to say, there is no such Place, I may as readily answer their Presumption, by another less Criminal, _viz._ That they never have past that Way to _China_, and consequently cannot demonstrate the Truth of what they say. Having thus premised what I think necessary, to fence this Work against the Malice of the Times, I am next to tell you, That I shall confine this Part of my Account to the Transactions of the Northern Part of this great Island, and therein to what happened in this Case of the Election of their Noble Councellors only; yet I must Hint a little at what had been transacting in the Southern Parts of the Island; and this is absolutely necessary, in order to make the other Accounts intelligible. In order to this, you are to understand, That the Southern Part of the Island was the most remarkable of any, as to the Policy of their Government, and the Character of the People; and excepting _Englishmen_ and _Polanders_, there is not such another Nation in the World: Here they reckoned about Fifty three several Sects, Divisions, and espoused Opinions in Religion, upon most of the Heads whereof the People actually seperated from one another; such as, (1.) _Churchmen_, and among them _High Church_, _Low Church_, _Non Jurors_, _Prelatists_, _Socinians_, _Arians_, _Arminians_, _Deists_, _Atheists_, _Immoralists_, _Flyers_, _Soul-Sleepers_, _Prophets_, _&c._ (2.) _Presbyterians_, and under that head all kind of Dissenters, _Cameronians_, _Independants_, _Anabaptists_, _Baptists_, _Seventh-Day-Men_, _Sabatarians_, _Donatists_, _Gnosticks_, _Antiprelatists_, _Muggletonians_, and various undistinguishable _Quakers_ both wet and dry, _Sweet Singers_, _Family of Love_, _Christian Jews_, _Jewish Christians_, and the like. In the State, the Divisions were no less Fatal, or the variety greater in Proportion, these we may, as I said before, call by the Names which the like Factions are distinguish'd by here; such as _Tory_, _Whig_, _Low Church_, _Hot_ _Whig_, _Old Whig_, _Modern Whig_, _High Flyer_, _High Church_, _High Tory_, a _Gillicranky_, a _Tantivy_, _Tackers_, _Non Jurors_, _Assassinators_, _Junto's_, _Squadroni_, _Court_, _Country_, _Revolutionists_, _Non Resisters_, _Passive Obedience Men_, and the like. You may understand, that the Queen of the Island had thought fit to change Hands in the Administration just before I came there, and tho' it was given out that the change would not be from what we call here a Whig to a Tory Ministry, in effect it past for no other, especially for that the Whigs were generally laid by in every publick Matter, and the Tories, or at least such as had appear'd with them were all taken in.