Star.
London, England, 1808-05-06 00:00:00

THE EXPEDITION.

The LARK packet from Gottcnburgh, which ar-
rived at Harwich yesterday, passed through the flee:
composing the expedition, which sailed from Har-
wich on Wednesday. The vessels were at anchor off
Orfordness in consequence of a temporary change ot
wind, but Captain DELL, of the LARK, supposes they
must have got under weigh, and proceeded immedi
ately after he lost sight of them, as the wind vaere.l
• round to the Southward.
The whole of the transports and ships of war wllic'
sailed from the Downs and from Harwich, arc .
rendezvous in Yarmouth Roads, and from thel-,i
rangements made and the fairness of the winl. I .
I supposuil they must meet together at the same pl,
Nearly 300 flat-bottomed boats are on b0a...: .:.
transports, a circumstance which confirms the opini '.
we lately hazarded that the object of our armament 1-.
an attack upon some part of Holland (probably
Flushing) in the first instance.
The following is the Staff of the Expedition :
Lieutenant-General Sir JOHN MOORE, Commander in Chief.
Major-General M‘Kattz it FIAT Ex, second in command.
Major-General CLINTON, on the Staff.
Colonel MURRAY, Quarter-Master-Gencral.
Major DE BLAQUIRE, Ditto.
Inspector of Hospitals,Dr. FR AN Ks.
Deputy Ditto, Mr. FERGUSON.
Physicians to the Forces, Drs. LARKIN, Tree, and Mona,..
Staff Surgeons, MONTAGUE, LINDSAY, DYNLY, au4 KR A
Z I ESEN.
Apothecartes,l-,aunzasox and HOF I' E.
Purveyor Assistant Matss, ditto.
Deputy Commissar y, -- KENNEDY, Esq.
Assistant,.Mr. GAUNTLET.

Tuesday evening there was a ball at the Thre'
Cups Inn, Harwich, which was attended by many of
the Officers of the Expedition.
Tuesday se'nnight, the last division of the
.King's
German Legion marched from Bexhill barracks, ft'r
embarkation, to the great regret of the whole neigh-
bourhood. The gentlemanlike conduct of the officers,
and the sober, steady, soldierlike behaviour of the men,
has gained them universal esteem. As the great:n
oart of the baggage is left behind, in charge of seine
Officers and men from each battalion, it is sincerely
hoped they will return to the same place again after
short period.
CORN MARKET; MARK-LANE, MAY 6.—The suppl
'4f Wheat to-day is extremely short, and waitirT ar-
:*vals very few sales are effected, and those nearly at
,ur last quotation—The supply of Barley is likewise
short, and with Malt, rather higher—Very few Peas
, of each kind—Beans of the two ci?sctiptions rather
learer—The supply of Cats is also short, and this
rade is at higher prices.—Ptic.2s of klour without
variation.

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ro THE EDITOR -OP THE ST IR.

ON THE PROPHECIES.
Nt/MBER. VII.

TIIR

" I beheld when he had opened Mt sixth seal, and
thsre was a GituAr EiltniquAict ; and 4e Sun Leafftl
as sackcloth of hair, and the Moon became as blood :
and the Stais of Heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig-
tree casteth her untimely.igs when shaken of a :nighty wind :1
and .the Heaven departed as a scroll wSen it is rolled up ;
and every mountain and island were moved out of their
pleces : and the /Gut of the earth, and thegreat nien and
the rich mm, and the thief Captains; and the mighty men,
and every Lund-mail, and every free-man hid themselves in
deri, and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the
sums:tains and rocks, fall en us, and hide as from she face
ef mu -that skteth en the throne, and from the wrath of
TILE LAms ; for the GREAT DAY of his crsrath is - come,
and who shall le able to stand?" (Rev. vi. 12-17.)
It will hardly be contested that in prophetic lan-
guage, the Sun is put for imperial thr kingly power,
the Moon far the people, consideretl as the consort of

the King, Stirs for subordinale,rwlers or 14 Bishops,

when the Sun is put tier CHRIST as the King). this
.%v as the common symbolical language of the East,
and was universally adopted by the Astrologers and
ivcrpreters of dreams, whose. professions wece, in an-
ti.•nt tames, dignified with the name of Sciences.
Even so far back as the time of JACOB Wf find the
same figures applied in a similar manner, " Behold I
helve dreeentiel a dream (said Josruni, Ccn. xtvii. 9).
San, 1119 on, and el fn Start made obeirante to me."
flow does his father (the King and head of the falai-
ly) interpret the dream ? " Shall I, and thy mother, and
thy brethren indeed come to bow down cure.lpec to thee, to
tic earth ?"—The dream, however, was verified ; and
we may ob;crvc too, that his brethren were the- heads-
or rulers of the tribes that descended from JACOB. In-

