pretended the Ship and Goods were all Confiscated; the Skipper, or
Captain in a great Fright, comes up to the Custom-House, and being
told he must Swear to something relating to his taking in those
Goods, reply'd in his Country Jargon, Ya, dat sall Ick doen Myn Heer;
or in English, Ay, Ay, I'll Swear.----- But finding they did not
assure him that it would clear his Ship he scruples the Oath again,
at which they told him it would clear his Ship immediately. Hael,
well Myn Heer, says the Mogen Man, vat mot Ick sagen, Ick sall all
Swear myn Skip to salvare, i.e. I shall Swear any thing to save my
Skip.

'We apply this Story thus.

'If the Mogenites did acknowledge the King of Ebronia, we did believe
it was done to save the Skip; and when they reproacht the Gallunarian
King, with breaking the Treaty of Division, we us'd to say we would
all break thro' twice as many Engagements for half as much Advantage.

'This setting up a new King, against a King on the Throne,
Acknowledg'd and Congratulated by them, is not only look'd on in the
Lunar World, as a thing Ridiculous, but particularly Infamous, that
they should first acknowledge a King, and then set up the Title of
another. If the Title of the first Ebronian King be good, this must
be an Impostor, an Usurper of another Man's Right; if it was not
good, why did they acknowledge him, and give him the full Title of
all the Ebronian Dominions? Caress and Congratulate him, and make a
publick Action of it to his Ambassador.

'Will they tell us they were Bully'd, and Frighted into it? that is
to own they may be hufft into an ill Action; for owing a Man in the