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PROOFS
OF A
CONSPIRACY
AGAINST ALL THE
_RELIGIONS AND GOVERNMENTS_
OF
EUROPE,
CARRIED ON
IN THE SECRET MEETINGS
OF
_FREE MASONS_, _ILLUMINATI,_
AND
_READING SOCIETIES_.
COLLECTED FROM GOOD AUTHORITIES,
By JOHN ROBISON, A. M.
PROFESSOR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, AND SECRETARY TO THE
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.
_Nam tua res agitur paries cum proximus ardet._
The THIRD EDITION.
To which is added a POSTSCRIPT.
PHILADELPHIA:
PRINTED FOR T. DOBSON, N^o. 41, SOUTH SECOND
STREET, AND W. COBBET, N^o. 25, NORTH
SECOND STREET.
1798.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM WYNDHAM, SECRETARY AT WAR, &c. &c.
&c.
_SIR_,
_It was with great satisfaction that I learned from a Friend that you coincided with me in the opinion, that the information contained in this Performance would make a useful impression on the minds of my Countrymen._
_I have presumed to inscribe it with your Name, that I may publicly express the pleasure which I felt, when I found that neither a separation for thirty years, nor the pressure of the most important business, had effaced your kind…