1798. | 
With feeble powers, for petty toils defign’d, 
Their humble office is to plague mankind; 
Pervade the world, excite all mortal ftrife, 
Infpire the wrongs and blaft the joys of life. 
*¢ Matur’d for birth, at times on earth they 
rife, 
Incarnate Imps, and veil’d in human guife; 
Like man appear in ftature, fhape, and face, 
Mix undiftinguifh’d with the common race 3 
Fill every rank, in each *profejfion blend, 
Power ail their aim, and ruin all their end. 
‘¢ Of thefe the leaft, in med’cine’s garb 
array’d, 
With deadly art purfue the healing trade, 
The lancet weild, prefcribe the poifonous pill, 
Invent the noftrum, and unlicene’d kill, 
Oe’rload the ftygian bark with frequent 
freight, 
And crowd with angry ghofts the realms of 
fate.”? 
The feveral profeffions are thus gone 
through, when the enumeration proceeds 
to politicians, and foon attaches to indivi- 
duals, defignated by names not to be un- 
derftood by foreigners, without copious 
explanatory notes. 
The twelfth number of * American An- 
tsquities,”’ contains further extra&s from 
the 17th book of the ANARCHIAD, under 
the general title of ** The Region of Pre- 
exiftent Spirits.” The defign of this 
number is to chaftife the credulity and 
. mifreprefentation of certain European 
writers, who have propagated, and even 
fyftematifed, numerous abfurdities refpect- 
ing America. The whole paper deferves 
to be republifhed in Europe, as a leffon 
to future philofophers, critics, natura- 
lifts, and hiftorians. A few extracts are 
all that the prefent occafion permits me to’ 
preient to the reader. 
** Behold the feer replies, on thofe dark 
coafts, 
The vagrant hordes of pre-exiftent ghofts; 
Ele& fur earth, and deitined to be born, 
When time’s flow courfe hall wake their na- 
tal morn, 
Approach and view, in this their embryon ' 
home, 
Wits, poets, chiefs, and fages yet to come. 
*« Sce yonder groupe, that fcorn the vulgar 
crowd, 
Abforb’d in thought, of con’ciors learning 
proud, 
Who, rapt with foretafte of their glorious day, 
Now feize the pen, impatient of delay. 
Thele thades fhall lave in Europe’s clime arifz, 
Aad fcan new world’s with philofophic eyes, 
Immor’d at home, in rambling fancy brave, 
Explore all lands beyond the Atlantic wave ; 
Of laws for unknown realms invent new 
codes ; 
Write natural hiftories for their Antipodes ;— 
Tell how the enfeebled powers of life decay, 
Where falling funs defraud the weftern day ; 
Anarchiad....Name of Febovahs 
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Paint the dark, fterile globe accurft by fate, 
Created laft, or ftolen from ocean late ; 
See vegetation, many and bird, and beatt, 
Juft by the diftance’ fquares in fize decreas’d 5 
See mountain-pines to dwarfith reeds defcend, 
Afpiring oaks, in pigmy fhrub-oaks end, 
The heaven-topp’d Andes fink a humble hill, 
Sea-like Potowmack run a tinkling rill, 
Huge Mammoth dwindle to a moufe’s fize, 
Columbian turkeys turn Eurogean flies, 
Exotic birds, and foreign beafts, grow {mall, 
And man, the lordlieft, fhrink to leaft of alls 
While each vain whim their loaded fkulls 
conceive, 
Whole realms fhall reverence, and all fools 
bel:eve.”’ 
From this general fatire, the cenfure 
defcends to particulars, and M. De Pauw, 
Dr. Robertfon, Abbé Raynal, Demeuf- 
nier, Miraveau, &c. &c. are fubjected to 
fevere and merited chaftifement. The laft 
notice is beftowed on D’ Auberteuil ; and 
the number concludes with the following 
{fpirited parody, which is addrefled to the 
fhade of that romancer, and is offered as 
the original, from which Mr. Pope has 
copied. 
** Swift fly the years, and rife the expected 
morn ! 
O {pring to light, aufpicious fage, be born! 
The new-found world fhall all thy cares en- 
gaze; 
The promis’d lyar of the future age. 
No more fhall glory gild the hero’s name, 
Nor envy ficken at the deeds of fame; 
Virtue no more the generous breaft fhall fire, 
Nor radiant truth th” hiftoric page infpire ; 
But, loft, diffo'ved in thy fuperior fhade, 
One tide of falfehood oer the world be fpread, 
In wit’s light robes fhall gaudy fi€tion fhine, 
And all be lies, as in a work of thine.” 

OF. 1798. H, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
a ae feeming contradiftion which 
there is between the paflage in 
Exodus vi. 3. and other texts in the fame 
book, as well as in Genefis, that repre- 
fent the Moft High as being known by 
the name of Jehovah to Abraham, and to 
others before his time, may, I imagine, 
be eafily removed, ‘by underftanding the 
words mame and known, in a fenfe in 
which they are often ufed, and which the 
original requires in this place. 
‘* T appeared unto Abraham, unto 
Ifaac, and unto Jacob, by’’ (the name or 
title of ) <* God Almighty, but by my 
name’’ (or title) ‘* Jehovah was I not — 
known” (or diftinguifhed, or diftinguifh- 
ingly manifefted) * to them.’> ‘That is, 
when I appeared to Abraham, Ifaac, and 
Jasob, I did not then appropriate the 
name 