deed, in the passage tinder consideration there is no

loom left for cavil, as to the general significat;on cf
the terms here adopted, fos .70:1A drops the figu-
rative and symbolical language, and plainly tells us
that he means i.;ngs, grew and rich men, commander: and
mighty men, bond and free men. Consequently the earth-
qude which shakes the Kings and Rulers from the'r
place refers, of necessity, not to the world natural,
but to the world politic—to those commotions, tu-
mults and wars, which hurl then from their former

spheres, the heaven politic in which they run their
course. But the particular application has been so
generally misunderstood, and such uncommon pains
have been taken to apply the prediction to events
which cannot, in any way, be considered as explaining
the sealed Book, that I must, to dear this point, em-
ploy more of the reader's time than would otherwise
have been necessary.

" The Host of Heaven," the leading figure in this
sixth seal, is alluded to more than once in the sealed
book [Daniel], and the main object of this part of
the Revelation given tg„.Jonx was, to shew, in un-
disguised terms, to the servants of JESUS CIIitIST, that
this Host in DANIEL, instead of meaniag either Jen•ish
priests or Christian Saints, to one or other of which
it has been applied by all commentators, means the
heaven politic—Kings and great men. Keeping this in
view, we shall be at little loss to discover what earth-
pale and what kinds are signified in the passage be-
fore us.

lly DAsitt. (ch. vii.) we are informed of four king-
doms that were successively to arise, the fourth of
which was to be different from all kingdoms, and
devour the whole earth. This [it shall be proved here-
after] was the Roman Empire. Out of this kingdom
ten Kings were to arise; and after them another, dif-
ferent from them, which was to subdue three of close King:,
and " wear out the saints." And of this same King
we arc informed (in ch. viii.) that he was " t• Wax I
great, men to "'rim HOST OF HEAVEN," and east down
sc,re rf than to the ground. Now, from the explanation
given by Joux of the meaning of "the Host," we sec that ,
11:ese two passages apply to the same fact, and that i
those of the licit, which were cast down by the little
I,‘Tn, as mentioned in the one, were three in number,
viz. the three mentioned in the other, that were pluded
up by hi.' roots to make room for him. On this point,
I wish to be brief at present, as I must hereafter be
rn,zo circumstan:ial; .hut thus much was here neces-
,ary to aw.eitaia what kings are allude.] to in the Sixth

t. r.',:'," nver',ookcd, that the fourth kingdom
only ox;•:,.till Ca.' period arrived in which TENT
v. ,n-c '_armed ir::rn it. But the Earihriahe overthrows',
not cne King only, Iwo) many, and theref we refers to
.-,me x:l:,,,equent to that in which there was
1. it one Fling, (a- ruling power—and, consequently,
I: Ls ao rAtti )11 to the overthrow of Paganism in the
Poman empire, which continned tl have but one
kaad for a cia:si.lerable time cr that period. It is
worse than tritiirg to endeavour to make the ejection
of one hierarchy t ,r the substitution cf another, to
ge.ve as an explanation of this ea-thquake.
The Eariltrake here brought t' view, overthrows
" rub: nost ;" not a Linc, bnt. kinzs—not 'some kings
only, but t ne. If;ecs of thf earth—all without ezceptiet ;
and therchq.c, withcut the strangest perversion,.can-
not be aFplied'to any period prier to the existence of
these Kings. Now, if we examine DANIi I, we find
no earthquake, no destruction of ally kind sweeping
away all the kings set up out of his fourth great
kingdom, until the Vitdcw of die stcne," Men cad :via:-

:• t •

•.• - t
Out hornet, " srtiltei it* great itftage tipoi his-feet, Ae.`
strofmg 'the ten kingdoms tepretented by Ike toes
ii.) : on the cOntrary they are' representtd is
continuing to reig. till- their throne: are “ cast down"
by the Mighty shaking which makes way for " the
SON or MAN," when he comes 'to receive 1,4 dominion
and glory, and a kingdom, so extensive that all tebtle,
, nations and languages, shall serer hitn (ch. vii.)
The overthroW df paganism, to which this earth-
quake has been very generally applied, only produced
aschange in the Head of the Empire. Five of the
seven heads (Rev. xii. 3. xvii. 7, 10), had fallen be-
fore JOHN wrote his visions : one 'then existed, viz. the
'heathen Imperial head :—another was yet to come,
the Christian Imperial head ; the substitution of which
for the.preeeding, only caused a change in the state
religion. This-was to continue a short space, and be
I followed by an eighth, a plural Arad—ten kings,
who were to give their power to the ecclesiastical
beast, and wage war with THE LAmR who shall
overcome' them (Rev.. ch. xvii. 14') in the battle of that
GREAT DAY of GOD ALMIGHTY, which iS appointed
for their destruction (xvi. 14). This is de Earthquake ,
mentioned in the Sixth Seal. Indeed, in the words
which immediately follow the description given of it,
and in which JOHN explains his own terms, we find
that he shbstittries " GRFAT DAY" for " THE
Citi:Ar.rAnritoemit," using these two terms syno-
nitninisli, as they are used in other places in the
Scriptures.

