Star.
London, England, 1808-06-03 00:00:00

AFFA;RS.

Mr. CREEVEY rose to move for a document respecting East
Indian Affairs, as a Report was about to be brought forward, on
which a Motion would be made ford Grant to the East India
Company. When the Committee appointed to inquire into East
Indian Affair:, of which he was one, mado their Report, a docia.•
meat had been produced by the Directors, by which it appeared,
that there were twelve millions deficit on the part of tha Come
pang, and that their Indian Finances ealle for instant relief ; he
therefore claimed that the House might look at this before they
voted away the public money. He blamed the conduct of the
Committee to whom the East *lndia claim was referred, for not
setting this document in their Report, and concluded by moving,
" That there be laid before this House Copies of tho Ezpenition
of the East India Company's Affairs,"
Mr. DUNDAS opposed the Motion, and defended the Com-
mittee.
A long conversation then ensued between Lord A. Haantteir,
__.— • • .

Mr. WaiIMFORCt, Mr. Viz:4o2.oh the CJIANCILLOIL of the .1
E'en/Li/VIA, Mr. Timexles Lord FOLSZSTOttt, and Sit Joao
ANITAUSKLIt ; and Mr..4,:ipahtlEY finally comiented w e4tim. •
tiiiew his Merlon.

OYSTER FISHERIES.

Mr .n ESTER N said, he should not rise to snake his motlo:t oA
this subject, if he had not previously taken the advice of men ulti-
mately acquainted with the trade. The Oyster Fisheries on the ,
coast of F.ssex were of considerable importance ; the Public de-
rived great advantages from them, for many thousand seamen I
were employed in these Fisheries, and rendered fit lor the Naval
Service. 'fbe private Fisheries constituted a very large property,
and the laws formerly made the act of navigating with drags on
private oyster-beds a criminal offence ; but an Act had been pass-
ed since the year 1791, which made the offence supersedable fer
Tony. The oysters generally lay in situations which exposed them
to depredation, to the great injury of the owners, .std the only
penalty, as the law now stood, on conviction of the offender, was
As it was necessary that this trade should be carried on.:
for the advantage of the Public, from whom it wai•entitled to •
every protection, he shOuld move for leave to bring In a Bill to
amend the law on the minket, and to provide for the more effec-
tual protection of the Oyster Fishery.
The Motion was then put and agreed to.
BANK OF IRELAND.
The order of the'day being read for the House going into a
Committee on the Bank of Ireland,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER expressed a wish
that it should be postponed till some future reening, as the House
had been considerably exhausted by the fatigue of last night.
Lord HENRY PErry observed, that it was of material ins*
portance to have this subject disposed of as soon as possible, as •
many Members connected with Ireland were daily leaving town.
The House then agreed to go into the Committee, but previ-
ously to the Speaker leaving the Chair,
Lord HENRY PETTY moved, That it sho;;ld be reconurierr
ded to the Committee to insert a clause allowing • people of the
,
Catholic Religion, but otherwise qualified with respect to pro-
perty, to become Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Directors of
the Bank of Ireland. He urged the adoptiOn of that measure
from the extreme necessity there was of conciliating the whole
population of the United Kingdom at the present momentous
crisis. lie recited various clauses from different Acts of the Irish
Parliament, tending to prove that the Legislature never meant to
exclude Catholics Irons beentiiing Members of Corporate Bodies,
but merely to prevent them ocetpying places in the political Con-
stitution of the country. lie maintained the policy of the House
acceding to his Motion, as it would be impossible tor the Catbo•
lice, to whom it had reference, to entertain opinions, or engaso
in any plan hostile to the Established Govertiment. Tint was
sufficiently obvious from the necessary interest thy/ would have
in the preservation of that property which would quality theft
for the situations.
Mr. FOSTER said the Bank of Ireland was instituted under
the same regulations as the Bank of h.ngland. People professing
the Catholic Religion were disqualified from having any share
w.
the Direction of the Bank of England, and he saw no reason why
they should be admitted to a share in the Direction of the Bank
of Ireland. The Catholics themselves had not expressed any wish
to obtain that privilege which the Noble Lord proposed to grant
them, although it was probable they would have long ago applied
for it, had they conceived it beneficial for their interest. • •
The CIUNCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the Mo-
tion, on the same grounds as Mr. FOSTaII. The Ca.nolics,
said, had made no application for the privilege that was now pro-
posed to be granted them ; and It Nevoid be ridnuio as to grant them
a favour they did not desire, after refusing to grant them what
they had petitioned for.
Mr. GRATFAN said, that the rejection of the Motion must
excite uneasiness in the breasts of the whole Citholid Body. He
trusted the House would Ast apprehend any danger from such Ca-
tholics as might be appointed, as they would be sworn to protect
and support the Protestant Establishment:
short .conversation ensued between Mr. Pracrear., Mee
FOSTaII, and Lord HENAT FIRM' and the Housidivided
For the Motion OS—Against of—Majority IS. •
Adjoin:lS Xt Two o'clock.

