz.</i> an <i>Eye</i>, the exact Image +of its Maker: 'Tis true, <i>it was darkened</i> by Ignorance, Folly +and Crime, and therefore oblig'd <i>to wear Spectacles</i>; but +tho' these were Defects or Interruptions in its Operation, they +were none in its Nature; which as it had its immediate Efflux from +<i>the Great Eye</i>, and its return to him must partake of +himself, and could not but be of a Quality <i>uncomatable</i>, by +Casualty or Death.</p> + +<p>From this Discourse we the more willingly adjourned our present +Thoughts, <i>I being clearly convinced of the Matter</i>; and as +for our Learned Doctors, with their Second and Third +<i>Thoughts</i>, I told him I would recommend them <i>to the Man in +the</i> Moon for their farther Illumination, which if they refuse +to accept, it was but just they should remain <i>in a Wood</i>, +where <i>they are</i>, and are <i>like to be</i>, puzzling +themselves about Demonstrations, squaring of Circles, and +converting <i>oblique</i> into <i>right Angles</i>, to bring out a +Mathematical <i>Clock-Work Soul</i>, that will go till the +<i>Weight is down</i>, and then stand still till <i>they know not +who</i> must wind it up again.</p> + +<p>However, I cannot pass over a very strange and extraordinary +piece of Art which this Old Gentleman inform'd me of, and that was +an Engine <i>to screw a Man into himself:</i> Perhaps our +Country-men may be at some Difficulty to comprehend these things by +my dull Description; and to such I cannot but recommend, a Journey +<i>in my Engine to the</i> Moon.</p> + +<p>This <i>Machine</i> that I am speaking of, contains a multitude +of <i>strange Springs</i> and <i>Screws</i>, and a Man that puts +himself into it, is very insensibly carried into <i>vast +Speculations</i>, <i>Reflexions</i>, and <i>regular Debates with +himself:</i> They have a very hard Name for it in those Parts; but +if I were to give it an <i>English</i> Name, it should be call'd, +<i>The Cogitator</i>, or <i>the Chair of Reflection</i>.</p> + +<p>And First, The Person that is seated here feels some pain in +passing some <i>Negative Springs</i>, that are wound up, +effectually to shut out all <i>Injecting, Disturbing</i> Thoughts; +and the better to prepare him for the Operation that is to follow, +and this is without doubt a very rational way; for when a Man can +<i>absolutely shut out all manner of thinking</i>, but what he is +upon, he shall think the more Intensly upon the one object before +him.</p> + +<p>This Operation past, here are <i>certain Screws</i> that draw +<i>direct Lines</i> from every <i>Angle of the Engine to the Brain +of the Man</i>, and at the same time, other direct Lines to his +Eyes; at the other end of which Lines, there are Glasses which +convey or reflect the Objects the Person is desirous to <i>think +upon</i>.</p> + +<p>Then the main Wheels are turn'd, which wind up according to +their several Offices; <i>this</i> the Memory, <i>that</i> the +Understanding; a <i>third</i> the Will, a <i>fourth</i> the +thinking Faculty; and these being put all into regular Motions, +pointed by direct Lines to their proper Objects, and perfectly +uninterrupted by the Intervention of Whimsy, Chimera, and a +Thousand fluttering <i>Dæmons</i> that Gender in the Fancy, +but are effectually Lockt out as before, assist one another to +receive right Notions, and form just Ideas of the things they are +directed to, and from thence the Man is impower'd to make right +Conclusions, <i>to think and act like himself</i>, suitable to the +sublime Qualities his Soul was originally blest with.</p> + +<p>There never was a Man went into one of these <i>thinking +Engines</i>, but he came wiser out than he was before; and I am +persuaded, it would be a more effectual Cure to our <i>Deism</i>, +<i>Atheism</i>, <i>Scepticism</i>, and all other <i>Scisms</i>, +than ever the <i>Italian</i>'s Engine, for Curing the Gout by +cutting off the Toe.</p> + +<p>This is a most wonderful Engine, and performs admirably, and my +Author gave me extraordinary Accounts of the good Effects of it; +and I cannot but tell my Reader, That our Sublunar World suffers +Millions of Inconveniencies, for want of this thinking Engine: I +have had a great many Projects in my Head, how to bring our People +to regular thinking, but 'tis in vain without this Engin; and how +to get the Model of it I know not; how to screw up the Will, the +Understanding, and the rest of the Powers; how to bring the Eye, +the Thought, the Fancy, and the Memory, into Mathematical Order, +and obedient to Mechanick Operation; help <i>Boyl</i>, +<i>Norris</i>, <i>Newton</i>, <i>Manton</i>, <i>Hammond</i>, +<i>Tillotson</i>, and all the Learned Race, help <i>Phylosophy</i>, +<i>Divinity</i>, <i>Physicks</i>, <i>Oeconomicks</i>, all's in +vain, a Mechanick Chair of Reflection is the only Remedy that ever +I found in my Life for this Work.</p> + +<p>As to the Effects of Mathematical thinking, what Volumes might +be writ of it will more easily appear, if we consider the wondrous +Usefulness of this Engine in all humane Affairs; as of <i>War</i>, +<i>Peace</i>, <i>Justice</i>, <i>Injuries</i>, <i>Passion</i>, +<i>Love</i>, <i>Marriage</i>, <i>Trade</i>, <i>Policy</i>, and +<i>Religion</i>.</p> + +<p>When a Man has been screw'd into himself, and brought by this +Art to a Regularity of Thought, he never commits any Absurdity +after it; his Actions are squared by the same Lines, for Action is +but the Consequence of Thinking; and he that acts before he thinks, +sets humane Nature with the bottom upward.</p> + +<p><i>M.</i> would never have made his Speech, nor the famous +<i>B----ly</i> wrote a Book, if ever they had been in this thinking +Engine: One would have never told us of Nations he never saw, nor +the other told us, he had seen a great many, and was never the +Wiser.</p> + +<p><i>H.</i> had never ruin'd his Family to Marry Whore, Thief and +Beggar-Woman, in one Salliant Lady, after having been told so +honestly, and so often of it by the very Woman her self.</p> + +<p>Our late unhappy Monarch had never trusted the <i>English</i> +Clergy, when they preacht up that Non-Resistance, which he must +needs see they could never Practice; had his Majesty been screw'd +up into this <i>Cogitator</i>, he had presently reflected, that it +was against Nature to expect they should stand still, and let him +tread upon them: That they should, whatever they had preacht or +pretended to, hold open their Throats to have them be cut, and tye +their own Hands from resisting the Lord's Anointed.</p> + +<p>Had some of our Clergy been screw'd in this Engine, they had +never turned Martyrs for their Allegiance to the Late King, only +for the Lechery of having Dr. <i>S-------</i> in their Company.</p> + +<p>Had our Merchants been manag'd in this Engine, they had never +trusted their <i>Turkey</i> Fleet with a famous Squadron, that took +a great deal of care to Convoy them safe into the Enemies +Hands.</p> + +<p>Had some People been in this Engine, when they had made a +certain League in the World, in order to make amends for a better +made before, they would certainly have consider'd farther, before +they had embarkt with a Nation, that are neither fit to go abroad +nor stay at Home.</p> + +<p>As for the Thinking practis'd in Noble Speeches, <i>Occasional +Bills</i>, Addressings about Prerogative, Convocation Disputes, +Turnings in and Turnings out at Ours, and all the Courts of +<i>Christendom</i>, I have nothing to say to it.</p> + +<p>Had the Duke of <i>Bavaria</i> been in our Engine, he would +never have begun a Quarrel, which he knew all the Powers of +<i>Europe</i> were concern'd to suppress, and lay all other +Business down till it was done.</p> + +<p>Had the Elector of <i>Saxony</i> past the Operation of this +Engine, he would never have beggar'd a Rich Electorate, to ruin a +beggar'd Crown, nor sold himself for a Kingdom hardly worth any +Man's taking: He would never have made himself less than he was, in +hopes of being really no greater; and stept down from a Protestant +Duke, and Imperial Elector, to be a Nominal Mock King with a shadow +of Power, and a Name without honour, Dignity or Strength.</p> + +<p>Had Mons. <i>Tallard</i> been in our Engine, he would not only +not have attackt the Confederates when they past the Morass and +Rivulet in his Front, but not have attackt them at all, nor have +suffer'd them to have attackt him, it being his Business not to +have fought at all, but have linger'd out the War, till the Duke of +<i>Savoy</i> having been reduced, the Confederate Army must have +been forced to have divided themselves of course, in order to +defend their own.</p> + +<p>Some that have been very forward to have us proceed <i>The +Shortest Way</i> with the <i>Scots</i>, may be said to stand in +great need of this Chair of Reflection, to find out a just Cause +for such a War, and to make a Neighbour-Nation making themselves +secure, a sufficient Reason for another Neighbour-Nation to fall +upon them: Our Engine would presently show it them in a clear +sight, by way of Paralel, that 'tis just with the fame Right as a +Man may break open a House, because the People bar and bolt the +Windows.</p> + +<p>If some-body has chang'd Hands there from bad to worse, and +open'd instead of closing Differences in those Cases, the +<i>Cogitator</i> migyt have brought them, by more regular Thinking, +to have known that was not at all the Method of bringing the +<i>S---s</i> to Reason.</p> + +<p>Our <i>Cogitator</i> would be a very necessary thing to show +some People, That Poverty and Weakness is not a sufficient Ground +to oppress a Nation, and their having but little Trade, cannot be a +sufficient Ground to equip Fleets to take away what they have.</p> + +<p>I cannot deny, that I have often thought they have had something +of this Engine in our Neighbouring <i>Antient Kingdom</i>, since no +Man, however we pretend to be angry, but will own they are in the +right of it, as to themselves, to Vote and procure Bills for their +own Security, and not to do as others demand without +<i>Conditions</i> fit to be accepted: But of that by it self.</p> + +<p>There are abundance of People in Our World, of all sorts and +Conditions, that stand in need of our thinking Engines, and <i>to +be screw'd into themselves a little</i>, that they might think as +directly as they speak absurdly: But of these also in a Class by it +self.</p> + +<p>This Engine has a great deal of Philosophy in it; and +particularly, 'tis a wonderful Remedy against <i>Poreing</i>; and +as it was said of Mons. <i>Jurieu</i> at <i>Amsterdam</i>, that he +us'd to <i>lose himself in himself</i>; by the Assistance of this +piece of Regularity, a Man is most effectually secur'd against +<i>bewildring Thoughts</i>, and by direct thinking, he prevents all +manner of dangerous wandring, since nothing can come to more speedy +Conclusions, than that which in right Lines, points to the proper +Subject of Debate.</p> + +<p>All sorts of <i>Confusion of Thoughts</i> are perfectly avoided +and prevented in this case, and a Man is never troubled with +<i>Spleen</i>, <i>Hyppo</i>, or <i>Mute Madness</i>, when once he +has been thus under the Operation of <i>the Screw:</i> It prevents +abundance of Capital Disasters in Men, in private Affairs; it +prevents <i>hasty Marriages</i>, <i>rash Vows</i>, <i>Duels</i>, +<i>Quarrels</i>, Suits at <i>Law</i>, and most sorts of +<i>Repentance</i>. In the State, it saves a Government from many +Inconveniences; it checks immoderate <i>Ambition</i>, stops +<i>Wars</i>, <i>Navies</i> and <i>Expeditions</i>; especially it +prevents Members making <i>long Speeches</i> when they have +<i>nothing to say</i>; it keeps back Rebellions, Insurrections, +Clashings of Houses, <i>Occasional Bills</i>, <i>Tacking</i>, +&c.</p> + +<p>It has a wonderful Property in our Affairs at Sea, and has +prevented many a <i>Bloody Fight</i>, in which a great many honest +Men might have lost their Lives that are now useful Fellows, and +help to Man and manage Her Majesty's Navy.</p> + +<p>What if some People are apt to charge Cowardice upon some People +in those Cases? 'Tis plain <i>that</i> cannot be <i>it</i>, for he +that dare incur the Resentment of the <i>English</i> Mob, shows +more Courage than would be able to carry him through Forty +Sea-fights.</p> + +<p>'Tis therefore for want of being in this Engine, that we censure +People, because they don't be knocking one another on the Head, +like the People at the <i>Bear-Garden</i>; where, if they do not +see the <i>Blood run about</i>, they always cry out, <i>A +Cheat</i>; and the poor Fellows are fain to cut one another, that +they may not be pull'd a pieces; where the Case is plain, they are +<i>bold for fear</i>, and pull up Courage enough to Fight, because +they are afraid of the People.</p> + +<p>This Engine prevents all sorts of <i>Lunacies</i>, +<i>Love-Frenzies</i>, and <i>Melancholy-Madness</i>, for preserving +the Thought in right Lines to direct Objects, it is impossible any +<i>Deliriums</i>, <i>Whimsies</i>, or <i>fluttering Air</i> of +Ideas, can interrupt the Man, he can never be Mad; for which reason +I cannot but recommend it to my Lord <i>S---</i>, my Lord +<i>N---</i>, and my Lord <i>H-----</i>, as absolutely necesssary to +defend them from the State-Madness, which for some Ages has possest +their Families, and which runs too much in the Blood.</p> + +<p>It is also an excellent Introduction to Thought, and therefore +very well adapted to those People whose peculiar Talent and Praise +is, That <i>they never think at all</i>. Of these, if his Grace of +<i>B---d</i> would please to accept Advice from the <i>Man in the +Moon</i>, it should be to put himself into this Engine, as a +Soveraign Cure to the known Disease call'd the <i>Thoughtless +Evil</i>.</p> + +<p>But above all, it is an excellent Remedy, and very useful to a +sort of People, who are always <i>Travelling</i> in Thought, but +never <i>Deliver'd</i> into Action; who are so exceeding busy at +Thinking, they have no leisure for Action; of whom the late Poet +sung well to the purpose;</p> + +<blockquote>---- <i>Some modern Coxcombs, who</i><br> +<i>Retire to Think, 'cause they have nought to do;</i><br> +<i>For Thoughts were giv'n for Actions Government,</i><br> +<i>Where Action ceases, Thought Impertinent:</i><br> +<i>The Sphere of Action is Life's Happiness,</i><br> +<i>And he that Thinks beyond, Thinks like an Ass.</i></blockquote> +<p align="right">Rochest. Poems, <i>p.</i> 9.</p> + +<p>These Gentlemen would make excellent use of this Engine, for it +would teach 'em to dispatch one thing before they begin another; +and therefore is of singular use to honest <i>S----</i>, whose +peculiar it was, to be always beginning Projects, but never finish +any.</p> + +<p>The Variety of this Engine, its Uses, and Improvements, are +Innumerable, and the Reader must not expect I can give any thing +like a perfect Description of it.</p> + +<p>There are yet another sort of Machine, which I never obtained a +sight of, till the last Voyage I made to this Lunar Orb, and these +are called <i>Elevators:</i> The Mechanick Operations of these are +wonderful, and helpt by Fire; by which the Sences are raised to +<i>all the strange Extreames</i> we can imagine, and whereby the +Intelligent Soul is made to converse with its own Species, whether +embody'd or not.</p> + +<p>Those that are rais'd to a due pitch in this wondrous Frame, +have a clear Prospect into the World of Spirits, and converse with +<i>Visions</i>, <i>Guardian-Angels</i>, <i>Spirits departed</i>, +and what not: And as this is a wonderful Knowledge, and not to be +obtained, but by the help of this Fire; so those that have try'd +the Experiment, give strange Accounts of <i>Sympathy</i>, +<i>Prexistence</i> of Souls, <i>Dreams</i>, and the like.</p> + +<p>I confess, I always believ'd a converse of Spirits, and have +heard of some who have experienced so much of it, as they could +obtain upon <i>no Body else</i> to believe.</p> + +<p>I never saw any reason to doubt the Existent State of the Spirit +before embody'd, any more than I did of its Immortality after it +shall be uncas'd, and the Scriptures saying, the Spirit returns to +God that gave it, implies <i>a coming from</i>, or how could it be +call'd <i>a return</i>.</p> + +<p>Nor can I see a reason why Embodying a Spirit should altogether +Interrupt its Converse with the World of Spirits, from whence it +was taken; and to what else shall we ascribe <i>Guardian +Angels</i>, in which the Scripture is also plain; and from whence +come <i>Secret Notices</i>, Impulse of <i>Thought</i>, pressing +<i>Urgencies of Inclination</i>, to or from this or that altogether +Involuntary; but from some <i>waking kind Assistant wandring +Spirit</i>, which gives secret hints to its Fellow-Creature, of +some approaching Evil or Good, which it was not able to +foresee.</p> + +<p><i>For Spirits without the helps of Voice converse</i>.</p> + +<p>I know we have supplied much of this with <i>Enthusiasm</i> and +<i>conceited Revelation</i>; but the People of this World convince +us, that it may be all Natural, by obtaining it in a Mechanick way, +<i>viz.</i> by forming something suitable to the sublime Nature, +which working by Art, shall only rectify the more <i>vigorous +Particles</i> of the Soul, and work it up to <i>a suitable +Elevation</i>. This Engine is wholly applied to the Head, and Works +by Injection; the chief Influence being on what we call +<i>Fancy</i>, or Imagination, which by the heat of strong Ideas, is +fermented to a strange heighth, and is thus brought to see backward +and forward every way, beyond it self: By this a Man fancies +himself <i>in the Moon</i>, and realizes things there as +distinctly, as if he was actually talking to <i>my Old +Phylosopher</i>.</p> + +<p>This indeed is an admirable Engine, 'tis compos'd of <i>an +Hundred Thousand</i> rational Consequences, <i>Five times the +number</i> of Conjectures, Supposes, and Probabilities, besides an +innumerable Company of fluttering Suggestions, and Injections, +which hover round the Imagination, and are all taken in as fast as +they can be Concocted and Digested there: These are form'd into +Ideas, and some of those so well put together, so exactly shap'd, +so well drest and set out by the Additional Fire of Fancy, that it +is no uncommon thing for the Person to be intirely deceived by +himself, not knowing <i>the brat of his own Begetting</i>, nor be +able to distinguish between Reality and Representation: From hence +we have some People talking to Images of their own forming, and +seeing more Devils and Spectres than ever appear'd: From hence we +have weaker Heads not able to bear the Operation, seeing imperfect +Visions, as of Horses and Men without Heads or Arms, <i>Light</i> +without <i>Fire</i>, hearing <i>Voices</i> without <i>Sound</i>, +and Noises without <i>Shapes</i>, as their own Fears or Fancies +broke the <i>Phænomena</i> before the intire Formation.</p> + +<p>But the more Genuine and perfect Use of these vast Elevations of +the Fancy, which are perform'd, as I said, by the Mechanick +Operation of Innate Fire, is to guide Mankind to as much Fore-sight +of things, as either by Nature, or by the Aid of any thing +Extranatural, may be obtain'd; and by this exceeding Knowledge, a +Man shall forebode to himself approaching Evil or Good, so as to +avoid this, or be in the way of that; and what if I should say, +That the Notices of these things are not only frequent, but +constant, and require nothing of us, but to make use of this +<i>Elevator</i>, to keep our Eyes, our Ears, and our Fancies open +to the hints; and observe them;</p> + +<p>You may suppose me, if you please, come by this time into those +Northern Kingdoms I mention'd before, where my Old Philosopher was +a Native, and not to trouble you with any of the needful +Observations, Learned Inscriptions, <i>&c. on the way</i>, +according to the laudable practices of the Famous Mr. +<i>Br---mly</i>, 'tis sufficient to tell you I found there an +<i>Opulent</i>, <i>Populous</i>, <i>Potent</i> and <i>Terrible +People</i>.</p> + +<p>I found them at War with one of the greatest Monarchs of the +<i>Lunar</i> World, and at the same time miserably rent and torn, +mangl'd and disorder'd among themselves.</p> + +<p>As soon as I observ'd the Political posture of their Affairs, +(for here a Man sees things mighty soon by the helps of such a +Masterly Eye-sight as I have mention'd) and remembring what is said +for our Instruction, <i>That a Kingdom divided against its self +cannot stand</i>; I ask'd the Old Gentleman if he had <i>any +Estate</i> in that Country? He told me, no great matter; but ask'd +me why I put that Question to him? <i>Because</i>, said I, <i>if +this People go on fighting and snarling at all the World, and one +among another in this manner, they will certainly be Ruin'd and +Undone, either subdu'd by some more powerful Neighbour; whilst one +Party will stand still and see the t'others Throat cut, tho' their +own Turn immediately follows, or else they will destroy and devour +one another</i>. Therefore I told him I would have him Turn his +Estate into Money, and go some where else; or go back to the other +World with me.</p> + +<p><i>No, no</i>, reply'd the Old Man, <i>I am in no such Fear at +this Time, the Scale of Affairs is very lately chang'd here</i>, +says he, <i>in but a very few Years</i>.</p> + +<p><i>I know nothing of that</i>, said I, <i>but I am sure there +never was but one spot of Ground in that World which I came from, +that was divided like them, and that's that very Country I liv'd +in. Here are three Kingdoms of you in one spot</i>, said I, One +<i>has already been</i> Conquer'd and Subdu'd, the t'other +<i>suppres'd its Native lnhabitants</i>, and planted it with her +own, and now carries it with so high a Hand over them of her own +Breed, that <i>she limits their Trade, stops their Ports, when the +Inhabitants have made their Manufactures, these wont give them +leave to send them abroad, impose Laws upon them, refuse to alter +and amend those they would make for themselves, make them pay +Customs</i>, Excises, <i>and</i> Taxes, <i>and yet</i> pay the +Garrisons and Guards <i>that defend them, themselves; Press their +Inhabitants to their Fleets, and carry away their Old Veteran +Troops that should defend them, and leave them to raise more to be +serv'd in the same manner, will let none of their Mony be carry'd +over thither, nor let them Coin any of their own</i>; and a great +many such hardships they suffer under the Hand of this Nation <i>as +meer Slaves</i> and <i>Conquer'd People, tho' the greatest part of +the Traders are the People of the very Nation that treats 'em +thus</i>.</p> + +<p>On the other hand, this creates Eternal Murmurs, Heart-burnings +and Regret, both in the Natives and the Transplanted Inhabitants; +the first have shewn their Uneasiness by frequent Insurrections and +Rebellions, for Nature prompts the meanest Animal to struggle for +Liberty; and these struggles have often been attended with great +Cruelty, Ravages, Death, Massacres, and Ruin both of Families and +the Country it self: As to the Transplanted Inhabitants, they run +into Clandestine Trade, into corresponding with their Masters +Enemies, <i>Victualling their Navies</i>, Colonies and the like, +receiving and importing their Goods in spight of all the Orders and +Directions to the contrary.</p> + +<p>These are the effects of Divisions, and Feuds on that side; on +the other hand there is a Kingdom <i>Entire</i> Unconquer'd and +<i>Independent</i>, and for the present, under the same Monarch +with the rest.---- But here their Feuds are greater than with the +other, and <i>more dangerous by far</i> because National: This +Kingdom joins to the North part of the first Kingdom, and Terrible +Divisions ly among the two Nations.</p> + +<p>The People of these two Kingdoms are call'd if you please for +distinction sake, for I cannot well make you understand their hard +Names, <i>Solunarians</i> and <i>Nolunarians</i>, these to the +<i>South</i> and those to the <i>North</i>, the <i>Solunarians</i> +were divided in their Articles of Religion; the Governing Party, or +the Establish'd Church, I shall call the <i>Solunarian</i> Church; +but the whole Kingdom was full of a sort of Religious People call'd +<i>Crolians</i>, who like our Dissenters in <i>England</i> profess +divers sub-divided Opinions by themselves, and cou'd not, or wou'd +not, let it go which way it will, joyn with the Establish'd +Church.</p> + +<p>On the other hand, the Establish'd Church in the Northern +Kingdom was all <i>Crolians</i>, but full of <i>Solunarians</i> in +Opinions, who were Dissenters there, as the <i>Crolians</i> were +Dissenters in the South, and this unhappy mixture occasion'd +endless Feuds, Divisions, Sub-divisions and Animosities without +Number, of which hereafter.</p> + +<p>The Northern Men are Bold, Terrible Numerous and <i>Brave</i>, +to the last Degree, but Poor, and by the Encroachments of their +Neighbours, growing poorer every Day.</p> + +<p>The Southern are equally Brave, more Numerous and Terrible, but +Wealthy and <i>care not for Wars</i>, had rather stay at Home and +Quarrel with one another, than go Abroad to Fight, making good an +Old Maxim, <i>Too Poor t'Agree, and yet too Rich to Fight</i>.</p> + +<p>Between these the Feud is great, and every Day growing greater; +and those People who pretend to have been in the <i>Cogitator</i> +or <i>thinking Engine</i> tell us, all the lines of Consequences in +that Affair point at a fatal period between the Kingdoms.</p> + +<p>The Complaints also are great, and back'd with fiery Arguments +on both sides; the Northern Men say, the <i>Solunarians</i> have +dealt unjustly and unkindly by them in several Articles; but the +Southern Men reply with a most powerful Argument, <i>viz.</i> they +are <i>Poor</i>, and therefore ought to be Oppress'd, Suppress'd, +or <i>any thing</i>.</p> + +<p>But the main Debate is like to lye upon the Article of Choosing +<i>a King</i>; both the Nations being under one Government at +present, but the Settlement ending in the Reigning Line, the +Northern Men refuse to joyn in Government again, unless they have a +rectification of some Conditions in which, they say, they have the +worst of it.</p> + +<p>In this case, even the Southern Men themselves, say, they +believe the <i>Nolunarians</i> have been in the <i>Chair of +Reflection</i>, the <i>thinking Engine</i>, and that having screw'd +their Understandings into a Direct Position to that Matter before +them, they have made a right Judgment of their own Affairs, and +<i>with all their Poverty</i> stand on the best Foot <i>as to +Right</i>.</p> + +<p>But as the matter of this Northern Quarrel comes under a Second +Head, and is more properly the Subject of a Second Voyage to the +<i>Moon</i>; the Reader may have it more at large consider'd in +another Class, and some farther Enlightnings in that Affair than +perhaps can be reasonably expected of me here.</p> + +<p>But of all the Feuds and Brangles that ever poor Nation was +embroild in, of all the Quarrels, the Factions and Parties that +ever the People of any Nation thought worth while to fall out for, +none were ever in <i>reality</i> so light, in <i>effect</i> so +heavy, in <i>appearance</i> so great, in <i>substance</i> so small, +in <i>name</i> so terrible, in <i>nature</i> so trifling, as those +for which this Southern Country was altogether by the Ears among +themselves.</p> + +<p>And this was one Reason why I so earnestly enquir'd of my +<i>Lunarian Philosopher</i>, whether he had an Estate in that +Country or no. But having told him the Cause of that enquiry, he +reply'd, there was one thing in the Nature of his Country-men which +secur'd them from the ruin which usually attended <i>divided +Nations</i>, <i>viz.</i> that if any Foreign Nation thinking to +take the advantage of their Intestine Divisions <i>fell upon +them</i> in the highest of all their Feuds, they'd lay aside their +Parties and Quarrels and presently <i>fall in together</i> to beat +out the common Enemy; and then no sooner had they obtain'd <i>Peace +abroad</i>, by their Conduct and Bravery, but they would fall to +cutting one anothers Throats again at home <i>as naturally</i> as +if it had been their proper Calling, and that for Trifles too, +<i>meer Trifles</i>.</p> + +<p>Very well, said I to <i>my learned Self</i>, pretty like my own +Country still, that whatever Peace they have <i>abroad</i>, are +sure to have none <i>at home</i>.</p> + +<p>To come at the historical Account of these <i>Lunarian</i> +Dissentions, it will be absolutely necessary to enter a little into +the Story of <i>the Place</i>, at least as far as relates to the +present Constitution, both of the People, the Government, and the +Subject of their present Quarrels.</p> + +<p>And first we are to understand, that there has for some Ages +been carry'd on in these Countries, a private feud or quarrel among +the People, about a thing call'd by them <i>Upogyla</i>, with us +very vulgarly call'd <i>Religion</i>.</p> + +<p>This Difference, as in its Original it was not great, nor indeed +upon Points accounted among themselves Essential, so it had never +been a Difference of any height, if there had not always been some +one thing, or other, hapning in the State which made the +Court-Polititians think it necessary to keep the People busy and +embroil'd, to prevent their more narrow Inspection into +Depredations and Encroachments on their Liberties, which was always +making on them by the Court.</p> + +<p>'Tis not deny'd but there might be a Native want of Charity in +the Inhabitant, adapting them to Feud, and particularly qualifying +them to be alwavs Piquing one another; and some of their own +Nation, who by the help of the famous Perspectives +before-mentioned, pretend to have seen farther into the Insides of +Nature and Constitution than other People, tell us the cross Lines +of Nature which appear in the make of those particular People, +signify a direct <i>Negative</i> as to the Article of +<i>Charity</i> and good Neighbour-hood.</p> + +<p>'Twas particularly unhappy to this wrangling People, that +Reasons of State should always fall in, to make that +uncharitableness and continual quarrelling Humour necessary to +carry on the Publick Affairs of the Nation, and may pass for a +certain Proof, that the State was under some Diseases and +Convulsions, which, like a Body that digests nothing so well as +what is hurtful to its Constitution, makes use of those things for +its Support, which are in their very Nature, fatal to its being, +and must at last tend to its Destruction.</p> + +<p>But as this however enclin'd them to be continually +<i>Snarling</i> at one another, so as in all Quarrels it generally +appears one Side must go down.</p> + +<p>The prevailing Party therefore always kept the Power in their +Hands, and as the <i>under</i> were always Subject to the lash they +soon took care to hook their Quarrel into the Affairs of State, and +so join <i>Religious</i> Differences, and <i>Civil</i> Differences +together.</p> + +<p>These things had long embroil'd the Nation, and frequently +involv'd them in bitter Enmities, Feuds, and Quarrels, and once in +a tedious, ruinous, and bloody War in their own Bowels, in which, +contrary to all expectation, this <i>lesser Party</i> +prevail'd.</p> + +<p>And since the allegorick Relation may bear great Similitude with +our European Affairs on this side <i>the Moon:</i> I shall for the +ease of Expression, and the better Understanding of the Reader, +frequently call them by the same Names our unhappy Parties are +call'd by in <i>England</i>, as <i>Solunnarian Churchmen</i>, and +<i>Crolian Dissenters</i>, at the same time desiring my Reader to +observe, that he is <i>always to remember</i> who it is we are +talking of, and that he is <i>by no means</i> to understand me of +any Person, Party, People, Nation, or Place on this side the Moon, +any Expression, Circumstance, Similitude, or Appearance <i>to the +contrary in any wise notwithstanding</i>.</p> + +<p>This premis'd, I am to tell the Reader that the last Civil War +in this <i>Lunar</i> Country ended in the Victors confounding their +own Conquests by their intestine Broils, they being as is already +noted a most Eternally Quarrelling Nation; upon this new Breach, +they that first began the War, turn'd about, and pleading that they +took up Arms to regulate the Government, not to overthrow it, fell +in with the Family of their Kings, who had been banish'd, <i>and +one of them destroy'd</i>, and restor'd the Crown to the Family, +and the Nation to the Crown, just <i>for all the World</i> as the +<i>Presbyterians</i> in <i>England</i> did, in the Case of King +<i>Charles</i> the Second.</p> + +<p>The Party that was thus restor'd, accepted the return the others +made to their Duty, and their Assistance in restoring the Family of +their Monarch, but abated not a Tittle of the old Rancour against +them <i>as a Party</i> which they entertain'd at their first taking +Arms, not allowing the return they had made to be <i>any attonement +at all</i> for the Crimes they had been guilty of before. 'Tis true +they pass'd an Act or Grant of <i>General Pardon</i>, and Oblivion, +as in all such Cases is usual, and as without which the other would +never ha' come in, or have join'd Powers to form the Restoration +they were bringing to pass, but the old Feud of Religion continu'd +with this addition, that the <i>Dissenters</i> were <i>Rebels</i>, +<i>Murtherers</i>, <i>King-killers</i>, Enemies to <i>Monarchy</i> +and Civil Government, lovers of Confusion, popular, anarchial +Governments, and movers of Sedition; that this was in their very +<i>Nature</i> and <i>Principles</i>, and the like.</p> + +<p>In this Condition, and under these Mortifications this Party of +People liv'd just an <i>Egyptian</i> Servitude, <i>viz.</i> of 40 +Years, in which time they were frequently vex'd with Persecution, +<i>Harass'd</i>, Plunder'd, <i>Fin'd</i>, Imprisoned, and very +hardly Treated, insomuch that they pretend to be able to give an +account of vast Sums of their Country-Mony, levy'd upon them on +these Occasions, amounting as I take it to 2 Millions of +<i>Lunatians</i>, a Coin they keep their Accounts by there, and +much about the value of our Pound Sterling; besides this they were +hook't into a great many Sham Plots, and Sworn out of their +<i>Lives</i> and <i>Estates</i> in such a manner, that in the very +next Reign the Government was so sensible of their hard treatment, +that they revers'd several Sentences by the same Authority that had +Executed them; a most undeniable Proof they were asham'd of what +had been done; at last, the Prince who was restor'd as abovesaid, +dyed, and his Brother mounted the Throne; and now began <i>a third +Scene</i> of Affairs, for this Prince was neither +<i>Church-man</i>, nor <i>Dissenter</i>, but of a different +Religion from them all, known in that Country by the Name of +<i>Abrogratzianism</i>, and this Religion of his had this one +absolutely necessary Consequence in it, that a Man could not be +sincerely and heartily of this, but he must be an Implacable hater +of both the other. As this is laid down as a previous Supposition, +we are with the same Reason to imagine this Prince to be entirely +bent upon the Suppression and Destruction of both the other, if not +<i>absolutely</i> as to Life and Estate, yet <i>entirely</i> as to +Religion.</p> + +<p>To bring this the more readily to pass like a true Polititian, +had his Methods and Particulars been equally Politick with his +Generals, he began at the right End, <i>viz.</i> to make the Breach +between the <i>Solunnarian Church</i>, and the <i>Crolian +Dissenters</i> as wide as possible, and to do this it was resolv'd +to shift Sides, and as the Crown had always took part with the +Church, crush'd, humbl'd, persecuted, and by all means possible +mortify'd the Dissenters, as is noted in the Reign of his +Predecessor. This Prince resolv'd to caress, cherish, and encourage +the <i>Crolians</i> by all possible Arts and outward Endearments, +not so much that they purpos'd them any real Favour, <i>for the +destruction of both was equally determin'd</i>, nor so much that +they expected to draw them over to <i>Abrogratzianism</i>, but Two +Reasons may be suppos'd to give Rise to this Project.</p> + +<p>1. The <i>Lunarian Church</i> +Party had all along Preach'd up for a part of their Religion, that +<i>Absolute undisputed Obedience</i>, was due from every Subject to +their Prince without any <i>Reserve</i>, Reluctance or +<i>Repining</i>; that as to Resistance, it was Fatal to +<i>Body</i>, <i>Soul</i>, <i>Religion</i>, <i>Justice</i> and +<i>Government</i>; and tho' the Doctrine was Repugnant to +<i>Nature</i>, and to the very Supreme Command it self, yet he that +resisted, receiv'd to himself Damnation, just <i>for all the +World</i> like our Doctrine of <i>Passive Obedience</i>. Now tho' +these <i>Solunarian</i> Church-Men did not absolutely believe all +they said themselves to be true, yet they found it necessary to +push these things to the uttermost Extremities, because they might +the better fix upon the <i>Crolian Dissenters</i>, the Charge of +professing less Loyal Principles than they. For as to the +<i>Crolians</i>, they profess'd openly they would pay Obedience to +the Prince, as far as the Laws directed, <i>but no farther</i>.</p> + +<p>These things were run up to strange heights, and the People were +always falling out about what they would do, or wou'd not do, if +things were <i>so or so</i>, as they were not, and <i>were never +likely to be</i>; and the hot Men on both sides were every now and +then going together by the Ears about <i>Chimeras</i>, Shadows, +<i>May-be's</i> and <i>Supposes</i>.</p> + +<p>The hot Men of the <i>Solunarian Church</i> were for knocking +the <i>Crolians</i> in the Head, because as they said they were +<i>Rebels</i>, their <i>Fathers</i> were Rebels, and they would +certainly turn Rebels again upon occasion.</p> + +<p>The <i>Crolians</i> insisted upon it, that they had nothing to +do with what was done before they were Born, that if they were +Criminal, because their Fathers were so, then a great many who were +now of the <i>Solunarian Church</i> were as Guilty as they, several +of the best Members of that Church having been Born of +<i>Crolian</i> Parents.</p> + +<p>In the matter of Loyalty they insisted upon it, they were as +Loyal as the <i>Solunarians</i>, for that they were as Loyal as +Nature, Reason and the Laws both of God and Man requir'd, and what +the Other talk'd of <i>more</i>, was but a meer pretence, and so it +would be found if ever their Prince should have occasion to put +them to the Tryal, that he that pretended to go beyond the Power of +Nature and Reason, <i>must indeed go beyond them</i>, and they +never desir'd to be brought into the extream, but they were ready +at any time to shew such Proofs, and give such Demonstrations of +their Loyalty, as would satisfy any reasonable Prince, and <i>for +more they had nothing to say</i>.</p> + +<p>In this posture of Affairs, this new Prince found his Subjects +when he came to the Crown, the <i>Solunarian Church</i> Caress'd +him, and notwithstanding his being Devoted to the <i>Abrogratzian +Faith</i>, they Crown'd him with extraordinary Acclamations.</p> + +<p>They were the rather enclin'd to push this forward by how much +they thought it would singularly mortify the <i>Crolians</i>, and +all the sorts of <i>Dissenters</i>, for they had all along declar'd +their abhorrence of the <i>Abrogratzians</i> to such a Degree that +they publickly endeavour'd to have got a general Concurrence of the +whole Nation in the Publick <i>Cortez</i>, or <i>Dyet</i> of the +Kingdom, to have joyn'd with them in Excluding this very Prince by +Name, and all other Princes that should ever embrace the +<i>Abrogratzian</i> Faith.</p> + +<p>And it wanted but a very little of bringing it to pass, for +almost all the Great Men of the Nation, tho' <i>Solunarians</i>, +yet that were Men of <i>Temper</i>, Moderation, and +<i>Fore-sight</i>, were for this exclusive Law. But the <i>High +Priests</i> and <i>Patriarchs</i> of the <i>Solunarian Church</i> +prevented it, and upon pretence of this <i>Passive Obedience +Principle</i>, made their Interest and gave their Voices for +Crowning, or Entailing the Crown and Government on the Head of one +of the most Implacable Enemies both to their Religion and Civil +Right that ever the Nation saw; <i>but they liv'd to Repent it too +late</i>.</p> + +<p>This Conquest over the <i>Crolians</i> and the <i>Moderate +Solunarians</i>, if it did not suppress them entirely, it yet gave +the other Part such an ascendant over them, that they made no Doubt +when that Prince came to the Crown, they had done so much to oblige +him, that he could deny them nothing, and therefore in expectation +they swallow'd up the whole Body of the <i>Crolians</i> at once, +and began to talk of nothing less than Banishing them to the +Northern part of the Country, or to certain Islands, and Countries +a vast way off, where formerly great numbers of them had fled for +shelter in like Cases.</p> + +<p>And this was the more probable by an unhappy Stroke these +<i>Crolians</i> attempted to strike, <i>but miscarry'd</i> in at +the very beginning of this Prince's Reign: for as they had always +profest an aversion to this Prince on account of his Religion, as +soon as their other King was dead, they set up one of his Natural +Sons against this King, which the <i>Solunarians</i> had so +joyfully Crown'd. This young Prince invaded his Dominions, and +great Numbers of the most zealous <i>Crolians</i> joyn'd him---- +But to cut the Story short, he was entirely routed by the Forces of +the new Prince, for all the <i>Solunarian Church</i> joyn'd with +him against the <i>Crolians</i> without any respect to the Interest +of Religion, so they overthrew their Brethren: The young invaded +Prince was taken and put to Death openly, and <i>Great +Cruelties</i> were exercis'd in cold Blood upon the poor unhappy +People that were taken in the Defeat!</p> + +<p>Thus a second time these Loyal <i>Solunarian Church-men</i> +Establish'd their Enemy, and built up what they were glad +afterwards to pull down again, and to beg the assistance of those +<i>Crolians</i> whom they had so rudely handled, to help them +demolish the Power they had erected themselves, and which now began +to set its foot upon the Throat of those that nourish'd and +supported it.</p> + +<p>Upon this exceeding Loyalty and blind Assistance given to their +Prince, the <i>Solunarians</i> made no question but they had so +Eternally bound him to them, that it would be in their Power to +pull down the very Name of <i>Crolianism</i>, and utterly destroy +it from the Nation.</p> + +<p>But the time came on to Undeceive them, for this Prince, whose +Principle as an <i>Abrogratzian</i>, was to destroy them both, as +it happened, was furnish'd with Counsellors and Ecclesiasticks of +his own Profession, ten thousand Times more bent for their general +Ruin, than himself.</p> + +<p>For abstracted from the Venom and Rancour of his Profession as +an <i>Abrogratzian</i>, and from the furious Zeal of his +<i>Bramin</i>, Priests, and Religious People, that continually hung +about him, and that prompted him to act against his Temper and +Inclination, by which he ruin'd all, he was else a <i>forward</i> +and <i>generous</i> Prince, and likely to have made his People +Great and Flourishing.</p> + +<p>But his <i>furious Church-Men</i> ruin'd all his good Designs, +and turn'd all his Projects to compass the Introduction of his own +Religion into his Dominions.</p> + +<p>Nay, and had he not fatally been push'd on by such as really +design'd his Ruin, to drive this deep Design on too hastily and +turn the Scale of his Management from a close and conceal'd, to an +open and profess'd Design, he might have gone a great way with +it.--------- Had he been content to have let that have been twenty +Year a doing, which he impatiently as well as preposterously +attempted all at once.------- <i>Wise Men have thought</i> he might +in time have supprest the <i>Solunarian Religion</i>, and have set +up his own.</p> + +<p>To give a short Scheme of his Proceedings, and with them of the +reason of his Miscarriage.</p> + +<p>1. Having defeated the Rebellious +<i>Crolians</i>, as is before noted, and reflecting on the Danger +he was in upon the sudden Progress of that Rebellion, for indeed he +was within a trifle of Ruin in that Affair; and had not the +<i>Crolians</i> been deceiv'd by the darkness of the Night and led +to a large Ditch of Water, which they could not pass over, they had +certainly surpriz'd and overthrown his Army, and cut them in +pieces, before they had known who had hurt them. Upon the Sense of +this Danger, he takes up a pretence of necessity for the being +always ready to resist <i>the Factious Crolians</i>, as he call'd +them, and by that Insinuation hooks himself into a <i>standing Army +in time of Peace</i>; ----- nay, and so easy were the <i>Solunarian +Church</i> to yield up any point, which they did but imagin would +help to crush their Brethren the <i>Crolians</i>, that they not +only consented to this unusual Invasion of their antient Liberties, +but sent up several <i>Testimonials</i> of their free Consent, nay, +and of their Joy of having arriv'd to so great a Happiness, as to +have a Prince that <i>setting aside the formality of Laws</i> would +vouchsafe to Govern them by the glorious Method of a <i>Standing +Army</i>.------</p> + +<p>These <i>Testimonials</i> were things not much unlike <i>our +Addresses</i> in <i>England</i>, and which when I heard I could not +but remember our Case, in the time of the late King <i>James</i>, +when the City of <i>Carlisle</i> in their Address, <i>Thankt his +Majesty</i> for the Establishing a Standing Army in <i>England</i> +in time of Peace, calling it the <i>Strength, and Glory</i> of the +Kingdom.</p> + +<p>So strong is the Ambition and Envy of Parties, these +<i>Solunarian Gentlemen</i> not grudging to put out one of their +own eyes, so they might at the same time put out both the Eyes of +their Enemies; the <i>Crolians</i> rather consented to this badge +of their own Slavery, and brought themselves who were a free People +before, under the Power and Slavery of the Sword.</p> + +<p>The ease with which this Prince got over so considerable a Point +as this, made him begin to be too credulous and to perswade himself +that the <i>Solunarian Church-Men</i> were really in earnest, as to +their Pageant-Doctrin of <i>Non-Resistance</i>, and that as he had +seen them bear with strange extravagancies on the <i>Crolian</i> +Part, they were real and in earnest when they Preach'd that Men +ought to obey for Conscience's sake, whatever hardship were impos'd +upon them, and however unjust, or contrary to the Laws of God, +Nature, Reason, or their Country; what Principle in the World could +more readily prompt a Prince to attempt what he so earnestly +coveted, as this zealous Prince did the restoring the +<i>Abrogratzian</i> Faith, for since he had but two sorts of People +to do with; one he had crush'd by force, and had brought the other +to profess it their <i>Religion</i>, their <i>Duty</i>, and their +<i>Resolution</i> to bear every thing he thought fit to Impose upon +them, and that they should be <i>Damn'd</i> if they +<i>resisted</i>, the Work seem'd half done to his Hand.</p> + +<p>And indeed when I reflected on the Coherence of things, I could +not so much blame this Prince for his venturing upon the +probability, for whoever was but to go up to this <i>Lunar +World</i> and read the Stories of that Time, with what Fury the hot +Men of the <i>Solunarian Church</i> acted against the <i>Dissenting +Crolians</i>, and with what warmth they assisted their Prince +against them, and how Cruelly they insulted them after they were +defeated in their attempt of Dethroning him, how zealously they +Preach'd up the Doctrine of absolute undisputed Resignation to his +Will, how frequently they obey'd several of his encroachments upon +their Liberties, and what solemn Protestations they made to submit +to him in any thing, and to stand by and assist him in +<i>whatever</i> he Commanded them to the <i>last Drop</i>, much +with the same Zeal and Forwardness, as our <i>Life-and-Fortune +Men</i> did here in <i>England</i>. I say, when all this was +consider'd, I could not so much condemn his Credulity, nor blame +him for believing them, for no Man could have doubted their +Sincerity, but he that at the same time must have Taxt them with +<i>most unexampled Hipocrisie</i>.</p> + +<p>For the <i>Solunarians</i> now began to discern their Prince was +not really on their side, that neither in State Matters any more +than Religion, he had any affection for them, and the first +absolute Shock he gave them, was in Publishing a general Liberty to +the <i>Crolians</i>. 'Tis true this was not out of respect to the +<i>Crolian</i> Religion any more than the <i>Solunarian</i>, but +purely because by that means he made way for an Introduction of the +<i>Abrogratzian</i> Religion which now began to appear publickly in +the Country.</p> + +<p>But however, as this was directly contrary to the expectation of +the <i>Solunarians</i>, it gave them such a disgust against their +Prince, that from that very time being disappointed in the +Soveraign Authority they expected, they entred into the deepest and +blackest Conspiracy against their Prince and his Government that +ever was heard of.</p> + +<p>Many of the <i>Crolians</i> were deluded by the new Favour and +Liberty they receiv'd from the Prince to believe him real, and were +glad of the Mortification of their Brethren; but the more Judicious +seeing plainly the Prince's Design, <i>declar'd against their own +Liberty</i>, because given them by an illegal Authority, without +the assent of the whole Body legally assembled.</p> + +<p>When the <i>Solunarians</i> saw this they easily reconcil'd +themselves to the <i>Crolians</i>, at least from the Outside of the +Face, for the carrying on their Design, and so here was a Nation +full of Plots, here was the Prince and his <i>Abrogratzians</i> +plotting to introduce their Religion, here was a parcel of blind +short-sighted <i>Crolians</i> plotting to ruin the <i>Solunarian +Establishment</i>, and weakly joining with the <i>Abrogratzians</i> +to satisfy their private Resentments; and here was the <i>wiser +Crolians</i> joining heartily with the <i>Solunarians</i> of all +sorts, laying aside private Resentments, and forgetting old Grudges +about Religion, in order to ruin the invading Projects of the +Prince and his Party.</p> + +<p>There was indeed some verbal Conditions past between them, and +the <i>Solunarians</i> willing to bring them into their Party +promised them upon the Faith of their Nation, and the Honour of the +<i>Solunarian Religion</i>, that there should be no more Hatred, +Disturbance <i>or Persecution</i> for the sake of Religion between +them, but that they would come to a Temper with them, and always be +Brethren for the future. They declared that <i>Persecution ran +contrary to their Religion in general, and to their Doctrin in +particular</i>; and backt their Allegations with some Truths they +have not since thought fit <i>to like</i>, nor much <i>to +regard</i>.</p> + +<p>However by this Artifice, and on these Conditions, they brought +the <i>Crolians</i> to join with them in their Resolutions to +countermine their designing Prince; these indeed were for doing it +by the old way down-right, and to oppose Oppression with Force, a +Doctrin they acknowledg'd, and profest to join with all the +<i>Lunar</i> part of Mankind in the practice, and began to tell +their Brethren how they had impos'd upon themselves and the World, +in pretending to absolute Submission against Nature and +<i>universal Lunarian Practice</i>.</p> + +<p>But a cunning Fellow personating a <i>Solunarian</i>, and who +was in the Plot, <i>gravely answer'd them thus</i>,</p> + +<blockquote>'Look ye, Gentlemen, we own with you +that <i>Nature</i>, <i>Reason</i>, <i>Law</i>, <i>Justice</i>, and +<i>Custom of Nations</i> is on your side, and that all Power +<i>Derives</i> from, <i>Centers</i> in, and on all Recesses or +Demises of Power <i>returns</i> to its Great Original the <i>Party +Governed:</i> Nay we own our <i>Great Eye</i> from whom all the +habitable Parts of this Globe are inlightned, has always directed +us to practice what Nature thus dictates, always approv'd and +generally succeeded the attempt of Dethroning Tyrants. But our Case +differs, <i>we have always pretended to this absolute undisputed +Obedience</i>, which we did indeed to gain the Power of your Party; +and if we should turn round at once to your Opinion, tho' never so +right, we should so fly in the Face of our own Doctrin, +<i>Sermons</i>, innumerable <i>Pamphlets</i> and +<i>Pretensions</i>, as would give all our Enemies too great a Power +over us in Argument, and we should never be able to look Mankind in +the Face: But we have laid our Measures so that by prompting the +King to <i>run upon us</i> in all sorts of bare-fac'd Extreams and +Violences, we shall bring him to exasperate the whole Nation; then +we may underhand foment the breach on this side, raise the Mob upon +him, and by acting on both sides seem to suffer a Force in falling +in with the People, and preserve our Reputation.</blockquote> + +<blockquote>'Thus we shall bring the thing to pass, +<i>betray our Prince</i>, take Arms <i>against his Power</i>, call +in <i>Foreign Force</i> to do the Work, and even then keep our +Hands seemingly out of the Broil, by being pretended Sticklers for +our former Prince; so save our Reputation, and bring all to pass +with Ease and Calmness; while the eager Party of the +<i>Abrogratzians</i> will do their own Work by expecting we will do +it for them.</blockquote> + +<p>The <i>Crolians</i> astonish'd both at the Policy, the Depth, +the Knavery and the Hypocrisy of the Design, left them to carry it +on, owning it was a Masterpiece of Craft, and so stood still to +observe the Issue, which every way answer'd the exactness of its +Contrivance.</p> + +<p>When I saw into the bottom of all this Deceit, I began to take +up new Resolutions of returning back into <i>our Old World +again</i>, and going home to <i>England</i>, where tho' I had +conceiv'd great Indignation at the Treatment our <i>Passive +Obedience Men</i> gave their Prince here, and was in hopes in these +my remote Travels to have found out some Nations of Honour and +Principles. I was fill'd with Amazement to see our <i>Moderate +Knaves</i> so much <i>out-done</i>, and I was inform'd that all +these things were meer Amusements, Vizors, and Shams, to bring an +Innocent Prince into the Snare.</p> + +<p>Would any Mortal imagin who has read this short Part of the +Story, that all this was <i>a Solunarian Church Plot</i>, a meer +Conspiracy between these Gentlemen and the <i>Crolian +Dissenters</i>, only to wheedle in the unhappy Prince to his own +Destruction, and bring the popular Advantage of the Mob, to a +greater Ascendant on the Crown.</p> + +<p>Of all the <i>Richlieus</i>, <i>Mazarines</i>, +<i>Gondamours</i>, <i>Oliver Cromwels</i>, and the whole Train of +Polititians that our World has produc'd, the greatest of their Arts +are Follies to the unfathomable depth of these <i>Lunarian +Policies</i>; and for <i>Wheedle</i>, <i>Lying</i>, +<i>Swearing</i>, <i>Preaching</i>, <i>Printing</i>, &c. what is +said in our World by <i>Priests</i> and <i>Polititans</i>, we thank +God <i>may be believ'd</i>; but if ever I believe a <i>Solunarian +Priest</i> Preaching Non-Resistance of Monarchs, or a <i>Solunarian +Polititian</i> turning <i>Abrogratzian</i>, I ought to be mark'd +down for a Fool; nor will ever any Prince in that Country take +their Word again, if ever they have their Senses about 'em, but as +this is a most extraordinary Scene, so I cannot omit a more +particular and sufficient Relation of some Parts of it, than I us'd +to give.</p> + +<p>The <i>Solunarian Clergy</i> had carry'd on their Non-Resistance +Doctrin to such Extremities, and had given this new Prince such +unusual demonstrations of it, that he fell absolutely <i>into the +Snare</i>, and entirely believ'd them; he had try'd them with such +Impositions as they would never have born from any Prince in the +World, nor from him neither, had they not had a deep Design, and +consequently stood in need of the deepest Disguise imaginable; they +had yielded to a <i>Standing Army</i>, and applauded it as a thing +they had desir'd; they had submitted to <i>levying Taxes</i> upon +them by <i>New Methods</i>, and illegal Practices; they had yielded +to the abrogation or suspension at least of their Laws, when the +King's absolute Will requir'd it; not that they were blind, and did +not see what their Prince was doing, but that the black Design was +so deeply laid, they found it was the only way to ruin him, to push +him upon the highest Extreams, and then they should have their turn +serv'd.---- Thus if he desir'd one illegal Thing of them, they +would immediately grant two; one would have thought they had read +our Bible, <i>and the Command, when a Man takes away the Cloak, to +give him the Coat also</i>.</p> + +<p>Nor was this enough, but they seem'd willing to admit of the +publick Exercise of the <i>Abrogratzian</i> Religion in all Parts; +and when the Prince set it up in his own Chappel, they suffered it +to be set up in their Cities, and Towns, and the <i>Abrogratzian +Clergy</i> began to be seen up and down in their very Habits; a +thing which had never been permitted before in that Country, and +which the Common People began to be very uneasy at. But still the +<i>Solunarian Clergy</i>, and all such of the Gentry, especially as +were in the Plot, by their Sermons, printed Books, and publick +Discourses, carry'd on this high topping Notion of absolute +Submission, so that the People were kept under, and began to submit +to all the impositions of the Prince.</p> + +<p>These things were so acted to the Life, that not only the +Prince, but none of his <i>Abrogratzian</i> Counsellors could see +the Snare, the Hook was so finely covered by the Church-Artificers, +and the Bait so delicious, that they all swallow'd it with +eagerness and delight.</p> + +<p>But the Conspirators willing to make a sure game of it, and not +thinking the King, or all his Counsellors would drive on so fast as +they would have them, tho' they had already made a fair progress +for the Time, resolv'd to play home, and accordingly they persuade +their Prince, that they will not only submit to his Arbitrary Will, +in Matters of State, and Government, but in Matters of Religion; +and in order to carry this Jest on, <i>one of the heads of their +Politicks</i>, and a Person of great Estem for his Abilities in +Matters of State, being without question one of the ablest Heads of +all the <i>Solunarian</i> Nobility, <i>pretended to be +converted</i>, and turn'd <i>Abrogratzian</i>. This immediately +took as they desir'd, for the Prince caress'd him, and entertain'd +him with all possible endearments, proferr'd him to several Posts +of Honour and Advantage, always kept him near him, consulted him in +all Emergencies, took him with him to the <i>Abrogian</i> +Sacrifices, and he made no Scruple publickly to appear there, and +by these degrees and a <i>super-achitophalian</i> Hypocrisie, so +insinuated himself into the credulous Prince's favour, that he +became his only Confident, and absolute Master of all his +Designs.</p> + +<p>Now the Plot had its desir'd effect, for he push'd the King upon +all manner of Precipitations; and if even the <i>Abrogratzians</i> +themselves who were about the King, interpos'd for more +<i>temperate Proceedings</i>, he would call them Cowards, +Strangers, ignorant of the Temper of the <i>Lunarians</i>, who when +they were a going, might be driven, but if they were suffered to +cool and consider, would face about and fall off.</p> + +<p>Indeed the Men of Prudence and Estates among his own Party, I +mean the <i>Abrogratzians</i> in the Country, frequently warn'd him +to take more <i>moderate Measures</i>, and to proceed with more +Caution; told him he would certainly ruin them all, and himself, +and that there must be some Body about his Majesty that push'd him +upon these Extremes, on purpose to set all the Nation in a Flame, +and to overthrow all the good Designs, which with Temper and good +Conduct, might be brought to perfection.</p> + +<p>Had these wary Councils been observ'd, and a Prudence and Policy +agreeable to the mighty consequence of Things been practis'd, the +<i>Solunarian Church</i> had run a great risque of being over +thrown, and to have sunk gradually in the <i>Abrogian Errors</i>, +the People began to be drawn off gradually, and the familiarity of +the thing made it appear less frightful to unthinking People, who +had entertain'd strange Notions of the monstrous things that were +to be seen in it, so that common Vogue had fill'd the Peoples Minds +with ignorant Aversions, that 'tis no absurdity to say, I believe +there was 200000 People who would have spent the last drop of their +Blood against <i>Abrogratzianism</i>, that did not know whether it +was a <i>Man or a Horse</i>.</p> + +<p>This thing consider'd well, would of it self have been +sufficient to have made the Prince and his Friends <i>wary</i>, and +to have taught them to suit their Measures to the Nature and +Circumstances of Things before them; but <i>Success in their +beginnings</i> blinded their Eyes, and they fell into this +<i>Church Snare</i> with the most unpitied willingness that could +be imagin'd.</p> + +<p>The first thing therefore this new Counsellor put his Master +upon, in order to the beginning his more certain Ruin, was to +introduce several of his <i>Abrograzians</i> into Places of all +kinds, both in the <i>Army</i>, <i>Navy</i>, <i>Treasure</i>, and +<i>Civil Affairs</i>, tho' contrary to some of the general +Constitutions of Government; he had done it into the <i>Army</i> +before, tho' it had disgusted several of his Military Men, but now +he push'd him upon making it Universal, and still the <i>Passive +Solunarians</i> bore it with patience.</p> + +<p>From this tameness and submission, his next Step was to argue +that he might depend upon it the <i>Solunarian Church</i> had so +sincerely embrac'd the Doctrine of <i>Non-Resistance</i>, that they +were now ripen'd not only to sit still, and see their Brethren the +<i>Crolians</i> suppress'd, but to stand still and be opprest +themselves, and he might assure himself the Matter was now ripe, he +might do just what he wou'd himself with them, they were prepar'd +to bare any thing.</p> + +<p>This was the fatal Stroke, for having possest the Prince with +the belief of this, he let loose the Reins to all his long +conceal'd Desires. Down went their <i>Laws</i>, their +<i>Liberties</i>, their <i>Corporations</i>, their <i>Churches</i>, +their <i>Colleges</i>, all went to wreck, and the eager +<i>Abrograzians</i> thought the Day their own. The +<i>Solunarians</i> made no opposition, but what was contain'd +within the narrow circumference of Petitions, Addresses, +<i>Prayers, and Tears</i>; and these the Prince was prepar'd to +reject, and upon all occasions to let them know he was <i>resolv'd +to be obey'd</i>.</p> + +<p>Thus he drove on by the treacherous Advice of his new Counsels, +till he ripen'd all the Nation for the <i>general Defection</i> +which afterward follow'd.</p> + +<p>For as the Encroachments of the Prince push'd especially at +their Church Liberties, and threatened the overthrow of all their +Ecclesiastical Privileges, the Clergy no sooner began to feel that +they were like to be the first Sacrifice, but they immediately +threw off the Vizor, and beat the <i>Concionazimir</i>; this is a +certain Ecclesiastick <i>Engine</i> which is usual in cases of +general Alarm, as the Churches Signal of <i>Universal +Tumult</i>.</p> + +<p>This is truly a strange Engine, and when a Clergy-Man gets into +the Inside of it, and beats it, <i>it Roars</i>, and makes such a +terrible <i>Noise</i> from the several Cavities, that 'tis heard a +long way; and there are always a competent number of them plac'd in +all Parts so conveniently, that the Alarm is heard all over the +Kingdom in one Day.</p> + +<p>I had some Thoughts to have given the Reader a <i>Diagram</i> of +this piece of Art, but as I am but a bad Drafts Man, I have not yet +been able so exactly to describe it, as that a Scheme can be drawn, +but to the best of my Skill, take it as follows. 'Tis a <i>hollow +Vessel</i>, large enough to hold the biggest Clergy-Man in the +Nation; it is generally <i>an Octagon</i> in Figure, <i>open +before</i>, from the <i>Wast</i> upward, but whole <i>at the +Back</i>, with <i>a Flat</i> extended over it for +<i>Reverberation</i>, or doubling the Sound; <i>doubling</i> and +<i>redoubling</i>, being frequently thought necessary to be made +use of on these occasions; 'tis very Mathematically contriv'd, +erected on <i>a Pedestal of Wood</i> like a Windmil, and has a pair +of winding Stairs up to it, like those at the great Tun at +<i>Hiedlebergh</i>.</p> + +<p>I could make some <i>Hierogliphical</i> Discourses upon it, from +these References, thus. 1. That as it is erected on a Pedestal like +a Wind-Mill, so it is no new thing for the Clergy, who are the only +Persons permitted to make use of it, to make it <i>turn round with +the Wind</i>, and serve to all the Points of the Compass. 2. As the +<i>Flat</i> over it assists to encrease the Sound, by forming a +kind of hollow, or cavity proper to that purpose, so there is a +certain natural hollowness, or emptiness, made use of sometimes in +it, by the Gentlemen of the Gown, which serves exceedingly to the +propogation of all sorts of <i>Clamour</i>, <i>Noise</i>, +<i>Railing</i>, and <i>Disturbance</i>. 3. As the Stairs to it go +winding up like those by which one mounts to the vast Tun of Wine +at <i>Hiedleburgh</i>, which has no equal in <i>our World</i>, so +the use made of these ascending Steps, is not altogether different, +being frequently employ'd to raise People up to all sorts of +<i>Enthusiasms</i>, spiritual <i>Intoxications</i>, mad and +<i>extravagant Action</i>, high exalted <i>Flights</i>, +<i>Precipitations</i>, and all kinds of <i>Ecclesiastick +Drunkenness</i> and <i>Excesses</i>.</p> + +<p>The sound of this Emblem of emptiness, the <i>Concionazimir</i>, +was no sooner heard over the Nation, but all the People discover'd +their readiness to <i>join in</i> with the Summons, and as the +thing had been concerted before, they send over their Messengers to +demand Assistance from a powerful Prince beyond the Sea, one of +their own Religion, and who was allied <i>by Marriage</i> to the +Crown.</p> + +<p>They made their Story out so plain, and their King had by the +contrivance of their <i>Achitophel</i> rendred himself so suspected +to all his Neighbours, that this Prince, without any hesitation, +resolv'd to join with them, and accordingly makes vast Preparations +to invade their King.</p> + +<p>During this interval their Behaviour was quite altred at home, +the Doctrin of <i>absolute Submission</i> and <i>Non-Resistance</i> +was heard no more among them, the <i>Concionazimir</i> beat daily +to tell all the People they should stand up to Defend the Rights of +the Church, and that it was time to look about them for the +<i>Abrograzians</i> were upon them. The eager Clergy made this +<i>Ecclesiastick Engine</i> sound as loud and make all the Noise +they could, and no Men in the Nation were so forward as they to +acknowledge that it was a State-Trick, and they were drawn in to +make such a stir about the pretended Doctrins of <i>absolute +Submission</i>, that they did not see the Snare which lay under it, +that now their Eyes were opened, and they had learnt to see the +Power and Superiority of Natural Right, and would be deceiv'd no +longer. <i>Others</i> were so honest to tell the Truth, that they +knew the emptiness and weakness of the pretence all along, and knew +what they did when they Preacht it up, <i>viz. to suppress and pull +down the Crolians</i>: But they thought their Prince who <i>they +always</i> serv'd in crying up that Doctrin, and whose Exclusion +was prevented by it, would ha' had more Gratitude, or at least more +Sense, than to try the Experiment <i>upon them</i>, since whatever +to serve his Designs and their own, <i>which they always thought +well united</i>, they were willing to pretend, he could not but see +they <i>always knew better</i> than to suffer the practice of it in +their own Case. That since he had turn'd the Tables upon them, 'tis +true he had them at an advantage and might pretend <i>they were +Knaves</i>, and perhaps had an opportunity to call them so with +some reason; but they were resolv'd, since he had drove them to the +necessity of being one or t'other, tho' he might call them Knaves, +they would take care he should have no reason to <i>call them +Fools</i> too.</p> + +<p>Thus the Vapour of absolute Subjection was lost on a suddain, +and as if it had been preparatory to what was coming after, the +Experiment was quickly made; for the King persuing his +Encroachments upon the Church, and being possest with a Belief that +pursuant to their open Professions they would submit to any thing, +he made a beginning with them, in sending his positive Command to +one of his Superintendent Priests, or <i>Patriarchs</i>, to forbid +a certain Ecclesiastick to officiate any more till his Royal +Pleasure was known.</p> + +<p>Now it happen'd <i>very unluckily</i> that this Patriarch, tho' +none of the most Learned of his Fraternity, yet had always been a +mighty zealous Promoter of this blind Doctrin of +<i>Non-Resistance</i>, and had not a little triumph'd over and +insulted the <i>Crolian Dissenters</i> upon the Notion of +<i>Rebellion</i>, antimonarchical Principles and Obedience, with a +reserve for the Laws, and the like, as a scandalous practice, and +comprehensive of Faction, Sedition, dangerous to the Church and +State, and the like.</p> + +<p>This Reverend Father was singl'd out as the first Mark of the +King's Design; the <i>deluded Prince</i> believ'd he could not but +comply, having so publickly profest his being <i>all Submission</i> +and <i>absolute Subjection</i>; but as this was <i>all Conceit</i>, +he was pusht on to make the Assault where he was most certain to +meet a repulse; and this Gentleman had long since thrown off the +Mask, so his first Order was disobey'd.</p> + +<p>The <i>Patriarch</i> pretended to make humble Remonstrances, and +to offer his Reasons why he could not in Conscience, <i>as he +call'd it</i>, comply. The King, who was now made but a meer +Engine, or <i>Machine</i>, screw'd up or down by this false +Counsellor to act his approaching Destruction with his own Hand, +<i>was prompted</i> to resent this Repulse with the utmost +Indignation, to reject all manner of Submissions, Excuses or +Arguments, or any thing but an immediate, absolute compliance, +according to the Doctrin so often inculcated; and this he run on so +high, as to put <i>the Patriarch in Prison</i> for Contumacy.</p> + +<p>The <i>Patriarch</i> as absolutely refus'd to submit, and +offer'd himself to the Decision of the Law.</p> + +<p>Now it was always a sacred Rule in these <i>Lunar Countries</i>, +that both <i>King</i> and <i>People</i> are bound to stand by the +arbitrimnet of <i>the Law</i> in all Cases of Right or Claim, +whether publick or private; and this has been the reason that all +the Princes have endeavour'd to cover their Actions with pretences +of Law, <i>whatever really has been in their Design</i>; for this +reason the King could not refuse to bring the Patriarch to a Tryal, +where the Humour of the People first discover'd it self, for here +<i>Passive Obedience was Try'd and Cast</i>, the Law prov'd to be +superior to the King, the Patriarch <i>was acquitted</i>, his +Disobedience to the King <i>justify'd</i>, and the King's Command +<i>prov'd unjust</i>.</p> + +<p>The Applause <i>of the Patriarch</i>, the Acclamations of the +People, and the general Rejoycings of the whole Nation at this +Transaction, gave a black prospect to the <i>Abrograzians</i>; and +a great many of them came very honestly and humbly to the King and +told him, if he continued to go on by these Measures he would ruin +them all; they told him what general Alarm had been over the whole +Nation by the Clamours of the Clergy; and the beating of the +<i>Concionazimir</i> in all Parts, inform'd him how the Doctrin of +<i>absolute Obedience</i> was ridicul'd in all Places, and how the +Clergy began to preach it back again <i>like a Witches Prayer</i>, +and that it would infallibly raise the Devil of Rebellion in all +the Nation, they besought him to content himself with the liberty +of their Religion, and the freedom they enjoy'd of being let into +Places and Offices of Trust and Honour, and to wait all reasonable +Occasions to encrease their Advantages, and gradually to gain +Ground; they entreated him to consider the impossibility of +reducing so mighty, so obstinate, and so resolute a Nation all at +once. They pleaded how rational a thing it was to expect that by +Degrees and good Management, which by precipitate Measures would be +endanger'd and overthrown.</p> + +<p>Had these wholsome Counsels taken place in the King's Mind he +had been King to his last hour, and the <i>Solunarians</i> and +<i>Crolians</i> too had been all undone, for he had certainly +incroach'd upon them gradually, and brought that to pass in time +which by precipitant Measures he was not likely to effect.</p> + +<p>It was therefore a master-piece of Policy in the +<i>Solunarian</i> Church-men to place a feign'd Convert near their +Prince, who shou'd always biass him with contrary Advices, puff him +up with vast prospect of Success, prompt him to all Extreams, and +always Fool him with the certainty of bringing Things to pass his +own way.</p> + +<p>These Arts made him set light by the repulse he met with in the +Matter of the <i>Patriarch</i>, and now he proceeds to make two +Attacks more upon the Church; one was by putting some of his +<i>Abrograzian Priests</i> into <i>a College</i> among some of the +<i>Solunarian Clergy</i>; and the other was to oblige all the +<i>Solunarian Clergy</i> to read a certain Act of his Council, in +which his Majesty admitted all the <i>Abrograzians</i>, +<i>Crolians</i>, and all sorts of Dissenters, to a freedom of their +Religious Exercises, <i>Sacrifices</i>, <i>Exorcisms</i>, +<i>Dippings</i>, <i>Preachings</i>, &c. and to prohibit the +<i>Solunarians</i> to Molest or Disturb them.</p> + +<p>Now as this last was a bitter reproach to the <i>Solunarian +Church</i> for all the ill Treatment the <i>Dissenting Crolians</i> +had receiv'd from them, and as it was exprest in the Act that all +such Treatment was Unjust and Unchristian, so for them to read it +in their Temples, was to acknowledge that they had been guilty of +most unjust and irreligious Dealings to the <i>Crolians</i>, and +that their Prince had taken care to do them Justice.</p> + +<p>The matter of introducing the <i>Abrograzians</i> into the +Colleges or Seminaries of the <i>Solunarian Priests</i>, was +actually against the Sacred Constitutions and Foundation Laws of +<i>those Seminaries</i>.</p> + +<p>Wherefore in both these Articles they not only disobey'd their +Prince, but they oppos'd him with those <i>trifling Things call'd +Laws</i>, which they had before declar'd had no Defensive Force +against their Prince; these they had recourse to now, insisted upon +the Justice and Right devolv'd upon them by the Laws, and +absolutely refus'd their compliance with his Commands.</p> + +<p>The Prince, pusht upon the Tenters before, receiv'd their Denial +with exceeding Resentment, and was heard with deep regret, to break +out in Exclamations at their unexpected faithless Proceedings, and +sometimes to express himself thus: <i>Horrid Hypocrisy! Surprizing +Treachery! Is this the absolute Subjection which in such numerous +Testimonials or Addresses you profest, and for which you so often +and so constantly branded the poor</i> Crolians, <i>and told me +that your Church was wholly made up of Principles of Loyalty and +Obedience! But I'll be fully satisfied for this Treatment</i>.</p> + +<p>In the minute of one of those Excursions of his Passion, came +into his Presence the seemingly revolted <i>Lunarian Noble Man</i>, +and falling in with his present Passions, prompts him to a speedy +revenge; and propos'd his erecting <i>a Court of Searches</i>, +something like the <i>Spanish</i> Inquisition, giving them +plenipotentiary Authority to hear and determine all Ecclesiastical +Causes absolutely, and without Appeal.</p> + +<p>He empower'd these Judges to place by his absolute Will, all the +<i>Abrograzian</i> Students in the <i>Solunarian College</i>, and +tho' they might make a formal Hearing for the sake of the Form, yet +that by Force it should be done.</p> + +<p>He gave them Power to displace all those <i>Solunarian +Clergy</i>-Men that had refus'd to read his Act of Demission to the +<i>Abrograzian, and Crolian Dissenters</i>, and 'twas thought he +design'd to keep their Revenues in <i>Petto</i>, till he might in +time fill them up to some of his own Religion.</p> + +<p>The Commission accordingly began to act, and discovering a full +Resolution to fulfil his Command, they by Force proceeded with the +Students of the <i>Solunarian College</i>; and it was very +remarkable, that even some of the <i>Solunarian Patriarchs</i> were +of this number, who turn'd out their Brethren the <i>Solunarian +Students</i>, to place <i>Abrograzians in their room</i>.</p> + +<p>This indeed they are said to have repented of since, but +however, these it seems were not of the Plot, and therefore did not +foresee what was at hand.</p> + +<p>The rest of the <i>Patriarchs</i> who were all in the Grand +Design, and saw things ripening for its Execution, upon the +apprehension of this <i>Court of Searches</i> beginning with them, +make an humble Address to their Prince, containing the Reasons why +they could not comply with his Royal Command.------</p> + +<p>The incens'd King upbraided them with his having been told by +them of their absolute and <i>unreserv'd Obedience</i>, and +refusing their Submissions or their Reasons, <i>sent them all to +Jail</i>, and resolv'd to have brought them before his new <i>High +Court of Searches</i>, in order, as was believ'd, to have them all +displac'd.</p> + +<p>And now all began to be in a Flame, the Sollicitations of the +<i>Solunarian Party</i>, having obtain'd powerful Relief Abroad, +they began to make suitable preparations at Home. The Gentry and +Nobility who the Clergy had brought to join with them, furnish'd +themselves with Horses and Arms, and prepar'd with their Tenants +and Dependants to join the Succours as soon as they should +Arrive.</p> + +<p>In short, the Forreign Troops they had procur'd, Arriv'd, +Landed, and publish'd a long Declaration of all the Grievances +which they came to redress.</p> + +<p>No sooner was this Forreign Army arriv'd with the Prince at the +head of them, but the face of Affairs <i>altred on a suddain</i>. +The King indeed, like a brave Prince, drew all his Forces together, +and marching out of his Capital City, advanced above 500 +<i>Stages</i>, things <i>they measure Land with in those +Countries</i>, and much about <i>our Furlong</i>, to meet his +Enemy.</p> + +<p>He had a gallant Army well appointed and furnish'd, and all +things much superior to his Adversary, but alas the Poison of +Disobedience was gotten in there, and upon the first <i>March</i> +he offer'd to make towards the Enemy one of <i>his great +Captains</i> with a strong Party of his Men went over and +revolted.</p> + +<p>This Example was applauded all over the Nation, and by this time +one of the Patriarchs, even the same mention'd before that had so +often preacht Non-Resistance of Princes, lays by his Sacred +Vestments, Mitre, and Staff, and exchanging his Robes for a +Soldier's Coat, mounts on Horseback, and in short, appears in Arms +against his Lord.----- Nor was this all, but the <i>Treacherous +Prelate</i> takes along with him several <i>Solunarian Lords</i>, +and Persons of the highest Figure, and of the Houshold, and Family +of the King, and with him went the King's own Daughter, his +principle Favourites and Friends.</p> + +<p>At the News of this, the poor deserted Prince lost all Courage, +and abandoning himself to Despair, he causes his Army to retreat +without fighting a Stroke, quits them and the Kingdom at once, and +takes Sanctuary with such as could escape with him, in the Court of +a Neighbouring Prince.