irdly, because it hath a tendency to undo that continental harmony
and friendship which yourselves by your late liberal and charitable
donations hath lent a hand to establish; and the preservation of which,
is of the utmost consequence to us all.

And here without anger or resentment I bid you farewell. Sincerely
wishing, that as men and christians, ye may always fully and
uninterruptedly enjoy every civil and religious right; and be, in your
turn, the means of securing it to others; but that the example which ye
have unwisely set, of mingling religion with politics, MAY BE DISAVOWED
AND REPROBATED BY EVERY INHABITANT OF _AMERICA._

[1] Dragonetti on virtue and rewards.

[2] Thomas Anello otherwise Massanello a fisherman of Naples, who after
spiriting up his countrymen in the public marketplace, against the
oppressions of the Spaniards, to whom the place was then subject
prompted them to revolt, and in the space of a day became king.

[3] See Entic's naval history, intro. page 56.

[4] Those who would fully understand of what great consequence a large
and equal representation is to a state, should read Burgh's political
disquisitions.

[5] "Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it
is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled as well as to
rule, and set upon the throne; and being oppressed thou hast reason to
know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man: If after all
these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord
with all thy heart, but forget him who remembered thee in thy distress,
and give up thyself to fallow lust and vanity, surely great will be thy
condemnation.-- Against which snare, as well as the temptation of those
who may or do feed thee, and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent
and prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself to that light of Christ
which shineth in thy conscience, and which neither can, nor will
flatter thee, nor suffer thee to be at ease in thy sins."--Barclay's
address to Charles II.

F I N I S.

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