Nurje, Syou Sir will be ill it is now two nights, you have neither eat or taken any reft I pray take fomething and go to reft; I will do every thing neceffaryoda tema, somefor Mofes The ghaftliness is gone off, and I be, gin to have hopes; endeavour to get a little warm fpirits down his throat, it may warm the ftomach, very ir dot comfort Nurfe. The teeth are locked fo faft that nothing will pafs; I feel a good fign, a warmth about the breast.

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Mofes, Let us rub the different parts, and endeavour to bring on a warmth.d am baim Nurfe. I now, fir, begin to have hopes; I res

ally find find life in the heart, thanks to our merciful Lord his life is in him. God be praised.m Mofes. Let us continue without cealing rube bing, to endeavour to bring on a pulfe. Ipere ceive life, hold the glafs to the noftrils.

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Nurfe It is ftained, he breathes; O my God! your mercy endureth for ever. I fee mering in the eyes. Sin syd bar Mofes. God be ever honoured and glorified, who creates and revives, according to his di vine will; repeat your endeavours to get the cordial into his ftomach.

Nurfe. It has paffed, his eyes quicken, his heart plays, his pulfe trembles, and now breathes, his whole body is in a damp or rather returning perfpiration.

Ignatius. Through infinite mercy I am rec ftored. O my Saviour, my Lord, and my God. Thou art truly God of power, justice, and mercy. You create, destroy, and restore

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whenever your pleasfure is, my good God, and in me not worthy to be called your creature; thefe great properties of your Godhead, in this inftance, is moft abundantly fhewn forth. From this I date my life, what has paft till now was a ftate of reprobation, though born of chriftian parents, and received every advantage and inftruction from my infancy, in the rules of christianity; yet, my heart was prone to vice, happy, if happiness can be obtained in wickednefs, in complying with every wifhed-for defhly pleafure, and whatever was fuggefted to my mind, the thirft of glory egged me in makiug large strides to arrive at the fummit of my ambition; and to forward my pursuit I inlifted myself under the banner of Saint Iguatus; but with a very different fpirit to that he purpofed in his conftitutions and rules for the fociety, which was, to the greater glory of Almighty God, and falvation of their neighbour; bur mine, to my own greater honour and glory, and by example make others as proud, conceited, and joyous as myfelf. My hours, which fhould have been occupied and devoted to my God, were filled up in contriving to promote refpect to the fociety, and that they might appear as confequential as applaufe is capable of, raifing matter. This thought femed inherent from the day I entered into the fociety, and perfuaded myself that it was a duty incumbent on every member of the fociety to raife her honour and dignity in the moft confpicuous manner, to trumpet her great fears and noble conquest with heroic exploits. But in the midft of

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my fantaftical reveries, when my folly, prompt with a notion that the church could not fubfift without the fociety, which, to me, was fupreme and impenetrable, the Bull, for the abolition of the fociety, came forth, which, as at hunder-clap, almost robbed me of my fenfes. After the fit had given room for reflection, I found rancour and refentment for the stretch of power affumed by the pope, as a burning coal, take place, and my heart alienated from her allegiance. I refolved to turn proteftant, and commenced preacher, in which occupation I-found fingular delight, in arraigning and calumniating the church of Rome, which raised shouts of applaufe; still I found a restleffness when I was alone; to remedy this malady, I married; but ftill, when the novelty, I call it fo, having kept myself chafte fince I was in the priesthood, until I quitted my allegiance. I then found home irkfome, which brought on a fhynefs, fo that I found variety was the only medicine that could warm and take off the chill that infefted my heart. In this purfuit I spent my leisure hours; and that I might ftill farther indulge my infatiable appetite, I ingrafted myself a member of the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere, in which fociety I gained great refpect, being ingenious, refolute, forward, in the execution of what they hold heroic defigns, which confift in denying a God, and be guilty of the most wicked and unnatural actions, without remorfe or restraint. Mofes. What knocking is that, pray come in?

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Meffenger. Vam fent by the club of the philo fophers of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere, with this letter to your Rabbi, and wait your answer, by a line, as I am orderediora v

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1931 Mofes In halfan hour you will call for an answer. brtIgnatius. Pray, Rabbi, give us the contents? 35 Mofes. The club of philofophers of this Sour enlightened age and northern hemisphere, to Rabbi Mofes." Sir, in council affembled, we have come to this determination, according to the true intent and meaning of our philofophical conftitutions, that you, acting contrary to the rules of our aforefaid philofophy, in preventing the interment of the dead body of the late philofopher, Ignatius, endeavouring, with needlefs trouble and expence, to restore his life; that you defray the whole expence, and, upon receipt of this, have him buried. The Club have alfo affigned to themselves the bet won by Ignatius, in favour of this our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere. Adieu."

Mofes. In perufing the uncivil letter handed me, by a meffenger, from the Club of Philofophers of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere, I obferve, the intent bears a dark complexion and vexatious afpect, being the fruit of an avaricious and inhuman spirit, and by no means founded on the principles of 'wife philofophy. Rabbi Mofes, therefore, will be glad to have the matter difcuffed at fix o'clock this evening before three Notaries, in

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the apartments of the late philofopher, Ignatius, of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere. Adieu.

Ignatius. You have done wifely, and I will keep myself concealed, that they may be ignorant of my being reftored until the matter has been fully debated.

Nurfe. I will not ftir from you until fuch time that you will difcover the fecret; for I am well aware, fhould I step out, though upon the moft urgent neceffity, although my lips fhould be fewed together, and the matter fhould take wind, the old woman, forfooth, like a cackling hen, chirping her news-mongery as the paffes the ftreet, to every idler fhe meets, has founded her trumpet, by which blaft the new philofophers of this our enlightened age and northera hemifphere, have been apprized, which (old woman's ftory, as they are pleafed to call it) has fpoiled our project. But be it known to you, that the old midwives and nurfes are as anxious to detect and pull down a fet of unnatural vermin who give their thoughts to unheard-of contrivances, for deftroying the republic, in giving her no younklings, to fucceed us old ones; for, fay they, we relish nothing common, novelty is the relifh of us bright geniufes of this our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere. I would be one of the num ber that would heartily fweat, as a woman at her wash-tub, in toffing a new philofopher in a blanket, aye, that is is poz, or in a ducking tool. 90 2oodsiw

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