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and
I
plainly
protested
,
"
that
I
would
never
be
an
instrument
of
bringing
a
free
and
brave
people
into
slavery
.
"
And
,
when
the
matter
was
debated
in
council
,
the
wisest
part
of
the
ministry
were
of
my
opinion
.
This
open
bold
declaration
of
mine
was
so
opposite
to
the
schemes
and
politics
of
his
imperial
majesty
,
that
he
could
never
forgive
me
.
He
mentioned
it
in
a
very
artful
manner
at
council
,
where
I
was
told
that
some
of
the
wisest
appeared
,
at
least
by
their
silence
,
to
be
of
my
opinion
;
but
others
,
who
were
my
secret
enemies
,
could
not
forbear
some
expressions
which
,
by
a
side-wind
,
reflected
on
me
.
And
from
this
time
began
an
intrigue
between
his
majesty
and
a
junto
of
ministers
,
maliciously
bent
against
me
,
which
broke
out
in
less
than
two
months
,
and
had
like
to
have
ended
in
my
utter
destruction
.
Of
so
little
weight
are
the
greatest
services
to
princes
,
when
put
into
the
balance
with
a
refusal
to
gratify
their
passions
.
About
three
weeks
after
this
exploit
,
there
arrived
a
solemn
embassy
from
Blefuscu
,
with
humble
offers
of
a
peace
,
which
was
soon
concluded
,
upon
conditions
very
advantageous
to
our
emperor
,
wherewith
I
shall
not
trouble
the
reader
.
There
were
six
ambassadors
,
with
a
train
of
about
five
hundred
persons
,
and
their
entry
was
very
magnificent
,
suitable
to
the
grandeur
of
their
master
,
and
the
importance
of
their
business
.
When
their
treaty
was
finished
,
wherein
I
did
them
several
good
offices
by
the
credit
I
now
had
,
or
at
least
appeared
to
have
,
at
court
,
their
excellencies
,
who
were
privately
told
how
much
I
had
been
their
friend
,
made
me
a
visit
in
form
.
They
began
with
many
compliments
upon
my
valour
and
generosity
,
invited
me
to
that
kingdom
in
the
emperor
their
master
's
name
,
and
desired
me
to
show
them
some
proofs
of
my
prodigious
strength
,
of
which
they
had
heard
so
many
wonders
;
wherein
I
readily
obliged
them
,
but
shall
not
trouble
the
reader
with
the
particulars
.
When
I
had
for
some
time
entertained
their
excellencies
,
to
their
infinite
satisfaction
and
surprise
,
I
desired
they
would
do
me
the
honour
to
present
my
most
humble
respects
to
the
emperor
their
master
,
the
renown
of
whose
virtues
had
so
justly
filled
the
whole
world
with
admiration
,
and
whose
royal
person
I
resolved
to
attend
,
before
I
returned
to
my
own
country
.
Accordingly
,
the
next
time
I
had
the
honour
to
see
our
emperor
,
I
desired
his
general
license
to
wait
on
the
Blefuscudian
monarch
,
which
he
was
pleased
to
grant
me
,
as
I
could
perceive
,
in
a
very
cold
manner
;
but
could
not
guess
the
reason
,
till
I
had
a
whisper
from
a
certain
person
,
"
that
Flimnap
and
Bolgolam
had
represented
my
intercourse
with
those
ambassadors
as
a
mark
of
disaffection
;
"
from
which
I
am
sure
my
heart
was
wholly
free
.
And
this
was
the
first
time
I
began
to
conceive
some
imperfect
idea
of
courts
and
ministers
.
It
is
to
be
observed
,
that
these
ambassadors
spoke
to
me
,
by
an
interpreter
,
the
languages
of
both
empires
differing
as
much
from
each
other
as
any
two
in
Europe
,
and
each
nation
priding
itself
upon
the
antiquity
,
beauty
,
and
energy
of
their
own
tongue
,
with
an
avowed
contempt
for
that
of
their
neighbour
;
yet
our
emperor
,
standing
upon
the
advantage
he
had
got
by
the
seizure
of
their
fleet
,
obliged
them
to
deliver
their
credentials
,
and
make
their
speech
,
in
the
Lilliputian
tongue
.
And
it
must
be
confessed
,
that
from
the
great
intercourse
of
trade
and
commerce
between
both
realms
,
from
the
continual
reception
of
exiles
which
is
mutual
among
them
,
and
from
the
custom
,
in
each
empire
,
to
send
their
young
nobility
and
richer
gentry
to
the
other
,
in
order
to
polish
themselves
by
seeing
the
world
,
and
understanding
men
and
manners
;
there
are
few
persons
of
distinction
,
or
merchants
,
or
seamen
,
who
dwell
in
the
maritime
parts
,
but
what
can
hold
conversation
in
both
tongues
;
as
I
found
some
weeks
after
,
when
I
went
to
pay
my
respects
to
the
emperor
of
Blefuscu
,
which
,
in
the
midst
of
great
misfortunes
,
through
the
malice
of
my
enemies
,
proved
a
very
happy
adventure
to
me
,
as
I
shall
relate
in
its
proper
place
.
The
reader
may
remember
,
that
when
I
signed
those
articles
upon
which
I
recovered
my
liberty
,
there
were
some
which
I
disliked
,
upon
account
of
their
being
too
servile
;
neither
could
anything
but
an
extreme
necessity
have
forced
me
to
submit
.
