When the Court have spent their appointed Time at the Hermitage, they all return to Bareith.
After I had been thus an Eye-Witness of the free and easy Life that People lead at the Court of the Margrave, I took Leave of the Prince and Princess, with a Design to proceed in my Journey, not so much to seek an Employment, as to satisfy the Debts, which I had been oblig’d to contract at a time, when they allowed me no more out of my Estate than barely what they could not possibly take away from me: Here, Madame, I conclude the Account of my Rambles. How tedious soever a Narrative of so little Concern may appear to you, be so good as not to take it amiss of me, and to consider, that I wrote it only in Obedience to Orders often repeated: Some Person more self-interested might have scrupled such Obedience; nor did I want Reasons to alledge for my Excuse; only I was afraid lest such obstinate Silence on my Part should be deem’d unworthy of that profound Respect, with which I am, and ever shall be,
Madame,
Your Most Humble,
And Most Obedient Servant,
De Pollnitz.
APPENDIX.
THE
Profession of FAITH,
Deliver’d to His Eminency, the
Cardinal —— at Rome.
Translated from the Italian.
My Lord,
Ever since there was a Diversity of Religions in the World, the Conduct of Persons that have chang’d one for another has been liable to the Censure of those whose Communion they abandon, and given Rise to Variety of Reflections among People of that new Communion which they embrace; and a Reproach has been often cast upon Proselytes, that