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Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the Princes of the Earth. Thus ye shall be filled at my table, with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God." This needs no comment.

"And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth.... and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God." The recovery by the Russians of all the plunder which these merciless Invaders had collected together in their unfortunate Country, is a circumstance that never perhaps happened in any war before, and therefore has been appointed a peculiar sign of Gog's expedition against the "the Land of unwalled Villages." In every stage of their pursuit of their enemies, the Russians recovered some of these spoils; and in one place they found so many waggons loaded with them, as covered a square of half a mile, and these so close together, that it was scarce possible to pass between them. This part of the Prophecy we may suppose also refers to the breaking up of the Museum at Paris, when the books, pictures, and other select spoils, were ordered by the Allies to be restored to the Nations from whence they had been taken.

The Powers of Nature were likewise to take a share in the contest against this devoted Army. “I will rain upon him and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone." And how terribly the French Army suffered from the severity of the weather is a fact well known. The frost, we are told, commenced with an intensity uncommon even in Russia. It was hardly in the memory of the oldest person in Russia, the winter having set in so early, and with such iron rigour. In this more than mortal cold, the French attempted to light fires, and round the half-kindled sparks they huddled together to participate the vital heat each yet retained. But it was so small, that in a few hours many hundreds died, and lay around the glimmering ashes.

that a part of it should be left, but it should be but a small part of it." I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee," To establish this fact, it is not only necessary to know the whole number of the invading Army, but also the exact number of those who had the good fortune to escape with their lives. However, this is what can scarcely be expected; but it will be allowed a most wonderful circumstance, that the calculations given, in both these points, exactly bear this proportion to each other. The numbers can not have been invented with any reference to this Prophecy, because I do not think that this Prophecy was ever before supposed to have any relation to these events. "We must recollect," says Porter, in his Account of this Campaign, "that Buonaparte was generally accounted to have entered Russia with 480,000 men." "When the Austrian Prince," says the same Author, "and his soldiers, with Renier, and his followers, halted at Ulodava," (on their retreat to avoid the army of the Danube,)"they were about 40,000 strong." "Not more than 25,000" (of Napoleon's army) "re-passed the Niemen," he adds in another place. Lord Cathcart's dispatch, in the London Gazelte, states the number of Prussians included in the Convention to have been 15,000 men. The total of them who thus escaped gives then 80,000 men, the sixth part of 480,000.

I shall take notice of only one more Prediction, which is, "Seven months shall the House of Israel be burying of them." Now whether this circumstance arose from the immensity of the slaughter, and the paucity of the inhabitants of the Country who were able to perform this sad office, or from the ground being locked up by the severity of the frost, or from any other cause, this part of the Prophecy would be equally fulfilled. That there were French soldiers unburied during this full space of time, I see no room to doubt. The battle of Smolensko was attended with the loss of a vast number of them, and it was fought on the 16th of August 1812. A letter, dated March 27, 1813, brought the information that great numbers of dead bodics had been burned in the Govern

But though the fury of God was excited against this vast Army, yet it was not his will that the whole of it should perish. It was his pleasurements of Moscow, Witepsk, and Mo

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Great apprehensions have been lately excited in different Countries, that the End of the World is near at hand; but there can be no real ground for such fears. The most important of all the Prophecies remains yet to be fulfilled, and no time is set for the duration of whatever may prove to be the accomplishment of it. This is what St. John has foretold of the new Heavens and the new Earth, with the account of which his Book of the Revelation concludes. It is impossi ble to say what this new state of things will be, but it is described in a manner which can leave no doubt of its being the highest possible Improvement of Christ's Religion in the World. We may believe it will be the Time "when the Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever." But this is a change that can not take place in a short space of time; and when it is come, no limit is set to the time it shall continue. There is much reason then to expect that the World is not near its End; but that it will yet remain for many years, even till it has answered all the purposes for which God was pleased to create it. "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels, which are in Heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." T. R.

