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THE

CONSOLIDATOR:

OR,MEMOIRS

OF

Sundry Transactions

FROM THE

World in the Moon.

Translated from the Lunar

LAN!AE,

"y the A!THOR of

The True-born English Man.

It cannot be unknown to any that have travell'd into the Dominions of the Czar of Muscovy, thatthis famous rising Monarch, having studied all Methods for the Encrease of his Power, and the

Enriching as well as Polishing his ub!ects, has travell'd through most "art of Europe, and visitedthe Courts of the greatest Princes# from whence, by his own $bservation, as well as by carrying

with him %rtists in most useful &nowledge, he has transmitted most of our eneral Practice,es"ecially in (ar and )rade, to his own *n"olite Peo"le# and the Effects of this Curiosity of his

are e+ceeding visible in his "resent Proceedings# for by the Im"rovements he obtained in his

European )ravels, he has Modell'd his %rmies, form'd new leets, settled oreign -egoce inseveral remote Parts of the (orld# and we now see his orces besieging strong )owns, with

regular %""roaches# and his Engineers raising .atteries, throwing .ombs, &c. like other

-ations# whereas before, they had nothing of $rder among them, but carried all by Ouslaught and Scalado, wherein they either "revailed by the orce of Irresistible Multitude, or were

laughter'd by hea"s, and left the Ditches of their Enemies fill'd with their Dead .odies/

(e see their %rmies now form'd into regular .attalions# and their Strelitz Musqueteers, a Peo"le

e0uivalent to the Turks Janizaries, cloath'd like our uards, firing in Platoons, and behavingthemselves with e+traordinary .ravery and $rder/

(e see their hi"s now com"leatly fitted, built and furnish'd, by the English and Dutch %rtists,

and their Men of (ar Cruize in the Baltick / )heir -ew City of eters!urgh built by the "resent

Czar, begins now to look like our orts"outh, fitted with (et and Dry Docks, torehouses, and



Magazines of -aval Pre"arations, vast and Incredible# which may serve to remind us, how we

once taught the #rench to build hi"s, till they are grown able to teach us how to use them/

%s to )rade, our large leets to $rch%$ngel may s"eak for it, where we now send 122 ailyearly, instead of 3 or 4, which were the greatest number we ever sent before# and the

Im"ortation of )obaccoes from England into his Dominions, would still increase the )radethither, was not the Covetousness of our own Merchants the $bstruction of their %dvantages/

.ut all this by the by/

%s this great Monarch has Im"roved his Country, by introducing the Manners and Customs of

the Politer -ations of Europe# so, with Indefatigable Industry, he has settled a new, but constant

)rade, between his Country and hina, by 5and# where his Carravans go twice or thrice a 6ear,as -umerous almost, and as strong, as those from Egypt to ersia' -or is the (ay shorter, or the

Desarts they "ass over less wild and uninhabitable, only that they are not so sub!ect to louds of

and, i( that Ter" !e proper , or to )roo"s of $ra!s, to destroy them by the way# for this

"owerful Prince, to make this terrible 7ourney feazible to his ub!ects, has built orts, "lanted

Collonies and arisons at "ro"er Distances# where, though they are seated in Countries intirely.arren, and among uninhabited 8ocks and ands# yet, by his continual furnishing them from his

own tores, the Merchants travelling are reliev'd on good )erms, and meet both with Convoyand 8efreshment/

More might be said of the admirable Decorations of this 7ourney, and how so "rodigious an

%ttem"t is made easy# so that now they have an e+act Corres"ondence, and drive a "rodigious

)rade between Musco) and Tonquin# but having a longer 9oyage in :and, I shall not detain the8eader, nor kee" him till he grows too big with E+"ectation/

-ow, as all Men know the hineses are an %ncient, (ise, Polite, and most Ingenious Peo"le# so

the Muscovites begun to rea" the .enefit of this o"en )rade# and not only to grow e+ceeding8ich by the bartering for all the (ealth of those Eastern Countries# but to "olish and refine theirCustoms and Manners, as much on that side as they have from their European Im"rovements on

this/

%nd as the hineses have many sorts of 5earning which these Parts of the (orld never heard of,

so all those useful Inventions which we admire ourselves so much for, are vulgar and commonwith them, and were in use long before our Parts of the (orld were Inhabited/ )hus *un%

po)der , rinting , and the use of the Magnet and o"pass, which we call Modern Inventions, are

not only far from being Inventions, but fall so far short of the Perfection of %rt they haveattained to, that it is hardly Credible, what wonderful things we are told of from thence, and all

the 9oyages the %uthor has made thither being im"loy'd another way, have not yet furnish'd him

with the Particulars fully enough to transmit them to view# not but that he is "re"aring a chemeof all those e+cellent %rts those -ations are Masters of, for "ublick 9iew, by way of Detection

of the monstrous Ignorance and Deficiencies of European cience# which may serve as a

+e,icon Technicu" for this "resent %ge, with useful Diagrams for that "ur"ose# wherein I shallnot fail to ac0aint the (orld, 1/ (ith the %rt of *unnery, as Practis'd in hina long before the

(ar of the *iants, and by which those Presum"tuous %nimals fired 8ed;hot .ullets right u" into

:eaven, and made a .reach sufficient to encourage them to a eneral torm# but being 8e"ulsed



with great laughter, they gave over the iege for that time/ )his memorable "art of :istory shall

be a faithful %bridgement of -!ra chizra%le%peglizar /istoriagrapher%0oyal to the Em"eror of

hina, who wrote $nno Mundi 11</ his 9olumes e+tant, in the Publick 5ibrary at Tonquin,Printed in 5eaves of 9itrify'd Diamond, by an admirable De+terity, struck all at an obli0ue

Motion, the Engine remaining intire, and still fit for use, in the Chamber of the Em"eror's

8arities/

%nd here I shall give you a Draft of the Engine it self, and a Plan of its $"eration, and thewonderful De+terity of its Performance/

If these 5abours of mine shall "rove successful, I may in my ne+t 7ourney that way, take an

%bstract of their most admirable )racts in -avigation, and the Mysteries of hinese Mathematicks# which out;do all Modern Invention at that 8ate, that 'tis Inconceivable= In this

Elaborate (ork I must run thro' the >?@ 9olumes of $ugro%"achi%lanquaro%zi, the most ancient

Mathematician in all hina= rom thence I shall give a Descri"tion of a leet of hi"s of 122222

ail, built at the E+"ence of the Em"eror Tangro the 1@th# who having -otice of the eneral

Deluge, "re"ar'd these 9essels, to every City and )own in his Dominions $ne, and in .ulk "ro"ortion'd to the number of its Inhabitants# into which 9essel all the Peo"le, with such

Moveables as they thought fit to save, and with 1A2 Days Provisions, were receiv'd at the time ofthe loud# and the rest of their oods being "ut into great 9essels made of hina (are, and fast

luted down on the to", were "reserv'd unhurt by the (ater= )hese hi"s they furnish'd with ?22

athom of Chain instead of Cables# which being fastned by wonderful %rts to the Earth, every9essel rid out the Deluge !ust at the )own's end# so that when the (aters abated, the Peo"le had

nothing to do, but to o"en the Doors made in the hi";sides, and come out, re"air their :ouses,

o"en the great hina Pots their oods were in, and so "ut themselves in Statu 1uo/

)he Draft of one of these hi"s I may "erha"s obtain by my Interest in the "resent Em"eror's

Court, as it has been "reserv'd ever since, and constantly re"air'd, riding at %nchor in a great5ake, about 122 Miles from Tonquin# in which all the Peo"le of that City were "referv'd,

amounting by their Com"utation to about a Million and half/

%nd as these things must be very useful in these Parts, to abate the Pride and %rrogance of ourModern *ndertakers of great Enter"rizes, %uthors of strange oreign %ccounts, Philoso"hical

)ransactions, and the like# if )ime and $""ortunity "ermit, I may let them know, how Infinitely

we are out;done by those refined -ations, in all manner of Mechanick Im"rovements and %rts#and in discoursing of this, it will necessarily come in my way to s"eak of a most -oble

Invention, being an Engine I would recommend to all Peo"le to whom 2tis necessary to have a

good Me"ory# and which I design, if "ossible, to obtain a Draft of, that it may be Erected in our

8oyal ocieties 5aboratory= It has the wonderfullest $"erations in the (orld= $ne "art of itfurnishes a Man of .usiness to dis"atch his %ffairs strangely# for if he be a Merchant, he shall

write his 5etters with one :and, and Co"y them with the other# if he is "osting his .ooks, he

shall "ost the Debtor side with one :and, and the Creditor with the other# if he be a 5awyer, hedraws his Drafts with one :and, and Ingrosses them with the other/

%nother "art of it furnishes him with such an E+"editious way of (riting, or )ranscribing, that a

Man cannot s"eak so fast, but he that hears shall have it down in (riting before 'tis s"oken# and



a Preacher shall deliver himself to his %uditory, and having this Engine before him, shall "ut

down every thing he says in (riting at the same time# and so e+actly is this Engine s0uar'd by

5ines and 8ules, that it does not re0uire him that (rites to kee" his Eye u"on it/

I am told, in some Parts of hina, they had arriv'd to such a Perfection of &nowledge, as to

understand one anothers )houghts# and that it was found to be an e+cellent Preservative tohumane ociety, against all sorts of rauds, Cheats, har"ing, and many )housand European

Inventions of that -ature, at )hich only )e can !e said to out%do those 3ations /

I confess, I have not yet had leisure to travel those Parts, having been diverted by an accidental

$""ortunity of a new 9oyage I had occasion to make for farther Discoveries, and which the

Pleasure and *sefulness thereof having been very great, I have omitted the other for the "resent, but shall not fail to make a 9isit to those Parts the first $""ortunity, and shall give my Country;

men the best %ccount I can of those things# for I doubt not in )ime to bring our -ation, so fam'd

for im"roving other Peo"le's Discoveries, to be as wise as any of those :eathen -ations# I wish I

had the same Pros"ect of making them half so honest/

I had s"ent but a few Months in this Country, but my search after the Prodigy of humane

&nowledge the Peo"le abounds with, led me into %c0uaintance with some of their "rinci"al

%rtists, Engineers, and Men of 5etters# and I was astonish'd at every Day's Discovery of new and

of unheard;of (orlds of 5earning# but I Im"rov'd in the u"erficial &nowledge of their eneral, by no body so much as by my Conversation with the 5ibrary;kee"er of Tonquin, by whom I had

%dmission into the vast Collection of .ooks, which the Em"erors of that Country have treasur'd

u"/

It would be endless to give you a Catalogue, and they admit of no trangers to write any thing

down, but what the Memory can retain, you are welcome to carry away with you# and amongst

the wonderful 9olumes of %ntient and Modern 5earning, I could not but take -otice of a few#which, besides those I mentioned before, I saw, when I lookt over this vast Collection# and alarger %ccount may be given in our ne+t/

It would be needless to )ranscribe the hinese Character, or to "ut their %l"habet into our

5etters, because the (ords would be both *nintelligible, and very hard to Pronounce# and

therefore, to avoid hard (ords, and :yrogly"hicks, I'll translate them as well as I can/

)he first Class I came to of .ooks, was the Constitutions of the Em"ire# these are vast great

9olumes, and have a sort of Engine like our Magna harta, to remove 'em, and with "lacing

them in a rame, by turning a crew, o"en'd the 5eaves, and folded them this way, or that, as the

8eader desires/ It was "resent Death for the 5ibrary;kee"er to refuse the meanest hinese ub!ect to come in and read them# for 'tis their Ma+im, That all eople ought to kno) the +a)s

!y )hich they are to !e govern2d # and as above all Peo"le, we find no ools in this Country, so

the Em"erors, though they seem to be %rbitrary, en!oy the greatest %uthority in the (orld, byalways observing, with the greatest E+actness, the acta onventa of their overnment= rom

these Princi"les it is im"ossible we should ever hear, either of the )yranny of Princes, or

8ebellion of ub!ects, in all their :istories/



%t the Entrance into this Class, you find some %ncient Comments, u"on the Constitution of the

Em"ire, written many %ges before we "retend the (orld began# but above all, $ne I took

"articular notice of, which might bear this )itle, 3atural 0ight prov2d Superior to Te"poral o)er # wherein the old %uthor "roves, the hinese Em"erors were $riginally made so, by

-ature's directing the Peo"le, to "lace the Power of overnment in the most worthy Person they

could find# and the %uthor giving a most e+act :istory of A222 Em"erors, brings them into about>@ or >? Periods of 5ines when the 8ace ended# and when a Collective %ssembly of the -obles,

Cities, and Peo"le, -ominated a new amily to the overment/

)his being an heretical .ook as to European Politicks, and our 5earned %uthors having long

since e+"loded this Doctrine, and "rov'd that &ings and Em"erors came down from :eaven withCrowns on their :eads, and all their ub!ects were born with addles on their .acks# I thought

fit to leave it where I found it, least our e+cellent )racts of ir 0o!ert #il"er , Dr/ /a""ond

+...y, S....l , and $thers, who have so learnedly treated of the more useful Doctrine of Passive$bedience, Divine 8ight, &c. should be blas"hem'd by the Mob, grow into Contem"t of the

Peo"le# and they should take u"on them to 0uestion their u"eriors for the .lood of $lgernon

Sidney, and $rgyle/

or I take the Doctrines of Passive $bedience, &c. among the tates;men, to be like theCo"ernican ystem of the Earths Motion among Philoso"hers# which, though it be contrary to all

antient &nowledge, and not ca"able of Demonstration, yet is adher'd to in general, because by

this they can better solve, and give a more rational %ccount of several dark PhBnomena in -ature, than they could before/

)hus our Modern tates;men a""rove of this cheme of overnment# not that it admits of any

rational Defence, much less of Demonstration, but because by this Method they can the better

e+"lain, as well as defend, all Coertion in Cases invasive of -atural 8ight, than they could

before/

:ere I found two famous 9olumes in Chyrurgery, being an e+act Descri"tion of the Circulation

of the .lood, discovered long before &ing Solo"on's %llegory of the .ucket's going to the (ell#

with several curious Methods by which the Demonstration was to be made so "lain, as wouldmake even the worthy Doctor B%%%%%% himself become a Convert to his own Eye;sight, make him

damn his own Elaborate .ook, and think it worse -onsence than ever the )own had the reedom

to imagine/

%ll our Philoso"hers are ools, and their )ransactions a "arcel of em"ty tuff, to theE+"eriments of the 8oyal ocieties in this Country/ :ere I came to a 5earned )ract of (inds,

which outdoes even the acred )e+t, and would make us believe it was not wrote to those

Peo"le# for they tell olks whence it comes, and whither it goes/ )here you have an %ccount howto make lasses of :ogs Eyes, that can see the (ind# and they give strange %ccounts both of its

regular and irregular Motions, its Com"ositions and uantities# from whence, by a sort of

%lgebra, they can cast u" its Duration, 9iolence, and E+tent= In these Calculations, some say,those %uthors have been so e+act, that they can, as our Philoso"hers say of Comets, state their

8evolutions, and tell us how many torms there shall ha""en to any Period of time, and when#

and "erha"s this may be with much about the same )ruth/



It was a certain ign $ristotle had never been at hina# for, had he seen the A1?th 9olume of the

hinese -avigation, in the 5ibrary I am s"eaking of, a large .ook in Double olio, wrote by the

amous Mira%cho%cho%las"o, 9ice;%dmiral of hina, and said to be "rinted there about A2226ears before the Deluge, in the Cha"ter of )ides he would have seen the 8eason of all the

certain and uncertain lu+es and 8eflu+es of that Element, how the e+act Pace is ke"t between

the Moon and the )ides, with a most elaborate Discourse there, of the Power of ym"athy, andthe manner how the heavenly .odies Influence the Earthly= :ad he seen this, the Stagyrite would

never have Drowned himself, because he could not com"rehend this Mystery/

')is farther related of this amous %uthor, that he was no -ative of this (orld, but was .orn in

the Moon, and coming hither to make Discoveries, by a strange Invention arrived to by the4irtuosoes of that habitable (orld, the Em"eror of hina "revailed with him to stay and

im"rove his ub!ects, in the most e+0uisite %ccom"lishments of those +unar 8egions# and no

wonder the hinese are such e+0uisite %rtists, and Masters of such sublime &nowledge, whenthis amous %uthor has blest them with such unaccountable Methods of Im"rovement/

)here was abundance of vast Classes full of the (orks of this wonderful Philoso"her= :e gavethe ho), the "odus of all the secret $"erations of -ature# and told us, how ensation is convey'd

to and from the .rain# why 8es"iration "reserves 5ife# and how 5ocomotion is directed to, aswell as "erform'd by the Parts/ )here are some %natomical Dissections of )hought, and a

Mathematical Descri"tion of -ature's strong .o+, the Memory, with all its 5ocks and &eys/

)here you have that "art of the :ead turn'd in;side outward, in which -ature has "laced the

Materials of reflecting# and like a *lass Bee%hive, re"resents to you all the several Cells in whichare lodg'd things "ast, even back to Infancy and Conce"tion/ )here you have the 8e"ository,

with all its Cells, Classically, %nnually, -umerically, and %l"habetically Dis"os'd/ )here you

may see how, when the "er"le+t %nimal, on the loss of a )hought or (ord, scratches his ole'

Every %ttack of his Invading ingers knocks at -ature's Door, allarms all the 8egister;kee"ers,and away they run, unlock all the Classes, search diligently for what he calls for, and

immediately deliver it u" to the .rain# if it cannot be found, they intreat a little atience, till theyste" into the 0evolvary, where they run over little Catalogues of the minutest Passages of 5ife,

and so in time never fail to hand on the thing# if not !ust when he calls for it, yet at some other

time/

%nd thus, when a thing lyes very %bstruse, and all the rumaging of the whole :ouse cannot findit# nay, when all the Peo"le in the :ouse have given it over, they very often find one thing when

they are looking for another/

-e+t you have the 0etentive in the remotest "art of the Place, which, like the 8ecords in the

)ower, takes Possession of all Matters, as they are removed from the Classes in the 8e"ository,for want of room/ )hese are carefully 5ockt, and ke"t safe, never to be o"en'd but u"on solemn

$ccasions, and have swinging great .ars and .olts u"on them# so that what is ke"t here, is

seldom lost/ :ere onscience has one large (are;house, and the Devil another# the first is veryseldom o"en'd, but has a Chink or )ill, where all the ollies and Crimes of 5ife being minuted

are dro"t in# but as the Man seldom cares to look in, the 5ocks are very 8usty, and not o"en'd but

with great Difficulty, and on e+traordinary $ccasions, as ickness, %fflictions, 7ails, Casualties,



and Death# and then the .ars all give way at once# and being "rest from within with a more than

ordinary (eight, burst as a Cask of (ine u"on the ret, which for want of 9ent, makes all the

:oo"s fly/

%s for the Devil 's (are;house, he has two constant (arehouse;kee"ers, ride and onceit , and

these are always at the Door, showing their (ares, and e+"osing the "retended 9ertues and%ccom"lishments of the Man, by way of $stentation/

In the middle of this curious "art of -ature, there is a clear )horough;fare, re"resenting the(orld, through which so many )housand Peo"le "ass so easily, and do so little worth taking

notice of, that 'tis for no manner of ignification to leave (ord they have been here/ )hro' this

Opening "ass Millions of things not worth remembring, and which the 8egister;&ee"ers, whostand at the Doors of the Classes, as they go by, take no notice of# such as riendshi"s, hel"s in

Distress, &indnesses in %ffliction, 9oluntary ervices, and all sorts of Im"ortunate Merit# things

which being but )rifles in their own -ature, are made to be forgotten/

In another %ngle is to be seen the Me"ory2s *arden, in which her most "leasant things are notonly De"osited, but Planted, )rans"lanted, rafted, Inoculated, and obtain all "ossible

Pro"agation and Encrease# these are the most "leasant, delightful, and agreeable things, call'd

Envy, lander, 8evenge, trife and Malice, with the %dditions of Ill;turns, 8e"roaches, and all

manner of (rong# these are caressed in the Cabinet of the Me"ory, with a (orld of Pleasurenever let "ass, and carefully Cultivated with all imaginable %rt/

)here are multitudes of (eeds, )oys, Chat, tory, iction, and 5ying, which in the great throng

of "assant %ffairs, sto" by the way, and crowding u" the Place, leave no room for their .ettersthat come behind, which makes many a good uess be "ut by, and left to go clear thro' for want

of Entertainment/

)here are a multitude of things very curious and observable, concerning this little, but very

accurate thing, called Me"ory# but above all, I see nothing so very curious, as the wonderful %rtof 5il(ul #orget(ulness# and as 'tis a thing, indeed, I never could find any Person com"leatly

Master of, it "leased me very much, to find this %uthor has made a large Essay, to "rove there is

really no such Power in -ature# and that the Pretenders to it are all Im"ostors, and "ut a .anter

u"on the (orld# for that it is im"ossible for any Man to oblige himself to forget a thing, since hethat can remember to forget, and at the same time forget to remember, has an %rt above the

Devil/

In his 5aboratory you see a #ancy "reserv'd a la Mu""y, several )housand 6ears old# by

e+amining which you may "erfectly discern, how -ature makes a Poet= %nother you have takenfrom a meer -atural, which discovers the 8easons of -ature's -egative in the Case of humane

*nderstanding# what De"rivation of Parts he suffers, in the Com"osition of a Co+comb# and

with what wonderful %rt he "re"ares a Man to be a ool/

:ere being the "roduct of this %uthor's wonderful kill, you have the Skeleton o( a 5it , with all

the 8eadings of Philoso"hy and Chyrurgery u"on the Parts= :ere you see all the 5ines -ature

has drawn to form a *enius, how it "erforms, and from what Princi"les/



%lso you are Instructed to know the true reason of the %ffinity between Poetry and Poverty# and

that it is e0ually derived from what's -atural and Intrinsick, as from %ccident and Circumstance#

how the (orld being always full of ools and &naves, (it is sure to miss of a good Market#es"ecially, if (it and )ruth ha""en to come in Com"any# for the ools don't understand it, and

the &naves can't bear it/

.ut still 'tis own'd, and is most a""arent, there is something also -atural in the Case too, since

there are some "articular 9essels -ature thinks necessary, to the more e+act Com"osition of thisnice thing call'd a 5it , which as they are, or are not Interru"ted in the "eculiar $ffices for which

they are a""ointed, are sub!ect to various Distem"ers, and more "articularly to Efflu+ions and

9a"our, Diliriu"s iddiness of the .rain, and +aps6, or +ooseness o( the Tongue# and as theseDistem"ers, occasion'd by the e+ceeding 0uantity of 9olatiles, -ature is obliged to make use of

in the Com"osition, are hardly to be avoided, the Disasters which generally they "ush the %nimal

into, are as necessarily conse0uent to them as -ight is to the etting of the Sun# and these arevery many, as disobliging Parents, who have fre0uently in this Country whi"t their Sons for

making 9erses# and here I could not but reflect how useful a Disci"line early Correction must be

to a Poet# and how easy the )own had been had 3%%%t , E%%%), T. B%%% %%%s, D%% S%% D%%%(y, and an:undred more of the !ingling )rain of our modern 8hymers, been (hi"t young, very young , for

Poetasting, they had never "erha"s suckt in that 9enome of 8ibaldry, which all the atyr of the

%ge has never been able to scourge out of them to this Day/

)he further fatal Conse0uences of these unha""y Defects in -ature, where she has damn'd a Manto (it and 8hyme, has been loss of Inheritance, Parents being aggravated by the obstinate young

Beaus, resolving to be (its in s"ight of -ature, the wiser :ead has been obliged to Confederate

with -ature, and with;hold the .irth;right of .rains, which otherwise the young entleman

might have en!oy'd, to the great su""ort of his amily and Posterity/ )hus the famous 5aller , Denha", Dryden, and sundry $thers, were oblig'd to condemn their 8ace to 5unacy and

.lockheadism, only to "revent the fatal Destruction of their amilies, and entailing the Plague of(it and (eathercocks u"on their Posterity/

)he yet farther E+travagancies which naturally attend the Mischief of 5it , are Beau%is",

Dog"aticality, 5hi"si(ication, -"pudensity, and various kinds of #opperosities according to

Mr/ Boyl , which issuing out of the .rain, descend into all the aculties, and branch themselves

by infinite 9ariety, into all the %ctions of 5ife/

)hese by Conse0ence, .eggar the :ead, the )ail, the Purse, and the whole Man, till he becomes

as "oor and des"icable as -egative -ature can leave him, abandon'd of his ense, his Manners,

his Modesty, and what's worse, his Money, having nothing left but his Poetry, dies in a Ditch, or

a arret, $%la%"ode de To" Bro)n, uttering 8hymes and -onsence to the last Moment/

In Pity to all my unha""y .rethren, who suffer under these Inconveniencies, I cannot but leave it

on 8ecord, that they may not be re"roached with being %gents of their own Misfortunes, since I

assure them, -ature has form'd them with the very -ecessity of acting like Co+combs, fi+t u"onthem by the force of $rganick Conse0uences, and "laced down at the very $riginal Effusion of

that fatal thing call'd 5it /



-or is the Discovery less wonderful than edifying, and no humane %rt on our side the (orld

ever found out such a ym"athetick Influence, between the E+treams of 5it and #olly, till this

great 5unarian -aturalist furnisht us with such unheard;of Demonstrations/

-or is this all I learnt from him, tho' I cannot "art with this, till I have "ublisht a Me"ento Mori,

and told 'em what I had discovered of -ature in these remote Parts of the (orld, from whence Itake the reedom to tell these entlemen, )hat if they "lease to )ravel to these distant Parts, and

e+amine this great Master of -ature's ecrets, they may every Man see what cross trokes -ature has struck, to finish and form every e+travagant "ecies of that :eterogenious &ind we

call 5it /

)here %%% S%%% may be inform'd how he comes to be very (itty, and a Mad;man all at once# and

%%%r may see, )hat with less .rains and more %%, he is more a (it and more a Mad;man than

the Coll/ $d%%%son may tell his Master my 5ord %%%% the reason from -ature, why he would not

take the Court's (ord, nor write the Poem call'd, The a"paign, till he had A22 l. per $nnu"

secur'd to him# since 'tis known they have but one %uthor in the -ation that writes for 'em for

nothing, and he is labouring very hard to obtain the )itle of .lockhead, and not be "aid for it=:ere 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 arnassians may see 8easons forthe variety of the -egative and Positive .lessings they en!oy# some for having (it and no 9erse,

some 9erse and no (it, some Mirth without 7est, some 7est without ore;cast, some 8hyme and

no 7ingle, some all 7ingle and no 8hyme, some 5anguage without measure# some all uantityand no Cudence, some all (it and no ence, some all ence and no lame, some Preach in

8hyme, some sing when they Preach, some all ong and no )une, some all )une and no ong#

all these *naccountables have their $riginals, and can be answer'd for in unerring -ature, tho' in

our out;side uesses we can say little to it/ :ere is to be seen, why some are all -ature, some all%rt# some beat 9erse out of the )wenty;four rough 5etters, with )en :ammers and %nvils to

every 5ine, and maul the 5anguage as a S)ede beats tock;ish# $thers !u(( -ature, and bullyher out of whole tanza's of ready;made 5ines at a time, carry all before them, and rumble likedistant )hunder in a black Cloud= )hus Degrees and Ca"acities are fitted by -ature, according to

$rganick Efficacy# and the 8eason and -ature of )hings are found in themselves= :ad D%%%y

seen his own Draft by this 5ight of hinese &nowledge, he might have known he should be aCo+comb without writing )wenty;two Plays, to stand as so many 8ecords against him/ Dryden

might have told his ate, that having his e+traordinary enius flung and "itcht u"on a wivle, it

would certainly turn round as fast as the )imes, and instruct him how to write Elegies to O. . and &ing . the econd, with all the Coherence imaginable# how to write 0eligio +aicy, and the

/ind and anther , and yet be the same Man, every Day to change his Princi"le, change his

8eligion, change his Coat, change his Master, and yet never change his -ature/

)here are abundance of other ecrets in -ature discover'd in relation to these things, too many tore"eat, and yet too useful to omit, as the reason why Phisicians are generally %theists# and why

%theists are universally ools, and generally live to know it themselves, the real $bstructions,

which "revent fools being mad, all the -atural Causes of 5ove, abundance of Demonstrations of

the ynonimous -ature of 5ove and 5eachery, es"ecially consider'd a la Modern, with anabsolute "ecifick for the renzy of 5ove, found out in the Constitution, %nglice, a /alter /



It would be endless to reckon u" the numerous Im"rovements, and wonderful Discoveries this

e+traordinary Person has brought down, and which are to be seen in his curious Chamber of

8arities/

Particularly, a Ma" of arnassus, with an e+act Delineation of all the Cells, %"artments, Palaces

and Dungeons, of that most famous Mountain# with a Descri"tion of its :eighth, and a learnedDissertation, "roving it to be the "ro"erest Place ne+t to the P;;;e :ouse to take a 8ise at, for a

flight to the (orld in the Moon/

%lso some En0uiries, whether 3oah's %rk did not first rest u"on it# and this might be one of the

ummits of $rarat , with some Confutations of the gross and "al"able Errors, which "lace this

e+traordinary kill among the Mountains of the Moon in $(rica/

%lso you have here a Muse calcin2d , a little of the Powder of which given to a (oman big withChild, if it be a .oy it will be a Poet, if a irl she'll be a (hore, if an :erma"hrodite it will be

5unatick/

trange things, they tell us, have been done with this calcin'd (omb of Imagination# if the .ody

it came from was a 5yrick Poet, the Child will be a .eau, or a .eauty# if an :eroick Poet, he will be a .ulley# if his )alent was atyr, he'll be a Philoso"her/

%nother Muse they tell us, they have dissolv'd into a 5i0uid, and ke"t with wondrous %rt, the

9ertues of which are overaign against Ideotism, Dullness, and all sorts of 5ethargick Diseases#

but if given in too great a 0uantity, creates Poesy, Poverty, 5unacy, and the Devil in the :eadever after/

I confess, I always thought these Muses strange into+icating things, and have heard much talk of

their $riginal, but never was ac0uainted with their 9ertue a la Si"ple before# however, I wouldalways advise Peo"le against too large a Dose of (it, and think the Physician must be a Mad;man that will venture to "rescribe it/

%s all these noble %c0uirements came down with this wonderful Man from the (orld in the

Moon, it furnisht me with these useful $bservations/

1/ )hat Country must needs be a Place of strange Perfection, in all "arts of e+traordinary&nowledge/

A/ :ow useful a thing it would be for most sorts of our Peo"le, es"ecially tatesmen, P;;;;t;men,

Convocation;men, Phyloso"hers, Physicians, uacks, Mountebanks, tock;!obbers, and all theMob of the -ation's Civil or Ecclesiastical Bone%setters, together with some Men of the 5aw,some of the word, and all of the Pen= I say, how useful and im"roving a thing it must be to

them, to take a 7ourney u" to the (orld in the Moon# but above all, how much more beneficial it

would be to them that stay'd behind/



>/ )hat it is not to be wonder'd at, why the hinese e+cell so much all these Parts of the (orld,

since but for that &nowledge which comes down to them from the (orld in the Moon, they

would be like other Peo"le/

</ -o Man need to (onder at my e+ceeding desire to go u" to the (orld in the Moon, having

heard of such e+traordinary &nowledge to be obtained there, since in the search of &nowledgeand )ruth, wiser Men than I have taken as unwarrantable lights, and gone a great deal higher

than the Moon, into a strange %bbyss of dark h6no"ena, which they neither could make otherPeo"le understand, nor ever rightly understood themselves, witness Mal!ranch, Mr/ +ock ,

/o!!s, the :onourable Boyle and a great many others, besides Messieurs 3orris, $sgil , o)ard ,

and the Tale o( a Tu!/

)his great earcher into -ature has, besides all this, left wonderful Discoveries and E+"eriments

behind him# but I was with nothing more e+ceedingly diverted, than with his various Engines,

and curious Contrivances, to go to and from his own -ative Country the Moon/ %ll our

Mechanick Motions of .isho" 5ilkins, or the artificial (ings of the 5earned Spaniard , who

could have taught od %lmighty how to have mended the Creation, are ools to this entleman#and because no Man in hina has made more 9oyages u" into the Moon than my self, I cannot

but give you some %ccount of the easyness of the Passage, as well as of the Country/

-or are his wonderful )ellesco"es of a mean uality, by which such "lain Discoveries are made,of the 5ands and eas in the Moon, and in all the habitable Planets, that one may as "lainly fee

what a Clock it is by one of the Dials in the Moon, as if it were no farther off than 5indsor%

astle# and had he liv'd to finish the "eaking;trum"et which he had contriv'd to convey oundthither, /arlequin2s Mock%Tru"pet had been a ool to it# and it had no doubt been an admirable

E+"eriment, to have given us a general %dvantage from all their ac0uir'd &nowledge in those

8egions, where no doubt several useful Discoveries are daily made by the Men of )hought for

the Im"rovement of all sorts of humane *nderstanding, and to have discoursed with them onthose things, must have been very "leasant, besides, its being very much to our "articular

%dvantage/

I confess, I have thought it might have been very useful to this -ation, to have brought sowonderful an Invention hither, and I was once very desirous to have set u" my rest here, and for

the .enefit of my -ative Country, have made my self Master of these Engines, that I might in

due time have convey'd them to our 8oyal ociety, that once in <2 6ears they might have beensaid to do something for Publick ood# and that the 8e"utation and *sefulness of the so so2s

might be recover'd in England # but being told that in the Moon there were many of these lasses

to be had very chea", and I having declar'd my 8esolution of undertaking a 9oyage thither, I

deferred my Design, and shall defer my treating of them, till I give some %ccount of my %rrivalthere/

.ut above all his Inventions for making this 9oyage, I saw none more "leasant or "rofitable,

than a certain Engine formed in the sha"e of a Chariot, on the .acks of two vast .odies withe+tended (ings, which s"read about @2 6ards in .readth, com"os'd of eathers so nicely "ut

together, that no %ir could "ass# and as the .odies were made of +unar Earth which would bear

the ire, the Cavities were fill'd with an %mbient lame, which fed on a certain "irit de"osited



in a "ro"er 0uantity, to last out the 9oyage# and this ire so order'd as to move about such

"rings and (heels as ke"t the (ings in a most e+act and regular Motion, always ascendant#

thus the Person being "laced in this airy Chariot, drinks a certain dozing Draught, that throwshim into a gentle lumber, and Dreaming all the way, never wakes till he comes to his 7ourney's

end/

O( the Consolidator/

)hese Engines are call'd in their Country 5anguage, Dupekasses# and according to the %ncienthinese, or Tartarian, $pezolanthukanistes# in English, a onsolidator /

)he Com"osition of this Engine is very admirable# for, as is before noted, 'tis all made u" of

eathers, and the 0uality of the eathers, is no less wonderful than their Com"osition# and

therefore, I ho"e the 8eader will bear with the Descri"tion for the sake of the -ovelty, since Iassure him such things as these are not to be seen in every Country/

)he number of eathers are !ust @1>, they are all of a length and breadth e+actly, which isabsolutely necessary to the (loating #igure, or else one side or any one "art being wider or longer

than the rest, it would interru"t the motion of the whole Engine# only there is one e+traordinaryeather which, as there is an odd one in the number, is "laced in the Center, and is the :andle, or

rather 8udder to the whole Machine= )his eather is every way larger than its ellows, 'tis

almost as long and broad again# but above all, its uill or :ead is much larger, and it has as it)ere several small bushing eathers round the bottom of it, which all make but one "residing or

su"erintendent eather, to guide, regulate, and "ilot the whole .ody/

-or are these common eathers, but they are "ickt and cull'd out of all "arts of the 5unar

Country, by the Command of the Prince# and every Province sends u" the best they can find, or

ought to do so at least , or else they are very much to blame# for the Em"loyment they are "ut to being of so great use to the Publick, and the 9oyage or light so e+ceeding high, it would be

very ill done if, when the &ing sends his 5etters about the -ation, to "ick him u" the besteathers they can lay their :ands on, they should send weak, decay'd, or half;grown eathers,

and yet sometimes it ha""ens so# and once there was such rotten eathers collected, whether it

was a bad 6ear for eathers, or whether the Peo"le that gather'd them had a mind to abuse their

&ing# but the eathers were so bad, the Engine was good for nothing, but broke before it was gothalf way# and by a double Misfortune, this ha""en'd to be at an unlucky time, when the &ing

himself had resolv'd on a 9oyage, or light to to the Moon# but being deceiv'd, by the unha""y

Miscarriage of the deficient eathers, he fell down from so great a height, that he struck himselfagainst his own Palace, and beat his :ead off/

-or had the ons of this Prince much better uccess, tho' the first of them was a Prince mightily

belov'd by his ub!ects# but his Misfortunes chiefly "roceeded from his having made use of one

of the Engines so very long, that the eathers were 0uite worn out, and good for nothing= :eused to make a great many 9oyages and lights into the Moon, and then would make his

ub!ects give him great ums of Money to come down to them again# and yet they were so fond

of him, )hat they always com"lyed with him, and would give him every thing he askt, ratherthan to be without him= But they gre) )iser since/



%t last, this Prince used his Engine so long, it could hold together no longer# and being obliged to

write to his ub!ects to "ick him out some new eathers, they did so# but withall sent him such

strong eathers, and so sti(( , that when he had "laced 'em in their "ro"er "laces, and made a very beautiful Engine, it was too heavy (or hi" to "anage' :e made a great many Essays at it, and

had it "laced on the to" of an old Idol Cha""el, dedicated to an old Bra"yn aint of those

Countries, called, hantosteinaschap# in +atin, chap. de Saint Stephano# or in English, t/Stephen's= :ere the Prince try'd all "ossible Contrivances, and a vast deal of Money it cost him#

but the eathers were so sti(( they would not work, and the #ire )ithin was so choaked and

smother'd with its o)n S"oak , for want of due 9ent and Circulation, that it )ould not !urn# sohe was oblig'd to take it down again# and from thence he carried it to his College of Bra"yn

Priests, and set it u" in one of their Publick .uildings= )here he drew Circles of Ethicks and

Politicks, and fell to casting of igures and Con!uring, but all would not do, the #eathers could

not be brought to move# and, indeed, I have observ'd, )hat these Engines are seldom hel"t by %rtand Contrivance# there is no way with them, but to have the Peo"le s"oke to, to get good

#eathers# and they are easily "laced, and "erform all the several Motions with the greatest Ease

and %ccuracy imaginable# !ut it "ust !e all 3ature# any thing of orce distorts and dislocates

them, and the whole $rder is s"oiled# and if there be but one eather out of "lace, or "incht, orstands wrong, the D%%%l )ould not ride in the hariot /

)he Prince thus finding his 5abour in vain, broke the Engine to "ieces, and sent his ub!ects

(ord what bad eathers they had sent him= .ut the Peo"le, who knew it was his own want ofManagement, and that the eathers were good enough, only a little stiff at first, and with good

*sage 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= :owever, it had this good effect u"on him, )hat he never made any more9oyages to the Moon as long as he reign'd/

:is .rother succeeded him# and truly he was resolved u"on a 9oyage to the Moon, as soon as

ever he came to the Crown/ :e had met with some unkind *sage from the 8eligious +unesses ofhis own Country# and he turn'd $!ogratziarian, a zealous fiery ect something like our $nti%every%!ody%arians in England / ')is confest, some of the Bra"yns of his Country were very false

to him, "ut him u"on several (ays of e+tending his Power over his ub!ects, contrary to the

Customs of the Peo"le, and contrary to his own Interest# and when the Peo"le e+"ressed theirDislike of it, he thought to have been su""orted by those Clergy;men# but they failed him, and

made good, that $ld English 9erse#

That riests o( all 0eligions are the sa"e/

:e took this so hainously, that he conceiv'd a !ust :atred against those that had deceiv'd him# and

as 8esentments seldom kee" 8ules, unha""ily entertain'd Pre!udices against all the rest# and notfinding it easy to bring all his Designs to "ass better, he resolved u"on a 9oyage to the Moon/

%ccordingly, he sends a ummons to all his Peo"le according to Custom, to collect the usual

0uantity of eathers for that "ur"ose# and because he would be sure not be used as his .rotherand ather had been, he took care to send certain Cunning;men E+"ress, all over the Country, to

bes"eak the Peo"le's Care, in collecting, "icking and culling them out, these were call'd in their

5anguage, Tsopa!lesdetoo# which being )ranslated may signify in English, Men o( 7eal , or



Booted $postles= -or was this the only Caution this Prince used# for he took care, as the eathers

were sent u" to him, to search and e+amine them one by one in his own Closet, to see if they

were fit for his "ur"ose# but, alasF he found himself in his .rother's Case e+actly# and "erceived,)hat his ub!ects were generally disgusted at his former Conduct, about $!rogratzianis", and

such things, and "articularly set in a lame by some of their Priests, call'd, Dullo!ardians, or

assive%O!edience%"en, who had lately turn'd their )ale, and their )ail too u"on their ownPrinces# and u"on this, he laid aside any more )houghts of the Engine, but took u" a des"erate

and im"lacable 8esolution, viz. to fly u" 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 "ro"os'd# and a great many came from all Parts, to furnish him with Inventions and e0uivalent

for their 7ourney# but all were so "re"osterous and ridiculous, that his ub!ects seeing him going

on to ruin himself, and by Conse0uence them too, unanimously took %rms# and if their Prince

had not made his Esca"e into a foreign Country, 'tis thought they would have secur'd him (or a Mad%"an/