</p> + +<p>I have heard this Prince exceedingly blam'd, for giving himself +up to Despair so soon. ----- That he thereby abandon'd the best and +faithfullest of his Friends, and Servants, and left them to the +Mercy of the <i>Solunarians</i>; that when all these that would +have forsaken him were gone, he had Forces equal to his Enemies; +that his Men were in Heart, fresh and forward; that he should have +stood to the last; retreated to a strong Town, where his Ships rod, +and which was over against the Territories of his great Allie, to +whom he might have deliver'd up the Ships which were there, and +have thereby made him Superior at Sea to his Enemies, and he was +already much Superior at Land; that there he might have been +reliev'd with Forces too strong for them to match, and at least +might have put it to the issue of a fair Battle.------ Others, that +he might have retreated to his own Court, and capital City, and +taking possession of the Citadel, which was his own, might so have +aw'd the Citizens who were infinitely Rich, and Numerous, with the +apprehensions of having their Houses burnt, they would not have +dar'd to have declar'd for his Enemies, for fear of being reduc'd +to heaps and ruins; and that at last he might have set the City on +Fire in 500 Places, and left the <i>Solunarian Church-Men</i> a +Token to remember their <i>Non-Resisting Doctrine by</i>, and yet +have made an easy Retreat down the Harbour, to other Forts he had +below, and might with ease have destroy'd all the Shipping, as he +went.</p> + +<p>'Tis confess'd had he done either, or both these things, he had +left them a dear bought Victory, but he was depriv'd of his +Counsellor, for as soon as things came to this height, <i>the +Achitophel</i> we have so often mention'd, <i>left him also</i>, +and went away; all his <i>Abrograzian Priests too fosook him</i>, +and he was so bereft of Counsel that he fell into the Hands of his +Enemies as he was making his escape, but he got away again, not +without the connivance of the Enemy, who were willing enough he +should go; so he got a Vessel to carry him over to the Neighbouring +Kingdom, and all his Armies, Ships, Forts, Castles, Magazines, and +Treasure, fell into his Enemies Hands.</p> + +<p>The Neighbouring Prince entertain'd him very kindly, Cherish'd +him, Succour'd him, and furnish'd him with Armies and Fleets for +the recovery of his Dominions, which has occasion'd a tedious War +with that Prince, which continues to this Day.</p> + +<p>Thus far <i>Passive Doctrins</i>, and Absolute Submission serv'd +a Turn, <i>bubl'd the Prince</i>, wheedled him in to take their +Word who profess'd it, 'till he laid his Finger upon the Men +themselves, and that unravell'd all the Cheat; they were the first +that call'd in Forreign Power, and took up Arms against their +Prince.</p> + +<p>Nor did they end here, but all this Scene being over, and the +Forreign Prince having thus deliver'd them, and their own King +being thus chas'd away, the People call themselves together, and +<i>as Reason good</i>, having been deliver'd by him from the +Miseries, Brangles, Oppressions, and Divisions of the former Reign, +they thought they could do no less than to Crown their Deliverer; +and having Summon'd a general Assembly of all their <i>Capital +Men</i>, they gave the Crown to this Prince who had so generously +sav'd them.</p> + +<p>And here again I heard the first King exceedingly blam'd for +quitting his Dominions, for had he staid here, tho' he had actually +been in their Hands, unless they wou'd have Murther'd him, they +could never have proceeded to the Extremeties they did reach to, +nor cou'd they ever have Crown'd the other Prince, he being yet +alive and in his own Dominions.</p> + +<p>But by quitting the Country, they fix'd a legal Period to their +Obedience, he having deserted their Protection, and Defence, and +openly laid down the Administration.</p> + +<p>But as these sort of Politicks cannot be decided by us, unless +we know the Constitutions of those <i>Lunar Regions</i>, so we +cannot pretend to make a Decision of what might, or might not have +happen'd.</p> + +<p>It remains to examine how those <i>Solunarians</i> behav'd +themselves, who had so earnedly cryed up the Principles of +Obedience, and absolute Submission.</p> + +<p><i>Nothing was so Ridiculous</i>, now they saw what they had +done, they began to repent, and upon recollection of Thoughts some +were so asham'd of themselves, that having broken their Doctrin, +and being now call'd upon to tranfpose their Allegiance, truly they +stopt in the mid-way, and <i>so became Martyrs on both +sides</i>.</p> + +<p>I can liken these to nothing so well as to those Gentlemen of +our <i>English Church</i>, who tho' they broke into the Principles +of Passive Obedience by joining, and calling over the P. of +<i>O</i>. yet suffer'd deprivations of Benefices, and loss of their +Livings, <i>for not taking the Oath</i>; as if they had not as +<i>effectually perjur'd themselves</i> by taking up Arms against +their King, and joyning a Forreign Power, as they could possibly do +afterward, by Swearing to live quietly under the next King.</p> + +<p>But these nice Gentlemen are infinitely outdone in these +Countries, for these <i>Solunarians</i> by a true Church turn, not +only refuse to transpose their Allegiance, but pretend to wipe +their Mouths as to former taking Arms, and return to their old +Doctrins of absolute Submission, boast of Martyrdom, and boldly +reconcile the contraries of <i>taking up Arms</i>, and +<i>Non-Resistance</i>, charging all their Brethren with Schism, +Rebellion, Perjury, and the <i>damnable Sin of Resistance</i>.</p> + +<p><i>Nor is this all</i>, for as a great many of these +<i>Solunarian Church</i>-Men had no affection to this new Prince, +but were not equally furnished, or qualify'd for Martyrdom with +their Brethren; they went to certain Wise Men, who being cunning at +<i>splitting Hairs</i>, and making distinctions, might perhaps +furnish them with <i>some mediums between Loyalty and +Disloyalty</i>; they apply'd themselves with great dilligence to +these Men, and they by deep Study, and long Search, <i>either found +or made</i> the quaintest Device for them that ever was heard +of.</p> + +<p>By this unheard of Discovery, to their great Joy and +Satisfaction, they have arriv'd at a Power, which all the Wise Men +in our World could never pretend to, and which 'tis thought, could +the description of it be regularly made, and brought down hither, +would serve for the Satisfaction and Repose of a great many tender +Consciences, who are very uneasy at <i>Swearing to save their +Benefices</i>.</p> + +<p>These great Makers of Distinction, have learn't to distinguish +between <i>active</i> Swearing, and <i>passive</i> Swearing, +between <i>de facto</i> Loyalty, and <i>de jure</i> Loyalty, and by +this decent acquirement they obtain'd the Art of reconciling +<i>Swearing Allegiance without Loyalty</i>, and <i>Loyalty without +Swearing</i>, so that native and original Loyalty may be preserv'd +pure and uninterrupted, in spight of all <i>subsequent Oaths, to +prevailing Usurpations</i>.</p> + +<p>Many are the Mysteries, and vast the Advantages of this new +invented Method, <i>Mental Reservations</i>, <i>Inuendoes</i>, and +Double Meanings <i>are Toys to this</i>, for they may be provided +for in the litteral terms of an Oath, but no Provision can be made +against this; for these Men after they have taken the Oath, make no +Scruple to declare, <i>they only Swear to be quiet, as long as they +can make no Disturbance</i>; that they are left liberty still to +espouse the Interest and Cause of their former Prince, they nicely +distinguish between <i>Obedience</i> and <i>Submission</i>, and +tell you a <i>Slave taken into Captivity</i>, tho' he Swears <i>to +live peaceably</i>, does not thereby renounce his <i>Allegiance</i> +to his natural Prince, nor abridge himself of a Right to attempt +his own Liberty <i>if ever opportunity present</i>.</p> + +<p>Had these neat Distinctions been found out before, none of our +<i>Solunarian Clergy</i>, no not the <i>Patriarchs</i> themselves +surely would have stood out, and suffer'd such Depredations on +their Fortunes and Characters as they did; they wou'd never have +been such Fools to have been turn'd out of their Livings for not +Swearing, when they might have learnt here that they <i>might have +swore to one Prince, and yet have retain'd their Allegiance to +another</i>; might have taken an Oath to the new, without +impeachment of their old Oaths to the absent Prince.------- <i>It +is great pity these Gentlemen had not gone up to the</i> Moon +<i>for Instruction in this difficult Case</i>.</p> + +<p>There they might have met with excellent Logicians, Men of most +sublime Reasons, Dr. <i>Overall</i>, Dr. <i>Sherlock</i>, and all +our nice Examiners of these things wou'd appear to be no Body to +them; for as the People in these Regions have an extraordinary +<i>Eye-sight</i>, and the clearness of the Air contributs much to +the help of their <i>Opticks</i>, so they have without doubt a +proportion'd clearness of discerning, by which they see as far +<i>into Mill-stones</i>, and all sorts of Solids, as the nature of +things will permit, but above all, their Faculties are blest with +two exceeding Advantages.</p> + +<p>1. <i>With an extraordinary distinguishing Power</i>, by which +they can distinguish <i>even Indivisibles</i>, part Unity it self, +<i>divide Principles</i>, and <i>distinguish Truth</i> into such +and so many <i>minute Particles</i>, till they dwindle it away into +a very Nose of Wax, and mould it into any Form they have occasion +for, by which means they can distinguish themselves into or out of +any Opinion, either in Religion, Politicks or Civil Right, that +their present Emergencies may call for.</p> + +<p>2. Their reasoning Faculties have this further advantage, that +upon occasion <i>they can see clearly for themselves</i>, and +<i>prevent others from the same discovery</i>, so that when they +have occasion to see any thing which presents for their own +Advantage, they can search into the Particulars, make it clear to +themselves, and yet let it remain dark and mysterious to all the +World besides. Whether this is perform'd by their exceeding +Penetration, or by casting an artificial Veil over the +Understandings of the Vulgar, <i>Authors have not yet +determin'd</i>; but that the Fact is true, admits of no +Dispute.</p> + +<p>And the wonderful Benefit of these Things in point of Dispute is +extraordinary, for they can see clearly they have the better of an +Argument, when all the rest of the World think they have not a Word +to say for themselves: 'Tis plain to them that this or that proves +a thing, when Nature, by common Reasoning, knows no such +Consequences.</p> + +<p>I confess I have seen some weak Attempts at this extraordinary +Talent, particularly in the Disputes in <i>England</i> between the +<i>Church and the Dissenter</i>, and between the <i>High and Low +Church</i>, wherein People have tollerably well convinc'd +themselves when no Body else could see any thing of the Matter, as +particularly the famous Mr. <i>W---ly</i> about the +<i>Antimonarchical Principles taught in the Dissenters +Accademies</i>; <i>ditto</i> in <i>L----sly</i>, about the +Dissenters <i>burning the City</i>, and setting Fire to their own +Houses to destroy their Neighbours; and <i>another famous +Author</i>, who prov'd that <i>Christopher Love</i> lost his Head +for attempting to pull down Monarchy by restoring King +<i>Charles</i> the Second.</p> + +<p>These indeed are some faint Resemblances of what I am upon; but +alas! these are tender sort of People, that han't obtain'd <i>a +compleat Victory over their Consciences</i>, but suffer <i>that +Trifle</i> to reproach them all the while they are doing it, to +rebel against their resolv'd Wills, and check them in the middle of +the Design; from which Interruptions arise Palpitations of the +Heart, Sickness and squeamishness of Stomach; and these have +proceeded to <i>Castings and Vomit</i>, whereby they have been +forc'd sometimes to throw up some such unhappy Truths as have +confounded all the rest, and flown in their own Faces so violently, +as in spight of Custom has made them blush and look downward; and +tho' in kindness to one another they have carefully lickt up <i>one +anothers Filth</i>, yet this unhappy squeamishness of Stomach has +spoil'd all the Design, and turn'd the Appetites of their Party, to +the no small prejudice of a Cause that stood in need of more Art +and <i>more Face</i> to carry it on as it shou'd be with a +thoro'-pac'd <i>Case-harden'd Policy</i>, such as I have been +relating, is compleatly obtain'd in these Regions, where the Arts +and Excellencies of sublime Reasonings are carried up to all the +extraordinaries of <i>banishing Scruples</i>, reconciling +Contradictions, <i>uniting Opposites</i>, and all the necessary +Circumstances requir'd in a compleat Casuist.</p> + +<p>'Tis not easily conceivable to what extraordinary Flights they +have carry'd this strength of Reasoning, for besides the +distinguishing nicely between Truth and Error, they obtain a most +refin'd Method of distinguishing <i>Truth it self into Seasons and +Circumstances</i>, and so can bring any thing to be Truth, when it +serves the turn that happens just then to be needful, and make the +same thing to be false at another time.</p> + +<p>And this method of <i>circumstantiating Matters of Fact</i> into +Truth or Falshood, suited to occasion, is found admirably useful to +the solving the most difficult <i>Phænomena of State</i>, for +by this Art the <i>Solunarian Church</i> made Persecution be +against their Principles at one time, and reducible to Practice at +another. They made <i>taking up Arms</i>, and calling in Foreign +Power to depose their Prince, <i>consistent with Non-Resistance, +and Passive Obedience</i>; nay they went farther, they distinguisht +between <i>a Crolian's</i> taking Arms, and <i>a Solunarians</i>, +and fairly prov'd this to be <i>Rebellion</i> and that to be +<i>Non-Resistance</i>.</p> + +<p>Nay, and which exceeded all the Power of human Art in the +highest degrees of Attainment that ever it arriv'd to on <i>our +side the Moon</i>; they turn'd the Tables so dexterously, as to +argument upon one sort of <i>Crolians</i>, call'd +<i>Prestarians</i>; that tho' they repented of the War they had +rais'd in former Times, and protested against the violence offer'd +their Prince; and after another Party had <i>in spight of them</i> +Beheaded him, <i>took Arms</i> against the <i>other Party</i>, and +never left contriving their Ruin, till they had <i>brought in his +Son</i>, and set him upon the Throne again.</p> + +<p>Yet by this most dextrous way of <i>Twisting</i>, +<i>Extending</i>, <i>Contracting</i>, and <i>Distinguishing</i> of +Phrases and Reasoning, they presently made it as plain as the Sun +at Noon Day; that these <i>Prestarians</i> were +<i>King-killers</i>, Common-wealths Men, <i>Rebels</i>, Traytors, +and <i>Enemies to Monarchy</i>; that they <i>restor'd</i> the +Monarchy only in order <i>to Destroy it</i>, and that they Preach'd +up <i>Sedition</i>, <i>Rebellion</i> and the like: This was prov'd +so plain by these <i>sublime Distinctions</i>, that they convinc'd +themselves and their Posterity of it, by a rare and newly acquir'd +Art, found out <i>by extraordinary Study</i>, which proves the +wonderful power of <i>Custom</i>, insomuch, that let any Man by +this method, <i>tell a Lye over a certain number of times</i>, he +shall arrive to a Satisfaction <i>of its certainty</i>, tho' he +knew it to be <i>a Fiction before</i>, and shall freely <i>tell it +for a Truth all his life after</i>.</p> + +<p>Thus the <i>Prestarians</i> were call'd the Murtherers of <i>the +Father</i>, tho' they restor'd <i>the Son</i>, and all the +Testimonials of their Sufferings, Protests and Insurrections to +prevent his Death, <i>signify'd nothing</i>, for this method of +<i>Distinguishing</i> has that powerful Charm in it, that all +<i>those Trifles</i> we call Proofs and Demonstration were of no +use in that Case. <i>Custom</i> brought the Story up to a Truth, +and in an instant all the <i>Crolians</i> were hookt in under the +general Name of <i>Prestarians</i>, at the same time to hook all +Parties in the Crime.</p> + +<p>Now as it happen'd at last that these <i>Solunarian +Gentlemen</i> found it necessary to <i>do the same thing +themselves</i>, viz. To lay aside their Loyalty, <i>Depose</i>, +<i>Fight</i> against, <i>shoot Bullets</i> at, and throw Bombs +<i>at their King</i> till they frighted him away, and <i>sent him +abroad to beg his Bread</i>. The <i>Crolians</i> began to take +Heart and tell them, now they ought <i>to be Friends with them</i>, +and tell them no more of <i>Rebellion</i> and <i>Disloyalty</i>; +nay, they carry'd it so far as to challenge them to bring <i>their +Loyalty to the Test</i>, and compare <i>Crolian Loyalty</i> and +<i>Solunarian Loyalty</i> together, and see who had <i>rais'd more +Wars</i>, taken up Arms <i>oftenest</i>, or appear'd in <i>most +Rebellions</i> against their Kings; nay, who had <i>kill'd most +Kings</i>, the <i>Crolians</i> or the <i>Solunarians</i>, for there +having been then newly fought a great Battle between the +<i>Solunarian Church-Men</i> under their new Prince, and the Armies +of Foreign Succours under <i>their old King</i>, in which their +<i>old King</i> was beaten and forc'd to flie a second time, the +<i>Crolians</i> told them that every Bullet they shot at the Battle +was as much <i>a murthering their King</i>, as cutting off the Head +<i>with a Hatchet</i> was a killing his Father.</p> + +<p>These Arguments in our World would have been unanswerable, but +when they came to be brought to <i>the Test of Lunar Reasoning</i>, +alas they signify'd nothing; they <i>distinguisht</i> and +<i>distinguisht</i> till they brought the <i>Prestarian War</i> to +be meer Rebellion, <i>King-killing</i>, Bloody and +<i>Unnatural</i>; and the <i>Solunarian</i> fighting against their +King, and <i>turning him adrift</i> to seek his Fortune, <i>no +prejudice at all to their Loyalty</i>, no, nor to the famous +Doctrine of <i>Passive Obedience</i> and Absolute Subjection.</p> + +<p><i>When I saw this</i>, I really bewail'd the unhappiness of +some of our Gentlemen in <i>England</i>, who standing exceedingly +in need of such a wonderful Dexterity of Argument to defend their +share <i>in our late Revolution</i>, and to reconcile it to their +<i>anticedent</i> and <i>subsequent</i> Conduct, should not be +furnish'd from this more <i>accurate World</i> with the suitable +Powers, in order the better to defend them against the +<i>Banter</i> and <i>just Raillery</i> of their ill-natur'd Enemies +<i>the Whigs</i>.</p> + +<p>By this they might have attained suitable reserves of Argument +to distinguish themselves <i>out of their Loyalty</i>, and <i>into +their Loyalty</i>, as occasion presented to dismiss <i>this</i> +Prince, and entertain <i>that</i>, as they found it to their +purpose; but above all, they might have learnt a way how to justify +<i>Swearing</i> to one King and <i>Praying</i> for another, +<i>Eating</i> one Prince's Bread and <i>doing</i> another Prince's +<i>Work</i>, <i>Serving</i> one King they don't <i>Love</i> and +<i>Loving</i> another they don't <i>Serve</i>; they might easily +reconcile the Schisms of the Church, and prove they are still Loyal +Subjects <i>to King James</i>, while they are only forc'd Bonds-Men +to the <i>Act of Settlement</i>, for the sake of that comfortable +Importance, call'd <i>Food and Rainment</i>; and thus their +Reputation might have been sav'd, which is most <i>unhappily +tarnish'd</i> and blur'd, with the malicious Attacks of <i>the +Whigs</i> on one Hand, and the <i>Non-Jurants</i> on the other.</p> + +<p><i>These</i> Tax them as above with Rebellion by their own +Principles, and contradicting the Doctrin of <i>Passive +Submission</i> and Non-Resistance, by taking up Arms against their +Prince, calling in a <i>Foreign Power</i>, and deposing him: They +charge them with killing the <i>Lord's Anointed</i>, by Shooting at +him <i>at the Boyn</i>, where if he was not kill'd it was his own +fault, at least 'tis plain <i>'twas none of theirs</i>.</p> + +<p>On the other Hand, the <i>Non Jurant Clergy</i> charge them with +<i>Schism</i>, declare the whole Church of <i>England</i> +<i>Schismaticks</i>, and breakers off from the general Union of the +Church, in renouncing their Allegiance, and Swearing to <i>another +Power</i>, their former Prince being <i>yet alive</i>.</p> + +<p>'Tis confest all <i>the Answers</i> they have been able to make +to these things, are <i>very weak</i> and <i>mean</i>, unworthy Men +of their Rank and Capacities, and 'tis pity they should not be +assisted by some kind Communication of these <i>Lunar Arguments</i> +and <i>Distinctions</i>, without which, and till they can obtain +which, a <i>Conforming Jacobite</i> must be the absurdest +Contradiction in Nature; a thing that admits of no manner of +Defence, no, not by the <i>People themselves</i>, and which they +would willingly abandon, but that they can find no side to join +with them.</p> + +<p>The <i>Dissenting Jacobites</i> have some Plea for themselves, +for let their Opinion be never so repugnant to their own Interest, +or general Vogue, they are <i>faithful to some thing</i>, and they +wont joyn with these People, because they have <i>Perjur'd their +Faith</i>, and yet pretend to adhere to it at the same time. The +<i>Conforming Whigs</i> won't receive them, because they pretend to +rail at the Government they have Sworn to, and espouse the Interest +they have Sworn against; so that these <i>poor Creatures</i> have +but one way left them, which is <i>to go along with me</i>, next +time I Travel <i>to the Moon</i>, and that will most certainly do +their Business, for when they come down again, they will be quite +<i>another sort of Men</i>, the Distinctions, the Power of +Argument, the way of Reasoning, they will be then furnish'd with +will quite change <i>the Scene of the World with them</i>, they'll +certainly be able to prove they are the only People, both <i>in +Justice</i>, in <i>Politicks</i> and in <i>Prudence</i>; that the +extremities of every side are <i>in the Wrong</i>, they'll prove +their Loyalty preserv'd, untainted, thro' all the <i>Swearings</i>, +<i>Fightings</i>, <i>Shootings</i> and the like, and no Body will +be able <i>to come to the Test with them</i>; so that upon the +whole, they are all distracted if they don't <i>go up to the +Moon</i> for Illumination, and that they may easily do in the next +<i>Consolidator</i>.</p> + +<p>But as this is a very long Digression, and for which I am to beg +my Reader's Pardon, being an Error I slipt into from my abundant +respect to these Gentlemen, and for their particular Instruction, I +shall endeavour to make my Reader amends, by keeping more close to +my Subject.</p> + +<p>To return therefore to the Historical part of the <i>Solunarian +Church-Men</i>, in <i>the World in the Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>Having as is related <i>Depos'd their King</i>, and plac'd the +Crown upon the Head of the Prince that came to their assistance, a +new Scene began all over the Kingdom.</p> + +<p>1. <i>A terrible and bloody +War</i> began thro' all the parts of the <i>Lunar World</i>, where +their banish'd Prince and his new Allie had any Interest; and the +new King having a universal Character over all the Northern +Kingdoms of the Moon, he brought in a great many Potent +<i>Kings</i>, <i>Princes</i>, <i>Emperors</i> and <i>States</i>, to +take part with him, and so it became the most general War that had +happen'd in those Ages.</p> + +<p>I did not trouble my self to enquire into the particular +Successes <i>of this War</i>, but at what had a more particular +regard to the Country from whence I came, and <i>for whose +Instruction</i> I have design'd <i>these Sheets</i>, the Strife +<i>of Parties</i>, the Internal Feuds at home, and their <i>Analogy +to ours</i>; and whatever is instructively to be deduced from them, +was the Subject of immediate Inquiry.</p> + +<p>No sooner was this Prince plac'd on the Throne, but according to +his Promises to them that invited him over, he conven'd the Estates +of the Realm, and giving them free Liberty to <i>make</i>, +<i>alter</i>, <i>add</i> or <i>repeal</i>, all such Laws as they +thought fit, it must be <i>their own fault</i> if they did not +Establish themselves upon such Foundation of <i>Liberty</i>, and +<i>Right</i>, as they desir'd; for he gave them their <i>full +Swing</i>, never interpos'd <i>one Negative</i> upon them for +several Years, and let them do almost every thing they pleas'd.</p> + +<p>This <i>full Liberty</i> had like to have spoil'd all, for as is +before noted, this Nation had <i>one unhappy Quality</i> they could +never be broke of, always to <i>be falling out</i> one among +another.</p> + +<p>The <i>Crolians</i>, according to Capitulation, demanded the +full Liberty and Toleration of Religion, which the +<i>Solunarians</i> had condition'd with them for, when they drew +them off from joyning with the <i>old King</i>, and when they +promis'd to come <i>to a Temper</i>, and to <i>be Brethren in Peace +and Love ever after</i>.</p> + +<p>Nor were the <i>Solunarian</i> Church-Men backward, either to +remember, or perform the Conditions but by the consent of the King, +who had been by agreement made <i>Guarantee of their former +Stipulations</i>, an Act was drawn up in full Form, and as +compleat, as both satisfy'd the desires of the <i>Crolians</i>, and +testify'd the Honesty and Probity of the <i>Solunarians</i>, as +they were abstractedly and <i>moderately</i> consider'd.</p> + +<p>During the whole Reign of this King, this <i>Union of +Parties</i> continu'd without any considerable Interruption, there +was indeed <i>brooding Mischiefs</i> which hovered over every +accident, in order to <i>generate Strife</i>, but the Candor of the +Prince, and the Prudence of his Ministers, kept it under for a long +time.</p> + +<p>At last an occasion offer'd it self, which gave an unhappy +Stroke to the Nation's Peace. The King thro' <i>innumerable +Hazards</i>, terrible <i>Battles</i> and <i>a twelve Years War</i>, +had reduc'd his powerful Adversary to such a necessity of Peace, +that he became content to abandon <i>the fugitive King</i>, and to +own the Title of this Warlike Prince; and upon these, among various +other Conditions, <i>very Honourable for him</i>, and his Allies, +and by which vast Conquests were surrendred, and <i>disgorg'd to +the Losers</i>, a Peace was made to the Universal Satisfaction of +all those Parts of <i>the Moon</i> that had been involv'd in a +tiresome and expensive War.</p> + +<p>This Peace was no sooner made, but the Inhabitants of this +unhappy Country, according <i>to the constant Practice</i> of the +Place, fell out in the most horrid manner among themselves, and +with the very Prince that had done all these <i>great things for +them</i>; and I cannot forget how the Old Gentleman I had these +Relations from, being once deeply engag'd in Discourse with <i>some +Senators</i> of that Country, and hearing <i>them reproach the +Memory of that Prince</i> from whom they <i>receiv'd so much</i>, +and on the foot of whose <i>Gallantry</i> and <i>Merit</i> the +Constitution <i>then subsisted</i>, it put him into some heat, and +he told them to their Faces that they were guilty both of +<i>Murther and Ingratitude</i>.</p> + +<p>I thought the Charge was very high, but as they return'd upon +him, and challeng'd him to make it out, he answer'd he was <i>ready +to do it</i>, and went on thus.</p> + +<p>His Majesty, <i>said he</i>, left a quiet, retir'd, compleatly +happy Condition, <i>full of Honour</i>, belov'd of his Country, +<i>Vallu'd</i> and <i>Esteem'd</i>, as well <i>as Fear'd</i> by his +Enemies, to come over hither at your own Request, to deliver you +from the Encroachments and Tyranny <i>as you call'd it</i>, of your +Prince.</p> + +<p>Ever since he came hither, he has been your meer +<i>Journy-Man</i>, your <i>Servant</i>, your <i>Souldier of +Fortune</i>, he has <i>Fought</i> for you, <i>Fatigu'd</i> and +<i>Harras'd</i> his Person, and <i>rob'd himself</i> of all his +Peace <i>for you</i>; he has been in a constant Hurry, and run +thro' <i>a Million of Hazards for you</i>; he has convers'd with +Fire and Blood, <i>Storms at Sea</i>, Camps and Trenches ashore, +and given himself no rest for <i>twelve Years</i>, and all for +<i>your Use</i>, Safety and Repose: In requital of which, he has +been always treated with <i>Jealousies</i>, and <i>Suspitions</i>, +with <i>Reproaches</i>, and <i>Abuses of all Sorts</i>, and on all +Occasions, till the ungrateful Treatment of the <i>Solunarians</i> +eat into <i>his very Soul</i>, tir'd it with serving <i>an +unthankful Nation</i>, and absolutely <i>broke his Heart</i>; for +which reason I think him <i>as much Murther'd</i> as his +Predecessor was, <i>whose Head was cut off</i> by his Subjects.</p> + +<p>I could not when this was over, but ask the <i>Old +Gentlemen</i>, what was the reason of his Exclamation, and how it +was the People treated their Prince upon this occasion?</p> + +<p>He told me it was a grievous Subject, and a long one, and too +long to rehearse, but he would give me a short Abridgment of it; +and not to look back into his Wars, in which he was abominably ill +serv'd, <i>his subjects constantly ill treated him</i> in giving +him Supplies <i>too late</i>, that he cou'd not get into the Field, +nor forward his Preparations <i>in time</i> to be ready for his +Enemies, who frequently were ready to insult him in his +Quarters.</p> + +<p>By giving him <i>sham Taxes</i> and <i>Funds, that raised little +or no Mony</i>, by which he having borrow'd Mony of his People by +Anticipation, the Funds not answering, he contracted such <i>vast +Debts</i> as the Nation <i>could never Pay</i> which brought the +War <i>into disrepute</i>, sunk the Credit of his Exchequer, and +fill'd the Nation with Murmurs and Complaint.</p> + +<p><i>By betraying his Counsel</i> and well laid Designs to his +Enemies, <i>selling their Native Country to Foreigners</i>, +retarding their Navies and Expeditions, till the Enemies were +provided to receive them, <i>betraying their Merchants</i> and +Trade, spending vast Sums to fit out Fleets, <i>just time +enough</i> to go Abroad, and do nothing, and then <i>get Home +again</i>.</p> + +<p>But as these were too numerous Evils, and too long to repeat, +the particular things he related to in his Discourse, were these +that follow.</p> + +<p>There had been <i>a hasty Peace</i> concluded with a furious and +powerful Enemy, the King <i>foresaw it would be of no +continnuace</i>, and that the demise of a neighbouring King, who by +all appearance could not live long, would certainly embroil them +again.----- He saw that Prince keep up numerous Legions of Forces, +in order to be in a posture to break the Peace with advantage. This +the King fairly represented to them, and told them the necessity of +keeping up <i>such a Force</i>, and for such a Time, at least as +might be necessary to awe the Enemy from putting any affront upon +them in case of the Death of that Prince, which they daily +expected.</p> + +<p>The Party who had all along malign'd the Prosperity of this +Prince, <i>took fire at the Offer</i>, and here began another State +Plot, which tho' it hookt in two or three sets of Men for different +Ends, yet altogether join'd in affronting and ill treating their +Prince, upon this Article of the Army.</p> + +<p><i>The Nation had been in danger enough</i> from the designs of +former Princes invading their Priviledges, and putting themselves +in a Posture to Tyrannize by the help <i>of standing Forces</i>, +and the Party that first took Fire at this Proposal tho' the very +same Men who in the time of an <i>Abrogratzian</i> Prince, were for +caressing him, and <i>giving him Thanks for his Standing Army</i>, +as has been noted before, were the very People that began the +outcry against this Demand, and <i>so specious were the +Pretences</i> they made, that they drew in the very <i>Crolians +themselves</i> upon the pretence of Liberty, and Exemption from +Arbitrary Methods of Government <i>to oppose their King</i>.</p> + +<p><i>It griev'd this good Prince</i> to be suspected of Tyrannick +Designs, and that by a Nation who he had done so much, and ventur'd +so far to save <i>from Tyranny, and Standing Armies</i>; 'twas +<i>in vain</i> he represented to them the pressing occasion; <i>in +vain</i> he gave them a Description of <i>approaching Dangers</i>, +and the threatning posture of the Enemies Armies; <i>in vain</i> he +told them of the probabilities of renewing the War, and how keeping +but <i>a needful Force</i> might be a means of preventing it; <i>in +vain</i> he propos'd the subjecting what Force should be necessary +to the Absolute Power, both as to Time and Number of their own +<i>Cortez</i> or <i>National Assembly</i>.</p> + +<p><i>It was all one</i>, the Design being form'd in the Breasts of +those who were <i>neither Friends to the Nation, nor the King</i>, +those Reasons which would have been of Force in another Case, made +them the more eager; <i>bitter Reflections were made on the +King</i>, and scurrilous Lampoons publish'd upon the Subject of +Tyrants, and Governing by Armies.</p> + +<p>Nothing could be more ungrateful to <i>a generous Prince</i>, +nor could any thing more deeply affect this King, <i>than whom</i> +none ever had a more <i>genuine, single-hearted Design for the +Peoples good</i>, but above all, like <i>Cæsar</i> in the +Case of <i>Brutus</i>, it heartily mov'd him to find himself push'd +at by those very People whom he had all along seen, pretending to +adhere to <i>his Interest</i>, and the <i>Publick Benefit</i>, +which he had always taken care should <i>never be parted</i>, and +to find these People join against this Proposal, <i>as a Design +against their Liberties</i>, and as a Foundation of Tyranny +<i>heartily and sensibly afflicted him</i>.</p> + +<p><i>It was a strange Mistery</i>, and not easily unriddled, that +those Men who had always a known aversion to the Interest of the +depos'd King should fall in with this Party, and those that were +Friends to the general Good, never forgave it them.</p> + +<p><i>All that could be said to excuse them</i>, was the Plot I am +speaking of, that by carrying this Point for that Party, they hookt +in those forward People to join in a popular Cry of Liberty and +Property, <i>things they were never fond of before</i>, and to make +some Settlement of the Peoples Claims <i>which they always had +oppos'd</i>, and which they would <i>since have been very glad to +have repeal'd</i>.</p> + +<p>So great an Ascendant had the <i>Personal Spleen</i> of this +Party over their other Principles, that they were content to <i>let +the Liberties of the People be declar'd</i> in their highest +Claims, rather than not obtain this one Article, which they knew +would <i>so exceedingly mortify their Prince</i>, and strengthen +the Nations Enemies. They freely join'd in <i>Acts of Succession, +Abjuration, Declaration</i> of the Power and <i>Claims of the +People</i>, and the Superiority of their Right to the Princes +Prerogative, and abundance of such things, <i>which they could +never be otherwise brought to</i>.</p> + +<p><i>'Tis true these were great things</i>, but 'twas thought all +this might have been obtain'd <i>in Conjunction with their +Prince</i>, rather than by putting Affronts and Mortifications upon +the Man that had next to the Influence of Heaven been the only +Agent of restoring them to a Power and Capacity of enjoying, as +well as procuring, such things as National Priviledges.</p> + +<p>'Twas vigorosly alledg'd that <i>Standing Armies in times of +Peace, were inconsistent with the Publick Safety</i>, the Laws and +Constitutions of all the Nations <i>in the Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>But these Allegations were strenuously answer'd, that it was +true without the consent of the great National Council, it was so, +but <i>that being obtain'd</i>, it was not illegal, and publick +Necessities might make that consent, not only legal, but +convenient.</p> + +<p><i>'Twas all to no purpose</i>, the whole was carry'd with a +Torrent of Clamour and Reflection against the good Prince, <i>who +consented</i>, because he would in nothing oppose the Current of +the People; but withal, told them plainly what would be the +consequences of their Heat, <i>which they have effectually found +true since</i> to their Cost, and to the loss of some Millions of +Treasure.</p> + +<p>For no sooner was this Army broke, <i>which was the best ever +that Nation saw</i>, and was justly the Terror of the Enemy, but +the great Monarch we mention'd before, broke all Measures with this +Prince and the Confederate Nations, a Proof what just apprehensions +they had of his Conduct, at the head of such an Army. For <i>they +broke with contempt</i>, a Treaty which the Prince <i>upon a +prospect of this unkindness of his People</i> had entred into with +the Enemy, and which he engag'd in, if possible, to prevent <i>a +new War</i>, which he foresaw he should be very unfit to begin, or +carry on, and which they would never have dar'd to break had not +<i>this Feud</i> happen'd.</p> + +<p>It was but a little before I came into this Country, when +<i>such repeated Accounts came</i>, of the Incroachments, Insults +and Preparations of their <i>great powerful Neighbour</i>, that all +the World saw the necessity of a War, and the very People <i>who +were to feel it most</i> apply'd to the Prince to begin it.</p> + +<p>He was forward enough to begin it, and in compliance with his +People, resolv'd on it; but <i>the Grief</i> of the usage he had +receiv'd, the unkind Treatment he had met with from those very +People that brought him thither, had <i>sunk so</i> deep upon his +Spirits, that he could never recover it; but being very weak in +Body and Mind, and join'd to a slight hurt he receiv'd by a fall +from his Horse, <i>he dyed</i>, to the unspeakable grief of all his +Subjects that wish'd well to their Native Country.</p> + +<p>This was the melancholly Account of this great Prince's end, and +I have been told that at once every Year, there is a kind <i>of +Fast</i>, or solemn Commemoration kept up for the Murther of that +former Prince, who, as I noted, <i>was Beheaded by his +Subjects</i>; So it seems some of the People, who are of Opinion +this Prince was Murther'd by the ill Treatment of his Friends, a +way which I must own, <i>is the cruellest of Deaths</i>, keep the +same Day, to commemorate his Death, and this is a Day, in which it +seems <i>both Parties are very free with one another, as to Rallery +and ill Language</i>.</p> + +<p>But the Friends of this last Prince have a double advantage, for +they also commemorate the Birth Day of this Prince, and are +generally very merry on that Day; and the custom is at their Feast +on that Day, just like our drinking Healths, they pledge one +another <i>to the immortal Memory of their Deliverer</i>; as the +Historical part of this Matter was absolutely necessary to +introduce the following Remarks, and to instruct the Ignorant in +those things, I hope it <i>shall not be thought a barren +Digression</i>, especially when I shall tell you that it is a most +exact Representation of what is yet to come in a Scene of Affairs, +of which I must make a short Abstract, by way of Introduction.</p> + +<p>The deceas'd Prince we have heard of, was succeeded by his +Sister in-Law, the second Daughter of the banish'd Prince, a Lady +of <i>an extraordinary Character</i>, of the Old Race of their +Kings, <i>a Native</i> by Birth, <i>a Solunarian</i> by Profession; +exceeding <i>Pious</i>, <i>Just</i> and <i>Good</i>, of an +<i>Honesty</i> peculiar to her self, and for which she was justly +belov'd of all sorts and degrees of her Subjects.</p> + +<p>This Princess having the Experience of her <i>Father</i> and +<i>Grand-father</i> before her, join'd to her own Prudence and +Honesty of Design; it was no wonder if she prudently shun'd all +manner of <i>rash Counsels</i>, and endeavour'd to carry it with a +steady Hand between her contending Parties.</p> + +<p>At her first coming to the Crown, she made <i>a solemn +Declaration</i> of her resolutions for <i>Peace</i> and just +Government; she gave the <i>Crolians</i> her Royal Word, that she +would inviolably preserve the <i>Toleration of their Religion and +Worship</i>, and always afford them <i>her Protection</i>, and by +this she hop'd they would <i>be easy</i>.</p> + +<p>But <i>to the Solunarians</i>, as those among whom she had been +Educated, and whose Religion she had always profess'd, been train'd +up in, and Piously persued; she express'd her self <i>with an +uncommon Tenderness</i>, told them they should be the Men of her +Favour, and those that were <i>most zealous</i> for that Church +should have most of her Countenance; and she back'd this soon after +with an unparallel'd Act of Royal Bounty to them, freely parting +with a considerable Branch <i>of her Royal Revenue</i>, for the +<i>poor Priests</i> of that Religion, of which there were many in +the remote Parts of her Kingdom.</p> + +<p>What vast Consequences, and prodigiously differing from the +Design, may Words have when mistaken and misayplyed by the Hearers. +Never were significant Expressions spoken from a sincere, honest +and generous Principle, with a single Design to ingage all the +Subjects in <i>the Moon</i>, to Peace and Union, so perverted, +misapply'd and turn'd by a Party, to a meaning directly contrary to +the Royal Thoughts of the Queen: For from this very Expression, +<i>most Zealous</i>, grew all the Divisions and Subdivisions in the +<i>Solunarian Church</i>, to the Ruin of their own Cause, and the +vast advantage of the <i>Crolian</i> Interest. The eager Men of the +Church, especially those we have been talking of, <i>hastily +catch'd</i> at this Expression of the Queen, <i>Most Zealous</i>, +and Millions of fatal Constructions, and unhappy Consequences they +made of it, some of which are as follows.</p> + +<p>1. <i>They took it to imply</i> that the Queen whatever she had +said to <i>the Crolians</i>, really design'd <i>their +Destruction</i>, and that those that were of that Opinion, must be +meant by the <i>Most Zealous</i> Members of the <i>Solunarian</i> +Church, and they could understand <i>Zeal</i> no otherwise than +their <i>own way</i>.</p> + +<p>2. From this Speech, and their mistaking the Words <i>Most +Zealous</i>, arose an unhappy Distinction among the +<i>Solunarians</i> themselves, some <i>Zealous</i>, some <i>More +Zealous</i>, which afterwards divided them into two most opposite +Parties, being fomented by an accident of a Book publish'd <i>on an +Occasion</i>, of which presently.</p> + +<p>The Consequences of this mistake, appear'd presently in the +<i>Most Zealous</i>, in their offering all possible Insults to the +<i>Crolian Dissenters</i>, Preaching them down, <i>Printing</i> +them down, and <i>Talking</i> them down, as a People not fit to be +suffer'd <i>in the Nation</i>, and now they thought they had the +Game sure.</p> + +<p>Down with the <i>Crolians</i> began to be all the Cry, and truly +the <i>Crolians themselves</i> began to be uneasy, and had nothing +to rely upon <i>but the Queens Promise</i>, which however her +Majesty always made good to them.</p> + +<p>The other Party proceeded so far, that they begun to Insult +<i>the very Queen her self</i>, upon the Matter of her Word, and +one of her College-Priests told her plainly in Print, she could not +be a true Friend to <i>the Solunarian Church</i>, if she did not +declare War against, and root out all the <i>Crolians</i> in her +Dominions.</p> + +<p>But these Proceedings met <i>with a Check</i>, by a very odd +accident: A certain <i>Author</i> of those Countries, a <i>very +mean, obscure and despicable Fellow</i>, of no great share of Wit, +but that had a very <i>unlucky way of telling his Story</i>, seeing +which way things were a going, writes a Book, and <i>Personating +this high Solunarian Zeal</i>, musters up all their Arguments, +<i>as if</i> they were his own, and strenuously pretends to prove +that <i>all the Crolians</i> ought to be Destroy'd, <i>Hang'd</i>, +<i>Banish'd</i>, and the D----l and all. As this Book was a perfect +Surprize to all the Country, so the Proceedings about it on all +sides were as extraordinary.</p> + +<p>The <i>Crolians</i> themselves were surpriz'd at it, and so +closely had the Author couch'd his Design, that they never saw +<i>the irony of the Stile</i>, but began to look about them, to see +which way they should fly to save themselves.</p> + +<p><i>The Men of Zeal</i> we talk'd of, were so blinded with the +Notion which <i>suited so exactly with their real Design</i>, that +they hugg'd the Book, <i>applauded the unknown Author</i>, and +plac'd the Book next their <i>Oraclar Writings</i>, or Laws of +Religion.</p> + +<p>The Author was all this while conceal'd, and the Paper had all +the effect he wish'd for.</p> + +<p>For as it caus'd <i>these first</i> Gentlemen to caress, applaud +and approve it, and thereby discover'd their real Intention, so it +met with Abhorrence and Detestation in all the Men of +<i>Principles</i>, <i>Prudence</i> and <i>Moderation</i> in the +Kingdom, who tho' they were <i>Solunarians</i> in Religion, yet +were not for Blood, Desolation and Persecution of their Brethren, +but <i>with the Queen</i> were willing they should enjoy their +Liberties and Estates, they behaving themselves <i>quietly and +peaceably</i> to the Government.</p> + +<p>At last it came out that it was writ by <i>a Crolian</i>; but +<i>good God</i>! what a Clamour was rais'd at the poor Man, the +<i>Crolians</i> flew at him like Lightning, <i>ignorantly and +blindly</i>, not seeing that he had sacrific'd himself and his +Fortunes in their behalf; they <i>rumag'd his Character</i> for +Reproaches, tho' they could find little that way to hurt him; they +plentifully loaded him with ill Language and Railing, and took a +great deal of pains to let the World see their <i>own Ignorance and +Ingratitude</i>.</p> + +<p>The <i>Ministers of State</i>, tho' at that time <i>of the fiery +Party</i>, yet seeing the general Detestation of such a Proposal, +and how ill <i>it would go down with the Nation</i>, tho' they +approv'd the thing, yet began to scent the Design, and were also +oblig'd to declare against it, for fear of being thought of the +same Mind.</p> + +<p>Thus the Author was Proscrib'd by Proclamation, and a +<i>Reward</i> of 50000 <i>Hecato's</i>, a small imaginary Coin in +those Parts, put upon his Head.</p> + +<p>The <i>Cortez</i> of the Nation being at the same time assembled +join'd in Censuring the Book, and thus <i>the Party</i> blindly +damn'd <i>their own Principles</i> for meer shame of the practice, +not daring to own the thing in publick which they had underhand +profest, and the fury of all Parties fell <i>upon the poor +Author</i>.</p> + +<p><i>The Man fled the first popular Fury</i>, but at last being +betraid fell into the Hands of the publick Ministry.</p> + +<p>When they <i>had him</i> they hardly knew <i>what to do with +him</i>; they could not proceed against him as Author of a Proposal +for the Destruction of <i>the Crolians</i> because it appear'd he +was <i>a Crolian himself</i>; they were loth to charge him with +suggesting that the <i>Solunarian Church-men</i> were guilty of +such a Design, least he should bring <i>their own Writings to prove +it true</i>; so they fell to <i>wheadling him</i> with good Words +to throw himself into their Hands and submit, giving him that +<i>Geu-gau</i> the <i>Publick Faith</i> for a Civil and +Gentleman-like Treatment; the Man, believing <i>like a Coxcomb</i> +that they spoke as they meant, <i>quitted his own Defence</i>, and +threw himself on the Mercy <i>of the Queen as he thought</i>; but +they abusing their Queen with false Representations, <i>Perjur'd +all their Promises</i> with him, and treated him in a most +barbarous manner, on pretence that there were <i>no such Promises +made</i>, tho' he prov'd it upon them by the Oath of the Persons to +whom they were made.</p> + +<p>Thus they laid him under <i>a heavy Sentence</i>, Fin'd him more +than they thought him able to pay, and order'd him to be expos'd to +the Mob in the Streets.</p> + +<p>Having him at this Advantage they set upon him with their +Emissaries to discover to them his Adherents, <i>as they call'd +them</i>, and promis'd him great Things on one Hand, threatning him +<i>with his utter Ruin</i> on the other; and the <i>Great +Scribe</i> of the Country, with another of their great Courtiers, +took such a low Step as to go to him <i>to the Dungeon</i> where +they had put him, to see if they could tempt him <i>to betray his +Friends</i>. The <i>Comical Dialogue</i> between them there the +Author of this has seen <i>in Manuscript</i>, exceeding +<i>diverting</i>, but having not time to Translate it 'tis omitted +for the present; tho' he promises to <i>publish it in its proper +Season</i> for publick Instruction.</p> + +<p>However for the present it may suffice to tell the World, that +neither by <i>promises of Reward or fear of Punishment</i> they +could prevail upon him to discover any thing, and so it remains a +Secret to this day.</p> + +<p>The Title of this unhappy Book was <i>The shortest way with the +Crolians</i>. The Effects of it were various, as will be seen in +our ensuing Discourse: As to the Author nothing was more +unaccountable than the Circumstances of his Treatment; for he met +with all <i>that Fate</i> which they must expect <i>who attempt to +open the Eyes of a Nation wilfully blind</i>.</p> + +<p>The <i>hot Men of the Solunarian Church</i> damn'd him without +<i>Bell</i>, <i>Book</i>, or <i>Candle</i>; the more +<i>Moderate</i> pitied him, but lookt on as unconcern'd: <i>But the +Crolians</i>, for whom he had run this Venture, us'd him worst of +all; for they not only abandon'd him, but <i>reproacht him as an +Enemy</i> that would ha' them destroy'd: So one side rail'd at him +because they <i>did understand</i> him, and the other because +<i>they did not</i>.</p> + +<p>Thus the Man sunk under the general Neglect, was ruin'd and +undone, and left a Monument of what every Man must expect that +serves a good Cause, <i>profest</i> by an <i>unthankful +People</i>.</p> + +<p>And here it was I found out that my Lunar Philosopher was +<i>only so</i> in Disguise, and that <i>he was no Philosopher, but +the very Man</i> I have been talking of.</p> + +<p><i>From this Book</i>, and the Treatment its Author receiv'd, +for they us'd him with all possible Rigour, a new Scene of Parties +came upon the Stage, and this Queen's Reign began to be fill'd with +more Divisions and Feuds than any before her.</p> + +<p><i>These Parties</i> began to be so numerous and violent that +<i>it endanger'd the Publick Good</i>, and gave great Disadvantages +to the general Affairs abroad.</p> + +<p>The Queen invited them all to <i>Peace and Union</i>, but 'twas +in vain; nay, one had the Impudence to publish that to procure +Peace and Union it was necessary to suppress <i>all the +Crolians</i>, and have no Party but one, and then all must be of a +Mind.</p> + +<p>From this heat of Parties all the moderate Men fell in with +their Queen, and were heartily <i>for Peace and Union:</i> The +other, who were now distinguish'd by the Title of <i>High +Solunarians</i>, call'd these all <i>Crolians</i> and <i>Low +Solunarians</i>, and began to Treat them with more Inveteracy than +they us'd to do the <i>Crolians</i> themselves, calling them +<i>Traytors</i> to their Country, <i>Betrayers</i> of their Mother, +<i>Serpents</i> harbour'd in the Bosom, who bite, sting and hiss at +the Hand that succour'd them; and in short the Enmity grew so +violent, that from hence proceeded one of the <i>subtilest, +foolishest, deep, shallow</i> Contrivances and <i>Plots</i> that +ever was hatcht or set on foot by any Party of Men in the whole +Moon, at least who pretended <i>to any Brains</i>, or to half a +degree <i>of common</i> Understanding.</p> + +<p>There had always been Dislikes and Distasts between even the +most moderate <i>Solunarians</i> and the <i>Crolians</i>, as I have +noted in the beginning of this Relation, and these were deriv'd +from <i>Dissenting in Opinions of Religion</i>, ancient Feuds, +private Interest, Education, and the like; and the +<i>Solunarians</i> had frequently, on pretence of securing the +Government, made Laws to exclude the <i>Crolians</i> from any part +of the Administration, unless they submitted to some <i>Religious +Tests</i> and Ceremonies which were prescrib'd them.</p> + +<p>Now as <i>the keeping them out of Offices</i> was more the +Design than the <i>Conversion of the Crolians</i> to the +<i>Solunarian</i> Church, the <i>Crolians</i>, at least many of +them, <i>submitted to the Test</i>, and frequently Conform'd to +qualify themselves for publick Employments.</p> + +<p><i>The most moderate of the Solunarians</i> were in their +Opinion against this practice, and the <i>High Men</i> taking +advantage of them, <i>drew them in</i> to Concur in making a Law +with yet more Severity against them, effectually to keep them out +of Employment.</p> + +<p><i>The low Solunarians</i> were easy to be drawn into this +Project, as it was only a Confirming former Laws of their own +making, and all Things run fair <i>for the Design</i>; but as the +<i>High Men</i> had further Ends in it than barely reducing the +<i>Crolians</i> to Conformity, they coucht so many gross Clauses +into their Law, that even the <i>Grandees of the Solunarians</i> +themselves could not comply with; nay even the <i>Patriarchs</i> of +the <i>Solunarian</i> Church declar'd against it, as tending to +Persecution and Confusion.</p> + +<p>This Disappointment <i>enrag'd the Party</i>, and that very Rage +entirely ruin'd their Project; for now the <i>Nobility</i>, the +<i>Patriarchs</i>, and all the wise Men of the Nation, joining +together against these <i>Men of Heat and Fury</i>, the Queen began +to see into their Designs, and <i>as she was of a most pious and +peaceable Temper</i>, she conceiv'd a just Hatred of so wicked and +barbarous a Design, and immediately dismiss'd from her Council and +Favour <i>the Great Scribe</i>, and several others who were Leaders +in the Design, <i>to the great mortification of the whole +Party</i>, and utter Ruin of the intended Law against <i>the +Crolians</i>.</p> + +<p>Here I could not but observe, as I have done before in the Case +of the banish'd King, how <i>impolitick these high Solunarian +Church-men acted</i> in all their Proceedings, for had they +contented themselves <i>by little and little</i> to ha' done their +Work, they had done it effectually; but pushing at Extremities they +overshot themselves, and <i>ruin'd all</i>.</p> + +<p>For <i>the Grandees</i> and <i>Patriarchs</i> made but a <i>few +trifling Objections</i> at first, nay and came off, and yielded +some of them too; and if these would ha' consented to ha' parted +with some Clauses which they have willingly left out since, they +had had it pass'd; but these were <i>as hot Men always are</i>, too +eager and sure of their Game, they thought all was their own, and +so they lost themselves.</p> + +<p>If they rail'd at the <i>low Solunarian Church-men</i> before, +they doubled their Clamors at them now, all the <i>Patriarchs</i>, +and all the Nobility and <i>Grandees</i>, nay even the <i>Queen</i> +her self came under their Censure, and every Body who was not of +their Mind were <i>Prestarians</i> and <i>Crolians</i>.</p> + +<p>As this Rage of theirs was implacable, so, as I hinted before, +it drove them into another <i>Subdivision of Parties</i>, and now +began <i>the Mysterious Plot</i> to be laid which I mention'd +before; for the <i>Cortez</i> being summon'd, and the Law being +proposed, some of these <i>high Solunarians</i> appear'd in +Confederacy with the <i>Crolians, in perfect Confederacy</i> with +them, a thing no Body would have imagin'd could ever ha' been +brought to pass.</p> + +<p>Now as these sorts of Plots must always be carry'd very nicely, +so these <i>high Gentlemen</i> who Confederated with the +<i>Crolians</i>, having, to spight the other, resolv'd effectually +to prevent the passing the Law against <i>the Qualification of the +Crolians</i>, it was not their Business immediately to declare +themselves <i>against</i> it as a Law, but by still loading it with +some Extravagance or other, and pushing it on to some intolerable +Extreme, <i>secure its miscarriage</i>.</p> + +<p><i>In the managing this Plot</i>, one of their Authors was +specially employ'd, and <i>that all that was really true of the</i> +Crolian Dissenters might be ridicul'd, his Work was to draw +<i>monstrous Pictures</i> of them, which no Body could believe; +this took immediately, for now People began to look at their Shooes +to see if they were not <i>Cloven Footed</i> as they went a long +Streets; and at last finding they were really shap'd like the rest +<i>of the Lunar Inhabitants</i>, they went back <i>to the +Author</i>, who was a Learned Member of a certain Seminary, or +Brother-hood of <i>the Solunarian Clergy</i>, and enquir'd if he +were <i>not Mad</i>, Distracted and <i>Raving</i>, or +<i>Moon-blind</i>, and in want of the thinking Engine; but finding +all things <i>right there</i>, and that he was in his Senses, +especially in a Morning when he was a little <i>free from</i>, +&c. that he was a Good, Honest, Jolly, <i>Solunarian +Priest</i>, and no room could be found for an Objection there. Upon +all these Searches it presently appear'd, and all Men concluded it +was a meer <i>Fanatick Crolian Plot</i>; that this <i>High Party of +all</i> were but Pretenders, and meer Traytors to the <i>True High +Solunarian Church-Men</i>, that wearing the same Cloth had herded +among them <i>in Disguise</i>, only to wheedle them into such wild +Extravagancies as must of necessity confuse their Councils, expose +their Persons, and ruin their Cause. ---- According to the like +Practice, put upon their <i>Abrograzian</i> Prince, and of which I +have spoken before.</p> + +<p>And since I am upon the detection of this <i>most refin'd +Practice</i>, I crave leave to descend to some particular +Instances, which will the better evince the Truth of this Matter, +and make it appear that either this was really <i>a Crolian +Plot</i>, or else all these People were <i>perfectly +Distracted</i>; and as their Wits in <i>that Lunar World</i>, are +much higher strain'd <i>than ours</i>, so their Lunacy, where it +happens, must according to the Rules <i>of Mathematical Nature</i>, +bear an extream Equal in proportion.</p> + +<p><i>This College Fury of a Man</i> was the first on whom this +useful Discovery was made, and having <i>writ several Learned +Tracts</i> wherein he invited the People <i>to Murther</i> and +Destroy <i>all the Crolians</i>, Branded all the <i>Solunarian +Patriarchs</i>, <i>Clergy</i> and <i>Gentry</i> that would not come +into <i>his Proposal</i>, with the name of <i>Cowards</i>, +<i>Traytors</i> and <i>Betrayers</i> of <i>Lunar Religion</i>; +having beat the <i>Concionazimir</i> at a great Assembly of the +Cadirs, or <i>Judges</i>, and told them <i>all the Crolians</i> +were <i>Devils</i>, and they were <i>all Perjur'd</i> that did not +use them as such: He carry'd on Matters <i>so dexterously</i>, and +with such surprizing Success, that he fill'd even <i>the +Solunarians</i> themselves with Horror at his Proposals.----- And +as I happen'd to be in one of their publick Halls where all such +Writings <i>as are new</i> are laid a certain time to be read by +<i>every Comer</i>, I saw a little <i>knot of Men</i> round a +Table, where one was reading <i>this Book</i>.</p> + +<p>There were two <i>Solunarian High Priests</i> in their proper +Vestments, one <i>Privy Councellor</i> of the State, one other +<i>Noble Man</i>, and one who had <i>in his Hat</i> a Token, to +signifie that he possest one of the <i>fine Feathers</i> of the +<i>Consolidator</i>, of which I have given the Description +already.</p> + +<p><i>The Book being read</i> by one of the habited Priests, he +starts up with some warmth, <i>by the Moon, says he</i>, I have +<i>found this Fellow out</i>, he is certainly a <i>Crolian</i>, a +meer <i>Prestarian Crolian</i>, and is crept into our Church only +<i>in Disguise</i>, for 'tis certain all this is <i>but meer +Banter</i> and Irony to expose us, and to ridicule the +<i>Solunarian</i> Interest.</p> + +<p><i>The Privy Councellor</i> took it presently, whether he is +<i>a Crolian</i> or no, says he, I cannot tell, but he has +certainly <i>done the Crolians so much Service</i>, that if they +had hir'd him to act for them, they could not have desir'd he +should serve them better.</p> + +<p>Truly, says <i>the Man of the Feather</i>, I was always for +pulling down <i>the Crolians</i>, for I thought them dangerous to +the State; but this Man has brought the Matter <i>nearer to my +View</i>, and shown me <i>what destroying them is</i>, for he put +me upon examining the Consequences, and now I find it would be +<i>lopping off the Limbs of the Government</i>, and laying it at +the Mercy of the Enemy <i>that they might lop off its Head</i>; I +assure you he has done <i>the Crolians</i> great Service, for +whereas abundance of our Men <i>of the Feather</i> were for routing +the <i>Crolians</i>, they lately fell down to 134 or +thereabouts.</p> + +<p>All this confirm'd the first Man's Opinion that <i>he was a +Crolian in Disguise</i>, or an Emissary employ'd by them to ruin +the Project of their Enemies; for <i>these Crolians are damn'd +cunning People in their way</i>, and they have Mony enough to +engage Hirelings to their side.</p> + +<p>Another Party concern'd in <i>this Plot</i> was an old +<i>cast-out Solunarian Priest</i>, who, tho' professing himself a +<i>Solunarian</i>, was turn'd out for adhering to the +<i>Abrograzian King</i>, a mighty Stickler for the Doctrin of +<i>absolute Subjection</i>.</p> + +<p>This Man draws <i>the most monstrous Picture of a Crolian</i> +that could be invented, he put him in a <i>Wolf's Skin</i> with +long <i>Asses Ears</i>, and hung him all over full of +<i>Associations</i>, <i>Massacres</i>, <i>Persecutions</i>, +<i>Rebellions</i>, and <i>Blood</i>. Here the People began to +<i>stare</i> again, and a <i>Crolian</i> cou'd not go along the +Street but they were alway's looking for the <i>long Ears</i>, the +<i>Wolf's Claws</i>, and the like; 'till at last nothing of these +Things appearing, but the <i>Crolians</i> looking and acting like +<i>other Folks</i>, they begun to examine the Matter, and found +this was <i>a meer Crolian Plot</i> too, and <i>this Man</i> was +hir'd to run these extravagant lengths to point out the right +meaning.</p> + +<p><i>The Discovery being made</i>, People ever since understand +him that when he talks of the Dissenters <i>Associations</i>, +<i>Murthers</i>, <i>Persecutions</i>, and the like, he means that +his Readers should look back to the <i>Murthers</i>, +<i>Oppressions</i> and <i>Persecutions</i> they had suffered for +several past years, and the <i>Associations</i> that were now +forming to bring them into the same Condition again.</p> + +<p>From this famous Author I could not but proceed to observe the +farther Progress of this most refin'd piece of Cunning, among the +<i>very great Ones</i>, <i>Grandees</i>, <i>Feathers</i>, and +<i>Consolidators</i> of the Country. For these <i>Cunning +Crolians</i> manag'd their Intriegues so nicely, that they brought +about a Famous Division even among the <i>High Solunarian Party +themselves</i>; and whereas the Law of Qualification was reviv'd +again, and in great Danger of being compleated; these subtle +<i>Crolians</i> brought over One Hundred and Thirty Four <i>of the +Feathers</i> in the Famous <i>Consolidator</i> to be of their side, +and to <i>Contrive the utter Destruction of it</i>; <i>and thus +fell the Design</i> which the <i>High Solunarian</i> Church Men had +laid for the Ruin of <i>the Crolians Interest</i>, by their own +Friends first joyning in all the Extremes they had proposed, and +then pushing it so much farther, and to such <i>mad Periods</i> +that the very highest of them <i>stood amaz'd</i> at the Design, +<i>startled, flew back</i> and made a <i>full stop</i>; they were +willing to Ruin the <i>Crolians</i>, but they were not willing to +Ruin the whole Nation. The more these Men began to consider, the +more furiously these Plotters carry'd on their Extravagances; at +last they made <i>a General push</i> at a thing in which they knew +if the other <i>High Men</i> joyn'd, they must throw <i>all into +Confusion</i>, bring a <i>Foreign Enemy</i> on their Backs, +<i>unravel all the Thread of the War</i>, fight all their Victories +<i>back again</i>, and involve the whole Nation in <i>Blood</i> and +<i>Confusion</i>.</p> + +<p>They knew well enough that most of the <i>High Men</i> would +hesitate at this, they knew if they did not the <i>Grandees</i> and +<i>Patriarchs</i> would reject it, and so they plaid the <i>surest +Game</i> to blast and overthrow this Law, that could possibly be +plaid.</p> + +<p>If any Man, <i>in the whole World in the Moon</i>, will pretend +this was not <i>a Plot</i>, a <i>Crolian Design</i>, a meer +<i>Conspiracy to destroy the Law</i>, let him tell me for what +other end could these Men offer such extreams as they needs must +know would meet with immediate opposition, things that they knew +all the Honest Men, all the <i>Grandees</i>, all the +<i>Patriarchs</i>, and almost all the <i>Feathers</i> would +oppose.</p> + +<p>From hence all the Men of any fore-sight brought it to this +pass, as is before Noted, that either these One Hundred and Thirty +Four were <i>Fools</i> or <i>Mad-Men</i>, or that it was a +<i>Phanatick Crolian Plot</i> and Conspiracy to Ruin the makeing +this Law, which the rest of the <i>Solunarian Church Men</i> were +very forward to carry on.</p> + +<p>I heard indeed some Men Argue that this could not be, the breach +was too wide between <i>the Crolians</i> and these Gentlemen ever +to come to such an Agreement; but <i>the Wiser Heads</i> who argu'd +the other way, always brought them, as is noted above, to this +pinch of Argument; that either it must be so, <i>be a Fanatick +Crolian Plot</i>, or else the <i>Men of Fury</i> were all +<i>Fools</i>, <i>Madmen</i>, and fitter for an <i>Hospital</i>, +than a State-House, or a <i>Pulpit</i>.</p> + +<p>It must be allow'd, these <i>Crolians</i> were Cunning People, +thus to wheedle in these <i>High Flying Solunarians</i> to break +the Neck of their dear Project.</p> + +<p>But upon the whole, for ought I cou'd see, whether it went one +way or t'other, all the Nation esteem'd the other People <i>Fools +------ Fools of the most extraordinary</i> Size <i>in all the Moon, +for either way</i> they pull'd down what they had been many Years a +Building.</p> + +<p>I cannot say that this was in kindness to the <i>Crolians</i>, +but in meer Malice to the <i>Low Solunarian Party</i>, who had the +Government in their Hands, for <i>Malice always carries Men on to +monstrous Extremes</i>.</p> + +<p>Some indeed have thought it hard to call this a Plot, and a +Confederacy <i>with the Crolians</i>.------ But I cannot but think +it the <i>kindest thing that can be said of them</i>, and that 'tis +impossible those People who push'd at some imaginary Things in +<i>that Law</i> could but be in a Plot as aforesaid, or be +perfectly <i>Lunatick</i>, down right Mad-Men, or Traytors to their +Country, <i>and let them choose which Character they like</i>.</p> + +<p>I cannot in Charity but spare them their <i>Honesty</i>, and +their <i>Senses</i>, and attribute it all to their Policy.</p> + +<p>When I had understood all things at large, and found the +exceeding depth of the Design; I must confess the Discovery of +these things <i>was very diverting</i>, and the more so, when I +made the proper Reflections upon the <i>Analogy there seem'd to +be</i> between <i>these Solunarian High Church-Men</i> in the Moon, +and ours here in <i>England</i>; <i>our High Church-Men</i> are no +more to compare to <i>these</i>, than the Hundred and Thirty Four, +are to the <i>Consolidators</i>.</p> + +<p>Ours can Plot now and then a little among themselves, but then +'tis all <i>Gross</i> and <i>plain Sailing</i>, down right +<i>taking Arms</i>, calling in Foreign Forces, +<i>Assassinations</i> and <i>the like</i>; but these are nothing to +the more Exquisite Heads in <i>the Moon</i>. For they have the +subtillest Ways with them, that ever were heard of. They can +<i>make War</i> with a Prince, on purpose to <i>bring him to the +Crown</i>; fit out <i>vast Navies against him</i>, that he may have +the more leisure <i>to take their Merchant Men</i>; make +<i>Descents</i> upon him, on purpose to come Home and do +<i>nothing</i>; if they have a mind to a Sea Fight, they carefully +send out Admirals that care not to come within half a Mile of the +Enemy, that coming off safe they may have <i>the boasting Part</i> +of the Victory, and <i>the beaten Part both together</i>.</p> + +<p>'Twould be endless to call over the Roll of their sublime +Politicks. They <i>damn Moderation in order to Peace and Union</i>, +set the House <i>on Fire</i> to save it from <i>Desolation</i>, +Plunder to avoid Persecution, and <i>consolidate Things</i> in +order to their more <i>immediate Dissolution</i>.</p> + +<p>Had our <i>High Church-Men</i> been Masters of these excellent +Arts, they had long ago brought their Designs to pass.</p> + +<p>The exquisite Plot of these <i>High Solunarians</i> answer'd the +<i>Crolians End</i>, for it broke all their Enemies Measures, the +Law vanish'd, the Grandees could hardly be perswaded to read it, +and when it was propos'd to be read again, <i>they hist at it</i>, +and threw it by with Contempt.</p> + +<p>Nor was this all; for it not only lost them their Design as to +this Law, but it also absolutely broke the Party, and just as it +was with <i>Adam</i> and <i>Eve</i>, as soon as <i>they Sinn'd</i> +they <i>Quarrell'd</i>, and fell out with one another; so, as soon +as things came to this height, <i>the Party fell out one among +another</i>, and even the <i>High Men</i> themselves were divided, +some were for <i>Consolidating</i>, and some not for +<i>Consolidating</i>, some were for <i>Tacking</i>, and some not +for <i>Tacking</i>, as they were, or were not let into the +Secret.</p> + +<p>If this <i>Confusion of Languages</i>, or Interest, lost them +the real Design, it cannot be a wonder; have we not always seen it +<i>in our World</i>, that dividing an Interest, weakens and exposes +it? Has not a great many both good and bad Designs been render'd +Abortive in <i>this our Lower World</i>, for want of <i>the Harmony +of Parties</i>, and the Unanimity of those concern'd in the +Design?</p> + +<p>How had the <i>knot of Rebellion</i> been dissolv'd in +<i>England</i>, if it had not been untied by the very Hands <i>of +those that knit it</i>? All the contrary Force had been entirely +broken and subdu'd, and the <i>Restoration of Monarchy</i> had +never happen'd in <i>England</i>, if <i>Union and Agreement</i> had +been found among the managers of that Age.</p> + +<p>The Enemies of the present Establishment have shown sufficiently +that they perfectly understand the <i>shortest way</i> to our +infallible Destruction, when they bend their principle Force at +dividing us into Parties, and keeping those parties at the utmost +variance.</p> + +<p><i>But this is not all</i>, the Author of this cannot but +observe here that as <i>England</i> is unhappily divided among +Parties, so it has this one Felicity even to be found in the very +matter of her Misfortunes, that those Parties are all again +subdivided among themselves.</p> + +<p>How easily might the Church have crusht and subdu'd the +Dissenters if they had been all as mad as one Party, if they had +not been <i>some High</i> and <i>some Low</i> Church-men. And what +Mischief might not that one Party ha' done in this Nation, had not +they been divided again into <i>Jurant Jacobites</i> and +<i>Non-Jurant</i>, into <i>Consolidators</i> and +<i>Non-Consolidators</i>? From whence 'tis plain to me, that +<i>just as it is in the Moon</i> these <i>Consolidating +Church-men</i> are meer Confederates with the <i>Whigs</i>; and it +must be so, unless we should suppose them meer <i>mad Men</i> that +don't know what they are a doing, and who are the Drudges of their +Enemies, and kno' nothing of the Matter.</p> + +<p>And from this <i>Lunar Observation</i> it presently occur'd to +my Understanding, that <i>my Masters the Dissenters</i> may come in +for a share among the <i>Moon-blind</i> Men of this Generation, +since had they done for their own Interest what the <i>Laws fairly +admits to</i> be done, had they been <i>united among +themselves</i>, had they form'd themselves into a <i>Politick +Body</i> to have acted in a publick, united Capacity <i>by general +Concert</i>, and as Persons that had but one Interest <i>and +understood it</i>, they had never been so often Insulted by every +rising Party, they had never had so many <i>Machines</i> and +<i>Intrigues to ruin and suppress them</i>, they had never been so +often <i>Tackt</i> and <i>Consolidated</i> to Oppression and +Persecution, and yet never have rebell'd or broke the Peace, +incurr'd the Displeasure of their Princes, or have been upbraided +with Plots, Insurrections and <i>Antimonarchical Principles</i>; +when they had made Treaties and Capitulations with the Church +<i>for Temper</i> and <i>Toleration</i>, the Articles would have +been kept, and these would have demanded Justice with an Authority +that would upon all Occasions <i>be respected</i>.</p> + +<p>Were they united in <i>Civil Polity</i> in <i>Trade</i> and +<i>Interest</i>, would they <i>Buy and Sell</i> with <i>one +another</i>, abstract their <i>Stocks</i>, erect <i>Banks</i> and +<i>Companies</i> in Trade <i>of their own</i>, lend their Cash to +the Government <i>in a Body</i>, and as a <i>Body</i>.</p> + +<p>If I were to tell them what Advantages the <i>Crolians</i> in +the <i>Moon</i> make of this sort of management, how the Government +finds it their Interest to treat them civilly, and use them like +Subjects of Consideration; how upon all Occasions some of the +<i>Grandees</i> and <i>Nobility</i> appear as Protectors of the +<i>Crolians</i>, and treat with their Princes in their Names, +present their Petitions, and make Demands from the Prince of such +Loans and <i>Sums of Mony</i> as the publick Occasions require; and +what abundance of Advantages are reapt from such a Union, both to +their own Body as a Party, and to the Government also they would be +convinc'd; wherefore I cannot but very earnestly desire of the +Dissenters and Whigs <i>in my own Country</i> that they would take +a Journy in my <i>Consolidator</i> up to the Moon, they would +certainly see there what vast Advantages they lose for want of a +<i>Spirit of Union</i>, and a concert of Measures among +themselves.</p> + +<p>The <i>Crolians in the Moon</i> are Men of <i>large Souls</i>, +and Generously stand by one another <i>on all Occasions</i>; it was +never known that they deserted any Body that suffer'd for them, +<i>my Old Philosopher excepted</i>, and that was a surprize upon +them.</p> + +<p>The Reason of the Difference is plain, our Dissenters here have +not the Advantage of <i>a Cogitator</i>, or <i>thinking Engine</i>, +as they have <i>in the Moon</i>.----- We have the <i>Elevator</i> +here and are lifted up pretty much, but <i>in the Moon</i> they +always go into the <i>Thinking Engine</i> upon every +<i>Emergency</i>, and in this they out-do us of this World on every +Occasion.</p> + +<p>In general therefore I must note that the wisest Men I found +<i>in the Moon</i>, when they understood the Notes I had made as +above, of the sub-divisions of our Parties, told me that it was the +greatest Happiness that could ha' been obtained to our Country, for +that if our Parties had not been thus divided, <i>the Nation had +been undone</i>. They own'd that had not their <i>Solunarian +Party</i> been divided among themselves, the <i>Crolians</i> had +been undone, and all the <i>Moon</i> had been involv'd <i>in +Persecution</i>, and been very probably subjected to the +<i>Gallunarian Monarch</i>.</p> + +<p>Thus the <i>fatal Errors of Men</i> have their advantages, the +seperate ends they serve are not foreseen by their Authors and they +<i>do good</i> against the very <i>Design of the People</i>, and +the nature of the Evil it self.</p> + +<p>And now that I may encourage <i>our People</i> to that Peace and +good Understanding among themselves, which can alone produce their +Safety and Deliverance; I shall give a brief Account how the +<i>Crolians in the Moon</i> came to open their Eyes to their own +Interest, how they came to <i>Unite</i>; and how the Fruits of +<i>that Union</i> secur'd them from ever being insulted again by +the <i>Solunarian Party</i>, who in time gave over the vain and +fruitless Attempt, and so a universal <i>Lunar Calm</i> has spread +the whole <i>Moon</i> ever since.</p> + +<p>If <i>our People</i> will not listen to their own Advantages, +nor <i>do their own Business</i>, let them take the consequences to +themselves, they cannot blame the <i>Man in the Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>To endeavour to bring this to pass, as these Memoirs have run +thro' the general History of the Feuds and unhappy Breaches between +the <i>Solunarian</i> Church and <i>the Crolian</i> Dissenters +<i>in the World of the Moon</i>, it would seem an imperfect and +abrupt Relation, if I should not tell you how, and by what Method, +<i>tho' long hid from their Eyes</i>, the <i>Crolians</i> came to +understand their own Interest and <i>know their own +Strength</i>.</p> + +<p>'Tis true, it seem'd a Wonder to me when I consider'd the +Excellence and Variety of those <i>perspective Glasses</i> I have +mentioned, the clearness of the Air, and <i>consequently of the +Head</i>, in this Lunar World. I say it was very strange the +<i>Crolians</i> should ha' been <i>Moon Blind</i> so long as they +were, that they could not see it was always in their Power if they +had but pursued their own Interest, and made use of those, legal +Opportunities which lay before them, to put themselves in a +Posture, as that the Government it self should think them a Body +too big to be insulted, and find it their Interest to keep Measures +with them.</p> + +<p>It was indeed a long time before they open'd their Eyes to these +advantages, but bore the Insults of the hair-brain'd Party, with a +weakness and negligence that was as unjustifiable in them, as +unaccountable to all the Nations of the Moon.</p> + +<p>But at last, as all violent Extremes rouze <i>their contrary +Extremeties</i>, the folly and extravagance of the <i>High +Solunarians</i> drove the <i>Crolians</i> into their Senses, and +<i>rouz'd them</i> to their own Interest, the occasion was among a +great many others as follows.</p> + +<p>The eager <i>Solunarian</i> could not on all occasions forbear +to show their deep Regret at the Dissenting <i>Crolians</i> +enjoying the Tolleration of their Religion, <i>by a Law</i> +---.</p> + +<p>And when all their legal Attempts to lessen that Liberty had +prov'd Abortive, her <i>Solunarian Majesty</i> on all Occasions +repeating her assurances of the continuance of her Protection, and +particularly the maintaining this Tolleration Inviolable. They +proceeded then to show the remains of their Mallice, in <i>little +Insults</i>, mean and <i>illegal Methods</i>, and continual private +Disturbances upon particular Persons, in which, however the +<i>Crolians</i> having recourse to the Law, always found Justice on +their side, and had redress with Advantage, of which the following +Instance is more than ordinarily Remarkable.</p> + +<p>There had been a Law made by <i>the Men of the Feather</i>, that +all the meaner Idle sort of People, who had no settel'd way of +living should go to the Wars, and the <i>Lazognians</i>, a sort of +Magistrates there, in the nature of our Justices of the Peace, were +to send them away by Force.</p> + +<p>Now it happen'd in a certain <i>Solunarian Island</i>, that for +want of a better, one of their High Priests was put into the Civil +Administration, and made a <i>Lazognian</i>.