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and ungenerous. I could not look on him as my friend, nor indeed didhe desire that I should; so I presently took my leave of him, as wellas of my other acquaintance; and from that day to this, my history islittle better than a blank.""And is it possible, sir," said Jones, "that you can have resided herefrom that day to this?"--"O no, sir," answered the gentleman; "I havebeen a great traveller, and there are few parts of Europe with which Iam not acquainted." "I have not, sir," cried Jones, "the assurance toask it of you now; indeed it would be cruel, after so much breath asyou have already spent: but you will give me leave to wish for somefurther opportunity of hearing the excellent observations which a manof your sense and knowledge of the world must have made in so long acourse of travels."--"Indeed, young gentleman," answered the stranger,"I will endeavour to satisfy your curiosity on this head likewise, asfar as I am able." Jones attempted fresh apologies, but was prevented;and while he and Partridge sat with greedy and impatient ears, thestranger proceeded as in the next chapter.[*] _The rest of this paragraph and the two following paragraphsin the first edition were as follows_:"For my own part, I had been for some time very seriously affectedwith the danger to which the Protestant religion was so visiblyexposed, that nothing but the immediate interposition of Providenceseemed capable of preserving it; for King James had indeed declaredwar against the Protestant cause. He had brought known papists intothe army and attempted to bring them into the Church and into theUniversity. Popish priests swarmed through the nation, appearedpublicly in their habits, and boasted that they should shortly walkin procession through the streets. Our own clergy were forbid topreach against popery, and bishops were ordered to supend those whodid; and to do the business at once an illegal ecclesiasticalcommission was erected, little inferior to an inquisition, of which,probably, it was intended to be the ringleader. Thus, as our duty tothe king can never be called more than our second duty, he haddischarged us from this by making it incompatible with ourpreserving the first, which is surely to heaven. Besides this, hehad dissolved his subjects from their allegiance by breaking hisCoronation Oath, to which their allegiance is annexed; for he hadimprisoned bishops because they would not give up their religion,and turned out judges because they would not absolutely surrenderthe law into his hands; nay, he seized this himself, and when heclaimed a dispensing power, he declared himself, in fact, asabsolute as any tyrant ever was or can be. I have recapitulatedthese matters in full lest some of them should have been omitted inhistory; and I think nothing less than such provocations as I havehere mentioned, nothing less than certain and imminent danger totheir religion and liberties, can justify or even mitigate thedreadful sin of rebellion in any people.""I promise you, sir," says Jones, "all these facts, and more, I haveread in history, but I will tell you a fact which is not yetrecorded and of which I suppose you are ignorant. There is actuallynow a rebellion on foot in this kingdom in favour of the son of thatvery King James, a professed papist, more bigoted, if possible, thanhis father, and this carried on by Protestants against a king whohath never in one single instance made the least invasion on our