%nd here 'tis observable, )hat as it is in most such Cases, the mad Councellors of this Prince,

when the Peo"le begun to gather about him, fled# and every one shifted for themselves# nay, andsome of them "lunder'd him first of his 7ewels and )reasure, and never were heard of since/

rom this Prince none of the &ings or overnment of that Country have ever seem'd to incline to

the hazardous %ttem"t of the 9oyage to the Moon, at least not in such a hair;brain'd manner/

:owever, the Engine has been very accurately 8e;built and finish'd# and the Peo"le are now

oblig'd by a 5aw, to send u" new eathers every three 6ears, to "revent the Mischiefs whichha""en'd by that Prince aforesaid, kee"ing one et so long that it was dangerous to venture with

them# and thus the Engine is "reserved fit for use/

%nd yet has not this Engine been without its continual Disasters, and often out of re"air# forthough the &ings of the Country, as has been -oted, have done riding on the back of it, yet therestless Courtiers and Ministers of tate have fre0uently obtained the Management of it, from the

too easy oodness of their Masters, or the Evils of the )imes/

)o Cure this, the Princes fre0uently chang'd :ands, turn'd one et of Men out and "ut another in=

.ut this made things still worse# for it divided the Peo"le into Parties and actions in the tate,and still the trife was, who should ride in this Engine# and no sooner were these Skaet%0iders

got into it, but they were for driving all the 3ation up to the Moon= .ut of this by it self/

%uthors differ concerning the $riginal of these eathers, and by what most e+act :and they were

first a""ointed to this "articular use# and as their $riginal is hard to be found, so it seems aDifficulty to resolve from what sort of .ird these eathers are obtained= ome have nam'd one,

some another# but the most 5earned in those Climates call it by a hard (ord, which the Printer

having no 5etters to e+"ress, and being in that "lace :ierogli"hical, I can translate no better, than by the -ame of a ollective' )his must be a trange .ird without doubt# it has :eads, Claws,

Eyes and )eeth innumerable# and if I should go about to describe it to you, the :istory would be

so 8omantick, it would s"oil the Credit of these more %uthentick 8elations which are yet behind/



')is sufficient, therefore, for the "resent, only to leave you this short %bridgement of the tory,

as follows= )his great Monstrous .ird, call'd the ollective, is very seldom seen, and indeed

never, but u"on *reat 0evolutions, and "ortending terrible Desolations and Destructions to aCountry/

.ut he fre0uently sheds his eathers# and they are carefully "ickt u", by the roprietors of those5ands where they fall# for none !ut those roprietors "ay meddle with them# and they no sooner

"ick them u" but they are sent to Court, where they obtain a new -ame, and are called in a (orde0ually difficult to "ronounce as the other, but 9ery like our English (ord, 0epresentative# and

being "laced in their "ro"er 8ows, with the *reat #eather in the Center, and fitted for use, they

lately obtained the 9enerable )itle of, The onsolidators# and the Machine it self, theonsolidator # and by that -ame the 8eader 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 .eauty of these eathers,

being such as are hardly to be seen in any "art of the (orld, but !ust in these remote Climates/

%nd irst, Every eather has various Colours, and according to the 9ariety of the (eather, are

a"t to look brighter and clearer, or "aler and fainter, as the Sun ha""ens to look on them with a

stronger or weaker %s"ect/ )he uill or :ead of every eather is or ought to !e full of a

vigorous ubstance, which gives "irit, and su""orts the brightness and colour of the eather#and as this is more or less in 0uantity, the bright Colour of the eather is increased, or turns

languid and "ale/

)is true, some of those uills are e+ceeding em"ty and dry# and the :umid being totally e+hal'd,those eathers grow very useless and insignificant in a short time/

ome again are so full of (ind, and "uft u" with the 9a"our of the Climate, that there's not:umid enough to Condence the team# and these are so fleet, so light, and so continually

fluttering and troublesome, that they greatly serve to disturb and kee" the Motion unsteddy/

$thers either "laced too near the inward concealed ire, or the :ead of the uill being thin, theire causes too great a ermentation# and the Conse0uence of this is so fatal, that sometimes it

mounts the Engine u" too fast, and indangers Preci"itation= .ut 'tis ha""ily observed, )hat these

ill eathers are but a very few, com"ar'd to the whole number# at the most, I never heard theywere above 1>< of the whole number= %s for the em"ty ones, they are not very dangerous, but a

sort of *ood%(or%nothing #eathers, that will fly when the greatest number of the rest fly, or stand

still when they stand still/ )he fluttering hot;headed eathers are the most dangerous, and

fre0uently struggle hard to mount the Engine to e+travagant heights# but still the greater numberof the eathers being stanch, and well fi+t, as well as well furnisht, they always "revail, and

check the Disorders the other would bring u"on the Motion# so that u"on the whole Matter, tho'

there has sometims been obli0ue Motions, 9ariations, and sometimes great (andrings out of theway, which may make the Passage tedious, yet it has always been a certain and safe 9oyage# and

no Engine was ever known to miscarry or overthrow, but that one mentioned before, and that

was very much owing to the "reci"itate Methods the Prince took in guiding it# and tho' all thefault was laid in the eathers, and they )ere to !la"e enough, yet I never heard any (ise Man,



but what blam'd his Discretion, and "articularly, a certain great Man has wrote three large )racts

of those %ffairs, and call'd them, The /istory o( the Opposition o( the #eathers# wherein, tho' it

was e+"ected he would have curst the Engine it self and all the eathers to the Devil, on thecontrary, he lays e0ual 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

eathers could not move in their "ro"er order# and this at last "ut the ire in the Center 0uite out,and so the Engine over;set at once/ )his Im"artiality has done great 7ustice to the eathers, and

set things in a clearer light= .ut of this I shall say more, when I come to treat of the 5orks o( the

+earned in this 5unar (orld/

)his is hinted here only to inform the 8eader, )hat this Engine is the safest Passage that ever wasfound out# and that saving that one time, it never miscarried# nor if the common $rder of things

be observed, cannot Miscarry# for the good eathers are always 3egatives, when any "reci"itant

Motion is felt, and immediately su""ress it by their number# and these 3egative #eathers areindeed the )ravellers safety# the other are always u"on the flutter, and u"on every occasion hey

(or the Moon, u" in the Clouds "resently# but these 3egative #eathers are never for going u", but

when there is occasion for it# and from hence these fluttering fermented eathers were called bythe %ntients /igh%(lying #eathers, and the blustering things seem'd "roud of the -ame/

.ut to come to their general Character, the eathers, s"eaking of them all together, are generally

very Comely, trong, 5arge, .eautiful things, their uills or :eads well fi+t, and the Cavities

fill'd with a solid substantial Matter, which tho' it is full of "irit, has a great deal of)em"erament, and full of suitable well;dis"os'd Powers, to the $"eration for which they are

design'd/

)hese "laced, as I -oted before, in an e+tended orm like two great (ings, and o"erated by that

sublime lame# which being concealed in "ro"er 8ece"tacles, obtains its vent at the Cavities

a""ointed, are su""lied from thence with 5ife and Motion# and as ire it fell, in the $"inion ofsome 5earned Men, is nothing but Motion, and Motion tends to ire= It can no more be a

(onder, if e+alted in the Center of this famous Engine, a whole -ation should be carried u" tothe (orld in the Moon/

')is true, this Engine is fre0uently assaulted with fierce (inds, and furious torms, which

sometimes drive it a great way out of its way# and indeed, considering the length of the Passage,

and the various 8egions it goes through, it would be strange if it should meet with no$bstructions= )hese are obli0ue ales, and cannot be said to blow from any of the )hirty;two

Points, but 8etrograde and )hwart= ome of these are call'd in their 5anguage, ensionazi"a,

which is as much as to say, being Inter"reted, a ourt%!reeze# another sort of (ind, which

generally blows directly contrary to the ensionazi"a, is the la"orio, or in English, a ountry*ale# this is generally )em"estuous, full of usts and Disgusts, 0uauls and sudden .lasts, not

without cla"s of )hunder, and not a little flashing of :eat and Party;fires/

)here are a great many other Internal .lasts, which "roceed from the ire within, whichsometimes not circulating right, breaks out in little usts of (ind and :eat, and is a"t to

indanger setting ire to the eathers, and this is more or less dangerous, according as among



which of the eathers it ha""ens# for some of the eathers are more a"t to take ire than others,

as their uills or :eads are more or less full of that solid Matter mention'd before/

)he Engine suffers fre0uent Convulsions and Disorders from these several (inds# and which ifthey chance to overblow very much, hinder the Passage# but the -egative eathers always a""ly

)em"er and Moderation# and this brings all to rights again/

or a .ody like this, what can it not doG what cannot such an E+tension "erform in the %irG %nd

when one thing is tackt to another, and "ro"erly osolidated into one mighty onsolidator , no0uestion but whoever shall go u" to the Moon, will find himself so im"rov'd in this wonderful

E+"eriment, that not a Man ever "erform'd that wonderful light, but he certainly came back

again as wise as he went/

(ell, entlemen, and what if we are called /igh%(lyers now, and an :undred -ames ofContem"t and Distinction, what is this to the "ur"oseG who would not be a /igh%(lyer , to be

)ackt and onsolidated in an Engine of such sublime Elevation, and which lifts Men, Monarchs,

Members, yea, and whole -ations, u" into the Clouds# and "erforms with such wondrous %rt, thelong e+"ected E+"eriment of a 9oyage to the MoonG %nd thus much for the Descri"tion of the

onsolidator /

)he first 9oyage 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)rade, it may be e+"ected I should give some %ccount of the Country# for it a""ears, I can give

but little of the 8oad/

$nly this I understand, )hat when this Engine, by hel" of these %rtificial (ings, has raised it

self u" to a certain height, the (ings are as useful to kee" it from falling into the Moon, as they

were before to raise it, and kee" it from falling back into this 8egion again/

)his may ha""en from an %lteration of Centers, and ravity having "ast a certain 5ine, the

E0ui"oise changes its )endency, the Magnetick uality being beyond it, it inclines of Course,

and "ursues a Center, which it finds in the +unar 5orld , and lands us safe u"on the urface/

I was told, I need take no .ills of E+change with me, nor 5etters of Credit# for that u"on my first

%rrival, the Inhabitants would be very civil to me= )hat they never suffered any of Our 5orld to

want any thing when they came there= )hat they were very free to show them any thing, and

inform them in all needful Cases# and that whatever 8arities the Country afforded, should bee+"os'd immediately/

I shall not enter into the Customs, eogra"hy, or :istory of the Place, only ac0uaint the 8eader,

)hat I found no manner of Difference in any thing -atural, e+ce"t as hereafter e+ce"ted, but all

was e+actly as is here, an Elementary (orld, "eo"led with olks, as like us as if they were onlyInhabitants of the same Continent, but in a remote Climate/

)he Inhabitants were Men, 5o"en, Beasts, Birds, #ishes, and -nsects, of the same individual

"ecies as $urs, the latter e+ce"ted= )he Men no wiser, better, nor bigger than here# the 5o"en



no handsomer or honester than $urs= )here were &naves and honest Men, honest (omen and

(hores of all orts, Countries, -ations and &indreds, as on this side the kies/

)hey had the same un to shine, the Planets were e0ually visible as to us, and their $strologers were as busily Im"ertinent as $urs, only that those wonderful lasses hinted before made

strange Discoveries that we were unac0uainted with# by them they could "lainly discover, )hatthis (orld was their Moon, and their (orld our Moon# and when I came first among them, the

Peo"le that flockt about me, distinguisht me by the -ame of, the Man that ca"e out o( the Moon/

I cannot, however, but ac0uaint the 8eader, with some 8emarks I made in this new (orld,

before I come to any thing :istorical/

I have heard, that among the enerallity of our Peo"le, who being not much addicted to

8evelation, have much concern'd themselves about Demonstrations, a eneration have risen u",who to solve the Difficulties of u"ernatural ystems, imagine a "ighty vast So"ething , who has

no orm but what re"resents him to them as one *reat Eye' )his infinite $"tick they imagine to

be 3atura 3aturans, or Power;forming# and that as we "retend the oul of Man has a imilitudein 0uality to its $riginal, according to a -otion some Peo"le have, who read that so much

ridicul'd $ld 5egend, call'd Bi!le, )hat Man )as "ade in the -"age o( his Maker' )he oul of

Man, therefore, in the $"inion of these -aturallists, is one vast Optick o)er diffus'd through

him into all his Parts, but seated "rinci"ally in his :ead/

rom hence they resolve all .eings to Eyes, some more ca"able of ight and rece"tive of $b!ects

than others# and as to things Invisible, they reckon nothing so, only so far as our ight is

deficient, contracted or darkened by %ccidents from without, as Distance of Place, Inter"ositionof 9a"ours, Clouds, li0uid %ir, E+halations, &c. or from within, as )andring Errors, )ild 3otions, cloudy 8nderstandings, and e"pty #ancies, with a )housand other inter"osing

$bstacles to the ight, which darken it, and "revent its $"eration# and "articularly obstruct the "erce"tive aculties, weaken the :ead, and bring Mankind in eneral to stand in need of theSpectacles o( Education as soon as ever they are born= -ay, and as soon as they have made use

of these %rtificial Eyes, all they can do is but to clear the ight so far as to see that they can2t see#

the utmost (isdom of Mankind, and the highest Im"rovement a Man ought to wish for, being but to be able to see that he )as Born !lind # this "ushes him u"on search after Mediums for the

8ecovery of his ight, and a)ay he runs to School to %rt and cience, and there he is furnisht

with /oroscopes, Microscopes, Tellescopes, 6liscopes, Money%scopes, and the D;;;l and andall of lasses, to hel" and assist his Moon%!lind 8nderstanding # these with wonderful kill and

%ges of %""lication, after wandring thro' .ogs and (ildernesses of *uess, on9ectures,

Supposes, alculations, and he knows not what, which he meets with in hysicks, oliticks,

Ethicks, $strono"y, Mathe"aticks, and such sort of bewildring )hings, bring him with vastDifficulty to a little Minute;s"ot, call'd De"onstration# and as not one in )en )housand ever

finds the way thither, but are lost in the tiresome uncouth 7ourney, so they that do, 'tis so long

before they come there, that they are grown $ld and good for little in the 7ourney# and no soonerhave they obtained a glimering of this *niversal Eye%sight , this Eclariciss"ent *eneral , but they

Die, and have hardly time to show the way to those that come after/



-ow, as the earnest search after this thing call'd De"onstration fill'd me with Desires of seeing

every thing, so my $bservations of the strange multitude of Mysteries I met with in all Men's

%ctions here, s"urr'd my Curiosity to e+amine, if the *reat Eye of the (orld had no Peo"le towhom he had given a clearer Eye;sight, or at least, that made a better use of it than we had here/

If "ursuing this search I was much delighted at my %rrival into hina, it cannot be thoughtstrange, since there we find &nowledge as much advanc'd beyond our common Pitch, as it was

"retended to be deriv'd from a more %ncient $riginal/

(e are told, that in the early %ge of the (orld, the trength of Invention e+ceeded all that ever

has been arrived to since= )hat we in these latter %ges, having lost all that "ristine trength of

8eason and Invention, which died with the %ncients in the lood, and receiving no hel"s fromthat %ge, have by long earch arriv'd at several remote Parts of &nowledge, by the hel"s of

reading Conversation and E+"erience# but that all amounts to no more than faint Imitations,

%"ings, and 8esemblances of what was known in those masterly %ges/

-ow, if it be true as is hinted before, )hat the hinese Em"ire was Peo"led long before thelood# and that they were not destroyed in the eneral Deluge in the Days of 3oah# 'tis no such

strange thing, that they should so much out;do us in this sort of Eye%sight we call *eneral

:no)ledge, since the Perfections bestow'd on -ature, when in her 6outh and Prime met with no

eneral uffocation by that Calamity/

.ut if I was e+treamly delighted with the e+traordinary things I saw in those Countries, you

cannot but imagine I was e+ceedingly mov'd, when I heard of a +unar (orld# and that the way

was "assable from these Parts/

I had heard of a 5orld in the Moon among some of our 5earned Philoso"hers, and Moor , as I

have been told, had a Moon in his :ead# but none of the fine Pretenders, no not .isho" 5ilkins,ever found Mechanick Engines, whose Motion was sufficient to attem"t the Passage/ % late

ha""y %uthor indeed, among his Mechanick $"erations of the "irit, had found out anEnthusiasm, which if he could have "ursued to its "ro"er E+tream, without doubt might, either

in the Body or out o( the Body, have 5anded him somewhere hereabout# but that he form'd his

ystem wholly u"on the mistaken -otion of 5ind , which 5earned :y"othesis being directly

contrary to the -ature of things in this Climate, where the Elasticity of the %ir is 0uite differentand where the pressure o( the $t"osphere has for want of 9a"our no orce, all his -otion

dissolv'd in its -ative 9a"our call'd 5ind , and flew u"ward in blew trakes of a livid lame

call'd Blasphe"y, which burnt u" all the (it and ancy of the %uthor, and left a strange stench behind it, that has this unha""y 0uality in it, that every .ody that 8eads the .ook, s"ells the

$uthor , tho' he be never so far off# nay, tho' he took hi""ing to Du!lin, to secure his riends

from the least danger of a Con!ecture/

.ut to return, to the ha""y 8egions of the +unar ontinent , I was no sooner 5anded there, andhad lookt about me, but I was sur"riz'd with the strange %lteration of the Climate and Country#

and "articularly a strange alubrity and ragrancy in the %ir, which I felt so -ourishing, so

Pleasant and Delightful, that tho' I could "erceive some small 8es"iration, it was hardly



discernable, and the least re0uisite for 5ife, su""lied so long that the .ellows of -ature were

hardly im"loyed/

.ut as I shall take occasion to consider this in a Critical E+amination into the -ature, *ses and%dvantages of *ood +ungs, of which by it self, so I think fit to confine my "resent $bservations

to things more "articularly concerning the Eye%sight /

I was, you may be sure, not a little sur"rized, when being u"on an Eminence I found my self

ca"able by common $bservation, to see and distinguish things at the distance of 122 Miles andmore, and seeking some Information on this "oint, I was ac0uainted by the Peo"le, that there was

a certain grave hilosopher hard by, that could give me a very good %ccount of things/

It is not worth while to tell you this Man's +unar 3a"e, of whether he had a -ame, or no# 'tis

"lain, 'twas a Man in the Moon# but all the Conference I had with him was very strange= %t myfirst coming to him, he askt me if I came from the 5orld in the MoonG I told him, no' %t which

he began to be angry, told me - +y2d , he knew whence I came as well as I did# for he saw me all

the way/ I told him, I came to the 5orld in the Moon, and began to be as surly as he/ It was along 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' rom this, we came to E+"lications, Demonstrations, "heres,

lobes, 8egions, %tmos"heres, and a )housand odd Diagrams, to make the thing out to one

another/ I insisted on my "art, as that my E+"eriment 0ualified me to know, and challeng'd himto go !ack )ith "e to "rove it/ :e, like a true Philoso"her, raised a )housand cru"les,

Con!ectures, and "herical Problems, to Confront me# and as for Demonstrations, he call'd 'em

ancies of my own/ )hus we differ'd a great many ways# both of us were certain, and bothuncertain# both right, and yet both directly contrary# how to reconcile this 7angle was very hard,

till at last this Demonstration ha""en'd, the Moon as he call'd it, turning her blind;side u"on us

three Days after the Change, by which, with the hel" of his e+traordinary lasses, I that knew the

Country, "erceived that side the Sun lookt u"on was all Moon, and the other was all )orld # andeither I fancy'd I saw or else really saw all the lofty )owers of the Immense Cities of hina'

*"on this, and a little more Debate, we came to this Conclusion, and there the $ld Man and Iagreed, )hat they were !oth Moons and !oth 5orlds, this a Moon to that, and that a Moon to

this, like the un between two 5ooking;lasses, and shone u"on one another by 8eflection,

according to the obli0ue or direct Position of each other/

)his afforded us a great deal of Pleasure# for all the (orld covet to be found in the right, and are "leas'd when their -otions are acknowledg'd by their %ntagonists= It also afforded us many very

useful "eculations, such as these#

1/ :ow easy it is for Men to (all out , and yet all sides to be in the right;

A/ :ow -atural it is for Opinion to des"ise De"onstration;

>/ :ow "ro"er mutual Enquiry is to mutual Satis(action;

rom the $bservation of these lasses, we also drew some uns, rotchets and onclusions/



1 st , )hat the whole (orld has a Blind%side, a Dark%side, and a Bright%side, and conse0uently so

has every .ody in it/

Adly, )hat the Dark%side of %ffairs to Day, may be the Bright%side to Morro)# from whenceabundance of useful Morals were also raised# such as,

1/ -o Man's ate is so dark, but when the Sun shines u"on it, it will return its 8ays, and shine for

it self/

A/ %ll things turn like the Moon, up to Day, do)n to Morrow, #ull and hange, #lu, and 0e(lu,/

>/ :umane *nderstanding is like the Moon at the irst uarter, hal( dark /

>dly, )he hanging%sides ought not to be thought so strange, or so much Condemn'd byMankind, having its $riginal from the +unar -n(luence, and govern'd by the Powerful $"eration

of :eavenly Motion/

<thly, If there be any such thing as Destiny in the (orld, I know nothing Man is so "redestinated

to, as to be eternally turning round# and but that I "ur"ose to entertain the 8eader with at least awhole Cha"ter or ection of the Philoso"hy of /u"ane Motion, "herically and /ypocritically

E,a"in2d and alculated , I should inlarge u"on that )hought in this "lace/

:aving thus !um"t in our $"inions, and "erfectly satisfied our selves with Demonstration, )hat

these (orlds were isters, both in orm, unction, and all their Ca"acities# in short, a "air of Moons, and a "air of 5orlds, e0ually Magnetical, ym"athetical, and Influential, we set u" our

rest as to that %ffair, and went forward/

I desir'd no better %c0uaintance in my new )ravels, than this new ociate# never was there sucha Cou"le of Peo"le 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 .ook of it, and call'd it, 3e)s (ro" the 5orld in the Moon#

and all the )own is like to see "y Minutes under the same )itle# nay, and I have been told, he

"ublished some such bold )ruths there, from the %llegorical 8elations he had of me from our(orld= )hat he was call'd before the Publick %uthority, who could not bear the !ust 8eflections

of his da"n2d Satyrical )ay o( 5riting # and there they "unisht the Poor Man, "ut him in Prison,

ruin'd his amily# and not only in'd him 8ltra tene"entu", but e+"os'd him in the high laceso( their apital ity, for the Mob to laugh at him for a ool= )his is a Punishment not unlike our

illory, and was a""ointed for "ean ri"inals, ellows that Cheat and Couzen Peo"le, orge

(ritings, orswear themselves, and the like# and the Peo"le, that it was e+"ected would have

treated this Man very ill, on the contrary itied hi", wisht those that set him there "laced in hisroom, and e+"rest their %ffections, by loud Shouts and %cclamations, when he was taken down/

.ut as this ha""en'd before my first 9isit to that (orld, when I came there all was over with

him, his "articular Enemies were disgrac'd and turn'd out, and the Man was not at all the worsereceiv'd by his Country;folks than he was before# and so much for the Man in the Moon/



%fter we had settled the Debate between us, about the -ature and uality, I desir'd him to show

me some Plan or Draft of this ne) 5orld of his# u"on which, he brought me out a "air of very

beautiful lobes, and there I had an immediate eogra"hical Descri"tion of the Place/

I found it less by Degrees than $ur Terrestial *lo!e, but more 5and and less (ater# and as I was

"articularly concern'd to see something in or near the same Climate with $ur selves, I observ'd alarge e+tended Country to the -orth, about the 5atitude of @2 to @? -orthern Distance# and

en0uiring of that Country, he told me it was one of the best Countries in all their (orld= )hat itwas his -ative Climate, and he was !ust a going to it, and would take me with him/

:e told me in eneral, the Country was ood, (holsome, ruitful, rarely cituate for )rade,

e+traordinarily %ccommodated with :arbours, 8ivers and .ays for hi""ing# full of Inhabitants#for it had been Peo"led from all Parts, and had in it some of the .lood of all the -ations in the

Moon/

:e told me, as the Inhabitants were the most -umerous, so they were the strangest Peo"le that

liv'd# both their -atures, )em"ers, ualities, %ctions, and way of 5iving, was made u" ofinnumerable Contradictions= )hat they were the 5isest ools, and the #oolishest (ise Men in

the (orld# the 5eakest trongest, 0ichest Poorest, most *enerous Covetous, Bold Cowardly,

#alse aithful, So!er Dissolute, Surly Civil, Sloth(ul Diligent, eacea!le uarrelling, +oyal

editious -ation that ever was known/

.esides my $bservations which I made my self, and which could only furnish me with what was

"resent, and which I shall take time to inform my 8eader with as much Care and Conciseness as

"ossible# I was beholding to this $ld +unarian, for every thing that was :istorical or Particular/

%nd irst, :e inform'd me, )hat in this new Country they had very seldom any Clouds at all, and

conse0uently no e+traordinary torms, but a constant erenity, moderate .reezes cooled the %ir,and constant Evening E+halations ke"t the Earth moist and fruitful# and as the (inds they had

were various and strong enough to assist their -avigation, so they were without the )errors,Dangers, hi";wrecks and Destructions, which he knew we were troubled with in this our +unar

(orld, as he call'd it/

)he first !ust $bservation I made of this was, )hat I su""os'd from hence the wonderful

Clearness of the %ir, and the %dvantage of so vast $"tick Ca"acities they en!oy'd, was obtained= $lasF says the $ld ellow, <ou see nothing to )hat so"e o( our reat Eyes see in so"e arts o(

this 5orld nor do you see any thing co"par2d to )hat you "ay see !y the help o( so"e ne)

-nvented *lasses o( )hich - "ay in ti"e let you see the E,peri"ent # and perhaps you "ay (ind

this to !e the reason )hy )e do not so a!ound in Books as in your 5unar (orld# and that e,ceptit !e so"e e,traordinary )ranslations out o( your ountry you )ill (ind !ut little in our

+i!raries )orth giving you a great deal o( Trou!le/

(e immediately 0uitted the Philoso"hical Discourse of (inds, and I began to be mightyIn0uisitive after these lasses and )ranslations, and



1 st , I understood here was a strange sort of lass that did not so much bring to the Eye, as by I

know not what wonderful $"eration carried out the Eye to the $b!ect, and 0uite varies from all

our Doctrine of $"ticks, by forming several strange h6no"ena in ight, which we are utterlyunac0uainted with# nor could 4ision, 0ari(ication, or any of our chool;mens fine )erms, stand

me in any stead in this case# but here was such %dditions of piercing Organs, Particles of

Transparence, E"ission, Trans"ission, Mediu"s, Contraction of 0ays, and a )housand%""lications of things "re"ar'd for the wondrous $"eration, that you may be sure are re0uisite

for the bringing to "ass something yet unheard of on this side the Moon/

irst we were inform'd, by the hel" of these lasses, strange things, which "ass in our (orld for

-on;Entities, is to be seen, and very "erce"tible# for E+am"le=

State olity, in all its Meanders, hifts, )urns, )ricks, and Contraries, are so e+actly Delineated

and Describ'd, )hat they are in ho"es in time to draw a "air of lobes out, to bring all those

things to a certainty/

-ot but that it made some Puzzle, even among these Clear;sighted -ations, to determine what #igure the Plans and Drafts of this undiscover'd 5orld o( Mysteries ought to be describ'd in=

ome were of $"inion, it ought, to be an -rregular entagon, a igure with an :undred ones

or %ngles= ince the 8naccounta!les of this tate;cience, are hid in a Million of undiscover2d

orners# as the Craft, ubtilty and :y"ocrisy of &naves and Courtiers have concealed them,never to be found out, but by this wonderful D%%%l%scope, which seem'd to threaten a "erfect

Discovery of all those 3udities, which have lain hid in the Embrio, and false Conce"tions of

$!ortive olicy, ever since the oundation of the (orld/

ome were of $"inion, this Plan ought to be Circular, and in a lobular orm, since it was on all

sides alike, full of dark Spots, untrod Mazes, )aking Mischie(s, and slee"ing Mysteries# and

being delineated like the lobes dis"lay'd, would discover all the 5ines of (ickedness to the Eyeat one view= .esides, they fancied some sort of %nalogy in the 8otundity of the igure, with thecontinued Circular Motion of all Court;Policies, in the stated 8ound of *niversal &navery/

$thers would have had it /yrogliphical as by a /and in /and , the orm re"resenting the

%ffinity between State olicy here, and State olicy in the Infernal 8egions, with some unkind

imilies between the $economy of atan's &ingdom, and those of most of the )em"oral Powerson Earth# but this was thought too unkind/ %t last it was determin'd, )hat neither of these

chemes were ca"able of the vast Descri"tion# and that, therefore, the Drafts must be made

single, tho' not dividing the overnments, yet dividing the %rts of overning into "ro"er distinctchemes, viz.

1/ % "articular Plan of u!lick #aith# and here we had the E+"eriment immediately made= )he

8e"resentation is 0uallified for the Meridian of any ountry, as well in our 5orld as theirs# and

turning it to'ards our o)n 5orld , there I saw "lainly an E,chequer shut up, and A2222 Mourningamilies selling their oaches, /orses, 5hores, Equipages, &c. for .read, the overnment

standing by laughing, and looking on= :ard by I saw the ha"!er of a great City shut u", and

orty )housand Orphans turn'd adrift in the (orld# some had no loaths, some no Shoes, someno Money# and still the City Magistrates calling u"on other $r"hans, to pay their "oney in/



)hese things "ut me in mind of the Pro"het Ezekiel , and methoughts I heard the same 9oice that

s"oke to him, calling me, and telling me, o"e hither and -2ll sho) thee greater $!o"inations

than these' o looking still on that vast Ma", by the hel" of these Magnifying lasses, I sawhuge #leets hir2d (or Transport%Service !ut never paid # vast )a+es $nticipated , that were never

Collected# others Collected and $ppropriated , but Misa""lied= Millions of Talleys struck to be

Discounted, and the Poor "aying <2 per ent , to receive their Money/ I saw huge uantities ofMoney dra)n in, and little or none issued out # vast Prizes taken (ro" the Ene"y, and then taken

away again at home by #riends# hi"s sav2d on the ea, and sunk in the rize O((ices# Merchants

escaping from Enemies at ea, and be irated by Sha" E"!argoes, ounter(eit lai"s,on(iscations, &c a;shoar= )here we saw Turkey%#leets taken into Convoys, and uarded to the

very Mouth of the Enemy, and then a!andon2d (or their !etter Security= :ere we saw Mons/

ouchartrain shutting u" the )own;house of aris, and "lundring the .ank of +yons/

A/ :ere we law the tate of the (ar among -ations# :ere was the #rench giving ham;thanksfor 9ictories they never got, and some body else adressing and congratulating the su!li"e *lory

o( running a)ay' :ere was Te Deu" for ham;9ictories by 5and# and there was )hanksgiving

for Ditto !y Sea' :ere we might see two %rmies fight, both run away, and !oth co"e and thank*OD (or nothing' :ere we saw a Plan of a late (ar like that in -reland # there was all the

$fficers cursing a Dutch *eneral , because the damn'd 8ogue would fight, and spoil a good 5ar ,

that with decent Management and good /us!andry, might have been eek2t out this )wenty

6ears# there was whole %rmies hunting two o)s to one -rish"an, and driving of black Cattledeclar'd the 3o!le End o( the the 5ar' :ere we saw a Country full of tone (alls and strong

)owns, where every Cam"aign, the )rade of (ar was carried on by the oldiers, with the same

Intriguing as it was carried on in the Council Chambers# there was Millions of Contributionsraised, and vast ums Collected, but no Ta,es lessen2d # whole late #leets sur"riz'd, but no

Treasure (ound # vaft ums lost by Enemies, and yet never (ound by riends, hi"s loaded with

9olatile ilver, that came away (ull , and gat home e"pty# whole 9oyages made to beat 3o !ody,

and "lunder Every !ody# two Millions robb'd from the honest Merchants, and not a roat sav'dfor the honest ub!ects= )here we saw Ca"tains 5ifting Men with the overnments Money, and

letting them go again for their own# hi"s fitted out at the 8ates of )wo Millions a 6ear, to fight

but once in )hree 6ears, and then run a)ay for want of Powder and hot/

)here we saw artition Treaties damned, and the whole given away, on(ederations without

$llies, $llies without 1uota2s, rinces without $r"ies, $r"ies without Men, and Men without

Money, ro)ns without :ings, :ings without Su!9ects, more :ings than ountries, and more

ountries than were worth fighting for/

:ere we could see the &ing of #rance u"braiding his -eighbours with dishonourably assisting

his 8ebels, though the Mischie( )as they did it not neither # and in the same .reath, assisting the

/ungarian 8ebels against the Em"eror# M. 5d 3. refusing so dishonourable an %ction, as to aidthe 8ebellious a"isars, but 5eaguing with the %dmirant de astile, to Invade the Dominions of

his Master to whom he swore %llegiance= :ere we saw Protestants fight against Protestants, to

help apists, Pa"ists against Pa"ists to help rotestants, Protestants call in )urks, to kee" aith

against Christians that !reak it' :ere we could see S)edes fighting for 8evenge, and call it8eligion# ardinals de"osing their Catholick Prince, to introduce the )yranny o( a +utheran and



call it 5iberty# $r"ies Electing &ings, and call it ree Choice# #rench con0uering Savoy, to

secure the 5iberty of -taly/

>/ )he Ma" of tate Policy contains abundance of Civil )ransactions, no where to be discover'd but in this )onder(ul ountry, and by this "rodigious Invention= %s first, it shows an Eminent

Prelate running in every body's Debt to relieve the Poor, and bring to *od 8obbery for Burnt%O((ering' It o"ens a Door to the ate of -ations# and there we might see the Duke o( S%%y bought

three times, and his sub!ects sold every time# ortugal bought twice, and neither time worth the Earnest # Spain bought once, but loth to go with the Bidder # 4enice willing to be .ought, if there

had been any .uyers# Bavaria .ought, and run away with the Money# the Em"eror Bought and

Sold , but .ilkt the Cha"man# the #rench buying &ingdoms he can't keep, the Dutch kee"&ingdoms they never Bought # and the English "aying their Money without urchase/

In Matters of Civil Concerns, here was to be seen 0eligion with no out;side, and much Out%side

with no 8eligion, much trife about eace, and no Peace in the Design' :ere was Plunder

without 4iolence, 9iolence without ersecution, Conscience without *ood 5orks, and ood

(orks without harity# Parties cutting one anothers )hroats (or *od2s Sake, "ulling downChurches de propoganda (ide, and making Divisions by way of $ssociation/

:ere we have eace and 8nion brought to "ass The Shortest 5ay, E+tir"ation and Destruction

"rov'd to be the 8oad to lenty and leasure' :ere all the (ise -ations, a 5earned %uthorwould have uoted, i( he could have (ound the", are to be seen, who carry on E+clusive 5aws to

the general afety and atisfaction of their ub!ects/

Occasional Bills may have here a "articular :istorical, Categorical Descri"tion= .ut of them bythemselves/

:ere you might have the 8ise, $riginal, 5awfulness, *sefulness, and -ecessity of assiveO!edience, as fairly re"resented as a ystem of Divinity, and as clearly demonstrated as !y a

*eographical Description# and which e+ceeds our mean *nderstanding here, 'tis by thewonderful %ssistance of these lasses, "lainly discerned to be Coherent )ith 0esistance, taking

$r"s, calling in #oreign o)ers, and the like. ;;; :ere you have a "lain Discovery of . of E.

Politicks, and a Ma" of 5oyalty= :ere 'tis as "lainly demonstrated as the -ose in a Man's ace,

provided he has one, that a Man may $!dicate, drive away, and Dethrone his Prince, and yet beabsolutely and intirely free from, and innocent of the least #racture, .reach, Incroachment, or

Intrenchment, u"on the Doctrine of 3on%0esistance' Can shoot at his Prince without any Design

to kill hi", (ight against him without raising 0e!ellion, and take u" %rms, without leaving (aragainst his Prince/

:ere they can "ersecute Dissenters, without desiring they should Conform, conform to the

Church they would overthrow# ray for the Prince they dare not 3a"e, and 3a"e the Prince

they do not pray (or /

.y the hel" of these lasses strange Insights are made, into the vast mysterious dark (orld of

State olicy# but that which is yet more strange, and re0uires vast 9olumes to descend to the

Particulars of, and huge Diagrams, "heres, Charts, and a )housand nice things to dis"lay is,



)hat in this vast Intelligent Discovery it is not only made "lain, that those things are so, but all

the vast Contradictions are made 8ational, reconciled to Practice, and brought down to

Demonstration/

*er"an lock%5ork , the "er"etual Motions, the Prim Mobilies of $ur short;sighted (orld, are

)rifles to these -icer Dis0uisitions/

:ere it would be "lain and rational, why a Parliament;Man will s"end @222 l. to be Chosen, that

cannot get a roat :onestly by setting there= It would be easily made out to be rational, why hethat rails "ost at a Court is soonest receiv'd into it' :ere it would be very "lain, how great

Estates are got in little laces, and Double in none at all / ')is easy to be "rov'd honest and

faithful to 9ictual the #rench leet out of English tores, and let our own -avy want them# along ight, or a large 5unar Pers"ective, will make all these things not only "lain in act, but

8ational and 7ustifiable to all the (orld/

')is a strange thing to any body without doubt, that has not been in that clear%sighted 0egion, to

com"rehend, )hat those we call /igh%(lyers in England are the only riends to the Dissenters,and have been the most Diligent and aithful in their Interest, of any Peo"le in the -ation# and

yet so it is, *entle"en, and they ought to have the )hanks of the )hole Body for it/

In this advanc'd tation, we see it "lainly by 8efle+ion, )hat the Dissenters, like a "arcel of

&naves, have retained all the /igh%hurch%"en in their Pay# they are certainly all in their ension%0oll' Indeed, I could not see the Money "aid them there, it was too remote# but I could

"lainly see the thing# all the dee" 5ines of the Pro!ect are laid as true, they are so Tackt and

onsolidated together, that if any one will give themselves leave to consider, they will be mosteffectually convinced, )hat the /igh%hurch and the Dissenters here, are all in a Caball, a meer

&not, a "iece of Clock;work# the Dissenters are the Dial;Plate, and the :igh;Church the

Movement, the 5heel )ithin the 5heels, the "ring and the crew to bring all things to Motion,and make the /and on the Dial%plate "oint which way the Dissenters "lease/

or what else have been all the Sha"s they have "ut u"on the *overn"ents, &ings, tates, and

Peo"le they have been concern'd withG (hat chemes have they laid on "ur"ose to !e !roken;

(hat vast Contrivances, on "ur"ose to be ridicul'd and e+"os'dG The Men are not #ools, they had

never 9;;;d to onsolidate a B%%% but that they were willing to save the Dissenters, and "ut it intoa "osture, in which they )ere sure it )ould "iscarry/ I defy all the (ise Men of the Moon to

show another good reason for it/

Methinks I begin to "ity my .rethren, the moderate Men of the Church, that they cannot see into

this 3e) lot , and to wish they would but get u" into our onsolidator , and take a 7ourney to the Moon, and there, by the hel" of these lasses, they would see the $llegorical , Sy"!ollical ,

/etrodo,icallity of all this Matter# it would make immediate Converts of them# they would see

"lainly, that to Tack and onsolidate, to make E,clusive +a)s, to persecute for Conscience,distur!, and distress Parties# these are all hanatick lots, meer Combinations against the

Church, to bring her into Contem"t, and to fi+ and establish the Dissenters to the end of the

Cha"ter= .ut of this I shall find occasion to s"eak Occasionally, when an Occasion "resents it



self, to e+amine a certain Occasional Bill , transacting in these 5unar 8egions, some time before I

had the :a""iness to arrive there/

In e+amining the Multitude and 9ariety of these "ost ad"ira!le *lasses for the assisting theOpticks, or indeed the ormation of a new "erce"tive aculty# it was you may be sure most

sur"rizing to find there, that %rt had e+ceeded -ature# and the Power of 9ision was assisted tothat "rodigious Degree, as even to distinguish 3on%Entity it sel( # and in these strange Engines of

5ight it could not but be very "leasing, to distinguish "lainly betwi+t Being and Matter , and tocome to a Determination, in the so long Canvast Dis"ute of ubstance, vel Materialis vel

Spiritualis# and I can solidly affirm, )hat in all our Contention between Entity and 3on%Entity,

there is so little )orth "eddling )ith, that had we had these lasses some %ges ago, we shouldhave left troubling our heads with it/

I take u"on me, therefore, to assure my 8eader, )hat whoever "leases to take a 7ourney, or

9oyage, or light u" to these +unar 0egions, as soon as ever he comes ashoar there, will

"resently be convinc'd, of the 8easonableness of -""aterial Su!stance, and the -""ortality, as

well as -""ateriality of the oul= :e will no sooner look into these E+"licating lasses, but hewill be;able to know the se"arate meaning of Body, Soul , Spirit , +i(e, Motion, Death, and a

)housand things that 5ise%"en "uzzle themselves about here, because they are not #oolsenough to understand /

:ere too I find lasses for the Second Sight , as our $ld (omen call it/ )his Second Sight has

been often "retended to in Our 0egions, and some amous $ld (ives have told us, they can see

Death, the Soul , #uturity, and the -eighbourhood of them, in the Countenance= .y this)onder(ul $rt , these good Peo"le unfold strange Mysteries, as under some -rrecovera!le

Disease, to foretell Death# under /ypocondriack Melancholy, to "resage Trou!le o( Mind # in

"ining 6outh, to "redict ontagious +ove# and an :undred other Infallibilities, )hich never (ail

to !e true as soon as ever they co"e to pass, and are all grounded u"on the same Infallibility, bywhich a he"herd may always know when any one of his hee" is 0otten, viz/ )hen he shakes

hi"sel( to pieces/

.ut all this uess and *ncertainty is a )rifle, to the vast Discoveries of these E,plicatoryOptick%*lasses# for here are seen the -ature and Conse0uences of ecret Mysteries= :ere are

read strange Mysteries relating to redestination, Eternal Decrees, and the like= :ere 'tis "lainly

"rov'd, )hat redestination is, in s"ight of all Enthusiastick Pretences, so intirely committed intoMan's Power, that whoever "leases to hang hi"sel( to Day, won't 5ive till to Morrow= no, though

#orty redestination rophets were to tell him, /is ti"e )as not yet co"e/ )here abstruse Points

are commonly and solemnly Discuss'd here# and these Peo"le are such /ereticks, that they say

*od2s Decrees are all subservient to the means of his rovidence# )hat what we call Providenceis a sub!ecting all things to the great hain o( auses and onsequences, by which that one

rand Decree, )hat all Effects shall $bey, without reserve to their "ro"er moving Causes,

su"ercedes all su!sequent Doctrines, or "retended Decrees, or Predestination in the (orld= )hat by this 8ule, he that )ill kill hi"sel( , O#, -ature, Providence, or Decree, will not be concern'd

to hinder hi", but he shall Die# any Decrees, Predestination, or ore;&nowledge of Infinite

Power, to the contrary in any )ise not)ithstanding that it is in a Man's Power to throw himselfinto the (ater, and !e Dro)n2d # and to kill another Man, and he shall Die, and to say, od



a""ointed it, is to make him the %uthor of Murther, and to in!ure the Murtherer in "utting him to

Death for what he could not hel" doing/

%ll these things are received Truths here, and no doubt would be so every where else, if the Eyesof 8eason were o"ened to the )estimony of -ature, or if they had the hel"s of these most

-nco"para!le *lasses/

ome "retended, by the hel" of these Second%sight *lasses, to see the common Periods of 5ife#

and $thers said, they could see a great way beyond the leap in the Dark' I confess, all I could seeof the first was, that holding u" the lass against the ea, I "lainly saw, as it were on the edge of

the :orizon, these (ords,

The 4erge o( +i(e and Death is here.