----- In the +Neighbourhood of this Man's Jurisdiction, one of their own +<i>Solunarian Priests</i> had turn'd <i>Crolian</i>, and whether he +had a better Tallent at performance, or rather was more diligent in +his Office is not material, but he set up a kind of a +<i>Crolian</i> Temple in an old Barn, or some such Mechanick +Building, and all the People flock'd after him.</p> + +<p>This so provok'd his Neighbours <i>of the black Girdle</i>, an +Order of Priests, of which he had been one, that they resolv'd to +suppress him let it cost what it would.</p> + +<p>They run <i>strange lengths</i> to bring this to pass.</p> + +<p><i>They forg'd strange Stories of him</i>, defam'd him, run him +into Jayl upon frivolous and groundless Occasions, represented him +as a <i>Monster of a Man</i>, told their Story <i>so plain</i>, and +made it <i>so specious</i>, that even <i>the Crolians</i> +themselves <i>to their Shame</i>, believ'd it, and took up +Prejudices against the Poor Man, which had like to ha' been his +Ruin.</p> + +<p><i>They proscrib'd him in Print</i> for Crimes they could never +prove, <i>they branded him</i> with Forgery, Adultery, Drunkenness, +Swearing, breaking Jayl, and abundance of Crimes; but when Matters +were examin'd and things came to the Test, they could <i>never +prove the least thing upon him</i>.----- In this manner however +they continually worryed the poor Man, till they ruin'd his Family +and <i>reduc'd him to Beggary</i>; and tho' he came out of the +Prison they cast him into by the meer force of Innocence, yet they +never left persuing him with all sorts of violence.------ At last +they made use of their <i>Brother of the Girdle</i> who was in +Commission as above, and this Man being <i>High Priest</i> and +<i>Lazonian</i> too, by the <i>first</i> was a Party, and by the +<i>last</i> had a Power to act the Tragedy <i>they had plotted</i> +against the poor Man.</p> + +<p><i>In short</i>, they seiz'd him without any Crime alledg'd, +took violently from him <i>his Licence, as a Crolian Priest</i>, by +which the Law justify'd what he had done, pretending it was forg'd, +and after very ill Treating him, <i>condemn'd him to the Wars</i>, +delivers him up for a Souldier, and accordingly carry'd him +away.</p> + +<p>But it happen'd, to their great Mortification, that this Man +found more Mercy from the <i>Men of the Sword</i>, than from those +<i>of the Word</i>, and so found means to get out of their Hands, +and afterwards to undeceive all the Moon, both as to his own +Character, and as to what he had Suffer'd.</p> + +<p>For some of the <i>Crolians</i>, who began to be made sensible +of the Injury done the poor Man, advis'd him to have recourse to +the Law, and to bring his Adversaries before <i>the Criminal +Bar</i>.</p> + +<p>But as soon as this was done, <i>good God!</i> what a <i>Scene +of Villainy</i> was here opened: The poor Man brought up such a +Cloud of Witnesses to confront every Article of their Charge, and +to vindicate his own Character, that when the very Judges heard it, +tho' they were all <i>Solunarians</i> themselves, they held up +their Hands, and declar'd in open Court it was the <i>deepest Track +of Villany</i> that ever came before them, and that the Actors +ought to be made Examples to <i>all the Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>The Persons concern'd, us'd all possible Arts to avoid, or at +least to delay the Shame, and adjourn the Punishment, thinking +still to weary the poor Man out.------ But now his Brethren the +<i>Crolians</i> began to see themselves wounded thro' his Sides, +and above all, finding his Innocence clear'd up beyond all manner +of dispute, <i>they espous'd his Cause</i>, and assisted him to +prosecute his Enemies, which he did, till he brought them all to +Justice, expos'd them to the last Degree, obtain'd the reparation +of all his Losses, and a publick Decree of the Judges of his +Justification <i>and future Repose</i>.</p> + +<p>Indeed when I saw the Proceedings against this poor Man run to a +heighth so extravagant and monstrous, when I found <i>Malice</i>, +<i>Forgery</i>, <i>Subornation</i>, <i>Perjury</i>, and a thousand +unjustifiable Things which their own Sense, if they had any, might +ha' been their Protection against, and which any Child <i>in the +Moon</i> might ha' told them must one time or other <i>come upon +the Stage</i> and expose them; I began to think these People were +all in <i>the Crolian Plot</i> too.</p> + +<p>For really such Proceedings as these were the greatest pieces of +Service to <i>the Crolians</i> as could possibly be done; for as it +generally proves in other Places as well as in the Moon, that +<i>Mischief unjustly contriv'd</i> falls upon the Head of the +Authors, and redounds to their treble Dishonour, so it was here; +the barbarity and inhumane Treatment of this Man, made the sober +and honest Part even of the <i>Solanarians</i> themselves blush for +their Brethren, and own that the Punishment awarded on them was +just.</p> + +<p>Thus the <i>Crolians</i> got ground by the Folly and Madness of +their Enemies, and the very Engines and Plots laid to injure them, +serv'd to bring their Enemies on the Stage, and expose both them +and their Cause.</p> + +<p><i>But this was not all</i>, by these incessant Attacks on them +as a Party, they began to come <i>to their Senses</i> out of a 50 +Year slumber, they found the Law on their side, and the Government +Moderate and Just; they found they might <i>oppose Violence with +Law</i>, and that when they did fly to the Refuge of Justice, they +always had the better of their Enemy; flusht with this Success, it +put them upon considering <i>what Fools they had been</i> all along +to bear the Insolence of a few hot-headed Men, who contrary to the +true Intent and Meaning of the Queen, or of the Government, <i>had +resolv'd their Destruction</i>.</p> + +<p>It put them upon revolving the State of their own Case, <i>and +comparing it with their Enemies</i>; upon Examining on what foot +they stood, and tho' Establish'd upon a firm Law, yet a violent +Party <i>pushing at the overthrow of that Establishment</i>, and +dissolving the legal Right they had to their Liberty and Religion; +it put them upon duly weighing the nearness of their approaching +Ruin and Destruction, and finding things run so hard against them, +reflecting upon the Extremity of their Affairs, and how if they had +not drawn in the High Church-Champions to <i>damn the Projects</i> +of their own Party, by running at such desperate Extremes as all +Men of any Temper must of course abhor, they had been undone; +<i>truly now they began to consider</i>, and to consult with one +another <i>what was to be done</i>.</p> + +<p>Abundance of Projects were laid before them, some too Dangerous, +some too Foolish to be put in practice; at last they resolv'd to +consult <i>with my Philosopher</i>.</p> + +<p>He had been but scurvily treated by them in his Troubles, and so +Universally abandon'd by the <i>Crolians</i>, that even the +<i>Solunarians</i> themselves insulted them on that Head, and +laugh'd at them for expecting any Body should venture for them +again.----- But he forgetting their unkindness, ask'd them what it +was they desir'd of him?</p> + +<p>They told him, they had heard that he had reported he could put +the <i>Crolians</i> in a way to secure themselves from any +possibility of being insulted again <i>by the Solunarians</i>, and +yet not disturb the publick Tranquility, <i>nor break the Laws</i>; +and they desir'd him, if he knew such a Secret, he would +communicate it to them, and they would be sure to <i>remember to +forget him for it as long as he liv'd</i>.</p> + +<p>He frankly told them <i>he had said so, and it was true</i>, he +could put them in a way to do all this if they would follow his +Directions. <i>What's that, says one</i> of the most earnest +Enquirers? ----- 'Tis included in one Word, says he, UNITE.</p> + +<p>This most significant Word, deeply and solidly reflected upon, +put them upon strange and various Conjectures, and many long +Debates they had with themselves about it; at last they came again +to him, and ask'd him <i>what he mean't by it</i>?</p> + +<p>He told them he knew they were <i>Strangers to the meaning</i> +of the thing, and therefore if they would meet him the next Day he +would come prepar'd to explain himself; accordingly they meet, when +instead of a long Speech they expected from him what sort of Union +he mean't, <i>and with who</i>, he brings them a <i>Thinking +Press</i>, or <i>Cogitator</i>, and setting it down, goes away +without speaking one Word.</p> + +<p>This <i>Hyerogliphical</i> Admonition was too plain not <i>to +let them all into his meaning</i>; but still as they are an +obstinate People, and not a little valuing themselves upon their +own Knowledge and Penetration, they slighted the Engine and fell to +off-hand-<i>Surmises</i>, <i>Guesses</i> and <i>Supposes</i>.</p> + +<p>1. Some concluded he mean't <i>Unite with the Solunarian +Church</i>, and they reflected upon his Understanding, that not +being the Question in Hand, and something remote from their +Intention, or the High <i>Solunarians</i> Desire.</p> + +<p>2. Some mean't <i>Unite</i> to the moderate Party <i>of the +Solunarians</i>, and this they said they had done already.</p> + +<p>At last some <i>being very Cunning</i>, found it out, that it +must be his meaning <i>Unite one among another</i>; and even there +again they misunderstood him too; and some imagin'd he mean't down +right Rebellion, Uniting Power, and Mobbing the whole Moon, <i>but +he soon convinc'd them of that too</i>.</p> + +<p>At last they took the Hint, that his Advice directed them to +<i>Unite their subdivided Parties</i> into one general Interest, +and to act in Concert upon one bottom, to lay aside the <i>Selfish, +Narrow, Suspicious Spirit</i>; three Qualifications <i>the +Crolians</i> were but too justly charg'd with, and begin to act +with Courage, Unanimity and Largeness of Soul, to open their Eyes +to their own Interest, maintain a regular and constant +Correspondence with one another in all parts of the Kingdom, and +<i>to bring their civil Interest into a Form</i>.</p> + +<p>The Author of this Advice having thus brought them to +understand, and approve his Proposal, they demanded his assistance +for making the Essay, and 'tis a most wonderful thing to consider +what a strange effect the alteration of their Measures had upon the +whole <i>Solunarian</i> Nation.</p> + +<p>As soon as ever they had settled the Methods they resolv'd to +act in, they form'd <i>a general Council</i> of the Heads of their +Party, to be always sitting, to reconcile Differences, to unite +Parties, to suppress Feuds in their beginning.</p> + +<p>They appointed 3 <i>general Meetings</i> in 3 of the most remote +Parts of the Kingdom, to be half yearly, and <i>one universal +Meeting</i> of Persons deputed to concert matters among them in +General.</p> + +<p>By that time these Meetings had sat but once, and the Conduct of +the Council of 12 began to appear, 'twas a wonder to see the +prodigious alteration it made all over the Country.</p> + +<p>Immediately <i>a Crolian</i> would <i>never buy any thing</i> +but of a <i>Crolian</i>; would hire no Servants, employ neither +Porter nor Carman, but what were <i>Crolians</i>.</p> + +<p>The <i>Crolians</i> in the Country that wrought and manag'd the +Manufactures, would employ no body but <i>Crolian Spinners, Crolian +Weavers</i>, and the like.</p> + +<p>In their capital City the Merchandizing <i>Crolians</i> would +freight no Ships but of which the Owners and Commanders were +<i>Crolians</i>.</p> + +<p>They call'd all their Cash out of the <i>Solunarian Bank</i>; +and as the Act of the Cortez confirming the Bank then in being +seem'd to be their Support, they made it plain that Cash and Credit +will make a Bank without a publick Settlement of Law; <i>and +without these</i> all the Laws in the <i>Moon</i> will never be +able to support it.</p> + +<p>They brought all their running Cash into one Bank, and settled a +sub-Cash depending upon the Grand-Bank in every Province of the +Kingdom; in which, by a strict Correspondence and crediting their +Bills, they might be able to settle a Paper Credit over the whole +Nation.</p> + +<p>They went on to settle themselves in all sorts of Trade in open +Companies, and sold off their Interests in the publick Stocks then +in Trade.</p> + +<p>If the Government wanted a Million of Mony upon any Emergency, +they were ready to lend it as a Body, not by different Sums and +private Hands blended together with their Enemies, but as will +appear at large presently, <i>it was only Crolian Mony</i>, and +pass'd as such.</p> + +<p>Nor were the Consequences of this <i>New Model</i> less +considerable than the Proposer expected, for the <i>Crolians</i> +being generally of the Trading Manufacturing part of the World, and +<i>very Rich</i>; the influence this method had upon the common +People, upon Trade, and upon the Publick was very considerable +every way.</p> + +<p>1. All the <i>Solunarian Trades-Men</i> and <i>Shop-keepers</i> +were at their Wits end, they sat in their Shops and had little or +nothing to do, while the Shops of the <i>Crolians</i> were full of +Customers, and their People over Head and Ears in Business; this +turn'd many of the <i>Solunarian</i> Trades-Men quite off <i>of the +hooks</i>, and they began to break and decay strangely, till at +last a great many of them to prevent their utter Ruin, turn'd +<i>Crolians</i> on purpose to get a Trade; and what forwarded that +part of it was, that when <i>a Solunarian</i>, who had little or no +Trade before, came but over to <i>the Crolians</i>, immediately +every Body come to Trade with him, and his Shop would be full of +Customers, so that this presently encreas'd the number of the +<i>Crolians</i>.</p> + +<p>2. The poor People in the Countries, <i>Carders</i>, +<i>Spinners</i>, <i>Weavers</i>, <i>Knitters</i>, and all sorts of +<i>Manufacturers</i>, run in Crowds to the <i>Crolian Temples</i> +for fear of being starv'd, for the <i>Crolians</i> were two thirds +of the Masters or Employers in the Manufactures all over the +Country, and the Poor would ha' been starv'd and undone if they had +cast them out of Work. Thus infenfibly the <i>Crolians</i> +encreas'd their number.</p> + +<p>3. The <i>Crolians</i> being Men of <i>vast Cash</i>, they no +sooner withdrew <i>their Mony</i> from the <i>General Bank</i> but +the <i>Bank languisht</i>, Credit <i>sunk</i>, and in a short time +they had little to do, but <i>dissolv'd of Course</i>.</p> + +<p>One thing remain'd which People expected would ha' put a Check +to this Undertaking, and that was a way of Trading in Classes, +<i>or Societies</i>, much like our <i>East-India Companies</i> in +<i>England</i>; and these depending upon publick Privileges granted +by the Queen of the Country, or her Predecessors, no Body could +Trade to those Parts but the Persons who had those priviledges: The +cunning <i>Crolians</i>, who had great Stocks in those Trades, and +foresaw they could not Trade by themselves without the publick +<i>Grant or Charter</i>, contriv'd a way to get almost all that +Capital Trade into their Hands as follows.</p> + +<p>They concerted Matters, and all at once fell to <i>selling off +their Stock</i>, giving out daily Reports that they would be <i>no +longer concern'd</i>, that it was a losing Trade, that the <i>Fund +at bottom was good for nothing</i>, and that of two Societies +<i>the Old one</i> had not 20 <i>per Cent. to divide</i>, all their +Debts being paid; that the <i>New Society</i> had Traded several +Years, but if they were dissolv'd <i>could not say that they had +got any thing</i>; and that this must be a Cheat at last, and so +they resolv'd to sell.</p> + +<p>By this Artifice, they daily offering to Sale, and yet in all +their Discourse <i>discouraging the thing they were to sell</i> no +Body could be found to buy.</p> + +<p>The offering a thing to Sale and no Bidders, is a certain +never-failing prospect of <i>a lowring the Price</i>; from this +Method therefore the value of all the Banks, Companies, Societies +and Stocks in the Country fell to be little or nothing worth; and +that was to be bought for 40 or 45 <i>Lunarians</i> that was +formerly sold at 150, and so in proportion of all the rest.</p> + +<p>All this while the <i>Crolians</i> employ'd their Emissaries to +buy up privately all the Interest or Shares in these Things that +any of the <i>Solunarian</i> Party would sell.</p> + +<p><i>This Plot took readily</i>, for these Gentlemen exposing the +weakness of <i>these Societies</i>, and running down the value of +<i>their Stocks</i>, and at the same time warily buying at the +lowest Prices, not only <i>in time got Possession of the whole +Trade</i>, with their Grants, Privileges and Stocks, but got into +them at a prodigiously low and despicable Price.</p> + +<p>They had no sooner thus worm'd them out of the Trade, and got +the greatest part of the Effects in their own Hands, and +consequently the whole Management, but they run up the Price of the +Funds again as high as ever, and laught at the folly of those that +sold out.</p> + +<p>Nor could the other People make any Reflections upon the honesty +of the practice, for it was <i>no Original</i>, but had its birth +among the <i>Solunarians themselves</i>, of whom 3 or 4 had +frequently made a Trade of raising and lowring the Funds of the +Societies by all the Clandestine Contrivances in the World, and had +ruin'd abundance of Families to raise their own Fortunes and +Estates.</p> + +<p>One of the greatest Merchants <i>in the Moon</i> rais'd himself +by this Method to such a heighth of Wealth, that he left all his +Children married to Grandees, Dukes, and Great Folks; and from a +<i>Mechanick Original</i>, they are now rankt among the +<i>Lunarian</i> Nobility, while multitudes of ruin'd Families helpt +to <i>build his Fortune</i>, by sinking under the Knavery of his +Contrivance.</p> + +<p>His Brother in the same Iniquity, being at this time <i>a Man of +the Feather</i>, has carry'd on the same intrieguing Trade with all +the <i>Face</i> and <i>Front</i> imaginable; it has been nothing +with him to persuade his most intimate Friends to <i>Sell</i>, or +<i>Buy</i>, just as he had occasion for his own Interest to have it +<i>rise</i>, or <i>fall</i>, and so to make his own Market of their +Misfortune. Thus he has <i>twice rais'd his Fortunes</i>, for the +<i>House of Feathers</i> demolisht him <i>once</i>, and yet he has +by the same clandestine Management work'd himself up again.</p> + +<p>This <i>civil way of Robbing Houses</i>, for I can esteem it no +better, was carry'd on by a middle sort of People, call'd in the +Moon BLOUTEGONDEGOURS, which which signifies <i>Men with two +Tongues</i>, or in English, <i>Stock-Jobbing Brokers</i>.</p> + +<p>These had formerly such an unlimited Power and were <i>so +numerous</i>, that indeed they govern'd the whole Trade of the +Country; no Man knew when he <i>Bought</i> or <i>Sold</i>, for tho' +they pretended to Buy and Sell, and Manage <i>for other Men</i> +whose Stocks they had very much at Command, yet nothing was more +frequent than <i>when they bought a thing cheap</i>, to buy it for +<i>themselves</i>; if <i>dear</i>, for their <i>Employer</i>; if +they were to Sell, <i>if the Price rise</i>, it was <i>Sold</i>, if +it <i>Fell</i>, it was <i>Unsold</i>; and by this Art no body got +any Mony but themselves, that at last, excepting the two <i>capital +Men</i> we spoke of before, these govern'd the Prizes of all +things, and nothing could be Bought or Sold to Advantage <i>but +thro' their hands</i>; and as the Profit was prodigious, their +number encreas'd accordingly, so that Business seem'd engross'd by +these Men, and they govern'd the main Articles of Trade.</p> + +<p><i>This Success</i>, and the <i>Imprudence of their Conduct</i>, +brought great Complaints against them to the Government, and a Law +was made to <i>restrain them</i>, both in Practice and +<i>Number</i>.</p> + +<p>This Law has in some measure had its Effect, the number is not +only lessen'd, but <i>by chance</i> some honester Men <i>than +usual</i> are got in among them, but they are so <i>very, very, +very</i> Few, hardly enough to save a Man's Credit that shall vouch +for them.</p> + +<p>Nay, some People that pretend to understand their Business +better than I do, having been of their Number, have affirm'd, it is +impossible to be honest in the employment.</p> + +<p>I confess when I began to search into the Conduct of these Men, +at least of some of them, I found there were abundance of black +Stories to be told of them, a great deal known, and a great deal +more unknown; for they were from the beginning continually +Encroaching into all sorts of People and Societies, and in +Conjunction with some that were not qualify'd by Law, but meerly +Voluntarily, call'd in the Moon by a hard long Word, in +<i>English</i> signifying PROJECTORS these erected Stocks <i>in +Shadows</i>, Societies <i>in Nubibus</i>, and Bought and Sold meer +Vapour, Wind, Emptiness and Bluster for Mony, till they drew People +in to lay out their Cash, and then laught at them.</p> + +<p>Thus they erected Paper Societies, Linnen Societies, Sulphur +Societies, Copper Societies, Glass Societies, Sham Banks, and a +thousand mock Whimsies to hook unwary People in; at last sold +themselves <i>out</i>, left the Bubble to float a little in the +Air, and then vanish of it self.</p> + +<p>The other sort of People <i>go on</i> after all this; and tho' +these Projectors began to be out of Fashion, they always found one +thing or other to amuse and deceive the Ignorant, and went +<i>Jobbing on</i> into all manner of things, Publick as well as +Private, whether the Revenue, the Publick Funds, Loans, Annuities, +<i>Bear-Skins</i>, or any thing.</p> + +<p>Nay they were once grown to that extravagant highth, that they +began to Stock-Job the very Feathers of the Consolidator, and in +time the King's employing those People might have had what Feathers +they had occasion for, without concerning the Proprietors of the +Lands much about them.</p> + +<p>'Tis true this began to be notorious, and receiv'd some check in +a former meeting of <i>the Feathers</i>; but even now, when I came +away, the three Years expiring, and by Course a new Consolidator +being to be built, they were as busie as ever. Bidding, Offering, +Procuring, Buying, Selling, and Jobbing of Feathers to who bid +most; and notwithstanding several late wholesome and strict Laws +against all manner of Collusion, Bribery and clandestine Methods, +in the Countries procuring these Feathers; never was the Moon in +such an uproar about picking and culling the Feathers, such +Bribery, such Drunkenness, such Caballing, especially among the +High <i>Solunarian</i> Clergy and the <i>Lazognians</i>, such +Feasting, Fighting and Distraction, as the like has never been +known.</p> + +<p>And that which is very Remarkable, all this not only before the +Old Consolidator was broke up, but even while it was actually whole +and in use.</p> + +<p>Had this hurry been to send up good Feathers, there had been the +less to say, but that which made it very strange to me was, that +where the very worst of all the Feathers were to be found, there +was the most of this wicked Work; and tho' it was bad enough every +where, yet the greatest bustle and contrivance was in order to send +up the worst Feathers they could get.</p> + +<p>And indeed some Places such Sorry, Scoundrel, Empty, Husky, +Wither'd, Decay'd Feathers were offer'd to the Proprietors, that I +have sometimes wonder'd any one could have the Impudence to send up +such ridiculous Feathers to make a Consolidator, which, as is +before observ'd, is an Engine of such Beauty, Usefulness and +Necessity.</p> + +<p>And still in all my Observation, this Note came in my way, there +was always the most bustle and disturbance about the worst +Feathers.</p> + +<p>It was really a melancholly Thing to consider, and had this +Lunar World been my Native Country, I should ha' been full of +concern to see that one thing, on which the welfare of the whole +Nation so much depended, put in so ill a Method, and gotten into +the management of such Men, who for Mony would certainly ha' set up +such Feathers, that wherever the Consolidator should be form'd, it +would certainly <i>over-set</i> the first Voyage; and if the whole +Nation should happen to be Embarkt in it, <i>on the dangerous +Voyage to the Moon</i>, the fall would certainly give them such a +Shock, as would put them all into Confusion, and open the Door to +the <i>Gallunarian</i>, or any Foreign Enemy to destroy them.</p> + +<p>It was really strange that this should be the Case, after so +many Laws, and so lately made, against it; but in this, those +People are too like our People in <i>England</i>, who have the best +Laws the worst executed of any Nation under Heaven.</p> + +<p>For in the Moon this hurry about choosing of Feathers was grown +to the greatest heighth imaginable, as if it encreast by the very +Laws that were made to suppress it; for now at a certain publick +Place where the <i>Bloutegondegours</i> us'd to meet every Day, any +Body that had but Mony enough might buy a Feather at a reasonable +Rate, and never go down into the Country to fetch it; nay, the +Trade grew so hot, that of a sudden as if no other Business was in +Hand, all people were upon it, and the whole Market was chang'd +from Selling of Bear-Skins, to Buying of Feathers.</p> + +<p>Some gave this for a Reason why all the Stocks of the Societies +fell so fast, but there were other Reasons to be given for that, +such as Clubs, Cabals, Stock-Jobbers, Knights, Merchants and +Thie---s. I mean <i>a private Sort</i>, not such as are frequently +Hang'd there, but <i>of a worse Sort</i>, by how much they <i>merit +that Punishment more</i>, but are out of the reach of the Law, can +Rob and pick Pockets in the Face of the Sun, and laugh at the +Families they Ruin, bidding Defiance to all legal Resentment.</p> + +<p>To this height things were come under the growing Evil of this +sort of People.</p> + +<p>And yet in the <i>very Moon</i> where, as I have noted, the +People are so exceeding <i>clear Sighted</i>, and have such vast +helps to their <i>perceptive Faculties</i>, such Mists are +sometimes cast before the publick Understanding, that they cannot +see the general Interest.</p> + +<p>This was manifest, in that just as I came away from that +Country, the great Council of their Wise Men, <i>the Men of the +Feather</i>, were a going to repeal the old Law of Restraining the +Number of these People; and tho' <i>as it was</i>, there was not +Employment for half of them, there being 100 in all, and not above +5 honest ones; yet when I came away they were going to encrease +their Number. I have nothing to say to this here, only that all +Wise Men that <i>understand Trade</i> were very much concern'd at +it, and lookt upon it as a most <i>destructive Thing to the +Publick</i>, and forboding the same mischiefs that Trade suffer'd +before.</p> + +<p>It was the particular Misfortune to these Lunar People that this +Country had a better Stock of Governors in all Articles of their +Well-fare, than in their Trade; their Law Affairs had good Judges, +their Church good Patriarchs, <i>except, as might be excepted</i>; +their <i>State</i> good <i>Ministers</i>, their <i>Army</i> good +<i>Generals</i>, and their <i>Consolidator</i> good +<i>Feathers</i>; but in Matters relating to Trade, they had this +particular Misfortune, that those Cases always came before People +<i>that did not understand them</i>.</p> + +<p>Even the Judges themselves were often found at a Loss to +determine Causes of Negoce, such as <i>Protests</i>, +<i>Charter-Parties</i>, <i>Avarages</i>, <i>Baratry</i>, +<i>Demorage</i> of Ships, Right of <i>detaining Vessels</i> on +Demorage, and the like; nay, the very Laws themselves are fain to +be silent and yield in many things a Superiority to <i>the Custom +of Merchants</i>.</p> + +<p>And here I began to <i>Congratulate my Native Country</i>, where +the Prudence of the Government has provided for these things, by +Establishing in <i>a Commission of Trade</i> some of the <i>most +experienc'd Gentlemen in the Nation</i>, to Regulate, Settle, +Improve, and revive Trade in General, by their unwearyed Labours, +and <i>most consummate Understanding</i>; and this made me pity +these Countries, and think it would be an Action worthy of this +Nation, and be spoken of <i>for Ages to come</i> to their Glory, if +in <i>meer Charity</i> they would appoint or depute <i>these +Gentlemen</i> to go a Voyage to those Countries <i>of the Moon</i>, +and bless those Regions with the Schemes of their sublime +Undertakings, <i>and discoveries in Trade</i>.</p> + +<p>But when I was expressing my self thus, my Philosopher +interrupted me, and told me I should see they were already furnisht +for that purpose, when I came to examine the publick Libraries, +<i>of which by it self</i>.</p> + +<p>But I was farther confirm'd in my Observation of the weakness of +the <i>publick Heads</i> of that Country, <i>as to Trade</i>, when +I saw another most preposterous Law going forward among them, the +Title of which was specious, and contain'd something relating <i>to +employing the Poor</i>, but the substance of it <i>absolutely +destructive</i> to the very Nature of their Trade, tending to +Transposing, <i>Confounding</i> and Destroying their Manufactures, +and to the Ruin of all their <i>Home-Commerce</i>; never was Nation +so blind to their own Interest as these <i>Lunarian Law Makers</i>, +and the People who were the Contrivers of this Law were so +<i>vainly Conceited</i>, so fond of <i>the guilded Title</i>, and +so <i>positively Dogmatick</i>, that they would not hear the +frequent Applications of Persons better acquainted with those +things than themselves, but pusht it on meerly <i>by the strength +of their Party</i>, for the Vanity of being Authors of such a +Contrivance.</p> + +<p>But to return to the new Model of the <i>Crolians</i>. The +advice of the <i>Lunarian</i> Philosopher run now thro' all their +Affairs, UNITE <i>was the Word</i> thro' all the Nation, in Trade, +in Cash, in Stocks, as I noted before.</p> + +<p>If a <i>Solunarian</i> Ship was bound to any <i>Out Port</i>, no +<i>Crolian</i> would load any Goods aboard; if any Ship came to +seek Freight abroad, none of the <i>Crolians</i> Correspondents +would Ship any thing unless they knew the Owners <i>were +Crolians</i>; the <i>Crolian Merchants</i> turn'd out all their +<i>Solunarian Masters</i>, <i>Sailors</i> and <i>Captains</i> from +their Ships; and thus, as the <i>Solunarians</i> would have them be +separated in respect of the Government, <i>Profits</i>, +<i>Honours</i> and <i>Offices</i>, they resolv'd to separate in +<i>every thing else</i> too, and to stand by themselves.</p> + +<p>At last, upon some publick Occasion, the publick +<i>Treasurers</i> of the Land sent to the capital City, to borrow +500000 <i>Lunarians</i> upon very good Security of establisht +Funds; <i>truly no Body would lend any Mony</i>, or at least they +could not raise above a 5th part of that Sum, enquiring <i>at the +Bank</i>, at their general <i>Societies Cash</i>, and other Places, +all was <i>languid</i> and <i>dull</i>, and <i>no Mony to be +had</i>; but being inform'd that the <i>Crolians</i> had erected a +Bank of their own, they <i>sent thither</i>, and were answered +<i>readily</i>, that whatever Sum the Government wanted, was at +their Service, only it was to be lent not by particular Persons, +but <i>such a Grandee</i> being one of the prime Nobility, and who +<i>the Crolians</i> now call'd their Protector, was to be +<i>Treated with about it</i>.</p> + +<p><i>The Government saw no harm in all this</i>; here was no Law +broken, here was nothing but Oppression answered with Policy, and +Mischief fenc'd against with Reason.</p> + +<p>The Government therefore took no Notice of it, <i>nor made any +Scruple when they wanted any Mony</i> to Treat with this Nobleman, +and borrow any Sum <i>of the Crolians</i>, as <i>Crolians</i>; on +the contrary in the Name of the <i>Crolians</i>; their <i>Head or +Protector</i> presented their <i>Addresses</i> and +<i>Petitions</i>, procur'd Favours on one Hand, and Assistance on +the other; and thus <i>by degrees</i> and <i>insensibly</i> the +<i>Crolians</i> became <i>a Politick Body</i>, settled and +establish'd by Orders and Rules among themselves; and while <i>a +Spirit of Unanimity</i> thus run thro' all their Proceedings, +<i>their Enemies could never hurt them</i>, their Princes always +saw it was <i>their Interest</i> to keep Measures with them, and +they were sure to have Justice upon any Complaint whatsoever.</p> + +<p><i>When I saw this</i>, it forc'd me to reflect upon Affairs in +our own Country; <i>Well, said I</i>, 'tis happy for <i>England</i> +that our <i>Dissenters</i> have not this Spirit of <i>Union</i> and +Largeness of Heart among them; for if they were not a +<i>Narrow</i>, mean-<i>Spirited</i>, short-<i>Sighted, +self-Preserving, friend-Betraying, poor-Neglecting People</i>, they +might ha' been every way as Safe, as Considerable, as Regarded and +as Numerous as the <i>Crolians</i> in the <i>Moon</i>; but it is +not in their Souls to do themselves Good, nor to Espouse, or Stand +by those that would do it for them; and 'tis well for the +Church-Men that it is so, for many Attempts have been made to save +them, but their own narrowness of Soul, and dividedness in Interest +has always prevented its being effectual, and discourag'd all the +Instruments that ever attempted to serve them.</p> + +<p>'Tis confest the Case was thus at first among the +<i>Crolians</i>, they were full of Divisions among themselves, as I +have noted already of the <i>Solunarians</i>, and the unhappy Feuds +among them, had always not only expos'd them to the Censure, +Reproach and Banter of their <i>Solunarian</i> Enemies, but it had +serv'd to keep them under, prevent their being valued in the +Government, and given the other Party vast Advantages against.</p> + +<p>But the <i>Solunarians</i> driving thus furiously <i>at their +Destruction</i> and entire Ruin, open'd their Eyes to the following +Measures for their preservation: And here again <i>the high +Solunarians</i> may see, and doubtless whenever they made use of +the Lunar-Glasses they must see it, that nothing could ha' driven +the <i>Crolians</i> to make use of such Methods for their Defence, +but the rash Proceedings of their own warm Men, in order to +suppressing the whole <i>Crolian</i> Interest. And this might +inform our Country-men of the Church of <i>England</i>, that it +cannot but be their Interest to Treat their Brethren with +Moderation and Temper, least their Extravagances should one time or +other drive the other as it were by Force into their Senses, and +open their Eyes to do only all those Things which by Law they may +do, and which they are laught at by all the World for not +doing.</p> + +<p>This was the very Case in the Moon: The Philosopher, <i>or +pretended-such as before</i>, had often publish'd, that <i>it was +their Interest to</i> UNITE; but their Eyes not being open to the +true Causes and Necessity of it, their Ears were shut against the +Council, <i>till Oppression and Necessities drove them to +it</i>.</p> + +<p>Accordingly they entred into a serious Debate, of the State of +their own Affairs, and finding the Advice given, very reasonable; +they set about it, and the Author gave them a Model, Entitl'd <i>An +enquiry into what the Crolians may lawfully do, to prevent the +certain Ruin of their Interest, and bring their Enemies to +Peace</i>.</p> + +<p>I will not pretend to examine the Contents of this sublime +Tract; but from this very Day, we found the <i>Crolians</i> in the +Moon, acting quite on a different Foot from all their former +Conduct, putting on a new Temper, and a new Face, as you have +hear'd.</p> + +<p>All this while the hot <i>Solunarians</i> cried out <i>Plots, +Associations, Confederacies</i>, and <i>Rebellions</i>, when indeed +here was nothing done but what the <i>Laws justify'd</i>, what +<i>Reason directed</i>, and what <i>had the Crolians but made use +of the Cogitator</i>, they would ha' done 40 Year before.</p> + +<p>The Truth is, the other People had no Remedy, but <i>to cry +Murther</i>, and make a Noise; for the <i>Crolians</i> went on with +their Affairs, and Establisht themselves so, that when I came away, +they were become a most Solid, and well United Body, made a +considerable Figure in the Nation, and yet the Government was easy; +for the <i>Solunarians</i> found when they had attain'd the utmost +end of their Wishes, her <i>Solunarian Majesty</i> was as safe as +before, and the <i>Crolians</i> Property being secur'd, they were +as Loyal Subjects as the <i>Solunarians</i>, as consistent with +Monarchy, as useful to it, and <i>as pleas'd with it</i>.</p> + +<p>I cannot but Remark here, that this <i>Union of the Crolians</i> +among themselves had another Consequence, which made it appear it +was not only to their own Advantage, but to the general Good of all +the Natien.</p> + +<p>For, <i>by little, and little</i>, the Feuds of the Parties +cool'd, and the <i>Solunarians</i> began to be better reconcil'd to +them; the Government was <i>easy and safe</i>, and the private +Quarrels, as I have been told since, begin to be quite forgot.</p> + +<p>What Blindness, <i>said I to my self</i>, has possest the +Dissenters in our unhappy Country of <i>England</i>, where by +eternal <i>Discords</i>, <i>Feuds</i>, <i>Distrusts</i> and +<i>Disgusts</i> among themselves, they always fill their Enemies +with Hopes, that by pushing at them, they may one time or other +compleat their Ruin; which Expectation has always serv'd as a means +to keep open the Quarrel; whereas had the Dissenters been United in +<i>Interest</i>, <i>Affection</i> and <i>Mannagement</i> among +themselves, all this Heat had long ago <i>been over</i>, and the +Nation, tho' there had been <i>two Opinions</i> had retain'd but +<i>one Interest</i>, been joyn'd in Affection, and <i>Peace at Home +been rais'd</i> up to that Degree that all Wise Men wish, as it is +now among the Inhabitants of the World in the Moon.</p> + +<p>Tis true, in all the Observations I made in this Lunar Country, +the vast deference paid to the Persons of Princes began to lessen, +and whatever Respect they had for the <i>Office</i>, they found it +necessary frequently to tell the World that <i>on occasion</i>, +they could Treat them with less Respect than <i>they pretended to +owe them</i>.</p> + +<p>For about this time, the <i>Divine Right</i> of Kings, and the +Inheritances of Princes <i>in the Moon</i>, met with a terrible +Shock, and that by the <i>Solunarian Party themselves</i>; and +insomuch that even my Philosopher, and he was none of the <i>Jure +Divino Men</i>, neither declar'd, against it.</p> + +<p>They made <i>Crowns perfect Foot-balls</i>, set up what Kings +they would, and <i>pull'd down</i> such as they did not like, +<i>Ratitione Voluntas</i>, right or wrong, as they thought best, of +which some Examples shall be given by and by.</p> + +<p>After I had thus enquir'd into the Historical Affairs of this +Lunar Nation, which for its Similitude to my Native Country, I +could not but be inquisitive in; I wav'd a great many material +Things, which at least I cannot enter upon the Relation of here, +and began to enquire into their Affairs abroad.</p> + +<p>I think I took notice in the beginning of my Account of these +parts, that I found them engag'd in a tedious and bloody War, with +one of the most mighty Monarchs of all the Moon.</p> + +<p>I must therefore hint, that among the multitude of things, which +for brevity sake I omit, the Reader may observe these were +some.</p> + +<p>1. That this was the same Monarch who harbour'd and entertain'd +the <i>Abrogratzian</i> Prince, who was fled as before, and who we +are to call the King of <i>Gallunaria</i>.</p> + +<p>2. I have omitted the Account of a long and bloody War, which +lasted a great many Years, and which the present Queens +Predecessor, mannag'd with a great deal of Bravery and Conduct, and +finisht very much to his own Glory, and the Nations Advantage.</p> + +<p>3. I have too much omitted to Note, how <i>Barbarously</i> the +<i>High Solunarian Church Men</i> treated him for all his Services, +upbraided him with the Expence of the War; and tho' he sav'd them +all from Ruin and <i>Abrogratzianism</i>, yet had not one good Word +for him, and indeed 'tis with some difficulty that I pass this +over, because it might be necessary to observe, besides what is +said before, that Ingratitude is a Vice in Nature, and practis'd +every where, as well as in <i>England</i>. So that we need not +upbraid the <i>Party</i> among us with their ill Treatment of the +late King, for these People us'd their good King every Jot as bad, +till their unkindness perfectly broke his Heart.</p> + +<p>Here also I am oblig'd to omit the Historical Part of the War, +and of the Peace that follow'd; only I must observe that this Peace +was very <i>Precarious</i>, Short and <i>Unhappy</i>, and in a few +Months the War broke out again, with as much Fury as ever.</p> + +<p>In this War happen'd one of the strangest, unaccountable and +most preposterous Actions, that ever a People in their National +Capacity could be guilty of.</p> + +<p>Certainly if our People in <i>England</i>, who pretend that +Kingship is <i>Jure Divino</i>, did but know the Story of which I +speak, they would be quite of another Mind; wherefore I crave leave +to relate part of the History, or Original of this last War, as a +necessary Introduction to the proper Observations I shall make upon +it.</p> + +<p>There was a King of a certain Country in the Moon, call'd in +their Language, <i>Ebronia</i>, who was formerly a Confederate with +the <i>Solunarians</i>. This Prince dying without Issue, the great +Monarch we speak of, seiz'd upon all his Dominions as his +Right.----- Tho' if I remember right, he had formerly Sworn never +to lay Claim to it, and after that by a subsequent Treaty had +agreed with the <i>Solunarian</i> Prince, that another Monarch who +claim'd a Right as well as he, should divide it between them.</p> + +<p>The breach of this Agreement, and seizing this Kingdom, put +almost all the Lunar World into a Flame, and War hung over the +Heads of all the Northern Nations of the Moon, for several Claims +were made to the Succession by other Princes, and particularly by a +certain Potent Prince call'd the <i>Eagle</i>, of an Ancient +Family, whose <i>Lunar</i> Name I cannot well express, but in +<i>English</i> it signifies <i>the Men of the great Lip</i>; +whether it was Originally a sort of a Nick Name, or whether they +had any such thing as a great Lip Hereditary to the Family, by +which they were distinguisht, is not worth my while to Examine.</p> + +<p>'Tis without question that the successive Right, <i>if their +Lunar Successions, are Govern'd as ours are in this world</i>, +devolv'd upon this Man <i>with the Lip</i> and his Families; but +the <i>Gallunarian</i> Monarch brought things so to pass, by his +extraordinary Conduct, that the <i>Ebronian</i> King was drawn in +by some of his Nobility, <i>who this Prince had Bought</i> and +Brib'd to betray their Country to his Interest, and particularly a +certain <i>High Priest</i> of that Country, to make an Assignment, +or <i>deed of Gift</i> of all his Dominions to the Grandson of this +<i>Gallunarian</i> Monarch.</p> + +<p><i>By Vertue of this Gift</i>, or Legacy, as soon as the King +dyed, who was then languishing, and as the other Parry alledg'd, +not in <i>a very good capacity to make a Will</i>; the +<i>Gallunarian</i> King sent his Grandson to seize upon the Crown, +and backing him with suitable Forces, took Possession of all his +strong Fortifications and Frontiers.</p> + +<p>Nor was this all, <i>the Man with the Lip</i> indeed talkt big, +and threatned War immediately, but the <i>Solunarians</i> were so +unsettl'd at Home, so unprepar'd for War, having but just dismist +their Auxiliar Troops, and disbanded their own, and the Prince was +so ill serv'd by his Subjects, that both he and a Powerful +Neighbour, Nations in the same Interest, were meerly Bullyed by +this <i>Gallunarian</i>; and as he threatned immediately to Invade +them, which they were then in no Condition to prevent, he forc'd +them both to submit to his Demand, <i>tacitely allow</i> what he +had done in breaking the Treaty with him, and at last openly +<i>acknowledge</i> his new King.</p> + +<p><i>This was indeed a most unaccountable Step</i>, but there was +a necessity to plead, for he was at their very Doors with his +Forces; and this Neighbouring People, who they call +<i>Mogenites</i>, could not resist him without help from the +<i>Solunarians</i>, which they were very backward in, +notwithstanding the <i>earnest Sollicitations of their Prince</i>, +and notwithstanding they were oblig'd to do it <i>by a solemn +Treaty</i>.</p> + +<p>These delays oblig'd them to this strange Step of +<i>acknowledging</i> the Invasion of their Enemy, and <i>pulling +off the Hat</i> to the New King he had set up.</p> + +<p><i>'Tis true</i>, the Policy of these Lunar Nations was very +Remarkable in this Case, and they out-witted the <i>Gallunarian</i> +Monarch in it; for by the owning this Prince, whom they immediately +after <i>Declar'd a Usurper</i>, and made War against; they stopt +the Mouth of the <i>Gallunarian</i> his Grandfather, took from him +all pretence of Invading them, and <i>making him believe they were +Sincere</i>, Wheedl'd him to restore several Thousands of their Men +who he had taken Prisoners in the Frontier Towns of the +<i>Ebronians</i>.</p> + +<p>Had the <i>Gallunarian</i> Prince had but the forecast to ha' +seen, that this was but a forc'd pretence to gain Time, and that as +soon as they had <i>their Troops clear</i> and Time to raise more, +they would certainly turn upon him again, he would never ha' been +put by with so weak a Trifle as the <i>Ceremony of +Congratulation</i>; whereas had he immediately pusht at them with +all his Forces, they must ha' been Ruin'd, and he had carry'd his +Point without much Interruption.</p> + +<p>But here he lost his Opportunity, which he never retriev'd; +<i>for 'tis in the Moon, just as 'tis here</i>, when an Occasion is +lost, it is not easy to be recover'd, for both the +<i>Solunarians</i> and the <i>Mogenites</i> quickly threw off the +Mask, and declaring this new Prince an <i>Usurper</i>, and his +Grandfather an <i>Unjust breaker of Treaties</i>, they prepar'd for +War against them both.</p> + +<p>As to the Honesty of this matter, my Philosopher and I differ'd +extremely, he exclaim'd against the Honour of acknowledging a King, +with a design to Depose him, and pretending Peace when War is +design'd; tho' 'tis true, they are too customary in our World; but +however, as to him I insisted upon the lawfulness of it, from the +universal Custom of Nations, who generally do things ten times more +Preposterous and Inconsistent, when they suit their Occasions. Yet +I hope no Body will think I am recommending them by this Relation +to the Practice of our own Nations, but rather exposing them as +unaccountable things never to be put in Practice, without quitting +all pretences to Justice and national Honesty.</p> + +<p>The Case was this.</p> + +<p>As upon the Progress of Matters before related, the +<i>Solunarians</i> and <i>Mogenites</i> had made a formal +acknowledgment of this new Monarch, the Grandson of the +<i>Gallunarian</i> King, so as I have hinted already, they had no +other design than to Depose him, and pull him down.</p> + +<p>Accordingly, as soon as <i>by the aforesaid Wile</i> they had +gain'd Breath, and furnisht themselves with Forces, they +<i>declar'd War</i> against both the <i>Gallunarian</i> King, and +his Grandson, and entred into strict Confederacy with <i>the Man of +the great Lip</i>, who was the Monarch of the <i>Eagle</i>, and who +by right of Succession, had the true Claim to the <i>Ebronian</i> +Crowns.</p> + +<p>In these Declarations they alledge that Crowns do not <i>descend +by Gift</i>, nor are Kingdoms given away <i>by Legacy</i>, like a +Gold <i>Ring at a Funeral</i>, and therefore this young Prince +could have no Right, the former deceas'd King having <i>no Right to +dispose it by Gift</i>.</p> + +<p>I must allow, that judging by our Reason, and the Practice in +our Countries here, <i>on this side the Moon</i>; this seem'd +plain, and I saw no difference in matters of Truth there, or here, +but Right and Liberty both of Princes and People seems to be the +same in that World, as it is in this, and upon this account I +thought the Reasons of this War very Just, and that the Claim of +Right to the Succession of the <i>Ebronian</i> Crown, was +undoubtedly <i>in the Man with the Lip</i>, and his Heirs, and so +far the War was most Just, and the Design reasonable.</p> + +<p>And thus far my Lunar Companion agreed with me, and had they +gone on so, says he, they had my good Wishes, and my Judgment had +been Witness to my Pretences, that they were in the right.</p> + +<p>But in the prosecution of this War, says he, they went on to one +of the most Impolitick, Ridiculous, Dishonest, and Inconsistent +Actions, that ever any Nation in the Moon was guilty of; the Fact +was thus.</p> + +<p>Having agreed among themselves that the <i>Ebronian</i> Crown +should not be possest by the <i>Gallunarian</i> King's Grandson, +they in the next Place began to consider who should have it.</p> + +<p><i>The Man with the Lip had the Title</i>, but he had a great +Government of his own, Powerful, Happy and Remote, being as is +noted, the Lord of the great <i>Eagle</i>, and he told them he +could not pretend <i>to come to Ebronia to be a King there</i>; his +eldest Son truly was not only declar'd Heir apparent to his Father, +but had another <i>Lunarian Kingdom</i> of his own still more +remote than that, and he would not quit all this for the Crown of +<i>Ebronia</i>, so it was concerted by all the Confederated +Parties, that the <i>second Son</i> of this Prince, <i>the Man with +the Lip</i>, should be declar'd King, and here lay the Injustice of +all the Case.</p> + +<p>I confess at my first examining this Matter, I did not see far +into it, nor could I reach the Dishonesty of it, and perhaps the +Reader of these Sheets may be in the same Case; but my old +<i>Lunarian Friend</i> being continually exclaiming against the +Matter, and blaming his Country-men the <i>Solunarians</i> for the +Dishonesty of it, but especially the <i>Mogenites</i>, he began to +be something peevish with me that I should be so dull as not to +reach it, and askt me if he should screw me into the +<i>Thinking-Press</i> for the Clearing up my Understanding.</p> + +<p>At last he told me he would write his particular Sentiments of +this whole Affair in a Letter to me, which he would so order as it +should <i>effectually open mine Eyes</i>; which indeed it did, and +so I believe it will the Eyes of all that read it; to which purpose +I have obtain'd of the Author <i>to assist me in the +Translation</i> of it, he having some Knowledge also in our +<i>Sublunar Languages</i>.</p> + +<p><i>The Sustance of a Letter, wrote to the Author of these +Sheets, while he was in the Regions of the Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>'<i>Friend from the Moon</i>,</p> + +<p>'According to my promise, I hereby give you a Scheme of +<i>Solunarian</i> Honesty, join'd with <i>Mogenite</i> Policy, and +my Opinion of the Action of my Country-men and their Confederates, +in declaring their new made <i>Ebronian</i> King.</p> + +<p>'The <i>Mogenites</i> and <i>Solunarians</i> are look'd upon +here to be the Original Contrivers of this ridiculous piece of +Pageantry, and tho' some of their Neighbours are suppos'd to have a +Hand in it, yet we all lay it at the door of their Politicks, and +for the Honesty of it let them answer it if they can.</p> + +<p>''Tis observ'd here, that as soon as the King of +<i>Gallunaria</i> had declar'd that he accepted the Will and +Disposition of the Crown of <i>Ebronia</i>, in favour of his +Grandson, and that according to the said Disposition, he had own'd +him for King; and in order to make it effectual, had put him into +immediate Possession of the Kingdom. The <i>Mogenites</i> and their +Confederates made wonderful Clamours at the Injustice of his +Proceedings, and particularly on account of his breaking the Treaty +then lately entred into with the King of the <i>Solunarians</i> and +the <i>Mogenites</i>, for the settling the Matter of Right and +Possession, in case of the Demise of the <i>Ebronian</i> King.</p> + +<p>'However, the King of <i>Gallunaria</i> had no sooner plac'd his +Grandson on the Throne, but the <i>Mogenites</i> and other Nations, +and <i>to all our Wonder</i>, the King of <i>Solunaria</i> himself +acknowledg'd him, own'd him, sent their Ministers, and Compliments +of Congratulation, and the like, giving him the Title of King of +<i>Ebronia</i>.</p> + +<p>'Tho' this proceeding had something of Surprize in it, and all +Men expected to see something more than ordinary Politick in the +effect of it, yet it did not give half the astonishment to the +Lunar World, as this unaccountable Monster of Politicks begins to +do.</p> + +<p>'We have here two unlucky Fellows, call'd <i>Pasquin</i> and +<i>Marforio</i>, these had a long Dialogue about this very Matter, +and <i>Pasquin</i> as he always lov'd Mischief, told a very unlucky +Story to his Comrade, of a high <i>Mogenite</i> Skipper, as +follows.</p> + +<p>'A <i>Mogenite</i> Ship coming from a far Country, the Custom +House Officers found some Goods on Board, which were Controband, +and for which they pretended the Ship and Goods were all +Confiscated; the Skipper, or <i>Captain</i> in a great Fright, +comes up to the Custom-House, and being told he must Swear to +something relating to his taking in those Goods, reply'd in his +Country <i>Jargon, Ya, dat sall Ick doen Myn Heer</i>; or in +<i>English, Ay, Ay, I'll Swear</i>.----- But finding they did not +assure him that it would clear his Ship he scruples the Oath again, +at which they told him it would clear his Ship immediately. +<i>Hael, well Myn Heer</i>, says the <i>Mogen</i> Man, <i>vat mot +Ick sagen, Ick sall all Swear myn Skip to salvare</i>, i.e. I shall +Swear any thing to save my Skip.</p> + +<p>'We apply this Story thus.</p> + +<p>'If the <i>Mogenites</i> did acknowledge the King of +<i>Ebronia</i>, we did believe it was done <i>to save the Skip</i>; +and when they reproacht the <i>Gallunarian</i> King, with breaking +the Treaty of Division, we us'd to say we would all break thro' +twice as many Engagements for half as much Advantage.</p> + +<p>'This setting up a new King, against a King on the Throne, +Acknowledg'd and Congratulated by them, is not only look'd on in +the Lunar World, as a thing Ridiculous, but particularly Infamous, +that they should first acknowledge a King, and then set up the +Title of another. If the Title of the first <i>Ebronian</i> King be +good, this must be an Impostor, an Usurper of another Man's Right; +if it was not good, why did they acknowledge him, and give him the +full Title of all the <i>Ebronian</i> Dominions? Caress and +Congratulate him, and make a publick Action of it to his +Ambassador.</p> + +<p>'Will they tell us they were Bully'd, and Frighted into it? that +is to own they may be hufft into an ill Action; for owing a Man in +the Posession of what is none of his own, is an ill thing, and he +that may be hufft into one ill Action, may by Consequence be hufft +into another, and so into any thing.</p> + +<p>'What will they say for doing it? we have heard there has been +in the World you came from, a way found out to own Kings <i>de +Facto</i>, but not <i>de Jure</i>; if they will fly to that +ridiculous Shift, let them tell the World so, that we may know what +they mean, for those foolish things are not known here.</p> + +<p>'If they own'd the King of <i>Ebronia</i> voluntarily, and +acknowledg'd his Right as we thought they had; how then can this +young Gentleman have a Title, unless they have found out a new +Division, and so will have two Kings of <i>Ebronia</i>, make them +Partners, and have a <i>Gallunarian</i> King of <i>Ebronia</i>, and +a <i>Mogenite</i> King of <i>Ebronia</i>, both together?</p> + +<p>'Our Lunar Nations, Princes and States, whatever they may do in +your World, always seek for some Pretences at least to make their +Actions seem Honest, whither they are so or no; and therefore they +generally publish Memorials, Manifesto's and Declarations, of their +Reasons why, and on what account they do so, or so; that those who +have any Grounds to charge them with Unjustice, may be answer'd, +and silenc'd; 'tis for the People in your Country, to fall upon +their Neighbours, only because they will do it, and make +probability of Conquest, a sufficient Reason of Conquest; the +<i>Lunarian</i> Nations are seldom so destitute of Modesty, but +that they will make a shew of Justice, and make out the Reasons of +their Proceedings; and tho' sometimes we find even the Reasons +given for some Actions are weak enough; yet it is a bad Cause +indeed, that can neither have a true Reason, nor a pretended one. +The custom of the Moon has oblig'd us to show so much respect to +Honesty, that when our Actions have the least colour of Honesty, +yet we will make Reasons to look like a Defence, whether it be so +or no.</p> + +<p>'But here is an Action that has neither reality, nor pretence, +here is not Face enough upon it to bear an Apology. First, they +acknowledge one King, and then set up another King against him; +either they first acknowledg'd a wrong King, and thereby became +Parties to a Usurper, or they act now against all the Rules of +common Justice in the World, to set up a sham King, to pull down a +true one, only because 'tis their Interest to have it so.</p> + +<p>'This makes the very Name of a <i>Solunarian</i> scandalous to +all the Moon, and Mankind look upon them with the utmost Prejudice, +as if they were a Nation who had sold all their Honesty to their +Interest; and who could act this way to Day, and that way to +Morrow, without any regard to Truth, or the Rule of Honour, Equity +or Conscience; <i>This is Swearing any thing to save the Skip</i>; +and never let any Man Reproach the <i>Gallunarian</i> King with +breaking the Treaty of Division, and disregarding the Faith and +Stipulations of Leagues; for this is an Action so inconsistent with +it self, so incongruous to common Justice, to the Reason and Nature +of things, that no History of any of these latter Times can +parallel it, and 'tis past the Power of Art to make any reasonable +Defence for it.</p> + +<p>'Indeed some lame Reasons are given for it by our Polititians. +First, they say the Prince with the great Lip was extremely prest +by the <i>Gallunarians</i> at Home in his own Country, and not +without apprehensions of seeing them e'er long, under the Walls of +his capital City.</p> + +<p>'From this circumstance of the Man with the Lip, 'twas not +irrational to expect that he might be induc'd to make a separate +Peace with the <i>Gallunarians</i>, and serve them as he did once +the Prince of <i>Berlindia</i> at the Treaty of Peace in a former +War, where he deserted him after the solemnest Engagements never to +make Peace without him; but his pressing Occasions requiring it, +concluded a Peace without him, and left him to come out of the War, +as well as he could, tho' he had come into it only for his +Assistance. Now finding him in danger of being ruin'd by the +<i>Gallunarian</i> Power, and judging from former Practice in like +Cases, that he might be hurry'd into a Peace, and leave them in the +Lurch; they have drawn him into this Labrinth, as into a Step, +which can never be receded from without the utmost Affront and +Disgrace, either to the Family of the <i>Gallunarian</i>, or of the +Lip; an Action which in its own Nature, is a Defiance of the whole +<i>Gallunarian</i> Power, and without any other Manifesto, may be +taken as a Declaration from the House of the <i>Lip</i>, to the +<i>Gallunarian</i>, that this War shall never end, till one of +those two Families are ruin'd and reduc'd.</p> + +<p>'What Condition the Prince with the Lip's Power is in, to make +such a huff at this Time, shall come under Examination by and by; +in the mean time the <i>Solunarians</i> have clench'd the Nail, and +secur'd the War to last as long as they think convenient.</p> + +<p>'If the <i>Gallunarians</i> should get the better, and reduce +the <i>Man with the Lip</i> to Terms never so disadvantageous, he +cannot now make a Peace without leave from the <i>Solunarians</i> +and the <i>Mogenites</i>, least his Son should be ruin'd also.----- +Or if he should make Articles for himself, it must be with ten +times the Dishonour that he might have done before.</p> + +<p>'Politicians say, 'tis never good for a Prince to put himself +into a case of Desperation. This is drawing the Sword, and throwing +away the Scabbard; if a Disaster should befal him, his Retreat is +impossible, and this must have been done only to secure the <i>Man +with the Lip</i> from being hufft, or frighted into a separate +Peace.</p> + +<p>'The second Reason People here give, why the <i>Solunarians</i> +are concerning themselves in this Matter, is drawn from Trade.</p> + +<p>'The continuing of <i>Ebronia</i> in the Hands of the +<i>Gallunarians</i>, will most certainly be the Destruction of the +<i>Solunarian</i> and <i>Mogenites</i> Trade, both to that Kingdom, +and the whole Seas on that side of the Moon; as this Article +includes a fifth Part of all the Trade of the Moon, and would in +Conjunction with the <i>Gallunarians</i> at last bring the +Mastership of the Sea, out of the Hands of the other, so it would +in effect be more detriment to those two Nations, than ten Kingdoms +lost, if they had them to part with.</p> + +<p>'This the <i>Solunarians</i> foreseeing, and being extremely +sensible of the entire Ruin of their Trade, have left no Stone +unturn'd to bring this piece of Pageantry on the Stage, by which +they have hook'd in the Old Black <i>Eagle</i> to plunge himself +over Head and Ears in the Quarrel, in such a manner, as he can +never go back with any tolerable Honour; he can never quit his Son +and the Crown of <i>Ebronia</i>, without the greatest Reproach and +Disgrace of all the World in the Moon.</p> + +<p>'Now whether one, or both of these Reasons are true in this +Case, as most believe both of them to be true; the Policy of my +Country-men, the <i>Solunarians</i> is visible indeed, but as for +their Honesty, it is past finding out.</p> + +<p>'But it is objected here, this Son <i>of the Lip</i> has an +undoubted Right to the Crown of <i>Ebronia</i>. We do not Fight now +to set up an Usurper, but to pull down an Usurper, and it has been +made plain by the Manifesto, that the giving a Kingdom by Will, is +no conveyance of Right; the Prince of the <i>Eagle</i> has an +undoubted Right, and they Fight to maintain it.</p> + +<p>'If this be true, then we must ask these High and Mighty +Gentlemen how came they to recognize and acknowledge the present +King on the Throne? why did they own an Usurper if he be such? +either one or other must be an act of Cowardize and Injustice, and +all the Politicks of the Moon cannot clear them of one of these two +Charges; either they were Cowardly Knaves before, or else they must +be Cunning Knaves now.</p> + +<p>'If the Young <i>Eagle</i> has an undoubted Title now, so he had +before, and they knew it as well before, as they do now; what can +they say for themselves, why they should own a King, who they knew +had no Title, or what can they say for going to pull down one that +has a Title?</p> + +<p>'I must be allow'd to distinguish between Fighting with a +Nation, and Fighting with the King. For Example. Our Quarrel with +the <i>Gallunarians</i> is with the whole Nation, as they are grown +too strong for their Neighbours. But our Quarrel with +<i>Ebronia</i> is not with the Nation, but with their King, and +this Quarrel seems to be unjust in this particular, at least in +them who own'd him to be King, for that put an end to the +Controversy.</p> + +<p>''Tis true, the Justice of publick Actions, either in Princes, +or in States, is no such nice Thing, that any Body should be +surpriz'd, to see the Government forfeit their Faith, and it seems +the <i>Solunarians</i> are no more careful this way, than their +Neighbours. But then those People should in especial manner forbear +to reproach Other Nations and Princes, with the breaches which they +themselves are subject too.</p> + +<p>'As to the <i>Eagle</i>, we have nothing to say to the Honesty +of his declaring his Son King of <i>Ebronia</i>, for as is hinted +before, he never acknowledg'd the Title of the Usurper, but always +declar'd, and insisted on his own undoubted Right, and that he +would recover it if he could.</p> + +<p>'Without doubt the <i>Eagle</i> has a Title by Proximity of +Blood, founded on the renunciation of the King of <i>Gallunaria</i> +formerly mention'd, and if the Will of the late King be Invalid, or +he had no Right to give the Soveraignty of his Kingdoms away, then +the <i>Eagle</i> is next Heir.</p> + +<p>'But as we quit his Morals, and justify the Honesty of his +Proceedings in the War, against the present King of <i>Ebronia</i>, +so in this Action of declaring his second Son. We must begin to +question his Understanding, and saying a respect of decency, it +looks as if his Musical Head was out of Tune, to <i>Illus +tratellus</i>. I crave leave to tell you a Story out of your own +Country, which we have heard of hither. A <i>French</i> Man that +could speak but broken <i>English</i>, was at the Court of +<i>England</i>, when on some occasion he happen'd to hear the Title +of the King of <i>England</i> read thus, <i>Charles the</i> II. +<i>King of England, Scotland France and Ireland</i>.</p> + +<p>'Vat is dat you say? says Monsieur, being a little affronted, +the Man reads it again, as before. <i>Charles the Second, King of +England, Scotland, France and Ireland</i>.------ <i>Charles the +Second, King of France! Ma Foy</i>, says the <i>French</i> Man, +<i>you can no read, Charles the Second, King of France, ha! ha! ha! +Charles the Second, King of France, when he can catch</i>. Any one +may apply the Story, whether it was a true one or no.</p> + +<p>'All the Lunar World looks on it, therefore, as a most +Ridiculous, Senseless Thing, to make a Man a King of a Country he +has not one Foot of Land in, nor can have a Foot there, but what he +must Fight for. As to the probability of gaining it, I have nothing +to say to it, but if we may guess at his Success there, by what has +been done in other Parts of the Moon, we find he has Fought three +Campaigns, to lose every Foot he had got.</p> + +<p>'It had been much more to the Honour of the <i>Eagle</i>'s +Conduct, and of the young Hero himself, first to ha' let him ha' +fac'd his Enemy in the Field, and as soon as he had beaten him, the +<i>Ebronians</i> would have acknowledg'd him fast enough; or his +own Victorious Troops might have Proclaim'd him at the Gate of +their Capital City; and if after all, the Success of the War had +deny'd him the Crown he had fought for, he had the Honour to have +shown his Bravery, and he had been where he was, a Prince of the +Great Lip. A Son of the <i>Eagle</i> is a Title much more +Honourable than a King Without a Crown, without Subjects, without a +Kingdom, and another Man upon his Throne; but by this declaring him +King, the <i>old Eagle</i> has put him under a necessity of gaining +the Kingdom of <i>Ebronia</i>, which at best is a great hazard, or +if he fails to be miserably despicable, and to bear all his Life +the constant Chagrin of a great Title and no Possession.</p> + +<p>'How ridiculous will this poor Young Gentleman look, if at last +he should be forc'd to come Home again without his Kingdom? what a +King of Clouts will he pass for, and what will this <i>King-making +old Gentlemen, his Father say</i>, when the young Hero shall tell +him, your Majesty has made me Mock King for all the World to laugh +at.</p> + +<p>''Twas certainly the weakest Thing that could be, for the +<i>Eagle</i> thus to make him a King of that, which, were the +probability greater than it is, he may easily, without the help of +a Miracle, be disappointed of.</p> + +<p>''Tis true, the Confederates talk big, and have lately had a +great Victory, and if Talk will beat the King of <i>Ebronia</i> out +of his Kingdom, he is certainly undone, but we do not find the +<i>Gallunarians</i> part with any thing they can keep, nor that +they quit any thing without Blows; It must cost a great deal of +Blood and Treasure before this War can be ended; if absolute +Conquest on one side must be the Matter, and if the Design on +<i>Ebronia</i> should miscarry, as one Voyage thither has done +already, where are we then? Let any Man but look back, and consider +what a sorry Figure your Confederate Fleet in your World had made, +after their <i>Andalusian Expedition</i>, if they had not more by +Fate than Conduct, chopt upon a Booty at <i>Vigo</i> as they came +back.</p> + +<p>'In the like condition, will this new King come back, if he +should go for a Kingdom and should not <i>Catch</i>, as the +<i>French</i> Man call'd it. 'Tis in the Sense of the probability +of this miscarriage, that most Men wonder at these unaccountable +Measures, and think the <i>Eagles</i> Councils look a little +Wildish, as if some of his great Men were grown Dilirious and +Whymsical, that fancy'd Crowns and Kingdoms were to come and go, +just as the great Divan at their Court should direct. This +confusion of Circumstances has occasion'd a certain Copy of Verses +to appear about the Moon, which in our Characters may be read as +follows.</p> + +<blockquote><i>Wondelis Idulasin na Perixola Metartos,</i><br> + <i>Strigunia Crolias Xerin Hytale fylos;</i><br> +<i>Farnicos Galvare Orpto sonamel Egonsberch,</i><br> + <i>Sih lona Sipos Gullia Ropta Tylos.</i></blockquote> + +<p>'Which may be English'd thus.</p> + +<blockquote><i>Cæsar you Trifle with the World in vain,</i><br> +<i>Think rather now of</i> Germany <i>than</i> Spain;<br> +<i>He's hardly fit to fill th'</i> Eagle's <i>Throne,</i><br> +<i>Who gives new Crowns, and can't protect his own.</i></blockquote> + +<p>'But after all to come closer to the Point, if I can now make it +out that whatever it was before, this very Practice of declaring a +second Son to be King of <i>Ebronia</i>, has publickly own'd the +Proceedings of the King of <i>Gallunaria</i> to be Just, and the +Title of his Grandson to be much better than the Title of the now +declar'd King, what shall we call it then?</p> + +<p>'In order to this, 'tis first necessary to examine the Title of +the present King, and to enter into the history of his coming to +the Crown, in which I shall be very Brief.</p> + +<p>'The last King of <i>Ebronia</i> dying without Issue, and a +former Renunciation taking place, the Succession devolves on the +House of the <i>Eagle</i> as before, of whom the present +<i>Eagle</i> is the eldest Branch.</p> + +<p>'But the late King of <i>Ebronia</i>, to prevent the Succession +of the <i>Eagle</i>'s Line, makes a Will, and supplies the Proviso +of Renunciation by Devising, Giving or Bequeathing the Crown to the +Grandson of his Sister.</p> + +<p>'The King of <i>Gallunaria</i> insists that this is a lawful +Title to the Crown, and seizes it accordingly, inflating his +Grandson in the Possession.</p> + +<p>'The <i>Eagle</i> alledges the Renunciation to confirm his Title +as Heir; and as to the Will of the late King, he says Crowns cannot +descend by Gift, and tho' the late King had an undoubted Right to +enjoy it himself, he had none to give it away.</p> + +<p>'To make the application of this History as short as may be, I +demand then what Right has the <i>Eagle</i> to give it to his +second Son? if Crowns are not to descend by Gift, he may have a +Right to enjoy it, but can have none to give it away, but if he has +a Right to give it away; so had the former King, and then the +present King has a better Title to it than the new one, because his +Gift was Prior to this of the <i>Eagle</i>.</p> + +<p>'I would be glad to see this answer'd; and if it can't, then I +Query whether the <i>Eagle's</i> Senses ought not to be question'd, +for setting up a Title very Foundation for which he quarrels at him +that is in Possession, and so confirm the honesty of the +Possessor's Title by his own Practice.?</p> + +<p>'From the whole, I make no Scruple to say that either the +<i>Eagle</i>'s second Son has no Title to the Kingdom of +<i>Ebronia</i>, or else giving of Crowns is a legal Practice; and +if Crowns may descend by Gift, then has the other King a better +Title than he, because it was given him first, and the <i>Eagle</i> +has only given away what he had no Right to, because 'twas given +away before he had any Title to it himself.</p> + +<p>'Further, the Posterity of the <i>Eagle</i>'s eldest Son are +manifestly injur'd in this Action, for Kings can no more give away +their Crowns from their Posterity, than from themselves; if the +Right be in the <i>Eagle</i>, 'tis his, as he's the eldest Male +Branch of the House of <i>the great Lip</i>, not as he is +<i>Eagle</i>, and from him the Crown of <i>Ebronia</i> by the same +Right of Devolution descends to his Posterity, and rests on the +Male Line of every eldest Branch. If so, no Act of Renunciation can +alter this Succession, for that is a Gift, and the Gift is +exploded, or else the whole House of <i>the great Lip</i> is +excluded; so that let the Argument be turn'd and twisted never so +many ways, it all Centers in this, that the present Person can have +no Title to the Crown of <i>Ebronia</i>.</p> + +<p>'If he has any Title, 'tis from the Gift of his Father and elder +Brother; if the Gift of a Crown is no good Title, then his Title +cannot be good; If the Gift of a Crown is a good Title, then the +Crown was given away before, and so neither he nor his Father has +any Title.</p> + +<p>'Let him that can answer these Paradoxes defend his Title if he +can; and what shall we now say to the War in <i>Ebronia</i>, only +this, that they are going to fight for the Crown of <i>Ebronia</i>? +and to take it away from one that has no Right to it, to give it to +one that has a less Right than he, and 'tis to be fear'd that if +Heaven be Righteous, 'twill succeed accordingly.</p> + +<p>'The Gentlemen of Letters who have wrote of this in our Lunar +World, on the Subject of the <i>Gallunarians</i> Title, have took a +great deal of Liberty in the <i>Eagle</i>'s behalf, to Banter and +Ridicule the <i>Gallunarian</i> sham of a Title, as if it were a +pretence too weak for any Prince to make use of, to talk of Kings +giving their Crowns by Will.</p> + +<p><i>Kingdoms and Governments, says a Learned Lunar author, are +not things of such indifferent Value to be given away, like a Token +left for a Legacy. If any Prince has ever given or transferr'd his +Government, it has been done by solemn Act, and the People have +been call'd to assent and confirm such Concessions</i>.</p> + +<p>'Then the same Author goes on, to Treat the King of +<i>Gallunaria</i> with a great deal of Severity, and exposes his +Politicks, that he should think to put upon the Moon with so empty, +so weak, so ridiculous a Pretence, as the Will of a weak Headed +Prince, who neither had a Right to give his Crown, nor a Brain to +know what he was doing, and he laughs to think what the King of +<i>Gallunaria</i> would have said to have such a dull Trick as +that, put upon him in any such Case.</p> + +<p>'Now when we have been so Witty upon this very Article, of +giving away the Crown to the King of <i>Gallunaria</i>'s Grandson, +as an incongruous and ridiculous Thing, shall we come to make the +same Incongruity be the Foundation of a War?</p> + +<p>'With what Justice can we make a War for a Prince who has only a +good Title, by Vertue of the self same Action which makes the +Grandson of his Enemy have a bad Title.</p> + +<p>'I always thought we had a Just Ground to make War on +<i>Ebronia</i>, as we were bound by former Alliances to assist the +<i>Eagle</i> in the recovery of it in case of the death of the late +King of that Country.</p> + +<p>'But now the <i>Eagle</i> has refus'd the Succession, and his +Eldest Son has refus'd it, I would be glad to see it prov'd how the +second Son can have a Title, and yet the other King have no +Title.</p> + +<p>'What a strange sort of a Thing is the Crown of <i>Ebronia</i>, +that two of the greatest Princes of the Lunar World should Fight, +not who shall have it, for neither of them will accept of it, but +who shall have the Power of giving it away.</p> + +<p>'Here are four Princes refuse it; the King of +<i>Gallunaria</i>'s Sons had a Title in Right of their Mother, and +'twas not the former Renunciations that would have barr'd them, if +this softer way had not been found out; for time was it has been +pleaded on behalf of the eldest Son of the <i>Gallunarian</i> King, +that his Mother could not give away his Right before he was +born.</p> + +<p>'Then the <i>Eagle</i> has a Right, and under him his eldest +Son; and none of all these four will accept of the Crown; I believe +all the Moon can't find four more that would refuse it.</p> + +<p>'Now, tho' none of these think it worth accepting themselves, +yet they fall out about the Right of giving it away. The King of +<i>Gallunaria</i> will not accept of it himself, but he gets a Gift +from the last Incumbent. This, says the <i>Eagle</i>, can't be a +good Title, for the late King had no Right to make a Deed of Gift +of the Crown, since a King is only Tennant for Life, and Succession +of Crowns either must descend by a Lineal Progression in the Right +of Primogeniture, or else they lose the Tenure, and devolve on the +People.</p> + +<p>'Now as this Argument holds good the <i>Eagle</i> has an +undoubted Title to the Crown of <i>Ebronia:</i> But then, says his +<i>Eaglish Majesty</i>, I cannot accept of the Crown my self for I +am the <i>Eagle</i>, and my eldest Son has two Kingdoms already, +and is in a fair way to be <i>Eagle</i> after me, and 'tis not +worth while for him, but I have a second Son, and we will give it +him.</p> + +<p>'Now may the King of <i>Gallunaria</i> say, if one Gift is good, +another is good, and ours is the first Gift, and therefore we will +keep it; and tho' I solemnly declare I should be very sorry to see +the Crown of <i>Ebronia</i> rest in the House of the +<i>Gallunarian</i>, because our Trade will suffer exceedingly; yet +if never so much damage were to come of it, we ought to do Justice +in the World; if neither the <i>Eagle</i> nor his eldest Son will +be King of <i>Ebronia</i>, but a Deed of Gift shall be made, the +first Gift has the Right, for nothing can be given away to two +People at once, and 'tis apparent that the late King had as much +Right to give it away as any Body.</p> + +<p>'The poor <i>Ebronians</i> are in a fine Condition all this +while, that no Body concerns them in the Matter; neither Party has +so much as thought it worth while to ask them who they would have +to Reign over them, here has been no Assembly, <i>no Cortez</i>, no +Meeting of the People of <i>Ebronia</i>, neither Collectively or +Representatively, no general Convention of the Nobility, no House +of Feathers, but <i>Ebronia</i> lies as the spoil of the Victor +wholly passive, and her People and Princes, as if they were wholly +unconcern'd, lie by and look on, whoever is like to be King, they +are like to suffer deeply by the Strife, and yet neither side has +thought fit to consult them about it.</p> + +<p>'The conclusion of the whole Matter is in short this, here is +certainly a false Step taken, how it shall be rectify'd is not the +present Business, nor am I Wise enough to Prescribe. One Man may do +in a Moment what all the Lunar World cannot undo in an Age. 'Tis +not be thought the <i>Eagle</i> will be prevail'd on to undo it, +nay he has Sworn not to alter it.</p> + +<p>'I am not concern'd to prove the Title of the present King of +<i>Ebronia</i>, no, nor of the <i>Eagles</i> neither; but I think I +can never be answer'd in this, that this Gift of the <i>Eagles</i> +to his second Son is preposterous, inconsistent with all his Claim +to the Crown, and the greatest confirmation of the Title of his +Enemy that it was possible to give, and no doubt the +<i>Gallunarians</i> will lay hold of the Argument.</p> + +<p>'If this Prince was the <i>Eagle's</i> eldest Son, he might have +a Just Right from the concession of his Father, because the Right +being inherent, he only receiv'd from him an Investiture of Time, +but as this young Gentleman is a second Son he has no more Right, +his elder Brother being alive, than your <i>Grand Seignior</i>, or +<i>Czar</i> of <i>Muscovy</i> in your World.