But
being
now
a
nardac
of
the
highest
rank
in
that
empire
,
such
offices
were
looked
upon
as
below
my
dignity
,
and
the
emperor
(
(
to
do
him
justice
)
)
,
never
once
mentioned
them
to
me
.
However
,
it
was
not
long
before
I
had
an
opportunity
of
doing
his
majesty
,
at
least
as
I
then
thought
,
a
most
signal
service
.
I
was
alarmed
at
midnight
with
the
cries
of
many
hundred
people
at
my
door
;
by
which
,
being
suddenly
awaked
,
I
was
in
some
kind
of
terror
.
I
heard
the
word
Burglum
repeated
incessantly
:
several
of
the
emperor
's
court
,
making
their
way
through
the
crowd
,
entreated
me
to
come
immediately
to
the
palace
,
where
her
imperial
majesty
's
apartment
was
on
fire
,
by
the
carelessness
of
a
maid
of
honour
,
who
fell
asleep
while
she
was
reading
a
romance
.
I
got
up
in
an
instant
;
and
orders
being
given
to
clear
the
way
before
me
,
and
it
being
likewise
a
moonshine
night
,
I
made
a
shift
to
get
to
the
palace
without
trampling
on
any
of
the
people
.
I
found
they
had
already
applied
ladders
to
the
walls
of
the
apartment
,
and
were
well
provided
with
buckets
,
but
the
water
was
at
some
distance
.
These
buckets
were
about
the
size
of
large
thimbles
,
and
the
poor
people
supplied
me
with
them
as
fast
as
they
could
:
but
the
flame
was
so
violent
that
they
did
little
good
.
I
might
easily
have
stifled
it
with
my
coat
,
which
I
unfortunately
left
behind
me
for
haste
,
and
came
away
only
in
my
leathern
jerkin
.
The
case
seemed
wholly
desperate
and
deplorable
;
and
this
magnificent
palace
would
have
infallibly
been
burnt
down
to
the
ground
,
if
,
by
a
presence
of
mind
unusual
to
me
,
I
had
not
suddenly
thought
of
an
expedient
.
I
had
,
the
evening
before
,
drunk
plentifully
of
a
most
delicious
wine
called
glimigrim
,
(
the
Blefuscudians
call
it
flunec
,
but
ours
is
esteemed
the
better
sort
,
)
which
is
very
diuretic
.
By
the
luckiest
chance
in
the
world
,
I
had
not
discharged
myself
of
any
part
of
it
.
The
heat
I
had
contracted
by
coming
very
near
the
flames
,
and
by
labouring
to
quench
them
,
made
the
wine
begin
to
operate
by
urine
;
which
I
voided
in
such
a
quantity
,
and
applied
so
well
to
the
proper
places
,
that
in
three
minutes
the
fire
was
wholly
extinguished
,
and
the
rest
of
that
noble
pile
,
which
had
cost
so
many
ages
in
erecting
,
preserved
from
destruction
.
It
was
now
day-light
,
and
I
returned
to
my
house
without
waiting
to
congratulate
with
the
emperor
:
because
,
although
I
had
done
a
very
eminent
piece
of
service
,
yet
I
could
not
tell
how
his
majesty
might
resent
the
manner
by
which
I
had
performed
it
:
for
,
by
the
fundamental
laws
of
the
realm
,
it
is
capital
in
any
person
,
of
what
quality
soever
,
to
make
water
within
the
precincts
of
the
palace
.
But
I
was
a
little
comforted
by
a
message
from
his
majesty
,
"
that
he
would
give
orders
to
the
grand
justiciary
for
passing
my
pardon
in
form
:
"
which
,
however
,
I
could
not
obtain
;
and
I
was
privately
assured
,
"
that
the
empress
,
conceiving
the
greatest
abhorrence
of
what
I
had
done
,
removed
to
the
most
distant
side
of
the
court
,
firmly
resolved
that
those
buildings
should
never
be
repaired
for
her
use
:
and
,
in
the
presence
of
her
chief
confidents
could
not
forbear
vowing
revenge
.
"
Although
I
intend
to
leave
the
description
of
this
empire
to
a
particular
treatise
,
yet
,
in
the
mean
time
,
I
am
content
to
gratify
the
curious
reader
with
some
general
ideas
.
As
the
common
size
of
the
natives
is
somewhat
under
six
inches
high
,
so
there
is
an
exact
proportion
in
all
other
animals
,
as
well
as
plants
and
trees
:
for
instance
,
the
tallest
horses
and
oxen
are
between
four
and
five
inches
in
height
,
the
sheep
an
inch
and
half
,
more
or
less
:
their
geese
about
the
bigness
of
a
sparrow
,
and
so
the
several
gradations
downwards
till
you
come
to
the
smallest
,
which
to
my
sight
,
were
almost
invisible
;
but
nature
has
adapted
the
eyes
of
the
Lilliputians
to
all
objects
proper
for
their
view
:
they
see
with
great
exactness
,
but
at
no
great
distance
.
And
,
to
show
the
sharpness
of
their
sight
towards
objects
that
are
near
,
I
have
been
much
pleased
with
observing
a
cook
pulling
a
lark
,
which
was
not
so
large
as
a
common
fly
;
and
a
young
girl
threading
an
invisible
needle
with
invisible
silk
.
Their
tallest
trees
are
about
seven
feet
high
:
I
mean
some
of
those
in
the
great
royal
park
,
the
tops
whereof
I
could
but
just
reach
with
my
fist
clenched
.
The
other
vegetables
are
in
the
same
proportion
;
but
this
I
leave
to
the
reader
's
imagination
.