2Tis !est to kno) )here 2tis !ut not ho) (ar.

%s to seeing !eyond Death, all the lasses I lookt into for that "ur"ose, "ade !ut little o( it # and

these were the only Tu!es that I found Defective# for here I could discern nothing but Clouds,Mists, and thick dark hazy (eather# but revolving in my Mind, that I had read a certain Book in

our own Country, called, 3ature# it "resently occurr'd, )hat the Conclusion of it, to all such asgave themselves the trouble of making out those foolish things call'd Inferences, was always

+ook up# u"on which, turning one of their lasses 8p, and erecting the Point of it towards the

7enith, I saw these (ords in the %ir, 0E4E+$T-O3 , in large Ca"ital 5etters/

I had like to have rais'd the Mob u"on me for looking upright with this lass# for this, they said,was "rying into the Mysteries of the reat Eye of the (orld# )hat we ought to en0uire no farther

than he has inform'd us, and to !elieve what he had left us "ore O!scure' *"on this, I laid down

the lasses, and concluded, that we had Moses and the rophets, and should be never the likelier

to be taught by One co"e (ro" the Moon/

In short, I found, indeed, they had a great deal more &nowledge of things than we in this (orld#

and that 3ature, Science, and 0eason, had obtained great Im"rovements in the +unar 5orld # but

as to 0eligion, it was the same e0ually resign'd to and concluded in #aith and 0ede"ption# so Ishall give the (orld no great Information of these things/

I come ne+t to some other strange %c0uirements obtained by the hel"s of these lasses# and

"articularly for the discerning the -"percepti!les of -ature# such as, the Soul , Thought , /onesty,

0eligion, 4irginity, and an :undred other nice things, too small for humane Discerning/

)he Discoveries made by these lasses, as to the Soul , are of a very diverting 9ariety# some /ieroglyphical , and E"!le"atical , and some Demonstrative/

)he /ieroglyphical Discoveries of the oul make it a""ear in the -"age o( its Maker # and the

%nalogy is remarkable, even in the very Si"ily# for as they re"resent the $riginal of -ature asOne *reat Eye, illuminating as well as discerning all things# so the Soul , in its $llegorical , or

/ieroglyphical 8esemblance, a""ears as a *reat Eye, embracing the Man, envelo"ing,

o"erating, and informing every Part# (ro" )hence those sort of Peo"le who we falsly call



oliticians, acting so much to "ut out this *reat Eye, by acting against their common

*nderstandings, are very a"tly re"resented by a great Eye )ith Si, or Seven pair o( Spectacles

on# not but that the Eye of their ouls may be clear enough of it self, as to the common*nderstanding# but that they ha""en to have occasion to look sometimes so "any )ays at once,

and to !udge, conclude, and understand so "any contrary )ays u"on one and the same thing# that

they are fain to "ut double lasses u"on their *nderstanding, as we look at the Solar Ecclipses,to re"resent 'em in di((erent +ights, least their Judg"ents should not !e )headled into a

Com"liance with the /ellish 0esolutions o( their 5ills# and this is what I call the Emblematick

8e"resentation of the oul/

%s for the Demonstrations of the Soul2s E,istence, 'tis a "lain case, by these E,plicative *lasses,that it is, some have "retended to give us the Parts# and we have heard of Chyrurgeons, that could

read an %natomical 5ecture on the Parts $f the oul# and these "retend it to be a Creature in

form, whether a"elion or Sala"andar , %uthors have not determin'd# nor is it com"leatlydiscover'd )hen it comes into the .ody, or ho) it goes out, or )here its 5ocality or :abitation is,

while 'tis a 8esident/

.ut they very a"tly show it, like a Prince, in his eat, in the middle of his alace the Brain,

issuing out his incessant $rders to innumerable )roo"s of 3erves, Sine)s, Muscles, Tendons,4eins, $rteries, #i!res, apilaris, and use(ul O((icers, call'd Organici, who faithfully e+ecute all

the Parts of Sensation, +oco"otion, oncoction, Hc/ and in the :undred )housandth "art of a

Mo"ent , return with "articular Messages for -n(or"ation, and demand -ew -nstructions/ If any "art of his :ingdo" the Body, suffers a De"redation, or an Invasion of the Enemy, the E+"resses

fly to the eat of the oul, the Brain, and immediately are order'd back to s"art , that the .ody

may of course send more Messengers to co"plain# immediately other E+"resses are dis"atcht to

the )ongue, with $rders to cry out , that the -eighbours may come in and hel", or riends sendfor the Chyrurgeon= *"on the $pplication, and a Cure, all is quiet , and the same E+"resses are

dis"atcht to the )ongue to !e hush, and say no more of it till farther $rders= %ll this is as "lain to be seen in these Engines, as the Moon of Our 5orld from the (orld in the Moon/

%s the .eing, -ature, and cituation of hu"ane Soul is thus Spherically and Mathe"atically

discover'd, I could not find any econd )houghts about it in all their .ooks, whether of their own

Com"osition or by )ranslation# for it was a eneral received -otion, )hat there could not be a

greater %bsurdity in humane &nowledge, than to im"loy the )houghts in uestioning, what is as "lainly known by its Conse0uences, as if seen with the Eye# and that to doubt the .eing or E+tent

of the oul's $"eration, is to i"ploy her against her sel( # and therefore, when I began to argue

with my $ld Philoso"her, against the Materiality and Immortality of this Mystery we call Soul ,he laught at "e, and told me, he found we had none of their lasses in our (orld# and bid me

send all our Scepticks, Soul%Sleepers, our o)ards, Bakers, :ings and Bake)ells, u" to him into

the Moon, if they wanted Demonstrations# where, by the hel" of their Engines, they would makeit "lain to them, that the *reat Eye being one vast Intellect, -n(inite and Eternal , all -n(erior +i(e

is a Degree of hi"sel( , and as e+actly re"resents him as one little #la"e the whole Mass o( #ire#

)hat it is therefore unca"able of Dissolution, being like its $riginal in Duration, as well as in its

Powers and aculties, but that it goes and returns by E"ission, 0egression, as the *reat Eye governs and determines# and this was "lainly made out, by the igure I had seen it in, viz. an Eye,

the e+act Image of its Maker= ')is true, it )as darkened by Ignorance, olly and Crime, and



therefore oblig'd to )ear Spectacles# but tho' these were Defects or Interru"tions in its $"eration,

they were none in its -ature# which as it had its immediate Efflu+ from the *reat Eye, and its

return to him must "artake of himself, and could not but be of a uality unco"ata!le, byCasualty or Death/

rom this Discourse we the more willingly ad!ourned our "resent )houghts, - !eing clearlyconvinced o( the Matter # and as for our 5earned Doctors, with their econd and )hird Thoughts,

I told him I would recommend them to the Man in the Moon for their farther Illumination, whichif they refuse to acce"t, it was but !ust they should remain in a 5ood , where they are, and are

like to !e, "uzzling themselves about Demonstrations, s0uaring of Circles, and converting

o!lique into right $ngles, to bring out a Mathematical lock%5ork Soul , that will go till the5eight is do)n, and then stand still till they kno) not )ho must wind it u" again/

:owever, I cannot "ass over a very strange and e+traordinary "iece of %rt which this $ld

entleman inform'd me of, and that was an Engine to scre) a Man into hi"sel(' Perha"s our

Country;men may be at some Difficulty to com"rehend these things by my dull Descri"tion# and

to such I cannot but recommend, a 7ourney in "y Engine to the Moon/

)his Machine that I am s"eaking of, contains a multitude of strange Springs and Scre)s, and a

Man that "uts himself into it, is very insensibly carried into vast Speculations, 0e(le,ions, and

regular De!ates )ith hi"sel(' )hey have a very hard -ame for it in those Parts# but if I were togive it an English -ame, it should be call'd, The ogitator , or the hair o( 0e(lection/

%nd irst, )he Person that is seated here feels some "ain in "assing some 3egative Springs, that

are wound u", effectually to shut out all -n9ecting Distur!ing )houghts# and the better to "re"arehim for the $"eration that is to follow, and this is without doubt a very rational way# for when a

Man can a!solutely shut out all "anner o( thinking , but what he is u"on, he shall think the more

Intensly u"on the one ob!ect before him/

)his $"eration "ast, here are certain Scre)s that draw direct +ines from every $ngle o( the Engine to the Brain o( the Man, and at the same time, other direct 5ines to his Eyes# at the other

end of which 5ines, there are lasses which convey or reflect the $b!ects the Person is desirous

to think upon/

)hen the main (heels are turn'd, which wind u" according to their several $ffices# this theMemory, that the *nderstanding# a third the (ill, a (ourth the thinking aculty# and these being

"ut all into regular Motions, "ointed by direct 5ines to their "ro"er $b!ects, and "erfectly

uninterru"ted by the Intervention of (himsy, Chimera, and a )housand fluttering D6"ons that

ender in the ancy, but are effectually 5ockt out as before, assist one another to receive right -otions, and form !ust Ideas of the things they are directed to, and from thence the Man is

im"ower'd to make right Conclusions, to think and act like hi"sel( , suitable to the sublime

ualities his oul was originally blest with/

)here never was a Man went into one of these thinking Engines, but he came wiser out than he

was before# and I am "ersuaded, it would be a more effectual Cure to our Deis", $theis",



Scepticis", and all other Scis"s, than ever the -talian's Engine, for Curing the out by cutting

off the )oe/

)his is a most wonderful Engine, and "erforms admirably, and my %uthor gave me e+traordinary%ccounts of the good Effects of it# and I cannot but tell my 8eader, )hat our ublunar (orld

suffers Millions of Inconveniencies, for want of this thinking Engine= I have had a great manyPro!ects in my :ead, how to bring our Peo"le to regular thinking, but 'tis in vain without this

Engin# and how to get the Model of it I know not# how to screw u" the (ill, the *nderstanding,and the rest of the Powers# how to bring the Eye, the )hought, the ancy, and the Memory, into

Mathematical $rder, and obedient to Mechanick $"eration# hel" Boyl , 3orris, 3e)ton, Manton,

/a""ond , Tillotson, and all the 5earned 8ace, hel" hylosophy, Divinity, hysicks,Oecono"icks, all's in vain, a Mechanick Chair of 8eflection is the only 8emedy that ever I found

in my 5ife for this (ork/

%s to the Effects of Mathematical thinking, what 9olumes might be writ of it will more easily

a""ear, if we consider the wondrous *sefulness of this Engine in all humane %ffairs# as of 5ar ,

eace, Justice, -n9uries, assion, +ove, Marriage, Trade, olicy, and 0eligion/

(hen a Man has been screw'd into himself, and brought by this %rt to a 8egularity of )hought,

he never commits any %bsurdity after it# his %ctions are s0uared by the same 5ines, for %ction is

but the Conse0uence of )hinking# and he that acts before he thinks, sets humane -ature with the bottom u"ward/

M. would never have made his "eech, nor the famous B%%%%ly wrote a .ook, if ever they had

been in this thinking Engine= $ne would have never told us of -ations he never saw, nor theother told us, he had seen a great many, and was never the (iser/

/. had never ruin'd his amily to Marry (hore, )hief and .eggar;(oman, in one alliant 5ady,after having been told so honestly, and so often of it by the very (oman her self/

$ur late unha""y Monarch had never trusted the English Clergy, when they "reacht u" that -on;

8esistance, which he must needs see they could never Practice# had his Ma!esty been screw'd u"into this ogitator , he had "resently reflected, that it was against -ature to e+"ect they should

stand still, and let him tread u"on them= )hat they should, whatever they had "reacht or

"retended to, hold o"en their )hroats to have them be cut, and tye their own :ands fromresisting the 5ord's %nointed/

:ad some of our Clergy been screw'd in this Engine, they had never turned Martyrs for their

%llegiance to the 5ate &ing, only for the 5echery of having Dr/ S%%%%%%% in their Com"any/

:ad our Merchants been manag'd in this Engine, they had never trusted their Turkey leet with a

famous 0uadron, that took a great deal of care to Convoy them safe into the Enemies :ands/

:ad some Peo"le been in this Engine, when they had made a certain 5eague in the (orld, in

order to make amends for a better made before, they would certainly have consider'd farther,

before they had embarkt with a -ation, that are neither fit to go abroad nor stay at :ome/



%s for the )hinking "ractis'd in -oble "eeches, Occasional Bills, %ddressings about

Prerogative, Convocation Dis"utes, )urnings in and )urnings out at $urs, and all the Courts of

hristendo", I have nothing to say to it/

:ad the Duke of Bavaria been in our Engine, he would never have begun a uarrel, which he

knew all the Powers of Europe were concern'd to su""ress, and lay all other .usiness down till itwas done/

:ad the Elector of Sa,ony "ast the $"eration of this Engine, he would never have beggar'd a8ich Electorate, to ruin a beggar'd Crown, nor sold himself for a &ingdom hardly worth any

Man's taking= :e would never have made himself less than he was, in ho"es of being really no

greater# and ste"t down from a Protestant Duke, and Im"erial Elector, to be a -ominal Mock&ing with a shadow of Power, and a -ame without honour, Dignity or trength/

:ad Mons/ Tallard been in our Engine, he would not only not have attackt the Confederates

when they "ast the Morass and 8ivulet in his ront, but not have attackt them at all, nor have

suffer'd them to have attackt him, it being his .usiness not to have fought at all, but have linger'dout the (ar, till the Duke of Savoy having been reduced, the Confederate %rmy must have been

forced to have divided themselves of course, in order to defend their own/

ome that have been very forward to have us "roceed The Shortest 5ay with the Scots, may be

said to stand in great need of this Chair of 8eflection, to find out a !ust Cause for such a (ar,and to make a -eighbour;-ation making themselves secure, a sufficient 8eason for another

-eighbour;-ation to fall u"on them= $ur Engine would "resently show it them in a clear sight,

by way of Paralel, that 'tis !ust with the fame 8ight as a Man may break o"en a :ouse, becausethe Peo"le bar and bolt the (indows/

If some;body has chang'd :ands there from bad to worse, and o"en'd instead of closingDifferences in those Cases, the ogitator migyt have brought them, by more regular )hinking, to

have known that was not at all the Method of bringing the S%%%s to 8eason/

$ur ogitator would be a very necessary thing to show some Peo"le, )hat Poverty and(eakness is not a sufficient round to o""ress a -ation, and their having but little )rade, cannot

be a sufficient round to e0ui" leets to take away what they have/

I cannot deny, that I have often thought they have had something of this Engine in our

-eighbouring $ntient :ingdo", since no Man, however we "retend to be angry, but will ownthey are in the right of it, as to themselves, to 9ote and "rocure .ills for their own ecurity, and

not to do as others demand without onditions fit to be acce"ted= .ut of that by it self/

)here are abundance of Peo"le in $ur (orld, of all sorts and Conditions, that stand in need of

our thinking Engines, and to !e scre)2d into the"selves a little, that they might think as directlyas they s"eak absurdly= .ut of these also in a Class by it self/

)his Engine has a great deal of Philoso"hy in it# and "articularly, 'tis a wonderful 8emedy

against oreing # and as it was said of Mons/ Jurieu at $"sterda", that he us'd to lose hi"sel( in



hi"sel( # by the %ssistance of this "iece of 8egularity, a Man is most effectually secur'd against

!e)ildring Thoughts, and by direct thinking, he "revents all manner of dangerous wandring,

since nothing can come to more s"eedy Conclusions, than that which in right 5ines, "oints to the "ro"er ub!ect of Debate/

%ll sorts of on(usion o( Thoughts are "erfectly avoided and "revented in this case, and a Man isnever troubled with Spleen, /yppo, or Mute Madness, when once he has been thus under the

$"eration of the Scre)' It "revents abundance of Ca"ital Disasters in Men, in "rivate %ffairs# it "revents hasty Marriages, rash 4o)s, Duels, 1uarrels, uits at +a), and most sorts of

0epentance/ In the tate, it saves a overnment from many Inconveniences# it checks

immoderate $"!ition, sto"s 5ars, 3avies and E,peditions# es"ecially it "revents Membersmaking long Speeches when they have nothing to say# it kee"s back 8ebellions, Insurrections,

Clashings of :ouses, Occasional Bills, Tacking ,H c/

It has a wonderful Pro"erty in our %ffairs at ea, and has "revented many a Bloody #ight , in

which a great many honest Men might have lost their 5ives that are now useful ellows, and hel"

to Man and manage :er Ma!esty's -avy/

(hat if some Peo"le are a"t to charge Cowardice u"on some Peo"le in those CasesG ')is "lain

that cannot be it , for he that dare incur the 8esentment of the English Mob, shows more Courage

than would be able to carry him through orty ea;fights/

')is therefore for want of being in this Engine, that we censure Peo"le, because they don't be

knocking one another on the :ead, like the Peo"le at the Bear%*arden# where, if they do not see

the Blood run a!out , they always cry out, $ heat # and the "oor ellows are fain to cut oneanother, that they may not be "ull'd a "ieces# where the Case is "lain, they are !old (or (ear , and

"ull u" Courage enough to ight, because they are afraid of the Peo"le/

)his Engine "revents all sorts of +unacies, +ove%#renzies, and Melancholy%Madness, for

"reserving the )hought in right 5ines to direct $b!ects, it is im"ossible any Deliriu"s, 5hi"sies,or (luttering $ir of Ideas, can interru"t the Man, he can never be Mad# for which reason I cannot

but recommend it to my 5ord S%%%, my 5ord 3%%%, and my 5ord /%%%%%, as absolutely necesssary to

defend them from the tate;Madness, which for some %ges has "ossest their amilies, and which

runs too much in the .lood/

It is also an e+cellent Introduction to )hought, and therefore very well ada"ted to those Peo"le

whose "eculiar )alent and Praise is, )hat they never think at all / $f these, if his race of B%%%d

would "lease to acce"t %dvice from the Man in the Moon, it should be to "ut himself into this

Engine, as a overaign Cure to the known Disease call'd the Thoughtless Evil /

.ut above all, it is an e+cellent 8emedy, and very useful to a sort of Peo"le, who are always

Travelling in )hought, but never Deliver2d into %ction# who are so e+ceeding busy at )hinking,

they have no leisure for %ction# of whom the late Poet sung well to the "ur"ose#

;;;; So"e "odern o,co"!s )ho 0etire to Think 2cause they have nought to do=



#or Thoughts )ere giv2n (or $ctions *overn"ent

5here $ction ceases Thought -"pertinent'

The Sphere o( $ction is +i(e2s /appiness $nd he that Thinks !eyond Thinks like an $ss.

8ochest/ Poems, p. 4/

)hese entlemen would make e+cellent use of this Engine, for it would teach 'em to dis"atch

one thing before they begin another# and therefore is of singular use to honest S%%%%, whose "eculiar it was, to be always beginning Pro!ects, but never finish any/

)he 9ariety of this Engine, its *ses, and Im"rovements, are Innumerable, and the 8eader must

not e+"ect I can give any thing like a "erfect Descri"tion of it/

)here are yet another sort of Machine, which I never obtained a sight of, till the last 9oyage I

made to this 5unar $rb, and these are called Elevators' )he Mechanick $"erations of these are

wonderful, and hel"t by ire# by which the ences are raised to all the strange E,trea"es we canimagine, and whereby the Intelligent oul is made to converse with its own "ecies, whether

embody'd or not/

)hose that are rais'd to a due "itch in this wondrous rame, have a clear Pros"ect into the (orld

of "irits, and converse with 4isions, *uardian%$ngels, Spirits departed , and what not= %nd as

this is a wonderful &nowledge, and not to be obtained, but by the hel" of this ire# so those that

have try'd the E+"eriment, give strange %ccounts of Sy"pathy, re,istence of ouls, Drea"s,and the like/

I confess, I always believ'd a converse of "irits, and have heard of some who have e+"erienced

so much of it, as they could obtain u"on no Body else to believe/

I never saw any reason to doubt the E+istent tate of the "irit before embody'd, any more than Idid of its Immortality after it shall be uncas'd, and the cri"tures saying, the "irit returns to od

that gave it, im"lies a co"ing (ro", or how could it be call'd a return/

-or can I see a reason why Embodying a "irit should altogether Interru"t its Converse with the

(orld of "irits, from whence it was taken# and to what else shall we ascribe *uardian $ngels,in which the cri"ture is also "lain# and from whence come Secret 3otices, Im"ulse of Thought ,

"ressing 8rgencies o( -nclination, to or from this or that altogether Involuntary# but from some

)aking kind $ssistant )andring Spirit , which gives secret hints to its ellow;Creature, of some

a""roaching Evil or ood, which it was not able to foresee/

#or Spirits )ithout the helps o( 4oice converse/

I know we have su""lied much of this with Enthusias" and conceited 0evelation# but the Peo"le

of this (orld convince us, that it may be all -atural, by obtaining it in a Mechanick way, viz. by

forming something suitable to the sublime -ature, which working by %rt, shall only rectify themore vigorous articles of the oul, and work it u" to a suita!le Elevation/ )his Engine is



wholly a""lied to the :ead, and (orks by In!ection# the chief Influence being on what we call

#ancy, 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= .y this a Man fancieshimself in the Moon, and realizes things there as distinctly, as if he was actually talking to "y

Old hylosopher /

)his indeed is an admirable Engine, 'tis com"os'd of an /undred Thousand rational

Conse0uences, #ive ti"es the nu"!er of Con!ectures, u""oses, and Probabilities, besides aninnumerable Com"any of fluttering uggestions, and In!ections, which hover round the

Imagination, and are all taken in as fast as they can be Concocted and Digested there= )hese are

form'd into Ideas, and some of those so well "ut together, so e+actly sha"'d, so well drest and setout by the %dditional ire of ancy, that it is no uncommon thing for the Person to be intirely

deceived by himself, not knowing the !rat o( his o)n Begetting , nor be able to distinguish

between 8eality and 8e"resentation= rom hence we have some Peo"le talking to Images of theirown forming, and seeing more Devils and "ectres than ever a""ear'd= rom hence we have

weaker :eads not able to bear the $"eration, seeing im"erfect 9isions, as of :orses and Men

without :eads or %rms, +ight without #ire, hearing 4oices without Sound , and -oises withoutShapes, as their own ears or ancies broke the h6no"ena before the intire ormation/

.ut the more enuine and "erfect *se of these vast Elevations of the ancy, which are

"erform'd, as I said, by the Mechanick $"eration of Innate ire, is to guide Mankind to as much

ore;sight of things, as either by -ature, or by the %id of any thing E+tranatural, may beobtain'd# and by this e+ceeding &nowledge, a Man shall forebode to himself a""roaching Evil or

ood, so as to avoid this, or be in the way of that# and what if I should say, )hat the -otices of

these things are not only fre0uent, but constant, and re0uire nothing of us, but to make use of this

Elevator , to kee" our Eyes, our Ears, and our ancies o"en to the hints# and observe them#

6ou may su""ose me, if you "lease, come by this time into those -orthern &ingdoms Imention'd before, where my $ld Philoso"her was a -ative, and not to trouble you with any of

the needful $bservations, 5earned Inscri"tions, &c. on the )ay, according to the laudable "ractices of the amous Mr/ Br%%%"ly, 'tis sufficient to tell you I found there an Opulent ,

opulous, otent and Terri!le eople/

I found them at (ar with one of the greatest Monarchs of the +unar (orld, and at the same time

miserably rent and torn, mangl'd and disorder'd among themselves/

%s soon as I observ'd the Political "osture of their %ffairs, for here a Man sees things mightysoon by the hel"s of such a Masterly Eye;sight as I have mention'd and remembring what is said

for our Instruction, That a :ingdo" divided against its sel( cannot stand # I ask'd the $ld

entleman if he had any Estate in that CountryG :e told me, no great matter# but ask'd me why I "ut that uestion to himG Because, said I, i( this eople go on (ighting and snarling at all the

5orld and one a"ong another in this "anner they )ill certainly !e 0uin2d and 8ndone either

su!du2d !y so"e "ore po)er(ul 3eigh!our= )hilst one arty )ill stand still and see the t2others

Throat cut tho2 their o)n Turn i""ediately (ollo)s or else they )ill destroy and devour oneanother / )herefore I told him I would have him )urn his Estate into Money, and go some where

else# or go back to the other (orld with me/



3o no, re"ly'd the $ld Man, - a" in no such #ear at this Ti"e the Scale o( $((airs is very lately

chang2d here, says he, in !ut a very (e) <ears/

- kno) nothing o( that , said I, !ut - a" sure there never )as !ut one spot o( *round in that5orld )hich - ca"e (ro" that )as divided like the" and that2s that very ountry - liv2d in.

/ere are three :ingdo"s o( you in one spot , said I, $ne has already !een Con0uer'd andubdu'd, the t'other suppres2d its 3ative lnha!itants, and "lanted it with her own, and now carries

it with so high a :and over them of her own .reed, that she li"its their Trade stops their orts)hen the -nha!itants have "ade their Manu(actures these )ont give the" leave to send the"

a!road i"pose +a)s upon the" re(use to alter and a"end those they )ould "ake (or

the"selves "ake the" pay usto"s, E+cises, and )a+es, and yet "ay the arrisons and uardsthat de(end the" the"selves= ress their -nha!itants to their #leets and carry a)ay their Old

4eteran Troops that should de(end the" and leave the" to raise "ore to !e serv2d in the sa"e

"anner )ill let none o( their Mony !e carry2d over thither nor let the" oin any o( their o)n#and a great many such hardshi"s they suffer under the :and of this -ation as "eer Slaves and

onquer2d eople tho2 the greatest part o( the Traders are the eople o( the very 3ation that

treats 2e" thus/

$n the other hand, this creates Eternal Murmurs, :eart;burnings and 8egret, both in the -ativesand the )rans"lanted Inhabitants# the first have shewn their *neasiness by fre0uent Insurrections

and 8ebellions, for -ature "rom"ts the meanest %nimal to struggle for 5iberty# and these

struggles have often been attended with great Cruelty, 8avages, Death, Massacres, and 8uin bothof amilies and the Country it self= %s to the )rans"lanted Inhabitants, they run into Clandestine

)rade, into corres"onding with their Masters Enemies, 4ictualling their 3avies, Colonies and the

like, receiving and im"orting their oods in s"ight of all the $rders and Directions to the

contrary/

)hese are the effects of Divisions, and euds on that side# on the other hand there is a &ingdom Entire *ncon0uer'd and -ndependent , and for the "resent, under the same Monarch with the

rest/;;;; .ut here their euds are greater than with the other, and "ore dangerous !y (ar because -ational= )his &ingdom !oins to the -orth "art of the first &ingdom, and )errible Divisions ly

among the two -ations/

)he Peo"le of these two &ingdoms are call'd if you "lease for distinction sake, for I cannot well

make you understand their hard -ames, Solunarians and 3olunarians, these to the South andthose to the 3orth, the Solunarians were divided in their %rticles of 8eligion# the overning

Party, or the Establish'd Church, I shall call the Solunarian Church# but the whole &ingdom was

full of a sort of 8eligious Peo"le call'd rolians, who like our Dissenters in England "rofess

divers sub;divided $"inions by themselves, and cou'd not, or wou'd not, let it go which way itwill, !oyn with the Establish'd Church/

$n the other hand, the Establish'd Church in the -orthern &ingdom was all rolians, but full of

Solunarians in $"inions, who were Dissenters there, as the rolians were Dissenters in theouth, and this unha""y mi+ture occasion'd endless euds, Divisions, ub;divisions and

%nimosities without -umber, of which hereafter/



)he -orthern Men are .old, )errible -umerous and Brave, to the last Degree, but Poor, and by

the Encroachments of their -eighbours, growing "oorer every Day/

)he outhern are e0ually .rave, more -umerous and )errible, but (ealthy and care not (or5ars, had rather stay at :ome and uarrel with one another, than go %broad to ight, making

good an $ld Ma+im, Too oor t2$gree and yet too 0ich to #ight /

.etween these the eud is great, and every Day growing greater# and those Peo"le who "retend

to have been in the ogitator or thinking Engine tell us, all the lines of Conse0uences in that%ffair "oint at a fatal "eriod between the &ingdoms/

)he Com"laints also are great, and back'd with fiery %rguments on both sides# the -orthern Men

say, the Solunarians have dealt un!ustly and unkindly by them in several %rticles# but the

outhern Men re"ly with a most "owerful %rgument, viz. they are oor , and therefore ought to be $""ress'd, u""ress'd, or any thing /

.ut the main Debate is like to lye u"on the %rticle of Choosing a :ing # both the -ations beingunder one overnment at "resent, but the ettlement ending in the 8eigning 5ine, the -orthern

Men refuse to !oyn in overnment again, unless they have a rectification of some Conditions inwhich, they say, they have the worst of it/

In this case, even the outhern Men themselves, say, they believe the 3olunarians have been in

the hair o( 0e(lection, the thinking Engine, and that having screw'd their *nderstandings into a

Direct Position to that Matter before them, they have made a right 7udgment of their own %ffairs,and )ith all their overty stand on the best oot as to 0ight /

.ut as the matter of this -orthern uarrel comes under a econd :ead, and is more "ro"erly the

ub!ect of a econd 9oyage to the Moon# the 8eader may have it more at large consider'd inanother Class, and some farther Enlightnings in that %ffair than "erha"s can be reasonablye+"ected of me here/

.ut of all the euds and .rangles that ever "oor -ation was embroild in, of all the uarrels, the

actions and Parties that ever the Peo"le of any -ation thought worth while to fall out for, nonewere ever in reality so light, in e((ect so heavy, in appearance so great, in su!stance so small, in

na"e so terrible, in nature so trifling, as those for which this outhern Country was altogether by

the Ears among themselves/

%nd this was one 8eason why I so earnestly en0uir'd of my +unarian hilosopher , whether he

had an Estate in that Country or no/ .ut having told him the Cause of that en0uiry, he re"ly'd,there was one thing in the -ature of his Country;men which secur'd them from the ruin which

usually attended divided 3ations, viz. that if any oreign -ation thinking to take the advantage of

their Intestine Divisions (ell upon the" in the highest of all their euds, they'd lay aside theirParties and uarrels and "resently (all in together to beat out the common Enemy# and then no

sooner had they obtain'd eace a!road , by their Conduct and .ravery, but they would fall to

cutting one anothers )hroats again at home as naturally as if it had been their "ro"er Calling, andthat for )rifles too, "eer Tri(les/



9ery well, said I to "y learned Sel( , "retty like my own Country still, that whatever Peace they

have a!road , are sure to have none at ho"e/

)o come at the historical %ccount of these +unarian Dissentions, it will be absolutely necessaryto enter a little into the tory of the lace, at least as far as relates to the "resent Constitution,

both of the Peo"le, the overnment, and the ub!ect of their "resent uarrels/

%nd first we are to understand, that there has for some %ges been carry'd on in these Countries, a

"rivate feud or 0uarrel among the Peo"le, about a thing call'd by them 8pogyla, with us veryvulgarly call'd 0eligion/

)his Difference, as in its $riginal it was not great, nor indeed u"on 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, ha"ning in the tate which made the Court;Polititians think itnecessary to kee" the Peo"le busy and embroil'd, to "revent their more narrow Ins"ection into

De"redations and Encroachments on their 5iberties, which was always making on them by the

Court/

')is not deny'd but there might be a -ative want of Charity in the Inhabitant, ada"ting them toeud, and "articularly 0ualifying them to be alwavs Pi0uing one another# and some of their own

-ation, who by the hel" of the famous Pers"ectives before;mentioned, "retend to have seen

farther into the Insides of -ature and Constitution than other Peo"le, tell us the cross 5ines of -ature which a""ear in the make of those "articular Peo"le, signify a direct 3egative as to the

%rticle of harity and good -eighbour;hood/

')was "articularly unha""y to this wrangling Peo"le, that 8easons of tate should always fall in,

to make that uncharitableness and continual 0uarrelling :umour necessary to carry on the

Publick %ffairs of the -ation, and may "ass for a certain Proof, that the tate was under someDiseases and Convulsions, which, like a .ody that digests nothing so well as what is hurtful to

its Constitution, makes use of those things for its u""ort, which are in their very -ature, fatal toits being, and must at last tend to its Destruction/

.ut as this however enclin'd them to be continually Snarling at one another, so as in all uarrels

it generally a""ears one ide must go down/

)he "revailing Party therefore always ke"t the Power in their :ands, and as the under were

always ub!ect to the lash they soon took care to hook their uarrel into the %ffairs of tate, andso !oin 0eligious Differences, and ivil Differences together/

)hese things had long embroil'd the -ation, and fre0uently involv'd them in bitter Enmities,

euds, and uarrels, and once in a tedious, ruinous, and bloody (ar in their own .owels, in

which, contrary to all e+"ectation, this lesser arty "revail'd/

%nd since the allegorick 8elation may bear great imilitude with our Euro"ean %ffairs on this

side the Moon' I shall for the ease of E+"ression, and the better *nderstanding of the 8eader,

fre0uently call them by the same -ames our unha""y Parties are call'd by in England , as



Solunnarian hurch"en, and rolian Dissenters, at the same time desiring my 8eader to

observe, that he is al)ays to re"e"!er who it is we are talking of, and that he is !y no "eans to

understand me of any Person, Party, Peo"le, -ation, or Place on this side the Moon, anyE+"ression, Circumstance, imilitude, or %""earance to the contrary in any )ise

not)ithstanding /

)his "remis'd, I am to tell the 8eader that the last Civil (ar in this +unar Country ended in the

9ictors confounding their own Con0uests by their intestine .roils, they being as is already noteda most Eternally uarrelling -ation# u"on this new .reach, they that first began the (ar, turn'd

about, and "leading that they took u" %rms to regulate the overnment, not to overthrow it, fell

in with the amily of their &ings, who had been banish'd, and one o( the" destroy2d , and restor'dthe Crown to the amily, and the -ation to the Crown, !ust (or all the 5orld as the res!yterians

in England did, in the Case of &ing harles the econd/

)he Party that was thus restor'd, acce"ted the return the others made to their Duty, and their

%ssistance in restoring the amily of their Monarch, but abated not a )ittle of the old 8ancour

against them as a arty which they entertain'd at their first taking %rms, not allowing the returnthey had made to be any attone"ent at all for the Crimes they had been guilty of before/ ')is true

they "ass'd an %ct or rant of *eneral ardon, and $blivion, as in all such Cases is usual, andas without which the other would never ha' come in, or have !oin'd Powers to form the

8estoration they were bringing to "ass, but the old eud of 8eligion continu'd with this addition,

that the Dissenters were 0e!els, Murtherers, :ing%killers, Enemies to Monarchy and Civilovernment, lovers of Confusion, "o"ular, anarchial overnments, and movers of edition# that

this was in their very 3ature and rinciples, and the like/

In this Condition, and under these Mortifications this Party of Peo"le liv'd !ust an Egyptian

ervitude, viz. of <2 6ears, in which time they were fre0uently ve+'d with Persecution, /arass2d ,

Plunder'd, #in2d , Im"risoned, and very hardly )reated, insomuch that they "retend to be able togive an account of vast ums of their Country;Mony, levy'd u"on them on these $ccasions,

amounting as I take it to A Millions of +unatians, a Coin they kee" their %ccounts by there, andmuch about the value of our Pound terling# besides this they were hook't into a great many

ham Plots, and worn out of their +ives and Estates in such a manner, that in the very ne+t

8eign the overnment was so sensible of their hard treatment, that they revers'd several

entences by the same %uthority that had E+ecuted them# a most undeniable Proof they wereasham'd of what had been done# at last, the Prince who was restor'd as abovesaid, dyed, and his

.rother mounted the )hrone# and now began a third Scene of %ffairs, for this Prince was neither

hurch%"an, nor Dissenter , but of a different 8eligion from them all, known in that Country bythe -ame of $!rogratzianis", and this 8eligion of his had this one absolutely necessary

Conse0uence in it, that a Man could not be sincerely and heartily of this, but he must be an

Im"lacable hater of both the other/ %s this is laid down as a "revious u""osition, we are withthe same 8eason to imagine this Prince to be entirely bent u"on the u""ression and Destruction

of both the other, if not a!solutely as to 5ife and Estate, yet entirely as to 8eligion/

)o bring this the more readily to "ass like a true Polititian, had his Methods and Particulars been

e0ually Politick with his enerals, he began at the right End, viz. to make the .reach between theSolunnarian hurch, and the rolian Dissenters as wide as "ossible, and to do this it was



resolv'd to shift ides, and as the Crown had always took "art with the Church, crush'd, humbl'd,

"ersecuted, and by all means "ossible mortify'd the Dissenters, as is noted in the 8eign of his

Predecessor/ )his Prince resolv'd to caress, cherish, and encourage the rolians by all "ossible%rts and outward Endearments, not so much that they "ur"os'd them any real avour, (or the

destruction o( !oth )as equally deter"in2d , nor so much that they e+"ected to draw them over to

$!rogratzianis", but )wo 8easons may be su""os'd to give 8ise to this Pro!ect/

1/ )he +unarian hurch Party had all along Preach'd u" for a "art of their 8eligion, that $!solute undisputed O!edience, was due from every ub!ect to their Prince without any 0eserve,

8eluctance or 0epining # that as to 8esistance, it was atal to Body, Soul , 0eligion, Justice and

*overn"ent # and tho' the Doctrine was 8e"ugnant to 3ature, and to the very u"reme Commandit self, yet he that resisted, receiv'd to himself Damnation, !ust (or all the 5orld like our Doctrine

of assive O!edience/ -ow tho' these Solunarian Church;Men did not absolutely believe all they

said themselves to be true, yet they found it necessary to "ush these things to the uttermostE+tremities, because they might the better fi+ u"on the rolian Dissenters, the Charge of