</p> + +<p>'Let them Fight then for such a Cause, who valuing only the Pay, +make War a Trade, and Fight for any thing they are bid to Fight +for, and as such value not the Justice of the War, nor trouble +their Heads about Causes and Consequences, so they have their Pay, +'tis well enough for them.</p> + +<p>'But were the Justice of the War examin'd, I can see none, this +Declaring a new King who has no Right but by a Gift, and pulling +down one that had it by a Gift before, has so much Contradiction in +it, that I am afraid no Wise Man, or Honest Man will embark in +it.</p> +<pre> + <i>Your</i> + <i>Humble Servant,</i> + <i>The Man in the Moon.</i> +</pre> + +<p>I wou'd have no Body now pretend to scandalize the Writer of +this Letter, which being for the <i>Gallunarians</i>, for no <i>Man +in the Moon</i> had more Aversion for them than he, but he would +have had the War carry'd on upon a right Bottom, Justice and +Honesty regarded in it, and as he said often, they had no need to +go out of the Road of Justice, for had they made War <i>in the +great Eagle's Name</i> all had been well.</p> + +<p>Nor was he a false Prophet, for as this was ill grounded, so it +was as ill carry'd on, met with <i>Shocks</i>, <i>Rubs</i> and +<i>Disappointments</i> every way. The very first Voyage the new +King made, he had like to ha' been drown'd by a very violent +Tempest, things not very usual in those Countries; and all the +Progress that had been made in his behalf when I came away from +<i>that Lunar World</i>, had not brought him so much as to be able +to set his Foot upon his new Kingdom of <i>Ebronia</i>, but his +Adversary by wonderful Dexterity, and the Assistance of his old +Grandfather the <i>Gallunarian</i> Monarch, beat his Troops upon +all Occasions, invaded his Ally that pretended to assist him, and +kept a quiet Possession of all the vast <i>Ebronian Monarchy</i>; +and but at last by the powerful Diversion of the <i>Solunarian</i> +Fleet, a Shock was given them on another Side, which if it had not +happen'd, it was thought the new King had been sent home again +<i>Re Infecta</i>.</p> + +<p>Being very much Shockt in my Judgment of this Affair, by these +unanswerable Reasons; I enquir'd of my Author who were the +Directors of this Matter? he told me plainly it was done by those +great States Men, which the <i>Solunarian</i> Queen had lately very +Justly turn'd out, whose Politicks were very unaccountable in a +great many other things, as well as in that.</p> + +<p>'Tis true, the War was carry'd on under the new Ministry, and no +War in the World can be Juster, on account of the Injustice and +Encroachment of the <i>Gallunarian</i> Monarch.</p> + +<p>The Queen therefore and her present Ministers, go on with the +War on Principles of Confederacy; 'tis the business of the +<i>Solunarians</i> to beat the Invader out, and then let the People +come and make a fair Decision who they will have to Reign over +them.</p> + +<p>This indeed justifies the War in <i>Ebronia</i> to be Right, but +for the Personal Proceedure as before, 'tis all Contradiction and +can never be answer'd.</p> + +<p>I hope no Man will be so malicious, as to say I am hereby +reflecting on our War with <i>Spain</i>. I am very forward to say, +it is a most Just and Reasonable War, as to paralels between the +Case of the Princes, in defending the Matter of Personal Right, +<i>Hic labor, Hoc opus</i>.</p> + +<p>Thus however you see <i>Humanum eft Errare</i>, whether in this +World or in the Moon, 'tis all one, Infallibility of Councels any +more than of Doctrine, is not in Man.</p> + +<p>The Reader may observe, I have formerly noted there was a new +Consolidator to be Built, and observ'd what struggle there was in +the Moon about choosing the Feathers.</p> + +<p>I cannot omit some further Remarks here, as</p> + +<p>1. It is to be observ'd, that this last Consolidator was in a +manner quite worn out.----- It had indeed continu'd but 3 Year, +which was the stated Time by Law, but it had been so +<i>Hurry'd</i>, so <i>Party Rid</i>, so often had been up in <i>the +Moon</i>, and made <i>so many</i> such <i>extravagant Flights</i>, +and unnecessary <i>Voyages thither</i>, that it began to be +exceedingly <i>worn</i> and defective.</p> + +<p>2. This occasion'd that the light fluttering Feathers, and the +fermented Feathers <i>made strange Work of it</i>; nay, sometimes +they were so hot, they were like to ha' ruin'd the whole Fabrick, +and had it not been for the <i>great Feather</i> in the Center, and +a few <i>Negative</i> Feathers who were Wiser than the rest, all +the <i>Machines</i> had been broke to pieces, and the whole Nation +put into a most strange Confusion.</p> + +<p>Sometimes their Motion was <i>so violent an precipitant</i>, +that there was great apprehensions of its being <i>set on Fire by +its own Velocity</i>, for swiftness of Motion is allow'd by the +Sages and <i>so so's</i> to produce <i>Fire</i> as in +<i>Wheels</i>, <i>Mills</i> and several sorts of <i>Mechanick +Engines</i> which are frequently Fir'd, and so in <i>Thoughts</i>, +<i>Brains</i>, <i>Assemblies</i>, <i>Consolidators</i>, and all +such combustible Things.</p> + +<p>Indeed these things were of great Consequence, and therefore +require some more nice Examination than ordinary, and the following +Story will in part explain it.</p> + +<p>Among the rest of the Broils they had with the <i>Grandees</i>, +one happen'd on this occasion.</p> + +<p>One of the Tacking <i>Feathers</i> being accidentally met by a +<i>Grandee</i>'s Footman, whom it seems wanted some Manners, the +Slave began to haloo him in the Street, with a Tacker, a Tacker, a +<i>Feather</i>-Fool, a Tacker, <i>&c.</i> and so brought the +Mob about him, and had not the <i>Grandee</i> himself come in the +very interim, and rescu'd the <i>Feather</i>, the Mob had demolisht +him, they were so enrag'd.</p> + +<p>As this Gentleman-<i>Feather</i> was rescu'd with great +Courtesie by the <i>Grandee</i>, taken into his Coach and carry'd +home to his House, he desir'd to speak with the Footman.</p> + +<p>The Fellow being call'd in, was ask't by him who employ'd him, +or set him on to offer him this Insult? the Footman being a ready +bold Fellow, told him no Body Sir, but you are all grown so +ridiculous to the whole Nation, that if the 134 of you were left +but to us Footmen, and it was not in more respect to our Masters, +than you, we should Cure you of ever coming into the +<i>Consolidator</i> again, and all the People in the Moon are of +our Mind.</p> + +<p>But says the <i>Feather</i>, why do you call me Fool too? why +Sir, says he, because no Body could ever tell us what it was you +drove at, and we ha' been told you never knew your selves; now if +one of you Tacking <i>Feathers</i> would but tell the World what +your real Design was, they would be satisfy'd, but to be leaders in +the <i>Consolidator</i>, and to Act without Meaning, without +Thought or Design, must argue your' Fools, or worse, and you will +find all the Moon of my Mind.</p> + +<p>But what if we had a meaning, says the <i>Feather</i>-Man? why +then, says the Footman, we shall leave calling you Fools, and call +you Knaves, for it could never be an Honest one, so that you had +better stand as you do: and I make it out thus.</p> + +<p>You knew, that upon your Tacking the <i>Crolians</i> to the +Tribute Bill, the <i>Grandees</i> must reject both, they having +declar'd against reading any Bills Tackt together, as being against +their Priviledges. Now if you had any Design, it must be to have +the Bill of Tribute lost, and that must be to disappoint all the +publick Affairs, expose the Queen, break all Measures, discourage +the Confederates, and putting all things backward, bring the +<i>Gallunarian</i> Forces upon them, and put all <i>Solunaria</i> +into Confusion. Now Sir, says he, we cannot have such course +Thoughts of you, as to believe you could design such dark, +mischievous things as these, and therefore we chose to believe you +all Fools, and not fit to be put into a <i>Consolidator</i> again; +than Knaves and Traytors to your Country, and consequently fit for +a worse Place.</p> + +<p>The plainness of the Footman was such, and so unanswerable, that +his Master was fain to check him, and so the Discourse broke off, +and we shall leave it there, and proceed to the Story.</p> + +<p>The Men of the Feather as I have noted, who are represented here +by the <i>Consolidator</i>, fell all together by the Ears, and +<i>all the Moon</i> was in a combustion. The Case was as +follows.</p> + +<p>They had three times lost <i>their quallifying Law</i>, and +particularly they observ'd the <i>Grandees</i> were the Men that +threw it out, and notwithstanding <i>the Plot of the Tackers</i>, +as they call'd them, who were <i>as I noted</i>, observ'd to be in +Conjunction <i>with the Crolians</i>, yet the Law always past +<i>the Feathers</i>, but still the <i>Grandees</i> quasht it.</p> + +<p>To show their Resentment <i>at the Grandees</i>, they had often +made <i>attempts to mortify them</i>, sometimes Arraigning them in +general, sometimes <i>Impeaching private Members</i> of their +House, but still all wou'd not do, the <i>Grandees</i> had the +better of them, and going on with Regularity and Temper, the +<i>Consolidators</i> or Feather-Men always had the worst, the +<i>Grandees had the applause of all the Moon</i>, had <i>the last +Blow</i> on every Occasion, and the other sunk in their Reputation +exceedingly.</p> + +<p>It is necessary to understand here, that the Men of the Feather +serve in several Capacities, and under several Denominations, and +<i>act by themselves</i>, singly consider'd, they are call'd <i>the +Consolidator</i>, and the Feathers we mention'd abstracted from +their Persons, make the glorious Engine we speak of, and in which, +when any suddain Motion takes them, they can all shut themselves +up, and away for the Moon.</p> + +<p>But when these are <i>joyn'd with the Grandees, and the +Queen</i>, so United, they make a great <i>Cortez</i>, or general +Collection of all the Governing Authority of the Nation.</p> + +<p>When this last Fraction happen'd, the <i>Men of the Feather</i> +were under an exceeding Ferment, they had in some Passion taken +into their Custody, some good Honest <i>Lunar Country-Men</i>, for +an Offence, which indeed few but themselves ever immagin'd was a +Crime, for the poor Men did nothing but pursue their own Right by +the Law.</p> + +<p>'Tis thought the Men of the Feather soon saw they were in the +Wrong, but acted like some Men in our World, that when they make a +mistake, being too Proud to own themselves in the wrong, run +themselves into worse Errors to mend it.</p> + +<p>So <i>these Lunar Gentlemen</i> disdaining to have it said they +<i>could be mistaken</i>, committed two Errors to conceal one, +'till at last they came to be laught at by <i>all the Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>These poor Men having lain a long while in Prison, for little or +no Crime, at last were advis'd to apply themselves <i>to the Law +for Discharge</i>; the Law would fairly have Discharg'd them; for +<i>in that Country</i>, no Man may be Imprison'd, but he must in a +certain Time be Tryed, or let go upon pledges of his Friends, +<i>much like our giving Bail on a Writ of Habeas Corpus</i>; but +the Judges, whether over-aw'd by the Feathers, or what was the +Cause, Authors have not determin'd, did not care to venture +Discharging them.</p> + +<p>The poor Men thus remanded, apply'd themselves <i>to the +Grandees</i> who were then Sitting, and who are <i>the Soveraign +Judicature</i> of the Country, and before whom Appeals lie from all +Courts of Justice. <i>The Grandees</i> as in Duty bound, appear'd +ready to do them Justice, but the Queen was to be apply'd to, first +to grant a Writ, or a Warrant for a Writ, call'd in their Country +<i>a Writ of Follies</i>, which is as much as to say Mistakes.</p> + +<p>The <i>Consolidators</i> foreseeing the Consequence, immediately +apply'd themselves to the Queen with an Address, the Terms of which +were so <i>Undu----l</i> and <i>Unman--ly</i>, that had she not +been a Queen of unusual Candor and Goodness, she would have Treated +them as they deserv'd, for they upbraided her with their Freedom +and Readiness in granting her Supplies, and therefore as good as +told her they expected she should do as they desir'd.</p> + +<p>These People that knew the Supplies given, were from +<i>necessity, Legal</i>, and for their <i>own Defence</i>, while +the granting their Request, must have been <i>Illegal</i>, +<i>Arbitrary</i>, a <i>Dispensing</i> with the Laws, and <i>denying +Justice</i> to her Subjects, <i>the very thing they ruin'd her +Father for</i>, were justly provok'd to see their good Queen so +barbarously Treated.</p> + +<p>The Queen full of Goodness and Calmness, gave them a gentle kind +Answer, but told them she must be careful to Act with due Regard to +the Laws, and could not interrupt the course of Judicial +Proceedings; and at the same time granted the Writ, having first +consulted with her Council, and receiv'd the Opinion of all the +Judges, that it was not only Safe, but Just and Reasonable, and a +Right to her People which she could not deny.</p> + +<p>This Proceeding gall'd the Feathers to the quick, and finding +the <i>Grandees</i> resolv'd to proceed Judicially upon the said +<i>Writ of Follies</i>, which if they did, the Prisoners would be +deliver'd and the Follies fixt upon the Feathers, they sent their +Poursuivants took them out of the Common Prison, and convey'd them +separately and privately into Prisons of their own.</p> + +<p>This rash and unprecedented Proceedings, pusht them farther into +a Labrinth, from whence it was impossible they could ever find +their way out, but with infinite Loss to their Reputation, like a +Sheep in a thick Wood, that at every Briar pulls some of the Wool +from her Back, till she comes out in a most scandalous Pickle of +Nakedness and Scratches.</p> + +<p>The <i>Grandees</i> immediately publisht six Articles in +Vindication of the Peoples Right, against the assum'd Priviledges +of the <i>Feathers</i>, the Abstract of which is as follows.</p> + +<p>1. That the <i>Feathers</i> had no Right to Claim, or make any +new Priviledges for themselves, other than they had before.</p> + +<p>2. That every Freeman of the Moon had a Right to repel Injury +with Law.</p> + +<p>3. That Imprisoning the 5 Countrymen by the <i>Feathers</i>, was +assuming a new Priviledge they had no Right to, and a subjecting +the Subjects Right to their Arbitrary Votes.</p> + +<p>4. That a <i>Writ of Deliverance</i>, or removing the Body, is +the legal Right of every Subject in the Moon, in order to his +Liberty, in case of Imprisonment.</p> + +<p>5. That to punish any Person for assisting the Subjects, in +procuring or prosecuting the said <i>Writ of Deliverance</i>, is a +breach of the Laws, and a thing of dangerous Consequence.</p> + +<p>6. That a <i>Writ of Follies</i> is not a Grace, but a Right, +and ought not to be deny'd to the Subject.</p> + +<p>These Resolves struck the languishing Reputation of the +<i>Feathers</i> with the dead Palsie, and they began to stink in +the Nostrils of all the Nations in the Moon.</p> + +<p>But besides this, they had one strange effect, which was a +prodigious disappointment to the Men of the <i>Feather</i>.</p> + +<p>I had observ'd before, that there was to be a new Set of +<i>Feathers</i>, provided in order to Building another +<i>Consolidator</i>, according to a late Law for a new Engine every +three Years. Now several of these Men of the <i>Feather</i>, who +thought their <i>Feathers</i> capable of serving again, had made +great Interest, and been at great Cost to have their old +<i>Feathers</i> chosen again, but the People had entertain'd such +scoundrel Opinions of these Proceedings, such as Tacking, +<i>Consolidating</i>, Imprisoning Electors, Impeaching without +Tryal, <i>Writs of Follies</i> and the like, that if any one was +known to be concern'd in any of these things, no Body would Vote +for him.</p> + +<p>The Gentlemen were so mortify'd at this, that even the hottest +High-Church <i>Solunarian</i> of them all, if he put in any where +to be re-chosen, the first thing he had to do, was to assure the +People he was no Tacker, none of the 134, and a vast deal of +difficulty they had to Purge themselves of this blessed Action, +which they us'd to value themselves on before, as their Glory and +Merit.</p> + +<p>Thus they grew asham'd of it as a Crime, got Men to go about to +vouch for them to the Country People, that they were no Tackers, +nay, one of them to clear himself loudly forswore it, and taking a +Glass of Wine wisht it might never pass thro' him, if he was a +Tacker, tho' all Men suspected him to be of that Number too, he +having been one of the forwardest that way on all Occasions, of any +Person among the <i>South Folk of the Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>In like manner, one of the <i>Feathers</i> for the <i>middle +Province</i> of the Country, who us'd to think it his Honour to be +for the qualifying Law, seeing which way the humour of the Country +ran, took as much Pains now to tell the People he was no Tacker, as +he did before, to promise them that he would do his utmost to have +the <i>Crolians</i> reduc'd, and that Bill to pass, the Reason of +which was plain, that he saw if it should be known he was a Tacker, +he should never have his <i>Feather</i> return'd to be put into the +<i>Consolidator</i>.</p> + +<p>The Heats and Feuds that the <i>Feathers</i> and the +<i>Grandees</i> were now run into, began to make the latter very +uneasie, and they sent to the <i>Grandees</i> to hasten them, and +put them in mind of passing some Laws they had sent up to them for +raising Mony, and which lay before them, knowing that as soon as +those Laws were past, the Queen would break 'em up, and they being +very willing to be gone, before these things came too far upon the +Stage, urg'd them to dispatch.</p> + +<p>But the <i>Grandees</i> resolving to go thoro' with the Matter, +sent to them to come to a Treaty on the foot of the six Articles, +and to bring any Reasons they could, to prove the Power they had to +Act as they had done with the Country-men, and with the Lawyers +they had put in Prison for assisting them.</p> + +<p>The <i>Feathers</i> were very backward and stiff about this +Conference, or Treaty, 'till at last the <i>Grandees</i> having +sufficiently expos'd them to all the Nation, the Bills were past, +the <i>Grandees</i> caus'd the particulars to be Printed, and a +Representation of their Proceedings, and the <i>Feathers</i> foul +Dealings to the Queen of the Country, and so her Majesty sent them +Home.</p> + +<p>But if they were asham'd of being call'd Tackers before, they +were doubly mortify'd at this now, nay the Country resented it so +exceedingly, that some of them began to consider whether they +should venture to go Home or no; Printed Lists of their Names were +Publish'd, tho' we do not say they were true Lists, for it was a +hard thing to know which were true Lists, and which were not, nor +indeed could a true List be made, no Man being able to retain the +exact Account of who were the Men in his Memory.</p> + +<p>For as there were 134 Tackers, so there were 141 of these, who +by a Name of Distinction, were call'd <i>Lebusyraneim</i>, in +<i>English Ailesbury-men</i>.</p> + +<p>The People were so exasperated against these, that they +express'd their Resentment upon all Occasions, and least the Queen +should think that the Nation approv'd the Proceedings, they drew up +a Representation or Complaint, full of most dutiful Expressions to +their Queen, and full of Resentment against the <i>Feathers</i>, +the Copy of which being handed about the Moon the last time I was +there, I shall take the Pains to put it into <i>English</i> in the +best manner I can, keeping as near the Originial as possible.</p> + +<p>If any Man shall now wickedly suggest, that this Relation has +any retrospect to the Affairs of <i>England</i>, the Author +declares them malitious Misconstruers of his honest Relation of +Matters from this remote Country, and offers his positive Oath for +their Satisfaction, that the very last Journy he made into those +Lunar Regions, this Matter was upon the Stage, of which, if this +Treatise was not so near its conclusion, the Reader might expect a +more particular Account.</p> + +<p>If there is any Analogy or similitude between the Transactions +of either World, he cannot account for that, 'tis application makes +the Ass.</p> + +<p>And yet sometimes he has thought, as some People Fable of the +Platonick Year, that after such a certain Revolution of Time, all +Things are Transacted over again, and the same People live again, +are the fame Fools, Knaves, Philosophers and Mad-men they were +before, tho' without any Knowledge of, or Retrospect to what they +acted before; so why should it be impossible, that as the Moon and +this World are noted before to be Twins and Sisters, equal in +Motion and in Influence, and perhaps in Qualities, the same secret +Power should so act them, as that <i>like</i> Actions and +Circumstances should happen in all Parts of both Worlds at the same +time.</p> + +<p>I leave this Thought to the improvement of our Royal Learned +Societies of the <i>Anticacofanums</i>, <i>Opposotians</i>, +<i>Periodicarians</i>, <i>Antepredestinarians</i>, Universal +<i>Soulians</i>, and such like unfathomable People, who, without +question, upon mature Enquiry will find out the Truth of this +Matter.</p> + +<p>But if any one shall scruple the Matter of Fact as I have here +related it, I freely give him leave to do as I did, and go up to +the Moon for a Demonstration; and if upon his return he does not +give ample Testimony to the Case in every part of it, as here +related, I am content to pass for the Contriver of it my self, and +be punish'd as the Law shall say I deserve.</p> + +<p>Nor was this all the publick Matters, in which this Nation of +<i>Solunarians</i> took wrong Measures, for about this time, the +Misunderstandings between the Southern and Northern Men began +again, and the <i>Solunarians</i> made several Laws, as they call'd +them, to secure themselves against the Dangers they pretended might +accrue from the new Measures the <i>Nolunarians</i> had taken; but +so unhappily were they blinded by the strife among themselves, and +by-set by Opinion and Interest, that every Law they made, or so +much as attempted to make, was really to the Advantage, and to the +Interest of the Northern-Men, and to their own loss; so Ignorantly +and Weak-headed was these <i>High Solunarian</i> Church-Men in the +true Interest of their Country, led by their implacable Malice at +<i>Crolianism</i>, which as is before noted, was the Establisht +Religion of that Country.</p> + +<p>But as this Matter was but Transacting when I took the other +Remarks, and that I did not obtain a full Understanding of it, +'till my second Voyage, I refer it to a more full Relation of my +farther Travels that way, when I shall not fail to give a clear +State of the Debate of the two Kingdoms, in which the Southern Men +had the least Reason, and the worst Success that ever they had in +any Affair of that Nature for many Years before.</p> + +<p>It was always my Opinion in Affairs <i>on this side the +Moon</i>, that tho' sometimes a foolish Bolt may hit the Point, and +a random Shot kill the Enemy, yet that generally Discretion and +Prudence of Mannagement, had the Advantage, and met with a +proportion'd Success, find things were, or were not happy, in their +Conclusion as they were, more or less wisely Contriv'd and +Directed.</p> + +<p>And tho' it may not be allow'd to be so here, yet I found it +more constantly so there, Effects were true to their Causes, and +confusion of Councils never fail'd <i>in the Moon</i> to be +follow'd by distracted and destructive Consequences.</p> + +<p>This appear'd more eminently in the Dispute between these two +Lunar Nations we are speaking of; never were People in the Moon, +<i>whatever they might be in other Places</i>, so divided in their +Opinions about a matter of such Consequence. Some were for +declaring War immediately upon the Northern Men, tho' they could +show no Reason at all why, only because they would not do as they +would have 'em; <i>a parcel of poor Scoundrel, Scabby Rogues</i>, +they ought to be made submit, <i>what</i>! won't they declare the +same King as we do! <i>hang them Rogues</i>! <i>a pack of Crolian +Prestarian Devils</i>, we must make them do it, <i>down with them +the shortest Way</i>, declare War immediately, and <i>down with +them</i>.------ Nay some were for falling on them directly, without +the formality of declaring War.</p> + +<p>Others, more afraid than hurt, cry'd out Invasions, Depredation, +Fire and Sword, the Northern Men would be upon them immediately, +and propos'd to Fortify their Frontiers, and file off their Forces +to the Borders; nay, so apprehensive did those Men of Prudence +pretend to be, that they order'd Towns to be Fortify'd 100 <i>Mile +off of the Place</i>, when all this while the poor Northern Men did +nothing but tell them, that unless they would come to Terms, they +would not have the same King as they, and they took some Measures +to let them see they did not purpose to be forc'd to it.</p> + +<p>Another sort of Wiser Men than these, propos'd to Unite with +them, hear their Reasons, and do them Right. These indeed were the +only Men that were in the right Method of concluding this unhappy +Broil, and for that Reason, were the most unlikely to succeed.</p> + +<p>But the Wildest Notion of all, was, when some of the +<i>Grandees</i> made a grave Address to the Queen of the Country, +to desire the Northern Men to settle Matters first, and to tell +them, that when that was done, <i>they should see what these would +do for them</i>. This was a home Stroke, if it had but hit, and the +Misfortune only lay in this, <i>That the Northern Men were not +Fools enough</i>; the clearness of the Air in those cold Climates +generally clearing the Head so early, that those People see much +farther into a Mill-stone than <i>any Blind Man in all the Southern +Nations of the Moon</i>.</p> + +<p>There was an another unhappiness in this Case, which made the +Matter yet more confus'd, and that was, that the Souldiers had +generally no gust to this War.--- This was an odd Case; for those +sort of Gentlemen, especially <i>in the World in the Moon</i>, +don't use to enquire into the Justice of the Case they Fight for, +but they reckon 'tis their Business to go where they are sent, and +kill any Body they are order'd to kill, leaving their Governors to +answer for the Justice of it; but there was another Reason to be +given why <i>the Men of the Sword</i> were so averse, and always +talk't coldly of the fighting Part, and tho' the Northern Men +call'd it fear, yet I cannot joyn with them in that, for <i>to +fear</i> requires Thinking; and some of our <i>Solunarians</i> are +absolutely protected from the first, because they never meddle with +the last, <i>except when they come to the Engine</i>, and therefore +'tis plain it could not proceed from Fear.</p> + +<p>It has puzzl'd the most discerning Heads of the Age, to give a +Reason from whence this Aversion proceeded, and various Judgments +have been given of it.</p> + +<p>The <i>Nolunarians</i> jested with them, and when they talk't of +Fighting, bad them look back into History, and examine what they +ever made of a <i>Nolunarian War</i>, and whether they had not been +often well beaten, and sent short home, bid them have a care <i>of +catching a Tartar</i>, as we call it, and always made themselves +merry with it.</p> + +<p>They banter'd the <i>Solunarians</i> too, about the Fears and +Terrors they were under, from their Arming themselves, and putting +themselves in a posture of Defence,----- When it was easy to see by +the nature of the thing, that their Design was <i>not a War, but a +Union</i> upon just Conditions, that it was a plain Token that they +design'd either to put some affront upon <i>the Nolunarians</i>, to +deny them some just Claims, or to impose something very Provoking +upon them more than they had yet done, that they were so exceeding +fearful of an Invasion from them.</p> + +<p>Tho' these were sufficient to pass for Reasons in other Cases, +yet it could not be so here, but I saw there must be something else +in it. As I was thus wondering at this unusual backwardness of the +Souldiers, I enquir'd a little farther into the meaning of it, and +quickly found the Reason was plain, <i>there was nothing to be got +by it</i>, that People were <i>Brave</i>, <i>Desperate</i> and +<i>Poor</i>, the Country <i>Barren</i>, Mountainous and +<i>Empty</i>, so that in short there would be nothing but Blows, +and <i>Souldiers Fellows</i> to be had, and I always observ'd that +Souldiers never care to be knockt on the Head, and get nothing by +the Bargain.</p> + +<p>In short, I saw plainly the Reasons that prompted the +<i>Solunarians</i> to Insult their Neighbours of the North, were +more deriv'd from the regret at their Establishing +<i>Crolianism</i>, than at any real Causes they had given, or +indeed were in a condition to give them.</p> + +<p>These, and abundance more particular Observations I made, but as +I left the thing still in agitation, and undetermin'd, I shall +refer it to another Voyage which I purpose to make thither, and at +my return, may perhaps set that Case in a clearer Light than our +Sight can yet bear to look at it in.</p> + +<p>If in my second Vovage I should undeceive People in the Notions +they entertain'd of those Northern People, and convince them that +the <i>Solunarians</i> were really the Aggressors, and had put +great hardships upon them, I might possibly do a Work, that if it +met with Encouragement, might bring the <i>Solunarians</i> to do +them Justice, and that would set all to Rights, the two Nations +might easily become one, and Unite for ever, or at least become +Friends, and give mutual Assistance to each other; and I cannot but +own such an Agreement would make them both very formidable, but +this I refer to another time.-----</p> + +<p>At the same time I cannot leave it without a Remark that this +Jealousy between the two Nations, may perhaps in future Ages be +necessary to be maintain'd, in order to find some better Reasons +for <i>Fortifications</i>, <i>Standing Armies</i>, <i>Guards and +Garisons</i> than could be given in the Reign of the great Prince I +speak of, the Queen's Predecessor, tho' his was against Forreign +insulting Enemy.</p> + +<p>But the Temper of the <i>Solunarian High Party</i> was always +such, that they would with much more case give thanks for a +Standing Army against the <i>Nolunarians and Crolians</i>, than +agree to one Legion against the <i>Abrogratzians</i> and +<i>Gallunarians</i>.</p> + +<p>But of these Things I am also promis'd a more particular Account +upon my Journy into that Country.</p> + +<p>I cannot however conclude this Matter, without giving some +Account of my private Observations, upon what was farther to be +seen in this Country.</p> + +<p>And had not my Remarks on their State Matters taken up more of +my Thoughts than I expected, I might have entred a little upon +their other Affairs, such as their <i>Companies</i>, their +<i>Commerce</i>, their <i>Publick Offices</i>, their +<i>Stock-Jobbers</i>, their <i>Temper</i>, their +<i>Conversation</i>, their <i>Women</i>, their <i>Stages</i>, +<i>Universities</i>, their <i>Courtiers</i>, their <i>Clergy</i>, +and the Characters of <i>the severals</i> under all these +Denominations, but these must be referr'd to time, and my more +perfect Observations.</p> + +<p>But I cannot omit, that tho' I have very little Knowledge of +Books, and had obtain'd less upon their Language, yet I could not +but be very inquisitive after their Libraries and Men of +Letters.</p> + +<p>Among their Libraries I found not abundance of their own Books, +their Learning having so much of Demonstration, and being very +Hieroglyphical, but I found to my great Admiration vast quantities +of Translated Books out of all Languages of our World.</p> + +<p>As I thought my self one of the first, at least of our Nation, +that ever came thus far; it was, you may be sure no small surprize +to me to find all the most valluable parts of Modern Learning, +especially of Politicks, Translated from our Tongue, into the Lunar +Dialect, and stor'd up in their Libraries with the Remarks, Notes +and Observations of the Learned Men of that Climate upon the +Subject.</p> + +<p>Here, among a vast croud of <i>French</i> Authors condemn'd in +this polite World for trifling, came a huge Volume containing, +<i>Les Oevres de scavans</i>, which has 19 small Bells painted upon +the Book of several disproportion'd sizes.</p> + +<p>I enquir'd the meaning of that Hieroglyphick, which the Master +of the Books told me, was to signify that the substance was all +Jingle and Noise, and that of 30 Volumes which that one Book +contains, 29 of them have neither Substance, Musick, Harmony nor +value in them.</p> + +<p>The History of the Fulsoms, or a Collection of 300 fine Speeches +made in the <i>French</i> Accademy at <i>Paris</i>, and 1500 gay +Flourishes out of Monsieur <i>Boileau</i>, all in Praise of the +invincible Monarch of <i>France</i>.</p> + +<p>The Duke of <i>Bavaria</i>'s Manifesto, shewing the Right of +making War against our Sovereigns, from whence the People of that +Lunar World have noted that the same Reasons which made it lawful +to him to attempt the Imperial Power, entitle him to lose his own, +<i>viz.</i> Conquest, and the longest Sword.</p> + +<p><i>Jack a both Sides</i>, or a Dialogue between <i>Pasquin</i> +and <i>Marforio</i>, upon the Subject Matter of the Pope's +sincerity in Case of the War in <i>Italy</i>. Written by a Citizen +of <i>Ferrara</i>. One side arguing upon the occasion of the Pope's +General wheedling the Imperialists to quit that Country. The other +bantering Imperial Policy, or the <i>Germains</i> pretending they +were Trickt out of <i>Italy</i>, when they could stay there no +longer.</p> + +<p><i>Lewis</i> the Invincible, by Monsieur <i>Boileau</i>. A Poem, +on the Glory of his most Christian Majesties Arms at +<i>Hochstedt</i>, and <i>Verue</i>.</p> + +<p>All these Translations have innumerable Hyerogliphical Notes, +and Emblems painted on them, which pass as Comments, and are +readily understood in that Climate. For Example, on the Vol. of +Dialogues are two Cardinals washing the Pope's Hands under a Cloud +that often bespatters them with Blood, signifying that in spight of +all his Pretensions he has a Hand in the Broils of <i>Italy</i>. +And before him the Sun setting in a Cloud, and a Blind +Ballad-Singer making Sonnets upon the brightness of its Lustre.</p> + +<p>The three Kings of <i>Brentford</i>, being some Historical +Observations on three mighty Monarchs in our World, whose Heroick +Actions may be the Subject of future Ages, being like to do little +in this, the King of <i>England</i>, King of <i>Poland</i>, and +King of <i>Spain</i>. These are describ'd by a Figure, representing +a Castle in the Air, and three Knights pointing at it, but they +<i>could not catch</i>.</p> + +<p>I omit abundance of very excellent pieces, because remote, as +three great Volumes of <i>European</i> Misteries, among the vast +varieties of which, and very entertaining, I observ'd but a few, +such as these:</p> + +<p>1. Why Prince <i>Ragotski</i> will make no Peace with the +Emperor.--- But more particularly why the Emperor won't make Peace +with him.</p> + +<p>2. Where the Policy of the King of <i>Sweden</i> lies, to persue +the King of <i>Poland</i>, and let the <i>Muscovites</i> ravage and +destroy his own Subjects.</p> + +<p>3. What the Duke of <i>Bavaria</i> propos'd to himself in +declaring for <i>France</i>.</p> + +<p>4. Why the Protestants of the Confederacy never reliev'd the +<i>Camisars</i>.</p> + +<p>5. Why there are no Cowards found in the <i>English</i> Service, +but among their Sea Captains.</p> + +<p>6. Why the King of <i>Portugal</i> did not take <i>Madrid</i>, +why the <i>English</i> did not take <i>Cadiz</i>, and why the +<i>Spaniards</i> did not take <i>Gibraltar</i>, viz. because the +first were Fools, the second Knaves, and the last +<i>Spaniards</i>.</p> + +<p>7. What became of all the Silver taken at <i>Vigo</i>.</p> + +<p>8. Who will be the next King of <i>Scotland</i>.</p> + +<p>9. If <i>England</i> should ever want a King, who would think it +worth while to accept of it.</p> + +<p>10. What specifick difference can be produc'd between a Knave, a +Coward, and a Traytor.</p> + +<p>Abundance of these Mysteries are Hieroglyphically describ'd in +this ample Collection, and without doubt our great Collection of +Annals, and Historical Observations, particularly the Learned Mr. +<i>Walker</i>, would make great Improvements there.</p> + +<p>But to come nearer home, <i>There</i>, to <i>my great +Amasement</i>, I found several new Tracts out of our own Language, +which I could hardly have imagin'd it possible should have reacht +so far.</p> + +<p>As first, sundry Transactions of our Royal Society about Winds, +and a valuable Desertation of Dr. <i>B.....</i>'s about Wind in the +Brain.</p> + +<p>A Discourse of Poisons, by the Learned Dr. <i>M.....</i> with +<i>Lunar</i> Notes upon it, wherein it appears that Dr. +<i>C....d</i> had more Poison in his Tongue, than all the Adders +the Moon have in their Teeth.</p> + +<p><i>Nec Non</i>, or Lawyers <i>Latin</i> turn'd into <i>Lunar +Burlesque</i>. The Hyerogliphick was the <i>Queens Mony tost in a +Blanket</i>, Dedicated to the Attorney General, and five false +<i>Latin</i> Councellors.</p> + +<p><i>Mandamus</i>, as it was Acted at <i>Abb...ton</i> Assizes, by +Mr. So....r General, where the Qu..n had her own So...r against her +for a bad Cause, and never a Counsel for her in a good one.</p> + +<p>Lunar Reflections, being a List of about 2000 ridiculous Errors +in History, palpable Falsities, and scandalous Omissions in Mr. +<i>Collier</i>'s Geographical Dictionary; with a subsequent Enquiry +by way of Appendix, into which are his own, and which he has +ignorantly deduc'd from ancient Authors.</p> + +<p>Assassination and Killing of Kings, prov'd to be a Church of +<i>England</i> Doctrin; humbly Dedicated to the Prince of +<i>Wales</i>, by Mr. <i>Collier</i> and Mr. <i>Snat</i>; wherein +their Absolving Sir <i>John Friend</i> and Sir <i>William +Parkins</i> without Repentance, and while they both own'd and +justify'd the Fact, is Vindicated and Defended.</p> + +<p><i>Les Bagatelles</i>, or <i>Brom..ys</i> Travels into +<i>Italy</i>, a choice Book, and by great Accident preserv'd from +the malitious Design of the Author, who diligently Bought up the +whole Impression, for fear they should be seen, as a thing of which +this ungrateful Age was not worthy.</p> + +<p><i>Killing no Murther</i>, being an Account of the severe +Justice design'd to be inflicted on the barbarous Murtherers of the +honest Constable at <i>Bow</i>, but unhappily prevented by my Lord +<i>N.....m</i> being turn'd out of his Office.</p> + +<p><i>De modo Belli</i>, or an Account of the best Method of making +Conquests and Invasion <i>a la Mode de Port St. Mary</i>, 3 Volumes +in 80. Dedicated to Sir <i>Hen. Bell...s</i>.</p> + +<p>King <i>Charles</i> the first prov'd a T...t. By <i>Edward</i> +Earl of <i>Clarendon</i>, 3 Vol. in Fol. Dedicated to the +University of <i>Oxford</i>.</p> + +<p>The Bawdy Poets, or new and accurate Editions of +<i>Catullus</i>, <i>Propertius</i>, and <i>Tibullus</i>, being the +Maiden-head of the new Printing Press at <i>Cambridge</i>, +Dedicated by the Editor Mr. <i>Ann...y</i> to the University, and +in consideration of which, and some Disorders near +<i>Casterton</i>, the University thought him fit to represent them +in P......t.</p> + +<p>Alms no Charity, or the Skeleton of Sir <i>Humphry +Mackworth</i>'s Bill for relief of the Poor: Being an excellent new +Contrivance to find Employment for all the Poor in the Nation, +<i>viz.</i> By setting them at Work, to make all the rest of the +People as Poor as themselves.</p> + +<p><i>Synodicum Superlativum</i>, being sixteen large Volumes of +the vigorous Proceedings of the <i>English</i> Convocation, +digested <i>into Years</i>, one Volume to every Year. -- Wherein +are several large Lists of the Heretical, Atheistical, Deistical +and other pernitious Errors which have been Condemn'd in that +Venerable Assembly, the various Services done, and weighty Matters +dispatcht, for the Honour of the <i>English</i> Church, for sixteen +Years last past, with their formal Proceedings against +<i>Asgil</i>, <i>Coward</i>, <i>Toland</i> and others, for reviving +old Antiquated Errors in Doctrine, and Publishing them to the World +as their own.</p> + +<p>New Worlds in Trade, being a vast Collection out of the Journals +of the Proceedings of the Right Honourable the <i>Commissioners of +Trade</i>, with several Eminent Improvements in <i>general +Negoce</i>, vast Schemes of Business, and new Discoveries of +Settlements and Correspondences in Forreign Parts, for the Honour +and Advantage of the <i>English</i> Merchants, being 12 Volumes in +Fol. and very scarce and valluable Books.</p> + +<p>Legal Rebellion, or an Argument proving that all sorts of +Insurrections of Subjects against their Princes, are lawful, and to +be supported whenever they suit with our Occasions, made good from +the Practice of <i>France</i> with the <i>Hungarians</i>, the +<i>English</i> with the <i>Camisars</i>, the <i>Swede</i> with the +<i>Poles</i>, the Emperor with the Subjects of <i>Naples</i>, and +all the Princes of the World as they find occasion, a large Volume +in Folio, with a Poem upon the Sacred Right of Kingly Power.</p> + +<p><i>Ignis Fatuus</i> or the Occasional Bill in Minature, a Farce, +as it was acted by his Excellency the Lord <i>Gr...il</i>'s +Servants in <i>Carolina</i>.</p> + +<p>Running away the shortest way to Victory, being a large +Dissertation, shewing to save the Queens Ships, is the best way to +beat the <i>French</i>.</p> + +<p><i>The Tookites</i>, a Poem upon the 134.</p> + +<p>A new Tract upon Trade, being a Demonstration that to be always +putting the People upon customary Mourning, and wearing Black upon +every State Occasion, is an excellent Encouragement to Trade, and a +means to employ the Poor.</p> + +<p>City Gratitude, being a Poem on the Statue erected by the Court +of Aldermen at the upper end of <i>Cheapside</i>, to the Immortal +Memory of King <i>William</i>.</p> + +<p>There were many more Tracts to be found in this place; but these +may suffice for a Specimen, and to excite all Men that would +encrease their Understandings in humane Mysteries, to take a Voyage +to this enlightned Country. Where their Memories, thinking +Faculties and Penetration, will no question be so Tackt and +Consolidated, that when they return, they all Write Memoirs of the +Place, and communicate to their Country the Advantages they have +reapt by their Voyage, according to the laudable Example of +their</p> +<pre> + <i>Most humble Servant,</i> + The Man in the Moon. +</pre> + +<BR> +<BR> +<BR> +<BR> +<PRE> +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE CONSOLIDATOR *** + +This file should be named 7089-h.htm or 7089-h.zip +Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, conso11h.htm +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, conso10ah.htm + + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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Their New City of Petersburgh built by the present Czar, +begins now to look like our Portsmouth, fitted with Wet and Dry +Docks, Storehouses, and Magazines of Naval Preparations, vast and +Incredible; which may serve to remind us, how we once taught the +French to build Ships, till they are grown able to teach us how to +use them. + +As to Trade, our large Fleets to Arch-Angel may speak for it, where +we now send 100 Sail yearly, instead of 8 or 9, which were the +greatest number we ever sent before; and the Importation of Tobaccoes +from England into his Dominions, would still increase the Trade +thither, was not the Covetousness of our own Merchants the +Obstruction of their Advantages. But all this by the by. + +As this great Monarch has Improved his Country, by introducing the +Manners and Customs of the Politer Nations of Europe; so, with +Indefatigable Industry, he has settled a new, but constant Trade, +between his Country and China, by Land; where his Carravans go twice +or thrice a Year, as Numerous almost, and as strong, as those from +Egypt to Persia: Nor is the Way shorter, or the Desarts they pass +over less wild and uninhabitable, only that they are not so subject +to Flouds of Sand, if that Term be proper, or to Troops of Arabs, +to destroy them by the way; for this powerful Prince, to make this +terrible Journey feazible to his Subjects, has built Forts, planted +Collonies and Garisons at proper Distances; where, though they are +seated in Countries intirely Barren, and among uninhabited Rocks and +Sands; yet, by his continual furnishing them from his own Stores, the +Merchants travelling are reliev'd on good Terms, and meet both with +Convoy and Refreshment. + +More might be said of the admirable Decorations of this Journey, and +how so prodigious an Attempt is made easy; so that now they have an +exact Correspondence, and drive a prodigious Trade between Muscow and +Tonquin; but having a longer Voyage in Hand, I shall not detain the +Reader, nor keep him till he grows too big with Expectation. + +Now, as all Men know the Chineses are an Ancient, Wise, Polite, and +most Ingenious People; so the Muscovites begun to reap the Benefit of +this open Trade; and not only to grow exceeding Rich by the bartering +for all the Wealth of those Eastern Countries; but to polish and +refine their Customs and Manners, as much on that side as they have +from their European Improvements on this. + +And as the Chineses have many sorts of Learning which these Parts of +the World never heard of, so all those useful Inventions which we +admire ourselves so much for, are vulgar and common with them, and +were in use long before our Parts of the World were Inhabited. Thus +Gun-powder, Printing, and the use of the Magnet and Compass, which we +call Modern Inventions, are not only far from being Inventions, but +fall so far short of the Perfection of Art they have attained to, +that it is hardly Credible, what wonderful things we are told of +from thence, and all the Voyages the Author has made thither being +imploy'd another way, have not yet furnish'd him with the Particulars +fully enough to transmit them to view; not but that he is preparing a +Scheme of all those excellent Arts those Nations are Masters of, for +publick View, by way of Detection of the monstrous Ignorance and +Deficiencies of European Science; which may serve as a Lexicon +Technicum for this present Age, with useful Diagrams for that +purpose; wherein I shall not fail to acqaint the World, 1. With the +Art of Gunnery, as Practis'd in China long before the War of the +Giants, and by which those Presumptuous Animals fired Red-hot Bullets +right up into Heaven, and made a Breach sufficient to encourage them +to a General Storm; but being Repulsed with great Slaughter, they +gave over the Siege for that time. This memorable part of History +shall be a faithful Abridgement of Ibra chizra-le-peglizar, +Historiagrapher-Royal to the Emperor of China, who wrote Anno Mundi +114. his Volumes extant, in the Publick Library at Tonquin, Printed +in Leaves of Vitrify'd Diamond, by an admirable Dexterity, struck all +at an oblique Motion, the Engine remaining intire, and still fit for +use, in the Chamber of the Emperor's Rarities. + +And here I shall give you a Draft of the Engine it self, and a Plan +of its Operation, and the wonderful Dexterity of its Performance. + +If these Labours of mine shall prove successful, I may in my next +Journey that way, take an Abstract of their most admirable Tracts +in Navigation, and the Mysteries of Chinese Mathematicks; which +out-do all Modern Invention at that Rate, that 'tis Inconceivable: +In this Elaborate Work I must run thro' the 365 Volumes of +Augro-machi-lanquaro-zi, the most ancient Mathematician in all China: +From thence I shall give a Description of a Fleet of Ships of 100000 +Sail, built at the Expence of the Emperor Tangro the 15th; who having +Notice of the General Deluge, prepar'd these Vessels, to every City +and Town in his Dominions One, and in Bulk proportion'd to the number +of its Inhabitants; into which Vessel all the People, with such +Moveables as they thought fit to save, and with 120 Days Provisions, +were receiv'd at the time of the Floud; and the rest of their Goods +being put into great Vessels made of China Ware, and fast luted down +on the top, were preserv'd unhurt by the Water: These Ships they +furnish'd with 600 Fathom of Chain instead of Cables; which being +fastned by wonderful Arts to the Earth, every Vessel rid out the +Deluge just at the Town's end; so that when the Waters abated, +the People had nothing to do, but to open the Doors made in the +Ship-sides, and come out, repair their Houses, open the great China +Pots their Goods were in, and so put themselves in Statu Quo. + +The Draft of one of these Ships I may perhaps obtain by my Interest +in the present Emperor's Court, as it has been preserv'd ever since, +and constantly repair'd, riding at Anchor in a great Lake, about +100 Miles from Tonquin; in which all the People of that City were +preferv'd, amounting by their Computation to about a Million and half. + +And as these things must be very useful in these Parts, to abate the +Pride and Arrogance of our Modern Undertakers of great Enterprizes, +Authors of strange Foreign Accounts, Philosophical Transactions, and +the like; if Time and Opportunity permit, I may let them know, how +Infinitely we are out-done by those refined Nations, in all manner of +Mechanick Improvements and Arts; and in discoursing of this, it will +necessarily come in my way to speak of a most Noble Invention, being +an Engine I would recommend to all People to whom 'tis necessary to +have a good Memory; and which I design, if possible, to obtain a +Draft of, that it may be Erected in our Royal Societies Laboratory: +It has the wonderfullest Operations in the World: One part of it +furnishes a Man of Business to dispatch his Affairs strangely; for if +he be a Merchant, he shall write his Letters with one Hand, and Copy +them with the other; if he is posting his Books, he shall post the +Debtor side with one Hand, and the Creditor with the other; if he be +a Lawyer, he draws his Drafts with one Hand, and Ingrosses them with +the other. + +Another part of it furnishes him with such an Expeditious way of +Writing, or Transcribing, that a Man cannot speak so fast, but he +that hears shall have it down in Writing before 'tis spoken; and a +Preacher shall deliver himself to his Auditory, and having this +Engine before him, shall put down every thing he says in Writing at +the same time; and so exactly is this Engine squar'd by Lines and +Rules, that it does not require him that Writes to keep his Eye +upon it. + +I am told, in some Parts of China, they had arriv'd to such a +Perfection of Knowledge, as to understand one anothers Thoughts; and +that it was found to be an excellent Preservative to humane Society, +against all sorts of Frauds, Cheats, Sharping, and many Thousand +European Inventions of that Nature, at which only we can be said +to out-do those Nations. + +I confess, I have not yet had leisure to travel those Parts, having +been diverted by an accidental Opportunity of a new Voyage I had +occasion to make for farther Discoveries, and which the Pleasure and +Usefulness thereof having been very great, I have omitted the other +for the present, but shall not fail to make a Visit to those Parts +the first Opportunity, and shall give my Country-men the best Account +I can of those things; for I doubt not in Time to bring our Nation, +so fam'd for improving other People's Discoveries, to be as wise as +any of those Heathen Nations; I wish I had the same Prospect of +making them half so honest. + +I had spent but a few Months in this Country, but my search after +the Prodigy of humane Knowledge the People abounds with, led me into +Acquaintance with some of their principal Artists, Engineers, and Men +of Letters; and I was astonish'd at every Day's Discovery of new and +of unheard-of Worlds of Learning; but I Improv'd in the Superficial +Knowledge of their General, by no body so much as by my Conversation +with the Library-keeper of Tonquin, by whom I had Admission into the +vast Collection of Books, which the Emperors of that Country have +treasur'd up. + +It would be endless to give you a Catalogue, and they admit of no +Strangers to write any thing down, but what the Memory can retain, +you are welcome to carry away with you; and amongst the wonderful +Volumes of Antient and Modern Learning, I could not but take Notice +of a few; which, besides those I mentioned before, I saw, when I +lookt over this vast Collection; and a larger Account may be given +in our next. + +It would be needless to Transcribe the Chinese Character, or to put +their Alphabet into our Letters, because the Words would be both +Unintelligible, and very hard to Pronounce; and therefore, to avoid +hard Words, and Hyroglyphicks, I'll translate them as well as I can. + +The first Class I came to of Books, was the Constitutions of the +Empire; these are vast great Volumes, and have a sort of Engine like +our Magna Charta, to remove 'em, and with placing them in a Frame, +by turning a Screw, open'd the Leaves, and folded them this way, +or that, as the Reader desires. It was present Death for the +Library-keeper to refuse the meanest Chinese Subject to come in and +read them; for 'tis their Maxim, That all People ought to know the +Laws by which they are to be govern'd; and as above all People, we +find no Fools in this Country, so the Emperors, though they seem to +be Arbitrary, enjoy the greatest Authority in the World, by always +observing, with the greatest Exactness, the Pacta Conventa of their +Government: From these Principles it is impossible we should ever +hear, either of the Tyranny of Princes, or Rebellion of Subjects, +in all their Histories. + +At the Entrance into this Class, you find some Ancient Comments, +upon the Constitution of the Empire, written many Ages before we +pretend the World began; but above all, One I took particular notice +of, which might bear this Title, Natural Right prov'd Superior to +Temporal Power; wherein the old Author proves, the Chinese Emperors +were Originally made so, by Nature's directing the People, to place +the Power of Government in the most worthy Person they could find; +and the Author giving a most exact History of 2000 Emperors, brings +them into about 35 or 36 Periods of Lines when the Race ended; and +when a Collective Assembly of the Nobles, Cities, and People, +Nominated a new Family to the Goverment. + +This being an heretical Book as to European Politicks, and our +Learned Authors having long since exploded this Doctrine, and prov'd +that Kings and Emperors came down from Heaven with Crowns on their +Heads, and all their Subjects were born with Saddles on their Backs; +I thought fit to leave it where I found it, least our excellent +Tracts of Sir Robert Filmer, Dr. Hammond L...y, S....l, and Others, +who have so learnedly treated of the more useful Doctrine of Passive +Obedience, Divine Right, &c. should be blasphem'd by the Mob, grow +into Contempt of the People; and they should take upon them to +question their Superiors for the Blood of Algernon Sidney, and Argyle. + +For I take the Doctrines of Passive Obedience, &c. among the +States-men, to be like the Copernican System of the Earths Motion +among Philosophers; which, though it be contrary to all antient +Knowledge, and not capable of Demonstration, yet is adher'd to in +general, because by this they can better solve, and give a more +rational Account of several dark Phanomena in Nature, than they could +before. + +Thus our Modern States-men approve of this Scheme of Government; not +that it admits of any rational Defence, much less of Demonstration, +but because by this Method they can the better explain, as well as +defend, all Coertion in Cases invasive of Natural Right, than they +could before. + +Here I found two famous Volumes in Chyrurgery, being an exact +Description of the Circulation of the Blood, discovered long before +King Solomon's Allegory of the Bucket's going to the Well; with +several curious Methods by which the Demonstration was to be made so +plain, as would make even the worthy Doctor B------ himself become a +Convert to his own Eye-sight, make him damn his own Elaborate Book, +and think it worse Nonsence than ever the Town had the Freedom to +imagine. + +All our Philosophers are Fools, and their Transactions a parcel +of empty Stuff, to the Experiments of the Royal Societies in this +Country. Here I came to a Learned Tract of Winds, which outdoes even +the Sacred Text, and would make us believe it was not wrote to those +People; for they tell Folks whence it comes, and whither it goes. +There you have an Account how to make Glasses of Hogs Eyes, that can +see the Wind; and they give strange Accounts both of its regular and +irregular Motions, its Compositions and Quantities; from whence, by a +sort of Algebra, they can cast up its Duration, Violence, and Extent: +In these Calculations, some say, those Authors have been so exact, +that they can, as our Philosophers say of Comets, state their +Revolutions, and tell us how many Storms there shall happen to any +Period of time, and when; and perhaps this may be with much about the +same Truth. + +It was a certain Sign Aristotle had never been at China; for, had he +seen the 216th Volume of the Chinese Navigation, in the Library I +am speaking of, a large Book in Double Folio, wrote by the Famous +Mira-cho-cho-lasmo, Vice-Admiral of China, and said to be printed +there about 2000 Years before the Deluge, in the Chapter of Tides he +would have seen the Reason of all the certain and uncertain Fluxes +and Refluxes of that Element, how the exact Pace is kept between the +Moon and the Tides, with a most elaborate Discourse there, of the +Power of Sympathy, and the manner how the heavenly Bodies Influence +the Earthly: Had he seen this, the Stagyrite would never have Drowned +himself, because he could not comprehend this Mystery. + +'Tis farther related of this Famous Author, that he was no Native +of this World, but was Born in the Moon, and coming hither to make +Discoveries, by a strange Invention arrived to by the Virtuosoes of +that habitable World, the Emperor of China prevailed with him to stay +and improve his Subjects, in the most exquisite Accomplishments of +those Lunar Regions; and no wonder the Chinese are such exquisite +Artists, and Masters of such sublime Knowledge, when this Famous +Author has blest them with such unaccountable Methods of Improvement. + +There was abundance of vast Classes full of the Works of this +wonderful Philosopher: He gave the how, the modus of all the secret +Operations of Nature; and told us, how Sensation is convey'd to and +from the Brain; why Respiration preserves Life; and how Locomotion +is directed to, as well as perform'd by the Parts. There are some +Anatomical Dissections of Thought, and a Mathematical Description of +Nature's strong Box, the Memory, with all its Locks and Keys. + +There you have that part of the Head turn'd in-side outward, in which +Nature has placed the Materials of reflecting; and like a Glass +Bee-hive, represents to you all the several Cells in which are lodg'd +things past, even back to Infancy and Conception. There you have the +Repository, with all its Cells, Classically, Annually, Numerically, +and Alphabetically Dispos'd. There you may see how, when the perplext +Animal, on the loss of a Thought or Word, scratches his Pole: Every +Attack of his Invading Fingers knocks at Nature's Door, allarms all +the Register-keepers, and away they run, unlock all the Classes, +search diligently for what he calls for, and immediately deliver +it up to the Brain; if it cannot be found, they intreat a little +Patience, till they step into the Revolvary, where they run over +little Catalogues of the minutest Passages of Life, and so in time +never fail to hand on the thing; if not just when he calls for it, +yet at some other time. + +And thus, when a thing lyes very Abstruse, and all the rumaging of +the whole House cannot find it; nay, when all the People in the House +have given it over, they very often find one thing when they are +looking for another. + +Next you have the Retentive in the remotest part of the Place, which, +like the Records in the Tower, takes Possession of all Matters, as +they are removed from the Classes in the Repository, for want of +room. These are carefully Lockt, and kept safe, never to be open'd +but upon solemn Occasions, and have swinging great Bars and Bolts +upon them; so that what is kept here, is seldom lost. Here Conscience +has one large Ware-house, and the Devil another; the first is very +seldom open'd, but has a Chink or Till, where all the Follies and +Crimes of Life being minuted are dropt in; but as the Man seldom +cares to look in, the Locks are very Rusty, and not open'd but with +great Difficulty, and on extraordinary Occasions, as Sickness, +Afflictions, Jails, Casualties, and Death; and then the Bars all give +way at once; and being prest from within with a more than ordinary +Weight, burst as a Cask of Wine upon the Fret, which for want of +Vent, makes all the Hoops fly. + +As for the Devil's Ware-house, he has two constant Warehouse-keepers, +Pride and Conceit, and these are always at the Door, showing their +Wares, and exposing the pretended Vertues and Accomplishments of the +Man, by way of Ostentation. + +In the middle of this curious part of Nature, there is a clear +Thorough-fare, representing the World, through which so many Thousand +People pass so easily, and do so little worth taking notice of, +that 'tis for no manner of Signification to leave Word they have +been here. Thro' this Opening pass Millions of things not worth +remembring, and which the Register-Keepers, who stand at the Doors of +the Classes, as they go by, take no notice of; such as Friendships, +helps in Distress, Kindnesses in Affliction, Voluntary Services, and +all sorts of Importunate Merit; things which being but Trifles in +their own Nature, are made to be forgotten. + +In another Angle is to be seen the Memory's Garden, in which her most +pleasant things are not only Deposited, but Planted, Transplanted, +Grafted, Inoculated, and obtain all possible Propagation and +Encrease; these are the most pleasant, delightful, and agreeable +things, call'd Envy, Slander, Revenge, Strife and Malice, with the +Additions of Ill-turns, Reproaches, and all manner of Wrong; these +are caressed in the Cabinet of the Memory, with a World of Pleasure +never let pass, and carefully Cultivated with all imaginable Art. + +There are multitudes of Weeds, Toys, Chat, Story, Fiction, and Lying, +which in the great throng of passant Affairs, stop by the way, and +crowding up the Place, leave no room for their Betters that come +behind, which makes many a good Guess be put by, and left to go clear +thro' for want of Entertainment. + +There are a multitude of things very curious and observable, +concerning this little, but very accurate thing, called Memory; but +above all, I see nothing so very curious, as the wonderful Art of +Wilful Forgetfulness; and as 'tis a thing, indeed, I never could find +any Person compleatly Master of, it pleased me very much, to find +this Author has made a large Essay, to prove there is really no such +Power in Nature; and that the Pretenders to it are all Impostors, and +put a Banter upon the World; for that it is impossible for any Man to +oblige himself to forget a thing, since he that can remember to +forget, and at the same time forget to remember, has an Art above +the Devil. + +In his Laboratory you see a Fancy preserv'd a la Mummy, several +Thousand Years old; by examining which you may perfectly discern, +how Nature makes a Poet: Another you have taken from a meer Natural, +which discovers the Reasons of Nature's Negative in the Case of +humane Understanding; what Deprivation of Parts She suffers, in the +Composition of a Coxcomb; and with what wonderful Art She prepares a +Man to be a Fool. + +Here being the product of this Author's wonderful Skill, you have the +Skeleton of a Wit, with all the Readings of Philosophy and Chyrurgery +upon the Parts: Here you see all the Lines Nature has drawn to form a +Genius, how it performs, and from what Principles. + +Also you are Instructed to know the true reason of the Affinity +between Poetry and Poverty; and that it is equally derived from +what's Natural and Intrinsick, as from Accident and Circumstance; how +the World being always full of Fools and Knaves, Wit is sure to miss +of a good Market; especially, if Wit and Truth happen to come in +Company; for the Fools don't understand it, and the Knaves can't bear +it. + +But still 'tis own'd, and is most apparent, there is something also +Natural in the Case too, since there are some particular Vessels +Nature thinks necessary, to the more exact Composition of this nice +thing call'd a Wit, which as they are, or are not Interrupted in the +peculiar Offices for which they are appointed, are subject to various +Distempers, and more particularly to Effluxions and Vapour, Diliriums +Giddiness of the Brain, and Lapsa, or Looseness of the Tongue; and as +these Distempers, occasion'd by the exceeding quantity of Volatiles, +Nature is obliged to make use of in the Composition, are hardly to +be avoided, the Disasters which generally they push the Animal into, +are as necessarily consequent to them as Night is to the Setting of +the Sun; and these are very many, as disobliging Parents, who have +frequently in this Country whipt their Sons for making Verses; and +here I could not but reflect how useful a Discipline early Correction +must be to a Poet; and how easy the Town had been had N---t, E---w, +T. B--- P---s, D-- S-- D---fy, and an Hundred more of the jingling +Train of our modern Rhymers, been Whipt young, very young, for +Poetasting, they had never perhaps suckt in that Venome of Ribaldry, +which all the Satyr of the Age has never been able to scourge out of +them to this Day. + +The further fatal Consequences of these unhappy Defects in Nature, +where she has damn'd a Man to Wit and Rhyme, has been loss of +Inheritance, Parents being aggravated by the obstinate young Beaus, +resolving to be Wits in spight of Nature, the wiser Head has been +obliged to Confederate with Nature, and with-hold the Birth-right +of Brains, which otherwise the young Gentleman might have enjoy'd, +to the great support of his Family and Posterity. Thus the famous +Waller, Denham, Dryden, and sundry Others, were oblig'd to condemn +their Race to Lunacy and Blockheadism, only to prevent the fatal +Destruction of their Families, and entailing the Plague of Wit and +Weathercocks upon their Posterity. + +The yet farther Extravagancies which naturally attend the Mischief of +Wit, are Beau-ism, Dogmaticality, Whimsification, Impudensity, and +various kinds of Fopperosities (according to Mr. Boyl,) which issuing +out of the Brain, descend into all the Faculties, and branch +themselves by infinite Variety, into all the Actions of Life. + +These by Conseqence, Beggar the Head, the Tail, the Purse, and the +whole Man, till he becomes as poor and despicable as Negative Nature +can leave him, abandon'd of his Sense, his Manners, his Modesty, and +what's worse, his Money, having nothing left but his Poetry, dies in +a Ditch, or a Garret, A-la-mode de Tom Brown, uttering Rhymes and +Nonsence to the last Moment. + +In Pity to all my unhappy Brethren, who suffer under these +Inconveniencies, I cannot but leave it on Record, that they may not +be reproached with being Agents of their own Misfortunes, since I +assure them, Nature has form'd them with the very Necessity of acting +like Coxcombs, fixt upon them by the force of Organick Consequences, +and placed down at the very Original Effusion of that fatal thing +call'd Wit. + +Nor is the Discovery less wonderful than edifying, and no humane Art +on our side the World ever found out such a Sympathetick Influence, +between the Extreams of Wit and Folly, till this great Lunarian +Naturalist furnisht us with such unheard-of Demonstrations. + +Nor is this all I learnt from him, tho' I cannot part with this, till +I have publisht a Memento Mori, and told 'em what I had discovered +of Nature in these remote Parts of the World, from whence I take +the Freedom to tell these Gentlemen, That if they please to Travel +to these distant Parts, and examine this great Master of Nature's +Secrets, they may every Man see what cross Strokes Nature has struck, +to finish and form every extravagant Species of that Heterogenious +Kind we call Wit. + +There C--- S--- may be inform'd how he comes to be very Witty, and +a Mad-man all at once; and P---r may see, That with less Brains and +more P--x he is more a Wit and more a Mad-man than the Coll. Ad---son +may tell his Master my Lord ---- the reason from Nature, why he would +not take the Court's Word, nor write the Poem call'd, The Campaign, +till he had 200 l. per Annum secur'd to him; since 'tis known they +have but one Author in the Nation that writes for 'em for nothing, +and he is labouring very hard to obtain the Title of Blockhead, and +not be paid for it: Here D. might understand, how he came to be able +to banter all Mankind, and yet all Mankind be able to banter him; at +the fame time our numerous throng of Parnassians may see Reasons for +the variety of the Negative and Positive Blessings they enjoy; some +for having Wit and no Verse, some Verse and no Wit, some Mirth +without Jest, some Jest without Fore-cast, some Rhyme and no Jingle, +some all Jingle and no Rhyme, some Language without measure; some all +Quantity and no Cudence, some all Wit and no Sence, some all Sence +and no Flame, some Preach in Rhyme, some sing when they Preach, +some all Song and no Tune, some all Tune and no Song; all these +Unaccountables have their Originals, and can be answer'd for in +unerring Nature, tho' in our out-side Guesses we can say little to +it. Here is to be seen, why some are all Nature, some all Art; some +beat Verse out of the Twenty-four rough Letters, with Ten Hammers +and Anvils to every Line, and maul the Language as a Swede beats +Stock-Fish; Others buff Nature, and bully her out of whole Stanza's +of ready-made Lines at a time, carry all before them, and rumble like +distant Thunder in a black Cloud: Thus Degrees and Capacities are +fitted by Nature, according to Organick Efficacy; and the Reason and +Nature of Things are found in themselves: Had D---y seen his own +Draft by this Light of Chinese Knowledge, he might have known he +should be a Coxcomb without writing Twenty-two Plays, to stand as so +many Records against him. Dryden might have told his Fate, that +having his extraordinary Genius flung and pitcht upon a Swivle, it +would certainly turn round as fast as the Times, and instruct him how +to write Elegies to O. C. and King C. the Second, with all the +Coherence imaginable; how to write Religio Laicy, and the Hind and +Panther, and yet be the same Man, every Day to change his Principle, +change his Religion, change his Coat, change his Master, and yet +never change his Nature. + +There are abundance of other Secrets in Nature discover'd in relation +to these things, too many to repeat, and yet too useful to omit, as +the reason why Phisicians are generally Atheists; and why Atheists +are universally Fools, and generally live to know it themselves, the +real Obstructions, which prevent fools being mad, all the Natural +Causes of Love, abundance of Demonstrations of the Synonimous Nature +of Love and Leachery, especially consider'd a la Modern, with an +absolute Specifick for the Frenzy of Love, found out in the +Constitution, Anglice, a Halter. + +It would be endless to reckon up the numerous Improvements, and +wonderful Discoveries this extraordinary Person has brought down, and +which are to be seen in his curious Chamber of Rarities. + +Particularly, a Map of Parnassus, with an exact Delineation of +all the Cells, Apartments, Palaces and Dungeons, of that most +famous Mountain; with a Description of its Heighth, and a learned +Dissertation, proving it to be the properest Place next to the P---e +House to take a Rise at, for a flight to the World in the Moon. + +Also some Enquiries, whether Noah's Ark did not first rest upon +it; and this might be one of the Summits of Ararat, with some +Confutations of the gross and palpable Errors, which place this +extraordinary Skill among the Mountains of the Moon in Africa. + +Also you have here a Muse calcin'd, a little of the Powder of which +given to a Woman big with Child, if it be a Boy it will be a Poet, if +a Girl she'll be a Whore, if an Hermaphrodite it will be Lunatick. + +Strange things, they tell us, have been done with this calcin'd Womb +of Imagination; if the Body it came from was a Lyrick Poet, the Child +will be a Beau, or a Beauty; if an Heroick Poet, he will be a Bulley; +if his Talent was Satyr, he'll be a Philosopher. + +Another Muse they tell us, they have dissolv'd into a Liquid, and +kept with wondrous Art, the Vertues of which are Soveraign against +Ideotism, Dullness, and all sorts of Lethargick Diseases; but if +given in too great a quantity, creates Poesy, Poverty, Lunacy, and +the Devil in the Head ever after. + +I confess, I always thought these Muses strange intoxicating things, +and have heard much talk of their Original, but never was acquainted +with their Vertue a la Simple before; however, I would always advise +People against too large a Dose of Wit, and think the Physician must +be a Mad-man that will venture to prescribe it. + +As all these noble Acquirements came down with this wonderful Man +from the World in the Moon, it furnisht me with these useful +Observations. + +1. That Country must needs be a Place of strange Perfection, in all +parts of extraordinary Knowledge. + +2. How useful a thing it would be for most sorts of our People, +especially Statesmen, P----t-men, Convocation-men, Phylosophers, +Physicians, Quacks, Mountebanks, Stock-jobbers, and all the Mob of +the Nation's Civil or Ecclesiastical Bone-setters, together with some +Men of the Law, some of the Sword, and all of the Pen: I say, how +useful and improving a thing it must be to them, to take a Journey up +to the World in the Moon; but above all, how much more beneficial it +would be to them that stay'd behind. + +3. That it is not to be wonder'd at, why the Chinese excell so much +all these Parts of the World, since but for that Knowledge which +comes down to them from the World in the Moon, they would be like +other People. + +4. No Man need to Wonder at my exceeding desire to go up to the World +in the Moon, having heard of such extraordinary Knowledge to be +obtained there, since in the search of Knowledge and Truth, wiser Men +than I have taken as unwarrantable Flights, and gone a great deal +higher than the Moon, into a strange Abbyss of dark Phanomena, which +they neither could make other People understand, nor ever rightly +understood themselves, witness Malbranch, Mr. Lock, Hobbs, the +Honourable Boyle and a great many others, besides Messieurs Norris, +Asgil, Coward, and the Tale of a Tub. + +This great Searcher into Nature has, besides all this, left wonderful +Discoveries and Experiments behind him; but I was with nothing more +exceedingly diverted, than with his various Engines, and curious +Contrivances, to go to and from his own Native Country the Moon. All +our Mechanick Motions of Bishop Wilkins, or the artificial Wings of +the Learned Spaniard, who could have taught God Almighty how to have +mended the Creation, are Fools to this Gentleman; and because no +Man in China has made more Voyages up into the Moon than my self, I +cannot but give you some Account of the easyness of the Passage, as +well as of the Country. + +Nor are his wonderful Tellescopes of a mean Quality, by which such +plain Discoveries are made, of the Lands and Seas in the Moon, and in +all the habitable Planets, that one may as plainly fee what a Clock +it is by one of the Dials in the Moon, as if it were no farther off +than Windsor-Castle; and had he liv'd to finish the Speaking-trumpet +which he had contriv'd to convey Sound thither, Harlequin's +Mock-Trumpet had been a Fool to it; and it had no doubt been an +admirable Experiment, to have given us a general Advantage from all +their acquir'd Knowledge in those Regions, where no doubt several +useful Discoveries are daily made by the Men of Thought for the +Improvement of all sorts of humane Understanding, and to have +discoursed with them on those things, must have been very pleasant, +besides, its being very much to our particular Advantage. + +I confess, I have thought it might have been very useful to this +Nation, to have brought so wonderful an Invention hither, and I was +once very desirous to have set up my rest here, and for the Benefit +of my Native Country, have made my self Master of these Engines, +that I might in due time have convey'd them to our Royal Society, +that once in 40 Years they might have been said to do something for +Publick Good; and that the Reputation and Usefulness of the so so's +might be recover'd in England; but being told that in the Moon +there were many of these Glasses to be had very cheap, and I having +declar'd my Resolution of undertaking a Voyage thither, I deferred my +Design, and shall defer my treating of them, till I give some Account +of my Arrival there. + +But above all his Inventions for making this Voyage, I saw none more +pleasant or profitable, than a certain Engine formed in the shape of +a Chariot, on the Backs of two vast Bodies with extended Wings, which +spread about 50 Yards in Breadth, compos'd of Feathers so nicely put +together, that no Air could pass; and as the Bodies were made of +Lunar Earth which would bear the Fire, the Cavities were fill'd with +an Ambient Flame, which fed on a certain Spirit deposited in a proper +quantity, to last out the Voyage; and this Fire so order'd as to move +about such Springs and Wheels as kept the Wings in a most exact and +regular Motion, always ascendant; thus the Person being placed in +this airy Chariot, drinks a certain dozing Draught, that throws him +into a gentle Slumber, and Dreaming all the way, never wakes till he +comes to his Journey's end. + +Of the Consolidator. + +These Engines are call'd in their Country Language, Dupekasses; and +according to the Ancient Chinese, or Tartarian, Apezolanthukanistes; +in English, a Consolidator. + +The Composition of this Engine is very admirable; for, as is before +noted, 'tis all made up of Feathers, and the quality of the Feathers, +is no less wonderful than their Composition; and therefore, I hope +the Reader will bear with the Description for the sake of the +Novelty, since I assure him such things as these are not to be seen +in every Country. + +The number of Feathers are just 513, they are all of a length and +breadth exactly, which is absolutely necessary to the floating +Figure, or else one side or any one part being wider or longer than +the rest, it would interrupt the motion of the whole Engine; only +there is one extraordinary Feather which, as there is an odd one in +the number, is placed in the Center, and is the Handle, or rather +Rudder to the whole Machine: This Feather is every way larger than +its Fellows, 'tis almost as long and broad again; but above all, its +Quill or Head is much larger, and it has as it were several small +bushing Feathers round the bottom of it, which all make but one +presiding or superintendent Feather, to guide, regulate, and pilot +the whole Body. + +Nor are these common Feathers, but they are pickt and cull'd out of +all parts of the Lunar Country, by the Command of the Prince; and +every Province sends up the best they can find, or ought to do so at +least, or else they are very much to blame; for the Employment they +are put to being of so great use to the Publick, and the Voyage or +Flight so exceeding high, it would be very ill done if, when the King +sends his Letters about the Nation, to pick him up the best Feathers +they can lay their Hands on, they should send weak, decay'd, or +half-grown Feathers, and yet sometimes it happens so; and once there +was such rotten Feathers collected, whether it was a bad Year for +Feathers, or whether the People that gather'd them had a mind to +abuse their King; but the Feathers were so bad, the Engine was good +for nothing, but broke before it was got half way; and by a double +Misfortune, this happen'd to be at an unlucky time, when the King +himself had resolv'd on a Voyage, or Flight to to the Moon; but being +deceiv'd, by the unhappy Miscarriage of the deficient Feathers, he +fell down from so great a height, that he struck himself against his +own Palace, and beat his Head off. + +Nor had the Sons of this Prince much better Success, tho' the first +of them was a Prince mightily belov'd by his Subjects; but his +Misfortunes chiefly proceeded from his having made use of one of the +Engines so very long, that the Feathers were quite worn out, and good +for nothing: He used to make a great many Voyages and Flights into +the Moon, and then would make his Subjects give him great Sums of +Money to come down to them again; and yet they were so fond of him, +That they always complyed with him, and would give him every thing he +askt, rather than to be without him: But they grew wiser since. + +At last, this Prince used his Engine so long, it could hold together +no longer; and being obliged to write to his Subjects to pick him out +some new Feathers, they did so; but withall sent him such strong +Feathers, and so stiff, that when he had placed 'em in their proper +places, and made a very beautiful Engine, it was too heavy for him +to manage: He made a great many Essays at it, and had it placed on +the top of an old Idol Chappel, dedicated to an old Bramyn Saint of +those Countries, called, Phantosteinaschap; in Latin, chap. de Saint +Stephano; or in English, St. Stephen's: Here the Prince try'd all +possible Contrivances, and a vast deal of Money it cost him; but the +Feathers were so stiff they would not work, and the Fire within was +so choaked and smother'd with its own Smoak, for want of due Vent and +Circulation, that it would not burn; so he was oblig'd to take it +down again; and from thence he carried it to his College of Bramyn +Priests, and set it up in one of their Publick Buildings: There he +drew Circles of Ethicks and Politicks, and fell to casting of Figures +and Conjuring, but all would not do, the Feathers could not be +brought to move; and, indeed, I have observ'd, That these Engines +are seldom helpt by Art and Contrivance; there is no way with them, +but to have the People spoke to, to get good Feathers; and they are +easily placed, and perform all the several Motions with the greatest +Ease and Accuracy imaginable; but it must be all Nature; any thing of +Force distorts and dislocates them, and the whole Order is spoiled; +and if there be but one Feather out of place, or pincht, or stands +wrong, the D---l would not ride in the Chariot. + +The Prince thus finding his Labour in vain, broke the Engine to +pieces, and sent his Subjects Word what bad Feathers they had sent +him: But the People, who knew it was his own want of Management, and +that the Feathers were good enough, only a little stiff at first, and +with good Usage would have been brought to be fit for use, took it +ill, and never would send him any other as long as he liv'd: However, +it had this good effect upon him, That he never made any more Voyages +to the Moon as long as he reign'd. + +His Brother succeeded him; and truly he was resolved upon a Voyage +to the Moon, as soon as ever he came to the Crown. He had met with +some unkind Usage from the Religious Lunesses of his own Country; and +he turn'd Abogratziarian, a zealous fiery Sect something like our +Anti-every-body-arians in England. 