alicious information; and that his prison was no other than
the house of a messenger, set apart for the accommodation of suspected
persons. In this opinion he comforted himself by recollecting his own
conscious innocence, and reflecting that he should be entitled to the
privilege of habeas corpus, as the act including that inestimable jewel
was happily not suspended at this time.

Consoled by this self-assurance, he quietly resigned himself to slumber;
but before he fell asleep, he was very disagreeably undeceived in his
conjecture. His ears were all at once saluted with a noise from the next
room, conveyed in distinct bounces against the wainscot; then a hoarse
voice exclaimed, "Bring up the artillery--let Brutandorf's brigade
advance--detach my black hussars to ravage the country--let them be new
booted--take particular care of the spur-leathers--make a desert of
Lusatia--bombard the suburbs of Pera--go, tell my brother Henry to pass
the Elbe at Meissen with forty battalions and fifty squadrons--so ho, you
Major-General Donder, why don't you finish your second parallel?--send
hither the engineer Shittenback--I'll lay all the shoes in my shop, the
breach will be practicable in four-and-twenty hours--don't tell me of
your works; you and your works be d--n'd."

"Assuredly," cried another voice from a different quarter, "he that
thinks to be saved by works is in a state of utter reprobation--I myself
was a profane weaver, and trusted to the rottenness of works--I kept my
journeymen and 'prentices at constant work, and my heart was set upon the
riches of this world, which was a wicked work--but now I have got a
glimpse of the new light--I feel the operations of grace--I am of the new
birth--I abhor good works--I detest all working but the working of the
Spirit--avaunt, Satan--O! how I thirst for communication with our sister
Jolly."

"The communication is already open with the Marche," said the first, "but
as for thee, thou caitiff, who hast presumed to disparage my works, I'll
have thee rammed into a mortar with a double charge of powder, and thrown
into the enemy's quarters."

This dialogue operated like a train upon many other inhabitants of the
place; one swore he was within three vibrations of finding the longitude,
when this noise confounded his calculation; a second, in broken English,
complained he vas distorped in the moment of de proshection; a third, in
the character of His Holiness, denounced interdiction,