"rofessing less 5oyal Princi"les than they/ or as to the rolians, they "rofess'd o"enly they

would "ay $bedience to the Prince, as far as the 5aws directed, !ut no (arther /

)hese things were run u" to strange heights, and the Peo"le were always falling out about whatthey would do, or wou'd not do, if things were so or so, as they were not, and )ere never likely

to !e# and the hot Men on both sides were every now and then going together by the Ears about

hi"eras, hadows, May%!e2s and Supposes/

)he hot Men of the Solunarian hurch were for knocking the rolians in the :ead, because asthey said they were 0e!els, their #athers were 8ebels, and they would certainly turn 8ebels

again u"on occasion/

)he rolians insisted u"on it, that they had nothing to do with what was done before they were.orn, that if they were Criminal, because their athers were so, then a great many who were nowof the Solunarian hurch were as uilty as they, several of the best Members of that Church

having been .orn of rolian Parents/

In the matter of 5oyalty they insisted u"on it, they were as 5oyal as the Solunarians, for that they

were as 5oyal as -ature, 8eason and the 5aws both of od and Man re0uir'd, and what the$ther talk'd of "ore, was but a meer "retence, and so it would be found if ever their Prince

should have occasion to "ut them to the )ryal, that he that "retended to go beyond the Power of

-ature and 8eason, "ust indeed go !eyond the", and they never desir'd to be brought into thee+tream, but they were ready at any time to shew such Proofs, and give such Demonstrations of

their 5oyalty, as would satisfy any reasonable Prince, and (or "ore they had nothing to say/

In this "osture of %ffairs, this new Prince found his ub!ects when he came to the Crown, the

Solunarian hurch Caress'd him, and notwithstanding his being Devoted to the $!rogratzian #aith, they Crown'd him with e+traordinary %cclamations/

)hey were the rather enclin'd to "ush this forward by how much they thought it would singularly

mortify the rolians, and all the sorts of Dissenters, for they had all along declar'd their



abhorrence of the $!rogratzians to such a Degree that they "ublickly endeavour'd to have got a

general Concurrence of the whole -ation in the Publick ortez , or Dyet of the &ingdom, to have

!oyn'd with them in E+cluding this very Prince by -ame, and all other Princes that should everembrace the $!rogratzian aith/

%nd it wanted but a very little of bringing it to "ass, for almost all the reat Men of the -ation,tho' Solunarians, yet that were Men of Te"per , Moderation, and #ore%sight , were for this

e+clusive 5aw/ .ut the /igh riests and atriarchs of the Solunarian hurch "revented it, andu"on "retence of this assive O!edience rinciple, made their Interest and gave their 9oices for

Crowning, or Entailing the Crown and overnment on the :ead of one of the most Im"lacable

Enemies both to their 8eligion and Civil 8ight that ever the -ation saw# !ut they liv2d to 0epentit too late/

)his Con0uest over the rolians and the Moderate Solunarians, if it did not su""ress 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 e+"ectation they swallow'd u" the whole .ody of the rolians at once,and began to talk of nothing less than .anishing them to the -orthern "art of the Country, or to

certain Islands, and Countries a vast way off, where formerly great numbers of them had fled forshelter in like Cases/

%nd this was the more "robable by an unha""y troke these rolians attem"ted to strike, !ut

"iscarry2d in at the very beginning of this Prince's 8eign= for as they had always "rofest an

aversion to this Prince on account of his 8eligion, as soon as their other &ing was dead, they setu" one of his -atural ons against this &ing, which the Solunarians had so !oyfully Crown'd/

)his young Prince invaded his Dominions, and great -umbers of the most zealous rolians

!oyn'd him;;;; .ut to cut the tory short, he was entirely routed by the orces of the new Prince,

for all the Solunarian hurch !oyn'd with him against the rolians without any res"ect to theInterest of 8eligion, so they overthrew their .rethren= )he young invaded Prince was taken and

"ut to Death o"enly, and *reat ruelties were e+ercis'd in cold .lood u"on the "oor unha""yPeo"le that were taken in the DefeatF

)hus a second time these 5oyal Solunarian hurch%"en Establish'd their Enemy, and built u"

what they were glad afterwards to "ull down again, and to beg the assistance of those rolians

whom they had so rudely handled, to hel" them demolish the Power they had erected themselves,and which now began to set its foot u"on the )hroat of those that nourish'd and su""orted it/

*"on this e+ceeding 5oyalty and blind %ssistance given to their Prince, the Solunarians made no

0uestion but they had so Eternally bound him to them, that it would be in their Power to "ull

down the very -ame of rolianis", and utterly destroy it from the -ation/

.ut the time came on to *ndeceive them, for this Prince, whose Princi"le as an $!rogratzian,was to destroy them both, as it ha""ened, was furnish'd with Counsellors and Ecclesiasticks of

his own Profession, ten thousand )imes more bent for their general 8uin, than himself/



or abstracted from the 9enom and 8ancour of his Profession as an $!rogratzian, and from the

furious eal of his Bra"in, Priests, and 8eligious Peo"le, that continually hung about him, and

that "rom"ted him to act against his )em"er and Inclination, by which he ruin'd all, he was else a (or)ard and generous Prince, and likely to have made his Peo"le reat and lourishing/

.ut his (urious hurch%Men ruin'd all his good Designs, and turn'd all his Pro!ects to com"assthe Introduction of his own 8eligion into his Dominions/

-ay, and had he not fatally been "ush'd on by such as really design'd his 8uin, to drive this dee"Design on too hastily and turn the cale of his Management from a close and conceal'd, to an

o"en and "rofess'd Design, he might have gone a great way with it/;;;;;;;;; :ad he been content

to have let that have been twenty 6ear a doing, which he im"atiently as well as "re"osterouslyattem"ted all at once/;;;;;;; 5ise Men have thought he might in time have su""rest the

Solunarian 0eligion, and have set u" his own/

)o give a short cheme of his Proceedings, and with them of the reason of his Miscarriage/

1/ :aving defeated the 8ebellious rolians, as is before noted, and reflecting on the Danger he

was in u"on the sudden Progress of that 8ebellion, for indeed he was within a trifle of 8uin inthat %ffair# and had not the rolians been deceiv'd by the darkness of the -ight and led to a large

Ditch of (ater, which they could not "ass over, they had certainly sur"riz'd and overthrown his

%rmy, and cut them in "ieces, before they had known who had hurt them/ *"on the ense of thisDanger, he takes u" a "retence of necessity for the being always ready to resist the #actious

rolians, as he call'd them, and by that Insinuation hooks himself into a standing $r"y in ti"e o(

eace# ;;;;; nay, and so easy were the Solunarian hurch to yield u" any "oint, which they did but imagin would hel" to crush their .rethren the rolians, that they not only consented to this

unusual Invasion of their antient 5iberties, but sent u" several Testi"onials of their free Consent,

nay, and of their 7oy of having arriv'd to so great a :a""iness, as to have a Prince that settingaside the (or"ality o( +a)s would vouchsafe to overn them by the glorious Method of aStanding $r"y/;;;;;;

)hese Testi"onials were things not much unlike our $ddresses in England , and which when I

heard I could not but remember our Case, in the time of the late &ing Ja"es, when the City of

arlisle in their %ddress, Thankt his Ma9esty for the Establishing a tanding %rmy in England intime of Peace, calling it the Strength and *lory of the &ingdom/

o strong is the %mbition and Envy of Parties, these Solunarian *entle"en not grudging to "ut

out one of their own eyes, so they might at the same time "ut out both the Eyes of their Enemies#

the rolians rather consented to this badge of their own lavery, and brought themselves whowere a free Peo"le before, under the Power and lavery of the word/

)he ease with which this Prince got over so considerable a Point as this, made him begin to be

too credulous and to "erswade himself that the Solunarian hurch%Men were really in earnest, asto their Pageant;Doctrin of 3on%0esistance, and that as he had seen them bear with strange

e+travagancies on the rolian Part, they were real and in earnest when they Preach'd that Men

ought to obey for Conscience's sake, whatever hardshi" were im"os'd u"on them, and however



un!ust, or contrary to the 5aws of od, -ature, 8eason, or their Country# what Princi"le in the

(orld could more readily "rom"t a Prince to attem"t what he so earnestly coveted, as this

zealous Prince did the restoring the $!rogratzian aith, for since he had but two sorts of Peo"leto do with# one he had crush'd by force, and had brought the other to "rofess it their 0eligion,

their Duty, and their 0esolution to bear every thing he thought fit to Im"ose u"on them, and that

they should be Da"n2d if they resisted , the (ork seem'd half done to his :and/

%nd indeed when I reflected on the Coherence of things, I could not so much blame this Princefor his venturing u"on the "robability, for whoever was but to go u" to this +unar 5orld and

read the tories of that )ime, with what ury the hot Men of the Solunarian hurch acted

against the Dissenting rolians, and with what warmth they assisted their Prince against them,and how Cruelly they insulted them after they were defeated in their attem"t of Dethroning him,

how zealously they Preach'd u" the Doctrine of absolute undis"uted 8esignation to his (ill, how

fre0uently they obey'd several of his encroachments u"on their 5iberties, and what solemnProtestations they made to submit to him in any thing, and to stand by and assist him in )hatever

he Commanded them to the last Drop, much with the same eal and orwardness, as our +i(e%

and%#ortune Men did here in England / I say, when all this was consider'd, I could not so muchcondemn his Credulity, nor blame him for believing them, for no Man could have doubted their

incerity, but he that at the same time must have )a+t them with "ost une,a"pled /ipocrisie/

or the Solunarians now began to discern their Prince was not really on their side, that neither in

tate Matters any more than 8eligion, he had any affection for them, and the first absolute hockhe gave them, was in Publishing a general 5iberty to the rolians/ ')is true this was not out of

res"ect to the rolian 8eligion any more than the Solunarian, but "urely because by that means

he made way for an Introduction of the $!rogratzian 8eligion which now began to a""ear

"ublickly in the Country/

.ut however, as this was directly contrary to the e+"ectation of the Solunarians, it gave themsuch a disgust against their Prince, that from that very time being disa""ointed in the overaign

%uthority they e+"ected, they entred into the dee"est and blackest Cons"iracy against theirPrince and his overnment that ever was heard of/

Many of the rolians were deluded by the new avour and 5iberty they receiv'd from the Prince

to believe him real, and were glad of the Mortification of their .rethren# but the more 7udicious

seeing "lainly the Prince's Design, declar2d against their o)n +i!erty, because given them by anillegal %uthority, without the assent of the whole .ody legally assembled/

(hen the Solunarians saw this they easily reconcil'd themselves to the rolians, at least from

the $utside of the ace, for the carrying on their Design, and so here was a -ation full of Plots,

here was the Prince and his $!rogratzians "lotting to introduce their 8eligion, here was a "arcelof blind short;sighted rolians "lotting to ruin the Solunarian Esta!lish"ent , and weakly !oining

with the $!rogratzians to satisfy their "rivate 8esentments# and here was the )iser rolians

!oining heartily with the Solunarians of all sorts, laying aside "rivate 8esentments, andforgetting old rudges about 8eligion, in order to ruin the invading Pro!ects of the Prince and his

Party/



)here was indeed some verbal Conditions "ast between them, and the Solunarians willing to

bring them into their Party "romised them u"on the aith of their -ation, and the :onour of the

Solunarian 0eligion, that there should be no more :atred, Disturbance or ersecution for thesake of 8eligion between them, but that they would come to a )em"er with them, and always be

.rethren for the future/ )hey declared that ersecution ran contrary to their 0eligion in general

and to their Doctrin in particular # and backt their %llegations with some )ruths they have notsince thought fit to like, nor much to regard /

:owever by this %rtifice, and on these Conditions, they brought the rolians to !oin with them

in their 8esolutions to countermine their designing Prince# these indeed were for doing it by the

old way down;right, and to o""ose $""ression with orce, a Doctrin they acknowledg'd, and "rofest to !oin with all the +unar "art of Mankind in the "ractice, and began to tell their .rethren

how they had im"os'd u"on themselves and the (orld, in "retending to absolute ubmission

against -ature and universal +unarian ractice/

.ut a cunning ellow "ersonating a Solunarian, and who was in the Plot, gravely ans)er2d the"

thus,

'5ook ye, entlemen, we own with you that 3ature, 0eason, +a), Justice, and usto" o(

3ations is on your side, and that all Power Derives from, enters in, and on all 8ecesses or

Demises of Power returns to its reat $riginal the arty *overned' -ay we own our *reat Eye from whom all the habitable Parts of this lobe are inlightned, has always directed us to "ractice

what -ature thus dictates, always a""rov'd and generally succeeded the attem"t of Dethroning

)yrants/ .ut our Case differs, )e have al)ays pretended to this a!solute undisputed O!edience ,which we did indeed to gain the Power of your Party# and if we should turn round at once to your

$"inion, tho' never so right, we should so fly in the ace of our own Doctrin, Ser"ons,

innumerable a"phlets and retensions, as would give all our Enemies too great a Power over

us in %rgument, and we should never be able to look Mankind in the ace= .ut we have laid ourMeasures so that by "rom"ting the &ing to run upon us in all sorts of bare;fac'd E+treams and

9iolences, we shall bring him to e+as"erate the whole -ation# then we may underhand fomentthe breach on this side, raise the Mob u"on him, and by acting on both sides seem to suffer a

orce in falling in with the Peo"le, and "reserve our 8e"utation/

')hus we shall bring the thing to "ass, !etray our rince, take %rms against his o)er , call in #oreign #orce to do the (ork, and even then kee" our :ands seemingly out of the .roil, by

being "retended ticklers for our former Prince# so save our 8e"utation, and bring all to "ass

with Ease and Calmness# while the eager Party of the $!rogratzians will do their own (ork by

e+"ecting we will do it for them/

)he rolians astonish'd both at the Policy, the De"th, the &navery and the :y"ocrisy of theDesign, left them to carry it on, owning it was a Master"iece of Craft, and so stood still to

observe the Issue, which every way answer'd the e+actness of its Contrivance/

(hen I saw into the bottom of all this Deceit, I began to take u" new 8esolutions of returning back into our Old 5orld again, and going home to England , where tho' I had conceiv'd great

Indignation at the )reatment our assive O!edience Men gave their Prince here, and was in

ho"es in these my remote )ravels to have found out some -ations of :onour and Princi"les/ I



was fill'd with %mazement to see our Moderate :naves so much out%done, and I was inform'd

that all these things were meer %musements, 9izors, and hams, to bring an Innocent Prince into

the nare/

(ould any Mortal imagin who has read this short Part of the tory, that all this was a

Solunarian hurch lot , a meer Cons"iracy between these entlemen and the rolian Dissenters, only to wheedle in the unha""y Prince to his own Destruction, and bring the "o"ular

%dvantage of the Mob, to a greater %scendant on the Crown/

$f all the 0ichlieus, Mazarines, *onda"ours, Oliver ro")els, and the whole )rain of

Polititians that our (orld has "roduc'd, the greatest of their %rts are ollies to the unfathomable

de"th of these +unarian olicies# and for 5heedle, +ying , S)earing , reaching , rinting , Hc/what is said in our (orld by riests and olititans, we thank od "ay !e !eliev2d # but if ever I

believe a Solunarian riest Preaching -on;8esistance of Monarchs, or a Solunarian olititian

turning $!rogratzian, I ought to be mark'd down for a ool# nor will ever any Prince in that

Country take their (ord again, if ever they have their enses about 'em, but as this is a most

e+traordinary cene, so I cannot omit a more "articular and sufficient 8elation of some Parts ofit, than I us'd to give/

)he Solunarian lergy had carry'd on their -on;8esistance Doctrin to such E+tremities, 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 Im"ositions as they would never have

born from any Prince in the (orld, nor from him neither, had they not had a dee" Design, and

conse0uently stood in need of the dee"est Disguise imaginable# they had yielded to a Standing $r"y, and a""lauded it as a thing they had desir'd# they had submitted to levying Ta,es u"on

them by 3e) Methods, and illegal Practices# they had yielded to the abrogation or sus"ension at

least of their 5aws, when the &ing's absolute (ill re0uir'd it# not that they were blind, and did

not see what their Prince was doing, but that the black Design was so dee"ly laid, they found itwas the only way to ruin him, to "ush him u"on the highest E+treams, and then they should have

their turn serv'd/;;;; )hus if he desir'd one illegal )hing of them, they would immediately granttwo# one would have thought they had read our .ible, and the o""and )hen a Man takesa)ay the loak to give hi" the oat also/

-or was this enough, but they seem'd willing to admit of the "ublick E+ercise of the

$!rogratzian 8eligion in all Parts# and when the Prince set it u" in his own Cha""el, theysuffered it to be set u" in their Cities, and )owns, and the $!rogratzian lergy began to be seen

u" and down in their very :abits# a thing which had never been "ermitted before in that Country,

and which the Common Peo"le began to be very uneasy at/ .ut still the Solunarian lergy, and

all such of the entry, es"ecially as were in the Plot, by their ermons, "rinted .ooks, and "ublick Discourses, carry'd on this high to""ing -otion of absolute ubmission, so that the

Peo"le were ke"t under, and began to submit to all the im"ositions of the Prince/

)hese things were so acted to the 5ife, that not only the Prince, but none of his $!rogratzian Counsellors could see the nare, the :ook was so finely covered by the Church;%rtificers, and

the .ait so delicious, that they all swallow'd it with eagerness and delight/



.ut the Cons"irators willing to make a sure game of it, and not thinking the &ing, or all his

Counsellors would drive on so fast as they would have them, tho' they had already made a fair

"rogress for the )ime, resolv'd to "lay home, and accordingly they "ersuade their Prince, thatthey will not only submit to his %rbitrary (ill, in Matters of tate, and overnment, but in

Matters of 8eligion# and in order to carry this 7est on, one o( the heads o( their oliticks, and a

Person of great Estem for his %bilities in Matters of tate, being without 0uestion one of theablest :eads of all the Solunarian -obility, pretended to !e converted , and turn'd $!rogratzian/

)his immediately took as they desir'd, for the Prince caress'd him, and entertain'd him with all

"ossible endearments, "roferr'd him to several Posts of :onour and %dvantage, always ke"t himnear him, consulted him in all Emergencies, took him with him to the $!rogian acrifices, and

he made no cru"le "ublickly to a""ear there, and by these degrees and a super%achitophalian

:y"ocrisie, so insinuated himself into the credulous Prince's favour, that he became his only

Confident, and absolute Master of all his Designs/

-ow the Plot had its desir'd effect, for he "ush'd the &ing u"on all manner of Preci"itations# and

if even the $!rogratzians themselves who were about the &ing, inter"os'd for more te"perate

roceedings, he would call them Cowards, trangers, ignorant of the )em"er of the +unarians,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 $!rogratzians in the

Country, fre0uently warn'd him to take more "oderate Measures, and to "roceed with moreCaution# told him he would certainly ruin them all, and himself, and that there must be some

.ody about his Ma!esty that "ush'd him u"on these E+tremes, on "ur"ose to set all the -ation in

a lame, and to overthrow all the good Designs, which with )em"er and good Conduct, might be

brought to "erfection/

:ad these wary Councils been observ'd, and a Prudence and Policy agreeable to the mightyconse0uence of )hings been "ractis'd, the Solunarian hurch had run a great ris0ue of being

over thrown, and to have sunk gradually in the $!rogian Errors, the Peo"le began to be drawnoff gradually, and the familiarity of the thing made it a""ear less frightful to unthinking Peo"le,

who had entertain'd strange -otions of the monstrous things that were to be seen in it, so that

common 9ogue had fill'd the Peo"les Minds with ignorant %versions, that 'tis no absurdity to

say, I believe there was A22222 Peo"le who would have s"ent the last dro" of their .lood against $!rogratzianis", that did not know whether it was a Man or a /orse/

)his thing consider'd well, would of it self have been sufficient to have made the Prince and his

riends )ary, and to have taught them to suit their Measures to the -ature and Circumstances of

)hings before them# but Success in their !eginnings blinded their Eyes, and they fell into thishurch Snare with the most un"itied willingness that could be imagin'd/

)he first thing therefore this new Counsellor "ut his Master u"on, in order to the beginning his

more certain 8uin, was to introduce several of his $!rograzians into Places of all kinds, both inthe $r"y, 3avy, Treasure, and ivil $((airs, tho' contrary to some of the general Constitutions of

overnment# he had done it into the $r"y before, tho' it had disgusted several of his Military



Men, but now he "ush'd him u"on making it *niversal, and still the assive Solunarians bore it

with "atience/

rom this tameness and submission, his ne+t te" was to argue that he might de"end u"on it theSolunarian hurch had so sincerely embrac'd the Doctrine of 3on%0esistance, that they were

now ri"en'd not only to sit still, and see their .rethren the rolians su""ress'd, but to stand stilland be o""rest themselves, and he might assure himself the Matter was now ri"e, he might do

!ust what he wou'd himself with them, they were "re"ar'd to bare any thing/

)his was the fatal troke, for having "ossest the Prince with the belief of this, he let loose the

8eins to all his long conceal'd Desires/ Down went their +a)s, their +i!erties, their

orporations, their hurches, their olleges, all went to wreck, and the eager $!rograzians thought the Day their own/ )he Solunarians made no o""osition, but what was contain'd within

the narrow circumference of Petitions, %ddresses, rayers and Tears# and these the Prince was

"re"ar'd to re!ect, and u"on all occasions to let them know he was resolv2d to !e o!ey2d /

)hus he drove on by the treacherous %dvice of his new Counsels, till he ri"en'd all the -ation forthe general De(ection which afterward follow'd/

or as the Encroachments of the Prince "ush'd es"ecially at their Church 5iberties, and

threatened the overthrow of all their Ecclesiastical Privileges, the Clergy no sooner began to feel

that they were like to be the first acrifice, but they immediately threw off the 9izor, and beatthe oncionazi"ir # this is a certain Ecclesiastick Engine which is usual in cases of general

%larm, as the Churches ignal of 8niversal Tu"ult /

)his is truly a strange Engine, and when a Clergy;Man gets into the Inside of it, and beats it, it

0oars, and makes such a terrible 3oise from the several Cavities, that 'tis heard a long way# and

there are always a com"etent number of them "lac'd in all Parts so conveniently, that the %larmis heard all over the &ingdom in one Day/

I had some )houghts to have given the 8eader a Diagra" of this "iece of %rt, but as I am but a

bad Drafts Man, I have not yet been able so e+actly to describe it, as that a cheme can bedrawn, but to the best of my kill, take it as follows/ ')is a hollo) 4essel , large enough to hold

the biggest Clergy;Man in the -ation# it is generally an Octagon in igure, open !e(ore, from the

5ast u"ward, but whole at the Back , with a #lat e+tended over it for 0ever!eration, or doublingthe ound# dou!ling and redou!ling , being fre0uently thought necessary to be made use of on

these occasions# 'tis very Mathematically contriv'd, erected on a edestal o( 5ood like a

(indmil, and has a "air of winding tairs u" to it, like those at the great )un at /iedle!ergh/

I could make some /ierogliphical Discourses u"on it, from these 8eferences, thus/ 1/ )hat as itis erected on a Pedestal like a (ind;Mill, so it is no new thing for the Clergy, who are the only

Persons "ermitted to make use of it, to make it turn round )ith the 5ind , and serve to all the

Points of the Com"ass/ A/ %s the #lat over it assists to encrease the ound, by forming a kind ofhollow, or cavity "ro"er to that "ur"ose, so there is a certain natural hollowness, or em"tiness,

made use of sometimes in it, by the entlemen of the own, which serves e+ceedingly to the

"ro"ogation of all sorts of la"our , 3oise, 0ailing , and Distur!ance/ >/ %s the tairs to it go



winding u" like those by which one mounts to the vast )un of (ine at /iedle!urgh, which has

no e0ual in our 5orld , so the use made of these ascending te"s, is not altogether different,

being fre0uently em"loy'd to raise Peo"le u" to all sorts of Enthusias"s, s"iritual -nto,ications,mad and e,travagant $ction, high e+alted #lights, recipitations, and all kinds of Ecclesiastick

Drunkenness and E,cesses/

)he sound of this Emblem of em"tiness, the oncionazi"ir , was no sooner heard over the

-ation, but all the Peo"le discover'd their readiness to 9oin in with the ummons, and as the thinghad been concerted before, they send over their Messengers to demand %ssistance from a

"owerful Prince beyond the ea, one of their own 8eligion, and who was allied !y Marriage to

the Crown/

)hey made their tory out so "lain, and their &ing had by the contrivance of their $chitophel

rendred himself so sus"ected to all his -eighbours, that this Prince, without any hesitation,

resolv'd to !oin with them, and accordingly makes vast Pre"arations to invade their &ing/

During this interval their .ehaviour was 0uite altred at home, the Doctrin of a!soluteSu!"ission and 3on%0esistance was heard no more among them, the oncionazi"ir beat daily to

tell all the Peo"le they should stand u" to Defend the 8ights of the Church, and that it was time

to look about them for the $!rograzians were u"on them/ )he eager Clergy made this

Ecclesiastick Engine sound as loud and make all the -oise they could, and no Men in the -ationwere so forward as they to acknowledge that it was a tate;)rick, and they were drawn in to

make such a stir about the "retended Doctrins of a!solute Su!"ission, that they did not see the

nare which lay under it, that now their Eyes were o"ened, and they had learnt to see the Powerand u"eriority of -atural 8ight, and would be deceiv'd no longer/ Others were so honest to tell

the )ruth, that they knew the em"tiness and weakness of the "retence all along, and knew what

they did when they Preacht it u", viz. to suppress and pull do)n the rolians= .ut they thought

their Prince who they al)ays serv'd in crying u" that Doctrin, and whose E+clusion was "revented by it, would ha' had more ratitude, or at least more ense, than to try the E+"eriment

upon the", since whatever to serve his Designs and their own, )hich they al)ays thought )ell

united , they were willing to "retend, he could not but see they al)ays kne) !etter than to suffer

the "ractice of it in their own Case/ )hat since he had turn'd the )ables u"on them, 'tis true he

had them at an advantage and might "retend they )ere :naves, and "erha"s had an o""ortunity

to call them so with some reason# but they were resolv'd, since he had drove them to thenecessity of being one or t'other, tho' he might call them &naves, they would take care he should

have no reason to call the" #ools too/

)hus the 9a"our of absolute ub!ection was lost on a suddain, and as if it had been "re"aratory

to what was coming after, the E+"eriment was 0uickly made# for the &ing "ersuing hisEncroachments u"on the Church, and being "ossest with a .elief that "ursuant to their o"en

Professions they would submit to any thing, he made a beginning with them, in sending his

"ositive Command to one of his u"erintendent Priests, or atriarchs, to forbid a certainEcclesiastick to officiate any more till his 8oyal Pleasure was known/

-ow it ha""en'd very unluckily that this Patriarch, tho' none of the most 5earned of his

raternity, yet had always been a mighty zealous Promoter of this blind Doctrin of 3on%



0esistance, and had not a little trium"h'd over and insulted the rolian Dissenters u"on the

-otion of 0e!ellion, antimonarchical Princi"les and $bedience, with a reserve for the 5aws, and

the like, as a scandalous "ractice, and com"rehensive of action, edition, dangerous to theChurch and tate, and the like/

)his 8everend ather was singl'd out as the first Mark of the &ing's Design# the deluded rince believ'd he could not but com"ly, having so "ublickly "rofest his being all Su!"ission and

a!solute Su!9ection# but as this was all onceit , he was "usht on to make the %ssault where hewas most certain to meet a re"ulse# and this entleman had long since thrown off the Mask, so

his first $rder was disobey'd/

)he atriarch "retended to make humble 8emonstrances, and to offer his 8easons why he couldnot in Conscience, as he call2d it , com"ly/ )he &ing, who was now made but a meer Engine, or

Machine, screw'd u" or down by this false Counsellor to act his a""roaching Destruction with his

own :and, )as pro"pted to resent this 8e"ulse with the utmost Indignation, to re!ect all manner

of ubmissions, E+cuses or %rguments, or any thing but an immediate, absolute com"liance,

according to the Doctrin so often inculcated# and this he run on so high, as to "ut the atriarchin rison for Contumacy/

)he atriarch as absolutely refus'd to submit, and offer'd himself to the Decision of the 5aw/

-ow it was always a sacred 8ule in these +unar ountries, that both :ing and eople are boundto stand by the arbitrimnet of the +a) in all Cases of 8ight or Claim, whether "ublick or "rivate#

and this has been the reason that all the Princes have endeavour'd to cover their %ctions with

"retences of 5aw, )hatever really has !een in their Design# for this reason the &ing could notrefuse to bring the Patriarch to a )ryal, where the :umour of the Peo"le first discover'd it self,

for here assive O!edience )as Try2d and ast , the 5aw "rov'd to be su"erior to the &ing, the

Patriarch )as acquitted , his Disobedience to the &ing 9usti(y2d , and the &ing's Command prov2dun9ust /

)he %""lause o( the atriarch, the %cclamations of the Peo"le, and the general 8e!oycings of

the whole -ation at this )ransaction, gave a black "ros"ect to the $!rograzians# and a great

many of them came very honestly and humbly to the &ing and told him, if he continued to go on

by these Measures he would ruin them all# they told him what general %larm had been over thewhole -ation by the Clamours of the Clergy# and the beating of the oncionazi"ir in all Parts,

inform'd him how the Doctrin of a!solute O!edience was ridicul'd in all Places, and how the

Clergy began to "reach it back again like a 5itches rayer , and that it would infallibly raise theDevil of 8ebellion in all the -ation, they besought him to content himself with the liberty of

their 8eligion, and the freedom they en!oy'd of being let into Places and $ffices of )rust and

:onour, and to wait all reasonable $ccasions to encrease their %dvantages, and gradually to gainround# they entreated him to consider the im"ossibility of reducing so mighty, so obstinate, and

so resolute a -ation all at once/ )hey "leaded how rational a thing it was to e+"ect that by

Degrees and good Management, which by "reci"itate Measures would be endanger'd andoverthrown/



:ad these wholsome Counsels taken "lace in the &ing's Mind he had been &ing to his last hour,

and the Solunarians and rolians too had been all undone, for he had certainly incroach'd u"on

them gradually, and brought that to "ass in time which by "reci"itant Measures he was not likelyto effect/

It was therefore a master;"iece of Policy in the Solunarian Church;men to "lace a feign'dConvert near their Prince, who shou'd always biass him with contrary %dvices, "uff him u" with

vast "ros"ect of uccess, "rom"t him to all E+treams, and always ool him with the certainty of bringing )hings to "ass his own way/

)hese %rts made him set light by the re"ulse he met with in the Matter of the atriarch, and now

he "roceeds to make two %ttacks more u"on the Church# one was by "utting some of his

$!rograzian riests into a ollege among some of the Solunarian lergy# and the other was to

oblige all the Solunarian lergy to read a certain %ct of his Council, in which his Ma!esty

admitted all the $!rograzians, rolians, and all sorts of Dissenters, to a freedom of their

8eligious E+ercises, Sacri(ices, E,orcis"s, Dippings, reachings, Hc/ and to "rohibit the

Solunarians to Molest or Disturb them/

-ow as this last was a bitter re"roach to the Solunarian hurch for all the ill )reatment the

Dissenting rolians had receiv'd from them, and as it was e+"rest in the %ct that all such

)reatment was *n!ust and *nchristian, so for them to read it in their )em"les, was toacknowledge that they had been guilty of most un!ust and irreligious Dealings to the rolians,

and that their Prince had taken care to do them 7ustice/

)he matter of introducing the $!rograzians into the Colleges or eminaries of the Solunarian

riests, was actually against the acred Constitutions and oundation 5aws of those Se"inaries/

(herefore in both these %rticles they not only disobey'd their Prince, but they o""os'd him withthose tri(ling Things call2d +a)s, which they had before declar'd had no Defensive orce against

their Prince# these they had recourse to now, insisted u"on the 7ustice and 8ight devolv'd u"onthem by the 5aws, and absolutely refus'd their com"liance with his Commands/

)he Prince, "usht u"on the )enters before, receiv'd their Denial with e+ceeding 8esentment, and

was heard with dee" regret, to break out in E+clamations at their une+"ected faithless

Proceedings, and sometimes to e+"ress himself thus= /orrid /ypocrisy> Surprizing Treachery> -s this the a!solute Su!9ection )hich in such nu"erous Testi"onials or $ddresses you pro(est

and (or )hich you so o(ten and so constantly !randed the poor Crolians, and told "e that your

hurch )as )holly "ade up o( rinciples o( +oyalty and O!edience> But -2ll !e (ully satis(ied (or

this Treat"ent /

In the minute of one of those E+cursions of his Passion, came into his Presence the seemingly

revolted +unarian 3o!le Man, and falling in with his "resent Passions, "rom"ts him to a s"eedy

revenge# and "ro"os'd his erecting a ourt o( Searches, something like the Spanish In0uisition,giving them "leni"otentiary %uthority to hear and determine all Ecclesiastical Causes absolutely,

and without %""eal/



:e em"ower'd these 7udges to "lace by his absolute (ill, all the $!rograzian tudents in the

Solunarian ollege, and tho' they might make a formal :earing for the sake of the orm, yet that

by orce it should be done/

:e gave them Power to dis"lace all those Solunarian lergy;Men that had refus'd to read his %ct

of Demission to the $!rograzian and rolian Dissenters, and 'twas thought he design'd to kee"their 8evenues in etto, till he might in time fill them u" to some of his own 8eligion/

)he Commission accordingly began to act, and discovering a full 8esolution to fulfil hisCommand, they by orce "roceeded with the tudents of the Solunarian ollege# and it was very

remarkable, that even some of the Solunarian atriarchs were of this number, who turn'd out

their .rethren the Solunarian Students, to "lace $!rograzians in their roo"/

)his indeed they are said to have re"ented of since, but however, these it seems were not of thePlot, and therefore did not foresee what was at hand/

)he rest of the atriarchs who were all in the rand Design, and saw things ri"ening for itsE+ecution, u"on the a""rehension of this ourt o( Searches beginning with them, make an

humble %ddress to their Prince, containing the 8easons why they could not com"ly with his8oyal Command/;;;;;;

)he incens'd &ing u"braided them with his having been told by them of their absolute and

unreserv2d O!edience, and refusing their ubmissions or their 8easons, sent the" all to Jail , and

resolv'd to have brought them before his new /igh ourt o( Searches, in order, as was believ'd,to have them all dis"lac'd/

%nd now all began to be in a lame, the ollicitations of the Solunarian arty, having obtain'd

"owerful 8elief %broad, they began to make suitable "re"arations at :ome/ )he entry and -obility who the Clergy had brought to !oin with them, furnish'd themselves with :orses and%rms, and "re"ar'd with their )enants and De"endants to !oin the uccours as soon as they

should %rrive/

In short, the orreign )roo"s they had "rocur'd, %rriv'd, 5anded, and "ublish'd a longDeclaration of all the rievances which they came to redress/

-o sooner was this orreign %rmy arriv'd with the Prince at the head of them, but the face of

%ffairs altred on a suddain/ )he &ing indeed, like a brave Prince, drew all his orces together,

and marching out of his Ca"ital City, advanced above @22 Stages, things they "easure +and

)ith in those ountries, and much about our #urlong , to meet his Enemy/

:e had a gallant %rmy well a""ointed and furnish'd, and all things much su"erior to his

%dversary, but alas the Poison of Disobedience was gotten in there, and u"on the first March he

offer'd to make towards the Enemy one of his great aptains with a strong Party of his Menwent over and revolted/



)his E+am"le was a""lauded all over the -ation, and by this time one of the Patriarchs, even the

same mention'd before that had so often "reacht -on;8esistance of Princes, lays by his acred

9estments, Mitre, and taff, and e+changing his 8obes for a oldier's Coat, mounts on:orseback, and in short, a""ears in %rms against his 5ord/;;;;; -or was this all, but the

Treacherous relate takes along with him several Solunarian +ords, and Persons of the highest

igure, and of the :oushold, and amily of the &ing, and with him went the &ing's ownDaughter, his "rinci"le avourites and riends/

%t the -ews of this, the "oor deserted Prince lost all Courage, and abandoning himself to

Des"air, he causes his %rmy to retreat without fighting a troke, 0uits them and the &ingdom at

once, and takes anctuary with such as could esca"e with him, in the Court of a -eighbouringPrince/

I have heard this Prince e+ceedingly blam'd, for giving himself u" to Des"air so soon/ ;;;;; )hat

he thereby abandon'd the best and faithfullest of his riends, and ervants, and left them to the

Mercy of the Solunarians# that when all these that would have forsaken him were gone, he had

orces e0ual to his Enemies# that his Men were in :eart, fresh and forward# that he should havestood to the last# retreated to a strong )own, where his hi"s rod, and which was over against the

)erritories of his great %llie, to whom he might have deliver'd u" the hi"s which were there,and have thereby made him u"erior at ea to his Enemies, and he was already much u"erior at

5and# that there he might have been reliev'd with orces too strong for them to match, and at

least might have "ut it to the issue of a fair .attle/;;;;;; $thers, that he might have retreated to hisown Court, and ca"ital City, and taking "ossession of the Citadel, which was his own, might so

have aw'd the Citizens who were infinitely 8ich, and -umerous, with the a""rehensions of

having their :ouses burnt, they would not have dar'd to have declar'd for his Enemies, for fear of

being reduc'd to hea"s and ruins# and that at last he might have set the City on ire in @22 Places,and left the Solunarian hurch%Men a )oken to remember their 3on%0esisting Doctrine !y, and

yet have made an easy 8etreat down the :arbour, to other orts he had below, and might withease have destroy'd all the hi""ing, as he went/

')is confess'd had he done either, or both these things, he had left them a dear bought 9ictory,

but he was de"riv'd of his Counsellor, for as soon as things came to this height, the $chitophel

we have so often mention'd, le(t hi" also, and went away# all his $!rograzian riests too (osook

hi", and he was so bereft of Counsel that he fell into the :ands of his Enemies as he was makinghis esca"e, but he got away again, not without the connivance of the Enemy, who were willing

enough he should go# so he got a 9essel to carry him over to the -eighbouring &ingdom, and all

his %rmies, hi"s, orts, Castles, Magazines, and )reasure, fell into his Enemies :ands/

)he -eighbouring Prince entertain'd him very kindly, Cherish'd him, uccour'd him, andfurnish'd him with %rmies and leets for the recovery of his Dominions, which has occasion'd a

tedious (ar with that Prince, which continues to this Day/

)hus far assive Doctrins, and %bsolute ubmission serv'd a )urn, !u!l2d the rince, wheedledhim in to take their (ord who "rofess'd it, 'till he laid his inger u"on the Men themselves, and

that unravell'd all the Cheat# they were the first that call'd in orreign Power, and took u" %rms

against their Prince/



-or did they end here, but all this cene being over, and the orreign Prince having thus

deliver'd them, and their own &ing being thus chas'd away, the Peo"le call themselves together,

and as 0eason good , having been deliver'd by him from the Miseries, .rangles, $""ressions, andDivisions of the former 8eign, they thought they could do no less than to Crown their Deliverer#

and having ummon'd a general %ssembly of all their apital Men, they gave the Crown to this

Prince who had so generously sav'd them/

%nd here again I heard the first &ing e+ceedingly blam'd for 0uitting his Dominions, for had hestaid here, tho' he had actually been in their :ands, unless they wou'd have Murther'd him, they

could never have "roceeded to the E+tremeties they did reach to, nor cou'd they ever have

Crown'd the other Prince, he being yet alive and in his own Dominions/

.ut by 0uitting the Country, they fi+'d a legal Period to their $bedience, he having deserted their

Protection, and Defence, and o"enly laid down the %dministration/

.ut as these sort of Politicks cannot be decided by us, unless we know the Constitutions of those

+unar 0egions, so we cannot "retend to make a Decision of what might, or might not haveha""en'd/

It remains to e+amine how those Solunarians behav'd themselves, who had so earnedly cryed u"

the Princi"les of $bedience, and absolute ubmission/

3othing )as so 0idiculous, now they saw what they had done, they began to re"ent, and u"on

recollection of )houghts some were so asham'd of themselves, that having broken their Doctrin,and being now call'd u"on to tranf"ose their %llegiance, truly they sto"t in the mid;way, and so

!eca"e Martyrs on !oth sides/

I can liken these to nothing so well as to those entlemen of our English hurch, who tho' they broke into the Princi"les of Passive $bedience by !oining, and calling over the P/ of O/ yetsuffer'd de"rivations of .enefices, and loss of their 5ivings, (or not taking the Oath# as if they

had not as e((ectually per9ur2d the"selves by taking u" %rms against their &ing, and !oyning a

orreign Power, as they could "ossibly do afterward, by wearing to live 0uietly under the ne+t&ing/

.ut these nice entlemen are infinitely outdone in these Countries, for these Solunarians by a

true Church turn, not only refuse to trans"ose their %llegiance, but "retend to wi"e their Mouths

as to former taking %rms, and return to their old Doctrins of absolute ubmission, boast ofMartyrdom, and boldly reconcile the contraries of taking up $r"s, and 3on%0esistance, charging

all their .rethren with chism, 8ebellion, Per!ury, and the da"na!le Sin o( 0esistance/

3or is this all , for as a great many of these Solunarian hurch;Men had no affection to this new

Prince, but were not e0ually furnished, or 0ualify'd for Martyrdom with their .rethren# they wentto certain (ise Men, who being cunning at splitting /airs, and making distinctions, might

