universal Custom of Nations, who generally do things ten times more
Preposterous and Inconsistent, when they suit their Occasions. Yet I
hope no Body will think I am recommending them by this Relation to
the Practice of our own Nations, but rather exposing them as
unaccountable things never to be put in Practice, without quitting
all pretences to Justice and national Honesty.

The Case was this.

As upon the Progress of Matters before related, the Solunarians and
Mogenites had made a formal acknowledgment of this new Monarch, the
Grandson of the Gallunarian King, so as I have hinted already, they
had no other design than to Depose him, and pull him down.

Accordingly, as soon as by the aforesaid Wile they had gain'd Breath,
and furnisht themselves with Forces, they declar'd War against both
the Gallunarian King, and his Grandson, and entred into strict
Confederacy with the Man of the great Lip, who was the Monarch of the
Eagle, and who by right of Succession, had the true Claim to the
Ebronian Crowns.

In these Declarations they alledge that Crowns do not descend by
Gift, nor are Kingdoms given away by Legacy, like a Gold Ring at a
Funeral, and therefore this young Prince could have no Right, the
former deceas'd King having no Right to dispose it by Gift.

I must allow, that judging by our Reason, and the Practice in our
Countries here, on this side the Moon; this seem'd plain, and I saw
no difference in matters of Truth there, or here, but Right and
Liberty both of Princes and People seems to be the same in that