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+Title: The Consolidator
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+Author: Daniel Defoe
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE CONSOLIDATOR ***
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+Produced by Lance Purple and Andrew Sly.
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+
+The Consolidator: or,
+Memoirs of Sundry Transactions
+From the World in the Moon.
+
+Translated from the Lunar Language,
+By the Author of The True-born English Man.
+
+
+It cannot be unknown to any that have travell'd into the Dominions of
+the Czar of Muscovy, that this famous rising Monarch, having studied
+all Methods for the Encrease of his Power, and the Enriching as well
+as Polishing his Subjects, has travell'd through most part of Europe,
+and visited the Courts of the greatest Princes; from whence, by his
+own Observation, as well as by carrying with him Artists in most
+useful Knowledge, he has transmitted most of our General Practice,
+especially in War and Trade, to his own Unpolite People; and the
+Effects of this Curiosity of his are exceeding visible in his present
+Proceedings; for by the Improvements he obtained in his European
+Travels, he has Modell'd his Armies, form'd new Fleets, settled
+Foreign Negoce in several remote Parts of the World; and we now see
+his Forces besieging strong Towns, with regular Approaches; and his
+Engineers raising Batteries, throwing Bombs, &c. like other Nations;
+whereas before, they had nothing of Order among them, but carried all
+by Ouslaught and Scalado, wherein they either prevailed by the Force
+of Irresistible Multitude, or were Slaughter'd by heaps, and left the
+Ditches of their Enemies fill'd with their Dead Bodies.
+
+We see their Armies now form'd into regular Battalions; and their
+Strelitz Musqueteers, a People equivalent to the Turks Janizaries,
+cloath'd like our Guards, firing in Platoons, and behaving themselves
+with extraordinary Bravery and Order.
+
+We see their Ships now compleatly fitted, built and furnish'd, by
+the English and Dutch Artists, and their Men of War Cruize in the
+Baltick. 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.
+
+
+
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