"erha"s furnish them with so"e "ediu"s !et)een +oyalty and Disloyalty# they a""ly'd

themselves with great dilligence to these Men, and they by dee" tudy, and long earch, either (ound or "ade the 0uaintest Device for them that ever was heard of/



.y this unheard of Discovery, to their great 7oy and atisfaction, they have arriv'd at a Power,

which all the (ise Men in our (orld could never "retend to, and which 'tis thought, could the

descri"tion of it be regularly made, and brought down hither, would serve for the atisfactionand 8e"ose of a great many tender Consciences, who are very uneasy at S)earing to save their

Bene(ices/

)hese great Makers of Distinction, have learn't to distinguish between active wearing, and

passive wearing, between de (acto 5oyalty, and de 9ure 5oyalty, and by this decent ac0uirementthey obtain'd the %rt of reconciling S)earing $llegiance )ithout +oyalty, and +oyalty )ithout

S)earing , so that native and original 5oyalty may be "reserv'd "ure and uninterru"ted, in s"ight

of all su!sequent Oaths to prevailing 8surpations/

Many are the Mysteries, and vast the %dvantages of this new invented Method, Mental 0eservations, -nuendoes, and Double Meanings are Toys to this, for they may be "rovided for in

the litteral terms of an $ath, but no Provision can be made against this# for these Men after they

have taken the $ath, make no cru"le to declare, they only S)ear to !e quiet as long as they can

"ake no Distur!ance# that they are left liberty still to es"ouse the Interest and Cause of theirformer Prince, they nicely distinguish between O!edience and Su!"ission, and tell you a Slave

taken into aptivity, tho' he wears to live peacea!ly, does not thereby renounce his $llegiance to his natural Prince, nor abridge himself of a 8ight to attem"t his own 5iberty i( ever

opportunity present /

:ad these neat Distinctions been found out before, none of our Solunarian lergy, no not the

atriarchs themselves surely would have stood out, and suffer'd such De"redations on theirortunes and Characters as they did# they wou'd never have been such ools to have been turn'd

out of their 5ivings for not wearing, when they might have learnt here that they "ight have

s)ore to one rince and yet have retain2d their $llegiance to another # might have taken an $ath

to the new, without im"eachment of their old $aths to the absent Prince/;;;;;;; -t is great pitythese *entle"en had not gone up to the Moon (or -nstruction in this di((icult ase/

)here they might have met with e+cellent 5ogicians, Men of most sublime 8easons, Dr/ Overall ,

Dr/ Sherlock , and all our nice E+aminers of these things wou'd a""ear to be no .ody to them# foras the Peo"le in these 8egions have an e+traordinary Eye%sight , and the clearness of the %ir

contributs much to the hel" of their Opticks, so they have without doubt a "ro"ortion'd clearness

of discerning, by which they see as far into Mill%stones, and all sorts of olids, as the nature ofthings will "ermit, but above all, their aculties are blest with two e+ceeding %dvantages/

1/ 5ith an e,traordinary distinguishing o)er , by which they can distinguish even -ndivisi!les,

"art *nity it self, divide rinciples, and distinguish Truth into such and so many "inute

articles, till they dwindle it away into a very -ose of (a+, and mould it into any orm theyhave occasion for, by which means they can distinguish themselves into or out of any $"inion,

either in 8eligion, Politicks or Civil 8ight, that their "resent Emergencies may call for/

A/ )heir reasoning aculties have this further advantage, that u"on occasion they can see clearly

(or the"selves, and prevent others (ro" the sa"e discovery, so that when they have occasion tosee any thing which "resents for their own %dvantage, they can search into the Particulars, make



it clear to themselves, and yet let it remain dark and mysterious to all the (orld besides/

(hether this is "erform'd by their e+ceeding Penetration, or by casting an artificial 9eil over the

*nderstandings of the 9ulgar, $uthors have not yet deter"in2d # but that the act is true, admitsof no Dis"ute/

%nd the wonderful .enefit of these )hings in "oint of Dis"ute is e+traordinary, for they can seeclearly they have the better of an %rgument, when all the rest of the (orld think they have not a

(ord to say for themselves= ')is "lain to them that this or that "roves a thing, when -ature, bycommon 8easoning, knows no such Conse0uences/

I confess I have seen some weak %ttem"ts at this e+traordinary )alent, "articularly in the

Dis"utes in England between the hurch and the Dissenter , and between the /igh and +o)

hurch, wherein Peo"le have tollerably well convinc'd themselves when no .ody else could see

any thing of the Matter, as "articularly the famous Mr/ 5%%%ly about the $nti"onarchical

rinciples taught in the Dissenters $ccade"ies# ditto in +%%%%sly, about the Dissenters !urning

the ity, and setting ire to their own :ouses to destroy their -eighbours# and another (a"ous

$uthor , who "rov'd that hristopher +ove lost his :ead for attem"ting to "ull down Monarchy by restoring &ing harles the econd/

)hese indeed are some faint 8esemblances of what I am u"on# but alasF these are tender sort of

Peo"le, that han't obtain'd a co"pleat 4ictory over their onsciences, but suffer that Tri(le tore"roach them all the while they are doing it, to rebel against their resolv'd (ills, and check them

in the middle of the Design# from which Interru"tions arise Pal"itations of the :eart, ickness

and s0ueamishness of tomach# and these have "roceeded to astings and 4o"it , whereby theyhave been forc'd sometimes to throw u" some such unha""y )ruths as have confounded all the

rest, and flown in their own aces so violently, as in s"ight of Custom has made them blush and

look downward# and tho' in kindness to one another they have carefully lickt u" one anothers

#ilth, yet this unha""y s0ueamishness of tomach has s"oil'd all the Design, and turn'd the%""etites of their Party, to the no small "re!udice of a Cause that stood in need of more %rt and

"ore #ace to carry it on as it shou'd be with a thoro';"ac'd ase%harden2d olicy, such as I have been relating, is com"leatly obtain'd in these 8egions, where the %rts and E+cellencies of

sublime 8easonings are carried u" to all the e+traordinaries of !anishing Scruples, reconciling

Contradictions, uniting Opposites, and all the necessary Circumstances re0uir'd in a com"leat

Casuist/

')is not easily conceivable to what e+traordinary lights they have carry'd this strength of

8easoning, for besides the distinguishing nicely between )ruth and Error, they obtain a most

refin'd Method of distinguishing Truth it sel( into Seasons and ircu"stances, and so can bring

any thing to be )ruth, when it serves the turn that ha""ens !ust then to be needful, and make thesame thing to be false at another time/

%nd this method of circu"stantiating Matters o( #act into )ruth or alshood, suited to occasion,

is found admirably useful to the solving the most difficult h6no"ena o( State, for by this %rtthe Solunarian hurch made Persecution be against their Princi"les at one time, and reducible to

Practice at another/ )hey made taking up $r"s, and calling in oreign Power to de"ose their

Prince, consistent )ith 3on%0esistance and assive O!edience# nay they went farther, they



distinguisht between a rolian2s taking %rms, and a Solunarians, and fairly "rov'd this to be

0e!ellion and that to be 3on%0esistance/

-ay, and which e+ceeded all the Power of human %rt in the highest degrees of %ttainment thatever it arriv'd to on our side the Moon# they turn'd the )ables so de+terously, as to argument

u"on one sort of rolians, call'd restarians# that tho' they re"ented of the (ar they had rais'd informer )imes, and "rotested against the violence offer'd their Prince# and after another Party had

in spight o( the" .eheaded him, took $r"s against the other arty, and never left contrivingtheir 8uin, till they had !rought in his Son, and set him u"on the )hrone again/

6et by this most de+trous way of T)isting , E,tending , ontracting , and Distinguishing of

Phrases and 8easoning, they "resently made it as "lain as the un at -oon Day# that these

restarians were :ing%killers, Common;wealths Men, 0e!els, )raytors, and Ene"ies to Monarchy# that they restor2d the Monarchy only in order to Destroy it , and that they Preach'd u"

Sedition, 0e!ellion and the like= )his was "rov'd so "lain by these su!li"e Distinctions, that they

convinc'd themselves and their Posterity of it, by a rare and newly ac0uir'd %rt, found out !y

e,traordinary Study, which "roves the wonderful "ower of usto", insomuch, that let any Man by this method, tell a +ye over a certain nu"!er o( ti"es , he shall arrive to a atisfaction o( its

certainty, tho' he knew it to be a #iction !e(ore, and shall freely tell it (or a Truth all his li(ea(ter /

)hus the restarians were call'd the Murtherers of the #ather , tho' they restor'd the Son, and all

the )estimonials of their ufferings, Protests and Insurrections to "revent his Death, signi(y2d

nothing , for this method of Distinguishing has that "owerful Charm in it, that all those Tri(les wecall Proofs and Demonstration were of no use in that Case/ usto" brought the tory u" to a

)ruth, and in an instant all the rolians were hookt in under the general -ame of restarians, at

the same time to hook all Parties in the Crime/

-ow as it ha""en'd at last that these Solunarian *entle"en found it necessary to do the sa"ething the"selves, viz/ )o lay aside their 5oyalty, Depose, #ight against, shoot Bullets at, and

throw .ombs at their :ing till they frighted him away, and sent hi" a!road to !eg his Bread /

)he rolians began to take :eart and tell them, now they ought to !e #riends )ith the", and tellthem no more of 0e!ellion and Disloyalty# nay, they carry'd it so far as to challenge them to

bring their +oyalty to the Test , and com"are rolian +oyalty and Solunarian +oyalty together,

and see who had rais2d "ore 5ars, taken u" %rms o(tenest , or a""ear'd in "ost 0e!ellions against their &ings# nay, who had kill2d "ost :ings, the rolians or the Solunarians, for there

having been then newly fought a great .attle between the Solunarian hurch%Men under their

new Prince, and the %rmies of oreign uccours under their old :ing , in which their old :ing

was beaten and forc'd to flie a second time, the rolians told them that every .ullet they shot atthe .attle was as much a "urthering their :ing , as cutting off the :ead )ith a /atchet was a

killing his ather/

)hese %rguments in our (orld would have been unanswerable, but when they came to be brought to the Test o( +unar 0easoning , alas they signify'd nothing# they distinguisht and

distinguisht till they brought the restarian 5ar to be meer 8ebellion, :ing%killing , .loody and

8nnatural # and the Solunarian fighting against their &ing, and turning hi" adri(t to seek his



ortune, no pre9udice at all to their +oyalty, no, nor to the famous Doctrine of assive

O!edience and %bsolute ub!ection/

5hen - sa) this, I really bewail'd the unha""iness of some of our entlemen in England , whostanding e+ceedingly in need of such a wonderful De+terity of %rgument to defend their share in

our late 0evolution, and to reconcile it to their anticedent and su!sequent Conduct, should not befurnish'd from this more accurate 5orld with the suitable Powers, in order the better to defend

them against the Banter and 9ust 0aillery of their ill;natur'd Enemies the 5higs/

.y this they might have attained suitable reserves of %rgument to distinguish themselves out o(

their +oyalty, and into their +oyalty, as occasion "resented to dismiss this Prince, and entertain

that , as they found it to their "ur"ose# but above all, they might have learnt a way how to !ustify

S)earing to one &ing and raying for another, Eating one Prince's .read and doing another

Prince's 5ork , Serving one &ing they don't +ove and +oving another they don't Serve# they might

easily reconcile the chisms of the Church, and "rove they are still 5oyal ub!ects to :ing

Ja"es, while they are only forc'd .onds;Men to the $ct o( Settle"ent , for the sake of that

comfortable Im"ortance, call'd #ood and 0ain"ent # and thus their 8e"utation might have beensav'd, which is most unhappily tarnish2d and blur'd, with the malicious %ttacks of the 5higs on

one :and, and the 3on%Jurants on the other/

These )a+ them as above with 8ebellion by their own Princi"les, and contradicting the Doctrinof assive Su!"ission and -on;8esistance, by taking u" %rms against their Prince, calling in a

#oreign o)er , and de"osing him= )hey charge them with killing the +ord2s $nointed , by

hooting at him at the Boyn, where if he was not kill'd it was his own fault, at least 'tis "lain2t)as none o( theirs/

$n the other :and, the 3on Jurant lergy charge them with Schis", declare the whole Church of

England Schis"aticks, and breakers off from the general *nion of the Church, in renouncingtheir %llegiance, and wearing to another o)er , their former Prince being yet alive/

')is confest all the $ns)ers they have been able to make to these things, are very )eak and "ean,

unworthy Men of their 8ank and Ca"acities, and 'tis "ity they should not be assisted by some

kind Communication of these +unar $rgu"ents and Distinctions, without which, and till they

can obtain which, a on(or"ing Jaco!ite must be the absurdest Contradiction in -ature# a thingthat admits of no manner of Defence, no, not by the eople the"selves, and which they would

willingly abandon, but that they can find no side to !oin with them/

)he Dissenting Jaco!ites have some Plea for themselves, for let their $"inion be never so

re"ugnant to their own Interest, or general 9ogue, they are (aith(ul to so"e thing , and they wont !oyn with these Peo"le, because they have er9ur2d their #aith, and yet "retend to adhere to it at

the same time/ )he on(or"ing 5higs won't receive them, because they "retend to rail at the

overnment they have worn to, and es"ouse the Interest they have worn against# so that these poor reatures have but one way left them, which is to go along )ith "e, ne+t time I )ravel to

the Moon, and that will most certainly do their .usiness, for when they come down again, they

will be 0uite another sort o( Men, the Distinctions, the Power of %rgument, the way of8easoning, they will be then furnish'd with will 0uite change the Scene o( the 5orld )ith the",



they'll certainly be able to "rove they are the only Peo"le, both in Justice, in oliticks and in

rudence# that the e+tremities of every side are in the 5rong , they'll "rove their 5oyalty

"reserv'd, untainted, thro' all the S)earings, #ightings, Shootings and the like, and no .ody will be able to co"e to the Test )ith the"# so that u"on 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 ne+t onsolidator /

.ut as this is a very long Digression, and for which I am to beg my 8eader's Pardon, being an

Error I sli"t into from my abundant res"ect to these entlemen, and for their "articularInstruction, I shall endeavour to make my 8eader amends, by kee"ing more close to my ub!ect/

)o return therefore to the :istorical "art of the Solunarian hurch%Men, in the 5orld in the

Moon/

:aving as is related Depos2d their :ing , and "lac'd the Crown u"on the :ead of the Prince thatcame to their assistance, a new cene began all over the &ingdom/

1/ $ terri!le and !loody 5ar began thro' all the "arts of the +unar 5orld , where their banish'dPrince and his new %llie had any Interest# and the new &ing having a universal Character over

all the -orthern &ingdoms of the Moon, he brought in a great many Potent :ings, rinces, E"perors and States, to take "art with him, and so it became the most general (ar that had

ha""en'd in those %ges/

I did not trouble my self to en0uire into the "articular uccesses o( this 5ar , but at what had a

more "articular regard to the Country from whence I came, and (or )hose -nstruction I havedesign'd these Sheets, the trife o( arties, the Internal euds at home, and their $nalogy to ours#

and whatever is instructively to be deduced from them, was the ub!ect of immediate In0uiry/

-o sooner was this Prince "lac'd on the )hrone, but according to his Promises to them thatinvited him over, he conven'd the Estates of the 8ealm, and giving them free 5iberty to "ake,alter , add or repeal , all such 5aws as they thought fit, it must be their o)n (ault if they did not

Establish themselves u"on such oundation of +i!erty, and 0ight , as they desir'd# for he gave

them their (ull S)ing , never inter"os'd one 3egative u"on them for several 6ears, and let themdo almost every thing they "leas'd/

)his (ull +i!erty had like to have s"oil'd all, for as is before noted, this -ation had one unhappy

1uality they could never be broke of, always to !e (alling out one among another/

)he rolians, according to Ca"itulation, demanded the full 5iberty and )oleration of 8eligion,

which the Solunarians had condition'd with them for, when they drew them off from !oyningwith the old :ing , and when they "romis'd to come to a Te"per , and to !e Brethren in eace

and +ove ever a(ter /

-or were the Solunarian Church;Men backward, either to remember, or "erform the Conditions but by the consent of the &ing, who had been by agreement made *uarantee o( their (or"er

Stipulations, an %ct was drawn u" in full orm, and as com"leat, as both satisfy'd the desires of



the rolians, and testify'd the :onesty and Probity of the Solunarians, as they were abstractedly

and "oderately consider'd/

During the whole 8eign of this &ing, this 8nion o( arties continu'd without any considerableInterru"tion, there was indeed !rooding Mischie(s which hovered over every accident, in order to

generate Stri(e, but the Candor of the Prince, and the Prudence of his Ministers, ke"t it under fora long time/

%t last an occasion offer'd it self, which gave an unha""y troke to the -ation's Peace/ )he &ingthro' innu"era!le /azards, terrible Battles and a t)elve <ears 5ar , had reduc'd his "owerful

%dversary to such a necessity of Peace, that he became content to abandon the (ugitive :ing , and

to own the )itle of this (arlike Prince# and u"on these, among various other Conditions, very

/onoura!le (or hi", and his %llies, and by which vast Con0uests were surrendred, and disgorg2dto the +osers, a Peace was made to the *niversal atisfaction of all those Parts of the Moon that

had been involv'd in a tiresome and e+"ensive (ar/

)his Peace was no sooner made, but the Inhabitants of this unha""y Country, according to theconstant ractice of the Place, fell out in the most horrid manner among themselves, and with

the very Prince that had done all these great things (or the"# and I cannot forget how the $ld

entleman I had these 8elations from, being once dee"ly engag'd in Discourse with so"e

Senators of that Country, and hearing the" reproach the Me"ory o( that rince from whom theyreceiv2d so "uch, and on the foot of whose *allantry and Merit the Constitution then su!sisted ,

it "ut him into some heat, and he told them to their aces that they were guilty both of Murther

and -ngratitude/

I thought the Charge was very high, but as they return'd u"on him, and challeng'd him to make it

out, he answer'd he was ready to do it , and went on thus/

:is Ma!esty, said he, left a 0uiet, retir'd, com"leatly ha""y Condition, (ull o( /onour , belov'd of

his Country, 4allu2d and Estee"2d , as well as #ear2d by his Enemies, to come over hither at yourown 8e0uest, to deliver you from the Encroachments and )yranny as you call2d it , of your

Prince/

Ever since he came hither, he has been your meer Journy%Man, your Servant , your Souldier o(

#ortune, he has #ought for you, #atigu2d and /arras2d his Person, and ro!2d hi"sel( of all hisPeace (or you# he has been in a constant :urry, and run thro' a Million o( /azards (or you# he has

convers'd with ire and .lood, Stor"s at Sea, Cam"s and )renches ashore, and given himself no

rest for t)elve <ears, and all for your 8se, afety and 8e"ose= In re0uital of which, he has been

always treated with Jealousies, and Suspitions, with 0eproaches, and $!uses o( all Sorts, and onall $ccasions, till the ungrateful )reatment of the Solunarians eat into his very Soul , tir'd it with

serving an unthank(ul 3ation, and absolutely !roke his /eart # for which reason I think him as

"uch Murther2d as his Predecessor was, )hose /ead )as cut o(( by his ub!ects/

I could not when this was over, but ask the Old *entle"en, what was the reason of his

E+clamation, and how it was the Peo"le treated their Prince u"on this occasionG



:e told me it was a grievous ub!ect, and a long one, and too long to rehearse, but he would give

me a short %bridgment of it# and not to look back into his (ars, in which he was abominably ill

serv'd, his su!9ects constantly ill treated hi" in giving him u""lies too late, that he cou'd not getinto the ield, nor forward his Pre"arations in ti"e to be ready for his Enemies, who fre0uently

were ready to insult him in his uarters/

.y giving him sha" Ta,es and #unds that raised little or no Mony, by which he having

borrow'd Mony of his Peo"le by %ntici"ation, the unds not answering, he contracted such vast De!ts as the -ation could never ay which brought the (ar into disrepute, sunk the Credit of his

E+che0uer, and fill'd the -ation with Murmurs and Com"laint/

By !etraying his ounsel and well laid Designs to his Enemies, selling their 3ative ountry to

#oreigners, retarding their -avies and E+"editions, till the Enemies were "rovided to receive

them, !etraying their Merchants and )rade, s"ending vast ums to fit out leets, 9ust ti"e

enough to go %broad, and do nothing, and then get /o"e again/

.ut as these were too numerous Evils, and too long to re"eat, the "articular things he related to inhis Discourse, were these that follow/

)here had been a hasty eace concluded with a furious and "owerful Enemy, the &ing (oresa)

it )ould !e o( no continnuace, and that the demise of a neighbouring &ing, who by all

a""earance could not live long, would certainly embroil them again/;;;;; :e saw that Prince kee"u" numerous 5egions of orces, in order to be in a "osture to break the Peace with advantage/

)his the &ing fairly re"resented to them, and told them the necessity of kee"ing u" such a #orce,

and for such a )ime, at least as might be necessary to awe the Enemy from "utting any affrontu"on them in case of the Death of that Prince, which they daily e+"ected/

)he Party who had all along malign'd the Pros"erity of this Prince, took (ire at the O((er , andhere began another tate Plot, which tho' it hookt in two or three sets of Men for different Ends,

yet altogether !oin'd in affronting and ill treating their Prince, u"on this %rticle of the %rmy/

The 3ation had !een in danger enough from the designs of former Princes invading theirPriviledges, and "utting themselves in a Posture to )yrannize by the hel" o( standing #orces, and

the Party that first took ire at this Pro"osal tho' the very same Men who in the time of an

$!rogratzian Prince, were for caressing him, and giving hi" Thanks (or his Standing $r"y, ashas been noted before, were the very Peo"le that began the outcry against this Demand, and so

specious )ere the retences they made, that they drew in the very rolians the"selves u"on the

"retence of 5iberty, and E+em"tion from %rbitrary Methods of overnment to oppose their

:ing /

-t griev2d this good rince to be sus"ected of )yrannick Designs, and that by a -ation who he

had done so much, and ventur'd so far to save (ro" Tyranny and Standing $r"ies# 'twas in vain

he re"resented to them the "ressing occasion# in vain he gave them a Descri"tion of approaching Dangers, and the threatning "osture of the Enemies %rmies# in vain he told them of the

"robabilities of renewing the (ar, and how kee"ing but a need(ul #orce might be a means of



"reventing it# in vain he "ro"os'd the sub!ecting what orce should be necessary to the %bsolute

Power, both as to )ime and -umber of their own ortez or 3ational $sse"!ly/

-t )as all one, the Design being form'd in the .reasts of those who were neither #riends to the 3ation nor the :ing , those 8easons which would have been of orce in another Case, made

them the more eager# !itter 0e(lections )ere "ade on the :ing , and scurrilous 5am"oons "ublish'd u"on the ub!ect of )yrants, and overning by %rmies/

-othing could be more ungrateful to a generous rince, nor could any thing more dee"ly affectthis &ing, than )ho" none ever had a more genuine single%hearted Design (or the eoples

good , but above all, like 6sar in the Case of Brutus, it heartily mov'd him to find himself

"ush'd at by those very Peo"le whom he had all along seen, "retending to adhere to his -nterest ,and the u!lick Bene(it , which he had always taken care should never !e parted , and to find

these Peo"le !oin against this Pro"osal, as a Design against their +i!erties, and as a oundation

of )yranny heartily and sensi!ly a((licted hi"/

-t )as a strange Mistery, and not easily unriddled, that those Men who had always a knownaversion to the Interest of the de"os'd &ing should fall in with this Party, and those that were

riends to the general ood, never forgave it them/

$ll that could !e said to e,cuse the", was the Plot I am s"eaking of, that by carrying this Point

for that Party, they hookt in those forward Peo"le to !oin in a "o"ular Cry of 5iberty andPro"erty, things they )ere never (ond o( !e(ore, and to make some ettlement of the Peo"les

Claims )hich they al)ays had oppos2d , and which they would since have !een very glad to have

repeal2d /

o great an %scendant had the ersonal Spleen of this Party over their other Princi"les, that they

were content to let the +i!erties o( the eople !e declar2d in their highest Claims, rather than notobtain this one %rticle, which they knew would so e,ceedingly "orti(y their rince, and

strengthen the -ations Enemies/ )hey freely !oin'd in $cts o( Succession $!9uration Declaration of the Power and lai"s o( the eople, and the u"eriority of their 8ight to the

Princes Prerogative, and abundance of such things, )hich they could never !e other)ise !rought

to/

2Tis true these )ere great things, but 'twas thought all this might have been obtain'd inon9unction )ith their rince, rather than by "utting %ffronts and Mortifications u"on the Man

that had ne+t to the Influence of :eaven been the only %gent of restoring them to a Power and

Ca"acity of en!oying, as well as "rocuring, such things as -ational Priviledges/

')was vigorosly alledg'd that Standing $r"ies in ti"es o( eace )ere inconsistent )ith the u!lick Sa(ety, the 5aws and Constitutions of all the -ations in the Moon/

.ut these %llegations were strenuously answer'd, that it was true without the consent of the great

-ational Council, it was so, but that !eing o!tain2d , it was not illegal, and "ublick -ecessities

might make that consent, not only legal, but convenient/



2T)as all to no purpose, the whole was carry'd with a )orrent of Clamour and 8eflection against

the good Prince, )ho consented , because he would in nothing o""ose the Current of the Peo"le#

but withal, told them "lainly what would be the conse0uences of their :eat, )hich they havee((ectually (ound true since to their Cost, and to the loss of some Millions of )reasure/

or no sooner was this %rmy broke, )hich )as the !est ever that 3ation sa), and was !ustly the)error of the Enemy, but the great Monarch we mention'd before, broke all Measures with this

Prince and the Confederate -ations, a Proof what !ust a""rehensions they had of his Conduct, atthe head of such an %rmy/ or they !roke )ith conte"pt , a )reaty which the Prince upon a

prospect o( this unkindness o( his eople had entred into with the Enemy, and which he engag'd

in, if "ossible, to "revent a ne) 5ar , which he foresaw he should be very unfit to begin, or carryon, and which they would never have dar'd to break had not this #eud ha""en'd/

It was but a little before I came into this Country, when such repeated $ccounts ca"e, of the

Incroachments, Insults and Pre"arations of their great po)er(ul 3eigh!our , that all the (orld

saw the necessity of a (ar, and the very Peo"le )ho )ere to (eel it "ost a""ly'd to the Prince to

begin it/

:e was forward enough to begin it, and in com"liance with his Peo"le, resolv'd on it# but the

*rie( of the usage he had receiv'd, the unkind )reatment he had met with from those very Peo"le

that brought him thither, had sunk so dee" u"on his "irits, that he could never recover it# but being very weak in .ody and Mind, and !oin'd to a slight hurt he receiv'd by a fall from his

:orse, he dyed , to the uns"eakable grief of all his ub!ects that wish'd well to their -ative

Country/

)his was the melancholly %ccount of this great Prince's end, and I have been told that at once

every 6ear, there is a kind o( #ast , or solemn Commemoration ke"t u" for the Murther of that

former Prince, who, as I noted, )as Beheaded !y his Su!9ects# o it seems some of the Peo"le,who are of $"inion this Prince was Murther'd by the ill )reatment of his riends, a way which Imust own, is the cruellest o( Deaths, kee" the same Day, to commemorate his Death, and this is a

Day, in which it seems !oth arties are very (ree )ith one another as to 0allery and ill

+anguage/

.ut the riends of this last Prince have a double advantage, for they also commemorate the .irthDay of this Prince, and are generally very merry on that Day# and the custom is at their east on

that Day, !ust like our drinking :ealths, they "ledge one another to the i""ortal Me"ory o( their

Deliverer # as the :istorical "art of this Matter was absolutely necessary to introduce thefollowing 8emarks, and to instruct the Ignorant in those things, I ho"e it shall not !e thought a

!arren Digression, es"ecially when I shall tell you that it is a most e+act 8e"resentation of what

is yet to come in a cene of %ffairs, of which I must make a short %bstract, by way ofIntroduction/

)he deceas'd Prince we have heard of, was succeeded by his ister in;5aw, the second Daughter

of the banish'd Prince, a 5ady of an e,traordinary haracter , of the $ld 8ace of their &ings, a

3ative by .irth, a Solunarian by Profession# e+ceeding ious, Just and *ood , of an /onesty "eculiar to her self, and for which she was !ustly belov'd of all sorts and degrees of her ub!ects/



)his Princess having the E+"erience of her #ather and *rand%(ather before her, !oin'd to her

own Prudence and :onesty of Design# it was no wonder if she "rudently shun'd all manner of

rash ounsels, and endeavour'd to carry it with a steady :and between her contending Parties/

%t her first coming to the Crown, she made a sole"n Declaration of her resolutions for eace

and !ust overnment# she gave the rolians her 8oyal (ord, that she would inviolably "reservethe Toleration o( their 0eligion and 5orship, and always afford them her rotection, and by this

she ho"'d they would !e easy/

.ut to the Solunarians, as those among whom she had been Educated, and whose 8eligion she

had always "rofess'd, been train'd u" in, and Piously "ersued# she e+"ress'd her self )ith an

unco""on Tenderness, told them they should be the Men of her avour, and those that were

"ost zealous for that Church should have most of her Countenance# and she back'd this soon

after with an un"arallel'd %ct of 8oyal .ounty to them, freely "arting with a considerable .ranch

o( her 0oyal 0evenue, for the poor riests of that 8eligion, of which there were many in the

remote Parts of her &ingdom/

(hat vast Conse0uences, and "rodigiously differing from the Design, may (ords have when

mistaken and misay"lyed by the :earers/ -ever were significant E+"ressions s"oken from a

sincere, honest and generous Princi"le, with a single Design to ingage all the ub!ects in the

Moon, to Peace and *nion, so "erverted, misa""ly'd and turn'd by a Party, to a meaning directlycontrary to the 8oyal )houghts of the ueen= or from this very E+"ression, "ost 7ealous, grew

all the Divisions and ubdivisions in the Solunarian hurch, to the 8uin of their own Cause, and

the vast advantage of the rolian Interest/ )he eager Men of the Church, es"ecially those wehave been talking of, hastily catch2d at this E+"ression of the ueen, Most 7ealous, and Millions

of fatal Constructions, and unha""y Conse0uences they made of it, some of which are as follows/

1/ They took it to i"ply that the ueen whatever she had said to the rolians, really design'dtheir Destruction, and that those that were of that $"inion, must be meant by the Most 7ealous Members of the Solunarian Church, and they could understand 7eal no otherwise than their o)n

)ay/

A/ rom this "eech, and their mistaking the (ords Most 7ealous, arose an unha""y Distinction

among the Solunarians themselves, some 7ealous, some More 7ealous, which afterwardsdivided them into two most o""osite Parties, being fomented by an accident of a .ook "ublish'd

on an Occasion, of which "resently/

)he Conse0uences of this mistake, a""ear'd "resently in the Most 7ealous, in their offering all

"ossible Insults to the rolian Dissenters, Preaching them down, rinting them down, andTalking them down, as a Peo"le not fit to be suffer'd in the 3ation, and now they thought they

had the ame sure/

Down with the rolians began to be all the Cry, and truly the rolians the"selves began to beuneasy, and had nothing to rely u"on !ut the 1ueens ro"ise, which however her Ma!esty

always made good to them/



)he other Party "roceeded so far, that they begun to Insult the very 1ueen her sel( , u"on the

Matter of her (ord, and one of her College;Priests told her "lainly in Print, she could not be a

true riend to the Solunarian hurch, if she did not declare (ar against, and root out all therolians in her Dominions/

.ut these Proceedings met )ith a heck , by a very odd accident= % certain $uthor of thoseCountries, a very "ean o!scure and despica!le #ello), of no great share of (it, but that had a

very unlucky )ay o( telling his Story, seeing which way things were a going, writes a .ook, and ersonating this high Solunarian 7eal , musters u" all their %rguments, as i( they were his own,

and strenuously "retends to "rove that all the rolians ought to be Destroy'd, /ang2d , Banish2d ,

and the D;;;;l and all/ %s this .ook was a "erfect ur"rize to all the Country, so the Proceedingsabout it on all sides were as e+traordinary/

)he rolians themselves were sur"riz'd at it, and so closely had the %uthor couch'd his Design,

that they never saw the irony o( the Stile, but began to look about them, to see which way they

should fly to save themselves/

The Men o( 7eal we talk'd of, were so blinded with the -otion which suited so e,actly )ith their

real Design, that they hugg'd the .ook, applauded the unkno)n $uthor , and "lac'd the .ook ne+t

their Oraclar 5ritings, or 5aws of 8eligion/

)he %uthor was all this while conceal'd, and the Pa"er had all the effect he wish'd for/

or as it caus'd these (irst entlemen to caress, a""laud and a""rove it, and thereby discover'dtheir real Intention, so it met with %bhorrence and Detestation in all the Men of rinciples,

rudence and Moderation in the &ingdom, who tho' they were Solunarians in 8eligion, yet were

not for .lood, Desolation and Persecution of their .rethren, but )ith the 1ueen were willing

they should en!oy their 5iberties and Estates, they behaving themselves quietly and peacea!ly tothe overnment/

%t last it came out that it was writ by a rolian# but good *od F what a Clamour was rais'd at the

"oor Man, the rolians flew at him like 5ightning, ignorantly and !lindly, not seeing that he hadsacrific'd himself and his ortunes in their behalf# they ru"ag2d his haracter for 8e"roaches,

tho' they could find little that way to hurt him# they "lentifully loaded him with ill 5anguage and

8ailing, and took a great deal of "ains to let the (orld see their o)n -gnorance and -ngratitude/

)he Ministers o( State, tho' at that time o( the (iery arty, yet seeing the general Detestation ofsuch a Pro"osal, and how ill it )ould go do)n )ith the 3ation, tho' they a""rov'd the thing, yet

began to scent the Design, and were also oblig'd to declare against it, for fear of being thought ofthe same Mind/

)hus the %uthor was Proscrib'd by Proclamation, and a 0e)ard of @2222 /ecato2s, a smallimaginary Coin in those Parts, "ut u"on his :ead/

)he ortez of the -ation being at the same time assembled !oin'd in Censuring the .ook, and

thus the arty blindly damn'd their o)n rinciples for meer shame of the "ractice, not daring to



own the thing in "ublick which they had underhand "rofest, and the fury of all Parties fell upon

the poor $uthor /

The Man (led the (irst popular #ury, but at last being betraid fell into the :ands of the "ublickMinistry/

(hen they had hi" they hardly knew )hat to do )ith hi"# they could not "roceed against him as

%uthor of a Pro"osal for the Destruction of the rolians because it a""ear'd he was a rolian

hi"sel( # they were loth to charge him with suggesting that the Solunarian hurch%"en wereguilty of such a Design, least he should bring their o)n 5ritings to prove it true# so they fell to

)headling hi" with good (ords to throw himself into their :ands and submit, giving him that

*eu%gau the u!lick #aith for a Civil and entleman;like )reatment# the Man, believing like a

o,co"! that they s"oke as they meant, quitted his o)n De(ence, and threw himself on the

Mercy o( the 1ueen as he thought # but they abusing their ueen with false 8e"resentations,

er9ur2d all their ro"ises with him, and treated him in a most barbarous manner, on "retence

that there were no such ro"ises "ade, tho' he "rov'd it u"on them by the $ath of the Persons to

whom they were made/

)hus they laid him under a heavy Sentence, in'd him more than they thought him able to "ay,

and order'd him to be e+"os'd to the Mob in the treets/

:aving him at this %dvantage they set u"on him with their Emissaries to discover to them his%dherents, as they call2d the", and "romis'd him great )hings on one :and, threatning him )ith

his utter 0uin on the other# and the *reat Scri!e of the Country, with another of their great

Courtiers, took such a low te" as to go to him to the Dungeon where they had "ut him, to see ifthey could tem"t him to !etray his #riends/ )he o"ical Dialogue between them there the

%uthor of this has seen in Manuscript , e+ceeding diverting , but having not time to )ranslate it

'tis omitted for the "resent# tho' he "romises to pu!lish it in its proper Season for "ublickInstruction/

:owever for the "resent it may suffice to tell the (orld, that neither by pro"ises o( 0e)ard or

(ear o( unish"ent they could "revail u"on him to discover any thing, and so it remains a ecret

to this day/

)he )itle of this unha""y .ook was The shortest )ay )ith the rolians/ )he Effects of it werevarious, as will be seen in our ensuing Discourse= %s to the %uthor nothing was more

unaccountable than the Circumstances of his )reatment# for he met with all that #ate which they

must e+"ect )ho atte"pt to open the Eyes o( a 3ation )il(ully !lind /

)he hot Men o( the Solunarian hurch damn'd him without Bell , Book , or andle# the more Moderate "itied him, but lookt on as unconcern'd= But the rolians, for whom he had run this

9enture, us'd him worst of all# for they not only abandon'd him, but reproacht hi" as an Ene"y

that would ha' them destroy'd= o one side rail'd at him because they did understand him, and theother because they did not /



)hus the Man sunk under the general -eglect, was ruin'd and undone, and left a Monument of

what every Man must e+"ect that serves a good Cause, pro(est by an unthank(ul eople/

%nd here it was I found out that my 5unar Philoso"her was only so in Disguise, and that he )asno hilosopher !ut the very Man I have been talking of/

#ro" this Book , and the )reatment its %uthor receiv'd, for they us'd him with all "ossible 8igour,

a new cene of Parties came u"on the tage, and this ueen's 8eign began to be fill'd with more

Divisions and euds than any before her/

These arties began to be so numerous and violent that it endanger2d the u!lick *ood , andgave great Disadvantages to the general %ffairs abroad/

)he ueen invited them all to eace and 8nion, but 'twas in vain# nay, one had the Im"udence to

"ublish that to "rocure Peace and *nion it was necessary to su""ress all the rolians, and have

no Party but one, and then all must be of a Mind/

rom this heat of Parties all the moderate Men fell in with their ueen, and were heartily (or

eace and 8nion' )he other, who were now distinguish'd by the )itle of /igh Solunarians, call'd

these all rolians and +o) Solunarians, and began to )reat them with more Inveteracy than theyus'd to do the rolians themselves, calling them Traytors to their Country, Betrayers of their

Mother, Serpents harbour'd in the .osom, who bite, sting and hiss at the :and that succour'd

them# and in short the Enmity grew so violent, that from hence "roceeded one of the su!tilest

(oolishest deep shallo) Contrivances and lots that ever was hatcht or set on foot by any Partyof Men in the whole Moon, at least who "retended to any Brains, or to half a degree o( co""on

*nderstanding/

)here had always been Dislikes and Distasts between even the most moderate Solunarians andthe rolians, as I have noted in the beginning of this 8elation, and these were deriv'd from Dissenting in Opinions o( 0eligion, ancient euds, "rivate Interest, Education, and the like# and

the Solunarians had fre0uently, on "retence of securing the overnment, made 5aws to e+clude

the rolians from any "art of the %dministration, unless they submitted to some 0eligious Tests and Ceremonies which were "rescrib'd them/

-ow as the keeping the" out o( O((ices was more the Design than the onversion o( the

rolians to the Solunarian Church, the rolians, at least many of them, su!"itted to the Test ,

and fre0uently Conform'd to 0ualify themselves for "ublick Em"loyments/

The "ost "oderate o( the Solunarians were in their $"inion against this "ractice, and the /igh Men taking advantage of them, dre) the" in to Concur in making a 5aw with yet more everity

against them, effectually to kee" them out of Em"loyment/

The lo) Solunarians were easy to be drawn into this Pro!ect, as it was only a Confirming former5aws of their own making, and all )hings run fair (or the Design# but as the /igh Men had

further Ends in it than barely reducing the rolians to Conformity, they coucht so many gross

Clauses into their 5aw, that even the *randees o( the Solunarians themselves could not com"ly



with# nay even the atriarchs of the Solunarian Church declar'd against it, as tending to

Persecution and Confusion/

)his Disa""ointment enrag2d the arty, and that very 8age entirely ruin'd their Pro!ect# for nowthe 3o!ility, the atriarchs, and all the wise Men of the -ation, !oining together against these

Men o( /eat and #ury, the ueen began to see into their Designs, and as she )as o( a "ost piousand peacea!le Te"per , she conceiv'd a !ust :atred of so wicked and barbarous a Design, and

immediately dismiss'd from her Council and avour the *reat Scri!e, and several others whowere 5eaders in the Design, to the great "orti(ication o( the )hole arty, and utter 8uin of the

intended 5aw against the rolians/

:ere I could not but observe, as I have done before in the Case of the banish'd &ing, how

i"politick these high Solunarian hurch%"en acted in all their Proceedings, for had they

contented themselves !y little and little to ha' done their (ork, they had done it effectually# but

"ushing at E+tremities they overshot themselves, and ruin2d all /

or the *randees and atriarchs made but a (e) tri(ling O!9ections at first, nay and came off,and yielded some of them too# and if these would ha' consented to ha' "arted with some Clauses

which they have willingly left out since, they had had it "ass'd# but these were as hot Men

al)ays are, too eager and sure of their ame, they thought all was their own, and so they lost

themselves/

If they rail'd at the lo) Solunarian hurch%"en before, they doubled their Clamors at them now,

all the atriarchs, and all the -obility and *randees, nay even the 1ueen her self came under

their Censure, and every .ody who was not of their Mind were restarians and rolians/