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ON THE PROPHECIES.

No. VIII.

THE SEVENTH SEAL OPENED.
j when he had opened the seventh seal there was .f;
in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I

tit seven angels which stood before GOD ; and to them
,Om seven trumpets. And another angel came and
the altar, having a golden censer ; and there was
im him much incense, that he should sfrer it with the

rojenr.-- of all saints upon the golden altar, which was be..
tk throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the
Tor of the saints, ascended up before Gon, out of the
Arts hand. And the Angel took the censer and filled it
ititit fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth : and
owe? voices and thundering:, and lightning:, and an
oficiake. (Rev. viii. 1-5).
nie heaven" here spoken of refers evidently to
scene of the vision, as does also the half hour ;"
_the'

, silence is maintained only while the prepara-
are making for the ensuing representation ; and
to every thing is ready, it is terminated by voices
ishouksings." In the interim, the end and design
fall the services that were performed in the typical
icanaly are pointed out by the office and work of
tit j 4 who eer, much incense with the prayers of all
&Limp in virtue of which they ascend up before Gon,
and are accepted. That the word Angel" sig-

lies 4, messenger" will not be questioned by any one
all conversant in Scripture phraseology. Here

on we have the ANGEL or " MESSENGER or THE Co-
ngo-7a' brought to our view...THE LORD, who had
me to his temple, agreeably to the prediction in
giLicsu (1. 3.) ;—the merciful and faithful high
mat, who hath made reconciliation for the sins of
tie people (Heb. ii. 17.) ; the GREAT HIGH PRIEST,
tut is fumed into the Heavens. JESUS THE SON OF GOD
...offering that incense by which alone the persons

La services of his saints are made acceptable—even
e merits of hisown perfect obedience and atonement.

We have seen, frcm the opening of the preceding
fells, that the events, which they predict, do not follow
is such an order and succession of time, as to make
the business of the second commence when the first
xnninates, and the business of the third when that of
ik second is finished, by a rgular succession ; but
that, on kis contrary, all the first five seals relate to
the commencement and progress of the warfare car-
ded the Rider on the white horse and those
Oho oppose his kingdom ; and the sixth to the issue
i that contest. The case is exactly the same with
!egad to this seventh seal : for though, of necessity,
in removing the seals in order, from the book of
Dmuti, the seventh must be last opened, the events
srlich it predicts do not take place subsequently to
thme of the other seals. On the contrary they have
Dearly' the same time of commencement—even the pe-

