David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ If there be any man so unreasonable as to fancy that because I am a Frenchman born, I ought out of conscience to abstain from the displaying the weakness of France as I do, he would be guilty of a gross error to believe that a Prince or a Nation may trample under foot all the duties of human society and religion in relation to their Subjects, and that the Subjects notwithstanding should not be allowed to make complaints and publish the excesses of their quondam rulers, even when they are delivered from under their bondage ”

“ The tender care and great charity which you have manifested towards the poor refugees, who suffer for the said religion; but above all, the courage and zeal you have discovered in this last war, by sparing nothing that was necessary for the preservation of the Protestant interest, have made it gloriously appear to all the nations of the earth that you value neither your treasures nor your blood, when there is a necessity of spending them in defence of pure religion, and liberty of opinions. ”

“ I am confident that several of my countrymen will think it strange, that being of a noted family in France, having some interest to manage in that kingdom, and being uneasie in England, that I should expose myself thus, seeing the Peace seems to be in great forwardness, by publishing such a book which cannot but highly provoke the rulers in France. ”