It is mutt, that before that periqd, which is empha-
tically called the Great Earthquake, and the Great Day,
there were to be "various earthquake; in divers plares`;
ration rising agninst.nation, and kingdom •against kingdom it
bat these were merely partial, not
.total eclipses
changes only in the political spheres, hot their anni-
I hilation : such were the convulsions which attended
the subversion of Imperial Rome; the setting up :of
the ten kings, and the overthrow of three of them; to
make room for the king of int/anklet counteran.7.."—
The extinction of the light cf the heaven politic was
not to be until ,4 the glad :tory: of the reign" Of THE
NEsst.tn hadjr.rt been proclaimed in all the world, and
• his follow ers been made to suffer that tervadics and
tribulation which he taught them to expect from all
nations. " Eut," says CHRIST, "in those days, AI-
TER that rrikula'ion [when the time appointed for
' cleansing the sanctuary. has arrived] THE SUN
:HALL bE DARKENED, TUE MOON SHALL NOT GIVE HER
LIGHT, THE STARS SHALL FALL FROM TIIE • HEAVEN
[politic], and THE POWERS t'lLvr.p.vc executive pow-
ers.] or TILL • HEAVEN (or, as is expressed in ano-
ther evangelist, that are in TILE • Heaven') SHALL
SHAELN'. THEN SHALL AfFEAR THE SIGN. OE
THE SON OF MAN IN THE • HEAVEN--,[this darken-
; ing of tit Sun, falling of the Stars, and shaking of
the powers of the Heaven politic is the sign ; for
this is effected by his power, whatever may bE the
second causes employed] : and then shall all die tribes
if the earth nwurn, and they shall see THE SON of
MAN [mentioned by DANIEL] coming in the clods
of the • Heaven [in the political Itempnts gathering
in the heaven politic] with power and great glorq;"'
for then it will appear manifest that all these changes
are effected by 111 St who reigns and maul reign till all his
enemies, the opposers of his kingdom, be made his foot-
stool.

Such is the language employed in the New Testa-
ment, to describe the inevitable destruction whiell
awaits .4 the kingdoms" of this world." The Old
Testament speaks in a similar manner respecting
" the Great Earthquake,"--" the Great D4,"—" the
Great and terrible Day of TtiE Lono"—" the day of
sus wrath," alluded to in the Sixths Seal. The
Psalmist (Psalm cx.) speaking of the victory of THE
MEssuit over his enemies, ruling a'people made willing
47 hi: own power, mentions the oath of JEHOVAH; by
which a royal priesthood is conferred on him, and adds,
" THE LORD at thy right hand shall strike through kings 1
in THE DAY OF HIS WRATH. HE shall judge among the
heothsrs [the Gentiles, to w hoin it is given to tread
down the holy city, Rev. xi. 2.], HE shall ill [their
kingdoms] with Me dead bodies : HE shall wound THE
HEAT, I over many toontria [the Eighth head of DA-
NIEL'S fourth beast, Rev. xvii. 11] : HE • shall drink
of the brook in the Way : THEREFORE SHALL HE LIFT UP
THE HEAD" [his own head, or sovereignty, which
will be made manifest when he shall take to him his
great pcwer, Rev. xi. 17].
The Prophet Jou. (ch. ii. iii.), as explained by PE-
TER (Acts ii.) gives a similar account of the setting
up of THE MEsstAn's kingdom, and its final tri-
umph : .. I will poor out my Spirit upon dl jlah... ......
and I will :kw woarias in the hoovers:, and in the earth
!loxd and fre and pillars of smoke. TIIE SUN SHALL Mc
11:RN i'D INTO DARKNESS, AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD,
Leper THE OREAT, and THE TETIRIBLE DAY OF THE
I.9f:', coin, Proclaim this among the gentile:, fire.
rare .-x.::,r, rouse the mighty men. tall out the men of war—
. bat s.our plough-shares into swords [make every exer-
i tion to maintain your power] assemble yourselves
dad cL we, all ye heathen, gather yourselves t0gether.........

t Compare Alat. cb. xxiv. Mark Oh and Luke xxL -

In sIl of these places, tile reading in the original is
with the article—" rnr. "leaves." The omission of the article
ir. sr and many other passages, In our common version, tends
very touch to c!...scure the sense.

