Star.
London, England, 1808-03-24 00:00:00

GoTtENBITRGH, MARCH 11.

Count Buxhorden, General in Chief of the Russian
army in Finland, has issued the following Proclama-
tion to the lnhat;itant; of Finland—

" GOOD FRIENDS alsn INHABITANTS OF SIVFDISH FINLAND,
" 16 is with tha utmost concern his Imperial Majesty, my
most gracious master, finds himself obliged to order his troops
under my command to entei your country.
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" His Imperial Majesty feels the more concerned at taking this
step, to which he is compelled by the transactions which have
occurred in Sweden, as he has still a lively recollection of the no-
ble sentiments Of good neighbourhood, as well as sincere, free,
and uneontrouled confidence in the protection of Russia, which
the Fins manifested without fear at the commencement of the last
war, when, without the least cause, and contrary to your consti-
tution, the King of Sweden made an irruption, as unexpected as
it was unjust, upon our frontiers.
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" His present Swedish Majesty, far from joining his Imperial
Majesty in his exertions to restore tranquillity, which alone can
he effected by the coalition which so fortunately has been formed
by the most powerful states, has, on the contrary, formed a closer
alliance with the enemy of the general tranquillity and peace,
whose oppressive system and unwarrantable conduct towards his
imperial Majesty and his nearest ally, his Imperial Majesty can-
not by any means look upon with indifference.
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" It is on this ground, in addition to what his Imperial Majesty
owes to the security of his own dominions, that he finds himself
forced to take your country tinder his protection, in order to se-
cure to himself due satisfaction in case his Roy I Swedish Majes-
ty should persist in his design, not to accept the just conditions of
peace, which have been tender td to him by the Ens.eror of the•
French, through the mediation of his Imperial Russian Majesty,
in order to restore the blessings of peace, which are at all times
the principal object of his Imperial Majesty's attention.

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" Good friends, and men of Finland, remain quiet, and fear
nothing. We do not come to you as tdemies, but as friends and
protectors, to render you more prosperous and happy, and to
avert from you the calamities, which, it war should become in-
dispensable, must necessarily befal you.
" Do not allow yourselves to be seduced to take tip arms, or to
treat in a hostile manner the troops who are committed to my m-
ilers. Should- any one offend against this admonition, he must
impute to himself the consequences of his conduct, while, on the
other hand, those who meet his Imperial Majesty's paternal care
for the welfare of this country, may rest assured of his powerful
favour and protection.

" And as it is his Imperial Majesty's will, that aU the affairs in
Tour country shall pursue their usual course, and he managed ac-
cording to your ancient laws and customs, which are to remain
undisturbed, as long as his troops continue in your country, all
Officers, both civil and military, are hereby directed to conform
tbemselvta thereto, provided that no bad use be made of this in-
dulgence, contrary to the good of the country.
et Prompt payment shall be made for all provisions and refresh-
ments required for the troops; and, in order that you may still
more be convinced of his Majesty's paternal solicitude for your
welfare, he has ordered several magazines to be formed, in addi-
tion to those which are already established, nut of which the most
indigent inhabitants shall be supplied with necessaries, in common
with his Majesty's troops.

" Should circumstances occur which require come amicable
discussion and deliberation, in this case you are directed to send
your deputies, chosen in the usual manner, to the city of Aho, in
order to deliberate on the like subjects, and adopt such measures as
the welfare of the country shall require.

" It is his Imperial Majesty's pleasure, that from this moment
Finland shall be considered and treated in the same manner as
other conquered provinces of the Russian empire, Ivhieh now en-
oy happiness and peace under the mild government of his Impe-
rial Majesty, and remain in full possession of the freedom of re-
ligious worship, as well as of all its ancient right and privileges.

" The taxes payable to the Crown remain in substance unalter
ed, and the pay of the public officers of every description coati-,
nues likewise on its ancient footing.

