Crowd of Barbarians, to the Applause and Approbation of a few polite Athenians. FROM this Nonfenfe of Confcience proceed all the Evils which can poffibly betide Mankind; for it naturally brings Men to be fatisfied with Appearances inftead of Things, and is apt to make an ill Man believe that he is not wicked, becaufe no body dares tell him he is fo. For this Reafon I have done an Act of Charity, by fending a Couple of Letters to two certain Perfons by Meffengers who were very proper to carry them. If the Gentlemen concerned will read them, it may be of very great Ufe; if not, I have done my Duty, and they are fafe by their Impregnable Armour, the Nonfenfe of Confcience. One of these Epiftles I have fent by the Examiner, the other by the Monitor. The first is as follows. . Am told there is of late fuch a Liberty 'IA • taken in opening Letters, that I would not fend this by any but the Bearer, who loves you at his Soul, and has hazarded it for your Service. The enclosed, called a "Letter to the Examiner, is what you ought to give him Inftructions to answer, and not ⚫ defert the poor Man, who has done nothing but repeated the Word Faction for fome • Weeks laft paft. The Writer of the Letter bids him examine the Methods of negotiating the Peace by the 8th Article of the • Grand Alliance; and defires him to fhew, That the Part acted in the Field, while the 'Peace was tranfa&ting, was the most effe • &ual Dual way to fecond what was doing at Utrecht. THAT the Scheme of a general Peace agreed between us and France, is better than that defigned by the Preliminaries of 1709. THAT the Peace was general at the • Time we fign'd. THAT the fettling of the Spanish Monarchy in the Houfe of Bourbon, is no Addition of Strength and Power to France. THAT it can be no Prejudice to us, that France is permitted to trade to the Weft-Indies, which they never were be• fore. THAT it would have been the fame thing to the Trade of Great Britain, to ⚫ whomever Spain and the Indies had been • given. THAT King Philip will not favour France more than England, nor the French • underfell us in their Markets. THAT Portugal is in no Danger of be 'coming a Province to Spain, THAT the Catalans are not an unfor'tunate People from their Adherence to the 'common Caufe. THAT the Method taken in the Demo'lition of Dunkirk agrees with the Letter of the Treaty. HE adds abundance of other Questions, ' which he knows in his own Confcience • need no Answer, the Juftice of what he excepts against being visible to all the World. But however, fince there are fome fpecious • odd Infinuations in the Book, I beg of you to fpeak intelligibly to the Bearer, and furnish him with Anfwers; otherwife the Man must go on in an empty Triumph, from the 'Nonfenfe of Confcience, which renders • him unable to do you any further Service, to the great Grief of all your Well-wishers, who are enumerated in the following • Blank. MY fecond Letter, carried by the Monitor, is as follows. TH HE Bearer I fend to you, because I 'know you have a Refpect for one of the Perfons concerned in his following Ex( preffion in the Monitor of Saturday. Fears and Apprehenfions of remote Slavery, and of a contemptible deftitute Pretender, are con trary to all Reafon. This is plain Disrespect · to the Duke of Lorain, to call a Man deftitute and contemptible who is under his Protection. Juft after the Pardon granted to Mr. Bedford, he has the Impudence to arraign Her Majefty of being guilty of Mercy to a Fault, in thefe Words; This Nation is at prefent under the Bleffing of a Pa cifick Reign, under a Queen whofe perfonal • Behaviour is untainted with Crime (except that of too much Clemency) a Queen who is Pattern of Virtue and Piety. a I hope you will take the proper Methods for doing Juftice in this Cafe, by fending the 297 6. 6. IF you, who are a Juftice of Peace, let INDEX TO THE LOVE R. A A. BEDNEGO the Jew, how he bubbled Sit Advertisement about written Dances, N. 4: Amours, Criminal, the Evils heaped up in them, N. 9; Anceftry, how fond the Crabtrees are of it, N. 11, 16. April, Firft of, a Day aufpicious to the Crabtrees, N. 16. Aronces, his Complaint about Country Dances, N. 3. BACON, |