Commentators in general have supposed, that this Expedition would be directed against the Jews, which could therefore only take place after their Restoration to their own Land, because, in their dispersed state, they can not be exposed to any danger but what must befall the Country in which they sojourn, and nothing can happen to them, considered as still a people, of this kind, in their present state. And Ezekiel seems to speak of this Restoration as an event that would follow, and be in part occasioned by, this destruction of Gog and his Multitude; for, after he has ended his Prophecy concerning Gog, he represents the Almighty as declaring, “Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole House of Israel." And in this Daniel agrees with him, who prophesies, "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great Prince, which standeth for the Children of thy People, and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation," (alluding, we may believe, to this destruction of Gog, aud probably to all the troubles which preceded it,)" and at that time thy people shall be delivered." And with both these Writers St. John agrees in his Book of the Revelations, in which the Vision of the New Jerusalem, coming down from God, immediately follows the Vision of the loosing of Satan out of his prison, and his thering Gog and Magog to battle. In the discomfiture of this immense host, I feel no doubt that we have seen the Battle of Armageddon, for I find one interpretation of that word to be Excidium Exercitus, the cutting off, or destruction of an Army. In like manner it answers the description of that terrible Vintage in which "blood was to come out of the winepress even to the noises' bridles by the space of 1600 furlongs," For though I cannot prove that this en-casion referred to. gagement lasted for the exact space of 200 miles, "I am certain it was about that space, and more rather than less. And here we aray see a Lake of Fire and Brimstone prepared for the Beast and False Prophet; for this battle, compared with any batile that had gone before it, will be found

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Brecon, Sept. 24.

your Magazine for August last,

p. 128, possibly from the imperfect impression left on the reporter's memory, I observe words ascribed to me which, although they correspond with the opinions delivered, did not exactly escape my lips. I am therefore induced to request that you will give insertion to the subjoined memorandum, which exhibits, as nearly as I can recollect, the very expressions made use of by me on the oc

Conceiving that the motion in de bate had a direct tendency to commit the Clergy present, against the known opinion of their Diocesan, I arose, I think, the third in order, aud spoke as follows:

"I cannot in conscience approve of the spirit which seems to prevail through

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We are not disposed (say the Editors of The Times) to give much credit to it, but we publish it because it is curious, and may be true. If false, we do not see that it contains any pernicious falsehood. The writer is of the most unquestionable respectability, and appears recently to have received the information stated in it from a person equally entitled to credit. The latter had resided in a family in the near neighbourhood of the celebrated Thomas Paine, who resided at Greenwich, near NewYork, and during his last illness had contributed to his comfort by occasionally preparing and sending him food and refreshments more adapted to his situation than he usually enjoyed. These the informant chose to be the bearer of to his bed-side, although his personal circumstances were so deplorable, that the air of his chamber could scarcely be endured. In performing this humane office, she had the opportunities of conversation with him, which authorize the writer's belief, that he exhibited another proof of Dr. Young's assertion, that "Men may live fools, but fools they

cannot die."

The letter proceeds to say, that she found him frequently writing, and believed, from what she saw and

heard, that, when his pain permitted, he was almost always so engaged, or in prayer, in the attitude of which she more than once saw him when he thought himself alone. One day he inquired if she had ever read "The Age of Reason," and, on being answered in the affirmative, desired to know her opinion of that book. She replied, she was but a child when she read it, and probably he would not like to know what she thought of it. Upon which he said, if old enough to read, she was capable of forming some opinion, and from her he expected a candid statement of what that opinion had been. She then

said, she thought it the most dangerous book she had ever seen; that the more she read, the more she found her mind estranged from all wished to read, and the more she that is good; and that, from a conviction of its evil tendency, she had burnt it, without knowing to whom it belonged. Paine replied to this, that he wished all who had read it had been as wise as she; and added, "If ever the Devil had an agent upon earth, I have been one." At another time, when she was in his chamber, and the master of her family was sitting by his bed-side, one of Paine's former companions came in, but, seeing them with him, hastily went out, drawing the door after him with violence, and saying, "Mr. Paine, you have lived like a man; I hope you will die like one." Upon which Paine, turning to his principal visitor, said,

"You see what miserable comforters

I have." An unhappy female, who had accompanied him from France, lamented her sad fate, observing, "For this man I have given up my family and friends, my property and religion; judge then of my distress, when he tells me that the principles he has taught me will not bear me

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