%s this 8age of theirs was im"lacable, so, as I hinted before, it drove them into another

Su!division o( arties, and now began the Mysterious lot to be laid which I mention'd before#for the ortez being summon'd, and the 5aw being "ro"osed, some of these high Solunarians

a""ear'd in Confederacy with the rolians in per(ect on(ederacy with them, a thing no .odywould have imagin'd could ever ha' been brought to "ass/

-ow as these sorts of Plots must always be carry'd very nicely, so these high *entle"en who

Confederated with the rolians, having, to s"ight the other, resolv'd effectually to "revent the

"assing the 5aw against the 1uali(ication o( the rolians, it was not their .usiness immediatelyto declare themselves against it as a 5aw, but by still loading it with some E+travagance or other,

and "ushing it on to some intolerable E+treme, secure its "iscarriage/

-n the "anaging this lot , one of their %uthors was s"ecially em"loy'd, and that all that )asreally true o( the Crolian Dissenters might be ridicul'd, his (ork was to draw "onstrous ictures of them, which no .ody could believe# this took immediately, for now Peo"le began to

look at their hooes to see if they were not loven #ooted as they went a long treets# and at last

finding they were really sha"'d like the rest o( the +unar -nha!itants, they went back to the $uthor , who was a 5earned Member of a certain eminary, or .rother;hood of the Solunarian

lergy, and en0uir'd if he were not Mad , Distracted and 0aving , or Moon%!lind , and in want of

the thinking Engine# but finding all things right there, and that he was in his enses, es"ecially in



a Morning when he was a little (ree (ro",H c/ that he was a ood, :onest, 7olly, Solunarian

riest , and no room could be found for an $b!ection there/ *"on all these earches it "resently

a""ear'd, and all Men concluded it was a meer #anatick rolian lot # that this /igh arty o( all were but Pretenders, and meer )raytors to the True /igh Solunarian hurch%Men, that wearing

the same Cloth had herded among them in Disguise, only to wheedle them into such wild

E+travagancies as must of necessity confuse their Councils, e+"ose their Persons, and ruin theirCause/ ;;;; %ccording to the like Practice, "ut u"on their $!rograzian Prince, and of which I

have s"oken before/

%nd since I am u"on the detection of this "ost re(in2d ractice, I crave leave to descend to some

"articular Instances, which will the better evince the )ruth of this Matter, and make it a""ear thateither this was really a rolian lot , or else all these Peo"le were per(ectly Distracted # and as

their (its in that +unar 5orld , are much higher strain'd than ours, so their 5unacy, where it

ha""ens, must according to the 8ules o( Mathe"atical 3ature, bear an e+tream E0ual in "ro"ortion/

This ollege #ury o( a Man was the first on whom this useful Discovery was made, and having)rit several +earned Tracts wherein he invited the Peo"le to Murther and Destroy all the

rolians, .randed all the Solunarian atriarchs, lergy and *entry that would not come intohis roposal , with the name of o)ards, Traytors and Betrayers of +unar 0eligion# having beat

the oncionazi"ir at a great %ssembly of the Cadirs, or Judges, and told them all the rolians

were Devils, and they were all er9ur2d that did not use them as such= :e carry'd on Matters sode,terously, and with such sur"rizing uccess, that he fill'd even the Solunarians themselves

with :orror at his Pro"osals/;;;;; %nd as I ha""en'd to be in one of their "ublick :alls where all

such (ritings as are ne) are laid a certain time to be read by every o"er , I saw a little knot o(

Men round a )able, where one was reading this Book /

)here were two Solunarian /igh riests in their "ro"er 9estments, one rivy ouncellor of thetate, one other 3o!le Man, and one who had in his /at a )oken, to signifie that he "ossest one

of the (ine #eathers of the onsolidator , of which I have given the Descri"tion already/

The Book !eing read by one of the habited Priests, he starts u" with some warmth, !y the Moon says he, I have (ound this #ello) out , he is certainly a rolian, a meer restarian rolian, and is

cre"t into our Church only in Disguise, for 'tis certain all this is !ut "eer Banter and Irony to

e+"ose us, and to ridicule the Solunarian Interest/

The rivy ouncellor took it "resently, whether he is a rolian or no, says he, I cannot tell, buthe has certainly done the rolians so "uch Service, that if they had hir'd him to act for them,

they could not have desir'd he should serve them better/

)ruly, says the Man o( the #eather , I was always for "ulling down the rolians, for I thought

them dangerous to the tate# but this Man has brought the Matter nearer to "y 4ie), and shownme )hat destroying the" is, for he "ut me u"on e+amining the Conse0uences, and now I find it

would be lopping o(( the +i"!s o( the *overn"ent , and laying it at the Mercy of the Enemy that

they "ight lop o(( its /ead # I assure you he has done the rolians great ervice, for whereas



abundance of our Men o( the #eather were for routing the rolians, they lately fell down to 1><

or thereabouts/

%ll this confirm'd the first Man's $"inion that he )as a rolian in Disguise, or an Emissaryem"loy'd by them to ruin the Pro!ect of their Enemies# for these rolians are da"n2d cunning

eople in their )ay, and they have Mony enough to engage :irelings to their side/

%nother Party concern'd in this lot was an old cast%out Solunarian riest , who, tho' "rofessing

himself a Solunarian, was turn'd out for adhering to the $!rograzian :ing , a mighty tickler forthe Doctrin of a!solute Su!9ection/

)his Man draws the "ost "onstrous icture o( a rolian that could be invented, he "ut him in a

5ol(2s Skin with long $sses Ears, and hung him all over full of $ssociations, Massacres,

ersecutions, 0e!ellions, and Blood / :ere the Peo"le began to stare again, and a rolian cou'dnot go along the treet but they were alway's looking for the long Ears, the 5ol(2s la)s, and the

like# 'till at last nothing of these )hings a""earing, but the rolians looking and acting like other

#olks, they begun to e+amine the Matter, and found this was a "eer rolian lot too, and this Man was hir'd to run these e+travagant lengths to "oint out the right meaning/

The Discovery !eing "ade, Peo"le ever since understand him that when he talks of the

Dissenters $ssociations, Murthers, ersecutions, and the like, he means that his 8eaders should

look back to the Murthers, Oppressions and ersecutions they had suffered for several "astyears, and the $ssociations that were now forming to bring them into the same Condition again/

rom this famous %uthor I could not but "roceed to observe the farther Progress of this most

refin'd "iece of Cunning, among the very great Ones, *randees, #eathers, and onsolidators of

the Country/ or these unning rolians manag'd their Intriegues so nicely, that they brought

about a amous Division even among the /igh Solunarian arty the"selves# and whereas the5aw of ualification was reviv'd again, and in great Danger of being com"leated# these subtle

rolians brought over $ne :undred and )hirty our o( the #eathers in the amous onsolidatorto be of their side, and to ontrive the utter Destruction o( it # and thus (ell the Design which the

/igh Solunarian Church Men had laid for the 8uin of the rolians -nterest , by their own riends

first !oyning in all the E+tremes they had "ro"osed, and then "ushing it so much farther, and to

such "ad eriods that the very highest of them stood a"az2d at the Design, startled (le) !ack and made a (ull stop# they were willing to 8uin the rolians, but they were not willing to 8uin

the whole -ation/ )he more these Men began to consider, the more furiously these Plotters

carry'd on their E+travagances# at last they made a *eneral push at a thing in which they knew ifthe other /igh Men !oyn'd, they must throw all into on(usion, bring a #oreign Ene"y on their

.acks, unravel all the Thread o( the 5ar , fight all their 9ictories !ack again, and involve the

whole -ation in Blood and on(usion/

)hey knew well enough that most of the /igh Men would hesitate at this, they knew if they didnot the *randees and atriarchs would re!ect it, and so they "laid the surest *a"e to blast and

overthrow this 5aw, that could "ossibly be "laid/



If any Man, in the )hole 5orld in the Moon, will "retend this was not a lot , a rolian Design, a

meer onspiracy to destroy the +a), let him tell me for what other end could these Men offer

such e+treams as they needs must know would meet with immediate o""osition, things that theyknew all the :onest Men, all the *randees, all the atriarchs, and almost all the #eathers would

o""ose/

rom hence all the Men of any fore;sight brought it to this "ass, as is before -oted, that either

these $ne :undred and )hirty our were #ools or Mad%Men, or that it was a hanatick rolian lot and Cons"iracy to 8uin the makeing this 5aw, which the rest of the Solunarian hurch

Men were very forward to carry on/

I heard indeed some Men %rgue that this could not be, the breach was too wide between the

rolians and these entlemen ever to come to such an %greement# but the 5iser /eads who

argu'd the other way, always brought them, as is noted above, to this "inch of %rgument# that

either it must be so, !e a #anatick rolian lot , or else the Men o( #ury were all #ools, Mad"en,

and fitter for an /ospital , than a tate;:ouse, or a ulpit /

It must be allow'd, these rolians were Cunning Peo"le, thus to wheedle in these /igh #lying

Solunarians to break the -eck of their dear Pro!ect/

.ut u"on the whole, for ought I cou'd see, whether it went one way or t'other, all the -ation

esteem'd the other Peo"le #ools %%%%%% #ools o( the "ost e,traordinary ize in all the Moon (oreither )ay they "ull'd down what they had been many 6ears a .uilding/

I cannot say that this was in kindness to the rolians, but in meer Malice to the +o) Solunarian

arty, who had the overnment in their :ands, for Malice al)ays carries Men on to "onstrous

E,tre"es/

ome indeed have thought it hard to call this a Plot, and a Confederacy )ith the rolians/;;;;;;.ut I cannot but think it the kindest thing that can !e said o( the", and that 'tis im"ossible those

Peo"le who "ush'd at some imaginary )hings in that +a) could but be in a Plot as aforesaid, or

be "erfectly +unatick , down right Mad;Men, or )raytors to their Country, and let the" choose)hich haracter they like/

I cannot in Charity but s"are them their /onesty, and their Senses, and attribute it all to their

Policy/

(hen I had understood all things at large, and found the e+ceeding de"th of the Design# I must

confess the Discovery of these things )as very diverting , and the more so, when I made the "ro"er 8eflections u"on the $nalogy there see"2d to !e between these Solunarian /igh hurch%

Men in the Moon, and ours here in England # our /igh hurch%Men are no more to com"are to

these, than the :undred and )hirty our, are to the onsolidators/

$urs can Plot now and then a little among themselves, but then 'tis all *ross and plain Sailing ,

down right taking $r"s, calling in oreign orces, $ssassinations and the like# but these are

nothing to the more E+0uisite :eads in the Moon/ or they have the subtillest (ays with them,



that ever were heard of/ )hey can "ake 5ar with a Prince, on "ur"ose to !ring hi" to the

ro)n# fit out vast 3avies against hi", that he may have the more leisure to take their Merchant

Men# make Descents u"on him, on "ur"ose to come :ome and do nothing # if they have a mind toa ea ight, they carefully send out %dmirals that care not to come within half a Mile of the

Enemy, that coming off safe they may have the !oasting art of the 9ictory, and the !eaten art

!oth together /

')would be endless to call over the 8oll of their sublime Politicks/ )hey da"n Moderation inorder to eace and 8nion, set the :ouse on #ire to save it from Desolation, Plunder to avoid

Persecution, and consolidate Things in order to their more i""ediate Dissolution/

:ad our /igh hurch%Men been Masters of these e+cellent %rts, they had long ago brought theirDesigns to "ass/

)he e+0uisite Plot of these /igh Solunarians answer'd the rolians End , for it broke all their

Enemies Measures, the 5aw vanish'd, the randees could hardly be "erswaded to read it, and

when it was "ro"os'd to be read again, they hist at it , and threw it by with Contem"t/

-or was this all# for it not only lost them their Design as to this 5aw, but it also absolutely brokethe Party, and !ust as it was with $da" and Eve, as soon as they Sinn2d they 1uarrell2d , and fell

out with one another# so, as soon as things came to this height, the arty (ell out one a"ong

another , and even the /igh Men themselves were divided, some were for onsolidating , andsome not for onsolidating , some were for Tacking , and some not for Tacking , as they were, or

were not let into the ecret/

If this on(usion o( +anguages, or Interest, lost them the real Design, it cannot be a wonder# have

we not always seen it in our 5orld , that dividing an Interest, weakens and e+"oses itG :as not a

great many both good and bad Designs been render'd %bortive in this our +o)er 5orld , for wantof the /ar"ony o( arties, and the *nanimity of those concern'd in the DesignG

:ow had the knot o( 0e!ellion been dissolv'd in England , if it had not been untied by the very

:ands o( those that knit it G %ll the contrary orce had been entirely broken and subdu'd, and the 0estoration o( Monarchy had never ha""en'd in England , if 8nion and $gree"ent had been

found among the managers of that %ge/

)he Enemies of the "resent Establishment have shown sufficiently that they "erfectly understand

the shortest )ay to our infallible Destruction, when they bend their "rinci"le orce at dividing usinto Parties, and kee"ing those "arties at the utmost variance/

But this is not all , the %uthor of this cannot but observe here that as England is unha""ily

divided among Parties, so it has this one elicity even to be found in the very matter of her

Misfortunes, that those Parties are all again subdivided among themselves/

:ow 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 so"e /igh and so"e +o) Church;men/ %nd what Mischief

might not that one Party ha' done in this -ation, had not they been divided again into Jurant



Jaco!ites and 3on%Jurant , into onsolidators and 3on%onsolidatorsG rom whence 'tis "lain to

me, that 9ust as it is in the Moon these onsolidating hurch%"en are meer Confederates with

the 5higs# and it must be so, unless we should su""ose them meer "ad Men that don't knowwhat they are a doing, and who are the Drudges of their Enemies, and kno' nothing of the Matter/

%nd from this +unar O!servation it "resently occur'd to my *nderstanding, that "y Masters the Dissenters may come in for a share among the Moon%!lind Men of this eneration, since had

they done for their own Interest what the +a)s (airly ad"its to be done, had they been uniteda"ong the"selves, had they form'd themselves into a olitick Body to have acted in a "ublick,

united Ca"acity !y general oncert , 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 -ntrigues to ruin and suppress the", they had never been so often Tackt and

onsolidated to $""ression and Persecution, and yet never have rebell'd or broke the Peace,

incurr'd the Dis"leasure of their Princes, or have been u"braided with Plots, Insurrections and $nti"onarchical rinciples# when they had made )reaties and Ca"itulations with the Church (or

Te"per and Toleration, the %rticles would have been ke"t, and these would have demanded

7ustice with an %uthority that would u"on all $ccasions !e respected /

(ere they united in ivil olity in Trade and -nterest , would they Buy and Sell with oneanother , abstract their Stocks, erect Banks and o"panies in )rade o( their o)n, lend their Cash

to the overnment in a Body, and as a Body/

If I were to tell them what %dvantages the rolians in the Moon make of this sort of

management, how the overnment finds it their Interest to treat them civilly, and use them likeub!ects of Consideration# how u"on all $ccasions some of the *randees and 3o!ility a""ear as

Protectors of the rolians, and treat with their Princes in their -ames, "resent their Petitions, and

make Demands from the Prince of such 5oans and Su"s o( Mony as the "ublick $ccasions

re0uire# and what abundance of %dvantages are rea"t from such a *nion, both to their own .odyas a Party, and to the overnment also they would be convinc'd# wherefore I cannot but very

earnestly desire of the Dissenters and (higs in "y o)n ountry that they would take a 7ourny inmy onsolidator u" to the Moon, they would certainly see there what vast %dvantages they lose

for want of a Spirit o( 8nion, and a concert of Measures among themselves/

)he rolians in the Moon are Men of large Souls, and enerously stand by one another on all

Occasions# it was never known that they deserted any .ody that suffer'd for them, "y Old hilosopher e,cepted , and that was a sur"rize u"on them/

)he 8eason of the Difference is "lain, our Dissenters here have not the %dvantage of a

ogitator , or thinking Engine, as they have in the Moon/;;;;; (e have the Elevator here and are

lifted u" "retty much, but in the Moon they always go into the Thinking Engine u"on every E"ergency, and in this they out;do us of this (orld on every $ccasion/

In general therefore I must note that the wisest Men I found in the Moon, when they understood

the -otes I had made as above, of the sub;divisions of our Parties, told me that it was the greatest

:a""iness that could ha' been obtained to our Country, for that if our Parties had not been thusdivided, the 3ation had !een undone/ )hey own'd that had not their Solunarian arty been



divided among themselves, the rolians had been undone, and all the Moon had been involv'd in

ersecution, and been very "robably sub!ected to the *allunarian Monarch/

)hus the (atal Errors o( Men have their advantages, the se"erate ends they serve are not foreseen by their %uthors and they do good against the very Design o( the eople, and the nature of the

Evil it self/

%nd now that I may encourage our eople to that Peace and good *nderstanding among

themselves, which can alone "roduce their afety and Deliverance# I shall give a brief %ccounthow the rolians in the Moon came to o"en their Eyes to their own Interest, how they came to

8nite# and how the ruits of that 8nion secur'd them from ever being insulted again by the

Solunarian arty, who in time gave over the vain and fruitless %ttem"t, and so a universal +unar

al" has s"read the whole Moon ever since/

If our eople will not listen to their own %dvantages, nor do their o)n Business, let them take

the conse0uences to themselves, they cannot blame the Man in the Moon/

)o endeavour to bring this to "ass, as these Memoirs have run thro' the general :istory of the

euds and unha""y .reaches between the Solunarian Church and the rolian Dissenters in the5orld o( the Moon, it would seem an im"erfect and abru"t 8elation, if I should not tell you how,

and by what Method, tho2 long hid (ro" their Eyes, the rolians came to understand their own

Interest and kno) their o)n Strength/

')is true, it seem'd a (onder to me when I consider'd the E+cellence and 9ariety of those perspective *lasses I have mentioned, the clearness of the %ir, and consequently o( the /ead , in

this 5unar (orld/ I say it was very strange the rolians 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 "ursued their own

Interest, and made use of those, legal $""ortunities which lay before them, to "ut themselves ina Posture, as that the overnment it self should think them a .ody too big to be insulted, and

find it their Interest to kee" Measures with them/

It was indeed a long time before they o"en'd their Eyes to these advantages, but bore the Insultsof the hair;brain'd Party, with a weakness and negligence that was as un!ustifiable in them, as

unaccountable to all the -ations of the Moon/

.ut at last, as all violent E+tremes rouze their contrary E,tre"eties, the folly and e+travagance

of the /igh Solunarians drove the rolians into their enses, and rouz2d the" to their ownInterest, the occasion was among a great many others as follows/

)he eager Solunarian could not on all occasions forbear to show their dee" 8egret at the

Dissenting rolians en!oying the )olleration of their 8eligion, !y a +a) ;;;/

%nd when all their legal %ttem"ts to lessen that 5iberty had "rov'd %bortive, her Solunarian Ma9esty on all $ccasions re"eating her assurances of the continuance of her Protection, and

"articularly the maintaining this )olleration Inviolable/ )hey "roceeded then to show the remains

of their Mallice, in little -nsults, mean and illegal Methods, and continual "rivate Disturbances



u"on "articular Persons, in which, however the rolians having recourse to the 5aw, always

found 7ustice on their side, and had redress with %dvantage, of which the following Instance is

more than ordinarily 8emarkable/

)here had been a 5aw made by the Men o( the #eather , that all the meaner Idle sort of Peo"le,

who had no settel'd way of living should go to the (ars, and the +azognians, a sort ofMagistrates there, in the nature of our 7ustices of the Peace, were to send them away by orce/

-ow it ha""en'd in a certain Solunarian -sland , that for want of a better, one of their :igh Priestswas "ut into the Civil %dministration, and made a +azognian/;;;;; In the -eighbourhood of this

Man's 7urisdiction, one of their own Solunarian riests had turn'd rolian, and whether he had a

better )allent at "erformance, or rather was more diligent in his $ffice is not material, but he setu" a kind of a rolian )em"le in an old .arn, or some such Mechanick .uilding, and all the

Peo"le flock'd after him/

)his so "rovok'd his -eighbours o( the !lack *irdle, an $rder of Priests, of which he had been

one, that they resolv'd to su""ress him let it cost what it would/

)hey run strange lengths to bring this to "ass/

They (org2d strange Stories o( hi", defam'd him, run him into 7ayl u"on frivolous and groundless

$ccasions, re"resented him as a Monster o( a Man, told their tory so plain, and made it so

specious, that even the rolians themselves to their Sha"e, believ'd it, and took u" Pre!udices

against the Poor Man, which had like to ha' been his 8uin/

They proscri!2d hi" in rint for Crimes they could never "rove, they !randed hi" with orgery,

%dultery, Drunkenness, wearing, breaking 7ayl, and abundance of Crimes# but when Matters

were e+amin'd and things came to the )est, they could never prove the least thing upon hi"/;;;;;In this manner however they continually worryed the "oor Man, till they ruin'd his amily andreduc2d hi" to Beggary# and tho' he came out of the Prison they cast him into by the meer force

of Innocence, yet they never left "ersuing him with all sorts of violence/;;;;;; %t last they made

use of their Brother o( the *irdle who was in Commission as above, and this Man being /igh riest and +azonian too, by the (irst was a Party, and by the last had a Power to act the )ragedy

they had plotted against the "oor Man/

-n short , they seiz'd him without any Crime alledg'd, took violently from him his +icence as a

rolian riest , by which the 5aw !ustify'd what he had done, "retending it was forg'd, and aftervery ill )reating him, conde"n2d hi" to the 5ars, delivers him u" for a ouldier, and

accordingly carry'd him away/

.ut it ha""en'd, to their great Mortification, that this Man found more Mercy from the Men o(

the S)ord , than from those o( the 5ord , and so found means to get out of their :ands, andafterwards to undeceive all the Moon, both as to his own Character, and as to what he had

uffer'd/



or some of the rolians, who began to be made sensible of the In!ury done the "oor Man,

advis'd him to have recourse to the 5aw, and to bring his %dversaries before the ri"inal Bar /

.ut as soon as this was done, good *od> what a Scene o( 4illainy was here o"ened= )he "oorMan brought u" such a Cloud of (itnesses to confront every %rticle of their Charge, and to

vindicate his own Character, that when the very 7udges heard it, tho' they were all Solunarians themselves, they held u" their :ands, and declar'd in o"en Court it was the deepest Track o(

4illany that ever came before them, and that the %ctors ought to be made E+am"les to all the Moon/

)he Persons concern'd, us'd all "ossible %rts to avoid, or at least to delay the hame, and ad!ourn

the Punishment, thinking still to weary the "oor Man out/;;;;;; .ut now his .rethren the

rolians began to see themselves wounded thro' his ides, and above all, finding his Innocence

clear'd u" beyond all manner of dis"ute, they espous2d his ause, and assisted him to "rosecute

his Enemies, which he did, till he brought them all to 7ustice, e+"os'd them to the last Degree,

obtain'd the re"aration of all his 5osses, and a "ublick Decree of the 7udges of his 7ustification

and (uture 0epose/

Indeed when I saw the Proceedings against this "oor Man run to a heighth so e+travagant and

monstrous, when I found Malice, #orgery, Su!ornation, er9ury, and a thousand un!ustifiable

)hings which their own ense, if they had any, might ha' been their Protection against, andwhich any Child in the Moon might ha' told them must one time or other co"e upon the Stage

and e+"ose them# I began to think these Peo"le were all in the rolian lot too/

or really such Proceedings as these were the greatest "ieces of ervice to the rolians as could "ossibly be done# for as it generally "roves in other Places as well as in the Moon, that Mischie(un9ustly contriv2d falls u"on the :ead of the %uthors, and redounds to their treble Dishonour, so

it was here# the barbarity and inhumane )reatment of this Man, made the sober and honest Parteven of the Solanarians themselves blush for their .rethren, and own that the Punishmentawarded on them was !ust/

)hus the rolians got ground by the olly and Madness of their Enemies, and the very Engines

and Plots laid to in!ure them, serv'd to bring their Enemies on the tage, and e+"ose both them

and their Cause/

But this )as not all , by these incessant %ttacks on them as a Party, they began to come to their

Senses out of a @2 6ear slumber, they found the 5aw on their side, and the overnment

Moderate and 7ust# they found they might oppose 4iolence )ith +a), and that when they did fly

to the 8efuge of 7ustice, they always had the better of their Enemy# flusht with this uccess, it "ut them u"on considering )hat #ools they had !een all along to bear the Insolence of a few hot;

headed Men, who contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of the ueen, or of the overnment,

had resolv2d their Destruction/

It "ut them u"on revolving the tate of their own Case, and co"paring it )ith their Ene"ies#

u"on E+amining on what foot they stood, and tho' Establish'd u"on a firm 5aw, yet a violent

Party pushing at the overthro) o( that Esta!lish"ent , and dissolving the legal 8ight they had to



their 5iberty and 8eligion# it "ut them u"on duly weighing the nearness of their a""roaching

8uin and Destruction, and finding things run so hard against them, reflecting u"on the E+tremity

of their %ffairs, and how if they had not drawn in the :igh Church;Cham"ions to da"n the ro9ects of their own Party, by running at such des"erate E+tremes as all Men of any )em"er

must of course abhor, they had been undone# truly no) they !egan to consider , and to consult

with one another )hat )as to !e done/

%bundance of Pro!ects were laid before them, some too Dangerous, some too oolish to be "ut in "ractice# at last they resolv'd to consult )ith "y hilosopher /

:e had been but scurvily treated by them in his )roubles, and so *niversally abandon'd by the

rolians, that even the Solunarians themselves insulted them on that :ead, and laugh'd at themfor e+"ecting any .ody should venture for them again/;;;;; .ut he forgetting their unkindness,

ask'd them what it was they desir'd of himG

)hey told him, they had heard that he had re"orted he could "ut the rolians in a way to secure

themselves from any "ossibility of being insulted again !y the Solunarians, and yet not disturbthe "ublick )ran0uility, nor !reak the +a)s# and they desir'd him, if he knew such a ecret, he

would communicate it to them, and they would be sure to re"e"!er to (orget hi" (or it as long

as he liv2d /

:e frankly told them he had said so and it )as true, he could "ut them in a way to do all this ifthey would follow his Directions/ 5hat2s that says one of the most earnest En0uirersG ;;;;; ')is

included in one (ord, says he, *-I)E/

)his most significant (ord, dee"ly and solidly reflected u"on, "ut them u"on strange and

various Con!ectures, and many long Debates they had with themselves about it# at last they came

again to him, and ask'd him )hat he "ean2t !y it G

:e told them he knew they were Strangers to the "eaning of the thing, and therefore if they

would meet him the ne+t Day he would come "re"ar'd to e+"lain himself# accordingly they meet,

when instead of a long "eech they e+"ected from him what sort of *nion he mean't, and )ith)ho, he brings them a Thinking ress, or ogitator , and setting it down, goes away without

s"eaking one (ord/

)his /yerogliphical %dmonition was too "lain not to let the" all into his "eaning # but still as

they are an obstinate Peo"le, and not a little valuing themselves u"on their own &nowledge andPenetration, they slighted the Engine and fell to off;hand;Sur"ises, *uesses and Supposes/

1/ ome concluded he mean't 8nite )ith the Solunarian hurch, and they reflected u"on his

*nderstanding, that not being the uestion in :and, and something remote from their Intention,

or the :igh Solunarians Desire/

A/ ome mean't 8nite to the moderate Party o( the Solunarians, and this they said they had done

already/



%t last some !eing very unning , found it out, that it must be his meaning 8nite one a"ong

another # and even there again they misunderstood him too# and some imagin'd he mean't down

right 8ebellion, *niting Power, and Mobbing the whole Moon, !ut he soon convinc2d the" o(that too/

%t last they took the :int, that his %dvice directed them to 8nite their su!divided arties intoone general Interest, and to act in Concert u"on one bottom, to lay aside the Sel(ish 3arro)

Suspicious Spirit # three ualifications the rolians were but too !ustly charg'd with, and begin toact with Courage, *nanimity and 5argeness of oul, to o"en their Eyes to their own Interest,

maintain a regular and constant Corres"ondence with one another in all "arts of the &ingdom,

and to !ring their civil -nterest into a #or"/

)he %uthor of this %dvice having thus brought them to understand, and a""rove his Pro"osal,

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 u"on the whole Solunarian -ation/

%s soon as ever they had settled the Methods they resolv'd to act in, they form'd a generalouncil of the :eads of their Party, to be always sitting, to reconcile Differences, to unite

Parties, to su""ress euds in their beginning/

)hey a""ointed > general Meetings in > of the most remote Parts of the &ingdom, to be half

yearly, and one universal Meeting of Persons de"uted to concert matters among them in eneral/

.y that time these Meetings had sat but once, and the Conduct of the Council of 1A began toa""ear, 'twas a wonder to see the "rodigious alteration it made all over the Country/

Immediately a rolian would never !uy any thing but of a rolian# would hire no ervants,

em"loy neither Porter nor Carman, but what were rolians/

)he rolians in the Country that wrought and manag'd the Manufactures, would em"loy no body but rolian Spinners rolian 5eavers, and the like/

In their ca"ital City the Merchandizing rolians would freight no hi"s but of which the $wners

and Commanders were rolians/

)hey call'd all their Cash out of the Solunarian Bank # and as the %ct of the Cortez confirming the

.ank then in being seem'd to be their u""ort, they made it "lain that Cash and Credit will makea .ank without a "ublick ettlement of 5aw# and )ithout these all the 5aws in the Moon will

never be able to su""ort it/

)hey brought all their running Cash into one .ank, and settled a sub;Cash de"ending u"on therand;.ank in every Province of the &ingdom# in which, by a strict Corres"ondence and

crediting their .ills, they might be able to settle a Pa"er Credit over the whole -ation/

)hey went on to settle themselves in all sorts of )rade in o"en Com"anies, and sold off their

Interests in the "ublick tocks then in )rade/



If the overnment wanted a Million of Mony u"on any Emergency, they were ready to lend it as

a .ody, not by different ums and "rivate :ands blended together with their Enemies, but as will

a""ear at large "resently, it )as only rolian Mony, and "ass'd as such/

-or were the Conse0uences of this 3e) Model less considerable than the Pro"oser e+"ected, for

the rolians being generally of the )rading Manufacturing "art of the (orld, and very 0ich# theinfluence this method had u"on the common Peo"le, u"on )rade, and u"on the Publick was very

considerable every way/

1/ %ll the Solunarian Trades%Men and Shop%keepers were at their (its end, they sat in their

ho"s and had little or nothing to do, while the ho"s of the rolians were full of Customers,

and their Peo"le over :ead and Ears in .usiness# this turn'd many of the Solunarian )rades;Men0uite off o( the hooks, and they began to break and decay strangely, till at last a great many of

them to "revent their utter 8uin, turn'd rolians on "ur"ose to get a )rade# and what forwarded

that "art of it was, that when a Solunarian, who had little or no )rade before, came but over to

the rolians, immediately every .ody come to )rade with him, and his ho" would be full of

Customers, so that this "resently encreas'd the number of the rolians/

A/ )he "oor Peo"le in the Countries, arders, Spinners, 5eavers, :nitters, and all sorts of

Manu(acturers, run in Crowds to the rolian Te"ples for fear of being starv'd, for the rolians

were two thirds of the Masters or Em"loyers in the Manufactures all over the Country, and thePoor would ha' been starv'd and undone if they had cast them out of (ork/ )hus infenfibly the

rolians encreas'd their number/

>/ )he rolians being Men of vast ash, they no sooner withdrew their Mony from the *eneral

Bank but the Bank languisht , Credit sunk , and in a short time they had little to do, but dissolv2do( ourse/

$ne thing remain'd which Peo"le e+"ected would ha' "ut a Check to this *ndertaking, and that

was a way of )rading in Classes, or Societies, much like our East%-ndia o"panies in England #and these de"ending u"on "ublick Privileges granted by the ueen of the Country, or her

Predecessors, no .ody could )rade to those Parts but the Persons who had those "riviledges= )he

cunning rolians, who had great tocks in those )rades, and foresaw they could not )rade by

themselves without the "ublick *rant or harter , contriv'd a way to get almost all that Ca"ital)rade into their :ands as follows/

)hey concerted Matters, and all at once fell to selling o(( their Stock , giving out daily 8e"orts

that they would be no longer concern2d , that it was a losing )rade, that the #und at !otto" )as

good (or nothing , and that of two ocieties the Old one had not A2 per ent. to divide, all theirDebts being "aid# that the 3e) Society had )raded several 6ears, 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/

.y this %rtifice, they daily offering to ale, and yet in all their Discourse discouraging the thing

they )ere to sell no .ody could be found to buy/



)he offering a thing to ale and no .idders, is a certain never;failing "ros"ect of a lo)ring the

rice# from this Method therefore the value of all the .anks, Com"anies, ocieties and tocks in

the Country fell to be little or nothing worth# and that was to be bought for <2 or <@ +unarians that was formerly sold at 1@2, and so in "ro"ortion of all the rest/

%ll this while the rolians em"loy'd their Emissaries to buy u" "rivately all the Interest orhares in these )hings that any of the Solunarian Party would sell/

This lot took readily, for these entlemen e+"osing the weakness of these Societies, andrunning down the value of their Stocks, and at the same time warily buying at the lowest Prices,

not only in ti"e got ossession o( the )hole Trade, with their rants, Privileges and tocks, but

got into them at a "rodigiously low and des"icable Price/

)hey had no sooner thus worm'd them out of the )rade, and got the greatest "art of the Effects intheir own :ands, and conse0uently the whole Management, but they run u" the Price of the

unds again as high as ever, and laught at the folly of those that sold out/

-or could the other Peo"le make any 8eflections u"on the honesty of the "ractice, for it was no

Original , but had its birth among the Solunarians the"selves, of whom > or < had fre0uentlymade a )rade of raising and lowring the unds of the ocieties by all the Clandestine

Contrivances in the (orld, and had ruin'd abundance of amilies to raise their own ortunes and

Estates/

$ne of the greatest Merchants in the Moon rais'd himself by this Method to such a heighth of(ealth, that he left all his Children married to randees, Dukes, and reat olks# and from a

Mechanick Original , they are now rankt among the +unarian -obility, while multitudes of ruin'd

amilies hel"t to !uild his #ortune, by sinking under the &navery of his Contrivance/

:is .rother in the same Ini0uity, being at this time a Man o( the #eather , has carry'd on the sameintrieguing )rade with all the #ace and #ront imaginable# it has been nothing with him to

"ersuade his most intimate riends to Sell , or Buy, !ust as he had occasion for his own Interest to

have it rise, or (all , and so to make his own Market of their Misfortune/ )hus he has t)ice rais2dhis #ortunes, for the /ouse o( #eathers demolisht him once, and yet he has by the same

clandestine Management work'd himself u" again/

)his civil )ay o( 0o!!ing /ouses, for I can esteem it no better, was carry'd on by a middle sort

of Peo"le, call'd in the Moon .5$*)E$-DE$*8, which which signifies Men )ith t)oTongues, or in English, Stock%Jo!!ing Brokers/

)hese had formerly such an unlimited Power and were so nu"erous, that indeed they govern'd

the whole )rade of the Country# no Man knew when he Bought or Sold , for tho' they "retended

to .uy and ell, and Manage (or other Men whose tocks they had very much at Command, yetnothing was more fre0uent than )hen they !ought a thing cheap, to buy it for the"selves# if

dear , for their E"ployer # if they were to ell, i( the rice rise, it was Sold , if it #ell , it was

8nsold # and by this %rt no body got any Mony but themselves, that at last, e+ce"ting the twocapital Men we s"oke of before, these govern'd the Prizes of all things, and nothing could be



.ought or old to %dvantage !ut thro2 their hands# and as the Profit was "rodigious, their

number encreas'd accordingly, so that .usiness seem'd engross'd by these Men, and they

govern'd the main %rticles of )rade/

This Success, and the -"prudence o( their onduct , brought great Com"laints against them to the

overnment, and a 5aw was made to restrain the", both in Practice and 3u"!er /

)his 5aw has in some measure had its Effect, the number is not only lessen'd, but !y chance

some honester Men than usual are got in among them, but they are so very very very ew,hardly enough to save a Man's Credit that shall vouch for them/

-ay, some Peo"le that "retend to understand their .usiness better than I do, having been of their

-umber, have affirm'd, it is im"ossible to be honest in the em"loyment/

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 tories 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 ofPeo"le and ocieties, and in Con!unction with some that were not 0ualify'd by 5aw, but meerly

9oluntarily, call'd in the Moon by a hard long (ord, in English signifying P8$7EC)$8 theseerected tocks in Shado)s, ocieties in 3u!i!us, and .ought and old meer 9a"our, (ind,

Em"tiness and .luster for Mony, till they drew Peo"le in to lay out their Cash, and then laught at

them/

)hus they erected Pa"er ocieties, 5innen ocieties, ul"hur ocieties, Co""er ocieties, lassocieties, ham .anks, and a thousand mock (himsies to hook unwary Peo"le in# at last sold

themselves out , left the .ubble to float a little in the %ir, and then vanish of it self/

)he other sort of Peo"le go on after all this# and tho' these Pro!ectors began to be out of ashion,they always found one thing or other to amuse and deceive the Ignorant, and went Jo!!ing on into all manner of things, Publick as well as Private, whether the 8evenue, the Publick unds,

5oans, %nnuities, Bear%Skins, or any thing/

-ay they were once grown to that e+travagant highth, that they began to tock;7ob the veryeathers of the Consolidator, and in time the &ing's em"loying those Peo"le might have had

what eathers they had occasion for, without concerning the Pro"rietors of the 5ands much

about them/

')is true this began to be notorious, and receiv'd some check in a former meeting of the #eathers#

but even now, when I came away, the three 6ears e+"iring, and by Course a new Consolidator being to be built, they were as busie as ever/ .idding, $ffering, Procuring, .uying, elling, and

7obbing of eathers to who bid most# and notwithstanding several late wholesome and strict

5aws against all manner of Collusion, .ribery and clandestine Methods, in the Countries "rocuring these eathers# never was the Moon in such an u"roar about "icking and culling the

eathers, such .ribery, such Drunkenness, such Caballing, es"ecially among the :igh

Solunarian Clergy and the +azognians, such easting, ighting and Distraction, as the like hasnever been known/



%nd that which is very 8emarkable, all this not only before the $ld Consolidator was broke u",

but even while it was actually whole and in use/

:ad this hurry been to send u" good eathers, there had been the less to say, but that which madeit very strange to me was, that where the very worst of all the eathers were to be found, there

was the most of this wicked (ork# and tho' it was bad enough every where, yet the greatest bustle and contrivance was in order to send u" the worst eathers they could get/

%nd indeed some Places such orry, coundrel, Em"ty, :usky, (ither'd, Decay'd eathers wereoffer'd to the Pro"rietors, that I have sometimes wonder'd any one could have the Im"udence to

send u" such ridiculous eathers to make a Consolidator, which, as is before observ'd, is an

Engine of such .eauty, *sefulness and -ecessity/

%nd still in all my $bservation, this -ote came in my way, there was always the most bustle anddisturbance about the worst eathers/

It was really a melancholly )hing to consider, and had this 5unar (orld been my -ativeCountry, I should ha' been full of concern to see that one thing, on which the welfare of the

whole -ation so much de"ended, "ut in so ill a Method, and gotten into the management of suchMen, who for Mony would certainly ha' set u" such eathers, that wherever the Consolidator

should be form'd, it would certainly over%set the first 9oyage# and if the whole -ation should

ha""en to be Embarkt in it, on the dangerous 4oyage to the Moon, the fall would certainly givethem such a hock, as would "ut them all into Confusion, and o"en the Door to the *allunarian,

or any oreign Enemy to destroy them/

It was really strange that this should be the Case, after so many 5aws, and so lately made, against

it# but in this, those Peo"le are too like our Peo"le in England , who have the best 5aws the worst

e+ecuted of any -ation under :eaven/

or in the Moon this hurry about choosing of eathers was grown to the greatest heighth

imaginable, as if it encreast by the very 5aws that were made to su""ress it# for now at a certain

"ublick Place where the Bloutegondegours us'd to meet every Day, any .ody that had but Monyenough might buy a eather at a reasonable 8ate, and never go down into the Country to fetch it#

nay, the )rade grew so hot, that of a sudden as if no other .usiness was in :and, all "eo"le were

u"on it, and the whole Market was chang'd from elling of .ear;kins, to .uying of eathers/

ome gave this for a 8eason why all the tocks of the ocieties fell so fast, but there were other8easons to be given for that, such as Clubs, Cabals, tock;7obbers, &nights, Merchants and

)hie;;;s/ I mean a private Sort , not such as are fre0uently :ang'd there, but o( a )orse Sort , byhow much they "erit that unish"ent "ore, but are out of the reach of the 5aw, can 8ob and "ick Pockets in the ace of the un, and laugh at the amilies they 8uin, bidding Defiance to all

legal 8esentment/

)o this height things were come under the growing Evil of this sort of Peo"le/



%nd yet in the very Moon where, as I have noted, the Peo"le are so e+ceeding clear Sighted , and

have such vast hel"s to their perceptive #aculties, such Mists are sometimes cast before the

