10 Genefis and Exodus compared.—National Relief to Manufacturers. 
Jofeph Braithwait, died of a few hours 
illnefs, a complaint in his bowels: he 
was well on Saturday night, and, to all 
appearance, as ftout and as healthy as 
any of us; yet, on Sunday night, he was 
a corpfe. Now, James, think, if he had 
been acting a play, the tendency of which 
was to deprave both his own mind and 
the minds of others, and had got drunk 
after it, fpending the money which 
fhould have maintained hisfamilyfor weeks 
to come; if in thefe circumfances he had 
been called to give up his account, think 
what muft have been his condition now! 
Confider what he himfelf would have 
thought of it, when the deétor fhook his 
head, and faid that there was no hope for 
him in this world!”—* You fay right, 
madam, nothing but right, to be ture; 
yet a bit of diverfion now and then, poor 
folks, who work hard all the reft of their 
time, fheuld have; and I was thinking 
I could brew three bufhels of malt, fora 
fup of drink like, and to keep us from 
the alehoufe.” 
Now, Mr. Editor, you will probably 
be of the opinion of honeft James, ‘‘ that 
poor folks, who work hard all the reft of 
their time, fhould now and then have a 
bit of diverfion;”’ and how ardently were 
it to be wifhed, that their diverfions could 
be fo contrived for them, as that they 
might at the fame time be innocent! 
Some of your correfpondents, perhaps, 
may think the fubjeét not unworthy the 
attention ofa leifure hour; and if the 
iffue fhould be fome fhort publications 
adapted to this purpofe, it would give 
very fincere pleafure to, fir, your humble 

fervant, A Friend to the innocent Amufe- 
ments of the indufirious Poor. 
F-—z1, near Wakefield, Fuly 3, 1798. 

“et 
To ihe Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
BEG leave to point out a contradic- 
tion in fome paflages of the books of 
Genefis and Exodus. In the former, it 
is faid, (ch. xii. 7, 8.) ** And Jehovah 
appeared unto Abraham, and faid, Unto 
thy feed will I give this land: and there 
builded he an.altar to Fehbovab who ap- 
peared unto him.. And he removed from 
thence unto a mountain on the eaft of 
Bethel, and there he builded an altar to 
Jehovah, and calied on the name of JxE- 
HOVAH:? Again, ch."xxt. 33. ° And 
fibraham planted a grove in Beerfheba, 
and called there on the name of JEHO- 
VAH, the Ged of ages.’ Alfo, ch. xxii. 
14, “ Abraham called the. name of that 
piace” (where he was about to facrifice 
his only fon) “ Febovab-Fireh, as it is 
faid to this day, in the mountain of 
Fehouwh it fhall be feen.”” Thefe texts, 
-particularly the laft, are precife and pofi- 
tive as to the name of the god wor- 
fhipped by Abraham. Notwithftanding, 
we mutt conclude from Exodus, ch. vi. 3s 
that the author of Genefis was miftaken; 
for ‘* God fpake unto Mofes, faying, 
I-am Jehovah: and I appeared unto 
Abraham, unto Tiaac, and unto Jaceb, 
under the title of El Ghaddei; but dy 
my nome Febovah was I not kuswn to 
thet. 
An explanation of the above incon- 
fiftency, or a reconciliation of Exodus 
with. Genefis, does not feem to be eafy: 
howeyer, the dificulty may not be infu- 
perable to fome of your learned corre- 
{pondents; from whom I fhould like- 
wife be glad to be. informed, whe- 
ther it is aflerted on Sufficient authority, 
that. Jehovah was fir& worfhipped on the 
banks of the Nile, and that he had an 
eftablithed priefthood at Egyptian Thebes, 
or at Heliopolis, beiore the fons of Jacob 
fettled in the prevince of Gefem. 
Fuly 9, 1798 M.R, 
ace ees 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, : 
HE juftice and expediency of grant~ 
ing national relief under the pref- 
fure of peculiar calamities, are confidera- 
tions which apply to the prefent deplord-_ 
ble ftate of great part of the property of 
the Britifh manufactturers engaged in the 
European trade. 
It has been the pra€tice of all coun- 
tries to extend affiftance to thofe who 
have fuffered the lofs of their property, 
either by the extraordinary convulfions 
of nature, or by any of thofe numerous 
incidents for which the different inftitu- 
tions of indemnity have not*provided. ~ 
In theprofpe& of an invafion, the 
egiflature have lately made provifion for 
the complete indenmification of thofe 
whofe propergy fhould be applied to the 
feryice of our own country, or deftroyed 
by the enemy, or by ourfelves to prevent 
falling into their hands. 
It is no fufficient objection to the reliev- 
ing of fome, that the loffes and calamities 
infeparable from a ftate of war are {> nu- 
merous, and would prefent fuch an end- 
lefs variety of-grievances, as to render it 
impoflible to beitow national -reftitution 
on all; on the contrary, the imprac- 
ticability of general relief leaves room 
for difcriminating and granting Telief to 
thofe who, befides partaking their fhare- 
in the general calamities, have, moreover, 
a alarge 
