"Nobility without souls, a fanatical clergy. Frightful tax gatherers gnawing a plucked people. Faith and customs a prey to designing persons. A price set upon the head of the Chancellor (Maupeou). The skeleton of a perfidious Senate. Not daring to punish a parricidal conspiracy. O, my country! O, France! Thy miseries Have even drawn tears from Rome. [10] If you have no Republic, and no pure legislators Like exist in America, to deliver you from the oppression Of a tyrannous empire of knaves, brigands and robbers; Like the British cabinet and the skillful Pitt, chief of flatterers, Who with his magic lantern fascinates even the wise ones. This clique will soon be seen to fall, if the French become the conquerors Of this ancient slavery, and show themselves the proud protectors Of their musical Carmagnole. In the name of kings and emperors, how much iniquity and horror Which are recorded in history, cause the reader to shudder with fright. The entrance of friends in Belgium, to the eyes of those who know, Is it not an unique epoch? And this most flattering tie, sustained by a heroic compact, Will be the desire of all hearts." À BOSTON under the protection of Congress. Bound in this volume is a pamphlet entitled "La Fable de Christ devoilée." Paris: Franklin Press. 75 Rue de Clery. 2nd year of the Republic. Also, "Éloge non-funèbre de Jesus et du Christianisme. Printed on the débris of the Bastille, and the funeral pile of the Inquisition. 2nd year of Liberty, and of Christ 1791." Another closes the volume: "Lettres Philosophique sur St. Paul: sur sa doctrine, politique, morale, & réligieuse, & sur plusieurs points de la réligion chrétienne considerées politiquement." (J. P. Brissot de Warville.) Translated from the English by the philosopher de Ferney and found in the portfolio of M. V. his ancient secretary. Neuchatel en Suisse 1783. Note translated from the edition "En Suisse, de l'imprimerie philosophique," 1793. In a response to M. de la Monnoye, who laboriously endeavored to refute the existence of the treatise entitled "The Three Impostors," and which reply in addition to M. de la Monnoye's arguments appear in connection with some of the translations of the treatise, occurs the following introduction to the account of the discovery of the original manuscript: "I have by me a more certain means of overturning this dissertation of M. de la Monnoye, when I inform him that I have read this celebrated little work and that I have it in my library. I will give you and the public an account of the manner in which I discovered it, and as it is in my possession I will subjoin a short but faithful description of it."