1798.) 
five merit of zealots in a caufe: they 
ought then, on each occafion, to be an- 
nexed to the active government. 
III. Let the fenate confit of 400 mem- 
bers. Let their feats be tor four years : 
and, by a partial rotation, let 100 vacate 
their feats annually. 
Let every married houfekeeper through- 
eut the mation, whole yearly rent is 
twenty pounds, have a vote: and let this 
vote extend to every one of the hundred 
perions to he chofen: each voter being 
obliged on one and the fame day to in- 
{cribe one hundred names on a tablet,and 
tranimit it by poft to the county-fheriff, 
depofiting a duplicate in his parifh veitry. 
Let the fheriffs of each county publith 
the whole number of names voted-for in 
their divifion, and the number of votes to 
each name. Let the fpeaker of the houfe 
fum up the county-polls, and declare 
who are the hundred perions having the 
moft votes: and let thele feverally take 
their feats in parliament in the order of 
the numbers on their poll. 
Tt isevident that by this. fcheme the peo- 
ple would have the amufement of annuel 
elegtions, and the power’ of obliging a 
hundred people of coniequence, without 
the danger of flu€tuating and verfatile 
counfels; without the danger of its be- 
ing at any one period, the intereft of a 
majority of the houfe (for it is always a 
minority that is excluded at once) ille- 
gally to perpetuate its authority, and vote 
itielt decennial ; without the dangér of 
the meb’s meddling in elections and ele- 
vating too high their beloved levellers. 
It is alfo evident, that by this feheme 
all hopes of iuccefs at elections, founded 
on local power, on corrupt influence, on 
temporary beneficence, would tall away ; 
and that public fervices would as anyi- 
oufly be vied for among the candidates as 
How private patfonages, Gratuitoutly 
making reads, digging canals, building 
bridges, writing books of hiftory or polity, 
prefenting works of art to the nation; 
thefe, as of yore in Rome, would be the 
only practicable -tricks of canvatiing. 
Celebrity of every kind being the onty 
affport.to the general notice of the cul- 
tured clafles, Europe would foon admize 
in this fenate all the eyes of {cience and 
of art. 
It may be objeéted, that this fcheme 
provides, indeed, fenators of intellect, 
but not of independence: and it muft be 
ewned, that men cannot be rendered in- 
corruptible, So long as gradations of 
honour and emolument are within reach, 
4Anfwer to Mr. T. on a Tetradic God. 
NI 
they will for ever be grafped at. To 
aboliih corruption, it is necefiary to abo-~ 
lith the means of cqrruption; to abolifa 
thofe eftablifhments of rank and revenue 
in which mémbers of parliament endea- 
vour to accommodate themtlelves and their 
connections, it is neceflary to dry away 
the fountain of emolument.. 
Perhaps thete three plans, with due 
pruning and fitting might, by the friends 
-of mixt government, be thought combina- 
ble ; and, when divefted of a certain fri« 
voloulnels of trapping, might be thought 
to oiter hints not fo very extravagant, the 
firft for the conftruction of an ariitocratic, 
the fecond of an executive, and the third 
of ademocratic council, in fomé jfland 
of the pacific, if not of the Atlantic ocean : 
in fome future commonwealth of the 
BENYOWSKIS trom Botany-Bay, 
LE 
To the Editor of the Menthly Magazine. 
SIR, . ; 
OUR correfpondent for June laf, 
page 402, remarks it a; a /imewlar 
circumfplunce, that almoft all nations hawe 
called the principle of the univerfe by a 
word witch conjifts of four letters: and he 
accordingly aunexes a catalogue of a fesy 
hames, partially culled out, as he fays, 
ta confirmation of bis propifition: he alto 
further obferves that Orpheus, Pythagoras 
and Plaio celebrated the pit effable avin 
as @ Telradic God. Now, fir, in the firg 
place, it may be obierved that this gen- 
tieman, who is a profeffed difciple of 
Plato, and upon every occafion forwarg 
to celebrate the dogmas of fo great a maf. 
ter, would hereby infinuate, that the 
Deity hath been named by almoit all na- 
tions by a four-lettered name in compli- 
ment to his Tetradic Ged whom he calls 
the principle of the unvirfe. But I would 
alk what does Mr. Taylor call the prin- 
ciple ot the univerfe ? Does he mean here- 
by Nature, or the great Author of na- 
ture? if he means the former, he moft 
biafphemoufly afcribes the name of the 
Creator to the creature ; but if the latter, 
it is a term too derogatory to the majelty 
of the Supreme Being, to palS without the 
mott fevere cenfiure. 
As for the theology of the ancient 
Greeks and Platonitts, and the feveral 
appellations whereby they named their fu- 
preene and fubordinate divinities, I leave 
ittoMr. T.and thoie who are matters : 
of the fubjeét ; all I would obferve is, the 
names he has feleSted appear inadequate 
to the maintenance of his prepofition, 
He fays that alniolt all nations named the 
: Deity 