" All this h hereby made known to all whom it does concern.
Ind who are strictly to sonform themselves thereto, as well AS c
whatever else shall be enacted by his Imperial Majesty's ukase.
,c Given in head quarters, Fredericksham, the 18th of Fe-
bruary, 1808.
The original is signed by Count Buxhovdm.
GOTTENBURGH, MARCH :1.

A courier arrived on the 15th from Helsinburg,
with intelligence that Denmark had declared war
against this country. The Swedish Minister had left
Copenhagen, and the Swedish Consul Elsineure.—
The former is gone to the King at Gripsholm. The
French arc said to have entered Holstein on the sth
instant, and it is reported that several of them are al•-
ready come over to Zealand ; but of this we have no
certain accounts, all communication between the two
countries being, for the present, stopped.
Twenty Swedish mails for Hamburgh from Elsi-
neure have been returned here this morning. It is no
longer doubted that it is the intention of the enemy
to invade this country immediately.

The Danes are fitting. out their East and West In•
dia ships as men of war.
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A vessel arrived at Carlscrona from Memel brings
the intelligence that Prussia has declared war against
Sweden. The Prometheus sloop of war sent into this
port yesterday a Danish brig, which she fell in with
in ctuizing off this port ; and when the prize came
away, she was in chace of tome others. The Van-
guard, 0r74 guns, and the Quebec frigate, got into
open water yesterday ; and it is expected that the
Nassau, and Stately, of 64 guns each, will be released
from the ice to-day, as great exertions are making for
that purpose. The Governor of Gottenburgh offered
to supply 1000 men to cut away the ice, which is
very tuck and strong. These ships, it is said, will
proceed to the Sound.
The King of Sweden has issued a proclamation,
forbidding all intercourse with Russia.
IVIARCiI S.-I would not fail to communicate the
passing events to our common friends, if I had the
means, but these no longer exist—all communication
betwa.cn Sweden and Denmark, Russia, in short, the
whole of the Continent, being at an end. The Court
of Copenhagen formally declared war against Sweden
on the 14th instant, in consequence of which neither
Mail nor merchandize, nor passengers, are any longer
expedited from i ielsingliurg. We are not without
alarm here for the future fate of this country, .which,
probably, will be unable to resist the combined at-
tacks ,f Russia, France, and Denmark, unless the
British and Swedish squadrons can come out to pro-
tect the coasts. Hitherto the ice has rendered abor-
tive every attempt of this nature. Since yesterday,
however, tl:e Engli•h vessels of war in this port have
been perceived to be in motion, and there is room to
hope, that they may be enabled to get out to-day to
proceed to the Sound. This is the news of the day,
wincr. I hasten to communicate to you.

STEiCKIIOLM, MAlttl/ tr.
The towts of Borgo, ronisa, and Alberfors, being
occupied by Russian troops, the letters sent from the
Post-office here to the latter town, on the Bth, 12th,
and 19th a February, and the 4th ii s ant, have been
returned, and the Post-office here has given notice of
the same, that those who have' sent letters by these
posts may receive them again. No letters for the
present can be forwarded to these towns.

7'HE PROPHECIES.

No. HI.

OF TUE SEALED BbOK.

In the Apocalypse (ch. v.) mention is Made of a
book which " no man [sv3.si;-, no one, no creature]
in heaven, nor in earth, nor under the earth, was able
to open." " THE Lim.: OF THE TRIEE 01, JUDAH,
(Gen. xlix. 9, 10) the ROOT OF DAVID" (Iva. xi. 1-
10), was, alone, found worthy to open the book. If
we attend carefully to the description which John gives!
of this book, we shall be at no loss, from its marks
and characters, to ascertain what is the one intended.
1. The hook was " lurittrn within and on the back -
side." Its being written on the backside, or outside,
evidently imports, that a part of the writing was vi-
sible ; that is, the book *as already in the possession
of the church, and partly ; and if we at-
tend to what passed When " the Lamb who was slain,
hut is now alive" took the book into his hand to open
it, we shall discover a part of the writing itself, for
it became the subject of the song of those around the
theme, " Thou hast made us unto our GOD Kings and
Pi-iests, and we shall reign on the earth." However
dark the other parts of the book were, this was one
thing which could be plaini y read in it, that a lime was
coming in •which the saints shall /=osiers the kingdom ; (Dan.
vii. '2.5.) When the rule awl domnion and the greatness of
the kingt!oni mle; the whole heaven shall be given to the
people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom, (v. 27). Thus it appears that the
hook from which they took their song was that of
the Prophet DANIEL.

