The Mercurio Peruano and the Sociedad Académica de Amantes del País (Lima, 1791)

A paper printed at Lima from January 1791 by men writing under Greek pseudonyms, whose stated purpose was to dispel the prejudices by which less instructed pens had degraded Peru and its wits from the place they occupy on the map of the universe. Its third tome carries a prize competition judged by thirteen elected voters with the losing papers burnt unread, a subscriber list running from Quito to Potosi, and a discourse about itself reprinted from the newspaper of Bogota.