THE

GERMAN SPY:

Familiar LETTERS

FROM

A Gentleman on his TRAVELS thro' GERMANY,

то

OR,

His Friend in ENGLAND.

Containing

An Exact and Entertaining
Defcription of the Principal
CITIES and TOWNS:

With their feveral RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS, and GOVERNMENTS, Civil and Military.

An Account of the CUSTOMS
and MANNERS of the People.
Remarks on their LANGUAGE,

INTERESTS and POLI-,
CIES; FORTIFICATIONS,
CHURCHES, PUBLICK
BUILDINGS and CURIO

SITIES,

Interspersed

With the SECRET HISTORY and CHARACTERS of the feveral PRINCES and PRINCESSES, and other the moft confiderable Perfonages in the Empire of Germany.

Heroes and Gods make other Poems fine,
Plain Satire calls for Senfe in every Line.
Univerfal Paffion, SAT. II.
Wifely the Springs of Action we conceal;
Thus Sordidnefs, is Prudence; Fury, Zeal;
Ambition makes the Publick Good his Care,
And Hypocrites the Mask of Saintship wear.
POPE on Human Life.

The SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for T. COOPER, in Pater-nofter-Row; and fold by the Bookfellers of London and Westminster.

MDCCXL.

THE

EDITOR

TO THE

READER.

S the Letters I here offer to the Public are anonymous, the Reader will probably expect I fhould give fome Account of them: All I can fay myself is, that I have the greatest Reason in the World to believe them genuine; and in this I do not fpeak my own Opinion alone; but that of feveral Gentlemen, who have done me the Favour to perufe them ; and who all affure me, it is impoffible they fhould be mistaken in their Judgment, for many Reafons. I think it, however, unneceffary to enumerate thefe Reasons here, as the

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