1798.] 
maintain thofe fyftems and do&rines of 
religion which they had efpoufed, loft 
fight of the mild and peaceful principles 
of the gofpel, and mifunderftanding the 
meck and humble fpirit of their divine 
matter, contended in the wrathful fpirit, 
and fometimes with the weapons of this 
world, 
Fyrom thefé confiderations then, is it 
matter of furprife; that a fociety, which 
believes that religion confifts in an obe- 
dience to divine commands and a confor- 
_mity to the precepts of the gofpel, rather 
than in employing the mind in metaphy- 
fical fubtilties, fhould decline for the mott 
part to take fhare in any fuch difcuffions or 
controveriies, particularly as an implicit 
belicf in any human fyftem, or mode of 
faith is not enjoined its members ? ‘This 
lat cireumftance ‘may, in fome meafure, 
account for that diveriity of fentiment 
which M. N. obferves that the writers 
among the Quakers have evinced in points 
of faith, 
That the fentiments of the friends re- 
fpecting the icriptures have been either 
miftated or mifreprelented, is a circum- 
ftance which they cannot but lament ; 
—inftead of confidering them but of liitle 
importance, or holding them im little ef- 
timation, it is a fact that they highly 
value them, and recommend them among 
themfelves for frequent perufal and medi- 
tation. Observe their own words on this 
fubject :---* To Chrift alone we give the 
title of the word of God, and not to the 
{criptures, although we highly efieem 
thefe facred writings, in fubordination to 
the Spirit from which they were given 
forth; and we hold with the apoftle Paul, 
that they areable-to make wife unto {al- 
vation, through faith which is in Jefus 
Chriths? 7, 
If for want of better information on 
this iubje&t, I have been betrayed into 
any errors refpectine the opinions and 
{entiments of a fociety of chriftians, for 
whom I entertain the higheft efteem and 
refpect, I fhall be-happy to fee them cor- 
rected by fome entichtened member, who 
may deem the fubjeét worthy of his atten- 
tion.;, Your’s, &c? j- Ne 
Brifiol, Auguf?'1, 1798. 
On reperuiing the above, I find that I 
have omitted to notice a remark which 
M. N. has made, that the Quakers and 
Socinians nearly agree in their leading 
tenets. 
This conclufion is not fairly deducible 
from theView which the fociety has pub- 
lithed of its do&trines and opinions, and 
which tract M. N. is acquainted with. 
Situation of MVihatz and Saltzbach. 
183 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
ac anfwer to the enquiry of your cor- 
reipondent in your lait Month’s Ma- 
-gazine, refpecting the fituation-of Moboz. 
I find it thus defcribed in an old 
“¢ Geographical Dictionary,’ publithed the 
Jatter end of the laft century, by Joha 
Auguitme Bernard, Fellow of Brazen 
Nofe College, and Public Profeffor of 
Moral Philofopliy, Oxon. 
é¢ Mohacz, Mohatz, a town in the lower 
Hungary, upon the Danube, between the 
river Sarwiza to the north, and the Drave 
to the fouth; four German miles from 
either, fix from Effeck to the north, and nine 
from Cslocga to the fouth. This otherwife 
fmall place is memorable for two great bat- 
tles here. fought; the firft between Lewis 
king of Hungary, and Solyman the magnifi~ 
cent, in 1526: in which that unfortunate 
Prince Lewis (being about twenty years old} 
with twenty-five thoufand men, fought three 
hundred thoufand Turks 5; when being over- 
powered by numbers, twenty-two thoufand 
of the chriftian army were flain upon the 
place; five thoufand waggons, eighty great - 
cannon, fix hundred {mall ones, with all their 
tents and baggage, were taken by the victors; 
and the king, in his flight over the brook 
Curafs, fell into a. quagmire, and was fwal~ 
lowed up: after which Solyman took and 
flew two hundred thoufand Hungarians, and 
got fuch a footing in this kingdom, that he 
could never be expelled. This fatal battle, 
was fought O&ober2g. The fecondin fome 
part retrieves the lofs and infamy of the far-. 
mer. The Duke of Loraine being fent by 
the emperor with exprefs orders to pafs the 
Drave and take Effeck, his highnefs, July 10, 
1687, with great difficulty, pafied that river, 
then extremely {welled with rains; but fnd- 
ing the Prime Vifier encamped at Effeck 
with anarmy of an hundred thoufanc men, 
fo ftrongly, that it was not poflible to attack < 
him in that poft without the ruin of the 
chriftian army, he retreated, and repafied it. 
the 23d of the fame months; whereupon the 
29th, the Prime Vifier paffed that river at 
Effeck, and. upon Auguft rath, there follow- 
ed a blocdy fight, in which the Turks lo® 
one hundred pieces of cannon, twelve mor- 
tars, all their ammunition, provifions, tents, 
baggage, and treafure, and about eight theu- 
fand men upon the place of battle; befides 
what were drowned in pafling the river, 
which could never be known: after which 
victory, General Dunewalt, September 30th, 
found Effeck totally deferted by the Turks, 
and took pofleffion of it.” 
I have been thus minute in copying the 
above particulars attached to the defcrip- 
tion of this place, as they record two cu- 
rious hiftorical faéts (one of which is al- 
luded te by your cerrefpondent} which 
may 

