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66 the nerves, and does not affect the stomach, vitals, &c. as poysons in substance,) in order to prevent him from publishing the existence of the profession.

“That finding it much easier to actuate all the ministers, magistrates, &c. to the folly of pretending me mad, than to make me desist from exerting myself to expose the plots and plans of such assassins, they adopted this course, and at last contrived my being forced into Bedlam, where they have ever sworn, they will by hook or by crook hold me ; and some thousand times during the last twelve years, sworn I should never get out of their clutches alive, unless I forgave them ; but they know all compromise with them is impossible.

“That having me safely immured, the experts went to work again boldly, and then, in less than three months blew up that