any where, and Merchants refuse to pay Letters of Exchange, every one standing at a gaze till they see where this business will end, which hath drawn along with it the breaking of divers other Merchants who were considerable. The rich Indian Fleet, almost wholly fraught with Sugars, which entred some daies ago into the Gulf of Lepanto, was the cause of these so many disorders. Some of the chief Princes of Pernas∣sus bought all the Sugar, which brought in great store of money; and then they provided many Magazines and Ware-houses, and made great provisions of Cauldrons, and other brass Vessels, and were at such an expence with all this, as they took up monies at huge high Interest from Merchants at all Marts by exchange and bartering. The true end of these Princes was to know for certain, whether they could happily compass the difficult business of preserving Turds, a business which had been for∣merly endeavoured by many great men, but still unfortunately: Many rich Lords were so resolved upon the undertaking of this stinking occu∣pation, as they neither spared for cost nor labour to bring this their stinking designto their desired end, for they put all their minnions, Hephe∣stion, idols, flatterers, and bawds into the great Caldrons which they had prepared, to whom they were not ashamed to pay all the most abject and base slavery and obedience. These unfortunate Confectioners co∣ver over this scum of people which are so fatal to men of power, with the sugar of honourable imployments, and highest dignities: and though it was clearly seen, that by reason of their stinking lewd conditions, they did not only not become ever a whit the sweeter in merit and vertue, but the more sugar was heaped upon them by those unfortunate Princes, the more they stunk in the nostrils of men of honour, yet did they dai∣ly persist the more in that their woful occupation, and the obstinacy of those ill advised Princes was so fatal, as the worser they found their busi∣ness to proceed, the more did their diligence and expences increase, to∣gether with the impossibility and shame of the fowle undertaking; those foolish Merchants did still beleeve, that the infinite quantity of Su∣gar and fragrant Musk had power to make the stink of those their shame∣ful favorites sweet and odoriferous. But at last, though late, they found their business impossible to be effected: and having consumed all their Sugar they were aware that those their Idols had not only shamefully in∣fected theirCourts by their insufferable stench, but had infinitely defam∣ed them, who for want of caution had doated upon so unsavory carrion; wherefore they quit the enterprise; and because the moneys which they had taken up at use, were already grown due, for fear of their Creditors, they have all played least in sight; and the more to aggravate so great a disorder, we hear that a great King, who that he might confectionate a base minnion of his was for certain the first who advised to this misera∣ble Merchandize, fell unfortunately off horseback as he fled away, and is since dead. His Majesty was very much troubled at these disorders, and to hinder the like inconveniences for the future, hath commanded, that on the first day of August (a remarkable day, since not only the uni∣versal Banckrupt, but the death of that great King hapned on that day) so sad a misfortune should be publickly commemorated, and if the exam∣ple of so great a Monarch could not deter powerful men from the like undertaking, it must be granted that this calamity was occasion'd through the same weakness of brain, by which privat men are blinded, and for ava∣rice undo themselves in pursuit of the Philosophers Stone.