'But were the Justice of the War examin'd, I can see none, this
Declaring a new King who has no Right but by a Gift, and pulling down
one that had it by a Gift before, has so much Contradiction in it,
that I am afraid no Wise Man, or Honest Man will embark in it.

Your
Humble Servant,
The Man in the Moon.

I wou'd have no Body now pretend to scandalize the Writer of this
Letter, which being for the Gallunarians, for no Man in the Moon had
more Aversion for them than he, but he would have had the War carry'd
on upon a right Bottom, Justice and Honesty regarded in it, and as he
said often, they had no need to go out of the Road of Justice, for
had they made War in the great Eagle's Name all had been well.

Nor was he a false Prophet, for as this was ill grounded, so it was
as ill carry'd on, met with Shocks, Rubs and Disappointments every
way. The very first Voyage the new King made, he had like to ha' been
drown'd by a very violent Tempest, things not very usual in those
Countries; and all the Progress that had been made in his behalf when
I came away from that Lunar World, had not brought him so much as to
be able to set his Foot upon his new Kingdom of Ebronia, but his
Adversary by wonderful Dexterity, and the Assistance of his old
Grandfather the Gallunarian Monarch, beat his Troops upon all
Occasions, invaded his Ally that pretended to assist him, and kept a
quiet Possession of all the vast Ebronian Monarchy; and but at last
by the powerful Diversion of the Solunarian Fleet, a Shock was given
them on another Side, which if it had not happen'd, it was thought