2. It was a " sealed book." Here we have a very
particular and explicit description by which the book
is ascertained to be that of Daniel, beyond all possi-
bility of cavil. Daniel was commanded to ;hut up the
words and seal the book of his visions: He alone, of
all the prophets of God, received such a command ;
and, of all the books in the hands of the church, his
is the only one %hie!' we find so shut up and sealed.
3. The book was not only sealed, but sealed with
seven seals." It could by no means be opened till one
qualified to give the interpretation should open and
explain it. The seals being seven in number, shew,
how perfectly the meaning was hid, " seven" in Scrip-
ture language denoting what is complete and per-
fect. But we are not in the present instance left to
take'itch a general signification of the term " seven."
Ac Daniel's was the only sealed book in the hands of
the church, so we find that character given to it in no
less than four places of that prophet, viz. ch. viii. v. 26,
ch. ix. v. 21., ch. xii. v. 4. and again in the same chap-
ter, at the 9th verse : and it is not a little remarkable
that the numbet of times which the vision--the pro-
f:/ter--the words—the honk, arc shut, closed up, or sealed,
in these places amounts exactly to SIiVLS, as i'G:lows:
I. " Shut thou up It:: Vision." 26.)
I I. " Seventy weeks are determined to sea! up
:ht Vision." (ix. 24.)
I IL " Seventy weeks are determined
ufr 'he Prophet." ( ix. '21.).

IV. Shut up the Words to the time of the end."
(xii. 4).

V. Seal the Book

(xii. 4.)
VI. The It.nrtis are closed up
the end." (Ali. 9.)

VII. " The word.: are staled till the time of the
end." ( xii. 9. )

4. The book was complete : both the inside and
outside of the roll or book was covered with writ-
ing. So the expression in the original denotes. That
there was nu room left for additions. And it is
not a little remarkable that the explanation of this
book given by the Liox OF TIM Tnin OF• JUDAII,
chews that it contained a prophecy of the purposes of
Gon, respecting his church and the reign of the Mes.
siah, so complete and perfect, that nothing could be
added to it. The removal of the seals from the book
of Daniel was all that was wanted to put the church
in possession of this knowledge.

5. We learn from Daniel himself how long the
book was to remain sealed. This sealing or shutting
up was to continue for certain weeks [of years,
as shall be shewn in its proper place ] : that is, as •
we find by the context (chap. ix.) till the time
Of MESSIAH THE PitnicE—till he should make
an end of sin—[sin-offerings, for so the word signifies]
by the one offering of himself; or in other words, till
an end should be put to the sacrifices offered by the
law : and we find the same thing Intimated twice -af-
terwards (in chap xii.) by the exprenion "die time
of the end,"—that is the time of CHRIST, whose coming
put an end to the Mosaic institutions. The book
then that was opened in the Apocalypse had its seals
loostd at a period answerable to the prediction re-
specting the time in which Daniel's prophecies were
to be opened ; and, the fulfilment answering to the
prediction, the evidence becomes complete, that the
Prophet Daniel was the book that was thus °pence.

The inference from all this is obvious. Since MES-
slim Tux PRINCE has conic, according to all the pro.
phccies that had been givea oat cor,cerning him, and
has removed the seven seals from the book of Daniel;
it is nuw ( Rev. s. '2.)