A Letter From a Gentleman in Transilvania to his Friend in America - 10
Have they not abandoned their former Principles; violated every obligation that was either civil or sacred, or that bound them by the ties of Conscience or honor to be faithful to the Emperor in order to support your Cause? Have they not prostituted their Temple, (a place solemnly dedicated for pious uses) as an Amphitheatre for the Rabble to combar in? Has not their Altar been profaned by the unhallowed hands of Turks, Jews, Infidels, and Piss--Brute---tarians? And all this in favor of your Excellency.
As for Paulinus, Mortonus and others of the Emperor’s Profession, whose characters have been irreproachable, and whose Virtues have made them rever’d by their Country, shall they become the objects of your Excellency’s disapprobation for no other reason, than they still continued to have a regard for the Emperor, and cannot easily conquer their old prejudices in favour of the Emperial Court?---Time might bring them over as well as others; but such rash and precipitative measures, will create a Jealousy throughout all Transilvania, as if your opposition to them was purely out of spite to the Emperor, for whom they wou’d be made a Sacrifice.
Your Attachment to the Piss--Brute---tarians is somewhat remarkable, as they have been the cause of all the trouble that has happen’d in the Government. Had there never been a Rebellion amongst them here, your Excellency wou’d ne-