"ublick *nderstanding, that they cannot see the general Interest/

)his was manifest, in that !ust as I came away from that Country, the great Council of their (ise

Men, the Men o( the #eather , were a going to re"eal the old 5aw of 8estraining the -umber ofthese Peo"le# and tho' as it )as, there was not Em"loyment for half of them, there being 122 in

all, and not above @ honest ones# yet when I came away they were going to encrease their -umber/ I have nothing to say to this here, only that all (ise Men that understand Trade were

very much concern'd at it, and lookt u"on it as a most destructive Thing to the u!lick , and

forboding the same mischiefs that )rade suffer'd before/

It was the "articular Misfortune to these 5unar Peo"le that this Country had a better tock of

overnors in all %rticles of their (ell;fare, than in their )rade# their 5aw %ffairs had good

7udges, their Church good Patriarchs, e,cept as "ight !e e,cepted # their State good Ministers,

their $r"y good *enerals, and their onsolidator good #eathers# but in Matters relating to

)rade, they had this "articular Misfortune, that those Cases always came before Peo"le that didnot understand the"/

Even the 7udges themselves were often found at a 5oss to determine Causes of -egoce, such as

rotests, harter%arties, $varages, Baratry, De"orage of hi"s, 8ight of detaining 4essels onDemorage, and the like# nay, the very 5aws themselves are fain to be silent and yield in many

things a u"eriority to the usto" o( Merchants/

%nd here I began to ongratulate "y 3ative ountry, where the Prudence of the overnmenthas "rovided for these things, by Establishing in a o""ission o( Trade some of the "oste,perienc2d *entle"en in the 3ation, to 8egulate, ettle, Im"rove, and revive )rade in eneral,

by their unwearyed 5abours, and "ost consu""ate 8nderstanding # and this made me "ity theseCountries, and think it would be an %ction worthy of this -ation, and be s"oken of (or $ges toco"e to their lory, if in "eer harity they would a""oint or de"ute these *entle"en to go a

9oyage to those Countries o( the Moon, and bless those 8egions with the chemes of their

sublime *ndertakings, and discoveries in Trade/

.ut when I was e+"ressing my self thus, my Philoso"her interru"ted me, and told me I shouldsee they were already furnisht for that "ur"ose, when I came to e+amine the "ublick 5ibraries, o(

)hich !y it sel( /

.ut I was farther confirm'd in my $bservation of the weakness of the pu!lick /eads of that

Country, as to Trade, when I saw another most "re"osterous 5aw going forward among them,the )itle of which was s"ecious, and contain'd something relating to e"ploying the oor , but the

substance of it a!solutely destructive to the very -ature of their )rade, tending to )rans"osing,

on(ounding and Destroying their Manufactures, and to the 8uin of all their /o"e%o""erce#never was -ation so blind to their own Interest as these +unarian +a) Makers, and the Peo"le

who were the Contrivers of this 5aw were so vainly onceited , so fond of the guilded Title, and

so positively Dog"atick , that they would not hear the fre0uent %""lications of Persons better



ac0uainted with those things than themselves, but "usht it on meerly !y the strength o( their

arty, for the 9anity of being %uthors of such a Contrivance/

.ut to return to the new Model of the rolians/ )he advice of the +unarian Philoso"her run nowthro' all their %ffairs, *-I)E )as the 5ord thro' all the -ation, in )rade, in Cash, in tocks, as I

noted before/

If a Solunarian hi" was bound to any Out ort , no rolian would load any oods aboard# if

any hi" came to seek reight abroad, none of the rolians Corres"ondents would hi" anything unless they knew the $wners )ere rolians# the rolian Merchants turn'd out all their

Solunarian Masters, Sailors and aptains from their hi"s# and thus, as the Solunarians would

have them be se"arated in res"ect of the overnment, ro(its, /onours and O((ices, they resolv'dto se"arate in every thing else too, and to stand by themselves/

%t last, u"on some "ublick $ccasion, the "ublick Treasurers of the 5and sent to the ca"ital City,

to borrow @22222 +unarians u"on very good ecurity of establisht unds# truly no Body )ould

lend any Mony, or at least they could not raise above a @th "art of that um, en0uiring at the Bank , at their general Societies ash, and other Places, all was languid and dull , and no Mony to

!e had # but being inform'd that the rolians had erected a .ank of their own, they sent thither ,

and were answered readily, that whatever um the overnment wanted, was at their ervice,

only it was to be lent not by "articular Persons, but such a *randee being one of the "rime -obility, and who the rolians now call'd their Protector, was to be Treated )ith a!out it /

The *overn"ent sa) no har" in all this# here was no 5aw broken, here was nothing but

$""ression answered with Policy, and Mischief fenc'd against with 8eason/

)he overnment therefore took no -otice of it, nor "ade any Scruple )hen they )anted any

Mony to )reat with this -obleman, and borrow any um o( the rolians, as rolians# on thecontrary in the -ame of the rolians# their /ead or rotector "resented their $ddresses and

etitions, "rocur'd avours on one :and, and %ssistance on the other# and thus !y degrees andinsensi!ly the rolians became a olitick Body, settled and establish'd by $rders and 8ules

among themselves# and while a Spirit o( 8nani"ity thus run thro' all their Proceedings, their

Ene"ies could never hurt the", their Princes always saw it was their -nterest to kee" Measures

with them, and they were sure to have 7ustice u"on any Com"laint whatsoever/

5hen - sa) this, it forc'd me to reflect u"on %ffairs in our own Country# 5ell said - , 'tis ha""y

for England that our Dissenters have not this "irit of 8nion and 5argeness of :eart among

them# for if they were not a 3arro), mean;Spirited , short;Sighted sel(%reserving (riend%

Betraying poor%3eglecting eople, they might ha' been every way as afe, as Considerable, as8egarded and as -umerous as the rolians in the Moon# but it is not in their ouls to do

themselves ood, nor to Es"ouse, or tand by those that would do it for them# and 'tis well for

the Church;Men that it is so, for many %ttem"ts have been made to save them, but their ownnarrowness of oul, and dividedness in Interest has always "revented its being effectual, and

discourag'd all the Instruments that ever attem"ted to serve them/



')is confest the Case was thus at first among the rolians, they were full of Divisions among

themselves, as I have noted already of the Solunarians, and the unha""y euds among them, had

always not only e+"os'd them to the Censure, 8e"roach and .anter of their Solunarian Enemies, but it had serv'd to kee" them under, "revent their being valued in the overnment, and given the

other Party vast %dvantages against/

.ut the Solunarians driving thus furiously at their Destruction and entire 8uin, o"en'd their Eyes

to the following Measures for their "reservation= %nd here again the high Solunarians may see,and doubtless whenever they made use of the 5unar;lasses they must see it, that nothing could

ha' driven the rolians to make use of such Methods for their Defence, but the rash Proceedings

of their own warm Men, in order to su""ressing the whole rolian Interest/ %nd this mightinform our Country;men of the Church of England , that it cannot but be their Interest to )reat

their .rethren with Moderation and )em"er, least their E+travagances should one time or other

drive the other as it were by orce into their enses, and o"en their Eyes to do only all those)hings which by 5aw they may do, and which they are laught at by all the (orld for not doing/

)his was the very Case in the Moon= )he Philoso"her, or pretended%such as !e(ore, had often "ublish'd, that it )as their -nterest to *-I)E# but their Eyes not being o"en to the true Causes

and -ecessity of it, their Ears were shut against the Council, till Oppression and 3ecessitiesdrove the" to it /

%ccordingly they entred into a serious Debate, of the tate of their own %ffairs, and finding the

%dvice given, very reasonable# they set about it, and the %uthor gave them a Model, Entitl'd $n

enquiry into )hat the rolians "ay la)(ully do to prevent the certain 0uin o( their -nterest and!ring their Ene"ies to eace/

I will not "retend to e+amine the Contents of this sublime )ract# but from this very Day, we

found the rolians in the Moon, acting 0uite on a different oot from all their former Conduct, "utting on a new )em"er, and a new ace, as you have hear'd/

%ll this while the hot Solunarians cried out lots $ssociations on(ederacies, and 0e!ellions,

when indeed here was nothing done but what the +a)s 9usti(y2d , what 0eason directed , and what

had the rolians !ut "ade use o( the ogitator , they would ha' done <2 6ear before/

)he )ruth is, the other Peo"le had no 8emedy, but to cry Murther , and make a -oise# for therolians went on with their %ffairs, and Establisht themselves so, that when I came away, they

were become a most olid, and well *nited .ody, made a considerable igure in the -ation, and

yet the overnment was easy# for the Solunarians found when they had attain'd the utmost end

of their (ishes, her Solunarian Ma9esty was as safe as before, and the rolians Pro"erty beingsecur'd, they were as 5oyal ub!ects as the Solunarians, as consistent with Monarchy, as useful

to it, and as pleas2d )ith it /

I cannot but 8emark here, that this 8nion o( the rolians among themselves had anotherConse0uence, which made it a""ear it was not only to their own %dvantage, but to the general

ood of all the -atien/



or, !y little and little, the euds of the Parties cool'd, and the Solunarians began to be better

reconcil'd to them# the overnment was easy and sa(e, and the "rivate uarrels, as I have been

told since, begin to be 0uite forgot/

(hat .lindness, said - to "y sel( , has "ossest the Dissenters in our unha""y Country of England ,

where by eternal Discords, #euds, Distrusts and Disgusts among themselves, they always filltheir Enemies with :o"es, that by "ushing at them, they may one time or other com"leat their

8uin# which E+"ectation has always serv'd as a means to kee" o"en the uarrel# whereas had theDissenters been *nited in -nterest , $((ection and Mannage"ent among themselves, all this :eat

had long ago !een over , and the -ation, tho' there had been t)o Opinions had retain'd but one

-nterest , been !oyn'd in %ffection, and eace at /o"e !een rais2d u" to that Degree that all (iseMen wish, as it is now among the Inhabitants of the (orld in the Moon/

)is true, in all the $bservations I made in this 5unar Country, the vast deference "aid to the

Persons of Princes began to lessen, and whatever 8es"ect they had for the O((ice, they found it

necessary fre0uently to tell the (orld that on occasion, they could )reat them with less 8es"ect

than they pretended to o)e the"/

or about this time, the Divine 0ight of &ings, and the Inheritances of Princes in the Moon, met

with a terrible hock, and that by the Solunarian arty the"selves# and insomuch that even my

Philoso"her, and he was none of the Jure Divino Men, neither declar'd, against it/

)hey made ro)ns per(ect #oot%!alls, set u" what &ings they would, and pull2d do)n such as

they did not like, 0atitione 4oluntas, right or wrong, as they thought best, of which some

E+am"les shall be given by and by/

%fter I had thus en0uir'd into the :istorical %ffairs of this 5unar -ation, which for its imilitude

to my -ative Country, I could not but be in0uisitive in# I wav'd a great many material )hings,which at least I cannot enter u"on the 8elation of here, and began to en0uire into their %ffairs

abroad/

I think I took notice in the beginning of my %ccount of these "arts, that I found them engag'd in atedious and bloody (ar, 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

8eader may observe these were some/

1/ )hat this was the same Monarch who harbour'd and entertain'd the $!rogratzian Prince, who

was fled as before, and who we are to call the &ing of *allunaria/

A/ I have omitted the %ccount of a long and bloody (ar, which lasted a great many 6ears, and

which the "resent ueens Predecessor, mannag'd with a great deal of .ravery and Conduct, and

finisht very much to his own lory, and the -ations %dvantage/

>/ I have too much omitted to -ote, how Bar!arously the /igh Solunarian hurch Men treatedhim for all his ervices, u"braided him with the E+"ence of the (ar# and tho' he sav'd them all



from 8uin and $!rogratzianis", yet had not one good (ord for him, and indeed 'tis with some

difficulty that I "ass this over, because it might be necessary to observe, besides what is said

before, that Ingratitude is a 9ice in -ature, and "ractis'd every where, as well as in England / othat we need not u"braid the arty among us with their ill )reatment of the late &ing, for these

Peo"le us'd their good &ing every 7ot as bad, till their unkindness "erfectly broke his :eart/

:ere also I am oblig'd to omit the :istorical Part of the (ar, and of the Peace that follow'd# only

I must observe that this Peace was very recarious, hort and 8nhappy, and in a few Months the(ar broke out again, with as much ury as ever/

In this (ar ha""en'd one of the strangest, unaccountable and most "re"osterous %ctions, that

ever a Peo"le in their -ational Ca"acity could be guilty of/

Certainly if our Peo"le in England , who "retend that &ingshi" is Jure Divino, did but know thetory of which I s"eak, they would be 0uite of another Mind# wherefore I crave leave to relate

"art of the :istory, or $riginal of this last (ar, as a necessary Introduction to the "ro"er

$bservations I shall make u"on it/

)here was a &ing of a certain Country in the Moon, call'd in their 5anguage, E!ronia, who wasformerly a Confederate with the Solunarians/ )his Prince dying without Issue, the great Monarch

we s"eak of, seiz'd u"on all his Dominions as his 8ight/;;;;; )ho' if I remember right, he had

formerly worn never to lay Claim to it, and after that by a subse0uent )reaty had agreed withthe Solunarian Prince, that another Monarch who claim'd a 8ight as well as he, should divide it

between them/

)he breach of this %greement, and seizing this &ingdom, "ut almost all the 5unar (orld into a

lame, and (ar hung over the :eads of all the -orthern -ations of the Moon, for several Claims

were made to the uccession by other Princes, and "articularly by a certain Potent Prince call'dthe Eagle, of an %ncient amily, whose +unar -ame I cannot well e+"ress, but in English it

signifies the Men o( the great +ip# whether it was $riginally a sort of a -ick -ame, or whetherthey had any such thing as a great 5i" :ereditary to the amily, by which they were distinguisht,

is not worth my while to E+amine/

')is without 0uestion that the successive 8ight, i( their +unar Successions are *overn2d as ours

are in this )orld , devolv'd u"on this Man )ith the +ip and his amilies# but the *allunarian Monarch brought things so to "ass, by his e+traordinary Conduct, that the E!ronian &ing was

drawn in by some of his -obility, )ho this rince had Bought and .rib'd to betray their Country

to his Interest, and "articularly a certain /igh riest of that Country, to make an %ssignment, or

deed o( *i(t of all his Dominions to the randson of this *allunarian Monarch/

By 4ertue o( this *i(t , or 5egacy, as soon as the &ing dyed, who was then languishing, and as the

other Parry alledg'd, not in a very good capacity to "ake a 5ill # the *allunarian &ing sent his

randson to seize u"on the Crown, and backing him with suitable orces, took Possession of allhis strong ortifications and rontiers/



-or was this all, the Man )ith the +ip indeed talkt big, and threatned (ar immediately, but the

Solunarians were so unsettl'd at :ome, so un"re"ar'd for (ar, having but !ust dismist their

%u+iliar )roo"s, and disbanded their own, and the Prince was so ill serv'd by his ub!ects, that both he and a Powerful -eighbour, -ations in the same Interest, were meerly .ullyed by this

*allunarian# and as he threatned immediately to Invade them, which they were then in no

Condition to "revent, he forc'd them both to submit to his Demand, tacitely allo) what he haddone in breaking the )reaty with him, and at last o"enly ackno)ledge his new &ing/

This )as indeed a "ost unaccounta!le Step, but there was a necessity to "lead, for he was at

their very Doors with his orces# and this -eighbouring Peo"le, who they call Mogenites, could

not resist him without hel" from the Solunarians, which they were very backward in,notwithstanding the earnest Sollicitations o( their rince, and notwithstanding they were oblig'd

to do it !y a sole"n Treaty/

)hese delays oblig'd them to this strange te" of ackno)ledging the Invasion of their Enemy,

and pulling o(( the /at to the -ew &ing he had set u"/

2Tis true, the Policy of these 5unar -ations was very 8emarkable in this Case, and they out;

witted the *allunarian Monarch in it# for by the owning this Prince, whom they immediately

after Declar2d a 8surper , and made (ar against# they sto"t the Mouth of the *allunarian his

randfather, took from him all "retence of Invading them, and "aking hi" !elieve they )ereSincere, (heedl'd him to restore several )housands of their Men who he had taken Prisoners in

the rontier )owns of the E!ronians/

:ad the *allunarian Prince had but the forecast to ha' seen, that this was but a forc'd "retence togain )ime, and that as soon as they had their Troops clear and )ime to raise more, they would

certainly turn u"on him again, he would never ha' been "ut by with so weak a )rifle as the

ere"ony o( ongratulation# whereas had he immediately "usht at them with all his orces, theymust ha' been 8uin'd, and he had carry'd his Point without much Interru"tion/

.ut here he lost his $""ortunity, which he never retriev'd# (or 2tis in the Moon 9ust as 2tis here,

when an $ccasion is lost, it is not easy to be recover'd, for both the Solunarians and the

Mogenites 0uickly threw off the Mask, and declaring this new Prince an 8surper , and his

randfather an 8n9ust !reaker o( Treaties, they "re"ar'd for (ar against them both/

%s to the :onesty of this matter, my Philoso"her and I differ'd e+tremely, he e+claim'd against

the :onour of acknowledging a &ing, with a design to De"ose him, and "retending Peace when

(ar is design'd# tho' 'tis true, they are too customary in our (orld# but however, as to him I

insisted u"on the lawfulness of it, from the universal Custom of -ations, who generally do thingsten times more Pre"osterous and Inconsistent, when they suit their $ccasions/ 6et I ho"e no

.ody will think I am recommending them by this 8elation to the Practice of our own -ations,

but rather e+"osing them as unaccountable things never to be "ut in Practice, without 0uitting all "retences to 7ustice and national :onesty/

)he Case was this/



%s u"on the Progress of Matters before related, the Solunarians and Mogenites had made a

formal acknowledgment of this new Monarch, the randson of the *allunarian &ing, so as I

have hinted already, they had no other design than to De"ose him, and "ull him down/

%ccordingly, as soon as !y the a(oresaid 5ile they had gain'd .reath, and furnisht themselves

with orces, they declar2d 5ar against both the *allunarian &ing, and his randson, and entredinto strict Confederacy with the Man o( the great +ip, who was the Monarch of the Eagle, and

who by right of uccession, had the true Claim to the E!ronian Crowns/

In these Declarations they alledge that Crowns do not descend !y *i(t , nor are &ingdoms given

away !y +egacy, like a old 0ing at a #uneral , and therefore this young Prince could have no

8ight, the former deceas'd &ing having no 0ight to dispose it !y *i(t /

I must allow, that !udging by our 8eason, and the Practice in our Countries here, on this side the Moon# this seem'd "lain, and I saw no difference in matters of )ruth there, or here, but 8ight and

5iberty both of Princes and Peo"le seems to be the same in that (orld, as it is in this, and u"on

this account I thought the 8easons of this (ar very 7ust, and that the Claim of 8ight to theuccession of the E!ronian Crown, was undoubtedly in the Man )ith the +ip, and his :eirs, and

so far the (ar was most 7ust, and the Design reasonable/

%nd thus far my 5unar Com"anion agreed with me, and had they gone on so, says he, they had

my good (ishes, and my 7udgment had been (itness to my Pretences, that they were in theright/

.ut in the "rosecution of this (ar, says he, they went on to one of the most Im"olitick,

8idiculous, Dishonest, and Inconsistent %ctions, that ever any -ation in the Moon was guilty of#

the act was thus/

:aving agreed among themselves that the E!ronian Crown should not be "ossest by the*allunarian &ing's randson, they in the ne+t Place began to consider who should have it/

The Man )ith the +ip had the Title, but he had a great overnment of his own, Powerful, :a""y

and 8emote, being as is noted, the 5ord of the great Eagle, and he told them he could not "retend

to co"e to E!ronia to !e a :ing there# his eldest on truly was not only declar'd :eir a""arent to

his ather, but had another +unarian :ingdo" of his own still more remote than that, and he

would not 0uit all this for the Crown of E!ronia, so it was concerted by all the Confederated

Parties, that the second Son of this Prince, the Man )ith the +ip, should be declar'd &ing, andhere lay the In!ustice of all the Case/

I confess at my first e+amining this Matter, I did not see far into it, nor could I reach the

Dishonesty of it, and "erha"s the 8eader of these heets may be in the same Case# but my old

+unarian #riend being continually e+claiming against the Matter, and blaming his Country;menthe Solunarians for the Dishonesty of it, but es"ecially the Mogenites, he began to be something

"eevish with me that I should be so dull as not to reach it, and askt me if he should screw me into

the Thinking%ress for the Clearing u" my *nderstanding/



%t last he told me he would write his "articular entiments of this whole %ffair in a 5etter to me,

which he would so order as it should e((ectually open "ine Eyes# which indeed it did, and so I

believe it will the Eyes of all that read it# to which "ur"ose I have obtain'd of the %uthor to assist"e in the Translation of it, he having some &nowledge also in our Su!lunar +anguages/

The Sustance o( a +etter )rote to the $uthor o( these Sheets )hile he )as in the 0egions o( the Moon/

' #riend (ro" the Moon,

'%ccording to my "romise, I hereby give you a cheme of Solunarian :onesty, !oin'd with Mogenite Policy, and my $"inion of the %ction of my Country;men and their Confederates, in

declaring their new made E!ronian &ing/

')he Mogenites and Solunarians are look'd u"on here to be the $riginal Contrivers of this

ridiculous "iece of Pageantry, and tho' some of their -eighbours are su""os'd to have a :and in

it, yet we all lay it at the door of their Politicks, and for the :onesty of it let them answer it ifthey can/

'')is observ'd here, that as soon as the &ing of *allunaria had declar'd that he acce"ted the (illand Dis"osition of the Crown of E!ronia, in favour of his randson, and that according to the

said Dis"osition, he had own'd him for &ing# and in order to make it effectual, had "ut him into

immediate Possession of the &ingdom/ )he Mogenites and their Confederates made wonderful

Clamours at the In!ustice of his Proceedings, and "articularly on account of his breaking the)reaty then lately entred into with the &ing of the Solunarians and the Mogenites, for the settling

the Matter of 8ight and Possession, in case of the Demise of the E!ronian &ing/

':owever, the &ing of *allunaria had no sooner "lac'd his randson on the )hrone, but the Mogenites and other -ations, and to all our 5onder , the &ing of Solunaria himselfacknowledg'd him, own'd him, sent their Ministers, and Com"liments of Congratulation, and the

like, giving him the )itle of &ing of E!ronia/

')ho' this "roceeding had something of ur"rize in it, and all Men e+"ected to see somethingmore than ordinary Politick in the effect of it, yet it did not give half the astonishment to the

5unar (orld, as this unaccountable Monster of Politicks begins to do/

'(e have here two unlucky ellows, call'd asquin and Mar(orio, these had a long Dialogue

about this very Matter, and asquin as he always lov'd Mischief, told a very unlucky tory to his

Comrade, of a high Mogenite ki""er, as follows/

'% Mogenite hi" coming from a far Country, the Custom :ouse $fficers found some oods on

.oard, which were Controband, and for which they "retended the hi" and oods were all

Confiscated# the ki""er, or aptain in a great right, comes u" to the Custom;:ouse, and beingtold he must wear to something relating to his taking in those oods, re"ly'd in his Country

Jargon <a dat sall -ck doen Myn /eer # or in English $y $y -2ll S)ear /;;;;; .ut finding they

did not assure him that it would clear his hi" he scru"les the $ath again, at which they told him



it would clear his hi" immediately/ /ael )ell Myn /eer , says the Mogen Man, vat "ot -ck

sagen -ck sall all S)ear "yn Skip to salvare, i/e/ I shall wear any thing to save my ki"/

'(e a""ly this tory thus/

'If the Mogenites did acknowledge the &ing of E!ronia, we did believe it was done to save theSkip# and when they re"roacht the *allunarian &ing, with breaking the )reaty of Division, we

us'd to say we would all break thro' twice as many Engagements for half as much %dvantage/

')his setting u" a new &ing, against a &ing on the )hrone, %cknowledg'd and Congratulated by

them, is not only look'd on in the 5unar (orld, as a thing 8idiculous, but "articularly Infamous,that they should first acknowledge a &ing, and then set u" the )itle of another/ If the )itle of the

first E!ronian &ing be good, this must be an Im"ostor, an *sur"er of another Man's 8ight# if it

was not good, why did they acknowledge him, and give him the full )itle of all the E!ronian DominionsG Caress and Congratulate him, and make a "ublick %ction of it to his %mbassador/

'(ill they tell us they were .ully'd, and righted into itG that is to own they may be hufft into anill %ction# 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 %ction, may by Conse0uence be hufft into another, and so into anything/

'(hat will they say for doing itG we have heard there has been in the (orld you came from, a

way found out to own &ings de #acto, but not de Jure# if they will fly to that ridiculous hift, let

them tell the (orld so, that we may know what they mean, for those foolish things are notknown here/

'If they own'd the &ing of E!ronia voluntarily, and acknowledg'd his 8ight as we thought they

had# how then can this young entleman have a )itle, unless they have found out a newDivision, and so will have two &ings of E!ronia, make them Partners, and have a *allunarian &ing of E!ronia, and a Mogenite &ing of E!ronia, both togetherG

'$ur 5unar -ations, Princes and tates, whatever they may do in your (orld, always seek for

some Pretences at least to make their %ctions seem :onest, whither they are so or no# andtherefore they generally "ublish Memorials, Manifesto's and Declarations, of their 8easons why,

and on what account they do so, or so# that those who have any rounds to charge them with

*n!ustice, may be answer'd, and silenc'd# 'tis for the Peo"le in your Country, to fall u"on their

-eighbours, only because they will do it, and make "robability of Con0uest, a sufficient 8easonof Con0uest# the +unarian -ations are seldom so destitute of Modesty, but that they will make a

shew of 7ustice, and make out the 8easons of their Proceedings# and tho' sometimes we find eventhe 8easons given for some %ctions are weak enough# yet it is a bad Cause indeed, that canneither have a true 8eason, nor a "retended one/ )he custom of the Moon has oblig'd us to show

so much res"ect to :onesty, that when our %ctions have the least colour of :onesty, yet we will

make 8easons to look like a Defence, whether it be so or no/

'.ut here is an %ction that has neither reality, nor "retence, here is not ace enough u"on it to bear an %"ology/ irst, they acknowledge one &ing, and then set u" another &ing against him#



either they first acknowledg'd a wrong &ing, and thereby became Parties to a *sur"er, or they

act now against all the 8ules of common 7ustice in the (orld, to set u" a sham &ing, to "ull

down a true one, only because 'tis their Interest to have it so/

')his makes the very -ame of a Solunarian scandalous to all the Moon, and Mankind look u"on

them with the utmost Pre!udice, as if they were a -ation who had sold all their :onesty to theirInterest# and who could act this way to Day, and that way to Morrow, without any regard to

)ruth, or the 8ule of :onour, E0uity or Conscience# This is S)earing any thing to save the Skip #and never let any Man 8e"roach the *allunarian &ing with breaking the )reaty of Division, and

disregarding the aith and ti"ulations of 5eagues# for this is an %ction so inconsistent with it

self, so incongruous to common 7ustice, to the 8eason and -ature of things, that no :istory ofany of these latter )imes can "arallel it, and 'tis "ast the Power of %rt to make any reasonable

Defence for it/

'Indeed some lame 8easons are given for it by our Polititians/ irst, they say the Prince with the

great 5i" was e+tremely "rest by the *allunarians at :ome in his own Country, and not without

a""rehensions of seeing them e'er long, under the (alls of his ca"ital City/

'rom this circumstance of the Man with the 5i", 'twas not irrational to e+"ect that he might be

induc'd to make a se"arate Peace with the *allunarians, and serve them as he did once the

Prince of Berlindia at the )reaty of Peace in a former (ar, where he deserted him after thesolemnest Engagements never to make Peace without him# but his "ressing $ccasions re0uiring

it, concluded a Peace without him, and left him to come out of the (ar, as well as he could, tho'

he had come into it only for his %ssistance/ -ow finding him in danger of being ruin'd by the*allunarian Power, and !udging from former Practice in like Cases, that he might be hurry'd into

a Peace, and leave them in the 5urch# they have drawn him into this 5abrinth, as into a te",

which can never be receded from without the utmost %ffront and Disgrace, either to the amily

of the *allunarian, or of the 5i"# an %ction which in its own -ature, is a Defiance of the whole*allunarian Power, and without any other Manifesto, may be taken as a Declaration from the

:ouse of the +ip, to the *allunarian, that this (ar shall never end, till one of those two amiliesare ruin'd and reduc'd/

'(hat Condition the Prince with the 5i"'s Power is in, to make such a huff at this )ime, shall

come under E+amination by and by# in the mean time the Solunarians have clench'd the -ail,

and secur'd the (ar to last as long as they think convenient/

'If the *allunarians should get the better, and reduce the Man )ith the +ip to )erms never sodisadvantageous, he cannot now make a Peace without leave from the Solunarians and the

Mogenites, least his on should be ruin'd also/;;;;; $r if he should make %rticles 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 "ut himself into a case of Des"eration/ )his isdrawing the word, and throwing away the cabbard# if a Disaster should befal him, his 8etreat

is im"ossible, and this must have been done only to secure the Man )ith the +ip from being

hufft, or frighted into a se"arate Peace/



')he second 8eason Peo"le here give, why the Solunarians are concerning themselves in this

Matter, is drawn from )rade/

')he continuing of E!ronia in the :ands of the *allunarians, will most certainly be theDestruction of the Solunarian and Mogenites )rade, both to that &ingdom, and the whole eas

on that side of the Moon# as this %rticle includes a fifth Part of all the )rade of the Moon, andwould in Con!unction with the *allunarians at last bring the Mastershi" of the ea, out of the

:ands of the other, so it would in effect be more detriment to those two -ations, than ten&ingdoms lost, if they had them to "art with/

')his the Solunarians foreseeing, and being e+tremely sensible of the entire 8uin of their )rade,

have left no tone unturn'd to bring this "iece of Pageantry on the tage, by which they havehook'd in the $ld .lack Eagle to "lunge himself over :ead and Ears in the uarrel, in such a

manner, as he can never go back with any tolerable :onour# he can never 0uit his on and the

Crown of E!ronia, without the greatest 8e"roach and Disgrace of all the (orld in the Moon/

'-ow whether one, or both of these 8easons 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

:onesty, it is "ast finding out/

'.ut it is ob!ected here, this on o( the +ip has an undoubted 8ight to the Crown of E!ronia/ (e

do not ight now to set u" an *sur"er, but to "ull down an *sur"er, and it has been made "lain by the Manifesto, that the giving a &ingdom by (ill, is no conveyance of 8ight# the Prince of

the Eagle has an undoubted 8ight, and they ight to maintain it/

'If this be true, then we must ask these :igh and Mighty entlemen how came they to recognize

and acknowledge the "resent &ing on the )hroneG why did they own an *sur"er if he be suchG

either one or other must be an act of Cowardize and In!ustice, and all the Politicks of the Mooncannot clear them of one of these two Charges# either they were Cowardly &naves before, or else

they must be Cunning &naves now/

'If the 6oung Eagle has an undoubted )itle 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 &ing, who

they knew had no )itle, or what can they say for going to "ull down one that has a )itleG

'I must be allow'd to distinguish between ighting with a -ation, and ighting with the &ing/ or

E+am"le/ $ur uarrel with the *allunarians is with the whole -ation, as they are grown toostrong for their -eighbours/ .ut our uarrel with E!ronia is not with the -ation, but with their

&ing, and this uarrel seems to be un!ust in this "articular, at least in them who own'd him to be&ing, for that "ut an end to the Controversy/

'')is true, the 7ustice of "ublick %ctions, either in Princes, or in tates, is no such nice )hing, thatany .ody should be sur"riz'd, to see the overnment forfeit their aith, and it seems the

Solunarians are no more careful this way, than their -eighbours/ .ut then those Peo"le should in

es"ecial manner forbear to re"roach $ther -ations and Princes, with the breaches which theythemselves are sub!ect too/



'%s to the Eagle, we have nothing to say to the :onesty of his declaring his on &ing of E!ronia,

for as is hinted before, he never acknowledg'd the )itle of the *sur"er, but always declar'd, and

insisted on his own undoubted 8ight, and that he would recover it if he could/

'(ithout doubt the Eagle has a )itle by Pro+imity of .lood, founded on the renunciation of the

&ing of *allunaria formerly mention'd, and if the (ill of the late &ing be Invalid, or he had no8ight to give the overaignty of his &ingdoms away, then the Eagle is ne+t :eir/

'.ut as we 0uit his Morals, and !ustify the :onesty of his Proceedings in the (ar, against the "resent &ing of E!ronia, so in this %ction of declaring his second on/ (e must begin to

0uestion his *nderstanding, and saying a res"ect of decency, it looks as if his Musical :ead was

out of )une, to -llus tratellus/ I crave leave to tell you a tory out of your own Country, whichwe have heard of hither/ % #rench Man that could s"eak but broken English, was at the Court of

England , when on some occasion he ha""en'd to hear the )itle of the &ing of England read thus,

harles the II/ :ing o( England Scotland #rance and -reland /

'9at is dat you sayG says Monsieur, being a little affronted, the Man reads it again, as before/harles the Second :ing o( England Scotland #rance and -reland /;;;;;; harles the Second

:ing o( #rance> Ma #oy, says the #rench Man, you can no read harles the Second :ing o(

#rance ha> ha> ha> harles the Second :ing o( #rance )hen he can catch/ %ny one may a""ly

the tory, whether it was a true one or no/

'%ll the 5unar (orld looks on it, therefore, as a most 8idiculous, enseless )hing, to make a

Man a &ing of a Country he has not one oot of 5and in, nor can have a oot there, but what he

must ight for/ %s to the "robability of gaining it, I have nothing to say to it, but if we may guessat his uccess there, by what has been done in other Parts of the Moon, we find he has ought

three Cam"aigns, to lose every oot he had got/

'It had been much more to the :onour of the Eagle's Conduct, and of the young :ero himself,

first to ha' let him ha' fac'd his Enemy in the ield, and as soon as he had beaten him, the E!ronians would have acknowledg'd him fast enough# or his own 9ictorious )roo"s might have

Proclaim'd him at the ate of their Ca"ital City# and if after all, the uccess of the (ar had

deny'd him the Crown he had fought for, he had the :onour to have shown his .ravery, and he

had been where he was, a Prince of the reat 5i"/ % on of the Eagle is a )itle much more:onourable than a &ing (ithout a Crown, without ub!ects, without a &ingdom, and another

Man u"on his )hrone# but by this declaring him &ing, the old Eagle has "ut him under a

necessity of gaining the &ingdom of E!ronia, which at best is a great hazard, or if he fails to bemiserably des"icable, and to bear all his 5ife the constant Chagrin of a great )itle and no

Possession/

':ow ridiculous will this "oor 6oung entleman look, if at last he should be forc'd to come

:ome again without his &ingdomG what a &ing of Clouts will he "ass for, and what will this :ing%"aking old *entle"en his #ather say, when the young :ero shall tell him, your Ma!esty

has made me Mock &ing for all the (orld to laugh at/



'')was certainly the weakest )hing that could be, for the Eagle thus to make him a &ing of that,

which, were the "robability greater than it is, he may easily, without the hel" of a Miracle, be

disa""ointed of/

'')is true, the Confederates talk big, and have lately had a great 9ictory, and if )alk will beat the

&ing of E!ronia out of his &ingdom, he is certainly undone, but we do not find the *allunarians "art with any thing they can kee", nor that they 0uit any thing without .lows# It must cost a great

deal of .lood and )reasure before this (ar can be ended# if absolute Con0uest on one side must be the Matter, and if the Design on E!ronia should miscarry, as one 9oyage thither has done

already, where are we thenG 5et any Man but look back, and consider what a sorry igure your

Confederate leet in your (orld had made, after their $ndalusian E,pedition, if they had notmore by ate than Conduct, cho"t u"on a .ooty at 4igo as they came back/

'In the like condition, will this new &ing come back, if he should go for a &ingdom and should

not atch, as the #rench Man call'd it/ ')is in the ense of the "robability of this miscarriage,

that most Men wonder at these unaccountable Measures, and think the Eagles Councils look a

little (ildish, as if some of his great Men were grown Dilirious and (hymsical, that fancy'dCrowns and &ingdoms were to come and go, !ust as the great Divan at their Court should direct/

)his confusion of Circumstances has occasion'd a certain Co"y of 9erses to a""ear about theMoon, which in our Characters may be read as follows/

5ondelis -dulasin na eri,ola Metartos

Strigunia rolias ?erin /ytale (ylos=

#arnicos *alvare Orpto sona"el Egons!erch Sih lona Sipos *ullia 0opta Tylos.

'(hich may be English'd thus/

6sar you Tri(le )ith the 5orld in vain

Think rather no) o( ermany than "ain# /e2s hardly (it to (ill th2 Eagle's Throne

5ho gives ne) ro)ns and can2t protect his o)n.