'Tis confest, some of the Bramyns +of his Country were very false to him, put him upon several Ways of +extending his Power over his Subjects, contrary to the Customs of +the People, and contrary to his own Interest; and when the People +expressed their Dislike of it, he thought to have been supported +by those Clergy-men; but they failed him, and made good, that Old +English Verse; + +That Priests of all Religions are the same. + +He took this so hainously, that he conceiv'd a just Hatred against +those that had deceiv'd him; and as Resentments seldom keep Rules, +unhappily entertain'd Prejudices against all the rest; and not +finding it easy to bring all his Designs to pass better, he resolved +upon a Voyage to the Moon. + +Accordingly, he sends a Summons to all his People according to +Custom, to collect the usual quantity of Feathers for that purpose; +and because he would be sure not be used as his Brother and Father +had been, he took care to send certain Cunning-men Express, all +over the Country, to bespeak the People's Care, in collecting, +picking and culling them out, these were call'd in their Language, +Tsopablesdetoo; which being Translated may signify in English, Men of +Zeal, or Booted Apostles: Nor was this the only Caution this Prince +used; for he took care, as the Feathers were sent up to him, to +search and examine them one by one in his own Closet, to see if +they were fit for his purpose; but, alas! he found himself in his +Brother's Case exactly; and perceived, That his Subjects were +generally disgusted at his former Conduct, about Abrogratzianism, +and such things, and particularly set in a Flame by some of their +Priests, call'd, Dullobardians, or Passive-Obedience-men, who had +lately turn'd their Tale, and their Tail too upon their own Princes; +and upon this, he laid aside any more Thoughts of the Engine, but +took up a desperate and implacable Resolution, viz. to fly up to the +Moon without it; in order to this, abundance of his Cunning-men were +summon'd together to assist him, strange Engines contriv'd, and +Methods propos'd; and a great many came from all Parts, to furnish +him with Inventions and equivalent for their Journey; but all were so +preposterous and ridiculous, that his Subjects seeing him going on to +ruin himself, and by Consequence them too, unanimously took Arms; and +if their Prince had not made his Escape into a foreign Country, 'tis +thought they would have secur'd him for a Mad-man. + +And here 'tis observable, That as it is in most such Cases, the mad +Councellors of this Prince, when the People begun to gather about +him, fled; and every one shifted for themselves; nay, and some of +them plunder'd him first of his Jewels and Treasure, and never were +heard of since. + +From this Prince none of the Kings or Government of that Country have +ever seem'd to incline to the hazardous Attempt of the Voyage to the +Moon, at least not in such a hair-brain'd manner. + +However, the Engine has been very accurately Re-built and finish'd; +and the People are now oblig'd by a Law, to send up new Feathers +every three Years, to prevent the Mischiefs which happen'd by that +Prince aforesaid, keeping one Set so long that it was dangerous to +venture with them; and thus the Engine is preserved fit for use. + +And yet has not this Engine been without its continual Disasters, and +often out of repair; for though the Kings of the Country, as has been +Noted, have done riding on the back of it, yet the restless Courtiers +and Ministers of State have frequently obtained the Management of it, +from the too easy Goodness of their Masters, or the Evils of the +Times. + +To Cure this, the Princes frequently chang'd Hands, turn'd one Set of +Men out and put another in: But this made things still worse; for it +divided the People into Parties and Factions in the State, and still +the Strife was, who should ride in this Engine; and no sooner were +these Skaet-Riders got into it, but they were for driving all the +Nation up to the Moon: But of this by it self. + +Authors differ concerning the Original of these Feathers, and by what +most exact Hand they were first appointed to this particular use; and +as their Original is hard to be found, so it seems a Difficulty to +resolve from what sort of Bird these Feathers are obtained: Some have +nam'd one, some another; but the most Learned in those Climates call +it by a hard Word, which the Printer having no Letters to express, +and being in that place Hierogliphical, I can translate no better, +than by the Name of a Collective: This must be a Strange Bird without +doubt; it has Heads, Claws, Eyes and Teeth innumerable; and if I +should go about to describe it to you, the History would be so +Romantick, it would spoil the Credit of these more Authentick +Relations which are yet behind. + +'Tis sufficient, therefore, for the present, only to leave you this +short Abridgement of the Story, as follows: This great Monstrous +Bird, call'd the Collective, is very seldom seen, and indeed never, +but upon Great Revolutions, and portending terrible Desolations and +Destructions to a Country. + +But he frequently sheds his Feathers; and they are carefully pickt +up, by the Proprietors of those Lands where they fall; for none but +those Proprietors may meddle with them; and they no sooner pick them +up but they are sent to Court, where they obtain a new Name, and are +called in a Word equally difficult to pronounce as the other, but +Very like our English Word, Representative; and being placed in their +proper Rows, with the Great Feather in the Center, and fitted for +use, they lately obtained the Venerable Title of, The Consolidators; +and the Machine it self, the Consolidator; and by that Name the +Reader is desir'd for the future to let it be dignified and +distinguish'd. + +I cannot, however, forbear to descant a little here, on the Dignity +and Beauty of these Feathers, being such as are hardly to be seen in +any part of the World, but just in these remote Climates. + +And First, Every Feather has various Colours, and according to the +Variety of the Weather, are apt to look brighter and clearer, or +paler and fainter, as the Sun happens to look on them with a stronger +or weaker Aspect. The Quill or Head of every Feather is or ought to +be full of a vigorous Substance, which gives Spirit, and supports the +brightness and colour of the Feather; and as this is more or less in +quantity, the bright Colour of the Feather is increased, or turns +languid and pale. + +Tis true, some of those Quills are exceeding empty and dry; and the +Humid being totally exhal'd, those Feathers grow very useless and +insignificant in a short time. + +Some again are so full of Wind, and puft up with the Vapour of the +Climate, that there's not Humid enough to Condence the Steam; and +these are so fleet, so light, and so continually fluttering and +troublesome, that they greatly serve to disturb and keep the Motion +unsteddy. + +Others either placed too near the inward concealed Fire, or the Head +of the Quill being thin, the Fire causes too great a Fermentation; +and the Consequence of this is so fatal, that sometimes it mounts the +Engine up too fast, and indangers Precipitation: But 'tis happily +observed, That these ill Feathers are but a very few, compar'd to the +whole number; at the most, I never heard they were above 134 of the +whole number: As for the empty ones, they are not very dangerous, but +a sort of Good-for-nothing Feathers, that will fly when the greatest +number of the rest fly, or stand still when they stand still. The +fluttering hot-headed Feathers are the most dangerous, and frequently +struggle hard to mount the Engine to extravagant heights; but still +the greater number of the Feathers being stanch, and well fixt, as +well as well furnisht, they always prevail, and check the Disorders +the other would bring upon the Motion; so that upon the whole Matter, +tho' there has sometims been oblique Motions, Variations, and +sometimes great Wandrings out of the way, which may make the Passage +tedious, yet it has always been a certain and safe Voyage; and no +Engine was ever known to miscarry or overthrow, but that one +mentioned before, and that was very much owing to the precipitate +Methods the Prince took in guiding it; and tho' all the fault was +laid in the Feathers, and they were to blame enough, yet I never +heard any Wise Man, but what blam'd his Discretion, and particularly, +a certain great Man has wrote three large Tracts of those Affairs, +and call'd them, The History of the Opposition of the Feathers; +wherein, tho' it was expected he would have curst the Engine it self +and all the Feathers to the Devil, on the contrary, he lays equal +blame on the Prince, who guided the Chariot with so unsteddy a hand, +now as much too slack, as then too hard, turning them this way and +that so hastily, that the Feathers could not move in their proper +order; and this at last put the Fire in the Center quite out, and so +the Engine over-set at once. This Impartiality has done great Justice +to the Feathers, and set things in a clearer light: But of this I +shall say more, when I come to treat of the Works of the Learned in +this Lunar World. + +This is hinted here only to inform the Reader, That this Engine is +the safest Passage that ever was found out; and that saving that +one time, it never miscarried; nor if the common Order of things +be observed, cannot Miscarry; for the good Feathers are always +Negatives, when any precipitant Motion is felt, and immediately +suppress it by their number; and these Negative Feathers are indeed +the Travellers safety; the other are always upon the flutter, and +upon every occasion hey for the Moon, up in the Clouds presently; but +these Negative Feathers are never for going up, but when there is +occasion for it; and from hence these fluttering fermented Feathers +were called by the Antients High-flying Feathers, and the blustering +things seem'd proud of the Name. + +But to come to their general Character, the Feathers, speaking of +them all together, are generally very Comely, Strong, Large, +Beautiful things, their Quills or Heads well fixt, and the Cavities +fill'd with a solid substantial Matter, which tho' it is full of +Spirit, has a great deal of Temperament, and full of suitable +well-dispos'd Powers, to the Operation for which they are design'd. + +These placed, as I Noted before, in an extended Form like two great +Wings, and operated by that sublime Flame; which being concealed in +proper Receptacles, obtains its vent at the Cavities appointed, are +supplied from thence with Life and Motion; and as Fire it fell, in +the Opinion of some Learned Men, is nothing but Motion, and Motion +tends to Fire: It can no more be a Wonder, if exalted in the Center +of this famous Engine, a whole Nation should be carried up to the +World in the Moon. + +'Tis true, this Engine is frequently assaulted with fierce Winds, and +furious Storms, which sometimes drive it a great way out of its way; +and indeed, considering the length of the Passage, and the various +Regions it goes through, it would be strange if it should meet with +no Obstructions: These are oblique Gales, and cannot be said to blow +from any of the Thirty-two Points, but Retrograde and Thwart: Some of +these are call'd in their Language, Pensionazima, which is as much +as to say, being Interpreted, a Court-breeze; another sort of Wind, +which generally blows directly contrary to the Pensionazima, is +the Clamorio, or in English, a Country Gale; this is generally +Tempestuous, full of Gusts and Disgusts, Squauls and sudden Blasts, +not without claps of Thunder, and not a little flashing of Heat and +Party-fires. + +There are a great many other Internal Blasts, which proceed from the +Fire within, which sometimes not circulating right, breaks out in +little Gusts of Wind and Heat, and is apt to indanger setting Fire to +the Feathers, and this is more or less dangerous, according as among +which of the Feathers it happens; for some of the Feathers are more +apt to take Fire than others, as their Quills or Heads are more or +less full of that solid Matter mention'd before. + +The Engine suffers frequent Convulsions and Disorders from these +several Winds; and which if they chance to overblow very much, hinder +the Passage; but the Negative Feathers always apply Temper and +Moderation; and this brings all to rights again. + +For a Body like this, what can it not do? what cannot such an +Extension perform in the Air? And when one thing is tackt to another, +and properly Cosolidated into one mighty Consolidator, no question +but whoever shall go up to the Moon, will find himself so improv'd +in this wonderful Experiment, that not a Man ever perform'd that +wonderful Flight, but he certainly came back again as wise as he went. + +Well, Gentlemen, and what if we are called High-flyers now, and an +Hundred Names of Contempt and Distinction, what is this to the +purpose? who would not be a High-flyer, to be Tackt and Consolidated +in an Engine of such sublime Elevation, and which lifts Men, +Monarchs, Members, yea, and whole Nations, up into the Clouds; and +performs with such wondrous Art, the long expected Experiment of a +Voyage to the Moon? And thus much for the Description of the +Consolidator. + +The first Voyage I ever made to this Country, was in one of these +Engines; and I can safely affirm, I never wak'd all the way; and now +having been as often there as most that have us'd that Trade, it may +be expected I should give some Account of the Country; for it +appears, I can give but little of the Road. + +Only this I understand, That when this Engine, by help of these +Artificial Wings, has raised it self up to a certain height, the +Wings are as useful to keep it from falling into the Moon, as they +were before to raise it, and keep it from falling back into this +Region again. + +This may happen from an Alteration of Centers, and Gravity having +past a certain Line, the Equipoise changes its Tendency, the +Magnetick Quality being beyond it, it inclines of Course, and pursues +a Center, which it finds in the Lunar World, and lands us safe upon +the Surface. + +I was told, I need take no Bills of Exchange with me, nor Letters of +Credit; for that upon my first Arrival, the Inhabitants would be very +civil to me: That they never suffered any of Our World to want any +thing when they came there: That they were very free to show them +any thing, and inform them in all needful Cases; and that whatever +Rarities the Country afforded, should be expos'd immediately. + +I shall not enter into the Customs, Geography, or History of the +Place, only acquaint the Reader, That I found no manner of Difference +in any thing Natural, except as hereafter excepted, but all was +exactly as is here, an Elementary World, peopled with Folks, as like +us as if they were only Inhabitants of the same Continent, but in a +remote Climate. + +The Inhabitants were Men, Women, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Insects, +of the same individual Species as Ours, the latter excepted: The Men +no wiser, better, nor bigger than here; the Women no handsomer or +honester than Ours: There were Knaves and honest Men, honest Women +and Whores of all Sorts, Countries, Nations and Kindreds, as on this +side the Skies. + +They had the same Sun to shine, the Planets were equally visible as +to us, and their Astrologers were as busily Impertinent as Ours, only +that those wonderful Glasses hinted before made strange Discoveries +that we were unacquainted with; by them they could plainly discover, +That this World was their Moon, and their World our Moon; and when I +came first among them, the People that flockt about me, distinguisht +me by the Name of, the Man that came out of the Moon. + +I cannot, however, but acquaint the Reader, with some Remarks I made +in this new World, before I come to any thing Historical. + +I have heard, that among the Generallity of our People, who being +not much addicted to Revelation, have much concern'd themselves +about Demonstrations, a Generation have risen up, who to solve +the Difficulties of Supernatural Systems, imagine a mighty vast +Something, who has no Form but what represents him to them as one +Great Eye: This infinite Optick they imagine to be Natura Naturans, +or Power-forming; and that as we pretend the Soul of Man has a +Similitude in quality to its Original, according to a Notion some +People have, who read that so much ridicul'd Old Legend, call'd +Bible, That Man was made in the Image of his Maker: The Soul of Man, +therefore, in the Opinion of these Naturallists, is one vast Optick +Power diffus'd through him into all his Parts, but seated principally +in his Head. + +From hence they resolve all Beings to Eyes, some more capable of +Sight and receptive of Objects than others; and as to things +Invisible, they reckon nothing so, only so far as our Sight is +deficient, contracted or darkened by Accidents from without, as +Distance of Place, Interposition of Vapours, Clouds, liquid Air, +Exhalations, &c. or from within, as wandring Errors, wild Notions, +cloudy Understandings, and empty Fancies, with a Thousand other +interposing Obstacles to the Sight, which darken it, and prevent its +Operation; and particularly obstruct the perceptive Faculties, weaken +the Head, and bring Mankind in General to stand in need of the +Spectacles of Education as soon as ever they are born: Nay, and as +soon as they have made use of these Artificial Eyes, all they can do +is but to clear the Sight so far as to see that they can't see; the +utmost Wisdom of Mankind, and the highest Improvement a Man ought to +wish for, being but to be able to see that he was Born blind; this +pushes him upon search after Mediums for the Recovery of his Sight, +and away he runs to School to Art and Science, and there he is +furnisht with Horoscopes, Microscopes, Tellescopes, Caliscopes, +Money-scopes, and the D---l and and all of Glasses, to help and +assist his Moon-blind Understanding; these with wonderful Skill and +Ages of Application, after wandring thro' Bogs and Wildernesses of +Guess, Conjectures, Supposes, Calculations, and he knows not what, +which he meets with in Physicks, Politicks, Ethicks, Astronomy, +Mathematicks, and such sort of bewildring Things, bring him with vast +Difficulty to a little Minute-spot, call'd Demonstration; and as not +one in Ten Thousand ever finds the way thither, but are lost in the +tiresome uncouth Journey, so they that do, 'tis so long before +they come there, that they are grown Old and good for little in +the Journey; and no sooner have they obtained a glimering of this +Universal Eye-sight, this Eclaricissment General, but they Die, and +have hardly time to show the way to those that come after. + +Now, as the earnest search after this thing call'd Demonstration +fill'd me with Desires of seeing every thing, so my Observations of +the strange multitude of Mysteries I met with in all Men's Actions +here, spurr'd my Curiosity to examine, if the Great Eye of the World +had no People to whom he had given a clearer Eye-sight, or at least, +that made a better use of it than we had here. + +If pursuing this search I was much delighted at my Arrival into +China, it cannot be thought strange, since there we find Knowledge +as much advanc'd beyond our common Pitch, as it was pretended to be +deriv'd from a more Ancient Original. + +We are told, that in the early Age of the World, the Strength of +Invention exceeded all that ever has been arrived to since: That we +in these latter Ages, having lost all that pristine Strength of +Reason and Invention, which died with the Ancients in the Flood, +and receiving no helps from that Age, have by long Search arriv'd +at several remote Parts of Knowledge, by the helps of reading +Conversation and Experience; but that all amounts to no more than +faint Imitations, Apings, and Resemblances of what was known in +those masterly Ages. + +Now, if it be true as is hinted before, That the Chinese Empire was +Peopled long before the Flood; and that they were not destroyed in +the General Deluge in the Days of Noah; 'tis no such strange thing, +that they should so much out-do us in this sort of Eye-sight we call +General Knowledge, since the Perfections bestow'd on Nature, when in +her Youth and Prime met with no General Suffocation by that Calamity. + +But if I was extreamly delighted with the extraordinary things I saw +in those Countries, you cannot but imagine I was exceedingly mov'd, +when I heard of a Lunar World; and that the way was passable from +these Parts. + +I had heard of a World in the Moon among some of our Learned +Philosophers, and Moor, as I have been told, had a Moon in his Head; +but none of the fine Pretenders, no not Bishop Wilkins, ever found +Mechanick Engines, whose Motion was sufficient to attempt the +Passage. A late happy Author indeed, among his Mechanick Operations +of the Spirit, had found out an Enthusiasm, which if he could have +pursued to its proper Extream, without doubt might, either in the +Body or out of the Body, have Landed him somewhere hereabout; but +that he form'd his System wholly upon the mistaken Notion of Wind, +which Learned Hypothesis being directly contrary to the Nature of +things in this Climate, where the Elasticity of the Air is quite +different and where the pressure of the Atmosphere has for want of +Vapour no Force, all his Notion dissolv'd in its Native Vapour call'd +Wind, and flew upward in blew Strakes of a livid Flame call'd +Blasphemy, which burnt up all the Wit and Fancy of the Author, and +left a strange stench behind it, that has this unhappy quality in it, +that every Body that Reads the Book, smells the Author, tho' he be +never so far off; nay, tho' he took Shipping to Dublin, to secure his +Friends from the least danger of a Conjecture. + +But to return, to the happy Regions of the Lunar Continent, I was no +sooner Landed there, and had lookt about me, but I was surpriz'd with +the strange Alteration of the Climate and Country; and particularly +a strange Salubrity and Fragrancy in the Air, which I felt so +Nourishing, so Pleasant and Delightful, that tho' I could perceive +some small Respiration, it was hardly discernable, and the least +requisite for Life, supplied so long that the Bellows of Nature were +hardly imployed. + +But as I shall take occasion to consider this in a Critical +Examination into the Nature, Uses and Advantages of Good Lungs, of +which by it self, so I think fit to confine my present Observations +to things more particularly concerning the Eye-sight. + +I was, you may be sure, not a little surprized, when being upon an +Eminence I found my self capable by common Observation, to see and +distinguish things at the distance of 100 Miles and more, and seeking +some Information on this point, I was acquainted by the People, that +there was a certain grave Philosopher hard by, that could give me a +very good Account of things. + +It is not worth while to tell you this Man's Lunar Name, of whether +he had a Name, or no; 'tis plain, 'twas a Man in the Moon; but all +the Conference I had with him was very strange: At my first coming to +him, he askt me if I came from the World in the Moon? I told him, no: +At which he began to be angry, told me I Ly'd, he knew whence I came +as well as I did; for he saw me all the way. I told him, I came to +the World in the Moon, and began to be as surly as he. It was a long +time before we could agree about it, he would have it, that I came +down from the Moon; and I, that I came up to the Moon: From this, +we came to Explications, Demonstrations, Spheres, Globes, Regions, +Atmospheres, and a Thousand odd Diagrams, to make the thing out to +one another. I insisted on my part, as that my Experiment qualified +me to know, and challeng'd him to go back with me to prove it. He, +like a true Philosopher, raised a Thousand Scruples, Conjectures, and +Spherical Problems, to Confront me; and as for Demonstrations, he +call'd 'em Fancies of my own. Thus we differ'd a great many ways; +both of us were certain, and both uncertain; both right, and yet +both directly contrary; how to reconcile this Jangle was very hard, +till at last this Demonstration happen'd, the Moon as he call'd it, +turning her blind-side upon us three Days after the Change, by which, +with the help of his extraordinary Glasses, I that knew the Country, +perceived that side the Sun lookt upon was all Moon, and the other +was all world; and either I fancy'd I saw or else really saw all the +lofty Towers of the Immense Cities of China: Upon this, and a little +more Debate, we came to this Conclusion, and there the Old Man and I +agreed, That they were both Moons and both Worlds, this a Moon to +that, and that a Moon to this, like the Sun between two +Looking-Glasses, and shone upon one another by Reflection, according +to the oblique or direct Position of each other. + +This afforded us a great deal of Pleasure; for all the World covet to +be found in the right, and are pleas'd when their Notions are +acknowledg'd by their Antagonists: It also afforded us many very +useful Speculations, such as these; + +1. How easy it is for Men to fall out, and yet all sides to be in +the right? + +2. How Natural it is for Opinion to despise Demonstration? + +3. How proper mutual Enquiry is to mutual Satisfaction? + +From the Observation of these Glasses, we also drew some Puns, +Crotchets and Conclusions. + +1st, That the whole World has a Blind-side, a Dark-side, and a +Bright-side, and consequently so has every Body in it. + +2dly, That the Dark-side of Affairs to Day, may be the Bright-side to +Morrow; from whence abundance of useful Morals were also raised; such +as, + +1. No Man's Fate is so dark, but when the Sun shines upon it, it will +return its Rays, and shine for it self. + +2. All things turn like the Moon, up to Day, down to Morrow, Full and +Change, Flux and Reflux. + +3. Humane Understanding is like the Moon at the First Quarter, half +dark. + +3dly, The Changing-sides ought not to be thought so strange, or +so much Condemn'd by Mankind, having its Original from the Lunar +Influence, and govern'd by the Powerful Operation of Heavenly Motion. + +4thly, If there be any such thing as Destiny in the World, I know +nothing Man is so predestinated to, as to be eternally turning round; +and but that I purpose to entertain the Reader with at least a whole +Chapter or Section of the Philosophy of Humane Motion, Spherically +and Hypocritically Examin'd and Calculated, I should inlarge upon +that Thought in this place. + +Having thus jumpt in our Opinions, and perfectly satisfied our selves +with Demonstration, That these Worlds were Sisters, both in Form, +Function, and all their Capacities; in short, a pair of Moons, and a +pair of Worlds, equally Magnetical, Sympathetical, and Influential, +we set up our rest as to that Affair, and went forward. + +I desir'd no better Acquaintance in my new Travels, than this new +Sociate; never was there such a Couple of People met; he was the Man +in the Moon to me, and I the Man in the Moon to him; he wrote down +all I said, and made a Book of it, and call'd it, News from the World +in the Moon; and all the Town is like to see my Minutes under the +same Title; nay, and I have been told, he published some such bold +Truths there, from the Allegorical Relations he had of me from our +World: That he was call'd before the Publick Authority, who could not +bear the just Reflections of his damn'd Satyrical way of Writing; +and there they punisht the Poor Man, put him in Prison, ruin'd his +Family; and not only Fin'd him Ultra tenementum, but expos'd him in +the high Places of their Capital City, for the Mob to laugh at him +for a Fool: This is a Punishment not unlike our Pillory, and was +appointed for mean Criminals, Fellows that Cheat and Couzen People, +Forge Writings, Forswear themselves, and the like; and the People, +that it was expected would have treated this Man very ill, on the +contrary Pitied him, wisht those that set him there placed in his +room, and exprest their Affections, by loud Shouts and Acclamations, +when he was taken down. + +But as this happen'd before my first Visit to that World, when I came +there all was over with him, his particular Enemies were disgrac'd +and turn'd out, and the Man was not at all the worse receiv'd by his +Country-folks than he was before; and so much for the Man in the Moon. + +After we had settled the Debate between us, about the Nature and +Quality, I desir'd him to show me some Plan or Draft of this new +World of his; upon which, he brought me out a pair of very beautiful +Globes, and there I had an immediate Geographical Description of the +Place. + +I found it less by Degrees than Our Terrestial Globe, but more Land +and less Water; and as I was particularly concern'd to see something +in or near the same Climate with Our selves, I observ'd a large +extended Country to the North, about the Latitude of 50 to 56 +Northern Distance; and enquiring of that Country, he told me it was +one of the best Countries in all their World: That it was his Native +Climate, and he was just a going to it, and would take me with him. + +He told me in General, the Country was Good, Wholsome, Fruitful, +rarely Scituate for Trade, extraordinarily Accommodated with +Harbours, Rivers and Bays for Shipping; full of Inhabitants; for it +had been Peopled from all Parts, and had in it some of the Blood of +all the Nations in the Moon. + +He told me, as the Inhabitants were the most Numerous, so they +were the strangest People that liv'd; both their Natures, Tempers, +Qualities, Actions, and way of Living, was made up of innumerable +Contradictions: That they were the Wisest Fools, and the Foolishest +Wise Men in the World; the Weakest Strongest, Richest Poorest, most +Generous Covetous, Bold Cowardly, False Faithful, Sober Dissolute, +Surly Civil, Slothful Diligent, Peaceable Quarrelling, Loyal +Seditious Nation that ever was known. + +Besides my Observations which I made my self, and which could only +furnish me with what was present, and which I shall take time to +inform my Reader with as much Care and Conciseness as possible; I was +beholding to this Old Lunarian, for every thing that was Historical +or Particular. + +And First, He inform'd me, That in this new Country they had very +seldom any Clouds at all, and consequently no extraordinary Storms, +but a constant Serenity, moderate Breezes cooled the Air, and +constant Evening Exhalations kept the Earth moist and fruitful; and +as the Winds they had were various and strong enough to assist their +Navigation, so they were without the Terrors, Dangers, Ship-wrecks +and Destructions, which he knew we were troubled with in this our +Lunar World, as he call'd it. + +The first just Observation I made of this was, That I suppos'd from +hence the wonderful Clearness of the Air, and the Advantage of so +vast Optick Capacities they enjoy'd, was obtained: Alas! says the Old +Fellow, You see nothing to what some of our Great Eyes see in some +Parts of this World, nor do you see any thing compar'd to what you +may see by the help of some new Invented Glasses, of which I may in +time let you see the Experiment; and perhaps you may find this to be +the reason why we do not so abound in Books as in your Lunar World; +and that except it be some extraordinary Translations out of your +Country, you will find but little in our Libraries, worth giving you +a great deal of Trouble. + +We immediately quitted the Philosophical Discourse of Winds, and I +began to be mighty Inquisitive after these Glasses and Translations, +and + +1st, I understood here was a strange sort of Glass that did not so +much bring to the Eye, as by I know not what wonderful Operation +carried out the Eye to the Object, and quite varies from all our +Doctrine of Opticks, by forming several strange Phanomena in Sight, +which we are utterly unacquainted with; nor could Vision, +Rarification, or any of our School-mens fine Terms, stand me in any +stead in this case; but here was such Additions of piercing Organs, +Particles of Transparence, Emission, Transmission, Mediums, +Contraction of Rays, and a Thousand Applications of things prepar'd +for the wondrous Operation, that you may be sure are requisite for +the bringing to pass something yet unheard of on this side the Moon. + +First we were inform'd, by the help of these Glasses, strange things, +which pass in our World for Non-Entities, is to be seen, and very +perceptible; for Example: + +State Polity, in all its Meanders, Shifts, Turns, Tricks, and +Contraries, are so exactly Delineated and Describ'd, That they are in +hopes in time to draw a pair of Globes out, to bring all those things +to a certainty. + +Not but that it made some Puzzle, even among these Clear-sighted +Nations, to determine what Figure the Plans and Drafts of this +undiscover'd World of Mysteries ought to be describ'd in: Some were +of Opinion, it ought, to be an Irregular Centagon, a Figure with an +Hundred Cones or Angles: Since the Unaccountables of this +State-Science, are hid in a Million of undiscover'd Corners; as the +Craft, Subtilty and Hypocrisy of Knaves and Courtiers have concealed +them, never to be found out, but by this wonderful D---l-scope, which +seem'd to threaten a perfect Discovery of all those Nudities, which +have lain hid in the Embrio, and false Conceptions of Abortive +Policy, ever since the Foundation of the World. + +Some were of Opinion, this Plan ought to be Circular, and in a +Globular Form, since it was on all sides alike, full of dark Spots, +untrod Mazes, waking Mischiefs, and sleeping Mysteries; and being +delineated like the Globes display'd, would discover all the Lines of +Wickedness to the Eye at one view: Besides, they fancied some sort of +Analogy in the Rotundity of the Figure, with the continued Circular +Motion of all Court-Policies, in the stated Round of Universal +Knavery. + +Others would have had it Hyrogliphical as by a Hand in Hand, the Form +representing the Affinity between State Policy here, and State Policy +in the Infernal Regions, with some unkind Similies between the +Oeconomy of Satan's Kingdom, and those of most of the Temporal Powers +on Earth; but this was thought too unkind. At last it was determin'd, +That neither of these Schemes were capable of the vast Description; +and that, therefore, the Drafts must be made single, tho' not +dividing the Governments, yet dividing the Arts of Governing into +proper distinct Schemes, viz. + +1. A particular Plan of Publick Faith; and here we had the Experiment +immediately made: The Representation is quallified for the Meridian +of any Country, as well in our World as theirs; and turning it +to'ards our own World, there I saw plainly an Exchequer shut up, and +20000 Mourning Families selling their Coaches, Horses, Whores, +Equipages, &c. for Bread, the Government standing by laughing, and +looking on: Hard by I saw the Chamber of a great City shut up, and +Forty Thousand Orphans turn'd adrift in the World; some had no +Cloaths, some no Shoes, some no Money; and still the City Magistrates +calling upon other Orphans, to pay their money in. These things put +me in mind of the Prophet Ezekiel, and methoughts I heard the same +Voice that spoke to him, calling me, and telling me, Come hither, and +I'll show thee greater Abominations than these: So looking still on +that vast Map, by the help of these Magnifying Glasses, I saw huge +Fleets hir'd for Transport-Service, but never paid; vast Taxes +Anticipated, that were never Collected; others Collected and +Appropriated, but Misapplied: Millions of Talleys struck to be +Discounted, and the Poor paying 40 per Cent, to receive their Money. +I saw huge Quantities of Money drawn in, and little or none issued +out; vast Prizes taken from the Enemy, and then taken away again at +home by Friends; Ships sav'd on the Sea, and sunk in the Prize +Offices; Merchants escaping from Enemies at Sea, and be Pirated by +Sham Embargoes, Counterfeit Claims, Confiscations, &c a-shoar: There +we saw Turkey-Fleets taken into Convoys, and Guarded to the very +Mouth of the Enemy, and then abandon'd for their better Security: +Here we saw Mons. Pouchartrain shutting up the Town-house of Paris, +and plundring the Bank of Lyons. + +2. Here we law the State of the War among Nations; Here was the +French giving Sham-thanks for Victories they never got, and some body +else adressing and congratulating the sublime Glory of running away: +Here was Te Deum for Sham-Victories by Land; and there was +Thanksgiving for Ditto by Sea: Here we might see two Armies fight, +both run away, and both come and thank GOD for nothing: Here we saw a +Plan of a late War like that in Ireland; there was all the Officers +cursing a Dutch General, because the damn'd Rogue would fight, and +spoil a good War, that with decent Management and good Husbandry, +might have been eek't out this Twenty Years; there was whole Armies +hunting two Cows to one Irishman, and driving of black Cattle +declar'd the Noble End of the the War: Here we saw a Country full of +Stone Walls and strong Towns, where every Campaign, the Trade of War +was carried on by the Soldiers, with the same Intriguing as it was +carried on in the Council Chambers; there was Millions of +Contributions raised, and vast Sums Collected, but no Taxes lessen'd; +whole Plate Fleets surpriz'd, but no Treasure found; vaft Sums lost +by Enemies, and yet never found by Friends, Ships loaded with +Volatile Silver, that came away full, and gat home empty; whole +Voyages made to beat No body, and plunder Every body; two Millions +robb'd from the honest Merchants, and not a Groat sav'd for the +honest Subjects: There we saw Captains Lifting Men with the +Governments Money, and letting them go again for their own; Ships +fitted out at the Rates of Two Millions a Year, to fight but once in +Three Years, and then run away for want of Powder and Shot. + +There we saw Partition Treaties damned, and the whole given away, +Confederations without Allies, Allies without Quota's, Princes +without Armies, Armies without Men, and Men without Money, Crowns +without Kings, Kings without Subjects, more Kings than Countries, and +more Countries than were worth fighting for. + +Here we could see the King of France upbraiding his Neighbours with +dishonourably assisting his Rebels, though the Mischief was, they did +it not neither; and in the same Breath, assisting the Hungarian +Rebels against the Emperor; M. Ld N. refusing so dishonourable an +Action, as to aid the Rebellious Camisars, but Leaguing with the +Admirant de Castile, to Invade the Dominions of his Master to whom he +swore Allegiance: Here we saw Protestants fight against Protestants, +to help Papists, Papists against Papists to help Protestants, +Protestants call in Turks, to keep Faith against Christians that +break it: Here we could see Swedes fighting for Revenge, and call it +Religion; Cardinals deposing their Catholick Prince, to introduce the +Tyranny of a Lutheran and call it Liberty; Armies Electing Kings, and +call it Free Choice; French conquering Savoy, to secure the Liberty +of Italy. + +3. The Map of State Policy contains abundance of Civil Transactions, +no where to be discover'd but in this wonderful Country, and by this +prodigious Invention: As first, it shows an Eminent Prelate running +in every body's Debt to relieve the Poor, and bring to God Robbery +for Burnt-Offering: It opens a Door to the Fate of Nations; and there +we might see the Duke of S--y bought three times, and his subjects +sold every time; Portugal bought twice, and neither time worth the +Earnest; Spain bought once, but loth to go with the Bidder; Venice +willing to be Bought, if there had been any Buyers; Bavaria Bought, +and run away with the Money; the Emperor Bought and Sold, but Bilkt +the Chapman; the French buying Kingdoms he can't keep, the Dutch keep +Kingdoms they never Bought; and the English paying their Money +without Purchase. + +In Matters of Civil Concerns, here was to be seen Religion with no +out-side, and much Out-side with no Religion, much Strife about +Peace, and no Peace in the Design: Here was Plunder without Violence, +Violence without Persecution, Conscience without Good Works, and Good +Works without Charity; Parties cutting one anothers Throats for God's +Sake, pulling down Churches de propoganda fide, and making Divisions +by way of Association. + +Here we have Peace and Union brought to pass The Shortest Way, +Extirpation and Destruction prov'd to be the Road to Plenty and +Pleasure: Here all the Wise Nations, a Learned Author would have +Quoted, if he could have found them, are to be seen, who carry on +Exclusive Laws to the general Safety and Satisfaction of their +Subjects. + +Occasional Bills may have here a particular Historical, Categorical +Description: But of them by themselves. + +Here you might have the Rise, Original, Lawfulness, Usefulness, and +Necessity of Passive Obedience, as fairly represented as a System of +Divinity, and as clearly demonstrated as by a Geographical +Description; and which exceeds our mean Understanding here, 'tis by +the wonderful Assistance of these Glasses, plainly discerned to be +Coherent with Resistance, taking Arms, calling in Foreign Powers, and +the like. --- Here you have a plain Discovery of C. of E. Politicks, +and a Map of Loyalty: Here 'tis as plainly demonstrated as the Nose +in a Man's Face, provided he has one, that a Man may Abdicate, drive +away, and Dethrone his Prince, and yet be absolutely and intirely +free from, and innocent of the least Fracture, Breach, Incroachment, +or Intrenchment, upon the Doctrine of Non-Resistance: Can shoot at +his Prince without any Design to kill him, fight against him without +raising Rebellion, and take up Arms, without leaving War against his +Prince. + +Here they can persecute Dissenters, without desiring they should +Conform, conform to the Church they would overthrow; Pray for the +Prince they dare not Name, and Name the Prince they do not pray for. + +By the help of these Glasses strange Insights are made, into the vast +mysterious dark World of State Policy; but that which is yet more +strange, and requires vast Volumes to descend to the Particulars of, +and huge Diagrams, Spheres, Charts, and a Thousand nice things to +display is, That in this vast Intelligent Discovery it is not only +made plain, that those things are so, but all the vast Contradictions +are made Rational, reconciled to Practice, and brought down to +Demonstration. + +German Clock-Work, the perpetual Motions, the Prim Mobilies of Our +short-sighted World, are Trifles to these Nicer Disquisitions. + +Here it would be plain and rational, why a Parliament-Man will spend +5000 l. to be Chosen, that cannot get a Groat Honestly by setting +there: It would be easily made out to be rational, why he that rails +most at a Court is soonest receiv'd into it: Here it would be very +plain, how great Estates are got in little Places, and Double in none +at all. 'Tis easy to be prov'd honest and faithful to Victual the +French Fleet out of English Stores, and let our own Navy want them; a +long Sight, or a large Lunar Perspective, will make all these things +not only plain in Fact, but Rational and Justifiable to all the World. + +'Tis a strange thing to any body without doubt, that has not been in +that clear-sighted Region, to comprehend, That those we call +High-flyers in England are the only Friends to the Dissenters, and +have been the most Diligent and Faithful in their Interest, of any +People in the Nation; and yet so it is, Gentlemen, and they ought to +have the Thanks of the whole Body for it. + +In this advanc'd Station, we see it plainly by Reflexion, That the +Dissenters, like a parcel of Knaves, have retained all the +High-Church-men in their Pay; they are certainly all in their +Pension-Roll: Indeed, I could not see the Money paid them there, it +was too remote; but I could plainly see the thing; all the deep Lines +of the Project are laid as true, they are so Tackt and Consolidated +together, that if any one will give themselves leave to consider, +they will be most effectually convinced, That the High-Church and the +Dissenters here, are all in a Caball, a meer Knot, a piece of +Clock-work; the Dissenters are the Dial-Plate, and the High-Church +the Movement, the Wheel within the Wheels, the Spring and the Screw +to bring all things to Motion, and make the Hand on the Dial-plate +point which way the Dissenters please. + +For what else have been all the Shams they have put upon the +Governments, Kings, States, and People they have been concern'd with? +What Schemes have they laid on purpose to be broken? What vast +Contrivances, on purpose to be ridicul'd and expos'd? The Men are not +Fools, they had never V---d to Consolidate a B--- but that they were +willing to save the Dissenters, and put it into a posture, in which +they were sure it would miscarry. I defy all the Wise Men of the Moon +to show another good reason for it. + +Methinks I begin to pity my Brethren, the moderate Men of the Church, +that they cannot see into this New Plot, and to wish they would but +get up into our Consolidator, and take a Journey to the Moon, and +there, by the help of these Glasses, they would see the Allegorical, +Symbollical, Hetrodoxicallity of all this Matter; it would make +immediate Converts of them; they would see plainly, that to Tack and +Consolidate, to make Exclusive Laws, to persecute for Conscience, +disturb, and distress Parties; these are all Phanatick Plots, meer +Combinations against the Church, to bring her into Contempt, and to +fix and establish the Dissenters to the end of the Chapter: But of +this I shall find occasion to speak Occasionally, when an Occasion +presents it self, to examine a certain Occasional Bill, transacting +in these Lunar Regions, some time before I had the Happiness to +arrive there. + +In examining the Multitude and Variety of these most admirable +Glasses for the assisting the Opticks, or indeed the Formation of a +new perceptive Faculty; it was you may be sure most surprizing to +find there, that Art had exceeded Nature; and the Power of Vision was +assisted to that prodigious Degree, as even to distinguish Non-Entity +it self; and in these strange Engines of Light it could not but be +very pleasing, to distinguish plainly betwixt Being and Matter, and +to come to a Determination, in the so long Canvast Dispute of +Substance, vel Materialis, vel Spiritualis; and I can solidly affirm, +That in all our Contention between Entity and Non-Entity, there is so +little worth meddling with, that had we had these Glasses some Ages +ago, we should have left troubling our heads with it. + +I take upon me, therefore, to assure my Reader, That whoever pleases +to take a Journey, or Voyage, or Flight up to these Lunar Regions, as +soon as ever he comes ashoar there, will presently be convinc'd, of +the Reasonableness of Immaterial Substance, and the Immortality, as +well as Immateriality of the Soul: He will no sooner look into these +Explicating Glasses, but he will be-able to know the separate meaning +of Body, Soul, Spirit, Life, Motion, Death, and a Thousand things +that Wise-men puzzle themselves about here, because they are not +Fools enough to understand. + +Here too I find Glasses for the Second Sight, as our Old Women call +it. This Second Sight has been often pretended to in Our Regions, and +some Famous Old Wives have told us, they can see Death, the Soul, +Futurity, and the Neighbourhood of them, in the Countenance: By this +wonderful Art, these good People unfold strange Mysteries, as under +some Irrecoverable Disease, to foretell Death; under Hypocondriack +Melancholy, to presage Trouble of Mind; in pining Youth, to predict +Contagious Love; and an Hundred other Infallibilities, which never +fail to be true as soon as ever they come to pass, and are all +grounded upon the same Infallibility, by which a Shepherd may always +know when any one of his Sheep is Rotten, viz. when he shakes himself +to pieces. + +But all this Guess and Uncertainty is a Trifle, to the vast +Discoveries of these Explicatory Optick-Glasses; for here are seen +the Nature and Consequences of Secret Mysteries: Here are read +strange Mysteries relating to Predestination, Eternal Decrees, and +the like: Here 'tis plainly prov'd, That Predestination is, in spight +of all Enthusiastick Pretences, so intirely committed into Man's +Power, that whoever pleases to hang himself to Day, won't Live till +to Morrow: no, though Forty Predestination Prophets were to tell him, +His time was not yet come. There abstruse Points are commonly and +solemnly Discuss'd here; and these People are such Hereticks, that +they say God's Decrees are all subservient to the means of his +Providence; That what we call Providence is a subjecting all things +to the great Chain of Causes and Consequences, by which that one +Grand Decree, That all Effects shall Obey, without reserve to their +proper moving Causes, supercedes all subsequent Doctrines, or +pretended Decrees, or Predestination in the World: That by this Rule, +he that will kill himself, GOD, Nature, Providence, or Decree, will +not be concern'd to hinder him, but he shall Die; any Decrees, +Predestination, or Fore-Knowledge of Infinite Power, to the contrary +in any wise, notwithstanding that it is in a Man's Power to throw +himself into the Water, and be Drown'd; and to kill another Man, and +he shall Die, and to say, God appointed it, is to make him the Author +of Murther, and to injure the Murtherer in putting him to Death for +what he could not help doing. + +All these things are received Truths here, and no doubt would be so +every where else, if the Eyes of Reason were opened to the Testimony +of Nature, or if they had the helps of these most Incomparable +Glasses. + +Some pretended, by the help of these Second-sight Glasses, to see the +common Periods of Life; and Others said, they could see a great way +beyond the leap in the Dark: I confess, all I could see of the first +was, that holding up the Glass against the Sea, I plainly saw, as it +were on the edge of the Horizon, these Words, + + The Verge of Life and Death is here. + 'Tis best to know where 'tis, but not how far. + +As to seeing beyond Death, all the Glasses I lookt into for that +purpose, made but little of it; and these were the only Tubes that I +found Defective; for here I could discern nothing but Clouds, Mists, +and thick dark hazy Weather; but revolving in my Mind, that I had +read a certain Book in our own Country, called, Nature; it presently +occurr'd, That the Conclusion of it, to all such as gave themselves +the trouble of making out those foolish things call'd Inferences, +was always Look up; upon which, turning one of their Glasses Up, and +erecting the Point of it towards the Zenith, I saw these Words in the +Air, REVELATION, in large Capital Letters. + +I had like to have rais'd the Mob upon me for looking upright with +this Glass; for this, they said, was prying into the Mysteries of the +Great Eye of the World; That we ought to enquire no farther than he +has inform'd us, and to believe what he had left us more Obscure: +Upon this, I laid down the Glasses, and concluded, that we had Moses +and the Prophets, and should be never the likelier to be taught by +One come from the Moon. + +In short, I found, indeed, they had a great deal more Knowledge of +things than we in this World; and that Nature, Science, and Reason, +had obtained great Improvements in the Lunar World; but as to +Religion, it was the same equally resign'd to and concluded in Faith +and Redemption; so I shall give the World no great Information of +these things. + +I come next to some other strange Acquirements obtained by the +helps of these Glasses; and particularly for the discerning the +Imperceptibles of Nature; such as, the Soul, Thought, Honesty, +Religion, Virginity, and an Hundred other nice things, too small +for humane Discerning. + +The Discoveries made by these Glasses, as to the Soul, are of a very +diverting Variety; some Hieroglyphical, and Emblematical, and some +Demonstrative. + +The Hieroglyphical Discoveries of the Soul make it appear in the +Image of its Maker; and the Analogy is remarkable, even in the very +Simily; for as they represent the Original of Nature as One Great +Eye, illuminating as well as discerning all things; so the Soul, +in its Allegorical, or Hieroglyphical Resemblance, appears as a +Great Eye, embracing the Man, enveloping, operating, and informing +every Part; from whence those sort of People who we falsly call +Politicians, acting so much to put out this Great Eye, by acting +against their common Understandings, are very aptly represented by a +great Eye, with Six or Seven pair of Spectacles on; not but that the +Eye of their Souls may be clear enough of it self, as to the common +Understanding; but that they happen to have occasion to look +sometimes so many ways at once, and to judge, conclude, and +understand so many contrary ways upon one and the same thing; that +they are fain to put double Glasses upon their Understanding, as we +look at the Solar Ecclipses, to represent 'em in different Lights, +least their Judgments should not be wheadled into a Compliance with +the Hellish Resolutions of their Wills; and this is what I call the +Emblematick Representation of the Soul. + +As for the Demonstrations of the Soul's Existence, 'tis a plain case, +by these Explicative Glasses, that it is, some have pretended to give +us the Parts; and we have heard of Chyrurgeons, that could read an +Anatomical Lecture on the Parts Of the Soul; and these pretend it to +be a Creature in form, whether Camelion or Salamandar, Authors have +not determin'd; nor is it compleatly discover'd when it comes into +the Body, or how it goes out, or where its Locality or Habitation is, +while 'tis a Resident. + +But they very aptly show it, like a Prince, in his Seat, in the +middle of his Palace the Brain, issuing out his incessant Orders +to innumerable Troops of Nerves, Sinews, Muscles, Tendons, Veins, +Arteries, Fibres, Capilaris, and useful Officers, call'd Organici, +who faithfully execute all the Parts of Sensation, Locomotion, +Concoction, &c. and in the Hundred Thousandth part of a Moment, +return with particular Messages for Information, and demand New +Instructions. If any part of his Kingdom, the Body, suffers a +Depredation, or an Invasion of the Enemy, the Expresses fly to the +Seat of the Soul, the Brain, and immediately are order'd back to +smart, that the Body may of course send more Messengers to complain; +immediately other Expresses are dispatcht to the Tongue, with Orders +to cry out, that the Neighbours may come in and help, or Friends send +for the Chyrurgeon: Upon the Application, and a Cure, all is quiet, +and the same Expresses are dispatcht to the Tongue to be hush, and +say no more of it till farther Orders: All this is as plain to be +seen in these Engines, as the Moon of Our World from the World in +the Moon. + +As the Being, Nature, and Scituation of humane Soul is thus +Spherically and Mathematically discover'd, I could not find any +Second Thoughts about it in all their Books, whether of their own +Composition or by Translation; for it was a General received Notion, +That there could not be a greater Absurdity in humane Knowledge, than +to imploy the Thoughts in Questioning, what is as plainly known by +its Consequences, as if seen with the Eye; and that to doubt the +Being or Extent of the Soul's Operation, is to imploy her against her +self; and therefore, when I began to argue with my Old Philosopher, +against the Materiality and Immortality of this Mystery we call Soul, +he laught at me, and told me, he found we had none of their Glasses +in our World; and bid me send all our Scepticks, Soul-Sleepers, our +Cowards, Bakers, Kings and Bakewells, up to him into the Moon, if +they wanted Demonstrations; where, by the help of their Engines, +they would make it plain to them, that the Great Eye being one vast +Intellect, Infinite and Eternal, all Inferior Life is a Degree of +himself, and as exactly represents him as one little Flame the +whole Mass of Fire; That it is therefore uncapable of Dissolution, +being like its Original in Duration, as well as in its Powers and +Faculties, but that it goes and returns by Emission, Regression, as +the Great Eye governs and determines; and this was plainly made out, +by the Figure I had seen it in, viz. an Eye, the exact Image of its +Maker: 'Tis true, it was darkened by Ignorance, Folly and Crime, and +therefore oblig'd to wear Spectacles; but tho' these were Defects or +Interruptions in its Operation, they were none in its Nature; which +as it had its immediate Efflux from the Great Eye, and its return to +him must partake of himself, and could not but be of a Quality +uncomatable, by Casualty or Death. + +From this Discourse we the more willingly adjourned our present +Thoughts, I being clearly convinced of the Matter; and as for our +Learned Doctors, with their Second and Third Thoughts, I told him +I would recommend them to the Man in the Moon for their farther +Illumination, which if they refuse to accept, it was but just they +should remain in a Wood, where they are, and are like to be, puzzling +themselves about Demonstrations, squaring of Circles, and converting +oblique into right Angles, to bring out a Mathematical Clock-Work +Soul, that will go till the Weight is down, and then stand still till +they know not who must wind it up again. + +However, I cannot pass over a very strange and extraordinary piece of +Art which this Old Gentleman inform'd me of, and that was an Engine +to screw a Man into himself: Perhaps our Country-men may be at some +Difficulty to comprehend these things by my dull Description; and to +such I cannot but recommend, a Journey in my Engine to the Moon. + +This Machine that I am speaking of, contains a multitude of strange +Springs and Screws, and a Man that puts himself into it, is very +insensibly carried into vast Speculations, Reflexions, and regular +Debates with himself: They have a very hard Name for it in those +Parts; but if I were to give it an English Name, it should be call'd, +The Cogitator, or the Chair of Reflection. + +And First, The Person that is seated here feels some pain in passing +some Negative Springs, that are wound up, effectually to shut out +all Injecting, Disturbing Thoughts; and the better to prepare him for +the Operation that is to follow, and this is without doubt a very +rational way; for when a Man can absolutely shut out all manner of +thinking, but what he is upon, he shall think the more Intensly upon +the one object before him. + +This Operation past, here are certain Screws that draw direct Lines +from every Angle of the Engine to the Brain of the Man, and at the +same time, other direct Lines to his Eyes; at the other end of which +Lines, there are Glasses which convey or reflect the Objects the +Person is desirous to think upon. + +Then the main Wheels are turn'd, which wind up according to their +several Offices; this the Memory, that the Understanding; a third the +Will, a fourth the thinking Faculty; and these being put all into +regular Motions, pointed by direct Lines to their proper Objects, +and perfectly uninterrupted by the Intervention of Whimsy, Chimera, +and a Thousand fluttering Damons that Gender in the Fancy, but are +effectually Lockt out as before, assist one another to receive right +Notions, and form just Ideas of the things they are directed to, and +from thence the Man is impower'd to make right Conclusions, to think +and act like himself, suitable to the sublime Qualities his Soul was +originally blest with. + +There never was a Man went into one of these thinking Engines, but he +came wiser out than he was before; and I am persuaded, it would be a +more effectual Cure to our Deism, Atheism, Scepticism, and all other +Scisms, than ever the Italian's Engine, for Curing the Gout by +cutting off the Toe. + +This is a most wonderful Engine, and performs admirably, and my +Author gave me extraordinary Accounts of the good Effects of it; and +I cannot but tell my Reader, That our Sublunar World suffers Millions +of Inconveniencies, for want of this thinking Engine: I have had a +great many Projects in my Head, how to bring our People to regular +thinking, but 'tis in vain without this Engin; and how to get the +Model of it I know not; how to screw up the Will, the Understanding, +and the rest of the Powers; how to bring the Eye, the Thought, the +Fancy, and the Memory, into Mathematical Order, and obedient to +Mechanick Operation; help Boyl, Norris, Newton, Manton, Hammond, +Tillotson, and all the Learned Race, help Phylosophy, Divinity, +Physicks, Oeconomicks, all's in vain, a Mechanick Chair of Reflection +is the only Remedy that ever I found in my Life for this Work. + +As to the Effects of Mathematical thinking, what Volumes might be +writ of it will more easily appear, if we consider the wondrous +Usefulness of this Engine in all humane Affairs; as of War, Peace, +Justice, Injuries, Passion, Love, Marriage, Trade, Policy, and +Religion. + +When a Man has been screw'd into himself, and brought by this Art to +a Regularity of Thought, he never commits any Absurdity after it; his +Actions are squared by the same Lines, for Action is but the +Consequence of Thinking; and he that acts before he thinks, sets +humane Nature with the bottom upward. + +M. would never have made his Speech, nor the famous B----ly wrote a +Book, if ever they had been in this thinking Engine: One would have +never told us of Nations he never saw, nor the other told us, he had +seen a great many, and was never the Wiser. + +H. had never ruin'd his Family to Marry Whore, Thief and +Beggar-Woman, in one Salliant Lady, after having been told so +honestly, and so often of it by the very Woman her self. + +Our late unhappy Monarch had never trusted the English Clergy, when +they preacht up that Non-Resistance, which he must needs see they +could never Practice; had his Majesty been screw'd up into this +Cogitator, he had presently reflected, that it was against Nature to +expect they should stand still, and let him tread upon them: That +they should, whatever they had preacht or pretended to, hold open +their Throats to have them be cut, and tye their own Hands from +resisting the Lord's Anointed. + +Had some of our Clergy been screw'd in this Engine, they had never +turned Martyrs for their Allegiance to the Late King, only for the +Lechery of having Dr. S------- in their Company. + +Had our Merchants been manag'd in this Engine, they had never trusted +their Turkey Fleet with a famous Squadron, that took a great deal of +care to Convoy them safe into the Enemies Hands. + +Had some People been in this Engine, when they had made a certain +League in the World, in order to make amends for a better made +before, they would certainly have consider'd farther, before they had +embarkt with a Nation, that are neither fit to go abroad nor stay at +Home. + +As for the Thinking practis'd in Noble Speeches, Occasional Bills, +Addressings about Prerogative, Convocation Disputes, Turnings in and +Turnings out at Ours, and all the Courts of Christendom, I have +nothing to say to it. + +Had the Duke of Bavaria been in our Engine, he would never have begun +a Quarrel, which he knew all the Powers of Europe were concern'd to +suppress, and lay all other Business down till it was done. + +Had the Elector of Saxony past the Operation of this Engine, he would +never have beggar'd a Rich Electorate, to ruin a beggar'd Crown, nor +sold himself for a Kingdom hardly worth any Man's taking: He would +never have made himself less than he was, in hopes of being really no +greater; and stept down from a Protestant Duke, and Imperial Elector, +to be a Nominal Mock King with a shadow of Power, and a Name without +honour, Dignity or Strength. + +Had Mons. Tallard been in our Engine, he would not only not have +attackt the Confederates when they past the Morass and Rivulet in his +Front, but not have attackt them at all, nor have suffer'd them to +have attackt him, it being his Business not to have fought at all, +but have linger'd out the War, till the Duke of Savoy having been +reduced, the Confederate Army must have been forced to have divided +themselves of course, in order to defend their own. + +Some that have been very forward to have us proceed The Shortest +Way with the Scots, may be said to stand in great need of this Chair +of Reflection, to find out a just Cause for such a War, and to make +a Neighbour-Nation making themselves secure, a sufficient Reason +for another Neighbour-Nation to fall upon them: Our Engine would +presently show it them in a clear sight, by way of Paralel, that 'tis +just with the fame Right as a Man may break open a House, because the +People bar and bolt the Windows. + +If some-body has chang'd Hands there from bad to worse, and open'd +instead of closing Differences in those Cases, the Cogitator migyt +have brought them, by more regular Thinking, to have known that was +not at all the Method of bringing the S---s to Reason. + +Our Cogitator would be a very necessary thing to show some People, +That Poverty and Weakness is not a sufficient Ground to oppress a +Nation, and their having but little Trade, cannot be a sufficient +Ground to equip Fleets to take away what they have. + +I cannot deny, that I have often thought they have had something +of this Engine in our Neighbouring Antient Kingdom, since no Man, +however we pretend to be angry, but will own they are in the right +of it, as to themselves, to Vote and procure Bills for their own +Security, and not to do as others demand without Conditions fit to +be accepted: But of that by it self. + +There are abundance of People in Our World, of all sorts and +Conditions, that stand in need of our thinking Engines, and to be +screw'd into themselves a little, that they might think as directly +as they speak absurdly: But of these also in a Class by it self. + +This Engine has a great deal of Philosophy in it; and particularly, +'tis a wonderful Remedy against Poreing; and as it was said of Mons. +Jurieu at Amsterdam, that he us'd to lose himself in himself; by the +Assistance of this piece of Regularity, a Man is most effectually +secur'd against bewildring Thoughts, and by direct thinking, he +prevents all manner of dangerous wandring, since nothing can come to +more speedy Conclusions, than that which in right Lines, points to +the proper Subject of Debate. + +All sorts of Confusion of Thoughts are perfectly avoided and +prevented in this case, and a Man is never troubled with Spleen, +Hyppo, or Mute Madness, when once he has been thus under the +Operation of the Screw: It prevents abundance of Capital Disasters +in Men, in private Affairs; it prevents hasty Marriages, rash Vows, +Duels, Quarrels, Suits at Law, and most sorts of Repentance. In the +State, it saves a Government from many Inconveniences; it checks +immoderate Ambition, stops Wars, Navies and Expeditions; especially +it prevents Members making long Speeches when they have nothing to +say; it keeps back Rebellions, Insurrections, Clashings of Houses, +Occasional Bills, Tacking, &c. + +It has a wonderful Property in our Affairs at Sea, and has prevented +many a Bloody Fight, in which a great many honest Men might have lost +their Lives that are now useful Fellows, and help to Man and manage +Her Majesty's Navy. + +What if some People are apt to charge Cowardice upon some People in +those Cases? 'Tis plain that cannot be it, for he that dare incur the +Resentment of the English Mob, shows more Courage than would be able +to carry him through Forty Sea-fights. + +'Tis therefore for want of being in this Engine, that we censure +People, because they don't be knocking one another on the Head, like +the People at the Bear-Garden; where, if they do not see the Blood +run about, they always cry out, A Cheat; and the poor Fellows are +fain to cut one another, that they may not be pull'd a pieces; where +the Case is plain, they are bold for fear, and pull up Courage enough +to Fight, because they are afraid of the People. + +This Engine prevents all sorts of Lunacies, Love-Frenzies, and +Melancholy-Madness, for preserving the Thought in right Lines to +direct Objects, it is impossible any Deliriums, Whimsies, or +fluttering Air of Ideas, can interrupt the Man, he can never be Mad; +for which reason I cannot but recommend it to my Lord S---, my Lord +N---, and my Lord H-----, as absolutely necesssary to defend them +from the State-Madness, which for some Ages has possest their +Families, and which runs too much in the Blood. + +It is also an excellent Introduction to Thought, and therefore very +well adapted to those People whose peculiar Talent and Praise is, +That they never think at all. Of these, if his Grace of B---d would +please to accept Advice from the Man in the Moon, it should be to put +himself into this Engine, as a Soveraign Cure to the known Disease +call'd the Thoughtless Evil. + +But above all, it is an excellent Remedy, and very useful to a sort +of People, who are always Travelling in Thought, but never Deliver'd +into Action; who are so exceeding busy at Thinking, they have no +leisure for Action; of whom the late Poet sung well to the purpose; + + ---- Some modern Coxcombs, who + Retire to Think, 'cause they have nought to do; + For Thoughts were giv'n for Actions Government, + Where Action ceases, Thought Impertinent: + The Sphere of Action is Life's Happiness, + And he that Thinks beyond, Thinks like an Ass. + Rochest. Poems, p. 9. + +These Gentlemen would make excellent use of this Engine, for it would +teach 'em to dispatch one thing before they begin another; and +therefore is of singular use to honest S----, whose peculiar it was, +to be always beginning Projects, but never finish any. + +The Variety of this Engine, its Uses, and Improvements, are +Innumerable, and the Reader must not expect I can give any thing like +a perfect Description of it. + +There are yet another sort of Machine, which I never obtained a sight +of, till the last Voyage I made to this Lunar Orb, and these are +called Elevators: The Mechanick Operations of these are wonderful, +and helpt by Fire; by which the Sences are raised to all the strange +Extreames we can imagine, and whereby the Intelligent Soul is made to +converse with its own Species, whether embody'd or not. + +Those that are rais'd to a due pitch in this wondrous Frame, have a +clear Prospect into the World of Spirits, and converse with Visions, +Guardian-Angels, Spirits departed, and what not: And as this is a +wonderful Knowledge, and not to be obtained, but by the help of this +Fire; so those that have try'd the Experiment, give strange Accounts +of Sympathy, Prexistence of Souls, Dreams, and the like. + +I confess, I always believ'd a converse of Spirits, and have heard of +some who have experienced so much of it, as they could obtain upon no +Body else to believe. + +I never saw any reason to doubt the Existent State of the Spirit +before embody'd, any more than I did of its Immortality after it +shall be uncas'd, and the Scriptures saying, the Spirit returns to +God that gave it, implies a coming from, or how could it be call'd a +return. + +Nor can I see a reason why Embodying a Spirit should altogether +Interrupt its Converse with the World of Spirits, from whence it was +taken; and to what else shall we ascribe Guardian Angels, in which +the Scripture is also plain; and from whence come Secret Notices, +Impulse of Thought, pressing Urgencies of Inclination, to or from +this or that altogether Involuntary; but from some waking kind +Assistant wandring Spirit, which gives secret hints to its +Fellow-Creature, of some approaching Evil or Good, which it was not +able to foresee. + +For Spirits without the helps of Voice converse. + +I know we have supplied much of this with Enthusiasm and conceited +Revelation; but the People of this World convince us, that it may be +all Natural, by obtaining it in a Mechanick way, viz. by forming +something suitable to the sublime Nature, which working by Art, shall +only rectify the more vigorous Particles of the Soul, and work it up +to a suitable Elevation. This Engine is wholly applied to the Head, +and Works by Injection; the chief Influence being on what we call +Fancy, or Imagination, which by the heat of strong Ideas, is +fermented to a strange heighth, and is thus brought to see backward +and forward every way, beyond it self: By this a Man fancies himself +in the Moon, and realizes things there as distinctly, as if he was +actually talking to my Old Phylosopher. + +This indeed is an admirable Engine, 'tis compos'd of an Hundred +Thousand rational Consequences, Five times the number of Conjectures, +Supposes, and Probabilities, besides an innumerable Company of +fluttering Suggestions, and Injections, which hover round the +Imagination, and are all taken in as fast as they can be Concocted +and Digested there: These are form'd into Ideas, and some of those so +well put together, so exactly shap'd, so well drest and set out by +the Additional Fire of Fancy, that it is no uncommon thing for the +Person to be intirely deceived by himself, not knowing the brat of +his own Begetting, nor be able to distinguish between Reality and +Representation: From hence we have some People talking to Images of +their own forming, and seeing more Devils and Spectres than ever +appear'd: From hence we have weaker Heads not able to bear the +Operation, seeing imperfect Visions, as of Horses and Men without +Heads or Arms, Light without Fire, hearing Voices without Sound, and +Noises without Shapes, as their own Fears or Fancies broke the +Phanomena before the intire Formation. + +But the more Genuine and perfect Use of these vast Elevations of the +Fancy, which are perform'd, as I said, by the Mechanick Operation of +Innate Fire, is to guide Mankind to as much Fore-sight of things, as +either by Nature, or by the Aid of any thing Extranatural, may be +obtain'd; and by this exceeding Knowledge, a Man shall forebode to +himself approaching Evil or Good, so as to avoid this, or be in the +way of that; and what if I should say, That the Notices of these +things are not only frequent, but constant, and require nothing of +us, but to make use of this Elevator, to keep our Eyes, our Ears, +and our Fancies open to the hints; and observe them; + +You may suppose me, if you please, come by this time into those +Northern Kingdoms I mention'd before, where my Old Philosopher was a +Native, and not to trouble you with any of the needful Observations, +Learned Inscriptions, &c. on the way, according to the laudable +practices of the Famous Mr. Br---mly, 'tis sufficient to tell you +I found there an Opulent, Populous, Potent and Terrible People. + +I found them at War with one of the greatest Monarchs of the Lunar +World, and at the same time miserably rent and torn, mangl'd and +disorder'd among themselves. + +As soon as I observ'd the Political posture of their Affairs, (for +here a Man sees things mighty soon by the helps of such a Masterly +Eye-sight as I have mention'd) and remembring what is said for our +Instruction, That a Kingdom divided against its self cannot stand; I +ask'd the Old Gentleman if he had any Estate in that Country? He told +me, no great matter; but ask'd me why I put that Question to him? +Because, said I, if this People go on fighting and snarling at all +the World, and one among another in this manner, they will certainly +be Ruin'd and Undone, either subdu'd by some more powerful Neighbour; +whilst one Party will stand still and see the t'others Throat cut, +tho' their own Turn immediately follows, or else they will destroy +and devour one another. Therefore I told him I would have him Turn +his Estate into Money, and go some where else; or go back to the +other World with me. + +No, no, reply'd the Old Man, I am in no such Fear at this Time, the +Scale of Affairs is very lately chang'd here, says he, in but a very +few Years. + +I know nothing of that, said I, but I am sure there never was but +one spot of Ground in that World which I came from, that was divided +like them, and that's that very Country I liv'd in. Here are three +Kingdoms of you in one spot, said I, One has already been Conquer'd +and Subdu'd, the t'other suppres'd its Native lnhabitants, and +planted it with her own, and now carries it with so high a Hand over +them of her own Breed, that she limits their Trade, stops their +Ports, when the Inhabitants have made their Manufactures, these wont +give them leave to send them abroad, impose Laws upon them, refuse to +alter and amend those they would make for themselves, make them pay +Customs, Excises, and Taxes, and yet pay the Garrisons and Guards +that defend them, themselves; Press their Inhabitants to their +Fleets, and carry away their Old Veteran Troops that should defend +them, and leave them to raise more to be serv'd in the same manner, +will let none of their Mony be carry'd over thither, nor let them +Coin any of their own; and a great many such hardships they suffer +under the Hand of this Nation as meer Slaves and Conquer'd People, +tho' the greatest part of the Traders are the People of the very +Nation that treats 'em thus. + +On the other hand, this creates Eternal Murmurs, Heart-burnings and +Regret, both in the Natives and the Transplanted Inhabitants; the +first have shewn their Uneasiness by frequent Insurrections and +Rebellions, for Nature prompts the meanest Animal to struggle for +Liberty; and these struggles have often been attended with great +Cruelty, Ravages, Death, Massacres, and Ruin both of Families and the +Country it self: As to the Transplanted Inhabitants, they run into +Clandestine Trade, into corresponding with their Masters Enemies, +Victualling their Navies, Colonies and the like, receiving and +importing their Goods in spight of all the Orders and Directions +to the contrary. + +These are the effects of Divisions, and Feuds on that side; on the +other hand there is a Kingdom Entire Unconquer'd and Independent, and +for the present, under the same Monarch with the rest.