 Person is quadruply recompensed for the Loss of his Time,
for the Danger he underwent, for the Hardship of his Imprisonment, and for all
the Charges he hath been at in making his Defence. Or, if that Fund be
deficient, it is largely supplyed by the Crown. The Emperor doth also confer on
him some publick Mark of his Favour; and Proclamation is made of his Innocence
through the whole City.
    They look upon Fraud as a greater Crime than Theft, and therefore seldom
fail to punish it with Death: For they alledge, that Care and Vigilance, with a
very common Understanding, may preserve a Man's Goods from Thieves; but Honesty
hath no Fence against superior Cunning: And since it is necessary that there
should be a perpetual Intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon
Credit; where Fraud is permitted or connived at, or hath no Law to punish it,
the honest Dealer is always undone, and the Knave gets the Advantage. I remember
when I was once interceeding with the King for a Criminal who had wronged his
Master of a great Sum of Money, which he had received by Order, and ran away
with; and happening to tell his Majesty, by way of Extenuation, that it was only
a Breach of Trust; the Emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer, as a
Defence, the greatest Aggravation of the Crime: And truly, I had little to say
in Return, farther than the common Answer, that different Nations had different
Customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed.
    Although we usually call Reward and Punishment, the two Hinges upon which
all Government turns; yet I could never observe this Maxim to be put in Practice
by any Nation, except that of Lilliput. Whoever can there bring sufficient Proof
that he hath strictly observed the Laws of his Country for Seventy-three Moons,
hath a Claim to certain Privileges, according to his Quality and Condition of
Life, with a proportionable Sum of Money out of a Fund appropriated for that
Use: He likewise acquires the Title of Snilpall, or Legal, which is added to his
Name, but doth not descend to his Posterity. And these People thought it a
prodigious Defect of Policy among us, when I told them that our Laws were
enforced only by Penalties, without any Mention of Reward. It is upon this
account that the Image of Justice, in their Courts of Judicature, is formed with
six Eyes, two before, as many behind, and on each Side one, to signify
Circumspection; with a Bag of Gold open in her right Hand,