Vogl Not "the headi," as in our common version. This
word recurs o• any tint.% in the Old Testament, and bas always been
rettderctl in the singtihr number by our trantgators, except in very
few instances, attil in all of these instances they are wrong, though
In none of them does the license they have taken obscure the sense,
a, it dors is this passage. The same word occurs within two lines
tat r. ar.el there they lt:tve rendered it " the head."

come als to tiinteury -of Jenne:luta; tliterallY kthe val.-7
ley of the jnagnient ofthe L0r41,01 for thereiu77l7:nt,
Yojttdgebll the Iseatlnv.....Osst ht the sickle, for die AtleDkti
AND THE MOON SHALL lit *DAR-,
icemm, AND Tlia STARS SHALL stirribNAw TnEnti
SIDNINN THE HEAVENS A2iD THIS EARTit SHALL'
SHAKE i kit THE LORD Jt de hope of his /wok
Then shall•Jerissale* be holy" t“ then shall the sanc-
tuary be cleansed." I)an. viii. 14].
Is_ tAlri speaking of the period in shich'.7erirsalrn
'shall be a riles habitatPon, a tabernacle which shall not be
ta4h -down; where the Lon°, our Junta:, Star LAW-
• GIVEN oar KING EOM save his opihregwer pen/de—where
,the inhAitant shall not say, tarn sick, and the ft.lit& thole
dwell therein shall be forgiven their initially, exclaims,
'Come near ye ntitions, to hear, and hearken ye pople : let
the earth hear, and all that is therein ; the world and nll
thing: lhat come forth of rt. For THE INDIGNATioN OF
TILE LORD IS UroN ALL NATIONS, AND HIS FURY
UPON ALL THEIR ARMIES TIE HATII UTTERLY DE-
STROYED THEM, HE HATH DELIVELIEb THEM TO THE
SLAVGIITER. Their slain also shall k ran ant, their car-
case: shall wink, and the mountains [kingdtans] shall be
melted with their blood. AND ALL Tun IiONT of HEA-
VEN SHALL SE DissoLviA), AND THE FIEAVENS SHALL
DE ROLLED TOGETHER As A FeRoLL AND ALL THEIR
HOST SHALL FALL. DOWN, AS TilE LEAP FAILETYI OFF
FROM Tilt VINE, ANto AS A FALLING FTG FROM THE PIG-
THEE : for ins sword shall be bathed in Heaven [in the
blood of Kings] in the dity of the Lord's vengeance, the
year of recompense for the controversy of Sinn.. (Isaiah
xxxiv. 1. 8).
These passages may suffice to sinew that, thrOugh,
out the scriptures, the siving of Mt hingdom to the &tints
of the blest Hish is preceded by, not a partial, but it'
total ebscuration of the lights of the heaven- politic,'
and that wherever this total obseuratian inecntioned,'
an allusion is made to the same periodf ; for th;.- pro-:
rhets are unanimous in declaring that 4, the ,Mods
Shall lc confounded, am! ...4e Sun athansed, w.1:7; tita.gmb-
cY 1-.1,),;rs (the King of KiaLS, r»all reign in Nowa
Z:::ot and is Jet-watch', and blurt leis aniients gloriously."
(Lai. xxiv. 23).

. .
I have yet a few remarts to offer on this trumpet,
but as they would extend th..!' present Number to all
inconvenient length, I .rust postpone then till my
next.• '' . arntiets.

f When the dettruction cf any parictihr people Or kingdom
predizted by the burl, Moon, &c. leinidutheasi, the Lingusge. is
generally limited to ti.c.object spoken of : as the fall of-. Egypt,
predicted by Ezekiel (styli. " All the brigs lights of Ilea,
ven will I make dark over thee." The satrie figures are etnplo),Al'
in predicting the dtiction of ancient Babylon (Isaiah*lli). ;. but
m the city is entiO ',l by 11AUTe ; and the sentence denoubced
receives its full accomplishment In 11.541414 the Getert;the isiethtr f
hailots. (Rev. tvi. and lviii).)

Yesterday morning, about half past two o'clock, thz
Counting-house of Messrs. BODDY and Co. if Bagnio-
court, I4ewgate-street, was broke open and robbed of
a large quantity of halfpence, and severalllank cheeks
on Bankers. The thieves effected their escap.
On Weditesday afternoon, as a Gentleman was
walking by the side of a pond at Mantes Ditton,
Surrey, he observed sorncthing.floating, which, with
the assistance of his servant, was brought on thore,
when it was found to he the body of an infant, fastened
in a mat, and in its mouth was found a woman's hus.
sife, with needles in it. The body was supposed to have
been in the water several days, it being in a putrid
state. It was taken to the George public-house, where
an Inquest was held, when the Jury returned a ver-
dict of wilful murder against some person or persons
unknown.