---- But here +their Feuds are greater than with the other, and more dangerous by +far because National: This Kingdom joins to the North part of the +first Kingdom, and Terrible Divisions ly among the two Nations. + +The People of these two Kingdoms are call'd if you please for +distinction sake, for I cannot well make you understand their hard +Names, Solunarians and Nolunarians, these to the South and those +to the North, the Solunarians were divided in their Articles of +Religion; the Governing Party, or the Establish'd Church, I shall +call the Solunarian Church; but the whole Kingdom was full of a sort +of Religious People call'd Crolians, who like our Dissenters in +England profess divers sub-divided Opinions by themselves, and cou'd +not, or wou'd not, let it go which way it will, joyn with the +Establish'd Church. + +On the other hand, the Establish'd Church in the Northern Kingdom +was all Crolians, but full of Solunarians in Opinions, who were +Dissenters there, as the Crolians were Dissenters in the South, +and this unhappy mixture occasion'd endless Feuds, Divisions, +Sub-divisions and Animosities without Number, of which hereafter. + +The Northern Men are Bold, Terrible Numerous and Brave, to the last +Degree, but Poor, and by the Encroachments of their Neighbours, +growing poorer every Day. + +The Southern are equally Brave, more Numerous and Terrible, but +Wealthy and care not for Wars, had rather stay at Home and Quarrel +with one another, than go Abroad to Fight, making good an Old Maxim, +Too Poor t'Agree, and yet too Rich to Fight. + +Between these the Feud is great, and every Day growing greater; and +those People who pretend to have been in the Cogitator or thinking +Engine tell us, all the lines of Consequences in that Affair point at +a fatal period between the Kingdoms. + +The Complaints also are great, and back'd with fiery Arguments on +both sides; the Northern Men say, the Solunarians have dealt unjustly +and unkindly by them in several Articles; but the Southern Men reply +with a most powerful Argument, viz. they are Poor, and therefore +ought to be Oppress'd, Suppress'd, or any thing. + +But the main Debate is like to lye upon the Article of Choosing a +King; both the Nations being under one Government at present, but the +Settlement ending in the Reigning Line, the Northern Men refuse to +joyn in Government again, unless they have a rectification of some +Conditions in which, they say, they have the worst of it. + +In this case, even the Southern Men themselves, say, they believe +the Nolunarians have been in the Chair of Reflection, the thinking +Engine, and that having screw'd their Understandings into a Direct +Position to that Matter before them, they have made a right Judgment +of their own Affairs, and with all their Poverty stand on the best +Foot as to Right. + +But as the matter of this Northern Quarrel comes under a Second Head, +and is more properly the Subject of a Second Voyage to the Moon; the +Reader may have it more at large consider'd in another Class, and +some farther Enlightnings in that Affair than perhaps can be +reasonably expected of me here. + +But of all the Feuds and Brangles that ever poor Nation was embroild +in, of all the Quarrels, the Factions and Parties that ever the +People of any Nation thought worth while to fall out for, none were +ever in reality so light, in effect so heavy, in appearance so great, +in substance so small, in name so terrible, in nature so trifling, as +those for which this Southern Country was altogether by the Ears +among themselves. + +And this was one Reason why I so earnestly enquir'd of my Lunarian +Philosopher, whether he had an Estate in that Country or no. But +having told him the Cause of that enquiry, he reply'd, there was one +thing in the Nature of his Country-men which secur'd them from the +ruin which usually attended divided Nations, viz. that if any Foreign +Nation thinking to take the advantage of their Intestine Divisions +fell upon them in the highest of all their Feuds, they'd lay aside +their Parties and Quarrels and presently fall in together to beat out +the common Enemy; and then no sooner had they obtain'd Peace abroad, +by their Conduct and Bravery, but they would fall to cutting one +anothers Throats again at home as naturally as if it had been their +proper Calling, and that for Trifles too, meer Trifles. + +Very well, said I to my learned Self, pretty like my own Country +still, that whatever Peace they have abroad, are sure to have none +at home. + +To come at the historical Account of these Lunarian Dissentions, it +will be absolutely necessary to enter a little into the Story of the +Place, at least as far as relates to the present Constitution, both +of the People, the Government, and the Subject of their present +Quarrels. + +And first we are to understand, that there has for some Ages been +carry'd on in these Countries, a private feud or quarrel among the +People, about a thing call'd by them Upogyla, with us very vulgarly +call'd Religion. + +This Difference, as in its Original it was not great, nor indeed +upon Points accounted among themselves Essential, so it had never +been a Difference of any height, if there had not always been +some one thing, or other, hapning in the State which made the +Court-Polititians think it necessary to keep the People busy and +embroil'd, to prevent their more narrow Inspection into Depredations +and Encroachments on their Liberties, which was always making on +them by the Court. + +'Tis not deny'd but there might be a Native want of Charity in the +Inhabitant, adapting them to Feud, and particularly qualifying them +to be alwavs Piquing one another; and some of their own Nation, who +by the help of the famous Perspectives before-mentioned, pretend to +have seen farther into the Insides of Nature and Constitution than +other People, tell us the cross Lines of Nature which appear in the +make of those particular People, signify a direct Negative as to the +Article of Charity and good Neighbour-hood. + +'Twas particularly unhappy to this wrangling People, that Reasons +of State should always fall in, to make that uncharitableness and +continual quarrelling Humour necessary to carry on the Publick +Affairs of the Nation, and may pass for a certain Proof, that the +State was under some Diseases and Convulsions, which, like a Body +that digests nothing so well as what is hurtful to its Constitution, +makes use of those things for its Support, which are in their very +Nature, fatal to its being, and must at last tend to its Destruction. + +But as this however enclin'd them to be continually Snarling at one +another, so as in all Quarrels it generally appears one Side must go +down. + +The prevailing Party therefore always kept the Power in their Hands, +and as the under were always Subject to the lash they soon took +care to hook their Quarrel into the Affairs of State, and so join +Religious Differences, and Civil Differences together. + +These things had long embroil'd the Nation, and frequently involv'd +them in bitter Enmities, Feuds, and Quarrels, and once in a tedious, +ruinous, and bloody War in their own Bowels, in which, contrary to +all expectation, this lesser Party prevail'd. + +And since the allegorick Relation may bear great Similitude with +our European Affairs on this side the Moon: I shall for the ease of +Expression, and the better Understanding of the Reader, frequently +call them by the same Names our unhappy Parties are call'd by in +England, as Solunnarian Churchmen, and Crolian Dissenters, at the +same time desiring my Reader to observe, that he is always to +remember who it is we are talking of, and that he is by no means to +understand me of any Person, Party, People, Nation, or Place on this +side the Moon, any Expression, Circumstance, Similitude, or +Appearance to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. + +This premis'd, I am to tell the Reader that the last Civil War +in this Lunar Country ended in the Victors confounding their own +Conquests by their intestine Broils, they being as is already noted +a most Eternally Quarrelling Nation; upon this new Breach, they that +first began the War, turn'd about, and pleading that they took up +Arms to regulate the Government, not to overthrow it, fell in with +the Family of their Kings, who had been banish'd, and one of them +destroy'd, and restor'd the Crown to the Family, and the Nation to +the Crown, just for all the World as the Presbyterians in England +did, in the Case of King Charles the Second. + +The Party that was thus restor'd, accepted the return the others made +to their Duty, and their Assistance in restoring the Family of their +Monarch, but abated not a Tittle of the old Rancour against them as a +Party which they entertain'd at their first taking Arms, not allowing +the return they had made to be any attonement at all for the Crimes +they had been guilty of before. 'Tis true they pass'd an Act or Grant +of General Pardon, and Oblivion, as in all such Cases is usual, and +as without which the other would never ha' come in, or have join'd +Powers to form the Restoration they were bringing to pass, but +the old Feud of Religion continu'd with this addition, that the +Dissenters were Rebels, Murtherers, King-killers, Enemies to Monarchy +and Civil Government, lovers of Confusion, popular, anarchial +Governments, and movers of Sedition; that this was in their very +Nature and Principles, and the like. + +In this Condition, and under these Mortifications this Party of +People liv'd just an Egyptian Servitude, viz. of 40 Years, in +which time they were frequently vex'd with Persecution, Harass'd, +Plunder'd, Fin'd, Imprisoned, and very hardly Treated, insomuch that +they pretend to be able to give an account of vast Sums of their +Country-Mony, levy'd upon them on these Occasions, amounting as I +take it to 2 Millions of Lunatians, a Coin they keep their Accounts +by there, and much about the value of our Pound Sterling; besides +this they were hook't into a great many Sham Plots, and Sworn out of +their Lives and Estates in such a manner, that in the very next Reign +the Government was so sensible of their hard treatment, that they +revers'd several Sentences by the same Authority that had Executed +them; a most undeniable Proof they were asham'd of what had been +done; at last, the Prince who was restor'd as abovesaid, dyed, and +his Brother mounted the Throne; and now began a third Scene of +Affairs, for this Prince was neither Church-man, nor Dissenter, but +of a different Religion from them all, known in that Country by the +Name of Abrogratzianism, and this Religion of his had this one +absolutely necessary Consequence in it, that a Man could not be +sincerely and heartily of this, but he must be an Implacable hater +of both the other. As this is laid down as a previous Supposition, +we are with the same Reason to imagine this Prince to be entirely +bent upon the Suppression and Destruction of both the other, if not +absolutely as to Life and Estate, yet entirely as to Religion. + +To bring this the more readily to pass like a true Polititian, had +his Methods and Particulars been equally Politick with his Generals, +he began at the right End, viz. to make the Breach between the +Solunnarian Church, and the Crolian Dissenters as wide as possible, +and to do this it was resolv'd to shift Sides, and as the Crown had +always took part with the Church, crush'd, humbl'd, persecuted, and +by all means possible mortify'd the Dissenters, as is noted in the +Reign of his Predecessor. This Prince resolv'd to caress, cherish, +and encourage the Crolians by all possible Arts and outward +Endearments, not so much that they purpos'd them any real Favour, for +the destruction of both was equally determin'd, nor so much that they +expected to draw them over to Abrogratzianism, but Two Reasons may be +suppos'd to give Rise to this Project. + +1. The Lunarian Church Party had all along Preach'd up for a part of +their Religion, that Absolute undisputed Obedience, was due from +every Subject to their Prince without any Reserve, Reluctance or +Repining; that as to Resistance, it was Fatal to Body, Soul, +Religion, Justice and Government; and tho' the Doctrine was Repugnant +to Nature, and to the very Supreme Command it self, yet he that +resisted, receiv'd to himself Damnation, just for all the World +like our Doctrine of Passive Obedience. Now tho' these Solunarian +Church-Men did not absolutely believe all they said themselves to +be true, yet they found it necessary to push these things to the +uttermost Extremities, because they might the better fix upon the +Crolian Dissenters, the Charge of professing less Loyal Principles +than they. For as to the Crolians, they profess'd openly they would +pay Obedience to the Prince, as far as the Laws directed, but no +farther. + +These things were run up to strange heights, and the People were +always falling out about what they would do, or wou'd not do, if +things were so or so, as they were not, and were never likely to be; +and the hot Men on both sides were every now and then going together +by the Ears about Chimeras, Shadows, May-be's and Supposes. + +The hot Men of the Solunarian Church were for knocking the Crolians +in the Head, because as they said they were Rebels, their Fathers +were Rebels, and they would certainly turn Rebels again upon occasion. + +The Crolians insisted upon it, that they had nothing to do with what +was done before they were Born, that if they were Criminal, because +their Fathers were so, then a great many who were now of the +Solunarian Church were as Guilty as they, several of the best Members +of that Church having been Born of Crolian Parents. + +In the matter of Loyalty they insisted upon it, they were as Loyal as +the Solunarians, for that they were as Loyal as Nature, Reason and +the Laws both of God and Man requir'd, and what the Other talk'd of +more, was but a meer pretence, and so it would be found if ever their +Prince should have occasion to put them to the Tryal, that he that +pretended to go beyond the Power of Nature and Reason, must indeed go +beyond them, and they never desir'd to be brought into the extream, +but they were ready at any time to shew such Proofs, and give such +Demonstrations of their Loyalty, as would satisfy any reasonable +Prince, and for more they had nothing to say. + +In this posture of Affairs, this new Prince found his Subjects when +he came to the Crown, the Solunarian Church Caress'd him, and +notwithstanding his being Devoted to the Abrogratzian Faith, they +Crown'd him with extraordinary Acclamations. + +They were the rather enclin'd to push this forward by how much they +thought it would singularly mortify the Crolians, and all the sorts +of Dissenters, for they had all along declar'd their abhorrence of +the Abrogratzians to such a Degree that they publickly endeavour'd +to have got a general Concurrence of the whole Nation in the Publick +Cortez, or Dyet of the Kingdom, to have joyn'd with them in Excluding +this very Prince by Name, and all other Princes that should ever +embrace the Abrogratzian Faith. + +And it wanted but a very little of bringing it to pass, for almost +all the Great Men of the Nation, tho' Solunarians, yet that were +Men of Temper, Moderation, and Fore-sight, were for this exclusive +Law. But the High Priests and Patriarchs of the Solunarian Church +prevented it, and upon pretence of this Passive Obedience Principle, +made their Interest and gave their Voices for Crowning, or Entailing +the Crown and Government on the Head of one of the most Implacable +Enemies both to their Religion and Civil Right that ever the Nation +saw; but they liv'd to Repent it too late. + +This Conquest over the Crolians and the Moderate Solunarians, if it +did not suppress them entirely, it yet gave the other Part such an +ascendant over them, that they made no Doubt when that Prince came to +the Crown, they had done so much to oblige him, that he could deny +them nothing, and therefore in expectation they swallow'd up the +whole Body of the Crolians at once, and began to talk of nothing +less than Banishing them to the Northern part of the Country, or to +certain Islands, and Countries a vast way off, where formerly great +numbers of them had fled for shelter in like Cases. + +And this was the more probable by an unhappy Stroke these Crolians +attempted to strike, but miscarry'd in at the very beginning of this +Prince's Reign: for as they had always profest an aversion to this +Prince on account of his Religion, as soon as their other King was +dead, they set up one of his Natural Sons against this King, which +the Solunarians had so joyfully Crown'd. This young Prince invaded +his Dominions, and great Numbers of the most zealous Crolians joyn'd +him---- But to cut the Story short, he was entirely routed by the +Forces of the new Prince, for all the Solunarian Church joyn'd with +him against the Crolians without any respect to the Interest of +Religion, so they overthrew their Brethren: The young invaded Prince +was taken and put to Death openly, and Great Cruelties were exercis'd +in cold Blood upon the poor unhappy People that were taken in the +Defeat! + +Thus a second time these Loyal Solunarian Church-men Establish'd +their Enemy, and built up what they were glad afterwards to pull down +again, and to beg the assistance of those Crolians whom they had so +rudely handled, to help them demolish the Power they had erected +themselves, and which now began to set its foot upon the Throat of +those that nourish'd and supported it. + +Upon this exceeding Loyalty and blind Assistance given to their +Prince, the Solunarians made no question but they had so Eternally +bound him to them, that it would be in their Power to pull down the +very Name of Crolianism, and utterly destroy it from the Nation. + +But the time came on to Undeceive them, for this Prince, whose +Principle as an Abrogratzian, was to destroy them both, as it +happened, was furnish'd with Counsellors and Ecclesiasticks of his +own Profession, ten thousand Times more bent for their general Ruin, +than himself. + +For abstracted from the Venom and Rancour of his Profession as an +Abrogratzian, and from the furious Zeal of his Bramin, Priests, and +Religious People, that continually hung about him, and that prompted +him to act against his Temper and Inclination, by which he ruin'd +all, he was else a forward and generous Prince, and likely to have +made his People Great and Flourishing. + +But his furious Church-Men ruin'd all his good Designs, and turn'd +all his Projects to compass the Introduction of his own Religion into +his Dominions. + +Nay, and had he not fatally been push'd on by such as really design'd +his Ruin, to drive this deep Design on too hastily and turn the +Scale of his Management from a close and conceal'd, to an open and +profess'd Design, he might have gone a great way with it.--------- +Had he been content to have let that have been twenty Year a doing, +which he impatiently as well as preposterously attempted all at +once.------- Wise Men have thought he might in time have supprest the +Solunarian Religion, and have set up his own. + +To give a short Scheme of his Proceedings, and with them of the +reason of his Miscarriage. + +1. Having defeated the Rebellious Crolians, as is before noted, and +reflecting on the Danger he was in upon the sudden Progress of that +Rebellion, for indeed he was within a trifle of Ruin in that Affair; +and had not the Crolians been deceiv'd by the darkness of the Night +and led to a large Ditch of Water, which they could not pass over, +they had certainly surpriz'd and overthrown his Army, and cut them in +pieces, before they had known who had hurt them. Upon the Sense of +this Danger, he takes up a pretence of necessity for the being always +ready to resist the Factious Crolians, as he call'd them, and by that +Insinuation hooks himself into a standing Army in time of Peace; +----- nay, and so easy were the Solunarian Church to yield up any +point, which they did but imagin would help to crush their Brethren +the Crolians, that they not only consented to this unusual Invasion +of their antient Liberties, but sent up several Testimonials of their +free Consent, nay, and of their Joy of having arriv'd to so great a +Happiness, as to have a Prince that setting aside the formality of +Laws would vouchsafe to Govern them by the glorious Method of a +Standing Army.------ + +These Testimonials were things not much unlike our Addresses in +England, and which when I heard I could not but remember our Case, in +the time of the late King James, when the City of Carlisle in their +Address, Thankt his Majesty for the Establishing a Standing Army in +England in time of Peace, calling it the Strength, and Glory of the +Kingdom. + +So strong is the Ambition and Envy of Parties, these Solunarian +Gentlemen not grudging to put out one of their own eyes, so they +might at the same time put out both the Eyes of their Enemies; the +Crolians rather consented to this badge of their own Slavery, and +brought themselves who were a free People before, under the Power and +Slavery of the Sword. + +The ease with which this Prince got over so considerable a Point as +this, made him begin to be too credulous and to perswade himself +that the Solunarian Church-Men were really in earnest, as to their +Pageant-Doctrin of Non-Resistance, and that as he had seen them bear +with strange extravagancies on the Crolian Part, they were real and +in earnest when they Preach'd that Men ought to obey for Conscience's +sake, whatever hardship were impos'd upon them, and however unjust, +or contrary to the Laws of God, Nature, Reason, or their Country; +what Principle in the World could more readily prompt a Prince to +attempt what he so earnestly coveted, as this zealous Prince did the +restoring the Abrogratzian Faith, for since he had but two sorts of +People to do with; one he had crush'd by force, and had brought the +other to profess it their Religion, their Duty, and their Resolution +to bear every thing he thought fit to Impose upon them, and that they +should be Damn'd if they resisted, the Work seem'd half done to his +Hand. + +And indeed when I reflected on the Coherence of things, I could not +so much blame this Prince for his venturing upon the probability, for +whoever was but to go up to this Lunar World and read the Stories of +that Time, with what Fury the hot Men of the Solunarian Church acted +against the Dissenting Crolians, and with what warmth they assisted +their Prince against them, and how Cruelly they insulted them after +they were defeated in their attempt of Dethroning him, how zealously +they Preach'd up the Doctrine of absolute undisputed Resignation to +his Will, how frequently they obey'd several of his encroachments +upon their Liberties, and what solemn Protestations they made to +submit to him in any thing, and to stand by and assist him in +whatever he Commanded them to the last Drop, much with the same Zeal +and Forwardness, as our Life-and-Fortune Men did here in England. I +say, when all this was consider'd, I could not so much condemn his +Credulity, nor blame him for believing them, for no Man could have +doubted their Sincerity, but he that at the same time must have Taxt +them with most unexampled Hipocrisie. + +For the Solunarians now began to discern their Prince was not really +on their side, that neither in State Matters any more than Religion, +he had any affection for them, and the first absolute Shock he gave +them, was in Publishing a general Liberty to the Crolians. 'Tis true +this was not out of respect to the Crolian Religion any more than the +Solunarian, but purely because by that means he made way for an +Introduction of the Abrogratzian Religion which now began to appear +publickly in the Country. + +But however, as this was directly contrary to the expectation of the +Solunarians, it gave them such a disgust against their Prince, that +from that very time being disappointed in the Soveraign Authority +they expected, they entred into the deepest and blackest Conspiracy +against their Prince and his Government that ever was heard of. + +Many of the Crolians were deluded by the new Favour and Liberty they +receiv'd from the Prince to believe him real, and were glad of the +Mortification of their Brethren; but the more Judicious seeing +plainly the Prince's Design, declar'd against their own Liberty, +because given them by an illegal Authority, without the assent of the +whole Body legally assembled. + +When the Solunarians saw this they easily reconcil'd themselves to +the Crolians, at least from the Outside of the Face, for the carrying +on their Design, and so here was a Nation full of Plots, here was the +Prince and his Abrogratzians plotting to introduce their Religion, +here was a parcel of blind short-sighted Crolians plotting to ruin +the Solunarian Establishment, and weakly joining with the +Abrogratzians to satisfy their private Resentments; and here was the +wiser Crolians joining heartily with the Solunarians of all sorts, +laying aside private Resentments, and forgetting old Grudges about +Religion, in order to ruin the invading Projects of the Prince and +his Party. + +There was indeed some verbal Conditions past between them, and the +Solunarians willing to bring them into their Party promised them upon +the Faith of their Nation, and the Honour of the Solunarian Religion, +that there should be no more Hatred, Disturbance or Persecution +for the sake of Religion between them, but that they would come to +a Temper with them, and always be Brethren for the future. They +declared that Persecution ran contrary to their Religion in general, +and to their Doctrin in particular; and backt their Allegations with +some Truths they have not since thought fit to like, nor much to +regard. + +However by this Artifice, and on these Conditions, they brought the +Crolians to join with them in their Resolutions to countermine their +designing Prince; these indeed were for doing it by the old way +down-right, and to oppose Oppression with Force, a Doctrin they +acknowledg'd, and profest to join with all the Lunar part of Mankind +in the practice, and began to tell their Brethren how they had +impos'd upon themselves and the World, in pretending to absolute +Submission against Nature and universal Lunarian Practice. + +But a cunning Fellow personating a Solunarian, and who was in the +Plot, gravely answer'd them thus, + +'Look ye, Gentlemen, we own with you that Nature, Reason, Law, +Justice, and Custom of Nations is on your side, and that all Power +Derives from, Centers in, and on all Recesses or Demises of Power +returns to its Great Original the Party Governed: Nay we own our +Great Eye from whom all the habitable Parts of this Globe are +inlightned, has always directed us to practice what Nature thus +dictates, always approv'd and generally succeeded the attempt of +Dethroning Tyrants. But our Case differs, we have always pretended +to this absolute undisputed Obedience, which we did indeed to gain +the Power of your Party; and if we should turn round at once to +your Opinion, tho' never so right, we should so fly in the Face of +our own Doctrin, Sermons, innumerable Pamphlets and Pretensions, as +would give all our Enemies too great a Power over us in Argument, +and we should never be able to look Mankind in the Face: But we +have laid our Measures so that by prompting the King to run upon us +in all sorts of bare-fac'd Extreams and Violences, we shall bring +him to exasperate the whole Nation; then we may underhand foment +the breach on this side, raise the Mob upon him, and by acting on +both sides seem to suffer a Force in falling in with the People, +and preserve our Reputation. + +'Thus we shall bring the thing to pass, betray our Prince, take +Arms against his Power, call in Foreign Force to do the Work, and +even then keep our Hands seemingly out of the Broil, by being +pretended Sticklers for our former Prince; so save our Reputation, +and bring all to pass with Ease and Calmness; while the eager Party +of the Abrogratzians will do their own Work by expecting we will do +it for them. + +The Crolians astonish'd both at the Policy, the Depth, the Knavery +and the Hypocrisy of the Design, left them to carry it on, owning it +was a Masterpiece of Craft, and so stood still to observe the Issue, +which every way answer'd the exactness of its Contrivance. + +When I saw into the bottom of all this Deceit, I began to take up new +Resolutions of returning back into our Old World again, and going +home to England, where tho' I had conceiv'd great Indignation at the +Treatment our Passive Obedience Men gave their Prince here, and was +in hopes in these my remote Travels to have found out some Nations of +Honour and Principles. I was fill'd with Amazement to see our +Moderate Knaves so much out-done, and I was inform'd that all these +things were meer Amusements, Vizors, and Shams, to bring an Innocent +Prince into the Snare. + +Would any Mortal imagin who has read this short Part of the Story, +that all this was a Solunarian Church Plot, a meer Conspiracy between +these Gentlemen and the Crolian Dissenters, only to wheedle in the +unhappy Prince to his own Destruction, and bring the popular +Advantage of the Mob, to a greater Ascendant on the Crown. + +Of all the Richlieus, Mazarines, Gondamours, Oliver Cromwels, and the +whole Train of Polititians that our World has produc'd, the greatest +of their Arts are Follies to the unfathomable depth of these Lunarian +Policies; and for Wheedle, Lying, Swearing, Preaching, Printing, &c. +what is said in our World by Priests and Polititans, we thank God may +be believ'd; but if ever I believe a Solunarian Priest Preaching +Non-Resistance of Monarchs, or a Solunarian Polititian turning +Abrogratzian, I ought to be mark'd down for a Fool; nor will ever any +Prince in that Country take their Word again, if ever they have their +Senses about 'em, but as this is a most extraordinary Scene, so I +cannot omit a more particular and sufficient Relation of some Parts +of it, than I us'd to give. + +The Solunarian Clergy had carry'd on their Non-Resistance Doctrin to +such Extremities, and had given this new Prince such unusual +demonstrations of it, that he fell absolutely into the Snare, and +entirely believ'd them; he had try'd them with such Impositions as +they would never have born from any Prince in the World, nor from him +neither, had they not had a deep Design, and consequently stood in +need of the deepest Disguise imaginable; they had yielded to a +Standing Army, and applauded it as a thing they had desir'd; they had +submitted to levying Taxes upon them by New Methods, and illegal +Practices; they had yielded to the abrogation or suspension at least +of their Laws, when the King's absolute Will requir'd it; not that +they were blind, and did not see what their Prince was doing, but +that the black Design was so deeply laid, they found it was the only +way to ruin him, to push him upon the highest Extreams, and then they +should have their turn serv'd.---- Thus if he desir'd one illegal +Thing of them, they would immediately grant two; one would have +thought they had read our Bible, and the Command, when a Man takes +away the Cloak, to give him the Coat also. + +Nor was this enough, but they seem'd willing to admit of the publick +Exercise of the Abrogratzian Religion in all Parts; and when the +Prince set it up in his own Chappel, they suffered it to be set up in +their Cities, and Towns, and the Abrogratzian Clergy began to be seen +up and down in their very Habits; a thing which had never been +permitted before in that Country, and which the Common People began +to be very uneasy at. But still the Solunarian Clergy, and all such +of the Gentry, especially as were in the Plot, by their Sermons, +printed Books, and publick Discourses, carry'd on this high topping +Notion of absolute Submission, so that the People were kept under, +and began to submit to all the impositions of the Prince. + +These things were so acted to the Life, that not only the Prince, but +none of his Abrogratzian Counsellors could see the Snare, the Hook +was so finely covered by the Church-Artificers, and the Bait so +delicious, that they all swallow'd it with eagerness and delight. + +But the Conspirators willing to make a sure game of it, and not +thinking the King, or all his Counsellors would drive on so fast as +they would have them, tho' they had already made a fair progress for +the Time, resolv'd to play home, and accordingly they persuade their +Prince, that they will not only submit to his Arbitrary Will, in +Matters of State, and Government, but in Matters of Religion; and in +order to carry this Jest on, one of the heads of their Politicks, and +a Person of great Estem for his Abilities in Matters of State, being +without question one of the ablest Heads of all the Solunarian +Nobility, pretended to be converted, and turn'd Abrogratzian. This +immediately took as they desir'd, for the Prince caress'd him, and +entertain'd him with all possible endearments, proferr'd him to +several Posts of Honour and Advantage, always kept him near him, +consulted him in all Emergencies, took him with him to the Abrogian +Sacrifices, and he made no Scruple publickly to appear there, and by +these degrees and a super-achitophalian Hypocrisie, so insinuated +himself into the credulous Prince's favour, that he became his only +Confident, and absolute Master of all his Designs. + +Now the Plot had its desir'd effect, for he push'd the King upon all +manner of Precipitations; and if even the Abrogratzians themselves +who were about the King, interpos'd for more temperate Proceedings, +he would call them Cowards, Strangers, ignorant of the Temper of the +Lunarians, who when they were a going, might be driven, but if they +were suffered to cool and consider, would face about and fall off. + +Indeed the Men of Prudence and Estates among his own Party, I mean +the Abrogratzians in the Country, frequently warn'd him to take more +moderate Measures, and to proceed with more Caution; told him he +would certainly ruin them all, and himself, and that there must be +some Body about his Majesty that push'd him upon these Extremes, on +purpose to set all the Nation in a Flame, and to overthrow all the +good Designs, which with Temper and good Conduct, might be brought +to perfection. + +Had these wary Councils been observ'd, and a Prudence and Policy +agreeable to the mighty consequence of Things been practis'd, the +Solunarian Church had run a great risque of being over thrown, and to +have sunk gradually in the Abrogian Errors, the People began to be +drawn off gradually, and the familiarity of the thing made it appear +less frightful to unthinking People, who had entertain'd strange +Notions of the monstrous things that were to be seen in it, so that +common Vogue had fill'd the Peoples Minds with ignorant Aversions, +that 'tis no absurdity to say, I believe there was 200000 People +who would have spent the last drop of their Blood against +Abrogratzianism, that did not know whether it was a Man or a Horse. + +This thing consider'd well, would of it self have been sufficient to +have made the Prince and his Friends wary, and to have taught them to +suit their Measures to the Nature and Circumstances of Things before +them; but Success in their beginnings blinded their Eyes, and they +fell into this Church Snare with the most unpitied willingness that +could be imagin'd. + +The first thing therefore this new Counsellor put his Master upon, +in order to the beginning his more certain Ruin, was to introduce +several of his Abrograzians into Places of all kinds, both in the +Army, Navy, Treasure, and Civil Affairs, tho' contrary to some of the +general Constitutions of Government; he had done it into the Army +before, tho' it had disgusted several of his Military Men, but now he +push'd him upon making it Universal, and still the Passive +Solunarians bore it with patience. + +From this tameness and submission, his next Step was to argue that he +might depend upon it the Solunarian Church had so sincerely embrac'd +the Doctrine of Non-Resistance, that they were now ripen'd not only +to sit still, and see their Brethren the Crolians suppress'd, but to +stand still and be opprest themselves, and he might assure himself +the Matter was now ripe, he might do just what he wou'd himself with +them, they were prepar'd to bare any thing. + +This was the fatal Stroke, for having possest the Prince with the +belief of this, he let loose the Reins to all his long conceal'd +Desires. Down went their Laws, their Liberties, their Corporations, +their Churches, their Colleges, all went to wreck, and the eager +Abrograzians thought the Day their own. The Solunarians made no +opposition, but what was contain'd within the narrow circumference of +Petitions, Addresses, Prayers, and Tears; and these the Prince was +prepar'd to reject, and upon all occasions to let them know he was +resolv'd to be obey'd. + +Thus he drove on by the treacherous Advice of his new Counsels, till +he ripen'd all the Nation for the general Defection which afterward +follow'd. + +For as the Encroachments of the Prince push'd especially at their +Church Liberties, and threatened the overthrow of all their +Ecclesiastical Privileges, the Clergy no sooner began to feel that +they were like to be the first Sacrifice, but they immediately +threw off the Vizor, and beat the Concionazimir; this is a certain +Ecclesiastick Engine which is usual in cases of general Alarm, as +the Churches Signal of Universal Tumult. + +This is truly a strange Engine, and when a Clergy-Man gets into the +Inside of it, and beats it, it Roars, and makes such a terrible +Noise from the several Cavities, that 'tis heard a long way; and +there are always a competent number of them plac'd in all Parts so +conveniently, that the Alarm is heard all over the Kingdom in one Day. + +I had some Thoughts to have given the Reader a Diagram of this piece +of Art, but as I am but a bad Drafts Man, I have not yet been able +so exactly to describe it, as that a Scheme can be drawn, but to the +best of my Skill, take it as follows. 'Tis a hollow Vessel, large +enough to hold the biggest Clergy-Man in the Nation; it is generally +an Octagon in Figure, open before, from the Wast upward, but whole +at the Back, with a Flat extended over it for Reverberation, or +doubling the Sound; doubling and redoubling, being frequently +thought necessary to be made use of on these occasions; 'tis very +Mathematically contriv'd, erected on a Pedestal of Wood like a +Windmil, and has a pair of winding Stairs up to it, like those at +the great Tun at Hiedlebergh. + +I could make some Hierogliphical Discourses upon it, from these +References, thus. 1. That as it is erected on a Pedestal like a +Wind-Mill, so it is no new thing for the Clergy, who are the only +Persons permitted to make use of it, to make it turn round with the +Wind, and serve to all the Points of the Compass. 2. As the Flat +over it assists to encrease the Sound, by forming a kind of hollow, +or cavity proper to that purpose, so there is a certain natural +hollowness, or emptiness, made use of sometimes in it, by the +Gentlemen of the Gown, which serves exceedingly to the propogation +of all sorts of Clamour, Noise, Railing, and Disturbance. 3. As the +Stairs to it go winding up like those by which one mounts to the vast +Tun of Wine at Hiedleburgh, which has no equal in our World, so the +use made of these ascending Steps, is not altogether different, being +frequently employ'd to raise People up to all sorts of Enthusiasms, +spiritual Intoxications, mad and extravagant Action, high exalted +Flights, Precipitations, and all kinds of Ecclesiastick Drunkenness +and Excesses. + +The sound of this Emblem of emptiness, the Concionazimir, was no +sooner heard over the Nation, but all the People discover'd their +readiness to join in with the Summons, and as the thing had been +concerted before, they send over their Messengers to demand +Assistance from a powerful Prince beyond the Sea, one of their +own Religion, and who was allied by Marriage to the Crown. + +They made their Story out so plain, and their King had by the +contrivance of their Achitophel rendred himself so suspected to all +his Neighbours, that this Prince, without any hesitation, resolv'd +to join with them, and accordingly makes vast Preparations to invade +their King. + +During this interval their Behaviour was quite altred at home, the +Doctrin of absolute Submission and Non-Resistance was heard no more +among them, the Concionazimir beat daily to tell all the People they +should stand up to Defend the Rights of the Church, and that it was +time to look about them for the Abrograzians were upon them. The +eager Clergy made this Ecclesiastick Engine sound as loud and make +all the Noise they could, and no Men in the Nation were so forward +as they to acknowledge that it was a State-Trick, and they were drawn +in to make such a stir about the pretended Doctrins of absolute +Submission, that they did not see the Snare which lay under it, that +now their Eyes were opened, and they had learnt to see the Power and +Superiority of Natural Right, and would be deceiv'd no longer. Others +were so honest to tell the Truth, that they knew the emptiness and +weakness of the pretence all along, and knew what they did when +they Preacht it up, viz. to suppress and pull down the Crolians: But +they thought their Prince who they always serv'd in crying up that +Doctrin, and whose Exclusion was prevented by it, would ha' had more +Gratitude, or at least more Sense, than to try the Experiment upon +them, since whatever to serve his Designs and their own, which they +always thought well united, they were willing to pretend, he could +not but see they always knew better than to suffer the practice of +it in their own Case. That since he had turn'd the Tables upon them, +'tis true he had them at an advantage and might pretend they were +Knaves, and perhaps had an opportunity to call them so with some +reason; but they were resolv'd, since he had drove them to the +necessity of being one or t'other, tho' he might call them Knaves, +they would take care he should have no reason to call them Fools too. + +Thus the Vapour of absolute Subjection was lost on a suddain, and as +if it had been preparatory to what was coming after, the Experiment +was quickly made; for the King persuing his Encroachments upon the +Church, and being possest with a Belief that pursuant to their open +Professions they would submit to any thing, he made a beginning with +them, in sending his positive Command to one of his Superintendent +Priests, or Patriarchs, to forbid a certain Ecclesiastick to +officiate any more till his Royal Pleasure was known. + +Now it happen'd very unluckily that this Patriarch, tho' none of the +most Learned of his Fraternity, yet had always been a mighty zealous +Promoter of this blind Doctrin of Non-Resistance, and had not a +little triumph'd over and insulted the Crolian Dissenters upon the +Notion of Rebellion, antimonarchical Principles and Obedience, with +a reserve for the Laws, and the like, as a scandalous practice, and +comprehensive of Faction, Sedition, dangerous to the Church and +State, and the like. + +This Reverend Father was singl'd out as the first Mark of the King's +Design; the deluded Prince believ'd he could not but comply, +having so publickly profest his being all Submission and absolute +Subjection; but as this was all Conceit, he was pusht on to make +the Assault where he was most certain to meet a repulse; and this +Gentleman had long since thrown off the Mask, so his first Order +was disobey'd. + +The Patriarch pretended to make humble Remonstrances, and to offer +his Reasons why he could not in Conscience, as he call'd it, comply. +The King, who was now made but a meer Engine, or Machine, screw'd up +or down by this false Counsellor to act his approaching Destruction +with his own Hand, was prompted to resent this Repulse with the +utmost Indignation, to reject all manner of Submissions, Excuses +or Arguments, or any thing but an immediate, absolute compliance, +according to the Doctrin so often inculcated; and this he run on so +high, as to put the Patriarch in Prison for Contumacy. + +The Patriarch as absolutely refus'd to submit, and offer'd himself to +the Decision of the Law. + +Now it was always a sacred Rule in these Lunar Countries, that both +King and People are bound to stand by the arbitrimnet of the Law in +all Cases of Right or Claim, whether publick or private; and this has +been the reason that all the Princes have endeavour'd to cover their +Actions with pretences of Law, whatever really has been in their +Design; for this reason the King could not refuse to bring the +Patriarch to a Tryal, where the Humour of the People first discover'd +it self, for here Passive Obedience was Try'd and Cast, the Law +prov'd to be superior to the King, the Patriarch was acquitted, his +Disobedience to the King justify'd, and the King's Command prov'd +unjust. + +The Applause of the Patriarch, the Acclamations of the People, and +the general Rejoycings of the whole Nation at this Transaction, gave +a black prospect to the Abrograzians; and a great many of them came +very honestly and humbly to the King and told him, if he continued to +go on by these Measures he would ruin them all; they told him what +general Alarm had been over the whole Nation by the Clamours of the +Clergy; and the beating of the Concionazimir in all Parts, inform'd +him how the Doctrin of absolute Obedience was ridicul'd in all +Places, and how the Clergy began to preach it back again like a +Witches Prayer, and that it would infallibly raise the Devil of +Rebellion in all the Nation, they besought him to content himself +with the liberty of their Religion, and the freedom they enjoy'd of +being let into Places and Offices of Trust and Honour, and to wait +all reasonable Occasions to encrease their Advantages, and gradually +to gain Ground; they entreated him to consider the impossibility of +reducing so mighty, so obstinate, and so resolute a Nation all at +once. They pleaded how rational a thing it was to expect that by +Degrees and good Management, which by precipitate Measures would be +endanger'd and overthrown. + +Had these wholsome Counsels taken place in the King's Mind he had +been King to his last hour, and the Solunarians and Crolians too had +been all undone, for he had certainly incroach'd upon them gradually, +and brought that to pass in time which by precipitant Measures he was +not likely to effect. + +It was therefore a master-piece of Policy in the Solunarian +Church-men to place a feign'd Convert near their Prince, who shou'd +always biass him with contrary Advices, puff him up with vast +prospect of Success, prompt him to all Extreams, and always Fool +him with the certainty of bringing Things to pass his own way. + +These Arts made him set light by the repulse he met with in the +Matter of the Patriarch, and now he proceeds to make two Attacks more +upon the Church; one was by putting some of his Abrograzian Priests +into a College among some of the Solunarian Clergy; and the other +was to oblige all the Solunarian Clergy to read a certain Act of +his Council, in which his Majesty admitted all the Abrograzians, +Crolians, and all sorts of Dissenters, to a freedom of their +Religious Exercises, Sacrifices, Exorcisms, Dippings, Preachings, &c. +and to prohibit the Solunarians to Molest or Disturb them. + +Now as this last was a bitter reproach to the Solunarian Church for +all the ill Treatment the Dissenting Crolians had receiv'd from them, +and as it was exprest in the Act that all such Treatment was Unjust +and Unchristian, so for them to read it in their Temples, was to +acknowledge that they had been guilty of most unjust and irreligious +Dealings to the Crolians, and that their Prince had taken care to do +them Justice. + +The matter of introducing the Abrograzians into the Colleges or +Seminaries of the Solunarian Priests, was actually against the Sacred +Constitutions and Foundation Laws of those Seminaries. + +Wherefore in both these Articles they not only disobey'd their +Prince, but they oppos'd him with those trifling Things call'd Laws, +which they had before declar'd had no Defensive Force against their +Prince; these they had recourse to now, insisted upon the Justice and +Right devolv'd upon them by the Laws, and absolutely refus'd their +compliance with his Commands. + +The Prince, pusht upon the Tenters before, receiv'd their Denial with +exceeding Resentment, and was heard with deep regret, to break out in +Exclamations at their unexpected faithless Proceedings, and sometimes +to express himself thus: Horrid Hypocrisy! Surprizing Treachery! Is +this the absolute Subjection which in such numerous Testimonials or +Addresses you profest, and for which you so often and so constantly +branded the poor Crolians, and told me that your Church was wholly +made up of Principles of Loyalty and Obedience! But I'll be fully +satisfied for this Treatment. + +In the minute of one of those Excursions of his Passion, came into +his Presence the seemingly revolted Lunarian Noble Man, and falling +in with his present Passions, prompts him to a speedy revenge; and +propos'd his erecting a Court of Searches, something like the Spanish +Inquisition, giving them plenipotentiary Authority to hear and +determine all Ecclesiastical Causes absolutely, and without Appeal. + +He empower'd these Judges to place by his absolute Will, all the +Abrograzian Students in the Solunarian College, and tho' they might +make a formal Hearing for the sake of the Form, yet that by Force it +should be done. + +He gave them Power to displace all those Solunarian Clergy-Men that +had refus'd to read his Act of Demission to the Abrograzian, and +Crolian Dissenters, and 'twas thought he design'd to keep their +Revenues in Petto, till he might in time fill them up to some of his +own Religion. + +The Commission accordingly began to act, and discovering a full +Resolution to fulfil his Command, they by Force proceeded with the +Students of the Solunarian College; and it was very remarkable, that +even some of the Solunarian Patriarchs were of this number, who +turn'd out their Brethren the Solunarian Students, to place +Abrograzians in their room. + +This indeed they are said to have repented of since, but however, +these it seems were not of the Plot, and therefore did not foresee +what was at hand. + +The rest of the Patriarchs who were all in the Grand Design, and saw +things ripening for its Execution, upon the apprehension of this +Court of Searches beginning with them, make an humble Address to +their Prince, containing the Reasons why they could not comply with +his Royal Command.------ + +The incens'd King upbraided them with his having been told by them +of their absolute and unreserv'd Obedience, and refusing their +Submissions or their Reasons, sent them all to Jail, and resolv'd to +have brought them before his new High Court of Searches, in order, as +was believ'd, to have them all displac'd. + +And now all began to be in a Flame, the Sollicitations of the +Solunarian Party, having obtain'd powerful Relief Abroad, they began +to make suitable preparations at Home. The Gentry and Nobility who +the Clergy had brought to join with them, furnish'd themselves with +Horses and Arms, and prepar'd with their Tenants and Dependants to +join the Succours as soon as they should Arrive. + +In short, the Forreign Troops they had procur'd, Arriv'd, Landed, and +publish'd a long Declaration of all the Grievances which they came to +redress. + +No sooner was this Forreign Army arriv'd with the Prince at the head +of them, but the face of Affairs altred on a suddain. The King +indeed, like a brave Prince, drew all his Forces together, and +marching out of his Capital City, advanced above 500 Stages, things +they measure Land with in those Countries, and much about our +Furlong, to meet his Enemy. + +He had a gallant Army well appointed and furnish'd, and all things +much superior to his Adversary, but alas the Poison of Disobedience +was gotten in there, and upon the first March he offer'd to make +towards the Enemy one of his great Captains with a strong Party of +his Men went over and revolted. + +This Example was applauded all over the Nation, and by this time one +of the Patriarchs, even the same mention'd before that had so often +preacht Non-Resistance of Princes, lays by his Sacred Vestments, +Mitre, and Staff, and exchanging his Robes for a Soldier's Coat, +mounts on Horseback, and in short, appears in Arms against his +Lord.----- Nor was this all, but the Treacherous Prelate takes along +with him several Solunarian Lords, and Persons of the highest Figure, +and of the Houshold, and Family of the King, and with him went the +King's own Daughter, his principle Favourites and Friends. + +At the News of this, the poor deserted Prince lost all Courage, and +abandoning himself to Despair, he causes his Army to retreat without +fighting a Stroke, quits them and the Kingdom at once, and takes +Sanctuary with such as could escape with him, in the Court of a +Neighbouring Prince. + +I have heard this Prince exceedingly blam'd, for giving himself up to +Despair so soon. ----- That he thereby abandon'd the best and +faithfullest of his Friends, and Servants, and left them to the Mercy +of the Solunarians; that when all these that would have forsaken him +were gone, he had Forces equal to his Enemies; that his Men were in +Heart, fresh and forward; that he should have stood to the last; +retreated to a strong Town, where his Ships rod, and which was over +against the Territories of his great Allie, to whom he might have +deliver'd up the Ships which were there, and have thereby made him +Superior at Sea to his Enemies, and he was already much Superior at +Land; that there he might have been reliev'd with Forces too strong +for them to match, and at least might have put it to the issue of a +fair Battle.------ Others, that he might have retreated to his own +Court, and capital City, and taking possession of the Citadel, which +was his own, might so have aw'd the Citizens who were infinitely +Rich, and Numerous, with the apprehensions of having their Houses +burnt, they would not have dar'd to have declar'd for his Enemies, +for fear of being reduc'd to heaps and ruins; and that at last he +might have set the City on Fire in 500 Places, and left the +Solunarian Church-Men a Token to remember their Non-Resisting +Doctrine by, and yet have made an easy Retreat down the Harbour, to +other Forts he had below, and might with ease have destroy'd all the +Shipping, as he went. + +'Tis confess'd had he done either, or both these things, he had left +them a dear bought Victory, but he was depriv'd of his Counsellor, +for as soon as things came to this height, the Achitophel we have so +often mention'd, left him also, and went away; all his Abrograzian +Priests too fosook him, and he was so bereft of Counsel that he fell +into the Hands of his Enemies as he was making his escape, but he got +away again, not without the connivance of the Enemy, who were willing +enough he should go; so he got a Vessel to carry him over to the +Neighbouring Kingdom, and all his Armies, Ships, Forts, Castles, +Magazines, and Treasure, fell into his Enemies Hands. + +The Neighbouring Prince entertain'd him very kindly, Cherish'd him, +Succour'd him, and furnish'd him with Armies and Fleets for the +recovery of his Dominions, which has occasion'd a tedious War with +that Prince, which continues to this Day. + +Thus far Passive Doctrins, and Absolute Submission serv'd a Turn, +bubl'd the Prince, wheedled him in to take their Word who profess'd +it, 'till he laid his Finger upon the Men themselves, and that +unravell'd all the Cheat; they were the first that call'd in Forreign +Power, and took up Arms against their Prince. + +Nor did they end here, but all this Scene being over, and the +Forreign Prince having thus deliver'd them, and their own King being +thus chas'd away, the People call themselves together, and as Reason +good, having been deliver'd by him from the Miseries, Brangles, +Oppressions, and Divisions of the former Reign, they thought they +could do no less than to Crown their Deliverer; and having Summon'd a +general Assembly of all their Capital Men, they gave the Crown to +this Prince who had so generously sav'd them. + +And here again I heard the first King exceedingly blam'd for quitting +his Dominions, for had he staid here, tho' he had actually been in +their Hands, unless they wou'd have Murther'd him, they could never +have proceeded to the Extremeties they did reach to, nor cou'd they +ever have Crown'd the other Prince, he being yet alive and in his own +Dominions. + +But by quitting the Country, they fix'd a legal Period to their +Obedience, he having deserted their Protection, and Defence, and +openly laid down the Administration. + +But as these sort of Politicks cannot be decided by us, unless we +know the Constitutions of those Lunar Regions, so we cannot pretend +to make a Decision of what might, or might not have happen'd. + +It remains to examine how those Solunarians behav'd themselves, who +had so earnedly cryed up the Principles of Obedience, and absolute +Submission. + +Nothing was so Ridiculous, now they saw what they had done, they +began to repent, and upon recollection of Thoughts some were so +asham'd of themselves, that having broken their Doctrin, and being +now call'd upon to tranfpose their Allegiance, truly they stopt in +the mid-way, and so became Martyrs on both sides. + +I can liken these to nothing so well as to those Gentlemen of our +English Church, who tho' they broke into the Principles of Passive +Obedience by joining, and calling over the P. of O. yet suffer'd +deprivations of Benefices, and loss of their Livings, for not taking +the Oath; as if they had not as effectually perjur'd themselves by +taking up Arms against their King, and joyning a Forreign Power, as +they could possibly do afterward, by Swearing to live quietly under +the next King. + +But these nice Gentlemen are infinitely outdone in these Countries, +for these Solunarians by a true Church turn, not only refuse to +transpose their Allegiance, but pretend to wipe their Mouths as to +former taking Arms, and return to their old Doctrins of absolute +Submission, boast of Martyrdom, and boldly reconcile the contraries +of taking up Arms, and Non-Resistance, charging all their Brethren +with Schism, Rebellion, Perjury, and the damnable Sin of Resistance. + +Nor is this all, for as a great many of these Solunarian Church-Men +had no affection to this new Prince, but were not equally furnished, +or qualify'd for Martyrdom with their Brethren; they went to certain +Wise Men, who being cunning at splitting Hairs, and making +distinctions, might perhaps furnish them with some mediums between +Loyalty and Disloyalty; they apply'd themselves with great dilligence +to these Men, and they by deep Study, and long Search, either found +or made the quaintest Device for them that ever was heard of. + +By this unheard of Discovery, to their great Joy and Satisfaction, +they have arriv'd at a Power, which all the Wise Men in our World +could never pretend to, and which 'tis thought, could the description +of it be regularly made, and brought down hither, would serve for the +Satisfaction and Repose of a great many tender Consciences, who are +very uneasy at Swearing to save their Benefices. + +These great Makers of Distinction, have learn't to distinguish +between active Swearing, and passive Swearing, between de facto +Loyalty, and de jure Loyalty, and by this decent acquirement they +obtain'd the Art of reconciling Swearing Allegiance without Loyalty, +and Loyalty without Swearing, so that native and original Loyalty may +be preserv'd pure and uninterrupted, in spight of all subsequent +Oaths, to prevailing Usurpations. + +Many are the Mysteries, and vast the Advantages of this new invented +Method, Mental Reservations, Inuendoes, and Double Meanings are Toys +to this, for they may be provided for in the litteral terms of an +Oath, but no Provision can be made against this; for these Men after +they have taken the Oath, make no Scruple to declare, they only Swear +to be quiet, as long as they can make no Disturbance; that they are +left liberty still to espouse the Interest and Cause of their former +Prince, they nicely distinguish between Obedience and Submission, and +tell you a Slave taken into Captivity, tho' he Swears to live +peaceably, does not thereby renounce his Allegiance to his natural +Prince, nor abridge himself of a Right to attempt his own Liberty if +ever opportunity present. + +Had these neat Distinctions been found out before, none of our +Solunarian Clergy, no not the Patriarchs themselves surely would have +stood out, and suffer'd such Depredations on their Fortunes and +Characters as they did; they wou'd never have been such Fools to have +been turn'd out of their Livings for not Swearing, when they might +have learnt here that they might have swore to one Prince, and yet +have retain'd their Allegiance to another; might have taken an Oath +to the new, without impeachment of their old Oaths to the absent +Prince.------- It is great pity these Gentlemen had not gone up to +the Moon for Instruction in this difficult Case. + +There they might have met with excellent Logicians, Men of most +sublime Reasons, Dr. Overall, Dr. Sherlock, and all our nice +Examiners of these things wou'd appear to be no Body to them; for as +the People in these Regions have an extraordinary Eye-sight, and the +clearness of the Air contributs much to the help of their Opticks, so +they have without doubt a proportion'd clearness of discerning, by +which they see as far into Mill-stones, and all sorts of Solids, as +the nature of things will permit, but above all, their Faculties are +blest with two exceeding Advantages. + +1. With an extraordinary distinguishing Power, by which they can +distinguish even Indivisibles, part Unity it self, divide Principles, +and distinguish Truth into such and so many minute Particles, till +they dwindle it away into a very Nose of Wax, and mould it into any +Form they have occasion for, by which means they can distinguish +themselves into or out of any Opinion, either in Religion, Politicks +or Civil Right, that their present Emergencies may call for. + +2. Their reasoning Faculties have this further advantage, that upon +occasion they can see clearly for themselves, and prevent others from +the same discovery, so that when they have occasion to see any thing +which presents for their own Advantage, they can search into the +Particulars, make it clear to themselves, and yet let it remain dark +and mysterious to all the World besides. Whether this is perform'd by +their exceeding Penetration, or by casting an artificial Veil over +the Understandings of the Vulgar, Authors have not yet determin'd; +but that the Fact is true, admits of no Dispute. + +And the wonderful Benefit of these Things in point of Dispute is +extraordinary, for they can see clearly they have the better of an +Argument, when all the rest of the World think they have not a Word +to say for themselves: 'Tis plain to them that this or that proves a +thing, when Nature, by common Reasoning, knows no such Consequences. + +I confess I have seen some weak Attempts at this extraordinary +Talent, particularly in the Disputes in England between the Church +and the Dissenter, and between the High and Low Church, wherein +People have tollerably well convinc'd themselves when no Body else +could see any thing of the Matter, as particularly the famous Mr. +W---ly about the Antimonarchical Principles taught in the Dissenters +Accademies; ditto in L----sly, about the Dissenters burning the City, +and setting Fire to their own Houses to destroy their Neighbours; and +another famous Author, who prov'd that Christopher Love lost his Head +for attempting to pull down Monarchy by restoring King Charles the +Second. + +These indeed are some faint Resemblances of what I am upon; but alas! +these are tender sort of People, that han't obtain'd a compleat +Victory over their Consciences, but suffer that Trifle to reproach +them all the while they are doing it, to rebel against their resolv'd +Wills, and check them in the middle of the Design; from which +Interruptions arise Palpitations of the Heart, Sickness and +squeamishness of Stomach; and these have proceeded to Castings and +Vomit, whereby they have been forc'd sometimes to throw up some such +unhappy Truths as have confounded all the rest, and flown in their +own Faces so violently, as in spight of Custom has made them blush +and look downward; and tho' in kindness to one another they have +carefully lickt up one anothers Filth, yet this unhappy squeamishness +of Stomach has spoil'd all the Design, and turn'd the Appetites of +their Party, to the no small prejudice of a Cause that stood in need +of more Art and more Face to carry it on as it shou'd be with a +thoro'-pac'd Case-harden'd Policy, such as I have been relating, is +compleatly obtain'd in these Regions, where the Arts and Excellencies +of sublime Reasonings are carried up to all the extraordinaries of +banishing Scruples, reconciling Contradictions, uniting Opposites, +and all the necessary Circumstances requir'd in a compleat Casuist. + +'Tis not easily conceivable to what extraordinary Flights they have +carry'd this strength of Reasoning, for besides the distinguishing +nicely between Truth and Error, they obtain a most refin'd Method of +distinguishing Truth it self into Seasons and Circumstances, and so +can bring any thing to be Truth, when it serves the turn that happens +just then to be needful, and make the same thing to be false at +another time. + +And this method of circumstantiating Matters of Fact into Truth or +Falshood, suited to occasion, is found admirably useful to the +solving the most difficult Phanomena of State, for by this Art the +Solunarian Church made Persecution be against their Principles at one +time, and reducible to Practice at another. They made taking up Arms, +and calling in Foreign Power to depose their Prince, consistent with +Non-Resistance, and Passive Obedience; nay they went farther, they +distinguisht between a Crolian's taking Arms, and a Solunarians, and +fairly prov'd this to be Rebellion and that to be Non-Resistance. + +Nay, and which exceeded all the Power of human Art in the highest +degrees of Attainment that ever it arriv'd to on our side the Moon; +they turn'd the Tables so dexterously, as to argument upon one sort +of Crolians, call'd Prestarians; that tho' they repented of the War +they had rais'd in former Times, and protested against the violence +offer'd their Prince; and after another Party had in spight of them +Beheaded him, took Arms against the other Party, and never left +contriving their Ruin, till they had brought in his Son, and set him +upon the Throne again. + +Yet by this most dextrous way of Twisting, Extending, Contracting, +and Distinguishing of Phrases and Reasoning, they presently made it +as plain as the Sun at Noon Day; that these Prestarians were +King-killers, Common-wealths Men, Rebels, Traytors, and Enemies to +Monarchy; that they restor'd the Monarchy only in order to Destroy +it, and that they Preach'd up Sedition, Rebellion and the like: This +was prov'd so plain by these sublime Distinctions, that they +convinc'd themselves and their Posterity of it, by a rare and newly +acquir'd Art, found out by extraordinary Study, which proves the +wonderful power of Custom, insomuch, that let any Man by this method, +tell a Lye over a certain number of times, he shall arrive to a +Satisfaction of its certainty, tho' he knew it to be a Fiction +before, and shall freely tell it for a Truth all his life after. + +Thus the Prestarians were call'd the Murtherers of the Father, tho' +they restor'd the Son, and all the Testimonials of their Sufferings, +Protests and Insurrections to prevent his Death, signify'd nothing, +for this method of Distinguishing has that powerful Charm in it, that +all those Trifles we call Proofs and Demonstration were of no use in +that Case. Custom brought the Story up to a Truth, and in an instant +all the Crolians were hookt in under the general Name of Prestarians, +at the same time to hook all Parties in the Crime. + +Now as it happen'd at last that these Solunarian Gentlemen found it +necessary to do the same thing themselves, viz. To lay aside their +Loyalty, Depose, Fight against, shoot Bullets at, and throw Bombs at +their King till they frighted him away, and sent him abroad to beg +his Bread. The Crolians began to take Heart and tell them, now they +ought to be Friends with them, and tell them no more of Rebellion and +Disloyalty; nay, they carry'd it so far as to challenge them to bring +their Loyalty to the Test, and compare Crolian Loyalty and Solunarian +Loyalty together, and see who had rais'd more Wars, taken up Arms +oftenest, or appear'd in most Rebellions against their Kings; nay, +who had kill'd most Kings, the Crolians or the Solunarians, for there +having been then newly fought a great Battle between the Solunarian +Church-Men under their new Prince, and the Armies of Foreign Succours +under their old King, in which their old King was beaten and forc'd +to flie a second time, the Crolians told them that every Bullet they +shot at the Battle was as much a murthering their King, as cutting +off the Head with a Hatchet was a killing his Father. + +These Arguments in our World would have been unanswerable, but when +they came to be brought to the Test of Lunar Reasoning, alas they +signify'd nothing; they distinguisht and distinguisht till they +brought the Prestarian War to be meer Rebellion, King-killing, Bloody +and Unnatural; and the Solunarian fighting against their King, and +turning him adrift to seek his Fortune, no prejudice at all to their +Loyalty, no, nor to the famous Doctrine of Passive Obedience and +Absolute Subjection. + +When I saw this, I really bewail'd the unhappiness of some of our +Gentlemen in England, who standing exceedingly in need of such a +wonderful Dexterity of Argument to defend their share in our late +Revolution, and to reconcile it to their anticedent and subsequent +Conduct, should not be furnish'd from this more accurate World with +the suitable Powers, in order the better to defend them against the +Banter and just Raillery of their ill-natur'd Enemies the Whigs. + +By this they might have attained suitable reserves of Argument to +distinguish themselves out of their Loyalty, and into their Loyalty, +as occasion presented to dismiss this Prince, and entertain that, as +they found it to their purpose; but above all, they might have learnt +a way how to justify Swearing to one King and Praying for another, +Eating one Prince's Bread and doing another Prince's Work, Serving +one King they don't Love and Loving another they don't Serve; they +might easily reconcile the Schisms of the Church, and prove they are +still Loyal Subjects to King James, while they are only forc'd +Bonds-Men to the Act of Settlement, for the sake of that comfortable +Importance, call'd Food and Rainment; and thus their Reputation might +have been sav'd, which is most unhappily tarnish'd and blur'd, with +the malicious Attacks of the Whigs on one Hand, and the Non-Jurants +on the other. + +These Tax them as above with Rebellion by their own Principles, and +contradicting the Doctrin of Passive Submission and Non-Resistance, +by taking up Arms against their Prince, calling in a Foreign Power, +and deposing him: They charge them with killing the Lord's Anointed, +by Shooting at him at the Boyn, where if he was not kill'd it was his +own fault, at least 'tis plain 'twas none of theirs. + +On the other Hand, the Non Jurant Clergy charge them with Schism, +declare the whole Church of England Schismaticks, and breakers off +from the general Union of the Church, in renouncing their Allegiance, +and Swearing to another Power, their former Prince being yet alive. + +'Tis confest all the Answers they have been able to make to these +things, are very weak and mean, unworthy Men of their Rank and +Capacities, and 'tis pity they should not be assisted by some kind +Communication of these Lunar Arguments and Distinctions, without +which, and till they can obtain which, a Conforming Jacobite must be +the absurdest Contradiction in Nature; a thing that admits of no +manner of Defence, no, not by the People themselves, and which they +would willingly abandon, but that they can find no side to join with +them. + +The Dissenting Jacobites have some Plea for themselves, for let their +Opinion be never so repugnant to their own Interest, or general +Vogue, they are faithful to some thing, and they wont joyn with these +People, because they have Perjur'd their Faith, and yet pretend to +adhere to it at the same time. The Conforming Whigs won't receive +them, because they pretend to rail at the Government they have Sworn +to, and espouse the Interest they have Sworn against; so that these +poor Creatures have but one way left them, which is to go along with +me, next time I Travel to the Moon, and that will most certainly do +their Business, for when they come down again, they will be quite +another sort of Men, the Distinctions, the Power of Argument, the way +of Reasoning, they will be then furnish'd with will quite change the +Scene of the World with them, they'll certainly be able to prove they +are the only People, both in Justice, in Politicks and in Prudence; +that the extremities of every side are in the Wrong, they'll prove +their Loyalty preserv'd, untainted, thro' all the Swearings, +Fightings, Shootings and the like, and no Body will be able to come +to the Test with them; so that upon the whole, they are all +distracted if they don't go up to the Moon for Illumination, and that +they may easily do in the next Consolidator. + +But as this is a very long Digression, and for which I am to beg my +Reader's Pardon, being an Error I slipt into from my abundant respect +to these Gentlemen, and for their particular Instruction, I shall +endeavour to make my Reader amends, by keeping more close to my +Subject. + +To return therefore to the Historical part of the Solunarian +Church-Men, in the World in the Moon. + +Having as is related Depos'd their King, and plac'd the Crown upon +the Head of the Prince that came to their assistance, a new Scene +began all over the Kingdom. + +1. A terrible and bloody War began thro' all the parts of the Lunar +World, where their banish'd Prince and his new Allie had any +Interest; and the new King having a universal Character over all the +Northern Kingdoms of the Moon, he brought in a great many Potent +Kings, Princes, Emperors and States, to take part with him, and so it +became the most general War that had happen'd in those Ages. + +I did not trouble my self to enquire into the particular Successes of +this War, but at what had a more particular regard to the Country +from whence I came, and for whose Instruction I have design'd these +Sheets, the Strife of Parties, the Internal Feuds at home, and their +Analogy to ours; and whatever is instructively to be deduced from +them, was the Subject of immediate Inquiry. + +No sooner was this Prince plac'd on the Throne, but according to his +Promises to them that invited him over, he conven'd the Estates of +the Realm, and giving them free Liberty to make, alter, add or +repeal, all such Laws as they thought fit, it must be their own fault +if they did not Establish themselves upon such Foundation of Liberty, +and Right, as they desir'd; for he gave them their full Swing, never +interpos'd one Negative upon them for several Years, and let them do +almost every thing they pleas'd. + +This full Liberty had like to have spoil'd all, for as is before +noted, this Nation had one unhappy Quality they could never be broke +of, always to be falling out one among another. + +The Crolians, according to Capitulation, demanded the full Liberty +and Toleration of Religion, which the Solunarians had condition'd +with them for, when they drew them off from joyning with the old +King, and when they promis'd to come to a Temper, and to be Brethren +in Peace and Love ever after. + +Nor were the Solunarian Church-Men backward, either to remember, or +perform the Conditions but by the consent of the King, who had been +by agreement made Guarantee of their former Stipulations, an Act was +drawn up in full Form, and as compleat, as both satisfy'd the desires +of the Crolians, and testify'd the Honesty and Probity of the +Solunarians, as they were abstractedly and moderately consider'd. + +During the whole Reign of this King, this Union of Parties continu'd +without any considerable Interruption, there was indeed brooding +Mischiefs which hovered over every accident, in order to generate +Strife, but the Candor of the Prince, and the Prudence of his +Ministers, kept it under for a long time. + +At last an occasion offer'd it self, which gave an unhappy Stroke to +the Nation's Peace. The King thro' innumerable Hazards, terrible +Battles and a twelve Years War, had reduc'd his powerful Adversary to +such a necessity of Peace, that he became content to abandon the +fugitive King, and to own the Title of this Warlike Prince; and upon +these, among various other Conditions, very Honourable for him, and +his Allies, and by which vast Conquests were surrendred, and +disgorg'd to the Losers, a Peace was made to the Universal +Satisfaction of all those Parts of the Moon that had been involv'd in +a tiresome and expensive War. + +This Peace was no sooner made, but the Inhabitants of this unhappy +Country, according to the constant Practice of the Place, fell out in +the most horrid manner among themselves, and with the very Prince +that had done all these great things for them; and I cannot forget +how the Old Gentleman I had these Relations from, being once deeply +engag'd in Discourse with some Senators of that Country, and hearing +them reproach the Memory of that Prince from whom they receiv'd so +much, and on the foot of whose Gallantry and Merit the Constitution +then subsisted, it put him into some heat, and he told them to their +Faces that they were guilty both of Murther and Ingratitude. + +I thought the Charge was very high, but as they return'd upon him, +and challeng'd him to make it out, he answer'd he was ready to do it, +and went on thus. + +His Majesty, said he, left a quiet, retir'd, compleatly happy +Condition, full of Honour, belov'd of his Country, Vallu'd and +Esteem'd, as well as Fear'd by his Enemies, to come over hither at +your own Request, to deliver you from the Encroachments and Tyranny +as you call'd it, of your Prince. + +Ever since he came hither, he has been your meer Journy-Man, your +Servant, your Souldier of Fortune, he has Fought for you, Fatigu'd +and Harras'd his Person, and rob'd himself of all his Peace for you; +he has been in a constant Hurry, and run thro' a Million of Hazards +for you; he has convers'd with Fire and Blood, Storms at Sea, Camps +and Trenches ashore, and given himself no rest for twelve Years, and +all for your Use, Safety and Repose: In requital of which, he has +been always treated with Jealousies, and Suspitions, with Reproaches, +and Abuses of all Sorts, and on all Occasions, till the ungrateful +Treatment of the Solunarians eat into his very Soul, tir'd it with +serving an unthankful Nation, and absolutely broke his Heart; for +which reason I think him as much Murther'd as his Predecessor was, +whose Head was cut off by his Subjects. + +I could not when this was over, but ask the Old Gentlemen, what was +the reason of his Exclamation, and how it was the People treated +their Prince upon this occasion? + +He told me it was a grievous Subject, and a long one, and too long to +rehearse, but he would give me a short Abridgment of it; and not to +look back into his Wars, in which he was abominably ill serv'd, his +subjects constantly ill treated him in giving him Supplies too late, +that he cou'd not get into the Field, nor forward his Preparations in +time to be ready for his Enemies, who frequently were ready to insult +him in his Quarters. + +By giving him sham Taxes and Funds, that raised little or no Mony, by +which he having borrow'd Mony of his People by Anticipation, the +Funds not answering, he contracted such vast Debts as the Nation +could never Pay which brought the War into disrepute, sunk the Credit +of his Exchequer, and fill'd the Nation with Murmurs and Complaint. + +By betraying his Counsel and well laid Designs to his Enemies, +selling their Native Country to Foreigners, retarding their Navies +and Expeditions, till the Enemies were provided to receive them, +betraying their Merchants and Trade, spending vast Sums to fit out +Fleets, just time enough to go Abroad, and do nothing, and then get +Home again. + +But as these were too numerous Evils, and too long to repeat, the +particular things he related to in his Discourse, were these that +follow. + +There had been a hasty Peace concluded with a furious and powerful +Enemy, the King foresaw it would be of no continnuace, and that the +demise of a neighbouring King, who by all appearance could not live +long, would certainly embroil them again.