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The editor of this essay was, as the title page shows, a Jesuit Jesuit: A member of the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order that, during the 18th century, was frequently accused by critics of political meddling and secretive, "shameful" agendas.. He thought too rationally and too honestly to belong any longer to a society that trains its members in the most dangerous and shameful principles and undertakings. In his early youth, he had not realized this, partly because the system—as is always the case—was presented to him only gradually and so "sweetly" that his eyes were opened to it only late in life. When he saw what a ruinous path he had chosen, he wanted to withdraw; however, his superiors soon noticed this and persecuted him cruelly. At last, after suffering many trials, he escaped their vengeance and fled to America, where for three years he has been a Lieutenant in the Provincial Army This likely refers to the colonial or "Provincial" forces fighting during the American Revolutionary War.,