treasury, and the officer who placed the guard should seal the door,
and say to the soldiers, You shall be answerable for the seal if I find
it broken: would not all the world understand the seal to be fixed to
guard against the soldiers, who might, though employed to keep off
others, be ready enough to pilfer themselves? This is in all such
cases but a necessary care; you may place guards, and when you do all
is in their power: Et quis custodes custodiat ipsos?

But it seems, that, notwithstanding all this care, the seals
were broken, and the body gone. If you complain of this, Sir, demand
satisfaction of your guards; they only are responsible for it: the
disciples had no more to do in it than you or I.

The guards, the Gentleman says, have confessed the truth, and
owned that they were asleep, and that the disciples in the mean time
stole away the body. I wish the guards were in court, I would ask
them, how they came to be so punctual in relating what happened when
they were asleep? what induced them to believe that the body was
stolen at all? what, that it was stolen by the disciples; since by
their own confession they were asleep and say nothing, saw no body?
But since they are not to be had, I would desire to ask the Gentleman
the same questions; and whether he has any authorities in point, to
shew, that ever any man was admitted as an evidence in any court, to
prove a fact which happened when he was asleep? I see the Gentleman is
uneasy; I'll press the matter no further.

As this story has no evidence to support it, so neither has it
any probability. The Gentleman has given you the character of the
disciples; that they were weak, ignorant men, full of the popular
prejudices and superstitions of their country,which stuck close to them