----- He saw that Prince +keep up numerous Legions of Forces, in order to be in a posture to +break the Peace with advantage. This the King fairly represented to +them, and told them the necessity of keeping up such a Force, and for +such a Time, at least as might be necessary to awe the Enemy from +putting any affront upon them in case of the Death of that Prince, +which they daily expected. + +The Party who had all along malign'd the Prosperity of this Prince, +took fire at the Offer, and here began another State Plot, which tho' +it hookt in two or three sets of Men for different Ends, yet +altogether join'd in affronting and ill treating their Prince, upon +this Article of the Army. + +The Nation had been in danger enough from the designs of former +Princes invading their Priviledges, and putting themselves in a +Posture to Tyrannize by the help of standing Forces, and the Party +that first took Fire at this Proposal tho' the very same Men who in +the time of an Abrogratzian Prince, were for caressing him, and +giving him Thanks for his Standing Army, as has been noted before, +were the very People that began the outcry against this Demand, and +so specious were the Pretences they made, that they drew in the very +Crolians themselves upon the pretence of Liberty, and Exemption from +Arbitrary Methods of Government to oppose their King. + +It griev'd this good Prince to be suspected of Tyrannick Designs, and +that by a Nation who he had done so much, and ventur'd so far to save +from Tyranny, and Standing Armies; 'twas in vain he represented to +them the pressing occasion; in vain he gave them a Description of +approaching Dangers, and the threatning posture of the Enemies +Armies; in vain he told them of the probabilities of renewing the +War, and how keeping but a needful Force might be a means of +preventing it; in vain he propos'd the subjecting what Force should +be necessary to the Absolute Power, both as to Time and Number of +their own Cortez or National Assembly. + +It was all one, the Design being form'd in the Breasts of those who +were neither Friends to the Nation, nor the King, those Reasons which +would have been of Force in another Case, made them the more eager; +bitter Reflections were made on the King, and scurrilous Lampoons +publish'd upon the Subject of Tyrants, and Governing by Armies. + +Nothing could be more ungrateful to a generous Prince, nor could any +thing more deeply affect this King, than whom none ever had a more +genuine, single-hearted Design for the Peoples good, but above all, +like Casar in the Case of Brutus, it heartily mov'd him to find +himself push'd at by those very People whom he had all along seen, +pretending to adhere to his Interest, and the Publick Benefit, which +he had always taken care should never be parted, and to find these +People join against this Proposal, as a Design against their +Liberties, and as a Foundation of Tyranny heartily and sensibly +afflicted him. + +It was a strange Mistery, and not easily unriddled, that those Men +who had always a known aversion to the Interest of the depos'd King +should fall in with this Party, and those that were Friends to the +general Good, never forgave it them. + +All that could be said to excuse them, was the Plot I am speaking of, +that by carrying this Point for that Party, they hookt in those +forward People to join in a popular Cry of Liberty and Property, +things they were never fond of before, and to make some Settlement of +the Peoples Claims which they always had oppos'd, and which they +would since have been very glad to have repeal'd. + +So great an Ascendant had the Personal Spleen of this Party over +their other Principles, that they were content to let the Liberties +of the People be declar'd in their highest Claims, rather than not +obtain this one Article, which they knew would so exceedingly mortify +their Prince, and strengthen the Nations Enemies. They freely join'd +in Acts of Succession, Abjuration, Declaration of the Power and +Claims of the People, and the Superiority of their Right to the +Princes Prerogative, and abundance of such things, which they could +never be otherwise brought to. + +'Tis true these were great things, but 'twas thought all this might +have been obtain'd in Conjunction with their Prince, rather than by +putting Affronts and Mortifications upon the Man that had next to the +Influence of Heaven been the only Agent of restoring them to a Power +and Capacity of enjoying, as well as procuring, such things as +National Priviledges. + +'Twas vigorosly alledg'd that Standing Armies in times of Peace, were +inconsistent with the Publick Safety, the Laws and Constitutions of +all the Nations in the Moon. + +But these Allegations were strenuously answer'd, that it was true +without the consent of the great National Council, it was so, but +that being obtain'd, it was not illegal, and publick Necessities +might make that consent, not only legal, but convenient. + +'Twas all to no purpose, the whole was carry'd with a Torrent of +Clamour and Reflection against the good Prince, who consented, +because he would in nothing oppose the Current of the People; but +withal, told them plainly what would be the consequences of their +Heat, which they have effectually found true since to their Cost, and +to the loss of some Millions of Treasure. + +For no sooner was this Army broke, which was the best ever that +Nation saw, and was justly the Terror of the Enemy, but the great +Monarch we mention'd before, broke all Measures with this Prince and +the Confederate Nations, a Proof what just apprehensions they had of +his Conduct, at the head of such an Army. For they broke with +contempt, a Treaty which the Prince upon a prospect of this +unkindness of his People had entred into with the Enemy, and which he +engag'd in, if possible, to prevent a new War, which he foresaw he +should be very unfit to begin, or carry on, and which they would +never have dar'd to break had not this Feud happen'd. + +It was but a little before I came into this Country, when such +repeated Accounts came, of the Incroachments, Insults and +Preparations of their great powerful Neighbour, that all the World +saw the necessity of a War, and the very People who were to feel it +most apply'd to the Prince to begin it. + +He was forward enough to begin it, and in compliance with his People, +resolv'd on it; but the Grief of the usage he had receiv'd, the +unkind Treatment he had met with from those very People that brought +him thither, had sunk so deep upon his Spirits, that he could never +recover it; but being very weak in Body and Mind, and join'd to a +slight hurt he receiv'd by a fall from his Horse, he dyed, to the +unspeakable grief of all his Subjects that wish'd well to their +Native Country. + +This was the melancholly Account of this great Prince's end, and I +have been told that at once every Year, there is a kind of Fast, or +solemn Commemoration kept up for the Murther of that former Prince, +who, as I noted, was Beheaded by his Subjects; So it seems some of +the People, who are of Opinion this Prince was Murther'd by the ill +Treatment of his Friends, a way which I must own, is the cruellest of +Deaths, keep the same Day, to commemorate his Death, and this is a +Day, in which it seems both Parties are very free with one another, +as to Rallery and ill Language. + +But the Friends of this last Prince have a double advantage, for they +also commemorate the Birth Day of this Prince, and are generally very +merry on that Day; and the custom is at their Feast on that Day, just +like our drinking Healths, they pledge one another to the immortal +Memory of their Deliverer; as the Historical part of this Matter was +absolutely necessary to introduce the following Remarks, and to +instruct the Ignorant in those things, I hope it shall not be thought +a barren Digression, especially when I shall tell you that it is a +most exact Representation of what is yet to come in a Scene of +Affairs, of which I must make a short Abstract, by way of +Introduction. + +The deceas'd Prince we have heard of, was succeeded by his Sister +in-Law, the second Daughter of the banish'd Prince, a Lady of an +extraordinary Character, of the Old Race of their Kings, a Native by +Birth, a Solunarian by Profession; exceeding Pious, Just and Good, of +an Honesty peculiar to her self, and for which she was justly belov'd +of all sorts and degrees of her Subjects. + +This Princess having the Experience of her Father and Grand-father +before her, join'd to her own Prudence and Honesty of Design; it was +no wonder if she prudently shun'd all manner of rash Counsels, and +endeavour'd to carry it with a steady Hand between her contending +Parties. + +At her first coming to the Crown, she made a solemn Declaration of +her resolutions for Peace and just Government; she gave the Crolians +her Royal Word, that she would inviolably preserve the Toleration of +their Religion and Worship, and always afford them her Protection, +and by this she hop'd they would be easy. + +But to the Solunarians, as those among whom she had been Educated, +and whose Religion she had always profess'd, been train'd up in, and +Piously persued; she express'd her self with an uncommon Tenderness, +told them they should be the Men of her Favour, and those that were +most zealous for that Church should have most of her Countenance; and +she back'd this soon after with an unparallel'd Act of Royal Bounty +to them, freely parting with a considerable Branch of her Royal +Revenue, for the poor Priests of that Religion, of which there were +many in the remote Parts of her Kingdom. + +What vast Consequences, and prodigiously differing from the Design, +may Words have when mistaken and misayplyed by the Hearers. Never +were significant Expressions spoken from a sincere, honest and +generous Principle, with a single Design to ingage all the Subjects +in the Moon, to Peace and Union, so perverted, misapply'd and turn'd +by a Party, to a meaning directly contrary to the Royal Thoughts of +the Queen: For from this very Expression, most Zealous, grew all the +Divisions and Subdivisions in the Solunarian Church, to the Ruin of +their own Cause, and the vast advantage of the Crolian Interest. The +eager Men of the Church, especially those we have been talking of, +hastily catch'd at this Expression of the Queen, Most Zealous, and +Millions of fatal Constructions, and unhappy Consequences they made +of it, some of which are as follows. + +1. They took it to imply that the Queen whatever she had said to the +Crolians, really design'd their Destruction, and that those that were +of that Opinion, must be meant by the Most Zealous Members of the +Solunarian Church, and they could understand Zeal no otherwise than +their own way. + +2. From this Speech, and their mistaking the Words Most Zealous, +arose an unhappy Distinction among the Solunarians themselves, some +Zealous, some More Zealous, which afterwards divided them into two +most opposite Parties, being fomented by an accident of a Book +publish'd on an Occasion, of which presently. + +The Consequences of this mistake, appear'd presently in the Most +Zealous, in their offering all possible Insults to the Crolian +Dissenters, Preaching them down, Printing them down, and Talking them +down, as a People not fit to be suffer'd in the Nation, and now they +thought they had the Game sure. + +Down with the Crolians began to be all the Cry, and truly the +Crolians themselves began to be uneasy, and had nothing to rely upon +but the Queens Promise, which however her Majesty always made good to +them. + +The other Party proceeded so far, that they begun to Insult the very +Queen her self, upon the Matter of her Word, and one of her +College-Priests told her plainly in Print, she could not be a true +Friend to the Solunarian Church, if she did not declare War against, +and root out all the Crolians in her Dominions. + +But these Proceedings met with a Check, by a very odd accident: A +certain Author of those Countries, a very mean, obscure and +despicable Fellow, of no great share of Wit, but that had a very +unlucky way of telling his Story, seeing which way things were a +going, writes a Book, and Personating this high Solunarian Zeal, +musters up all their Arguments, as if they were his own, and +strenuously pretends to prove that all the Crolians ought to be +Destroy'd, Hang'd, Banish'd, and the D----l and all. As this Book was +a perfect Surprize to all the Country, so the Proceedings about it on +all sides were as extraordinary. + +The Crolians themselves were surpriz'd at it, and so closely had the +Author couch'd his Design, that they never saw the irony of the +Stile, but began to look about them, to see which way they should fly +to save themselves. + +The Men of Zeal we talk'd of, were so blinded with the Notion which +suited so exactly with their real Design, that they hugg'd the Book, +applauded the unknown Author, and plac'd the Book next their Oraclar +Writings, or Laws of Religion. + +The Author was all this while conceal'd, and the Paper had all the +effect he wish'd for. + +For as it caus'd these first Gentlemen to caress, applaud and approve +it, and thereby discover'd their real Intention, so it met with +Abhorrence and Detestation in all the Men of Principles, Prudence and +Moderation in the Kingdom, who tho' they were Solunarians in +Religion, yet were not for Blood, Desolation and Persecution of their +Brethren, but with the Queen were willing they should enjoy their +Liberties and Estates, they behaving themselves quietly and peaceably +to the Government. + +At last it came out that it was writ by a Crolian; but good God! what +a Clamour was rais'd at the poor Man, the Crolians flew at him like +Lightning, ignorantly and blindly, not seeing that he had sacrific'd +himself and his Fortunes in their behalf; they rumag'd his Character +for Reproaches, tho' they could find little that way to hurt him; +they plentifully loaded him with ill Language and Railing, and took a +great deal of pains to let the World see their own Ignorance and +Ingratitude. + +The Ministers of State, tho' at that time of the fiery Party, yet +seeing the general Detestation of such a Proposal, and how ill it +would go down with the Nation, tho' they approv'd the thing, yet +began to scent the Design, and were also oblig'd to declare against +it, for fear of being thought of the same Mind. + +Thus the Author was Proscrib'd by Proclamation, and a Reward of 50000 +Hecato's, a small imaginary Coin in those Parts, put upon his Head. + +The Cortez of the Nation being at the same time assembled join'd in +Censuring the Book, and thus the Party blindly damn'd their own +Principles for meer shame of the practice, not daring to own the +thing in publick which they had underhand profest, and the fury of +all Parties fell upon the poor Author. + +The Man fled the first popular Fury, but at last being betraid fell +into the Hands of the publick Ministry. + +When they had him they hardly knew what to do with him; they could +not proceed against him as Author of a Proposal for the Destruction +of the Crolians because it appear'd he was a Crolian himself; they +were loth to charge him with suggesting that the Solunarian +Church-men were guilty of such a Design, least he should bring their +own Writings to prove it true; so they fell to wheadling him with +good Words to throw himself into their Hands and submit, giving him +that Geu-gau the Publick Faith for a Civil and Gentleman-like +Treatment; the Man, believing like a Coxcomb that they spoke as they +meant, quitted his own Defence, and threw himself on the Mercy of the +Queen as he thought; but they abusing their Queen with false +Representations, Perjur'd all their Promises with him, and treated +him in a most barbarous manner, on pretence that there were no such +Promises made, tho' he prov'd it upon them by the Oath of the Persons +to whom they were made. + +Thus they laid him under a heavy Sentence, Fin'd him more than they +thought him able to pay, and order'd him to be expos'd to the Mob in +the Streets. + +Having him at this Advantage they set upon him with their Emissaries +to discover to them his Adherents, as they call'd them, and promis'd +him great Things on one Hand, threatning him with his utter Ruin on +the other; and the Great Scribe of the Country, with another of their +great Courtiers, took such a low Step as to go to him to the Dungeon +where they had put him, to see if they could tempt him to betray his +Friends. The Comical Dialogue between them there the Author of this +has seen in Manuscript, exceeding diverting, but having not time to +Translate it 'tis omitted for the present; tho' he promises to +publish it in its proper Season for publick Instruction. + +However for the present it may suffice to tell the World, that +neither by promises of Reward or fear of Punishment they could +prevail upon him to discover any thing, and so it remains a Secret to +this day. + +The Title of this unhappy Book was The shortest way with the +Crolians. The Effects of it were various, as will be seen in our +ensuing Discourse: As to the Author nothing was more unaccountable +than the Circumstances of his Treatment; for he met with all that +Fate which they must expect who attempt to open the Eyes of a Nation +wilfully blind. + +The hot Men of the Solunarian Church damn'd him without Bell, Book, +or Candle; the more Moderate pitied him, but lookt on as unconcern'd: +But the Crolians, for whom he had run this Venture, us'd him worst of +all; for they not only abandon'd him, but reproacht him as an Enemy +that would ha' them destroy'd: So one side rail'd at him because they +did understand him, and the other because they did not. + +Thus the Man sunk under the general Neglect, was ruin'd and undone, +and left a Monument of what every Man must expect that serves a good +Cause, profest by an unthankful People. + +And here it was I found out that my Lunar Philosopher was only so in +Disguise, and that he was no Philosopher, but the very Man I have +been talking of. + +From this Book, and the Treatment its Author receiv'd, for they us'd +him with all possible Rigour, a new Scene of Parties came upon the +Stage, and this Queen's Reign began to be fill'd with more Divisions +and Feuds than any before her. + +These Parties began to be so numerous and violent that it endanger'd +the Publick Good, and gave great Disadvantages to the general Affairs +abroad. + +The Queen invited them all to Peace and Union, but 'twas in vain; +nay, one had the Impudence to publish that to procure Peace and Union +it was necessary to suppress all the Crolians, and have no Party but +one, and then all must be of a Mind. + +From this heat of Parties all the moderate Men fell in with their +Queen, and were heartily for Peace and Union: The other, who were now +distinguish'd by the Title of High Solunarians, call'd these all +Crolians and Low Solunarians, and began to Treat them with more +Inveteracy than they us'd to do the Crolians themselves, calling them +Traytors to their Country, Betrayers of their Mother, Serpents +harbour'd in the Bosom, who bite, sting and hiss at the Hand that +succour'd them; and in short the Enmity grew so violent, that from +hence proceeded one of the subtilest, foolishest, deep, shallow +Contrivances and Plots that ever was hatcht or set on foot by any +Party of Men in the whole Moon, at least who pretended to any Brains, +or to half a degree of common Understanding. + +There had always been Dislikes and Distasts between even the most +moderate Solunarians and the Crolians, as I have noted in the +beginning of this Relation, and these were deriv'd from Dissenting in +Opinions of Religion, ancient Feuds, private Interest, Education, and +the like; and the Solunarians had frequently, on pretence of securing +the Government, made Laws to exclude the Crolians from any part of +the Administration, unless they submitted to some Religious Tests and +Ceremonies which were prescrib'd them. + +Now as the keeping them out of Offices was more the Design than the +Conversion of the Crolians to the Solunarian Church, the Crolians, at +least many of them, submitted to the Test, and frequently Conform'd +to qualify themselves for publick Employments. + +The most moderate of the Solunarians were in their Opinion against +this practice, and the High Men taking advantage of them, drew them +in to Concur in making a Law with yet more Severity against them, +effectually to keep them out of Employment. + +The low Solunarians were easy to be drawn into this Project, as it +was only a Confirming former Laws of their own making, and all Things +run fair for the Design; but as the High Men had further Ends in it +than barely reducing the Crolians to Conformity, they coucht so many +gross Clauses into their Law, that even the Grandees of the +Solunarians themselves could not comply with; nay even the Patriarchs +of the Solunarian Church declar'd against it, as tending to +Persecution and Confusion. + +This Disappointment enrag'd the Party, and that very Rage entirely +ruin'd their Project; for now the Nobility, the Patriarchs, and all +the wise Men of the Nation, joining together against these Men of +Heat and Fury, the Queen began to see into their Designs, and as she +was of a most pious and peaceable Temper, she conceiv'd a just Hatred +of so wicked and barbarous a Design, and immediately dismiss'd from +her Council and Favour the Great Scribe, and several others who were +Leaders in the Design, to the great mortification of the whole Party, +and utter Ruin of the intended Law against the Crolians. + +Here I could not but observe, as I have done before in the Case of +the banish'd King, how impolitick these high Solunarian Church-men +acted in all their Proceedings, for had they contented themselves by +little and little to ha' done their Work, they had done it +effectually; but pushing at Extremities they overshot themselves, and +ruin'd all. + +For the Grandees and Patriarchs made but a few trifling Objections at +first, nay and came off, and yielded some of them too; and if these +would ha' consented to ha' parted with some Clauses which they have +willingly left out since, they had had it pass'd; but these were as +hot Men always are, too eager and sure of their Game, they thought +all was their own, and so they lost themselves. + +If they rail'd at the low Solunarian Church-men before, they doubled +their Clamors at them now, all the Patriarchs, and all the Nobility +and Grandees, nay even the Queen her self came under their Censure, +and every Body who was not of their Mind were Prestarians and +Crolians. + +As this Rage of theirs was implacable, so, as I hinted before, it +drove them into another Subdivision of Parties, and now began the +Mysterious Plot to be laid which I mention'd before; for the Cortez +being summon'd, and the Law being proposed, some of these high +Solunarians appear'd in Confederacy with the Crolians, in perfect +Confederacy with them, a thing no Body would have imagin'd could ever +ha' been brought to pass. + +Now as these sorts of Plots must always be carry'd very nicely, so +these high Gentlemen who Confederated with the Crolians, having, to +spight the other, resolv'd effectually to prevent the passing the Law +against the Qualification of the Crolians, it was not their Business +immediately to declare themselves against it as a Law, but by still +loading it with some Extravagance or other, and pushing it on to some +intolerable Extreme, secure its miscarriage. + +In the managing this Plot, one of their Authors was specially +employ'd, and that all that was really true of the Crolian Dissenters +might be ridicul'd, his Work was to draw monstrous Pictures of them, +which no Body could believe; this took immediately, for now People +began to look at their Shooes to see if they were not Cloven Footed +as they went a long Streets; and at last finding they were really +shap'd like the rest of the Lunar Inhabitants, they went back to the +Author, who was a Learned Member of a certain Seminary, or +Brother-hood of the Solunarian Clergy, and enquir'd if he were not +Mad, Distracted and Raving, or Moon-blind, and in want of the +thinking Engine; but finding all things right there, and that he was +in his Senses, especially in a Morning when he was a little free +from, &c. that he was a Good, Honest, Jolly, Solunarian Priest, and +no room could be found for an Objection there. Upon all these +Searches it presently appear'd, and all Men concluded it was a meer +Fanatick Crolian Plot; that this High Party of all were but +Pretenders, and meer Traytors to the True High Solunarian Church-Men, +that wearing the same Cloth had herded among them in Disguise, only +to wheedle them into such wild Extravagancies as must of necessity +confuse their Councils, expose their Persons, and ruin their Cause. +---- According to the like Practice, put upon their Abrograzian +Prince, and of which I have spoken before. + +And since I am upon the detection of this most refin'd Practice, I +crave leave to descend to some particular Instances, which will the +better evince the Truth of this Matter, and make it appear that +either this was really a Crolian Plot, or else all these People were +perfectly Distracted; and as their Wits in that Lunar World, are much +higher strain'd than ours, so their Lunacy, where it happens, must +according to the Rules of Mathematical Nature, bear an extream Equal +in proportion. + +This College Fury of a Man was the first on whom this useful +Discovery was made, and having writ several Learned Tracts wherein he +invited the People to Murther and Destroy all the Crolians, Branded +all the Solunarian Patriarchs, Clergy and Gentry that would not come +into his Proposal, with the name of Cowards, Traytors and Betrayers +of Lunar Religion; having beat the Concionazimir at a great Assembly +of the Cadirs, or Judges, and told them all the Crolians were Devils, +and they were all Perjur'd that did not use them as such: He carry'd +on Matters so dexterously, and with such surprizing Success, that he +fill'd even the Solunarians themselves with Horror at his +Proposals.----- And as I happen'd to be in one of their publick Halls +where all such Writings as are new are laid a certain time to be read +by every Comer, I saw a little knot of Men round a Table, where one +was reading this Book. + +There were two Solunarian High Priests in their proper Vestments, one +Privy Councellor of the State, one other Noble Man, and one who had +in his Hat a Token, to signifie that he possest one of the fine +Feathers of the Consolidator, of which I have given the Description +already. + +The Book being read by one of the habited Priests, he starts up with +some warmth, by the Moon, says he, I have found this Fellow out, he +is certainly a Crolian, a meer Prestarian Crolian, and is crept into +our Church only in Disguise, for 'tis certain all this is but meer +Banter and Irony to expose us, and to ridicule the Solunarian +Interest. + +The Privy Councellor took it presently, whether he is a Crolian or +no, says he, I cannot tell, but he has certainly done the Crolians so +much Service, that if they had hir'd him to act for them, they could +not have desir'd he should serve them better. + +Truly, says the Man of the Feather, I was always for pulling down the +Crolians, for I thought them dangerous to the State; but this Man has +brought the Matter nearer to my View, and shown me what destroying +them is, for he put me upon examining the Consequences, and now I +find it would be lopping off the Limbs of the Government, and laying +it at the Mercy of the Enemy that they might lop off its Head; I +assure you he has done the Crolians great Service, for whereas +abundance of our Men of the Feather were for routing the Crolians, +they lately fell down to 134 or thereabouts. + +All this confirm'd the first Man's Opinion that he was a Crolian in +Disguise, or an Emissary employ'd by them to ruin the Project of +their Enemies; for these Crolians are damn'd cunning People in their +way, and they have Mony enough to engage Hirelings to their side. + +Another Party concern'd in this Plot was an old cast-out Solunarian +Priest, who, tho' professing himself a Solunarian, was turn'd out for +adhering to the Abrograzian King, a mighty Stickler for the Doctrin +of absolute Subjection. + +This Man draws the most monstrous Picture of a Crolian that could be +invented, he put him in a Wolf's Skin with long Asses Ears, and hung +him all over full of Associations, Massacres, Persecutions, +Rebellions, and Blood. Here the People began to stare again, and a +Crolian cou'd not go along the Street but they were alway's looking +for the long Ears, the Wolf's Claws, and the like; 'till at last +nothing of these Things appearing, but the Crolians looking and +acting like other Folks, they begun to examine the Matter, and found +this was a meer Crolian Plot too, and this Man was hir'd to run these +extravagant lengths to point out the right meaning. + +The Discovery being made, People ever since understand him that when +he talks of the Dissenters Associations, Murthers, Persecutions, and +the like, he means that his Readers should look back to the Murthers, +Oppressions and Persecutions they had suffered for several past +years, and the Associations that were now forming to bring them into +the same Condition again. + +From this famous Author I could not but proceed to observe the +farther Progress of this most refin'd piece of Cunning, among the +very great Ones, Grandees, Feathers, and Consolidators of the +Country. For these Cunning Crolians manag'd their Intriegues so +nicely, that they brought about a Famous Division even among the High +Solunarian Party themselves; and whereas the Law of Qualification was +reviv'd again, and in great Danger of being compleated; these subtle +Crolians brought over One Hundred and Thirty Four of the Feathers in +the Famous Consolidator to be of their side, and to Contrive the +utter Destruction of it; and thus fell the Design which the High +Solunarian Church Men had laid for the Ruin of the Crolians Interest, +by their own Friends first joyning in all the Extremes they had +proposed, and then pushing it so much farther, and to such mad +Periods that the very highest of them stood amaz'd at the Design, +startled, flew back and made a full stop; they were willing to Ruin +the Crolians, but they were not willing to Ruin the whole Nation. The +more these Men began to consider, the more furiously these Plotters +carry'd on their Extravagances; at last they made a General push at a +thing in which they knew if the other High Men joyn'd, they must +throw all into Confusion, bring a Foreign Enemy on their Backs, +unravel all the Thread of the War, fight all their Victories back +again, and involve the whole Nation in Blood and Confusion. + +They knew well enough that most of the High Men would hesitate at +this, they knew if they did not the Grandees and Patriarchs would +reject it, and so they plaid the surest Game to blast and overthrow +this Law, that could possibly be plaid. + +If any Man, in the whole World in the Moon, will pretend this was not +a Plot, a Crolian Design, a meer Conspiracy to destroy the Law, let +him tell me for what other end could these Men offer such extreams as +they needs must know would meet with immediate opposition, things +that they knew all the Honest Men, all the Grandees, all the +Patriarchs, and almost all the Feathers would oppose. + +From hence all the Men of any fore-sight brought it to this pass, as +is before Noted, that either these One Hundred and Thirty Four were +Fools or Mad-Men, or that it was a Phanatick Crolian Plot and +Conspiracy to Ruin the makeing this Law, which the rest of the +Solunarian Church Men were very forward to carry on. + +I heard indeed some Men Argue that this could not be, the breach was +too wide between the Crolians and these Gentlemen ever to come to +such an Agreement; but the Wiser Heads who argu'd the other way, +always brought them, as is noted above, to this pinch of Argument; +that either it must be so, be a Fanatick Crolian Plot, or else the +Men of Fury were all Fools, Madmen, and fitter for an Hospital, than +a State-House, or a Pulpit. + +It must be allow'd, these Crolians were Cunning People, thus to +wheedle in these High Flying Solunarians to break the Neck of their +dear Project. + +But upon the whole, for ought I cou'd see, whether it went one way or +t'other, all the Nation esteem'd the other People Fools ------ Fools +of the most extraordinary Size in all the Moon, for either way they +pull'd down what they had been many Years a Building. + +I cannot say that this was in kindness to the Crolians, but in meer +Malice to the Low Solunarian Party, who had the Government in their +Hands, for Malice always carries Men on to monstrous Extremes. + +Some indeed have thought it hard to call this a Plot, and a +Confederacy with the Crolians.------ But I cannot but think it the +kindest thing that can be said of them, and that 'tis impossible +those People who push'd at some imaginary Things in that Law could +but be in a Plot as aforesaid, or be perfectly Lunatick, down right +Mad-Men, or Traytors to their Country, and let them choose which +Character they like. + +I cannot in Charity but spare them their Honesty, and their Senses, +and attribute it all to their Policy. + +When I had understood all things at large, and found the exceeding +depth of the Design; I must confess the Discovery of these things was +very diverting, and the more so, when I made the proper Reflections +upon the Analogy there seem'd to be between these Solunarian High +Church-Men in the Moon, and ours here in England; our High Church-Men +are no more to compare to these, than the Hundred and Thirty Four, +are to the Consolidators. + +Ours can Plot now and then a little among themselves, but then 'tis +all Gross and plain Sailing, down right taking Arms, calling in +Foreign Forces, Assassinations and the like; but these are nothing to +the more Exquisite Heads in the Moon. For they have the subtillest +Ways with them, that ever were heard of. They can make War with a +Prince, on purpose to bring him to the Crown; fit out vast Navies +against him, that he may have the more leisure to take their Merchant +Men; make Descents upon him, on purpose to come Home and do nothing; +if they have a mind to a Sea Fight, they carefully send out Admirals +that care not to come within half a Mile of the Enemy, that coming +off safe they may have the boasting Part of the Victory, and the +beaten Part both together. + +'Twould be endless to call over the Roll of their sublime Politicks. +They damn Moderation in order to Peace and Union, set the House on +Fire to save it from Desolation, Plunder to avoid Persecution, and +consolidate Things in order to their more immediate Dissolution. + +Had our High Church-Men been Masters of these excellent Arts, they +had long ago brought their Designs to pass. + +The exquisite Plot of these High Solunarians answer'd the Crolians +End, for it broke all their Enemies Measures, the Law vanish'd, the +Grandees could hardly be perswaded to read it, and when it was +propos'd to be read again, they hist at it, and threw it by with +Contempt. + +Nor was this all; for it not only lost them their Design as to this +Law, but it also absolutely broke the Party, and just as it was with +Adam and Eve, as soon as they Sinn'd they Quarrell'd, and fell out +with one another; so, as soon as things came to this height, the +Party fell out one among another, and even the High Men themselves +were divided, some were for Consolidating, and some not for +Consolidating, some were for Tacking, and some not for Tacking, as +they were, or were not let into the Secret. + +If this Confusion of Languages, or Interest, lost them the real +Design, it cannot be a wonder; have we not always seen it in our +World, that dividing an Interest, weakens and exposes it? Has not a +great many both good and bad Designs been render'd Abortive in this +our Lower World, for want of the Harmony of Parties, and the +Unanimity of those concern'd in the Design? + +How had the knot of Rebellion been dissolv'd in England, if it had +not been untied by the very Hands of those that knit it? All the +contrary Force had been entirely broken and subdu'd, and the +Restoration of Monarchy had never happen'd in England, if Union and +Agreement had been found among the managers of that Age. + +The Enemies of the present Establishment have shown sufficiently that +they perfectly understand the shortest way to our infallible +Destruction, when they bend their principle Force at dividing us into +Parties, and keeping those parties at the utmost variance. + +But this is not all, the Author of this cannot but observe here that +as England is unhappily divided among Parties, so it has this one +Felicity even to be found in the very matter of her Misfortunes, that +those Parties are all again subdivided among themselves. + +How easily might the Church have crusht and subdu'd the Dissenters if +they had been all as mad as one Party, if they had not been some High +and some Low Church-men. And what Mischief might not that one Party +ha' done in this Nation, had not they been divided again into Jurant +Jacobites and Non-Jurant, into Consolidators and Non-Consolidators? +From whence 'tis plain to me, that just as it is in the Moon these +Consolidating Church-men are meer Confederates with the Whigs; and it +must be so, unless we should suppose them meer mad Men that don't +know what they are a doing, and who are the Drudges of their Enemies, +and kno' nothing of the Matter. + +And from this Lunar Observation it presently occur'd to my +Understanding, that my Masters the Dissenters may come in for a share +among the Moon-blind Men of this Generation, since had they done for +their own Interest what the Laws fairly admits to be done, had they +been united among themselves, had they form'd themselves into a +Politick Body to have acted in a publick, united Capacity by general +Concert, and as Persons that had but one Interest and understood it, +they had never been so often Insulted by every rising Party, they had +never had so many Machines and Intrigues to ruin and suppress them, +they had never been so often Tackt and Consolidated to Oppression and +Persecution, and yet never have rebell'd or broke the Peace, incurr'd +the Displeasure of their Princes, or have been upbraided with Plots, +Insurrections and Antimonarchical Principles; when they had made +Treaties and Capitulations with the Church for Temper and Toleration, +the Articles would have been kept, and these would have demanded +Justice with an Authority that would upon all Occasions be respected. + +Were they united in Civil Polity in Trade and Interest, would they +Buy and Sell with one another, abstract their Stocks, erect Banks and +Companies in Trade of their own, lend their Cash to the Government in +a Body, and as a Body. + +If I were to tell them what Advantages the Crolians in the Moon make +of this sort of management, how the Government finds it their +Interest to treat them civilly, and use them like Subjects of +Consideration; how upon all Occasions some of the Grandees and +Nobility appear as Protectors of the Crolians, and treat with their +Princes in their Names, present their Petitions, and make Demands +from the Prince of such Loans and Sums of Mony as the publick +Occasions require; and what abundance of Advantages are reapt from +such a Union, both to their own Body as a Party, and to the +Government also they would be convinc'd; wherefore I cannot but very +earnestly desire of the Dissenters and Whigs in my own Country that +they would take a Journy in my Consolidator up to the Moon, they +would certainly see there what vast Advantages they lose for want of +a Spirit of Union, and a concert of Measures among themselves. + +The Crolians in the Moon are Men of large Souls, and Generously stand +by one another on all Occasions; it was never known that they +deserted any Body that suffer'd for them, my Old Philosopher +excepted, and that was a surprize upon them. + +The Reason of the Difference is plain, our Dissenters here have not +the Advantage of a Cogitator, or thinking Engine, as they have in the +Moon.----- We have the Elevator here and are lifted up pretty much, +but in the Moon they always go into the Thinking Engine upon every +Emergency, and in this they out-do us of this World on every Occasion. + +In general therefore I must note that the wisest Men I found in the +Moon, when they understood the Notes I had made as above, of the +sub-divisions of our Parties, told me that it was the greatest +Happiness that could ha' been obtained to our Country, for that if +our Parties had not been thus divided, the Nation had been undone. +They own'd that had not their Solunarian Party been divided among +themselves, the Crolians had been undone, and all the Moon had been +involv'd in Persecution, and been very probably subjected to the +Gallunarian Monarch. + +Thus the fatal Errors of Men have their advantages, the seperate ends +they serve are not foreseen by their Authors and they do good against +the very Design of the People, and the nature of the Evil it self. + +And now that I may encourage our People to that Peace and good +Understanding among themselves, which can alone produce their Safety +and Deliverance; I shall give a brief Account how the Crolians in the +Moon came to open their Eyes to their own Interest, how they came to +Unite; and how the Fruits of that Union secur'd them from ever being +insulted again by the Solunarian Party, who in time gave over the +vain and fruitless Attempt, and so a universal Lunar Calm has spread +the whole Moon ever since. + +If our People will not listen to their own Advantages, nor do their +own Business, let them take the consequences to themselves, they +cannot blame the Man in the Moon. + +To endeavour to bring this to pass, as these Memoirs have run thro' +the general History of the Feuds and unhappy Breaches between the +Solunarian Church and the Crolian Dissenters in the World of the +Moon, it would seem an imperfect and abrupt Relation, if I should not +tell you how, and by what Method, tho' long hid from their Eyes, the +Crolians came to understand their own Interest and know their own +Strength. + +'Tis true, it seem'd a Wonder to me when I consider'd the Excellence +and Variety of those perspective Glasses I have mentioned, the +clearness of the Air, and consequently of the Head, in this Lunar +World. I say it was very strange the Crolians should ha' been Moon +Blind so long as they were, that they could not see it was always in +their Power if they had but pursued their own Interest, and made use +of those, legal Opportunities which lay before them, to put +themselves in a Posture, as that the Government it self should think +them a Body too big to be insulted, and find it their Interest to +keep Measures with them. + +It was indeed a long time before they open'd their Eyes to these +advantages, but bore the Insults of the hair-brain'd Party, with a +weakness and negligence that was as unjustifiable in them, as +unaccountable to all the Nations of the Moon. + +But at last, as all violent Extremes rouze their contrary +Extremeties, the folly and extravagance of the High Solunarians drove +the Crolians into their Senses, and rouz'd them to their own +Interest, the occasion was among a great many others as follows. + +The eager Solunarian could not on all occasions forbear to show their +deep Regret at the Dissenting Crolians enjoying the Tolleration of +their Religion, by a Law ---. + +And when all their legal Attempts to lessen that Liberty had prov'd +Abortive, her Solunarian Majesty on all Occasions repeating her +assurances of the continuance of her Protection, and particularly the +maintaining this Tolleration Inviolable. They proceeded then to show +the remains of their Mallice, in little Insults, mean and illegal +Methods, and continual private Disturbances upon particular Persons, +in which, however the Crolians having recourse to the Law, always +found Justice on their side, and had redress with Advantage, of which +the following Instance is more than ordinarily Remarkable. + +There had been a Law made by the Men of the Feather, that all the +meaner Idle sort of People, who had no settel'd way of living should +go to the Wars, and the Lazognians, a sort of Magistrates there, in +the nature of our Justices of the Peace, were to send them away by +Force. + +Now it happen'd in a certain Solunarian Island, that for want of a +better, one of their High Priests was put into the Civil +Administration, and made a Lazognian.----- In the Neighbourhood of +this Man's Jurisdiction, one of their own Solunarian Priests had +turn'd Crolian, and whether he had a better Tallent at performance, +or rather was more diligent in his Office is not material, but he set +up a kind of a Crolian Temple in an old Barn, or some such Mechanick +Building, and all the People flock'd after him. + +This so provok'd his Neighbours of the black Girdle, an Order of +Priests, of which he had been one, that they resolv'd to suppress him +let it cost what it would. + +They run strange lengths to bring this to pass. + +They forg'd strange Stories of him, defam'd him, run him into Jayl +upon frivolous and groundless Occasions, represented him as a Monster +of a Man, told their Story so plain, and made it so specious, that +even the Crolians themselves to their Shame, believ'd it, and took up +Prejudices against the Poor Man, which had like to ha' been his Ruin. + +They proscrib'd him in Print for Crimes they could never prove, they +branded him with Forgery, Adultery, Drunkenness, Swearing, breaking +Jayl, and abundance of Crimes; but when Matters were examin'd and +things came to the Test, they could never prove the least thing upon +him.----- In this manner however they continually worryed the poor +Man, till they ruin'd his Family and reduc'd him to Beggary; and tho' +he came out of the Prison they cast him into by the meer force of +Innocence, yet they never left persuing him with all sorts of +violence.------ At last they made use of their Brother of the Girdle +who was in Commission as above, and this Man being High Priest and +Lazonian too, by the first was a Party, and by the last had a Power +to act the Tragedy they had plotted against the poor Man. + +In short, they seiz'd him without any Crime alledg'd, took violently +from him his Licence, as a Crolian Priest, by which the Law justify'd +what he had done, pretending it was forg'd, and after very ill +Treating him, condemn'd him to the Wars, delivers him up for a +Souldier, and accordingly carry'd him away. + +But it happen'd, to their great Mortification, that this Man found +more Mercy from the Men of the Sword, than from those of the Word, +and so found means to get out of their Hands, and afterwards to +undeceive all the Moon, both as to his own Character, and as to what +he had Suffer'd. + +For some of the Crolians, who began to be made sensible of the Injury +done the poor Man, advis'd him to have recourse to the Law, and to +bring his Adversaries before the Criminal Bar. + +But as soon as this was done, good God! what a Scene of Villainy was +here opened: The poor Man brought up such a Cloud of Witnesses to +confront every Article of their Charge, and to vindicate his own +Character, that when the very Judges heard it, tho' they were all +Solunarians themselves, they held up their Hands, and declar'd in +open Court it was the deepest Track of Villany that ever came before +them, and that the Actors ought to be made Examples to all the Moon. + +The Persons concern'd, us'd all possible Arts to avoid, or at least +to delay the Shame, and adjourn the Punishment, thinking still to +weary the poor Man out.------ But now his Brethren the Crolians began +to see themselves wounded thro' his Sides, and above all, finding his +Innocence clear'd up beyond all manner of dispute, they espous'd his +Cause, and assisted him to prosecute his Enemies, which he did, till +he brought them all to Justice, expos'd them to the last Degree, +obtain'd the reparation of all his Losses, and a publick Decree of +the Judges of his Justification and future Repose. + +Indeed when I saw the Proceedings against this poor Man run to a +heighth so extravagant and monstrous, when I found Malice, Forgery, +Subornation, Perjury, and a thousand unjustifiable Things which their +own Sense, if they had any, might ha' been their Protection against, +and which any Child in the Moon might ha' told them must one time or +other come upon the Stage and expose them; I began to think these +People were all in the Crolian Plot too. + +For really such Proceedings as these were the greatest pieces of +Service to the Crolians as could possibly be done; for as it +generally proves in other Places as well as in the Moon, that +Mischief unjustly contriv'd falls upon the Head of the Authors, and +redounds to their treble Dishonour, so it was here; the barbarity and +inhumane Treatment of this Man, made the sober and honest Part even +of the Solanarians themselves blush for their Brethren, and own that +the Punishment awarded on them was just. + +Thus the Crolians got ground by the Folly and Madness of their +Enemies, and the very Engines and Plots laid to injure them, serv'd +to bring their Enemies on the Stage, and expose both them and their +Cause. + +But this was not all, by these incessant Attacks on them as a Party, +they began to come to their Senses out of a 50 Year slumber, they +found the Law on their side, and the Government Moderate and Just; +they found they might oppose Violence with Law, and that when they +did fly to the Refuge of Justice, they always had the better of their +Enemy; flusht with this Success, it put them upon considering what +Fools they had been all along to bear the Insolence of a few +hot-headed Men, who contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of the +Queen, or of the Government, had resolv'd their Destruction. + +It put them upon revolving the State of their own Case, and comparing +it with their Enemies; upon Examining on what foot they stood, and +tho' Establish'd upon a firm Law, yet a violent Party pushing at the +overthrow of that Establishment, and dissolving the legal Right they +had to their Liberty and Religion; it put them upon duly weighing the +nearness of their approaching Ruin and Destruction, and finding +things run so hard against them, reflecting upon the Extremity of +their Affairs, and how if they had not drawn in the High +Church-Champions to damn the Projects of their own Party, by running +at such desperate Extremes as all Men of any Temper must of course +abhor, they had been undone; truly now they began to consider, and to +consult with one another what was to be done. + +Abundance of Projects were laid before them, some too Dangerous, some +too Foolish to be put in practice; at last they resolv'd to consult +with my Philosopher. + +He had been but scurvily treated by them in his Troubles, and so +Universally abandon'd by the Crolians, that even the Solunarians +themselves insulted them on that Head, and laugh'd at them for +expecting any Body should venture for them again.----- But he +forgetting their unkindness, ask'd them what it was they desir'd of +him? + +They told him, they had heard that he had reported he could put the +Crolians in a way to secure themselves from any possibility of being +insulted again by the Solunarians, and yet not disturb the publick +Tranquility, nor break the Laws; and they desir'd him, if he knew +such a Secret, he would communicate it to them, and they would be +sure to remember to forget him for it as long as he liv'd. + +He frankly told them he had said so, and it was true, he could put +them in a way to do all this if they would follow his Directions. +What's that, says one of the most earnest Enquirers? ----- 'Tis +included in one Word, says he, UNITE. + +This most significant Word, deeply and solidly reflected upon, put +them upon strange and various Conjectures, and many long Debates they +had with themselves about it; at last they came again to him, and +ask'd him what he mean't by it? + +He told them he knew they were Strangers to the meaning of the thing, +and therefore if they would meet him the next Day he would come +prepar'd to explain himself; accordingly they meet, when instead of a +long Speech they expected from him what sort of Union he mean't, and +with who, he brings them a Thinking Press, or Cogitator, and setting +it down, goes away without speaking one Word. + +This Hyerogliphical Admonition was too plain not to let them all into +his meaning; but still as they are an obstinate People, and not a +little valuing themselves upon their own Knowledge and Penetration, +they slighted the Engine and fell to off-hand-Surmises, Guesses and +Supposes. + +1. Some concluded he mean't Unite with the Solunarian Church, and +they reflected upon his Understanding, that not being the Question in +Hand, and something remote from their Intention, or the High +Solunarians Desire. + +2. Some mean't Unite to the moderate Party of the Solunarians, and +this they said they had done already. + +At last some being very Cunning, found it out, that it must be his +meaning Unite one among another; and even there again they +misunderstood him too; and some imagin'd he mean't down right +Rebellion, Uniting Power, and Mobbing the whole Moon, but he soon +convinc'd them of that too. + +At last they took the Hint, that his Advice directed them to Unite +their subdivided Parties into one general Interest, and to act in +Concert upon one bottom, to lay aside the Selfish, Narrow, Suspicious +Spirit; three Qualifications the Crolians were but too justly charg'd +with, and begin to act with Courage, Unanimity and Largeness of Soul, +to open their Eyes to their own Interest, maintain a regular and +constant Correspondence with one another in all parts of the Kingdom, +and to bring their civil Interest into a Form. + +The Author of this Advice having thus brought them to understand, and +approve his Proposal, they demanded his assistance for making the +Essay, and 'tis a most wonderful thing to consider what a strange +effect the alteration of their Measures had upon the whole Solunarian +Nation. + +As soon as ever they had settled the Methods they resolv'd to act in, +they form'd a general Council of the Heads of their Party, to be +always sitting, to reconcile Differences, to unite Parties, to +suppress Feuds in their beginning. + +They appointed 3 general Meetings in 3 of the most remote Parts of +the Kingdom, to be half yearly, and one universal Meeting of Persons +deputed to concert matters among them in General. + +By that time these Meetings had sat but once, and the Conduct of the +Council of 12 began to appear, 'twas a wonder to see the prodigious +alteration it made all over the Country. + +Immediately a Crolian would never buy any thing but of a Crolian; +would hire no Servants, employ neither Porter nor Carman, but what +were Crolians. + +The Crolians in the Country that wrought and manag'd the +Manufactures, would employ no body but Crolian Spinners, Crolian +Weavers, and the like. + +In their capital City the Merchandizing Crolians would freight no +Ships but of which the Owners and Commanders were Crolians. + +They call'd all their Cash out of the Solunarian Bank; and as the Act +of the Cortez confirming the Bank then in being seem'd to be their +Support, they made it plain that Cash and Credit will make a Bank +without a publick Settlement of Law; and without these all the Laws +in the Moon will never be able to support it. + +They brought all their running Cash into one Bank, and settled a +sub-Cash depending upon the Grand-Bank in every Province of the +Kingdom; in which, by a strict Correspondence and crediting their +Bills, they might be able to settle a Paper Credit over the whole +Nation. + +They went on to settle themselves in all sorts of Trade in open +Companies, and sold off their Interests in the publick Stocks then in +Trade. + +If the Government wanted a Million of Mony upon any Emergency, they +were ready to lend it as a Body, not by different Sums and private +Hands blended together with their Enemies, but as will appear at +large presently, it was only Crolian Mony, and pass'd as such. + +Nor were the Consequences of this New Model less considerable than +the Proposer expected, for the Crolians being generally of the +Trading Manufacturing part of the World, and very Rich; the influence +this method had upon the common People, upon Trade, and upon the +Publick was very considerable every way. + +1. All the Solunarian Trades-Men and Shop-keepers were at their Wits +end, they sat in their Shops and had little or nothing to do, while +the Shops of the Crolians were full of Customers, and their People +over Head and Ears in Business; this turn'd many of the Solunarian +Trades-Men quite off of the hooks, and they began to break and decay +strangely, till at last a great many of them to prevent their utter +Ruin, turn'd Crolians on purpose to get a Trade; and what forwarded +that part of it was, that when a Solunarian, who had little or no +Trade before, came but over to the Crolians, immediately every Body +come to Trade with him, and his Shop would be full of Customers, so +that this presently encreas'd the number of the Crolians. + +2. The poor People in the Countries, Carders, Spinners, Weavers, +Knitters, and all sorts of Manufacturers, run in Crowds to the +Crolian Temples for fear of being starv'd, for the Crolians were two +thirds of the Masters or Employers in the Manufactures all over the +Country, and the Poor would ha' been starv'd and undone if they had +cast them out of Work. Thus infenfibly the Crolians encreas'd their +number. + +3. The Crolians being Men of vast Cash, they no sooner withdrew their +Mony from the General Bank but the Bank languisht, Credit sunk, and +in a short time they had little to do, but dissolv'd of Course. + +One thing remain'd which People expected would ha' put a Check to +this Undertaking, and that was a way of Trading in Classes, or +Societies, much like our East-India Companies in England; and these +depending upon publick Privileges granted by the Queen of the +Country, or her Predecessors, no Body could Trade to those Parts but +the Persons who had those priviledges: The cunning Crolians, who had +great Stocks in those Trades, and foresaw they could not Trade by +themselves without the publick Grant or Charter, contriv'd a way to +get almost all that Capital Trade into their Hands as follows. + +They concerted Matters, and all at once fell to selling off their +Stock, giving out daily Reports that they would be no longer +concern'd, that it was a losing Trade, that the Fund at bottom was +good for nothing, and that of two Societies the Old one had not 20 +per Cent. to divide, all their Debts being paid; that the New Society +had Traded several Years, but if they were dissolv'd could not say +that they had got any thing; and that this must be a Cheat at last, +and so they resolv'd to sell. + +By this Artifice, they daily offering to Sale, and yet in all their +Discourse discouraging the thing they were to sell no Body could be +found to buy. + +The offering a thing to Sale and no Bidders, is a certain +never-failing prospect of a lowring the Price; from this Method +therefore the value of all the Banks, Companies, Societies and Stocks +in the Country fell to be little or nothing worth; and that was to be +bought for 40 or 45 Lunarians that was formerly sold at 150, and so +in proportion of all the rest. + +All this while the Crolians employ'd their Emissaries to buy up +privately all the Interest or Shares in these Things that any of the +Solunarian Party would sell. + +This Plot took readily, for these Gentlemen exposing the weakness of +these Societies, and running down the value of their Stocks, and at +the same time warily buying at the lowest Prices, not only in time +got Possession of the whole Trade, with their Grants, Privileges and +Stocks, but got into them at a prodigiously low and despicable Price. + +They had no sooner thus worm'd them out of the Trade, and got the +greatest part of the Effects in their own Hands, and consequently the +whole Management, but they run up the Price of the Funds again as +high as ever, and laught at the folly of those that sold out. + +Nor could the other People make any Reflections upon the honesty of +the practice, for it was no Original, but had its birth among the +Solunarians themselves, of whom 3 or 4 had frequently made a Trade of +raising and lowring the Funds of the Societies by all the Clandestine +Contrivances in the World, and had ruin'd abundance of Families to +raise their own Fortunes and Estates. + +One of the greatest Merchants in the Moon rais'd himself by this +Method to such a heighth of Wealth, that he left all his Children +married to Grandees, Dukes, and Great Folks; and from a Mechanick +Original, they are now rankt among the Lunarian Nobility, while +multitudes of ruin'd Families helpt to build his Fortune, by sinking +under the Knavery of his Contrivance. + +His Brother in the same Iniquity, being at this time a Man of the +Feather, has carry'd on the same intrieguing Trade with all the Face +and Front imaginable; it has been nothing with him to persuade his +most intimate Friends to Sell, or Buy, just as he had occasion for +his own Interest to have it rise, or fall, and so to make his own +Market of their Misfortune. Thus he has twice rais'd his Fortunes, +for the House of Feathers demolisht him once, and yet he has by the +same clandestine Management work'd himself up again. + +This civil way of Robbing Houses, for I can esteem it no better, was +carry'd on by a middle sort of People, call'd in the Moon +BLOUTEGONDEGOURS, which which signifies Men with two Tongues, or in +English, Stock-Jobbing Brokers. + +These had formerly such an unlimited Power and were so numerous, that +indeed they govern'd the whole Trade of the Country; no Man knew when +he Bought or Sold, for tho' they pretended to Buy and Sell, and +Manage for other Men whose Stocks they had very much at Command, yet +nothing was more frequent than when they bought a thing cheap, to buy +it for themselves; if dear, for their Employer; if they were to Sell, +if the Price rise, it was Sold, if it Fell, it was Unsold; and by +this Art no body got any Mony but themselves, that at last, excepting +the two capital Men we spoke of before, these govern'd the Prizes of +all things, and nothing could be Bought or Sold to Advantage but +thro' their hands; and as the Profit was prodigious, their number +encreas'd accordingly, so that Business seem'd engross'd by these +Men, and they govern'd the main Articles of Trade. + +This Success, and the Imprudence of their Conduct, brought great +Complaints against them to the Government, and a Law was made to +restrain them, both in Practice and Number. + +This Law has in some measure had its Effect, the number is not only +lessen'd, but by chance some honester Men than usual are got in among +them, but they are so very, very, very Few, hardly enough to save a +Man's Credit that shall vouch for them. + +Nay, some People that pretend to understand their Business better +than I do, having been of their Number, have affirm'd, it is +impossible to be honest in the employment. + +I confess when I began to search into the Conduct of these Men, at +least of some of them, I found there were abundance of black Stories +to be told of them, a great deal known, and a great deal more +unknown; for they were from the beginning continually Encroaching +into all sorts of People and Societies, and in Conjunction with some +that were not qualify'd by Law, but meerly Voluntarily, call'd in the +Moon by a hard long Word, in English signifying PROJECTORS these +erected Stocks in Shadows, Societies in Nubibus, and Bought and Sold +meer Vapour, Wind, Emptiness and Bluster for Mony, till they drew +People in to lay out their Cash, and then laught at them. + +Thus they erected Paper Societies, Linnen Societies, Sulphur +Societies, Copper Societies, Glass Societies, Sham Banks, and a +thousand mock Whimsies to hook unwary People in; at last sold +themselves out, left the Bubble to float a little in the Air, and +then vanish of it self. + +The other sort of People go on after all this; and tho' these +Projectors began to be out of Fashion, they always found one thing or +other to amuse and deceive the Ignorant, and went Jobbing on into all +manner of things, Publick as well as Private, whether the Revenue, +the Publick Funds, Loans, Annuities, Bear-Skins, or any thing. + +Nay they were once grown to that extravagant highth, that they began +to Stock-Job the very Feathers of the Consolidator, and in time the +King's employing those People might have had what Feathers they had +occasion for, without concerning the Proprietors of the Lands much +about them. + +'Tis true this began to be notorious, and receiv'd some check in a +former meeting of the Feathers; but even now, when I came away, the +three Years expiring, and by Course a new Consolidator being to be +built, they were as busie as ever. Bidding, Offering, Procuring, +Buying, Selling, and Jobbing of Feathers to who bid most; and +notwithstanding several late wholesome and strict Laws against all +manner of Collusion, Bribery and clandestine Methods, in the +Countries procuring these Feathers; never was the Moon in such an +uproar about picking and culling the Feathers, such Bribery, such +Drunkenness, such Caballing, especially among the High Solunarian +Clergy and the Lazognians, such Feasting, Fighting and Distraction, +as the like has never been known. + +And that which is very Remarkable, all this not only before the Old +Consolidator was broke up, but even while it was actually whole and +in use. + +Had this hurry been to send up good Feathers, there had been the less +to say, but that which made it very strange to me was, that where the +very worst of all the Feathers were to be found, there was the most +of this wicked Work; and tho' it was bad enough every where, yet the +greatest bustle and contrivance was in order to send up the worst +Feathers they could get. + +And indeed some Places such Sorry, Scoundrel, Empty, Husky, Wither'd, +Decay'd Feathers were offer'd to the Proprietors, that I have +sometimes wonder'd any one could have the Impudence to send up such +ridiculous Feathers to make a Consolidator, which, as is before +observ'd, is an Engine of such Beauty, Usefulness and Necessity. + +And still in all my Observation, this Note came in my way, there was +always the most bustle and disturbance about the worst Feathers. + +It was really a melancholly Thing to consider, and had this Lunar +World been my Native Country, I should ha' been full of concern to +see that one thing, on which the welfare of the whole Nation so much +depended, put in so ill a Method, and gotten into the management of +such Men, who for Mony would certainly ha' set up such Feathers, that +wherever the Consolidator should be form'd, it would certainly +over-set the first Voyage; and if the whole Nation should happen to +be Embarkt in it, on the dangerous Voyage to the Moon, the fall would +certainly give them such a Shock, as would put them all into +Confusion, and open the Door to the Gallunarian, or any Foreign Enemy +to destroy them. + +It was really strange that this should be the Case, after so many +Laws, and so lately made, against it; but in this, those People are +too like our People in England, who have the best Laws the worst +executed of any Nation under Heaven. + +For in the Moon this hurry about choosing of Feathers was grown to +the greatest heighth imaginable, as if it encreast by the very Laws +that were made to suppress it; for now at a certain publick Place +where the Bloutegondegours us'd to meet every Day, any Body that had +but Mony enough might buy a Feather at a reasonable Rate, and never +go down into the Country to fetch it; nay, the Trade grew so hot, +that of a sudden as if no other Business was in Hand, all people were +upon it, and the whole Market was chang'd from Selling of Bear-Skins, +to Buying of Feathers. + +Some gave this for a Reason why all the Stocks of the Societies fell +so fast, but there were other Reasons to be given for that, such as +Clubs, Cabals, Stock-Jobbers, Knights, Merchants and Thie---s. I mean +a private Sort, not such as are frequently Hang'd there, but of a +worse Sort, by how much they merit that Punishment more, but are out +of the reach of the Law, can Rob and pick Pockets in the Face of the +Sun, and laugh at the Families they Ruin, bidding Defiance to all +legal Resentment. + +To this height things were come under the growing Evil of this sort +of People. + +And yet in the very Moon where, as I have noted, the People are so +exceeding clear Sighted, and have such vast helps to their perceptive +Faculties, such Mists are sometimes cast before the publick +Understanding, that they cannot see the general Interest. + +This was manifest, in that just as I came away from that Country, the +great Council of their Wise Men, the Men of the Feather, were a going +to repeal the old Law of Restraining the Number of these People; and +tho' as it was, there was not Employment for half of them, there +being 100 in all, and not above 5 honest ones; yet when I came away +they were going to encrease their Number. I have nothing to say to +this here, only that all Wise Men that understand Trade were very +much concern'd at it, and lookt upon it as a most destructive Thing +to the Publick, and forboding the same mischiefs that Trade suffer'd +before. + +It was the particular Misfortune to these Lunar People that this +Country had a better Stock of Governors in all Articles of their +Well-fare, than in their Trade; their Law Affairs had good Judges, +their Church good Patriarchs, except, as might be excepted; their +State good Ministers, their Army good Generals, and their +Consolidator good Feathers; but in Matters relating to Trade, they +had this particular Misfortune, that those Cases always came before +People that did not understand them. + +Even the Judges themselves were often found at a Loss to determine +Causes of Negoce, such as Protests, Charter-Parties, Avarages, +Baratry, Demorage of Ships, Right of detaining Vessels on Demorage, +and the like; nay, the very Laws themselves are fain to be silent and +yield in many things a Superiority to the Custom of Merchants. + +And here I began to Congratulate my Native Country, where the +Prudence of the Government has provided for these things, by +Establishing in a Commission of Trade some of the most experienc'd +Gentlemen in the Nation, to Regulate, Settle, Improve, and revive +Trade in General, by their unwearyed Labours, and most consummate +Understanding; and this made me pity these Countries, and think it +would be an Action worthy of this Nation, and be spoken of for Ages +to come to their Glory, if in meer Charity they would appoint or +depute these Gentlemen to go a Voyage to those Countries of the Moon, +and bless those Regions with the Schemes of their sublime +Undertakings, and discoveries in Trade. + +But when I was expressing my self thus, my Philosopher interrupted +me, and told me I should see they were already furnisht for that +purpose, when I came to examine the publick Libraries, of which by it +self. + +But I was farther confirm'd in my Observation of the weakness of the +publick Heads of that Country, as to Trade, when I saw another most +preposterous Law going forward among them, the Title of which was +specious, and contain'd something relating to employing the Poor, but +the substance of it absolutely destructive to the very Nature of +their Trade, tending to Transposing, Confounding and Destroying their +Manufactures, and to the Ruin of all their Home-Commerce; never was +Nation so blind to their own Interest as these Lunarian Law Makers, +and the People who were the Contrivers of this Law were so vainly +Conceited, so fond of the guilded Title, and so positively Dogmatick, +that they would not hear the frequent Applications of Persons better +acquainted with those things than themselves, but pusht it on meerly +by the strength of their Party, for the Vanity of being Authors of +such a Contrivance. + +But to return to the new Model of the Crolians. The advice of the +Lunarian Philosopher run now thro' all their Affairs, UNITE was the +Word thro' all the Nation, in Trade, in Cash, in Stocks, as I noted +before. + +If a Solunarian Ship was bound to any Out Port, no Crolian would load +any Goods aboard; if any Ship came to seek Freight abroad, none of +the Crolians Correspondents would Ship any thing unless they knew the +Owners were Crolians; the Crolian Merchants turn'd out all their +Solunarian Masters, Sailors and Captains from their Ships; and thus, +as the Solunarians would have them be separated in respect of the +Government, Profits, Honours and Offices, they resolv'd to separate +in every thing else too, and to stand by themselves. + +At last, upon some publick Occasion, the publick Treasurers of the +Land sent to the capital City, to borrow 500000 Lunarians upon very +good Security of establisht Funds; truly no Body would lend any Mony, +or at least they could not raise above a 5th part of that Sum, +enquiring at the Bank, at their general Societies Cash, and other +Places, all was languid and dull, and no Mony to be had; but being +inform'd that the Crolians had erected a Bank of their own, they sent +thither, and were answered readily, that whatever Sum the Government +wanted, was at their Service, only it was to be lent not by +particular Persons, but such a Grandee being one of the prime +Nobility, and who the Crolians now call'd their Protector, was to be +Treated with about it. + +The Government saw no harm in all this; here was no Law broken, here +was nothing but Oppression answered with Policy, and Mischief fenc'd +against with Reason. + +The Government therefore took no Notice of it, nor made any Scruple +when they wanted any Mony to Treat with this Nobleman, and borrow any +Sum of the Crolians, as Crolians; on the contrary in the Name of the +Crolians; their Head or Protector presented their Addresses and +Petitions, procur'd Favours on one Hand, and Assistance on the other; +and thus by degrees and insensibly the Crolians became a Politick +Body, settled and establish'd by Orders and Rules among themselves; +and while a Spirit of Unanimity thus run thro' all their Proceedings, +their Enemies could never hurt them, their Princes always saw it was +their Interest to keep Measures with them, and they were sure to have +Justice upon any Complaint whatsoever. + +When I saw this, it forc'd me to reflect upon Affairs in our own +Country; Well, said I, 'tis happy for England that our Dissenters +have not this Spirit of Union and Largeness of Heart among them; for +if they were not a Narrow, mean-Spirited, short-Sighted, +self-Preserving, friend-Betraying, poor-Neglecting People, they might +ha' been every way as Safe, as Considerable, as Regarded and as +Numerous as the Crolians in the Moon; but it is not in their Souls to +do themselves Good, nor to Espouse, or Stand by those that would do +it for them; and 'tis well for the Church-Men that it is so, for many +Attempts have been made to save them, but their own narrowness of +Soul, and dividedness in Interest has always prevented its being +effectual, and discourag'd all the Instruments that ever attempted to +serve them. + +'Tis confest the Case was thus at first among the Crolians, they were +full of Divisions among themselves, as I have noted already of the +Solunarians, and the unhappy Feuds among them, had always not only +expos'd them to the Censure, Reproach and Banter of their Solunarian +Enemies, but it had serv'd to keep them under, prevent their being +valued in the Government, and given the other Party vast Advantages +against. + +But the Solunarians driving thus furiously at their Destruction and +entire Ruin, open'd their Eyes to the following Measures for their +preservation: And here again the high Solunarians may see, and +doubtless whenever they made use of the Lunar-Glasses they must see +it, that nothing could ha' driven the Crolians to make use of such +Methods for their Defence, but the rash Proceedings of their own warm +Men, in order to suppressing the whole Crolian Interest. And this +might inform our Country-men of the Church of England, that it cannot +but be their Interest to Treat their Brethren with Moderation and +Temper, least their Extravagances should one time or other drive the +other as it were by Force into their Senses, and open their Eyes to +do only all those Things which by Law they may do, and which they are +laught at by all the World for not doing. + +This was the very Case in the Moon: The Philosopher, or +pretended-such as before, had often publish'd, that it was their +Interest to UNITE; but their Eyes not being open to the true Causes +and Necessity of it, their Ears were shut against the Council, till +Oppression and Necessities drove them to it. + +Accordingly they entred into a serious Debate, of the State of their +own Affairs, and finding the Advice given, very reasonable; they set +about it, and the Author gave them a Model, Entitl'd An enquiry into +what the Crolians may lawfully do, to prevent the certain Ruin of +their Interest, and bring their Enemies to Peace. + +I will not pretend to examine the Contents of this sublime Tract; but +from this very Day, we found the Crolians in the Moon, acting quite +on a different Foot from all their former Conduct, putting on a new +Temper, and a new Face, as you have hear'd. + +All this while the hot Solunarians cried out Plots, Associations, +Confederacies, and Rebellions, when indeed here was nothing done but +what the Laws justify'd, what Reason directed, and what had the +Crolians but made use of the Cogitator, they would ha' done 40 Year +before. + +The Truth is, the other People had no Remedy, but to cry Murther, and +make a Noise; for the Crolians went on with their Affairs, and +Establisht themselves so, that when I came away, they were become a +most Solid, and well United Body, made a considerable Figure in the +Nation, and yet the Government was easy; for the Solunarians found +when they had attain'd the utmost end of their Wishes, her Solunarian +Majesty was as safe as before, and the Crolians Property being +secur'd, they were as Loyal Subjects as the Solunarians, as +consistent with Monarchy, as useful to it, and as pleas'd with it. + +I cannot but Remark here, that this Union of the Crolians among +themselves had another Consequence, which made it appear it was not +only to their own Advantage, but to the general Good of all the +Natien. + +For, by little, and little, the Feuds of the Parties cool'd, and the +Solunarians began to be better reconcil'd to them; the Government was +easy and safe, and the private Quarrels, as I have been told since, +begin to be quite forgot. + +What Blindness, said I to my self, has possest the Dissenters in our +unhappy Country of England, where by eternal Discords, Feuds, +Distrusts and Disgusts among themselves, they always fill their +Enemies with Hopes, that by pushing at them, they may one time or +other compleat their Ruin; which Expectation has always serv'd as a +means to keep open the Quarrel; whereas had the Dissenters been +United in Interest, Affection and Mannagement among themselves, all +this Heat had long ago been over, and the Nation, tho' there had been +two Opinions had retain'd but one Interest, been joyn'd in Affection, +and Peace at Home been rais'd up to that Degree that all Wise Men +wish, as it is now among the Inhabitants of the World in the Moon. + +Tis true, in all the Observations I made in this Lunar Country, the +vast deference paid to the Persons of Princes began to lessen, and +whatever Respect they had for the Office, they found it necessary +frequently to tell the World that on occasion, they could Treat them +with less Respect than they pretended to owe them. + +For about this time, the Divine Right of Kings, and the Inheritances +of Princes in the Moon, met with a terrible Shock, and that by the +Solunarian Party themselves; and insomuch that even my Philosopher, +and he was none of the Jure Divino Men, neither declar'd, against it. + +They made Crowns perfect Foot-balls, set up what Kings they would, +and pull'd down such as they did not like, Ratitione Voluntas, right +or wrong, as they thought best, of which some Examples shall be given +by and by. + +After I had thus enquir'd into the Historical Affairs of this Lunar +Nation, which for its Similitude to my Native Country, I could not +but be inquisitive in; I wav'd a great many material Things, which at +least I cannot enter upon the Relation of here, and began to enquire +into their Affairs abroad. + +I think I took notice in the beginning of my Account of these parts, +that I found them engag'd in a tedious and bloody War, with one of +the most mighty Monarchs of all the Moon. + +I must therefore hint, that among the multitude of things, which for +brevity sake I omit, the Reader may observe these were some. + +1. That this was the same Monarch who harbour'd and entertain'd the +Abrogratzian Prince, who was fled as before, and who we are to call +the King of Gallunaria. + +2. I have omitted the Account of a long and bloody War, which lasted +a great many Years, and which the present Queens Predecessor, +mannag'd with a great deal of Bravery and Conduct, and finisht very +much to his own Glory, and the Nations Advantage. + +3. I have too much omitted to Note, how Barbarously the High +Solunarian Church Men treated him for all his Services, upbraided him +with the Expence of the War; and tho' he sav'd them all from Ruin and +Abrogratzianism, yet had not one good Word for him, and indeed 'tis +with some difficulty that I pass this over, because it might be +necessary to observe, besides what is said before, that Ingratitude +is a Vice in Nature, and practis'd every where, as well as in +England. So that we need not upbraid the Party among us with their +ill Treatment of the late King, for these People us'd their good King +every Jot as bad, till their unkindness perfectly broke his Heart. + +Here also I am oblig'd to omit the Historical Part of the War, and of +the Peace that follow'd; only I must observe that this Peace was very +Precarious, Short and Unhappy, and in a few Months the War broke out +again, with as much Fury as ever. + +In this War happen'd one of the strangest, unaccountable and most +preposterous Actions, that ever a People in their National Capacity +could be guilty of. + +Certainly if our People in England, who pretend that Kingship is Jure +Divino, did but know the Story of which I speak, they would be quite +of another Mind; wherefore I crave leave to relate part of the +History, or Original of this last War, as a necessary Introduction to +the proper Observations I shall make upon it. + +There was a King of a certain Country in the Moon, call'd in their +Language, Ebronia, who was formerly a Confederate with the +Solunarians. This Prince dying without Issue, the great Monarch we +speak of, seiz'd upon all his Dominions as his Right.