Note 648 — Chapter IV

Ibid. The “observations” referred to really threw no new light upon the situation. They amounted to nothing more than proof of the fact that the editor of the New York Spectator had accepted the idea of the Illuminati conspiracy. This being the case he was anxious to warn his readers that if they would escape from the designs of the French government they must make their choice, and that speedily, between “INDEPENDENCE and SUBMISSION.”