At last, upon some publick Occasion, the publick Treasurers of the
Land sent to the capital City, to borrow 500000 Lunarians upon very
good Security of establisht Funds; truly no Body would lend any Mony,
or at least they could not raise above a 5th part of that Sum,
enquiring at the Bank, at their general Societies Cash, and other
Places, all was languid and dull, and no Mony to be had; but being
inform'd that the Crolians had erected a Bank of their own, they sent
thither, and were answered readily, that whatever Sum the Government
wanted, was at their Service, only it was to be lent not by
particular Persons, but such a Grandee being one of the prime
Nobility, and who the Crolians now call'd their Protector, was to be
Treated with about it.

The Government saw no harm in all this; here was no Law broken, here
was nothing but Oppression answered with Policy, and Mischief fenc'd
against with Reason.

The Government therefore took no Notice of it, nor made any Scruple
when they wanted any Mony to Treat with this Nobleman, and borrow any
Sum of the Crolians, as Crolians; on the contrary in the Name of the
Crolians; their Head or Protector presented their Addresses and
Petitions, procur'd Favours on one Hand, and Assistance on the other;
and thus by degrees and insensibly the Crolians became a Politick
Body, settled and establish'd by Orders and Rules among themselves;
and while a Spirit of Unanimity thus run thro' all their Proceedings,
their Enemies could never hurt them, their Princes always saw it was
their Interest to keep Measures with them, and they were sure to have
Justice upon any Complaint whatsoever.

When I saw this, it forc'd me to reflect upon Affairs in our own