text:  Let us therefore have permission to throw together a few remarks on these three subjects--1st on the remarkable distinction by which the eldest of Christian rulers proclaimed and inaugurated the Christian basis of his empire: 2dly on the true but forgotten relation of this great empire to our modern Christendom under which idea we comprehend Europe and the whole continent of America: 3dly on the false pretensions of Mahometanism whether advanced by itself or by inconsiderate Christian speculators on its behalf