riously, and no doubt will applaud yourself. The firft is, you know Calvin has treated your department of Proteftantifin, being trained a Calvinift, what you are I prefume; and under your roof, to the great difhonour of your house has turned papift. You fay he has put himself in a convent of friars at Bruffels; he can never more return to Scotland, the Scotch would hang him up to the first gibbet, that prefented itself: he has a finall eftate in Scotland of about three hundred per annum, and money in the funds that brings him about two hundred more; fo that the whole in his gift is rated at five hundred, hard money, per year he was never married; it is true he has five fifters who he keeps in indolence through his fupineness, and in a little time may be the means of afflicting them with the gout, ftone, and even death, if I do not take this charity upon myself to correct this growing evil: my friendship though abused, can fuffer no abatement; therefore, to affift me in this donation to himself and fifters, you will with every expedition leave no ftone unturned, until you bring him to a proper fenfe of his duty to God and his neighbour; and make him have drawn and executed a title to me of his property, both real and perfonal, my heirs and affigns for ever: be cautious, receive no gratuity, as you will be fatisfied with the merit conferred on you. My fecond injunction is, that you will make ufe of every fubtilty to get the affignment compleat from Moles to me, of his monies in the English funds; what he has lodged here, or any other ftraggling

fraggling fums, for any matter, cause, or thing," whatfoever, or whenfoever. A third is, you will make diligent fearch for a fon of mine who has turned Roman Catholic, broke his uncle's heart; but before his death my rafkallion abfconded: his uncle adopted him his fole heir, by which he is entitled to the family eftate of twelve hundred per year, and ten thousand in ftock, which altogether is a pretty thing, no debts.

Hoft. What would you have me tranfact with your fon when I have found him, if he is to be found.

Lutber. Frighten him with threats of confifcation and reprobation; he has, and ftands guilty of the moft heinous crime against the Jaws and conftitution of Great Britain; therefore, infift on his immediately affigning the whole, as far as his non-age will permit, to me, my heirs and affigns for ever; and an oath when he attains the age of twenty-one years, that he will confirm and establifh my title.

Hoft. You fay Calvin and your fon by becoming Roman Catholics have forfeited their rights and privileges as fubjects, and are outlaws, and non-protected mifcreants; if this be the misfortune of thofe two, what threat have you to frighten Mofes into your designs.

Luther. Jews and Papifts are almost in the fame predicament, being the only two that adhere to the old antedeluvian feriptures, by which jargon they bind the fenfes and keep them captives; fo that our enlightened age is ftill fhaded from the brains of the generality of

the

the middling clafs of the human race, and Jower and ignorant likewise.

Hoft. This character to ftigmatize the Britifh conftitution and laws, are diametrically oppofite to the name it maintains in the large world; which is a fyftem of lenity, freedom, and protection to mankind in general and particular: I cannot, you must excufe me, fuppofe your country wears the counterfeit face of peace and liberty, and within her bofom conceal a dagger of the moft black hue, to fhackle, fetter, chain, and entangle the confciences of their fellow creatures; a direct carte-blanche to our holy religion: never mention it, for I have had the honour to attend in my life a number of English gentlemen, who, were you, though as you have given yourself out for the bishop of Canterbury, would huftle you, if you were not of fo enormous a bulk, in a blanket. There is not a nation who bears that exalted character, and more jealous of their liberty of confcience, than the English. England never can fuffer fo grofs an infult, to form men into hypocrites.

Luther. I hope nincom-poop, fcaramouch, faucy-box, buffoon, fcare-crow, pigmy, barbarian, favage, cruel and uncultivated villain, to lay the charge of combing mens confciences, and entangling their brains with fetters; uncivilized morality and inhumanity. I declare I have-it is better in than out; however, 1 will ceafe my feverity, or you may put an end to your existence, and I go fupperlefs to bed, which would not be the most jocular compa

nion or bed fellow. O patience, what zeal pof feffes me whenever liberty and no excife, is or are endangered; but I ftill hope your intentions are not of that kind. I am florid, and it is difficult to keep my breath, if that quits, O all is over to us enlightened philofophers, of our enlightened hemifphere: moft certainly it is a moft jolly and buckfome philofophy: O the joy of my younger days; no disturbance or biting of confcience, all calm within; and the enjoyment to a glut brim-full, and running over of the five pipes; inftruments and conductors, or fenfe into the heart. This, men of learning and light call heaven, or the fullnefs and end of man; no fcripture bug-bears, but all smooth water to them that will enjoy. Yet I confefs old Mofes dropped a story which has not a little difconcerted my notion of reafon; he proves from the tortoife, that will, memory, and understanding, do not depend and derive its fource or origin from the brain; for the turtle comes the nearest to man, in planing and carrying them into execution for the preferving their progeny, which goes far beyond the ape, who is confidered to come nearest man, which our philofophy teaches, having moft brains proportionable to the fize. Mofes declares the tortoife have neither brains

nor marrow.

Hoft. I have often heard your new philofophers brag of their proofs from the brains, and lay it down as the ground and fundamental article of their faith, which raised my curiofity, hearing of the fubtlety and prudence of this

animal,

animal, to purchase the one you had one of yout dinners dreffed in, that worked fuch wonderful effects both on you and your companion, and which liked to have been the death of Rabbi Mofes. I opened the head, and this is that you fee in the Phial, which is preferved in fpirits, all that was contained in the head, and which is nothing more than like a fheath of a Tarantula, or web or membrane, containing neither brains or any other fubftance. The bones are alfo as the head, all folid as a stone.

Luther. I think it rather a refinement on Calvinifm; for although they ufe every precaution to ftifle the confcience by difavowing fin, unless hatched as a chick, through ignorance and folly, yet, when a foul, or immortality, is granted, we experience an interloper, who lurks about the heart, and, like a bufy-body, raifing an immediate buftle on the heel of every gratification that is forbid by fcripture or chritianity, this falls in of course; so that we become dupes to the foul we cannot refrain, neither can we enjoy. I have, therefore, ever confidered the life of a Calvinift the life of a dog, who commonly receives his meal with fear of the whip. I am very ill from the flurry you urged me, doubting my veracity in laying before you the laws, and benign, gentle and meek conftitution of Great Britain. I am quite fpent, overcharging my ftomach, fo that I can paddle in it at my throat, and I find not my old friend at hand, ftrong evacuation; I am fwelled and must burft, unlefs I can blow heartily my fowgelder's horn, which would re