the voice of a god!) Shouted out" No more Altars"no more Priests; no God but the God of Nature !" The infamous Orleans, the first Prince of the Blood Royal of France, did not scruple to prostitute his Daughter, if not to the embraces, yet to the wanton view of a Public Mob; with the precise intention of enflaming their cupidinous Passions! Madame Tallien also, came into the Public Theatre, accompanied by other beautiful Women, laying aside all Modesty, and presented themselves to the view of the gazing libidinous Multitude, with bared Limbs, a la Sauvage, as the alluring objects of desire*! Thus far concerning the Doctrines and Principles of the Illuminati, which brings me to my Third Head, namely, to give some account of the Characters of the chief Illuminati. And here also, Weishaupt, the Founder and Father of the Order, (whose own character has already been so fully delineated) will save me the trouble of dipping my own hands in the filthy puddle of their abominations. For he has suggested as bad a character of them, as of himself. "What shall I do," says he, in his letter to the same Zwack, "I am deprived of all help? Socratest, who "would insist on being a man of consequence among "us, and really is a man of talents, and of a right way "of thinking, is eternally besotted. Augustus is in "the worst estimation imaginable. Alcibiades sits the Robison, p. 189, 190. They corresponded under fictitious names. Spartacus was Wei. shaupt himself; Cato was Zwack, his brother-in-law; Marius was Hertel the canon confessor, above named; Philo was Knigge, with the addition, Freyberr, i. e. gentleman; Cicero was Pfest; Ajax was Count Massenhausen; Cornelius Scipio, was Counsellor Berger; Brutus was Count Savioli:-We find also Count Mirabeau, the Duke of Orleans, the Abbe Sieyes, Lequinio, author of the most profligate book that ever disgraced a press; Despremenil, Bailly, Fauchet, Maury, Mounier; and, to mention no more, Talleyrand, the profligate Bishop of Autun, who, with the assistance, chiefly of Orleans, established the society in 1786, which afterwards became the Jacobin Club. "day-long with the Vintner's pretty wife, and there he "sighs and pines. A few days ago, Tiberius attempted "to ravish the wife of Democides, and her husband 66 came in upon them. Good heavens! what Areopa66 gitæ have I got! When the worthy man Marcus Au"relius comes to Athens what will he think? What a meeting of dissolute, immoral wretches-Whore"masters, Liars, Bankrupts, Braggarts, and vain Fools! "When Aurelius sees all this, what will he think? He "will be ashamed to enter into an association, where "the Chiefs raise the highest expectations and exhibit "such wretched examples-I tell you, we may study "and write and toil, till death. We may sacrifice to "the Order, our health, our fortune, and our reputation 66 (alas, the loss!) and these Lords (meaning their own "chiefs) following their pleasures, will whore, cheat, "steal, and drive on like shameless Rascals; and yet "must be Areopagita, and interfere in every thing.' "Indeed my dearest friend, we have only enslaved our-' "selves." And here I may conclude my Third Head; and need add but little, by way of Address, as my Fourth and last Head. For gracious heaven! Fellow Citizens and Fellow Christians, throughout these United States! Ye who retain, or wish to retain, any sense of Morality, any traces of the Religion into which you have been baptized! awake! awake! What can you think of such an abominable System of Doctrine and Philosophy, as hath been in part above described unto you; or of the daring Impiety of men whose great Apostle confesses himself and his followers, to be Monsters in all Iniquity? Such a corruption of every good Principle, and sacrifice of all true Religion, might have been thought necessary, among men in a Revolutionary State, to assist them in pulling down their former Government and their former Religion; but how will it assist in building up any thing permanent in the room of what they have lost, or might have acquired? Although it was found expedient, in pulling down, to employ a Le quinio, and such profligate Illuminati, to write and distribute books, declaring Oaths to be Nonsense, and all Religion a farce unworthy of Sans Culottes ;-Yet now when they come to build up, they find there is some use for a God-a Supreme Omnipotent God-But He is gone and where shall they find Him?-They have forsaken Him, and He has declared that He has forsaken them-"When they cry, we have sinned, because we have forsaken thee; He will answer, and why did you forsake me? Did not I deliver you out of many former calamities-yet still you have forsaken me! Wherefore, I will deliver you no more. Go and cry unto the gods whom ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation-Not only you yourselves, but your children also, have forsaken me. When I had fed you to the full, you committed Adultery-you assem bled yourselves by troops in the Harlots' Houses""Ye became as fed horses in the morning; every one "neighed after his neighbour's wife*." God and Religion are not only gone from youyour civil constitutions are also gone. What now is left you which you can depend upon, for awing a man into respect for the Truth, in his judicial Capacity and declarations? Religion hath taken off with her every sense of human duty; and what could you expect, but villainy and the very thing that has happened?—" the Cutting of each others' throats!" From the highest to the lowest, clerical and lay characters, teachers of every kind-they have all gone astray; making a public Profession or Confession, (with Bishops at their head) that they had been playing the part of villains and hypocrites for many years, teaching for true Religion, "what they knew and believed to be a bundle of "Lies!" But there are now symptoms that, (after so many Revolutionary Enormities) many are returning to a more settled order of things; and that the chief Rulers of states and kingdoms, will consider Religion and Morality as worthy of their regard; whether for the support of their own authority, or (what would be a more honourable motive) the happiness of those, over whom they have Legally Acquired, or Wickedly Usurped, Dominion. No great opposition, therefore, need now to be feared, from the late Associated, or Fraternized, disturbers of the peace and best interests of mankind. Their plots and conspiracies are detected. Their Pandemonium is less frequented-Gloomy and dark they sit, like the Devil and his followers; who, after their rebellion against God (as Milton describes them) were thrown 'Sheer o'er the battlements of Heaven; from morn 'Till noon they fell, from noon to dewy eve, A Summer's day, and with the setting sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling star, From building towers in Heaven-to build in Hell, 'Of Satan and his peers-With trumpet's sound, A solemn council forthwith was proclaim'd-- And porches wide into the spacious Hall, 'Swarm'd and were straitened; till, the signal given,- In bigness to surpass earth's giant-sons, • Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race, • Beyond the Indian Mount, or fairy Elves Thus incorporeal spirits, tho' reduced To smallest forms, were still amidst the Hall ' And in their own dimensions, like themselves The great Seraphic lords and Cherubim In the second Book, Milton gives specimens of the. speeches of some of these infernal lords, beginning with their chief SATAN, Who proposes still to dispute the victory, and gives. hopes of dethroning the Almighty, and regaining the dominion of Heaven. A few lines from each speech will shew their miserable and divided state--- "Powers and dominions, Deities of Heaven, MOLOCH, next Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit His trust was with th' Eternal to be deem'd Equal in strength, and rather than be less. Car'd not to be at all; with that care lost • Went all his Fear: of God or Hell or worse... BELIAL, next. "I should be much for open War, O Peers! MAMMON, next. "Either to disenthrone the King of Heaven We war, if War be best, or to regain "Our own right lost-Him to unthrone we then "To peaceful counsels, and the settled state |