The Sun.
London, England, 1812-08-25 00:00:00

PROPHECY.

A Copy of the following. Prophecy, by a Bishop, found in the
Royal Libraryat Paris, in the Year of our Lord, 1542, was
given by Mrs. Nancy Currie, a Etonian' Catholic Lady, to
Lady Carawath, in the Year, 1782.

". The Administration of this kingdom of France
shall lie so blinded, that they shall leave it with-
out defenders-. The hand of God shall extend itself
over them; and over the rjch. All the nobles shol
be deprived of their. ef*tatesh.ndipiity. Divi
sions shall spring up in the Church of God,—and
there shall be two husbands ; the one true, and
the other adulterous. The legitimate, husband
shall be put to flight. There shall be great car-
nage, and as great an effusion of blood as in the
time of the Gentiles. The universal church, and
the whole world,
.shall deplore. The holy virgins,
outraged, shall fly from their nunneries. The
church shall be stripped of her temporal goods.
dut at length the black eagle and the lion-shall
appear hovering from distant • countries. Misery
to thee, 0 City of OpuleAce ! 'Thou shalt .at first,
rejoice, but thy end will come.

A representation is said to- have been made to
to Government of an attempt to excite alarming
disturbances in the immediate vicinity of Sheffield.
Agents from those deluded men, theL4iddites, are
said to have recently made their appearance in that
neighbourhood, Or the purpose of instigating noc-
turnal meetings, drillings, and other seditious
proceedings. The disorderly - proceedings com-
menced on Tuesday, the market day, and were
again partivlly revived on Wednesday, when the
aid of the military was called in, several persons
apprehended, and order restored.
Ihionaparte's declaration; that 'two companies of
Voltigeurs (200 mien) when surrounded by 15,000
cavalry, kept the hitter in check, killed 300, and
finally cut their way through, is a rhodomoutade,
which certainly never disgraced an official docu-
ment before. It stamps the whole With the
character of falsehood. What will .his Ger-
man auxiliaries say to the
_" ladLof INris," who
can perform feats rivalling those gv en .of the hero
Munchausen

One of the letters by the Cettenburgh Miil
mentions a Proclamatign issued by the Ilettina.n
Plata, ()Tering his daughter in maniz..ge, with .a
portion of 200,000 rubles, to any man °ibis corps
who should bring in the tyrant 13uonaparte, dead
or alive.

z itobbry of General. Mahon.—On the 14th of this
month, the Hon. General Mahon was returning
in his chaise from Dublin to Kinsale ; he had
reached within a mile of Ballyporeen,. when he
:was suddenly assailed by three footpads, who.
compelled him tc? yield, up property to the value of
5001. The General hastened to liallyporeen, and
alarmed the place. Mr. Bourke, and several other
thfntlenian, armed themselves, anon, at the head of
some troops; hurriedin the track of the robbers.
So unexpected,. and sudden_ was the pursuit, that
the_rohhers were overtaken in a wild path, strik-
ing towards Lismore, and, without any resistance:
secured, with all the 'p.lopery and lodged in Lis-
p-lore gaol.

On Frid4, an inquest was held at Kiddermin-
ster, on view of the body of William Birch, a:la-
bourer, who at a public-hOuse Undertook to drink
a galiOn of ale in Jive minutes; which ,he'aecom-
plished in. two minutes and a half; when, be went
into a stable and expired.- Verdict—Died
excessZve drinlcing.