r801.] 
omened numper! ** Thebeatt(faysa Freach 
writer) is the Conftitution: the war is the 
prefent perfecution of the Reformed ; 
which began March 1730, and will end 
September 1733. This is included in the 
name LVDoVICYs, the numeral letters of 
which amount to 666: the reft ofthe king’s 
title (DeCIMVs qVIntVs franCle et 
naVarre reX) makes exactly 1733, cc.” 
(Calend. Myft. fondé fur P Apocal. et fur 
Efaie.) 
And, perhaps, (obferves 
Haves of Dublin) inthe name of Mahomet, 
the celebrated impoftor and corrupter of the 
‘patriarchal and evangelical religion in the 
eaftern world by Iflamifm, as the pope in 
the weftern by Romanifm, we may trace 
the number 666; incorrectly applied to 
the papacy, for it is a man’s number— 
whereas Aereivss is the name of a people, 
and is not Latiz but Greek. The fame 
.Mahmud jvm (as fully written, La- 
meat. 1. 11.) fignitying evdozes, celebrated, 
by aufual reduplication of the fecond let- 
ter m, extending the word to three fylla- 
bles, and fubfituting their numerical va- 
lues ©) final *—600, n—=8, n—38, 1 me- 
dial==40,1=6, J=4, &c. &c. (Infpefor). 
And fo Euruemivs, patriarch of Con/fan- 
tinople, found in the Grecized name of the 
Arabian impoftor (Maseric) the fatal 
666.+ 
Le CLERC conjectured that this num- 
ber mult exift in the names of Fupiter and 
juno, the principal deities of the Capitol ; 
' fo as to fignify that paganifm is the Azii- 
Chrifi—and found them in Azoc Et n “Hoac— 
xés written on the wrift, “* fo that he who 
had the letters x£5 written on his wrift, 
had the equivalent of Arog ent 7 "Hpac; 
thereby profeffing himfelf to be a worfhip- 
per of the gods of the Capitol’’—«* Not 
that it was always done, or that the Chrif- 
tians were forced to receive fuch marks 
upon them, &c. &c.”? (Supp!. to Ham- 
MOND's Paraph.)—Grotius (he adds) 
fought the number of the beaft vainly in 
Ovaries, which was the name of Trajan. 
Tt does occur in Ascwraciaves, 
To thew how far this whimfical mode of 
Computation may be extended, the Jews 
eee, 
* H. contends, from Sir W. Jones (Af. 
Refearch. 1, 32.) who {peaks of a double afpi- 
rate in Mubhammed, that the HET may be 
reduplicated; dnd vindicates the fubfitution 
of the value of the fzal mem for that of the 
initial, as ‘© what is initial in Hedrew and 
ee is final in Sanfcrit and European alpha- 
ets,”” " 
_ t_What precedes is an extra from a note 
fn Mr. Wrangham’s ‘* Rome is Fallen ; the 
ubfequent matter is new, 
On the Number DCL XJ. 
Profeffor — 
Ka 
difcover this mark of Anti Chri in Jesus 
of Nazareth xa w! \(Terisnee’s 
Key to Fr. Revolution.) 
Duporr, in his Peetica Stromata, is, 
perhaps, as extravagant. as any of his bro- 
ther annotators, in fuppofing it to con. 
tain fome prophetical allufion to the great 
fire in London, 1666! 
Upon the following paflage in the Epif~ 
fola Macaronica, commonly attributed to 
Dr. Geppdes,—‘ facro prediGum in Codice 
Payneum,’’—the annexed note is far from 
fatisfactory: <* A gentleman jocafely 
found in the name of JoHN AuGusrus 
Payne the apocalyptical. number of 
Anti Chrift, 666.  TVhe fubjoined inter= 
pretation is offered, Grecé l==10, 070, 
n=50; Px80, axci, u'(the Exglifh y) 
==400, M50, e==5”—Auguftus being 
wholly omitted. 
As well might it be contended to exift, 
by Creek enumeration, in the letters com- 
pofing the fentence, ** Tom Paine, Exile.” 
Of Porrer’s fanciful quarto upon this 
number it would be idle and tedious to of- 
fer, inthis place, any account or abridge- 
ment; and it is merely on the principle of 
comprehenfion, that a weak conjecture in 
the Gentleman’s Magazine is mentioned 
about wamesxes, ** which may in fome 
meafure agree with papa, or what we call 
in Exgl/b, Pope!” ‘ 
The ferious opinion of the compiler of 
this article is fubjoined. 
Mrs. BowpLer, in her §¢ PraGical 
Obfervations on theRevelation of St. Fobn,” 
Pp- 34-45. has ingenioufly (and, as he 
thinks, fuccefsfully) laboured to prove 
that bla/phemy, as implying a renunciation 
of Curis, idolatry, or apoftafy is the 
mark of the beaft; the Lamb being the 
great object of adoration throughont the 
Apocalypfe. It will appear to every reader 
fingular, and is to the writer’s mind {a- 
tisfactory, that this inference is confirmed 
by a concurrent teftimony, of which there’ 
is the ftrongeft realon to fuppofe Mrs. B. 
wholiy ignorant; viz. that the Greck nu- 
merals in Amccarng precifely amount to the 
ftated number. BP Rass 
eee 
JOURNAL of a TOUR through scOTLAND 
made in the YEAR 1798, 'by JOHN 
HOUSMAN. 
(Continued from page 423. of Vol. 10.) 
URNIPS are much cultivated here as 
a fallow crop by every farmer, and 
generally in drills or ftitches of from 2 to 
3 feet wide, and properly hoed. It is not 
much above 20 years fince that ufeful root 
was firft int:oduced into Tweedale. This 
county likewile produces numerous and 
3 _ heavy ~ 