----- Tho' if I +remember right, he had formerly Sworn never to lay Claim to it, and +after that by a subsequent Treaty had agreed with the Solunarian +Prince, that another Monarch who claim'd a Right as well as he, +should divide it between them. + +The breach of this Agreement, and seizing this Kingdom, put almost +all the Lunar World into a Flame, and War hung over the Heads of all +the Northern Nations of the Moon, for several Claims were made to the +Succession by other Princes, and particularly by a certain Potent +Prince call'd the Eagle, of an Ancient Family, whose Lunar Name I +cannot well express, but in English it signifies the Men of the great +Lip; whether it was Originally a sort of a Nick Name, or whether they +had any such thing as a great Lip Hereditary to the Family, by which +they were distinguisht, is not worth my while to Examine. + +'Tis without question that the successive Right, if their Lunar +Successions, are Govern'd as ours are in this world, devolv'd upon +this Man with the Lip and his Families; but the Gallunarian Monarch +brought things so to pass, by his extraordinary Conduct, that the +Ebronian King was drawn in by some of his Nobility, who this Prince +had Bought and Brib'd to betray their Country to his Interest, and +particularly a certain High Priest of that Country, to make an +Assignment, or deed of Gift of all his Dominions to the Grandson of +this Gallunarian Monarch. + +By Vertue of this Gift, or Legacy, as soon as the King dyed, who was +then languishing, and as the other Parry alledg'd, not in a very good +capacity to make a Will; the Gallunarian King sent his Grandson to +seize upon the Crown, and backing him with suitable Forces, took +Possession of all his strong Fortifications and Frontiers. + +Nor was this all, the Man with the Lip indeed talkt big, and +threatned War immediately, but the Solunarians were so unsettl'd at +Home, so unprepar'd for War, having but just dismist their Auxiliar +Troops, and disbanded their own, and the Prince was so ill serv'd by +his Subjects, that both he and a Powerful Neighbour, Nations in the +same Interest, were meerly Bullyed by this Gallunarian; and as he +threatned immediately to Invade them, which they were then in no +Condition to prevent, he forc'd them both to submit to his Demand, +tacitely allow what he had done in breaking the Treaty with him, and +at last openly acknowledge his new King. + +This was indeed a most unaccountable Step, but there was a necessity +to plead, for he was at their very Doors with his Forces; and this +Neighbouring People, who they call Mogenites, could not resist him +without help from the Solunarians, which they were very backward in, +notwithstanding the earnest Sollicitations of their Prince, and +notwithstanding they were oblig'd to do it by a solemn Treaty. + +These delays oblig'd them to this strange Step of acknowledging the +Invasion of their Enemy, and pulling off the Hat to the New King he +had set up. + +'Tis true, the Policy of these Lunar Nations was very Remarkable in +this Case, and they out-witted the Gallunarian Monarch in it; for by +the owning this Prince, whom they immediately after Declar'd a +Usurper, and made War against; they stopt the Mouth of the +Gallunarian his Grandfather, took from him all pretence of Invading +them, and making him believe they were Sincere, Wheedl'd him to +restore several Thousands of their Men who he had taken Prisoners in +the Frontier Towns of the Ebronians. + +Had the Gallunarian Prince had but the forecast to ha' seen, that +this was but a forc'd pretence to gain Time, and that as soon as they +had their Troops clear and Time to raise more, they would certainly +turn upon him again, he would never ha' been put by with so weak a +Trifle as the Ceremony of Congratulation; whereas had he immediately +pusht at them with all his Forces, they must ha' been Ruin'd, and he +had carry'd his Point without much Interruption. + +But here he lost his Opportunity, which he never retriev'd; for 'tis +in the Moon, just as 'tis here, when an Occasion is lost, it is not +easy to be recover'd, for both the Solunarians and the Mogenites +quickly threw off the Mask, and declaring this new Prince an Usurper, +and his Grandfather an Unjust breaker of Treaties, they prepar'd for +War against them both. + +As to the Honesty of this matter, my Philosopher and I differ'd +extremely, he exclaim'd against the Honour of acknowledging a King, +with a design to Depose him, and pretending Peace when War is +design'd; tho' 'tis true, they are too customary in our World; but +however, as to him I insisted upon the lawfulness of it, from the +universal Custom of Nations, who generally do things ten times more +Preposterous and Inconsistent, when they suit their Occasions. Yet I +hope no Body will think I am recommending them by this Relation to +the Practice of our own Nations, but rather exposing them as +unaccountable things never to be put in Practice, without quitting +all pretences to Justice and national Honesty. + +The Case was this. + +As upon the Progress of Matters before related, the Solunarians and +Mogenites had made a formal acknowledgment of this new Monarch, the +Grandson of the Gallunarian King, so as I have hinted already, they +had no other design than to Depose him, and pull him down. + +Accordingly, as soon as by the aforesaid Wile they had gain'd Breath, +and furnisht themselves with Forces, they declar'd War against both +the Gallunarian King, and his Grandson, and entred into strict +Confederacy with the Man of the great Lip, who was the Monarch of the +Eagle, and who by right of Succession, had the true Claim to the +Ebronian Crowns. + +In these Declarations they alledge that Crowns do not descend by +Gift, nor are Kingdoms given away by Legacy, like a Gold Ring at a +Funeral, and therefore this young Prince could have no Right, the +former deceas'd King having no Right to dispose it by Gift. + +I must allow, that judging by our Reason, and the Practice in our +Countries here, on this side the Moon; this seem'd plain, and I saw +no difference in matters of Truth there, or here, but Right and +Liberty both of Princes and People seems to be the same in that +World, as it is in this, and upon this account I thought the Reasons +of this War very Just, and that the Claim of Right to the Succession +of the Ebronian Crown, was undoubtedly in the Man with the Lip, and +his Heirs, and so far the War was most Just, and the Design +reasonable. + +And thus far my Lunar Companion agreed with me, and had they gone on +so, says he, they had my good Wishes, and my Judgment had been +Witness to my Pretences, that they were in the right. + +But in the prosecution of this War, says he, they went on to one of +the most Impolitick, Ridiculous, Dishonest, and Inconsistent Actions, +that ever any Nation in the Moon was guilty of; the Fact was thus. + +Having agreed among themselves that the Ebronian Crown should not be +possest by the Gallunarian King's Grandson, they in the next Place +began to consider who should have it. + +The Man with the Lip had the Title, but he had a great Government of +his own, Powerful, Happy and Remote, being as is noted, the Lord of +the great Eagle, and he told them he could not pretend to come to +Ebronia to be a King there; his eldest Son truly was not only +declar'd Heir apparent to his Father, but had another Lunarian +Kingdom of his own still more remote than that, and he would not quit +all this for the Crown of Ebronia, so it was concerted by all the +Confederated Parties, that the second Son of this Prince, the Man +with the Lip, should be declar'd King, and here lay the Injustice of +all the Case. + +I confess at my first examining this Matter, I did not see far into +it, nor could I reach the Dishonesty of it, and perhaps the Reader of +these Sheets may be in the same Case; but my old Lunarian Friend +being continually exclaiming against the Matter, and blaming his +Country-men the Solunarians for the Dishonesty of it, but especially +the Mogenites, he began to be something peevish with me that I should +be so dull as not to reach it, and askt me if he should screw me into +the Thinking-Press for the Clearing up my Understanding. + +At last he told me he would write his particular Sentiments of this +whole Affair in a Letter to me, which he would so order as it should +effectually open mine Eyes; which indeed it did, and so I believe it +will the Eyes of all that read it; to which purpose I have obtain'd +of the Author to assist me in the Translation of it, he having some +Knowledge also in our Sublunar Languages. + +The Sustance of a Letter, wrote to the Author of these Sheets, while +he was in the Regions of the Moon. + +'Friend from the Moon, + +'According to my promise, I hereby give you a Scheme of Solunarian +Honesty, join'd with Mogenite Policy, and my Opinion of the Action of +my Country-men and their Confederates, in declaring their new made +Ebronian King. + +'The Mogenites and Solunarians are look'd upon here to be the +Original Contrivers of this ridiculous piece of Pageantry, and tho' +some of their Neighbours are suppos'd to have a Hand in it, yet we +all lay it at the door of their Politicks, and for the Honesty of it +let them answer it if they can. + +''Tis observ'd here, that as soon as the King of Gallunaria had +declar'd that he accepted the Will and Disposition of the Crown of +Ebronia, in favour of his Grandson, and that according to the said +Disposition, he had own'd him for King; and in order to make it +effectual, had put him into immediate Possession of the Kingdom. The +Mogenites and their Confederates made wonderful Clamours at the +Injustice of his Proceedings, and particularly on account of his +breaking the Treaty then lately entred into with the King of the +Solunarians and the Mogenites, for the settling the Matter of Right +and Possession, in case of the Demise of the Ebronian King. + +'However, the King of Gallunaria had no sooner plac'd his Grandson on +the Throne, but the Mogenites and other Nations, and to all our +Wonder, the King of Solunaria himself acknowledg'd him, own'd him, +sent their Ministers, and Compliments of Congratulation, and the +like, giving him the Title of King of Ebronia. + +'Tho' this proceeding had something of Surprize in it, and all Men +expected to see something more than ordinary Politick in the effect +of it, yet it did not give half the astonishment to the Lunar World, +as this unaccountable Monster of Politicks begins to do. + +'We have here two unlucky Fellows, call'd Pasquin and Marforio, these +had a long Dialogue about this very Matter, and Pasquin as he always +lov'd Mischief, told a very unlucky Story to his Comrade, of a high +Mogenite Skipper, as follows. + +'A Mogenite Ship coming from a far Country, the Custom House Officers +found some Goods on Board, which were Controband, and for which they +pretended the Ship and Goods were all Confiscated; the Skipper, or +Captain in a great Fright, comes up to the Custom-House, and being +told he must Swear to something relating to his taking in those +Goods, reply'd in his Country Jargon, Ya, dat sall Ick doen Myn Heer; +or in English, Ay, Ay, I'll Swear.----- But finding they did not +assure him that it would clear his Ship he scruples the Oath again, +at which they told him it would clear his Ship immediately. Hael, +well Myn Heer, says the Mogen Man, vat mot Ick sagen, Ick sall all +Swear myn Skip to salvare, i.e. I shall Swear any thing to save my +Skip. + +'We apply this Story thus. + +'If the Mogenites did acknowledge the King of Ebronia, we did believe +it was done to save the Skip; and when they reproacht the Gallunarian +King, with breaking the Treaty of Division, we us'd to say we would +all break thro' twice as many Engagements for half as much Advantage. + +'This setting up a new King, against a King on the Throne, +Acknowledg'd and Congratulated by them, is not only look'd on in the +Lunar World, as a thing Ridiculous, but particularly Infamous, that +they should first acknowledge a King, and then set up the Title of +another. If the Title of the first Ebronian King be good, this must +be an Impostor, an Usurper of another Man's Right; if it was not +good, why did they acknowledge him, and give him the full Title of +all the Ebronian Dominions? Caress and Congratulate him, and make a +publick Action of it to his Ambassador. + +'Will they tell us they were Bully'd, and Frighted into it? that is +to own they may be hufft into an ill Action; for owing a Man in the +Posession of what is none of his own, is an ill thing, and he that +may be hufft into one ill Action, may by Consequence be hufft into +another, and so into any thing. + +'What will they say for doing it? we have heard there has been in the +World you came from, a way found out to own Kings de Facto, but not +de Jure; if they will fly to that ridiculous Shift, let them tell the +World so, that we may know what they mean, for those foolish things +are not known here. + +'If they own'd the King of Ebronia voluntarily, and acknowledg'd his +Right as we thought they had; how then can this young Gentleman have +a Title, unless they have found out a new Division, and so will have +two Kings of Ebronia, make them Partners, and have a Gallunarian King +of Ebronia, and a Mogenite King of Ebronia, both together? + +'Our Lunar Nations, Princes and States, whatever they may do in your +World, always seek for some Pretences at least to make their Actions +seem Honest, whither they are so or no; and therefore they generally +publish Memorials, Manifesto's and Declarations, of their Reasons +why, and on what account they do so, or so; that those who have any +Grounds to charge them with Unjustice, may be answer'd, and silenc'd; +'tis for the People in your Country, to fall upon their Neighbours, +only because they will do it, and make probability of Conquest, a +sufficient Reason of Conquest; the Lunarian Nations are seldom so +destitute of Modesty, but that they will make a shew of Justice, and +make out the Reasons of their Proceedings; and tho' sometimes we find +even the Reasons given for some Actions are weak enough; yet it is a +bad Cause indeed, that can neither have a true Reason, nor a +pretended one. The custom of the Moon has oblig'd us to show so much +respect to Honesty, that when our Actions have the least colour of +Honesty, yet we will make Reasons to look like a Defence, whether it +be so or no. + +'But here is an Action that has neither reality, nor pretence, here +is not Face enough upon it to bear an Apology. First, they +acknowledge one King, and then set up another King against him; +either they first acknowledg'd a wrong King, and thereby became +Parties to a Usurper, or they act now against all the Rules of common +Justice in the World, to set up a sham King, to pull down a true one, +only because 'tis their Interest to have it so. + +'This makes the very Name of a Solunarian scandalous to all the Moon, +and Mankind look upon them with the utmost Prejudice, as if they were +a Nation who had sold all their Honesty to their Interest; and who +could act this way to Day, and that way to Morrow, without any regard +to Truth, or the Rule of Honour, Equity or Conscience; This is +Swearing any thing to save the Skip; and never let any Man Reproach +the Gallunarian King with breaking the Treaty of Division, and +disregarding the Faith and Stipulations of Leagues; for this is an +Action so inconsistent with it self, so incongruous to common +Justice, to the Reason and Nature of things, that no History of any +of these latter Times can parallel it, and 'tis past the Power of Art +to make any reasonable Defence for it. + +'Indeed some lame Reasons are given for it by our Polititians. First, +they say the Prince with the great Lip was extremely prest by the +Gallunarians at Home in his own Country, and not without +apprehensions of seeing them e'er long, under the Walls of his +capital City. + +'From this circumstance of the Man with the Lip, 'twas not irrational +to expect that he might be induc'd to make a separate Peace with the +Gallunarians, and serve them as he did once the Prince of Berlindia +at the Treaty of Peace in a former War, where he deserted him after +the solemnest Engagements never to make Peace without him; but his +pressing Occasions requiring it, concluded a Peace without him, and +left him to come out of the War, as well as he could, tho' he had +come into it only for his Assistance. Now finding him in danger of +being ruin'd by the Gallunarian Power, and judging from former +Practice in like Cases, that he might be hurry'd into a Peace, and +leave them in the Lurch; they have drawn him into this Labrinth, as +into a Step, which can never be receded from without the utmost +Affront and Disgrace, either to the Family of the Gallunarian, or of +the Lip; an Action which in its own Nature, is a Defiance of the +whole Gallunarian Power, and without any other Manifesto, may be +taken as a Declaration from the House of the Lip, to the Gallunarian, +that this War shall never end, till one of those two Families are +ruin'd and reduc'd. + +'What Condition the Prince with the Lip's Power is in, to make such a +huff at this Time, shall come under Examination by and by; in the +mean time the Solunarians have clench'd the Nail, and secur'd the War +to last as long as they think convenient. + +'If the Gallunarians should get the better, and reduce the Man with +the Lip to Terms never so disadvantageous, he cannot now make a Peace +without leave from the Solunarians and the Mogenites, least his Son +should be ruin'd also.----- Or if he should make Articles for +himself, it must be with ten times the Dishonour that he might have +done before. + +'Politicians say, 'tis never good for a Prince to put himself into a +case of Desperation. This is drawing the Sword, and throwing away the +Scabbard; if a Disaster should befal him, his Retreat is impossible, +and this must have been done only to secure the Man with the Lip from +being hufft, or frighted into a separate Peace. + +'The second Reason People here give, why the Solunarians are +concerning themselves in this Matter, is drawn from Trade. + +'The continuing of Ebronia in the Hands of the Gallunarians, will +most certainly be the Destruction of the Solunarian and Mogenites +Trade, both to that Kingdom, and the whole Seas on that side of the +Moon; as this Article includes a fifth Part of all the Trade of the +Moon, and would in Conjunction with the Gallunarians at last bring +the Mastership of the Sea, out of the Hands of the other, so it would +in effect be more detriment to those two Nations, than ten Kingdoms +lost, if they had them to part with. + +'This the Solunarians foreseeing, and being extremely sensible of the +entire Ruin of their Trade, have left no Stone unturn'd to bring this +piece of Pageantry on the Stage, by which they have hook'd in the Old +Black Eagle to plunge himself over Head and Ears in the Quarrel, in +such a manner, as he can never go back with any tolerable Honour; he +can never quit his Son and the Crown of Ebronia, without the greatest +Reproach and Disgrace of all the World in the Moon. + +'Now whether one, or both of these Reasons are true in this Case, as +most believe both of them to be true; the Policy of my Country-men, +the Solunarians is visible indeed, but as for their Honesty, it is +past finding out. + +'But it is objected here, this Son of the Lip has an undoubted Right +to the Crown of Ebronia. We do not Fight now to set up an Usurper, +but to pull down an Usurper, and it has been made plain by the +Manifesto, that the giving a Kingdom by Will, is no conveyance of +Right; the Prince of the Eagle has an undoubted Right, and they Fight +to maintain it. + +'If this be true, then we must ask these High and Mighty Gentlemen +how came they to recognize and acknowledge the present King on the +Throne? why did they own an Usurper if he be such? either one or +other must be an act of Cowardize and Injustice, and all the +Politicks of the Moon cannot clear them of one of these two Charges; +either they were Cowardly Knaves before, or else they must be Cunning +Knaves now. + +'If the Young Eagle has an undoubted Title now, so he had before, and +they knew it as well before, as they do now; what can they say for +themselves, why they should own a King, who they knew had no Title, +or what can they say for going to pull down one that has a Title? + +'I must be allow'd to distinguish between Fighting with a Nation, and +Fighting with the King. For Example. Our Quarrel with the +Gallunarians is with the whole Nation, as they are grown too strong +for their Neighbours. But our Quarrel with Ebronia is not with the +Nation, but with their King, and this Quarrel seems to be unjust in +this particular, at least in them who own'd him to be King, for that +put an end to the Controversy. + +''Tis true, the Justice of publick Actions, either in Princes, or in +States, is no such nice Thing, that any Body should be surpriz'd, to +see the Government forfeit their Faith, and it seems the Solunarians +are no more careful this way, than their Neighbours. But then those +People should in especial manner forbear to reproach Other Nations +and Princes, with the breaches which they themselves are subject too. + +'As to the Eagle, we have nothing to say to the Honesty of his +declaring his Son King of Ebronia, for as is hinted before, he never +acknowledg'd the Title of the Usurper, but always declar'd, and +insisted on his own undoubted Right, and that he would recover it if +he could. + +'Without doubt the Eagle has a Title by Proximity of Blood, founded +on the renunciation of the King of Gallunaria formerly mention'd, and +if the Will of the late King be Invalid, or he had no Right to give +the Soveraignty of his Kingdoms away, then the Eagle is next Heir. + +'But as we quit his Morals, and justify the Honesty of his +Proceedings in the War, against the present King of Ebronia, so in +this Action of declaring his second Son. We must begin to question +his Understanding, and saying a respect of decency, it looks as if +his Musical Head was out of Tune, to Illus tratellus. I crave leave +to tell you a Story out of your own Country, which we have heard of +hither. A French Man that could speak but broken English, was at the +Court of England, when on some occasion he happen'd to hear the Title +of the King of England read thus, Charles the II. King of England, +Scotland France and Ireland. + +'Vat is dat you say? says Monsieur, being a little affronted, the Man +reads it again, as before. Charles the Second, King of England, +Scotland, France and Ireland.------ Charles the Second, King of +France! Ma Foy, says the French Man, you can no read, Charles the +Second, King of France, ha! ha! ha! Charles the Second, King of +France, when he can catch. Any one may apply the Story, whether it +was a true one or no. + +'All the Lunar World looks on it, therefore, as a most Ridiculous, +Senseless Thing, to make a Man a King of a Country he has not one +Foot of Land in, nor can have a Foot there, but what he must Fight +for. As to the probability of gaining it, I have nothing to say to +it, but if we may guess at his Success there, by what has been done +in other Parts of the Moon, we find he has Fought three Campaigns, to +lose every Foot he had got. + +'It had been much more to the Honour of the Eagle's Conduct, and of +the young Hero himself, first to ha' let him ha' fac'd his Enemy in +the Field, and as soon as he had beaten him, the Ebronians would have +acknowledg'd him fast enough; or his own Victorious Troops might have +Proclaim'd him at the Gate of their Capital City; and if after all, +the Success of the War had deny'd him the Crown he had fought for, he +had the Honour to have shown his Bravery, and he had been where he +was, a Prince of the Great Lip. A Son of the Eagle is a Title much +more Honourable than a King Without a Crown, without Subjects, +without a Kingdom, and another Man upon his Throne; but by this +declaring him King, the old Eagle has put him under a necessity of +gaining the Kingdom of Ebronia, which at best is a great hazard, or +if he fails to be miserably despicable, and to bear all his Life the +constant Chagrin of a great Title and no Possession. + +'How ridiculous will this poor Young Gentleman look, if at last he +should be forc'd to come Home again without his Kingdom? what a King +of Clouts will he pass for, and what will this King-making old +Gentlemen, his Father say, when the young Hero shall tell him, your +Majesty has made me Mock King for all the World to laugh at. + +''Twas certainly the weakest Thing that could be, for the Eagle thus +to make him a King of that, which, were the probability greater than +it is, he may easily, without the help of a Miracle, be disappointed +of. + +''Tis true, the Confederates talk big, and have lately had a great +Victory, and if Talk will beat the King of Ebronia out of his +Kingdom, he is certainly undone, but we do not find the Gallunarians +part with any thing they can keep, nor that they quit any thing +without Blows; It must cost a great deal of Blood and Treasure before +this War can be ended; if absolute Conquest on one side must be the +Matter, and if the Design on Ebronia should miscarry, as one Voyage +thither has done already, where are we then? Let any Man but look +back, and consider what a sorry Figure your Confederate Fleet in your +World had made, after their Andalusian Expedition, if they had not +more by Fate than Conduct, chopt upon a Booty at Vigo as they came +back. + +'In the like condition, will this new King come back, if he should go +for a Kingdom and should not Catch, as the French Man call'd it. 'Tis +in the Sense of the probability of this miscarriage, that most Men +wonder at these unaccountable Measures, and think the Eagles Councils +look a little Wildish, as if some of his great Men were grown +Dilirious and Whymsical, that fancy'd Crowns and Kingdoms were to +come and go, just as the great Divan at their Court should direct. +This confusion of Circumstances has occasion'd a certain Copy of +Verses to appear about the Moon, which in our Characters may be read +as follows. + + Wondelis Idulasin na Perixola Metartos, + Strigunia Crolias Xerin Hytale fylos; + Farnicos Galvare Orpto sonamel Egonsberch, + Sih lona Sipos Gullia Ropta Tylos. + +'Which may be English'd thus. + + Casar you Trifle with the World in vain, + Think rather now of Germany than Spain; + He's hardly fit to fill th' Eagle's Throne, + Who gives new Crowns, and can't protect his own. + +'But after all to come closer to the Point, if I can now make it out +that whatever it was before, this very Practice of declaring a second +Son to be King of Ebronia, has publickly own'd the Proceedings of the +King of Gallunaria to be Just, and the Title of his Grandson to be +much better than the Title of the now declar'd King, what shall we +call it then? + +'In order to this, 'tis first necessary to examine the Title of the +present King, and to enter into the history of his coming to the +Crown, in which I shall be very Brief. + +'The last King of Ebronia dying without Issue, and a former +Renunciation taking place, the Succession devolves on the House of +the Eagle as before, of whom the present Eagle is the eldest Branch. + +'But the late King of Ebronia, to prevent the Succession of the +Eagle's Line, makes a Will, and supplies the Proviso of Renunciation +by Devising, Giving or Bequeathing the Crown to the Grandson of his +Sister. + +'The King of Gallunaria insists that this is a lawful Title to the +Crown, and seizes it accordingly, inflating his Grandson in the +Possession. + +'The Eagle alledges the Renunciation to confirm his Title as Heir; +and as to the Will of the late King, he says Crowns cannot descend by +Gift, and tho' the late King had an undoubted Right to enjoy it +himself, he had none to give it away. + +'To make the application of this History as short as may be, I demand +then what Right has the Eagle to give it to his second Son? if Crowns +are not to descend by Gift, he may have a Right to enjoy it, but can +have none to give it away, but if he has a Right to give it away; so +had the former King, and then the present King has a better Title to +it than the new one, because his Gift was Prior to this of the Eagle. + +'I would be glad to see this answer'd; and if it can't, then I Query +whether the Eagle's Senses ought not to be question'd, for setting up +a Title very Foundation for which he quarrels at him that is in +Possession, and so confirm the honesty of the Possessor's Title by +his own Practice.? + +'From the whole, I make no Scruple to say that either the Eagle's +second Son has no Title to the Kingdom of Ebronia, or else giving of +Crowns is a legal Practice; and if Crowns may descend by Gift, then +has the other King a better Title than he, because it was given him +first, and the Eagle has only given away what he had no Right to, +because 'twas given away before he had any Title to it himself. + +'Further, the Posterity of the Eagle's eldest Son are manifestly +injur'd in this Action, for Kings can no more give away their Crowns +from their Posterity, than from themselves; if the Right be in the +Eagle, 'tis his, as he's the eldest Male Branch of the House of the +great Lip, not as he is Eagle, and from him the Crown of Ebronia by +the same Right of Devolution descends to his Posterity, and rests on +the Male Line of every eldest Branch. If so, no Act of Renunciation +can alter this Succession, for that is a Gift, and the Gift is +exploded, or else the whole House of the great Lip is excluded; so +that let the Argument be turn'd and twisted never so many ways, it +all Centers in this, that the present Person can have no Title to the +Crown of Ebronia. + +'If he has any Title, 'tis from the Gift of his Father and elder +Brother; if the Gift of a Crown is no good Title, then his Title +cannot be good; If the Gift of a Crown is a good Title, then the +Crown was given away before, and so neither he nor his Father has any +Title. + +'Let him that can answer these Paradoxes defend his Title if he can; +and what shall we now say to the War in Ebronia, only this, that they +are going to fight for the Crown of Ebronia? and to take it away from +one that has no Right to it, to give it to one that has a less Right +than he, and 'tis to be fear'd that if Heaven be Righteous, 'twill +succeed accordingly. + +'The Gentlemen of Letters who have wrote of this in our Lunar World, +on the Subject of the Gallunarians Title, have took a great deal of +Liberty in the Eagle's behalf, to Banter and Ridicule the Gallunarian +sham of a Title, as if it were a pretence too weak for any Prince to +make use of, to talk of Kings giving their Crowns by Will. + +Kingdoms and Governments, says a Learned Lunar author, are not things +of such indifferent Value to be given away, like a Token left for a +Legacy. If any Prince has ever given or transferr'd his Government, +it has been done by solemn Act, and the People have been call'd to +assent and confirm such Concessions. + +'Then the same Author goes on, to Treat the King of Gallunaria with a +great deal of Severity, and exposes his Politicks, that he should +think to put upon the Moon with so empty, so weak, so ridiculous a +Pretence, as the Will of a weak Headed Prince, who neither had a +Right to give his Crown, nor a Brain to know what he was doing, and +he laughs to think what the King of Gallunaria would have said to +have such a dull Trick as that, put upon him in any such Case. + +'Now when we have been so Witty upon this very Article, of giving +away the Crown to the King of Gallunaria's Grandson, as an +incongruous and ridiculous Thing, shall we come to make the same +Incongruity be the Foundation of a War? + +'With what Justice can we make a War for a Prince who has only a good +Title, by Vertue of the self same Action which makes the Grandson of +his Enemy have a bad Title. + +'I always thought we had a Just Ground to make War on Ebronia, as we +were bound by former Alliances to assist the Eagle in the recovery of +it in case of the death of the late King of that Country. + +'But now the Eagle has refus'd the Succession, and his Eldest Son has +refus'd it, I would be glad to see it prov'd how the second Son can +have a Title, and yet the other King have no Title. + +'What a strange sort of a Thing is the Crown of Ebronia, that two of +the greatest Princes of the Lunar World should Fight, not who shall +have it, for neither of them will accept of it, but who shall have +the Power of giving it away. + +'Here are four Princes refuse it; the King of Gallunaria's Sons had a +Title in Right of their Mother, and 'twas not the former +Renunciations that would have barr'd them, if this softer way had not +been found out; for time was it has been pleaded on behalf of the +eldest Son of the Gallunarian King, that his Mother could not give +away his Right before he was born. + +'Then the Eagle has a Right, and under him his eldest Son; and none +of all these four will accept of the Crown; I believe all the Moon +can't find four more that would refuse it. + +'Now, tho' none of these think it worth accepting themselves, yet +they fall out about the Right of giving it away. The King of +Gallunaria will not accept of it himself, but he gets a Gift from the +last Incumbent. This, says the Eagle, can't be a good Title, for the +late King had no Right to make a Deed of Gift of the Crown, since a +King is only Tennant for Life, and Succession of Crowns either must +descend by a Lineal Progression in the Right of Primogeniture, or +else they lose the Tenure, and devolve on the People. + +'Now as this Argument holds good the Eagle has an undoubted Title to +the Crown of Ebronia: But then, says his Eaglish Majesty, I cannot +accept of the Crown my self for I am the Eagle, and my eldest Son has +two Kingdoms already, and is in a fair way to be Eagle after me, and +'tis not worth while for him, but I have a second Son, and we will +give it him. + +'Now may the King of Gallunaria say, if one Gift is good, another is +good, and ours is the first Gift, and therefore we will keep it; and +tho' I solemnly declare I should be very sorry to see the Crown of +Ebronia rest in the House of the Gallunarian, because our Trade will +suffer exceedingly; yet if never so much damage were to come of it, +we ought to do Justice in the World; if neither the Eagle nor his +eldest Son will be King of Ebronia, but a Deed of Gift shall be made, +the first Gift has the Right, for nothing can be given away to two +People at once, and 'tis apparent that the late King had as much +Right to give it away as any Body. + +'The poor Ebronians are in a fine Condition all this while, that no +Body concerns them in the Matter; neither Party has so much as +thought it worth while to ask them who they would have to Reign over +them, here has been no Assembly, no Cortez, no Meeting of the People +of Ebronia, neither Collectively or Representatively, no general +Convention of the Nobility, no House of Feathers, but Ebronia lies as +the spoil of the Victor wholly passive, and her People and Princes, +as if they were wholly unconcern'd, lie by and look on, whoever is +like to be King, they are like to suffer deeply by the Strife, and +yet neither side has thought fit to consult them about it. + +'The conclusion of the whole Matter is in short this, here is +certainly a false Step taken, how it shall be rectify'd is not the +present Business, nor am I Wise enough to Prescribe. One Man may do +in a Moment what all the Lunar World cannot undo in an Age. 'Tis not +be thought the Eagle will be prevail'd on to undo it, nay he has +Sworn not to alter it. + +'I am not concern'd to prove the Title of the present King of +Ebronia, no, nor of the Eagles neither; but I think I can never be +answer'd in this, that this Gift of the Eagles to his second Son is +preposterous, inconsistent with all his Claim to the Crown, and the +greatest confirmation of the Title of his Enemy that it was possible +to give, and no doubt the Gallunarians will lay hold of the Argument. + +'If this Prince was the Eagle's eldest Son, he might have a Just +Right from the concession of his Father, because the Right being +inherent, he only receiv'd from him an Investiture of Time, but as +this young Gentleman is a second Son he has no more Right, his elder +Brother being alive, than your Grand Seignior, or Czar of Muscovy in +your World. + +'Let them Fight then for such a Cause, who valuing only the Pay, make +War a Trade, and Fight for any thing they are bid to Fight for, and +as such value not the Justice of the War, nor trouble their Heads +about Causes and Consequences, so they have their Pay, 'tis well +enough for them. + +'But were the Justice of the War examin'd, I can see none, this +Declaring a new King who has no Right but by a Gift, and pulling down +one that had it by a Gift before, has so much Contradiction in it, +that I am afraid no Wise Man, or Honest Man will embark in it. + + Your + Humble Servant, + The Man in the Moon. + +I wou'd have no Body now pretend to scandalize the Writer of this +Letter, which being for the Gallunarians, for no Man in the Moon had +more Aversion for them than he, but he would have had the War carry'd +on upon a right Bottom, Justice and Honesty regarded in it, and as he +said often, they had no need to go out of the Road of Justice, for +had they made War in the great Eagle's Name all had been well. + +Nor was he a false Prophet, for as this was ill grounded, so it was +as ill carry'd on, met with Shocks, Rubs and Disappointments every +way. The very first Voyage the new King made, he had like to ha' been +drown'd by a very violent Tempest, things not very usual in those +Countries; and all the Progress that had been made in his behalf when +I came away from that Lunar World, had not brought him so much as to +be able to set his Foot upon his new Kingdom of Ebronia, but his +Adversary by wonderful Dexterity, and the Assistance of his old +Grandfather the Gallunarian Monarch, beat his Troops upon all +Occasions, invaded his Ally that pretended to assist him, and kept a +quiet Possession of all the vast Ebronian Monarchy; and but at last +by the powerful Diversion of the Solunarian Fleet, a Shock was given +them on another Side, which if it had not happen'd, it was thought +the new King had been sent home again Re Infecta. + +Being very much Shockt in my Judgment of this Affair, by these +unanswerable Reasons; I enquir'd of my Author who were the Directors +of this Matter? he told me plainly it was done by those great States +Men, which the Solunarian Queen had lately very Justly turn'd out, +whose Politicks were very unaccountable in a great many other things, +as well as in that. + +'Tis true, the War was carry'd on under the new Ministry, and no War +in the World can be Juster, on account of the Injustice and +Encroachment of the Gallunarian Monarch. + +The Queen therefore and her present Ministers, go on with the War on +Principles of Confederacy; 'tis the business of the Solunarians to +beat the Invader out, and then let the People come and make a fair +Decision who they will have to Reign over them. + +This indeed justifies the War in Ebronia to be Right, but for the +Personal Proceedure as before, 'tis all Contradiction and can never +be answer'd. + +I hope no Man will be so malicious, as to say I am hereby reflecting +on our War with Spain. I am very forward to say, it is a most Just +and Reasonable War, as to paralels between the Case of the Princes, +in defending the Matter of Personal Right, Hic labor, Hoc opus. + +Thus however you see Humanum eft Errare, whether in this World or in +the Moon, 'tis all one, Infallibility of Councels any more than of +Doctrine, is not in Man. + +The Reader may observe, I have formerly noted there was a new +Consolidator to be Built, and observ'd what struggle there was in the +Moon about choosing the Feathers. + +I cannot omit some further Remarks here, as + +1. It is to be observ'd, that this last Consolidator was in a manner +quite worn out.----- It had indeed continu'd but 3 Year, which was +the stated Time by Law, but it had been so Hurry'd, so Party Rid, so +often had been up in the Moon, and made so many such extravagant +Flights, and unnecessary Voyages thither, that it began to be +exceedingly worn and defective. + +2. This occasion'd that the light fluttering Feathers, and the +fermented Feathers made strange Work of it; nay, sometimes they were +so hot, they were like to ha' ruin'd the whole Fabrick, and had it +not been for the great Feather in the Center, and a few Negative +Feathers who were Wiser than the rest, all the Machines had been +broke to pieces, and the whole Nation put into a most strange +Confusion. + +Sometimes their Motion was so violent an precipitant, that there was +great apprehensions of its being set on Fire by its own Velocity, for +swiftness of Motion is allow'd by the Sages and so so's to produce +Fire as in Wheels, Mills and several sorts of Mechanick Engines which +are frequently Fir'd, and so in Thoughts, Brains, Assemblies, +Consolidators, and all such combustible Things. + +Indeed these things were of great Consequence, and therefore require +some more nice Examination than ordinary, and the following Story +will in part explain it. + +Among the rest of the Broils they had with the Grandees, one happen'd +on this occasion. + +One of the Tacking Feathers being accidentally met by a Grandee's +Footman, whom it seems wanted some Manners, the Slave began to haloo +him in the Street, with a Tacker, a Tacker, a Feather-Fool, a Tacker, +&c. and so brought the Mob about him, and had not the Grandee himself +come in the very interim, and rescu'd the Feather, the Mob had +demolisht him, they were so enrag'd. + +As this Gentleman-Feather was rescu'd with great Courtesie by the +Grandee, taken into his Coach and carry'd home to his House, he +desir'd to speak with the Footman. + +The Fellow being call'd in, was ask't by him who employ'd him, or set +him on to offer him this Insult? the Footman being a ready bold +Fellow, told him no Body Sir, but you are all grown so ridiculous to +the whole Nation, that if the 134 of you were left but to us Footmen, +and it was not in more respect to our Masters, than you, we should +Cure you of ever coming into the Consolidator again, and all the +People in the Moon are of our Mind. + +But says the Feather, why do you call me Fool too? why Sir, says he, +because no Body could ever tell us what it was you drove at, and we +ha' been told you never knew your selves; now if one of you Tacking +Feathers would but tell the World what your real Design was, they +would be satisfy'd, but to be leaders in the Consolidator, and to Act +without Meaning, without Thought or Design, must argue your' Fools, +or worse, and you will find all the Moon of my Mind. + +But what if we had a meaning, says the Feather-Man? why then, says +the Footman, we shall leave calling you Fools, and call you Knaves, +for it could never be an Honest one, so that you had better stand as +you do: and I make it out thus. + +You knew, that upon your Tacking the Crolians to the Tribute Bill, +the Grandees must reject both, they having declar'd against reading +any Bills Tackt together, as being against their Priviledges. Now if +you had any Design, it must be to have the Bill of Tribute lost, and +that must be to disappoint all the publick Affairs, expose the Queen, +break all Measures, discourage the Confederates, and putting all +things backward, bring the Gallunarian Forces upon them, and put all +Solunaria into Confusion. Now Sir, says he, we cannot have such +course Thoughts of you, as to believe you could design such dark, +mischievous things as these, and therefore we chose to believe you +all Fools, and not fit to be put into a Consolidator again; than +Knaves and Traytors to your Country, and consequently fit for a worse +Place. + +The plainness of the Footman was such, and so unanswerable, that his +Master was fain to check him, and so the Discourse broke off, and we +shall leave it there, and proceed to the Story. + +The Men of the Feather as I have noted, who are represented here by +the Consolidator, fell all together by the Ears, and all the Moon was +in a combustion. The Case was as follows. + +They had three times lost their quallifying Law, and particularly +they observ'd the Grandees were the Men that threw it out, and +notwithstanding the Plot of the Tackers, as they call'd them, who +were as I noted, observ'd to be in Conjunction with the Crolians, yet +the Law always past the Feathers, but still the Grandees quasht it. + +To show their Resentment at the Grandees, they had often made +attempts to mortify them, sometimes Arraigning them in general, +sometimes Impeaching private Members of their House, but still all +wou'd not do, the Grandees had the better of them, and going on with +Regularity and Temper, the Consolidators or Feather-Men always had +the worst, the Grandees had the applause of all the Moon, had the +last Blow on every Occasion, and the other sunk in their Reputation +exceedingly. + +It is necessary to understand here, that the Men of the Feather serve +in several Capacities, and under several Denominations, and act by +themselves, singly consider'd, they are call'd the Consolidator, and +the Feathers we mention'd abstracted from their Persons, make the +glorious Engine we speak of, and in which, when any suddain Motion +takes them, they can all shut themselves up, and away for the Moon. + +But when these are joyn'd with the Grandees, and the Queen, so +United, they make a great Cortez, or general Collection of all the +Governing Authority of the Nation. + +When this last Fraction happen'd, the Men of the Feather were under +an exceeding Ferment, they had in some Passion taken into their +Custody, some good Honest Lunar Country-Men, for an Offence, which +indeed few but themselves ever immagin'd was a Crime, for the poor +Men did nothing but pursue their own Right by the Law. + +'Tis thought the Men of the Feather soon saw they were in the Wrong, +but acted like some Men in our World, that when they make a mistake, +being too Proud to own themselves in the wrong, run themselves into +worse Errors to mend it. + +So these Lunar Gentlemen disdaining to have it said they could be +mistaken, committed two Errors to conceal one, 'till at last they +came to be laught at by all the Moon. + +These poor Men having lain a long while in Prison, for little or no +Crime, at last were advis'd to apply themselves to the Law for +Discharge; the Law would fairly have Discharg'd them; for in that +Country, no Man may be Imprison'd, but he must in a certain Time be +Tryed, or let go upon pledges of his Friends, much like our giving +Bail on a Writ of Habeas Corpus; but the Judges, whether over-aw'd by +the Feathers, or what was the Cause, Authors have not determin'd, did +not care to venture Discharging them. + +The poor Men thus remanded, apply'd themselves to the Grandees who +were then Sitting, and who are the Soveraign Judicature of the +Country, and before whom Appeals lie from all Courts of Justice. The +Grandees as in Duty bound, appear'd ready to do them Justice, but the +Queen was to be apply'd to, first to grant a Writ, or a Warrant for a +Writ, call'd in their Country a Writ of Follies, which is as much as +to say Mistakes. + +The Consolidators foreseeing the Consequence, immediately apply'd +themselves to the Queen with an Address, the Terms of which were so +Undu----l and Unman--ly, that had she not been a Queen of unusual +Candor and Goodness, she would have Treated them as they deserv'd, +for they upbraided her with their Freedom and Readiness in granting +her Supplies, and therefore as good as told her they expected she +should do as they desir'd. + +These People that knew the Supplies given, were from necessity, +Legal, and for their own Defence, while the granting their Request, +must have been Illegal, Arbitrary, a Dispensing with the Laws, and +denying Justice to her Subjects, the very thing they ruin'd her +Father for, were justly provok'd to see their good Queen so +barbarously Treated. + +The Queen full of Goodness and Calmness, gave them a gentle kind +Answer, but told them she must be careful to Act with due Regard to +the Laws, and could not interrupt the course of Judicial Proceedings; +and at the same time granted the Writ, having first consulted with +her Council, and receiv'd the Opinion of all the Judges, that it was +not only Safe, but Just and Reasonable, and a Right to her People +which she could not deny. + +This Proceeding gall'd the Feathers to the quick, and finding the +Grandees resolv'd to proceed Judicially upon the said Writ of +Follies, which if they did, the Prisoners would be deliver'd and the +Follies fixt upon the Feathers, they sent their Poursuivants took +them out of the Common Prison, and convey'd them separately and +privately into Prisons of their own. + +This rash and unprecedented Proceedings, pusht them farther into a +Labrinth, from whence it was impossible they could ever find their +way out, but with infinite Loss to their Reputation, like a Sheep in +a thick Wood, that at every Briar pulls some of the Wool from her +Back, till she comes out in a most scandalous Pickle of Nakedness and +Scratches. + +The Grandees immediately publisht six Articles in Vindication of the +Peoples Right, against the assum'd Priviledges of the Feathers, the +Abstract of which is as follows. + +1. That the Feathers had no Right to Claim, or make any new +Priviledges for themselves, other than they had before. + +2. That every Freeman of the Moon had a Right to repel Injury with +Law. + +3. That Imprisoning the 5 Countrymen by the Feathers, was assuming a +new Priviledge they had no Right to, and a subjecting the Subjects +Right to their Arbitrary Votes. + +4. That a Writ of Deliverance, or removing the Body, is the legal +Right of every Subject in the Moon, in order to his Liberty, in case +of Imprisonment. + +5. That to punish any Person for assisting the Subjects, in procuring +or prosecuting the said Writ of Deliverance, is a breach of the Laws, +and a thing of dangerous Consequence. + +6. That a Writ of Follies is not a Grace, but a Right, and ought not +to be deny'd to the Subject. + +These Resolves struck the languishing Reputation of the Feathers with +the dead Palsie, and they began to stink in the Nostrils of all the +Nations in the Moon. + +But besides this, they had one strange effect, which was a prodigious +disappointment to the Men of the Feather. + +I had observ'd before, that there was to be a new Set of Feathers, +provided in order to Building another Consolidator, according to a +late Law for a new Engine every three Years. Now several of these Men +of the Feather, who thought their Feathers capable of serving again, +had made great Interest, and been at great Cost to have their old +Feathers chosen again, but the People had entertain'd such scoundrel +Opinions of these Proceedings, such as Tacking, Consolidating, +Imprisoning Electors, Impeaching without Tryal, Writs of Follies and +the like, that if any one was known to be concern'd in any of these +things, no Body would Vote for him. + +The Gentlemen were so mortify'd at this, that even the hottest +High-Church Solunarian of them all, if he put in any where to be +re-chosen, the first thing he had to do, was to assure the People he +was no Tacker, none of the 134, and a vast deal of difficulty they +had to Purge themselves of this blessed Action, which they us'd to +value themselves on before, as their Glory and Merit. + +Thus they grew asham'd of it as a Crime, got Men to go about to vouch +for them to the Country People, that they were no Tackers, nay, one +of them to clear himself loudly forswore it, and taking a Glass of +Wine wisht it might never pass thro' him, if he was a Tacker, tho' +all Men suspected him to be of that Number too, he having been one of +the forwardest that way on all Occasions, of any Person among the +South Folk of the Moon. + +In like manner, one of the Feathers for the middle Province of the +Country, who us'd to think it his Honour to be for the qualifying +Law, seeing which way the humour of the Country ran, took as much +Pains now to tell the People he was no Tacker, as he did before, to +promise them that he would do his utmost to have the Crolians +reduc'd, and that Bill to pass, the Reason of which was plain, that +he saw if it should be known he was a Tacker, he should never have +his Feather return'd to be put into the Consolidator. + +The Heats and Feuds that the Feathers and the Grandees were now run +into, began to make the latter very uneasie, and they sent to the +Grandees to hasten them, and put them in mind of passing some Laws +they had sent up to them for raising Mony, and which lay before them, +knowing that as soon as those Laws were past, the Queen would break +'em up, and they being very willing to be gone, before these things +came too far upon the Stage, urg'd them to dispatch. + +But the Grandees resolving to go thoro' with the Matter, sent to them +to come to a Treaty on the foot of the six Articles, and to bring any +Reasons they could, to prove the Power they had to Act as they had +done with the Country-men, and with the Lawyers they had put in +Prison for assisting them. + +The Feathers were very backward and stiff about this Conference, or +Treaty, 'till at last the Grandees having sufficiently expos'd them +to all the Nation, the Bills were past, the Grandees caus'd the +particulars to be Printed, and a Representation of their Proceedings, +and the Feathers foul Dealings to the Queen of the Country, and so +her Majesty sent them Home. + +But if they were asham'd of being call'd Tackers before, they were +doubly mortify'd at this now, nay the Country resented it so +exceedingly, that some of them began to consider whether they should +venture to go Home or no; Printed Lists of their Names were +Publish'd, tho' we do not say they were true Lists, for it was a hard +thing to know which were true Lists, and which were not, nor indeed +could a true List be made, no Man being able to retain the exact +Account of who were the Men in his Memory. + +For as there were 134 Tackers, so there were 141 of these, who by a +Name of Distinction, were call'd Lebusyraneim, in English +Ailesbury-men. + +The People were so exasperated against these, that they express'd +their Resentment upon all Occasions, and least the Queen should think +that the Nation approv'd the Proceedings, they drew up a +Representation or Complaint, full of most dutiful Expressions to +their Queen, and full of Resentment against the Feathers, the Copy of +which being handed about the Moon the last time I was there, I shall +take the Pains to put it into English in the best manner I can, +keeping as near the Originial as possible. + +If any Man shall now wickedly suggest, that this Relation has any +retrospect to the Affairs of England, the Author declares them +malitious Misconstruers of his honest Relation of Matters from this +remote Country, and offers his positive Oath for their Satisfaction, +that the very last Journy he made into those Lunar Regions, this +Matter was upon the Stage, of which, if this Treatise was not so near +its conclusion, the Reader might expect a more particular Account. + +If there is any Analogy or similitude between the Transactions of +either World, he cannot account for that, 'tis application makes the +Ass. + +And yet sometimes he has thought, as some People Fable of the +Platonick Year, that after such a certain Revolution of Time, all +Things are Transacted over again, and the same People live again, are +the fame Fools, Knaves, Philosophers and Mad-men they were before, +tho' without any Knowledge of, or Retrospect to what they acted +before; so why should it be impossible, that as the Moon and this +World are noted before to be Twins and Sisters, equal in Motion and +in Influence, and perhaps in Qualities, the same secret Power should +so act them, as that like Actions and Circumstances should happen in +all Parts of both Worlds at the same time. + +I leave this Thought to the improvement of our Royal Learned +Societies of the Anticacofanums, Opposotians, Periodicarians, +Antepredestinarians, Universal Soulians, and such like unfathomable +People, who, without question, upon mature Enquiry will find out the +Truth of this Matter. + +But if any one shall scruple the Matter of Fact as I have here +related it, I freely give him leave to do as I did, and go up to the +Moon for a Demonstration; and if upon his return he does not give +ample Testimony to the Case in every part of it, as here related, I +am content to pass for the Contriver of it my self, and be punish'd +as the Law shall say I deserve. + +Nor was this all the publick Matters, in which this Nation of +Solunarians took wrong Measures, for about this time, the +Misunderstandings between the Southern and Northern Men began again, +and the Solunarians made several Laws, as they call'd them, to secure +themselves against the Dangers they pretended might accrue from the +new Measures the Nolunarians had taken; but so unhappily were they +blinded by the strife among themselves, and by-set by Opinion and +Interest, that every Law they made, or so much as attempted to make, +was really to the Advantage, and to the Interest of the Northern-Men, +and to their own loss; so Ignorantly and Weak-headed was these High +Solunarian Church-Men in the true Interest of their Country, led by +their implacable Malice at Crolianism, which as is before noted, was +the Establisht Religion of that Country. + +But as this Matter was but Transacting when I took the other Remarks, +and that I did not obtain a full Understanding of it, 'till my second +Voyage, I refer it to a more full Relation of my farther Travels that +way, when I shall not fail to give a clear State of the Debate of the +two Kingdoms, in which the Southern Men had the least Reason, and the +worst Success that ever they had in any Affair of that Nature for +many Years before. + +It was always my Opinion in Affairs on this side the Moon, that tho' +sometimes a foolish Bolt may hit the Point, and a random Shot kill +the Enemy, yet that generally Discretion and Prudence of Mannagement, +had the Advantage, and met with a proportion'd Success, find things +were, or were not happy, in their Conclusion as they were, more or +less wisely Contriv'd and Directed. + +And tho' it may not be allow'd to be so here, yet I found it more +constantly so there, Effects were true to their Causes, and confusion +of Councils never fail'd in the Moon to be follow'd by distracted and +destructive Consequences. + +This appear'd more eminently in the Dispute between these two Lunar +Nations we are speaking of; never were People in the Moon, whatever +they might be in other Places, so divided in their Opinions about a +matter of such Consequence. Some were for declaring War immediately +upon the Northern Men, tho' they could show no Reason at all why, +only because they would not do as they would have 'em; a parcel of +poor Scoundrel, Scabby Rogues, they ought to be made submit, what! +won't they declare the same King as we do! hang them Rogues! a pack +of Crolian Prestarian Devils, we must make them do it, down with them +the shortest Way, declare War immediately, and down with them.------ +Nay some were for falling on them directly, without the formality of +declaring War. + +Others, more afraid than hurt, cry'd out Invasions, Depredation, Fire +and Sword, the Northern Men would be upon them immediately, and +propos'd to Fortify their Frontiers, and file off their Forces to the +Borders; nay, so apprehensive did those Men of Prudence pretend to +be, that they order'd Towns to be Fortify'd 100 Mile off of the +Place, when all this while the poor Northern Men did nothing but tell +them, that unless they would come to Terms, they would not have the +same King as they, and they took some Measures to let them see they +did not purpose to be forc'd to it. + +Another sort of Wiser Men than these, propos'd to Unite with them, +hear their Reasons, and do them Right. These indeed were the only Men +that were in the right Method of concluding this unhappy Broil, and +for that Reason, were the most unlikely to succeed. + +But the Wildest Notion of all, was, when some of the Grandees made a +grave Address to the Queen of the Country, to desire the Northern Men +to settle Matters first, and to tell them, that when that was done, +they should see what these would do for them. This was a home Stroke, +if it had but hit, and the Misfortune only lay in this, That the +Northern Men were not Fools enough; the clearness of the Air in those +cold Climates generally clearing the Head so early, that those People +see much farther into a Mill-stone than any Blind Man in all the +Southern Nations of the Moon. + +There was an another unhappiness in this Case, which made the Matter +yet more confus'd, and that was, that the Souldiers had generally no +gust to this War.--- This was an odd Case; for those sort of +Gentlemen, especially in the World in the Moon, don't use to enquire +into the Justice of the Case they Fight for, but they reckon 'tis +their Business to go where they are sent, and kill any Body they are +order'd to kill, leaving their Governors to answer for the Justice of +it; but there was another Reason to be given why the Men of the Sword +were so averse, and always talk't coldly of the fighting Part, and +tho' the Northern Men call'd it fear, yet I cannot joyn with them in +that, for to fear requires Thinking; and some of our Solunarians are +absolutely protected from the first, because they never meddle with +the last, except when they come to the Engine, and therefore 'tis +plain it could not proceed from Fear. + +It has puzzl'd the most discerning Heads of the Age, to give a Reason +from whence this Aversion proceeded, and various Judgments have been +given of it. + +The Nolunarians jested with them, and when they talk't of Fighting, +bad them look back into History, and examine what they ever made of a +Nolunarian War, and whether they had not been often well beaten, and +sent short home, bid them have a care of catching a Tartar, as we +call it, and always made themselves merry with it. + +They banter'd the Solunarians too, about the Fears and Terrors they +were under, from their Arming themselves, and putting themselves in a +posture of Defence,----- When it was easy to see by the nature of the +thing, that their Design was not a War, but a Union upon just +Conditions, that it was a plain Token that they design'd either to +put some affront upon the Nolunarians, to deny them some just Claims, +or to impose something very Provoking upon them more than they had +yet done, that they were so exceeding fearful of an Invasion from +them. + +Tho' these were sufficient to pass for Reasons in other Cases, yet it +could not be so here, but I saw there must be something else in it. +As I was thus wondering at this unusual backwardness of the +Souldiers, I enquir'd a little farther into the meaning of it, and +quickly found the Reason was plain, there was nothing to be got by +it, that People were Brave, Desperate and Poor, the Country Barren, +Mountainous and Empty, so that in short there would be nothing but +Blows, and Souldiers Fellows to be had, and I always observ'd that +Souldiers never care to be knockt on the Head, and get nothing by the +Bargain. + +In short, I saw plainly the Reasons that prompted the Solunarians to +Insult their Neighbours of the North, were more deriv'd from the +regret at their Establishing Crolianism, than at any real Causes they +had given, or indeed were in a condition to give them. + +These, and abundance more particular Observations I made, but as I +left the thing still in agitation, and undetermin'd, I shall refer it +to another Voyage which I purpose to make thither, and at my return, +may perhaps set that Case in a clearer Light than our Sight can yet +bear to look at it in. + +If in my second Vovage I should undeceive People in the Notions they +entertain'd of those Northern People, and convince them that the +Solunarians were really the Aggressors, and had put great hardships +upon them, I might possibly do a Work, that if it met with +Encouragement, might bring the Solunarians to do them Justice, and +that would set all to Rights, the two Nations might easily become +one, and Unite for ever, or at least become Friends, and give mutual +Assistance to each other; and I cannot but own such an Agreement +would make them both very formidable, but this I refer to another +time.----- + +At the same time I cannot leave it without a Remark that this +Jealousy between the two Nations, may perhaps in future Ages be +necessary to be maintain'd, in order to find some better Reasons for +Fortifications, Standing Armies, Guards and Garisons than could be +given in the Reign of the great Prince I speak of, the Queen's +Predecessor, tho' his was against Forreign insulting Enemy. + +But the Temper of the Solunarian High Party was always such, that +they would with much more case give thanks for a Standing Army +against the Nolunarians and Crolians, than agree to one Legion +against the Abrogratzians and Gallunarians. + +But of these Things I am also promis'd a more particular Account upon +my Journy into that Country. + +I cannot however conclude this Matter, without giving some Account of +my private Observations, upon what was farther to be seen in this +Country. + +And had not my Remarks on their State Matters taken up more of my +Thoughts than I expected, I might have entred a little upon their +other Affairs, such as their Companies, their Commerce, their Publick +Offices, their Stock-Jobbers, their Temper, their Conversation, their +Women, their Stages, Universities, their Courtiers, their Clergy, and +the Characters of the severals under all these Denominations, but +these must be referr'd to time, and my more perfect Observations. + +But I cannot omit, that tho' I have very little Knowledge of Books, +and had obtain'd less upon their Language, yet I could not but be +very inquisitive after their Libraries and Men of Letters. + +Among their Libraries I found not abundance of their own Books, their +Learning having so much of Demonstration, and being very +Hieroglyphical, but I found to my great Admiration vast quantities of +Translated Books out of all Languages of our World. + +As I thought my self one of the first, at least of our Nation, that +ever came thus far; it was, you may be sure no small surprize to me +to find all the most valluable parts of Modern Learning, especially +of Politicks, Translated from our Tongue, into the Lunar Dialect, and +stor'd up in their Libraries with the Remarks, Notes and Observations +of the Learned Men of that Climate upon the Subject. + +Here, among a vast croud of French Authors condemn'd in this polite +World for trifling, came a huge Volume containing, Les Oevres de +scavans, which has 19 small Bells painted upon the Book of several +disproportion'd sizes. + +I enquir'd the meaning of that Hieroglyphick, which the Master of the +Books told me, was to signify that the substance was all Jingle and +Noise, and that of 30 Volumes which that one Book contains, 29 of +them have neither Substance, Musick, Harmony nor value in them. + +The History of the Fulsoms, or a Collection of 300 fine Speeches made +in the French Accademy at Paris, and 1500 gay Flourishes out of +Monsieur Boileau, all in Praise of the invincible Monarch of France. + +The Duke of Bavaria's Manifesto, shewing the Right of making War +against our Sovereigns, from whence the People of that Lunar World +have noted that the same Reasons which made it lawful to him to +attempt the Imperial Power, entitle him to lose his own, viz. +Conquest, and the longest Sword. + +Jack a both Sides, or a Dialogue between Pasquin and Marforio, upon +the Subject Matter of the Pope's sincerity in Case of the War in +Italy. Written by a Citizen of Ferrara. One side arguing upon the +occasion of the Pope's General wheedling the Imperialists to quit +that Country. The other bantering Imperial Policy, or the Germains +pretending they were Trickt out of Italy, when they could stay there +no longer. + +Lewis the Invincible, by Monsieur Boileau. A Poem, on the Glory of +his most Christian Majesties Arms at Hochstedt, and Verue. + +All these Translations have innumerable Hyerogliphical Notes, and +Emblems painted on them, which pass as Comments, and are readily +understood in that Climate. For Example, on the Vol. of Dialogues are +two Cardinals washing the Pope's Hands under a Cloud that often +bespatters them with Blood, signifying that in spight of all his +Pretensions he has a Hand in the Broils of Italy. And before him the +Sun setting in a Cloud, and a Blind Ballad-Singer making Sonnets upon +the brightness of its Lustre. + +The three Kings of Brentford, being some Historical Observations on +three mighty Monarchs in our World, whose Heroick Actions may be the +Subject of future Ages, being like to do little in this, the King of +England, King of Poland, and King of Spain. These are describ'd by a +Figure, representing a Castle in the Air, and three Knights pointing +at it, but they could not catch. + +I omit abundance of very excellent pieces, because remote, as three +great Volumes of European Misteries, among the vast varieties of +which, and very entertaining, I observ'd but a few, such as these: + +1. Why Prince Ragotski will make no Peace with the Emperor.--- But +more particularly why the Emperor won't make Peace with him. + +2. Where the Policy of the King of Sweden lies, to persue the King of +Poland, and let the Muscovites ravage and destroy his own Subjects. + +3. What the Duke of Bavaria propos'd to himself in declaring for +France. + +4. Why the Protestants of the Confederacy never reliev'd the Camisars. + +5. Why there are no Cowards found in the English Service, but among +their Sea Captains. + +6. Why the King of Portugal did not take Madrid, why the English did +not take Cadiz, and why the Spaniards did not take Gibraltar, viz. +because the first were Fools, the second Knaves, and the last +Spaniards. + +7. What became of all the Silver taken at Vigo. + +8. Who will be the next King of Scotland. + +9. If England should ever want a King, who would think it worth while +to accept of it. + +10. What specifick difference can be produc'd between a Knave, a +Coward, and a Traytor. + +Abundance of these Mysteries are Hieroglyphically describ'd in this +ample Collection, and without doubt our great Collection of Annals, +and Historical Observations, particularly the Learned Mr. Walker, +would make great Improvements there. + +But to come nearer home, There, to my great Amasement, I found +several new Tracts out of our own Language, which I could hardly have +imagin'd it possible should have reacht so far. + +As first, sundry Transactions of our Royal Society about Winds, and a +valuable Desertation of Dr. B.....'s about Wind in the Brain. + +A Discourse of Poisons, by the Learned Dr. M..... with Lunar Notes +upon it, wherein it appears that Dr. C....d had more Poison in his +Tongue, than all the Adders the Moon have in their Teeth. + +Nec Non, or Lawyers Latin turn'd into Lunar Burlesque. The +Hyerogliphick was the Queens Mony tost in a Blanket, Dedicated to the +Attorney General, and five false Latin Councellors. + +Mandamus, as it was Acted at Abb...ton Assizes, by Mr. So....r +General, where the Qu..n had her own So...r against her for a bad +Cause, and never a Counsel for her in a good one. + +Lunar Reflections, being a List of about 2000 ridiculous Errors in +History, palpable Falsities, and scandalous Omissions in Mr. +Collier's Geographical Dictionary; with a subsequent Enquiry by way +of Appendix, into which are his own, and which he has ignorantly +deduc'd from ancient Authors. + +Assassination and Killing of Kings, prov'd to be a Church of England +Doctrin; humbly Dedicated to the Prince of Wales, by Mr. Collier and +Mr. Snat; wherein their Absolving Sir John Friend and Sir William +Parkins without Repentance, and while they both own'd and justify'd +the Fact, is Vindicated and Defended. + +Les Bagatelles, or Brom..ys Travels into Italy, a choice Book, and by +great Accident preserv'd from the malitious Design of the Author, who +diligently Bought up the whole Impression, for fear they should be +seen, as a thing of which this ungrateful Age was not worthy. + +Killing no Murther, being an Account of the severe Justice design'd +to be inflicted on the barbarous Murtherers of the honest Constable +at Bow, but unhappily prevented by my Lord N.....m being turn'd out +of his Office. + +De modo Belli, or an Account of the best Method of making Conquests +and Invasion a la Mode de Port St. Mary, 3 Volumes in 80. Dedicated +to Sir Hen. Bell...s. + +King Charles the first prov'd a T...t. By Edward Earl of Clarendon, 3 +Vol. in Fol. Dedicated to the University of Oxford. + +The Bawdy Poets, or new and accurate Editions of Catullus, +Propertius, and Tibullus, being the Maiden-head of the new Printing +Press at Cambridge, Dedicated by the Editor Mr. Ann...y to the +University, and in consideration of which, and some Disorders near +Casterton, the University thought him fit to represent them in +P......t. + +Alms no Charity, or the Skeleton of Sir Humphry Mackworth's Bill for +relief of the Poor: Being an excellent new Contrivance to find +Employment for all the Poor in the Nation, viz. By setting them at +Work, to make all the rest of the People as Poor as themselves. + +Synodicum Superlativum, being sixteen large Volumes of the vigorous +Proceedings of the English Convocation, digested into Years, one +Volume to every Year. -- Wherein are several large Lists of the +Heretical, Atheistical, Deistical and other pernitious Errors which +have been Condemn'd in that Venerable Assembly, the various Services +done, and weighty Matters dispatcht, for the Honour of the English +Church, for sixteen Years last past, with their formal Proceedings +against Asgil, Coward, Toland and others, for reviving old Antiquated +Errors in Doctrine, and Publishing them to the World as their own. + +New Worlds in Trade, being a vast Collection out of the Journals of +the Proceedings of the Right Honourable the Commissioners of Trade, +with several Eminent Improvements in general Negoce, vast Schemes of +Business, and new Discoveries of Settlements and Correspondences in +Forreign Parts, for the Honour and Advantage of the English +Merchants, being 12 Volumes in Fol. and very scarce and valluable +Books. + +Legal Rebellion, or an Argument proving that all sorts of +Insurrections of Subjects against their Princes, are lawful, and to +be supported whenever they suit with our Occasions, made good from +the Practice of France with the Hungarians, the English with the +Camisars, the Swede with the Poles, the Emperor with the Subjects of +Naples, and all the Princes of the World as they find occasion, a +large Volume in Folio, with a Poem upon the Sacred Right of Kingly +Power. + +Ignis Fatuus or the Occasional Bill in Minature, a Farce, as it was +acted by his Excellency the Lord Gr...il's Servants in Carolina. + +Running away the shortest way to Victory, being a large Dissertation, +shewing to save the Queens Ships, is the best way to beat the French. + +The Tookites, a Poem upon the 134. + +A new Tract upon Trade, being a Demonstration that to be always +putting the People upon customary Mourning, and wearing Black upon +every State Occasion, is an excellent Encouragement to Trade, and a +means to employ the Poor. + +City Gratitude, being a Poem on the Statue erected by the Court of +Aldermen at the upper end of Cheapside, to the Immortal Memory of +King William. + +There were many more Tracts to be found in this place; but these may +suffice for a Specimen, and to excite all Men that would encrease +their Understandings in humane Mysteries, to take a Voyage to this +enlightned Country. Where their Memories, thinking Faculties and +Penetration, will no question be so Tackt and Consolidated, that when +they return, they all Write Memoirs of the Place, and communicate to +their Country the Advantages they have reapt by their Voyage, +according to the laudable Example of their + + Most humble Servant, + The Man in the Moon. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE CONSOLIDATOR *** + +This file should be named 7089.txt or 7089.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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