This Sentence pleased neither Party; and Martin appealed from the Confiftory to the Court of Arches; but they confirmed the Sentence of the Confiftory.

It was a laft brought before a Commiffion of Delegates; who, having weighed the cafe, reverfed the Sentence of the inferiour Courts, and difannulled. the Marriage, upon the following Reafons: That allowing the manner of Cohabitation enjoined to be practicable (though highly inconvenient), yet the Jus petendi and reddendi Debitum conjugale being at all times equal in both Hufbands and both Wives, and at the fame time impoffible in more than one, two Perfons could not have a Right to the entire poffeffion of the fame thing at the fame time; nor could one fo enjoy his property, as to debar another from the use of his, who has an equal right. So much as to the Debitum petendi, and as to the Debitum reddendi, nemo tenetur ad impoffibile. Therefore the Lords, with great wisdom, diffolved both Marriages, as proceeding upon a natural as well as legal abfurdity.

This affair being thus unhappily terminated, and become the whole talk of the Town, Martinus, unable to fupport the affliction, as well as to avoid the many difagreeable confequences, refolved to quit the Kingdom. But we muft not here neglect to mention, that during the whole courfe of this Procefs, his continual Attendance on the Courts in his own Cause, and his invincible Curiofiy for all that paft in the Caufes of others, gave him a wonderful infight into this Branch of Learning, which must be confeft to have been fo improved by the Moderns, as beyond all comparifon to exceed the Ancients. From the day his firft Bill was filed,

he began to collect Reports; and before his Suit was ended, he had time abundantly fufficient to compile a very confiderable volume. His anger at his ill fuccefs caufed him to deftroy the greateft part of thefe Reports, and only to preserve such as difcovered most of the Chicanery and Futility of the practice. These we have fome hopes to recover, if they were only mislaid at his Removal; if not, the world will be enough inftructed to lament the lofs, by the only one now publick, viz. the Cafe of Stradling and Stiles, in an action concerning cer tain black and white Horfes. We cannot wonder that he contracted a violent averfion to the Law, as is evident from a whole Chapter of his Travels; and perhaps his Disappointment gave him alfo a Difinclination to the fair Sex, for whom, on fome occafions, he does not exprefs all the respect and admiration poffible. This doubtless must be the reason, that in no part of his Travels we find him beloved by any ftrange Princefs; nor have we the leaft account that he ever relapfed into this paffion, except what is mentioned in the Introduction of the Spanish Lady's Phænomenon.

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CHAP. XIV.*

OF THE SECESSION OF MARTINUS, AND SOME
HINT OF HIS TRAVELS.

was in the year 1699, that Martin fet out on his Travels. Thou wilt certainly be very curious to know what they were. It is not yet time to inform thee. But what hints I am at liberty to give, I will.

Thou shalt know then, that in his firft Voyage he was carried by a profperous Storm, to a Difcovery of the Remains of the ancient Pygmaean Empire.

That in his fecond, he was as happily fhipwrecked on the Land of the Giants, now the most humane people in the world.

That in his third Voyage, he discovered a whole Kingdom of Philofophers, who govern by the Mathematicks; with whofe admirable Schemes and Projects he returned to benefit his own dear Country; but had the misfortune to find them rejected by the envious Ministers of Queen Anne, and himself fent treacherously away.

*It is very acutely and juftly obferved by Mr. Cambridge, in the Preface to his Scribleriad, that it was furprising Mr. Pope fhould make his Scriblerus so complicated a character as he represents him towards the end of his Memoirs, attributing to bim things quite incompatible. Nay, fuch is his luft of loading this chara&er, that he declares Gulliver's Travels to be the Travels of Scriblerus; and this without any other pretence, than that Swift had once designed to write the Travels of Scriblerus. What reasons induced him to change this work of humour, to a particular gratification of his spleen, it is not to the prefent purpose to make known; but this is certain, that when he made fo total an alteration in his defign, he took care not to give one feature of Scriblerus to his Gulliver. This hath been obferved in a remark on a former Chapter.

And hence it is, that in his fourth Voyage he discovers a Vein of Melancholy proceeding almost to a Difguft of his Species; but above all, a mortal Deteftation to the whole flagitious Race of Minifters, and a final Refolution not to give in any Memorial to the Secretary of State, in order to fubject the Lands he discovered to the Crown of Great

Britain.

Now if, by these hints, the Reader can help himfelf to a farther discovery of the Nature and Contents of thefe Travels, he is welcome to as much light as they afford him; I am obliged, by all the ties of honour, not to speak more openly..

But if any man fhall fee fuch very extraordinary Voyages, into fuch very extraordinary Nations, which manifeft the moft diftinguishing marks of a Philofopher, a Politician, and a Legiflator; and can imagine them to belong to a Surgeon of a Ship, or a Captain of a Merchantman, let him remain in his Ignorance.

And whoever he be, that fhall further observe in every page of fuch a book, that cordial Love of Mankind, that inviolable Regard to Truth, that Passion for his dear Country, and that particular attachment to the excellent Princess Queen Anne; furely that man deferves to be pitied, if by all thofe vifible Signs and Characters, he cannot distinguish and acknowledge the Great Scriblerus.

CHAP. XV.

OF THE DISCOVERIES AND WORKS OF THE GREAT SCRIBLERUS, MADE AND TO BE MADE, WRITTEN AND TO BE WRITTEN, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN.

HERE therefore, at this great Period, we end our

firft Book. And here, O Reader, we entreat thee utterly to forget all thou haft hitherto read, and to caft thy eyes only forward to that boundless Field the next fhall open unto thee; the fruits of which (if thine, or our fins do not prevent) are to fpread and multiply over this our work, and over all the face of the earth.

In the mean time, know what thou oweft, and what thou yet may'ft owe, to this excellent Perfon, this Prodigy of our Age; who may well be called, The Philofopher of ultimate Caufes, fince by a Sagacity peculiar to himself, he hath difcovered Effects in their very Caufe; and without the trivial helps of Experiments, or Obfervations, hath been the Inventor of most of the modern Syftems and Hypothefes.

'He hath enriched Mathematicks with many precife and geometrical Quadratures of the Circle. He firft difcovered the Caufe of Gravity, and the inteftine Motion of Fluids.

To him we owe all the obfervations of the Parallax of the Pole-ftar, and all the new Theories of the Deluge.

How juftly foever the knowledge of Mathematicks is said to contribute to make men found reafoners; yet it may be obferved, that neither Hobbes, nor Bayle, nor Locke, nor Hume, nor Chilling. worth, nor Hooker, nor Butler, fome of the clofeft and moft acute reafoners that ever wrote, knew much of the Mathematicks.