ABSTRACT
Jacques Abbadie was a French Protestant minister. Forced to leave his homeland by religious persecution conducted by the Catholic government of King Louis XIV of France, he moved to Prussia and then Britain before becoming dean of Killaloe in Ireland. The Relation of Country, usually inspires Men, with a kind of Benevolence, whereof they are insensible whilst they dwell in their own Nation; because this Relation is weakned, and too much divided, by the Number of those that have a Title to it; but becomes very sensible, when two or three Natives of the same Country, happen to meet in a strange Climate: Then Self-love, standing in need of some Supports and Consolations, and finding ’em in the Person of those, whom a parallel Interest, and like Relation ought to inspire with the same Disposition, never fails to make a perpetual Attention to this Relation; unless it be prevented by a more powerful Motive of its own Interest.