'.ut 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 on to be &ing of E!ronia, has "ublickly own'd theProceedings of the &ing of *allunaria to be 7ust, and the )itle of his randson to be much better

than the )itle of the now declar'd &ing, what shall we call it thenG

'In order to this, 'tis first necessary to e+amine the )itle of the "resent &ing, and to enter into thehistory of his coming to the Crown, in which I shall be very .rief/

')he last &ing of E!ronia dying without Issue, and a former 8enunciation taking "lace, theuccession devolves on the :ouse of the Eagle as before, of whom the "resent Eagle is the

eldest .ranch/



'.ut the late &ing of E!ronia, to "revent the uccession of the Eagle's 5ine, makes a (ill, and

su""lies the Proviso of 8enunciation by Devising, iving or .e0ueathing the Crown to the

randson of his ister/

')he &ing of *allunaria insists that this is a lawful )itle to the Crown, and seizes it accordingly,

inflating his randson in the Possession/

')he Eagle alledges the 8enunciation to confirm his )itle as :eir# and as to the (ill of the late

&ing, he says Crowns cannot descend by ift, and tho' the late &ing had an undoubted 8ight toen!oy it himself, he had none to give it away/

')o make the a""lication of this :istory as short as may be, I demand then what 8ight has the

Eagle to give it to his second onG if Crowns are not to descend by ift, he may have a 8ight to

en!oy it, but can have none to give it away, but if he has a 8ight to give it away# so had theformer &ing, and then the "resent &ing has a better )itle to it than the new one, because his ift

was Prior to this of the Eagle/

'I would be glad to see this answer'd# and if it can't, then I uery whether the Eagle2s enses

ought not to be 0uestion'd, for setting u" a )itle very oundation for which he 0uarrels at himthat is in Possession, and so confirm the honesty of the Possessor's )itle by his own Practice/G

'rom the whole, I make no cru"le to say that either the Eagle's second on has no )itle to the

&ingdom of E!ronia, or else giving of Crowns is a legal Practice# and if Crowns may descend by

ift, then has the other &ing a better )itle than he, because it was given him first, and the Eagle has only given away what he had no 8ight to, because 'twas given away before he had any )itle

to it himself/

'urther, the Posterity of the Eagle's eldest on are manifestly in!ur'd in this %ction, for &ingscan no more give away their Crowns from their Posterity, than from themselves# if the 8ight bein the Eagle, 'tis his, as he's the eldest Male .ranch of the :ouse of the great +ip, not as he is

Eagle, and from him the Crown of E!ronia by the same 8ight of Devolution descends to his

Posterity, and rests on the Male 5ine of every eldest .ranch/ If so, no %ct of 8enunciation canalter this uccession, for that is a ift, and the ift is e+"loded, or else the whole :ouse of the

great +ip is e+cluded# so that let the %rgument be turn'd and twisted never so many ways, it all

Centers in this, that the "resent Person can have no )itle to the Crown of E!ronia/

'If he has any )itle, 'tis from the ift of his ather and elder .rother# if the ift of a Crown is nogood )itle, then his )itle cannot be good# If the ift of a Crown is a good )itle, then the Crown

was given away before, and so neither he nor his ather has any )itle/

'5et him that can answer these Parado+es defend his )itle if he can# and what shall we now say to

the (ar in E!ronia, only this, that they are going to fight for the Crown of E!roniaG and to takeit away from one that has no 8ight to it, to give it to one that has a less 8ight than he, and 'tis to

be fear'd that if :eaven be 8ighteous, 'twill succeed accordingly/



')he entlemen of 5etters who have wrote of this in our 5unar (orld, on the ub!ect of the

*allunarians )itle, have took a great deal of 5iberty in the Eagle's behalf, to .anter and 8idicule

the *allunarian sham of a )itle, as if it were a "retence too weak for any Prince to make use of,to talk of &ings giving their Crowns by (ill/

:ingdo"s and *overn"ents says a +earned +unar author are not things o( such indi((erent4alue to !e given a)ay like a Token le(t (or a +egacy. -( any rince has ever given or

trans(err2d his *overn"ent it has !een done !y sole"n $ct and the eople have !een call2d toassent and con(ir" such oncessions/

')hen the same %uthor goes on, to )reat the &ing of *allunaria with a great deal of everity,

and e+"oses his Politicks, that he should think to "ut u"on the Moon with so em"ty, so weak, soridiculous a Pretence, as the (ill of a weak :eaded Prince, who neither had a 8ight to give his

Crown, nor a .rain to know what he was doing, and he laughs to think what the &ing of

*allunaria would have said to have such a dull )rick as that, "ut u"on him in any such Case/

'-ow when we have been so (itty u"on this very %rticle, of giving away the Crown to the &ingof *allunaria's randson, as an incongruous and ridiculous )hing, shall we come to make the

same Incongruity be the oundation of a (arG

'(ith what 7ustice can we make a (ar for a Prince who has only a good )itle, by 9ertue of the

self same %ction which makes the randson of his Enemy have a bad )itle/

'I always thought we had a 7ust round to make (ar on E!ronia, as we were bound by former%lliances to assist the Eagle in the recovery of it in case of the death of the late &ing of that

Country/

'.ut now the Eagle has refus'd the uccession, and his Eldest on has refus'd it, I would be gladto see it "rov'd how the second on can have a )itle, and yet the other &ing have no )itle/

'(hat a strange sort of a )hing is the Crown of E!ronia, that two of the greatest Princes of the

5unar (orld should ight, not who shall have it, for neither of them will acce"t of it, but who

shall have the Power of giving it away/

':ere are four Princes refuse it# the &ing of *allunaria's ons had a )itle in 8ight of theirMother, and 'twas not the former 8enunciations that would have barr'd them, if this softer way

had not been found out# for time was it has been "leaded on behalf of the eldest on of the

*allunarian &ing, that his Mother could not give away his 8ight before he was born/

')hen the Eagle has a 8ight, and under him his eldest on# and none of all these four will acce"tof the Crown# I believe all the Moon can't find four more that would refuse it/

'-ow, tho' none of these think it worth acce"ting themselves, yet they fall out about the 8ight of

giving it away/ )he &ing of *allunaria will not acce"t of it himself, but he gets a ift from the

last Incumbent/ )his, says the Eagle, can't be a good )itle, for the late &ing had no 8ight tomake a Deed of ift of the Crown, since a &ing is only )ennant for 5ife, and uccession of



Crowns either must descend by a 5ineal Progression in the 8ight of Primogeniture, or else they

lose the )enure, and devolve on the Peo"le/

'-ow as this %rgument holds good the Eagle has an undoubted )itle to the Crown of E!ronia' .ut then, says his Eaglish Ma9esty, I cannot acce"t of the Crown my self for I am the Eagle, and

my eldest on has two &ingdoms already, and is in a fair way to be Eagle after me, and 'tis notworth while for him, but I have a second on, and we will give it him/

'-ow may the &ing of *allunaria say, if one ift is good, another is good, and ours is the firstift, and therefore we will kee" it# and tho' I solemnly declare I should be very sorry to see the

Crown of E!ronia rest in the :ouse of the *allunarian, because our )rade will suffer

e+ceedingly# yet if never so much damage were to come of it, we ought to do 7ustice in the(orld# if neither the Eagle nor his eldest on will be &ing of E!ronia, but a Deed of ift shall

be made, the first ift has the 8ight, for nothing can be given away to two Peo"le at once, and

'tis a""arent that the late &ing had as much 8ight to give it away as any .ody/

')he "oor E!ronians are in a fine Condition all this while, that no .ody concerns them in theMatter# neither Party has so much as thought it worth while to ask them who they would have to

8eign over them, here has been no %ssembly, no ortez , no Meeting of the Peo"le of E!ronia,

neither Collectively or 8e"resentatively, no general Convention of the -obility, no :ouse of

eathers, but E!ronia lies as the s"oil of the 9ictor wholly "assive, and her Peo"le and Princes,as if they were wholly unconcern'd, lie by and look on, whoever is like to be &ing, they are like

to suffer dee"ly by the trife, and yet neither side has thought fit to consult them about it/

')he conclusion of the whole Matter is in short this, here is certainly a false te" taken, how itshall be rectify'd is not the "resent .usiness, nor am I (ise enough to Prescribe/ $ne Man may

do in a Moment what all the 5unar (orld cannot undo in an %ge/ ')is not be thought the Eagle

will be "revail'd on to undo it, nay he has worn not to alter it/

'I am not concern'd to "rove the )itle of the "resent &ing of E!ronia, no, nor of the Eagles neither# but I think I can never be answer'd in this, that this ift of the Eagles to his second on

is "re"osterous, inconsistent with all his Claim to the Crown, and the greatest confirmation of the

)itle of his Enemy that it was "ossible to give, and no doubt the *allunarians will lay hold of the

%rgument/

'If this Prince was the Eagle2s eldest on, he might have a 7ust 8ight from the concession of his

ather, because the 8ight being inherent, he only receiv'd from him an Investiture of )ime, but

as this young entleman is a second on he has no more 8ight, his elder .rother being alive,

than your *rand Seignior , or zar of Muscovy in your (orld/

'5et them ight then for such a Cause, who valuing only the Pay, make (ar a )rade, and ight

for any thing they are bid to ight for, and as such value not the 7ustice of the (ar, nor trouble

their :eads about Causes and Conse0uences, so they have their Pay, 'tis well enough for them/



'.ut were the 7ustice of the (ar e+amin'd, I can see none, this Declaring a new &ing who has no

8ight but by a ift, and "ulling down one that had it by a ift before, has so much Contradiction

in it, that I am afraid no (ise Man, or :onest Man will embark in it/

Your

Humble Servant,

The Man in the Moon.

I wou'd have no .ody now "retend to scandalize the (riter of this 5etter, which being for the

*allunarians, for no Man in the Moon had more %version for them than he, but he would havehad the (ar carry'd on u"on a right .ottom, 7ustice and :onesty regarded in it, and as he said

often, they had no need to go out of the 8oad of 7ustice, for had they made (ar in the great

Eagle2s 3a"e all had been well/

-or was he a false Pro"het, for as this was ill grounded, so it was as ill carry'd on, met withShocks, 0u!s and Disappoint"ents every way/ )he very first 9oyage the new &ing made, he had

like to ha' been drown'd by a very violent )em"est, things not very usual in those Countries# and

all the Progress that had been made in his behalf when I came away from that +unar 5orld , hadnot brought him so much as to be able to set his oot u"on his new &ingdom of E!ronia, but his

%dversary by wonderful De+terity, and the %ssistance of his old randfather the *allunarian

Monarch, beat his )roo"s u"on all $ccasions, invaded his %lly that "retended to assist him, andke"t a 0uiet Possession of all the vast E!ronian Monarchy# and but at last by the "owerful

Diversion of the Solunarian leet, a hock was given them on another ide, which if it had not

ha""en'd, it was thought the new &ing had been sent home again 0e -n(ecta/

.eing very much hockt in my 7udgment of this %ffair, by these unanswerable 8easons# Ien0uir'd of my %uthor who were the Directors of this MatterG he told me "lainly it was done by

those great tates Men, which the Solunarian ueen had lately very 7ustly turn'd out, whose

Politicks were very unaccountable in a great many other things, as well as in that/

')is true, the (ar was carry'd on under the new Ministry, and no (ar in the (orld can be 7uster,on account of the In!ustice and Encroachment of the *allunarian Monarch/

)he ueen therefore and her "resent Ministers, go on with the (ar on Princi"les of

Confederacy# 'tis the business of the Solunarians to beat the Invader out, and then let the Peo"le

come and make a fair Decision who they will have to 8eign over them/

)his indeed !ustifies the (ar in E!ronia to be 8ight, but for the Personal Proceedure as before,

'tis all Contradiction and can never be answer'd/

I ho"e no Man will be so malicious, as to say I am hereby reflecting on our (ar with Spain/ I am

very forward to say, it is a most 7ust and 8easonable (ar, as to "aralels between the Case of thePrinces, in defending the Matter of Personal 8ight, /ic la!or /oc opus/

)hus however you see /u"anu" e(t Errare, whether in this (orld or in the Moon, 'tis all one,

Infallibility of Councels any more than of Doctrine, is not in Man/



)he 8eader may observe, I have formerly noted there was a new Consolidator to be .uilt, and

observ'd what struggle there was in the Moon about choosing the eathers/

I cannot omit some further 8emarks here, as

1/ It is to be observ'd, that this last Consolidator was in a manner 0uite worn out/;;;;; It hadindeed continu'd but > 6ear, which was the stated )ime by 5aw, but it had been so /urry2d , so

arty 0id , so often had been u" in the Moon, and made so "any such e,travagant #lights, and

unnecessary 4oyages thither , that it began to be e+ceedingly )orn and defective/

A/ )his occasion'd that the light fluttering eathers, and the fermented eathers "ade strange5ork o( it # nay, sometimes they were so hot, they were like to ha' ruin'd the whole abrick, and

had it not been for the great #eather in the Center, and a few 3egative eathers who were (iser

than the rest, all the Machines had been broke to "ieces, and the whole -ation "ut into a moststrange Confusion/

ometimes their Motion was so violent an precipitant , that there was great a""rehensions of its being set on #ire !y its o)n 4elocity, for swiftness of Motion is allow'd by the ages and so so2s

to "roduce #ire as in 5heels, Mills and several sorts of Mechanick Engines which are fre0uentlyir'd, and so in Thoughts, Brains, $sse"!lies, onsolidators, and all such combustible )hings/

Indeed these things were of great Conse0uence, and therefore re0uire some more nice

E+amination than ordinary, and the following tory will in "art e+"lain it/

%mong the rest of the .roils they had with the *randees, one ha""en'd on this occasion/

$ne of the )acking #eathers being accidentally met by a *randee's ootman, whom it seems

wanted some Manners, the lave began to haloo him in the treet, with a )acker, a )acker, a #eather ;ool, a )acker, &c. and so brought the Mob about him, and had not the *randee himself

come in the very interim, and rescu'd the #eather , the Mob had demolisht him, they were soenrag'd/

%s this entleman; #eather was rescu'd with great Courtesie by the *randee, taken into his

Coach and carry'd home to his :ouse, he desir'd to s"eak with the ootman/

)he ellow being call'd in, was ask't by him who em"loy'd him, or set him on to offer him this

InsultG the ootman being a ready bold ellow, told him no .ody ir, but you are all grown soridiculous to the whole -ation, that if the 1>< of you were left but to us ootmen, and it was not

in more res"ect to our Masters, than you, we should Cure you of ever coming into theonsolidator again, and all the Peo"le in the Moon are of our Mind/

.ut says the #eather , why do you call me ool tooG why ir, says he, because no .ody 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 )acking #eathers would but tell the (orld what your real Design was, they would be

satisfy'd, but to be leaders in the onsolidator , and to %ct without Meaning, without )hought orDesign, must argue your' ools, or worse, and you will find all the Moon of my Mind/



.ut what if we had a meaning, says the #eather ;ManG why then, says the ootman, we shall

leave calling you ools, and call you &naves, for it could never be an :onest one, so that you

had better stand as you do= and I make it out thus/

6ou knew, that u"on your )acking the rolians to the )ribute .ill, the *randees must re!ect

both, they having declar'd against reading any .ills )ackt together, as being against theirPriviledges/ -ow if you had any Design, it must be to have the .ill of )ribute lost, and that must

be to disa""oint all the "ublick %ffairs, e+"ose the ueen, break all Measures, discourage theConfederates, and "utting all things backward, bring the *allunarian orces u"on them, and "ut

all Solunaria into Confusion/ -ow ir, says he, we cannot have such course )houghts of you, as

to believe you could design such dark, mischievous things as these, and therefore we chose to believe you all ools, and not fit to be "ut into a onsolidator again# than &naves and )raytors

to your Country, and conse0uently fit for a worse Place/

)he "lainness of the ootman 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 "roceed to the tory/

)he Men of the eather as I have noted, who are re"resented here by the onsolidator , fell all

together by the Ears, and all the Moon was in a combustion/ )he Case was as follows/

)hey had three times lost their qualli(ying +a), and "articularly they observ'd the *randees were

the Men that threw it out, and notwithstanding the lot o( the Tackers, as they call'd them, whowere as - noted , observ'd to be in Con!unction )ith the rolians, yet the 5aw always "ast the

#eathers, but still the *randees 0uasht it/

)o show their 8esentment at the *randees, they had often made atte"pts to "orti(y the",

sometimes %rraigning them in general, sometimes -"peaching private Me"!ers of their :ouse,

but still all wou'd not do, the *randees had the better of them, and going on with 8egularity and)em"er, the onsolidators or eather;Men always had the worst, the *randees had the applause

o( all the Moon, had the last Blo) on every $ccasion, and the other sunk in their 8e"utatione+ceedingly/

It is necessary to understand here, that the Men of the eather serve in several Ca"acities, and

under several Denominations, and act !y the"selves, singly consider'd, they are call'd the

onsolidator , and the eathers we mention'd abstracted from their Persons, make the gloriousEngine we s"eak of, and in which, when any suddain Motion takes them, they can all shut

themselves u", and away for the Moon/

.ut when these are 9oyn2d )ith the *randees and the 1ueen, so *nited, they make a greatortez , or general Collection of all the overning %uthority of the -ation/

(hen this last raction ha""en'd, the Men o( the #eather were under an e+ceeding erment, theyhad in some Passion taken into their Custody, some good :onest +unar ountry%Men, for an

$ffence, which indeed few but themselves ever immagin'd was a Crime, for the "oor Men did

nothing but "ursue their own 8ight by the 5aw/



')is thought the Men of the eather soon saw they were in the (rong, but acted like some Men

in our (orld, that when they make a mistake, being too Proud to own themselves in the wrong,

run themselves into worse Errors to mend it/

o these +unar *entle"en disdaining to have it said they could !e "istaken, committed two

Errors to conceal one, 'till at last they came to be laught at by all the Moon/

)hese "oor Men having lain a long while in Prison, for little or no Crime, at last were advis'd to

a""ly themselves to the +a) (or Discharge# the 5aw would fairly have Discharg'd them# for inthat ountry, no Man may be Im"rison'd, but he must in a certain )ime be )ryed, or let go u"on

"ledges of his riends, "uch like our giving Bail on a 5rit o( /a!eas orpus # but the 7udges,

whether over;aw'd by the eathers, or what was the Cause, %uthors have not determin'd, did notcare to venture Discharging them/

)he "oor Men thus remanded, a""ly'd themselves to the *randees who were then itting, and

who are the Soveraign Judicature of the Country, and before whom %""eals lie from all Courts

of 7ustice/ The *randees as in Duty bound, a""ear'd ready to do them 7ustice, but the ueen wasto be a""ly'd to, first to grant a (rit, or a (arrant for a (rit, call'd in their Country a 5rit o(

#ollies, which is as much as to say Mistakes/

)he onsolidators foreseeing the Conse0uence, immediately a""ly'd themselves to the ueen

with an %ddress, the )erms of which were so 8ndu%%%%l and 8n"an%%ly, that had she not been aueen of unusual Candor and oodness, she would have )reated them as they deserv'd, for they

u"braided her with their reedom and 8eadiness in granting her u""lies, and therefore as good

as told her they e+"ected she should do as they desir'd/

)hese Peo"le that knew the u""lies given, were from necessity +egal , and for their o)n

De(ence, while the granting their 8e0uest, must have been -llegal , $r!itrary, a Dispensing withthe 5aws, and denying Justice to her ub!ects, the very thing they ruin2d her #ather (or , were

!ustly "rovok'd to see their good ueen so barbarously )reated/

)he ueen full of oodness and Calmness, gave them a gentle kind %nswer, but told them shemust be careful to %ct with due 8egard to the 5aws, and could not interru"t the course of

7udicial Proceedings# and at the same time granted the (rit, having first consulted with her

Council, and receiv'd the $"inion of all the 7udges, that it was not only afe, but 7ust and8easonable, and a 8ight to her Peo"le which she could not deny/

)his Proceeding gall'd the eathers to the 0uick, and finding the *randees resolv'd to "roceed

7udicially u"on the said 5rit o( #ollies, which if they did, the Prisoners would be deliver'd andthe ollies fi+t u"on the eathers, they sent their Poursuivants took them out of the CommonPrison, and convey'd them se"arately and "rivately into Prisons of their own/

)his rash and un"recedented Proceedings, "usht them farther into a 5abrinth, from whence it was

im"ossible they could ever find their way out, but with infinite 5oss to their 8e"utation, like a

hee" in a thick (ood, that at every .riar "ulls some of the (ool from her .ack, till she comesout in a most scandalous Pickle of -akedness and cratches/



)he *randees immediately "ublisht si+ %rticles in 9indication of the Peo"les 8ight, against the

assum'd Priviledges of the #eathers, the %bstract of which is as follows/

1/ )hat the #eathers had no 8ight to Claim, or make any new Priviledges for themselves, otherthan they had before/

A/ )hat every reeman of the Moon had a 8ight to re"el In!ury with 5aw/

>/ )hat Im"risoning the @ Countrymen by the #eathers, was assuming a new Priviledge they had

no 8ight to, and a sub!ecting the ub!ects 8ight to their %rbitrary 9otes/

</ )hat a 5rit o( Deliverance, or removing the .ody, is the legal 8ight of every ub!ect in theMoon, in order to his 5iberty, in case of Im"risonment/

@/ )hat to "unish any Person for assisting the ub!ects, in "rocuring or "rosecuting the said 5rit

o( Deliverance, is a breach of the 5aws, and a thing of dangerous Conse0uence/

?/ )hat a 5rit o( #ollies is not a race, but a 8ight, and ought not to be deny'd to the ub!ect/

)hese 8esolves struck the languishing 8e"utation of the #eathers with the dead Palsie, and they began to stink in the -ostrils of all the -ations in the Moon/

.ut besides this, they had one strange effect, which was a "rodigious disa""ointment to the Men

of the #eather /

I had observ'd before, that there was to be a new et of #eathers, "rovided in order to .uilding

another onsolidator , according to a late 5aw for a new Engine every three 6ears/ -ow several

of these Men of the #eather , who thought their #eathers ca"able of serving again, had madegreat Interest, and been at great Cost to have their old #eathers chosen again, but the Peo"le had

entertain'd such scoundrel $"inions of these Proceedings, such as )acking, onsolidating ,Im"risoning Electors, Im"eaching without )ryal, 5rits o( #ollies and the like, that if any one

was known to be concern'd in any of these things, no .ody would 9ote for him/

)he entlemen were so mortify'd at this, that even the hottest :igh;Church Solunarian of them

all, if he "ut in any where to be re;chosen, the first thing he had to do, was to assure the Peo"lehe was no )acker, none of the 1><, and a vast deal of difficulty they had to Purge themselves of

this blessed %ction, which they us'd to value themselves on before, as their lory and Merit/

)hus they grew asham'd of it as a Crime, got Men to go about to vouch for them to the CountryPeo"le, that they were no )ackers, nay, one of them to clear himself loudly forswore it, andtaking a lass of (ine wisht it might never "ass thro' him, if he was a )acker, tho' all Men

sus"ected him to be of that -umber too, he having been one of the forwardest that way on all

$ccasions, of any Person among the South #olk o( the Moon/

In like manner, one of the #eathers for the "iddle rovince of the Country, who us'd to think it

his :onour to be for the 0ualifying 5aw, seeing which way the humour of the Country ran, took



as much Pains now to tell the Peo"le he was no )acker, as he did before, to "romise them that he

would do his utmost to have the rolians reduc'd, and that .ill to "ass, the 8eason of which was

"lain, that he saw if it should be known he was a )acker, he should never have his #eather return'd to be "ut into the onsolidator /

)he :eats and euds that the #eathers and the *randees were now run into, began to make thelatter very uneasie, and they sent to the *randees to hasten them, and "ut them in mind of

"assing some 5aws they had sent u" to them for raising Mony, and which lay before them,knowing that as soon as those 5aws were "ast, the ueen would break 'em u", and they being

very willing to be gone, before these things came too far u"on the tage, urg'd them to dis"atch/

.ut the *randees resolving to go thoro' with the Matter, sent to them to come to a )reaty on thefoot of the si+ %rticles, and to bring any 8easons they could, to "rove the Power they had to %ct

as they had done with the Country;men, and with the 5awyers they had "ut in Prison for

assisting them/

)he #eathers were very backward and stiff about this Conference, or )reaty, 'till at last the*randees having sufficiently e+"os'd them to all the -ation, the .ills were "ast, the *randees

caus'd the "articulars to be Printed, and a 8e"resentation of their Proceedings, and the #eathers

foul Dealings to the ueen of the Country, and so her Ma!esty sent them :ome/

.ut if they were asham'd of being call'd )ackers before, they were doubly mortify'd at this now,nay the Country resented it so e+ceedingly, that some of them began to consider whether they

should venture to go :ome or no# Printed 5ists of their -ames were Publish'd, tho' we do not say

they were true 5ists, for it was a hard thing to know which were true 5ists, and which were not,nor indeed could a true 5ist be made, no Man being able to retain the e+act %ccount of who were

the Men in his Memory/

or as there were 1>< )ackers, so there were 1<1 of these, who by a -ame of Distinction, were

call'd +e!usyranei", in English $iles!ury%"en/

)he Peo"le were so e+as"erated against these, that they e+"ress'd their 8esentment u"on all$ccasions, and least the ueen should think that the -ation a""rov'd the Proceedings, they drew

u" a 8e"resentation or Com"laint, full of most dutiful E+"ressions to their ueen, and full of

8esentment against the #eathers, the Co"y of which being handed about the Moon the last time Iwas there, I shall take the Pains to "ut it into English in the best manner I can, kee"ing as near

the $riginial as "ossible/

If any Man shall now wickedly suggest, that this 8elation has any retros"ect to the %ffairs of England , the %uthor declares them malitious Misconstruers of his honest 8elation of Mattersfrom this remote Country, and offers his "ositive $ath for their atisfaction, that the very last

7ourny he made into those 5unar 8egions, this Matter was u"on the tage, of which, if this

)reatise was not so near its conclusion, the 8eader might e+"ect a more "articular %ccount/

If there is any %nalogy or similitude between the )ransactions of either (orld, he cannotaccount for that, 'tis a""lication makes the %ss/



%nd yet sometimes he has thought, as some Peo"le able of the Platonick 6ear, that after such a

certain 8evolution of )ime, all )hings are )ransacted over again, and the same Peo"le live

again, are the fame ools, &naves, Philoso"hers and Mad;men they were before, tho' withoutany &nowledge of, or 8etros"ect to what they acted before# so why should it be im"ossible, that

as the Moon and this (orld are noted before to be )wins and isters, e0ual in Motion and in

Influence, and "erha"s in ualities, the same secret Power should so act them, as that like %ctions and Circumstances should ha""en in all Parts of both (orlds at the same time/

I leave this )hought to the im"rovement of our 8oyal 5earned ocieties of the $nticaco(anu"s,

Opposotians, eriodicarians, $ntepredestinarians, *niversal Soulians, and such like

unfathomable Peo"le, who, without 0uestion, u"on mature En0uiry will find out the )ruth of thisMatter/

.ut if any one shall scru"le the Matter of act as I have here related it, I freely give him leave to

do as I did, and go u" to the Moon for a Demonstration# and if u"on his return he does not give

am"le )estimony to the Case in every "art of it, as here related, I am content to "ass for the

Contriver of it my self, and be "unish'd as the 5aw shall say I deserve/

-or was this all the "ublick Matters, in which this -ation of Solunarians took wrong Measures,

for about this time, the Misunderstandings between the outhern and -orthern Men began again,

and the Solunarians made several 5aws, as they call'd them, to secure themselves against theDangers they "retended might accrue from the new Measures the 3olunarians had taken# but so

unha""ily were they blinded by the strife among themselves, and by;set by $"inion and Interest,

that every 5aw they made, or so much as attem"ted to make, was really to the %dvantage, and tothe Interest of the -orthern;Men, and to their own loss# so Ignorantly and (eak;headed was

these /igh Solunarian Church;Men in the true Interest of their Country, led by their im"lacable

Malice at rolianis", which as is before noted, was the Establisht 8eligion of that Country/

.ut as this Matter was but )ransacting when I took the other 8emarks, and that I did not obtain afull *nderstanding of it, 'till my second 9oyage, I refer it to a more full 8elation of my farther

)ravels that way, when I shall not fail to give a clear tate of the Debate of the two &ingdoms, in

which the outhern Men had the least 8eason, and the worst uccess that ever they had in any%ffair of that -ature for many 6ears before/

It was always my $"inion in %ffairs on this side the Moon, that tho' sometimes a foolish .olt

may hit the Point, and a random hot kill the Enemy, yet that generally Discretion and Prudence

of Mannagement, had the %dvantage, and met with a "ro"ortion'd uccess, find things were, orwere not ha""y, in their Conclusion as they were, more or less wisely Contriv'd and Directed/

%nd 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 Conse0uences/

)his a""ear'd more eminently in the Dis"ute between these two 5unar -ations we are s"eaking

of# never were Peo"le in the Moon, )hatever they "ight !e in other laces, so divided in their

$"inions about a matter of such Conse0uence/ ome were for declaring (ar immediately u"on



the -orthern Men, tho' they could show no 8eason at all why, only because they would not do as

they would have 'em# a parcel o( poor Scoundrel Sca!!y 0ogues, they ought to be made submit,

)hat F won't they declare the same &ing as we doF hang the" 0oguesF a pack o( rolian restarian Devils, we must make them do it, do)n )ith the" the shortest 5ay, declare (ar

immediately, and do)n )ith the"/;;;;;; -ay some were for falling on them directly, without the

formality of declaring (ar/

$thers, more afraid than hurt, cry'd out Invasions, De"redation, ire and word, the -orthernMen would be u"on them immediately, and "ro"os'd to ortify their rontiers, and file off their

orces to the .orders# nay, so a""rehensive did those Men of Prudence "retend to be, that they

order'd )owns to be ortify'd 122 Mile o(( o( the lace, when all this while the "oor -orthernMen did nothing but tell them, that unless they would come to )erms, they would not have the

same &ing as they, and they took some Measures to let them see they did not "ur"ose to be

forc'd to it/

%nother sort of (iser Men than these, "ro"os'd to *nite with them, hear their 8easons, and do

them 8ight/ )hese indeed were the only Men that were in the right Method of concluding thisunha""y .roil, and for that 8eason, were the most unlikely to succeed/

.ut the (ildest -otion of all, was, when some of the *randees made a grave %ddress to the

ueen of the Country, to desire the -orthern Men to settle Matters first, and to tell them, thatwhen that was done, they should see )hat these )ould do (or the"/ )his was a home troke, if it

had but hit, and the Misfortune only lay in this, That the 3orthern Men )ere not #ools enough#

the clearness of the %ir in those cold Climates generally clearing the :ead so early, that thosePeo"le see much farther into a Mill;stone than any Blind Man in all the Southern 3ations o( the

Moon/

)here was an another unha""iness in this Case, which made the Matter yet more confus'd, andthat was, that the ouldiers had generally no gust to this (ar/;;; )his was an odd Case# for thosesort of entlemen, es"ecially in the 5orld in the Moon, don't use to en0uire into the 7ustice of

the Case they ight for, but they reckon 'tis their .usiness to go where they are sent, and kill any

.ody they are order'd to kill, leaving their overnors to answer for the 7ustice of it# but there wasanother 8eason to be given why the Men o( the S)ord were so averse, and always talk't coldly of

the fighting Part, and tho' the -orthern Men call'd it fear, yet I cannot !oyn with them in that, for

to (ear re0uires )hinking# and some of our Solunarians are absolutely "rotected from the first, because they never meddle with the last, e,cept )hen they co"e to the Engine, and therefore 'tis

"lain it could not "roceed from ear/

It has "uzzl'd the most discerning :eads of the %ge, to give a 8eason from whence this %version

"roceeded, and various 7udgments have been given of it/

)he 3olunarians !ested with them, and when they talk't of ighting, bad them look back into:istory, and e+amine what they ever made of a 3olunarian 5ar , and whether they had not been

often well beaten, and sent short home, bid them have a care o( catching a Tartar , as we call it,

and always made themselves merry with it/



)hey banter'd the Solunarians too, about the ears and )errors they were under, from their

%rming themselves, and "utting themselves in a "osture of Defence,;;;;; (hen it was easy to see

by the nature of the thing, that their Design was not a 5ar !ut a 8nion u"on !ust Conditions,that it was a "lain )oken that they design'd either to "ut some affront u"on the 3olunarians, to

deny them some !ust Claims, or to im"ose something very Provoking u"on them more than they

had yet done, that they were so e+ceeding fearful of an Invasion from them/

)ho' these were sufficient to "ass for 8easons in other Cases, yet it could not be so here, but Isaw there must be something else in it/ %s I was thus wondering at this unusual backwardness of

the ouldiers, I en0uir'd a little farther into the meaning of it, and 0uickly found the 8eason was

"lain, there )as nothing to !e got !y it , that Peo"le were Brave, Desperate and oor , theCountry Barren, Mountainous and E"pty, so that in short there would be nothing but .lows, and

Souldiers #ello)s to be had, and I always observ'd that ouldiers never care to be knockt on the

:ead, and get nothing by the .argain/

In short, I saw "lainly the 8easons that "rom"ted the Solunarians to Insult their -eighbours of

the -orth, were more deriv'd from the regret at their Establishing rolianis", than at any realCauses they had given, or indeed were in a condition to give them/

)hese, and abundance more "articular $bservations I made, but as I left the thing still in

agitation, and undetermin'd, I shall refer it to another 9oyage which I "ur"ose to make thither,and at my return, may "erha"s set that Case in a clearer 5ight than our ight can yet bear to look

at it in/

If in my second 9ovage I should undeceive Peo"le in the -otions they entertain'd of those -orthern Peo"le, and convince them that the Solunarians were really the %ggressors, and had

"ut great hardshi"s u"on them, I might "ossibly do a (ork, that if it met with Encouragement,

might bring the Solunarians to do them 7ustice, and that would set all to 8ights, the two -ationsmight easily become one, and *nite for ever, or at least become riends, and give mutual%ssistance to each other# and I cannot but own such an %greement would make them both very

formidable, but this I refer to another time/;;;;;

%t the same time I cannot leave it without a 8emark that this 7ealousy between the two -ations,

may "erha"s in future %ges be necessary to be maintain'd, in order to find some better 8easonsfor #orti(ications, Standing $r"ies, *uards and *arisons than could be given in the 8eign of

the great Prince I s"eak of, the ueen's Predecessor, tho' his was against orreign insulting

Enemy/

.ut the )em"er of the Solunarian /igh arty was always such, that they would with much morecase give thanks for a tanding %rmy against the 3olunarians and rolians, than agree to one

5egion against the $!rogratzians and *allunarians/

.ut of these )hings I am also "romis'd a more "articular %ccount u"on my 7ourny into thatCountry/



I cannot however conclude this Matter, without giving some %ccount of my "rivate

$bservations, u"on what was farther to be seen in this Country/

%nd had not my 8emarks on their tate Matters taken u" more of my )houghts than I e+"ected, Imight have entred a little u"on their other %ffairs, such as their o"panies, their o""erce,

their u!lick O((ices, their Stock%Jo!!ers, their Te"per , their onversation, their 5o"en, theirStages, 8niversities, their ourtiers, their lergy, and the Characters of the severals under all

these Denominations, but these must be referr'd to time, and my more "erfect $bservations/

.ut I cannot omit, that tho' I have very little &nowledge of .ooks, and had obtain'd less u"on

their 5anguage, yet I could not but be very in0uisitive after their 5ibraries and Men of 5etters/

%mong their 5ibraries I found not abundance of their own .ooks, their 5earning having so much

of Demonstration, and being very :ierogly"hical, but I found to my great %dmiration vast0uantities of )ranslated .ooks out of all 5anguages of our (orld/

%s I thought my self one of the first, at least of our -ation, that ever came thus far# it was, youmay be sure no small sur"rize to me to find all the most valluable "arts of Modern 5earning,

es"ecially of Politicks, )ranslated from our )ongue, into the 5unar Dialect, and stor'd u" in their5ibraries with the 8emarks, -otes and $bservations of the 5earned Men of that Climate u"on

the ub!ect/

:ere, among a vast croud of #rench %uthors condemn'd in this "olite (orld for trifling, came a

huge 9olume containing, +es Oevres de scavans, which has 14 small .ells "ainted u"on the.ook of several dis"ro"ortion'd sizes/

I en0uir'd the meaning of that :ierogly"hick, which the Master of the .ooks told me, was to

signify that the substance was all 7ingle and -oise, and that of >2 9olumes which that one .ookcontains, A4 of them have neither ubstance, Musick, :armony nor value in them/

)he :istory of the ulsoms, or a Collection of >22 fine "eeches made in the #rench %ccademy

at aris, and 1@22 gay lourishes out of Monsieur Boileau, all in Praise of the invincible

Monarch of #rance/

)he Duke of Bavaria's Manifesto, shewing the 8ight of making (ar against our overeigns,from whence the Peo"le of that 5unar (orld have noted that the same 8easons which made it

lawful to him to attem"t the Im"erial Power, entitle him to lose his own, viz. Con0uest, and the

longest word/

Jack a !oth Sides, or a Dialogue between asquin and Mar(orio, u"on the ub!ect Matter of thePo"e's sincerity in Case of the (ar in -taly/ (ritten by a Citizen of #errara/ $ne side arguing

u"on the occasion of the Po"e's eneral wheedling the Im"erialists to 0uit that Country/ )he

other bantering Im"erial Policy, or the *er"ains "retending they were )rickt out of -taly, whenthey could stay there no longer/



+e)is the Invincible, by Monsieur Boileau/ % Poem, on the lory of his most Christian

Ma!esties %rms at /ochstedt , and 4erue/

%ll these )ranslations have innumerable :yerogli"hical -otes, and Emblems "ainted on them,which "ass as Comments, and are readily understood in that Climate/ or E+am"le, on the 9ol/

of Dialogues are two Cardinals washing the Po"e's :ands under a Cloud that often bes"attersthem with .lood, signifying that in s"ight of all his Pretensions he has a :and in the .roils of

-taly/ %nd before him the un setting in a Cloud, and a .lind .allad;inger making onnetsu"on the brightness of its 5ustre/

)he three &ings of Brent(ord , being some :istorical $bservations on three mighty Monarchs in

our (orld, whose :eroick %ctions may be the ub!ect of future %ges, being like to do little inthis, the &ing of England , &ing of oland , and &ing of Spain/ )hese are describ'd by a igure,

re"resenting a Castle in the %ir, and three &nights "ointing at it, but they could not catch/

I omit abundance of very e+cellent "ieces, because remote, as three great 9olumes of European

Misteries, among the vast varieties of which, and very entertaining, I observ'd but a few, such asthese=

1/ (hy Prince 0agotski will make no Peace with the Em"eror/;;; .ut more "articularly why the

Em"eror won't make Peace with him/

A/ (here the Policy of the &ing of S)eden lies, to "ersue the &ing of oland , and let the

Muscovites ravage and destroy his own ub!ects/

>/ (hat the Duke of Bavaria "ro"os'd to himself in declaring for #rance/

</ (hy the Protestants of the Confederacy never reliev'd the a"isars/

@/ (hy there are no Cowards found in the English ervice, but among their ea Ca"tains/

?/ (hy the &ing of ortugal did not take Madrid , why the English did not take adiz , and why

the Spaniards did not take *i!raltar , viz/ because the first were ools, the second &naves, andthe last Spaniards/

J/ (hat became of all the ilver taken at 4igo/

3/ (ho will be the ne+t &ing of Scotland /

4/ If England should ever want a &ing, who would think it worth while to acce"t of it/

12/ (hat s"ecifick difference can be "roduc'd between a &nave, a Coward, and a )raytor/

%bundance of these Mysteries are :ierogly"hically describ'd in this am"le Collection, andwithout doubt our great Collection of %nnals, and :istorical $bservations, "articularly the

5earned Mr/ 5alker , would make great Im"rovements there/



.ut to come nearer home, There, to "y great $"ase"ent , I found several new )racts out of our

own 5anguage, which I could hardly have imagin'd it "ossible should have reacht so far/

%s first, sundry )ransactions of our 8oyal ociety about (inds, and a valuable Desertation ofDr/ B.....'s about (ind in the .rain/

% Discourse of Poisons, by the 5earned Dr/ M..... with +unar -otes u"on it, wherein it a""ears

that Dr/ ....d had more Poison in his )ongue, than all the %dders the Moon have in their )eeth/

3ec 3on, or 5awyers +atin turn'd into +unar Burlesque/ )he :yerogli"hick was the 1ueens

Mony tost in a Blanket , Dedicated to the %ttorney eneral, and five false +atin Councellors/

Manda"us, as it was %cted at $!!...ton %ssizes, by Mr/ o////r eneral, where the u//n had her

own o///r against her for a bad Cause, and never a Counsel for her in a good one/

5unar 8eflections, being a 5ist of about A222 ridiculous Errors in :istory, "al"able alsities, and

scandalous $missions in Mr/ ollier 's eogra"hical Dictionary# with a subse0uent En0uiry byway of %""endi+, into which are his own, and which he has ignorantly deduc'd from ancient

%uthors/

%ssassination and &illing of &ings, "rov'd to be a Church of England Doctrin# humbly

Dedicated to the Prince of 5ales, by Mr/ ollier and Mr/ Snat # wherein their %bsolving ir John #riend and ir 5illia" arkins without 8e"entance, and while they both own'd and !ustify'd the

act, is 9indicated and Defended/

+es Bagatelles, or Bro"..ys )ravels into -taly, a choice .ook, and by great %ccident "reserv'd

from the malitious Design of the %uthor, who diligently .ought u" the whole Im"ression, for

fear they should be seen, as a thing of which this ungrateful %ge was not worthy/

:illing no Murther , being an %ccount of the severe 7ustice design'd to be inflicted on the

barbarous Murtherers of the honest Constable at Bo), but unha""ily "revented by my 5ord

3....." being turn'd out of his $ffice/

De "odo Belli, or an %ccount of the best Method of making Con0uests and Invasion a la Mode

de ort St. Mary, > 9olumes in 32/ Dedicated to ir /en. Bell...s/

&ing harles the first "rov'd a )///t/ .y Ed)ard Earl of larendon, > 9ol/ in ol/ Dedicated to

the *niversity of O,(ord /

)he .awdy Poets, or new and accurate Editions of atullus, ropertius, and Ti!ullus, being theMaiden;head of the new Printing Press at a"!ridge, Dedicated by the Editor Mr/ $nn...y to the

*niversity, and in consideration of which, and some Disorders near asterton, the *niversity

thought him fit to re"resent them in P//////t/



%lms no Charity, or the keleton of ir /u"phry Mack)orth's .ill for relief of the Poor= .eing

an e+cellent new Contrivance to find Em"loyment for all the Poor in the -ation, viz. .y setting

them at (ork, to make all the rest of the Peo"le as Poor as themselves/

Synodicu" Superlativu", being si+teen large 9olumes of the vigorous Proceedings of the

English Convocation, digested into <ears, one 9olume to every 6ear/ ;; (herein are severallarge 5ists of the :eretical, %theistical, Deistical and other "ernitious Errors which have been

Condemn'd in that 9enerable %ssembly, the various ervices done, and weighty Mattersdis"atcht, for the :onour of the English Church, for si+teen 6ears last "ast, with their formal

Proceedings against $sgil , o)ard , Toland and others, for reviving old %nti0uated Errors in

Doctrine, and Publishing them to the (orld as their own/

-ew (orlds in )rade, being a vast Collection out of the 7ournals of the Proceedings of the 8ight

:onourable the o""issioners o( Trade, with several Eminent Im"rovements in general

3egoce, vast chemes of .usiness, and new Discoveries of ettlements and Corres"ondences in

orreign Parts, for the :onour and %dvantage of the English Merchants, being 1A 9olumes in

ol/ and very scarce and valluable .ooks/

5egal 8ebellion, or an %rgument "roving that all sorts of Insurrections of ub!ects against their

Princes, are lawful, and to be su""orted whenever they suit with our $ccasions, made good from

the Practice of #rance with the /ungarians, the English with the a"isars, the S)ede with the oles, the Em"eror with the ub!ects of 3aples, and all the Princes of the (orld as they find

occasion, a large 9olume in olio, with a Poem u"on the acred 8ight of &ingly Power/

-gnis #atuus or the $ccasional .ill in Minature, a arce, as it was acted by his E+cellency the5ord *r...il 's ervants in arolina/

8unning away the shortest way to 9ictory, being a large Dissertation, shewing to save theueens hi"s, is the best way to beat the #rench/

The Tookites, a Poem u"on the 1></

% new )ract u"on )rade, being a Demonstration that to be always "utting the Peo"le u"oncustomary Mourning, and wearing .lack u"on every tate $ccasion, is an e+cellent

Encouragement to )rade, and a means to em"loy the Poor/

City ratitude, being a Poem on the tatue erected by the Court of %ldermen at the u""er end of

heapside, to the Immortal Memory of &ing 5illia"/

)here were many more )racts to be found in this "lace# but these may suffice for a "ecimen,and to e+cite all Men that would encrease their *nderstandings in humane Mysteries, to take a

9oyage to this enlightned Country/ (here their Memories, thinking aculties and Penetration,

will no 0uestion be so )ackt and Consolidated, that when they return, they all (rite Memoirs ofthe Place, and communicate to their Country the %dvantages they have rea"t by their 9oyage,

according to the laudable E+am"le of their



Most humble Servant,

The Man in the Moon.

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