tiod in which THE MESSENGER OF THE .COVENANT

wide censer and
.filled it with thefire of the altar, and colt
it *antic earth ;" for though he came with the glad
tskt of p I
eace, he forwarned his disciples that his
message would not be so received by the world—lam
amc," says he, " to send FIRE on the earth suppose
"that lam come to give peace on earth ? I tell you, Nay;
lot rather &vision." (Luke 7cii. 49-51.) " Think not
that lam come to send peace on earth ; I came not to send
kat on earth, but a siroaD." (Mat. x. 34.) From the
passages first quoted, we see that " rendingfre on the
meth," means sending a Pu•nrd s." This was to follow
th: profession of the name of CHRIST ; nor need we
to wonder if his disciples were " hated of all nations,"
*en we find that among " a man's fors were to be those
On own household. " But" says CHRIST, " he that
lank father or mother more than me, it not worthy of me
he that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is '
tottsorthy of me. He that indeth his life [by conform-
ug with the world to avoid persecution] shall lose it :
[he shall not partake in the first resurrection] and he
tin !meth his life for my sale, shall Joel it." We see
thea that persecution, strife, and contention are pre-
dicted here as destined to follow the preaching of the
Gospel—the very same fact that was proclaimed by
the opening of the second seal. But, instead of a mere
satline of the history of the warfare between the
crowned rider and his enemies (which was all that
thepreceding sealsgaverespecting DANIEL'S "PRINCE
0*114Elloar," and " the people of the Prince" that was
to fight against him) by the opening of the seventh
seal a farther, and, as we shall immediately see, a
Stry particular detail of all the leading circumstancesof
in contest is brought to view ; for we are not
only told generally what followed the preaching of
the Word, namely, " thundering: and lightnings, and an
tarthguale"—great noise and wrath, followed by a
Wonderful change in the rule or government of the
ranh, but seven Angels are introduced to explain the
events alluded to in these expressions, and to proclaim,
as by sound of trumpet, the authentic and authorised
interpretation of the sealed book, so far as it relates to
these events.

THE FIRST TRUMPET.

" Ilk &VCR Angels which had the seven trumpets pre-
fared themselves to sound. The first Angel sounded, and
Cure followed fire and hail mingled with blood, and they
spree east upon the earth : and the third part of the earth
man burnt up, t and the third part of the trees was burnt
V, and all green grass was burnt up. (Rev. viii. 6,7.)

s See alio 1 Cor. ill. 13, 14. .
tni►d part of the earth war burnt air." These words are
**lain the common version. They are bend in the Vulgate
lad in marl 600411155.

men.

Sending I, Fire" on the earth, as we have just seen,
means in prophetic language, the same as sending a
~ :word"—contention and strife, followed by blood-
shed. " Hail" denotes, in general, the judgments
of GOD upon a people*. "Tree," signify great men,
and "gran" the lower orders : thus in the 4th chap-
ter of DANIEL, a great tree represents King NP.SUCHAD.
NzzzAß—the earth, in which were its roots, his king-
dom—and the tender grass of the field, his people ji : but
the same figures are applied also to the people of
GOD) as distinguished from the world ; as in Isaiah

(lxi. S.) where they are called "trees of righteoutnen,
the planting of JEHOVAH," and in other places t —and
therefore, where this ngure occurs, its application to
the one or to the other can be decided only by the
context.

By this trumpet not only is fire east upon the earth,
but from the context we learn that it was "fire of the
altar"—Therefore the quarrels and bloodshed here
mentioned, are chiefly to be attributed to the disputes
among ecclesiastics—disputes which were carried on
with so much enmity and brutality, that not only the
subjects of CHRIST'S kingdom, who were taught by
their MASTER to expect nothing else, and who, gene-
rally speaking, have always been reckoned heretics
by all true churchmen, but mankind in general, be-
came the victims of the blood-thirsty fury of the va-

rious contenders for ecclesiastical dominion. Nor
was this mischief confined within narrow bounds—
the "fire and hail mingled with blood were cast upon the
earth ;" and if we turn to Daniel (vii. '23.) we shall
find that " the earth," when employed without limi-
tation, includes not only the proper territories of the
fourth empire, but those of the three preceding ones
which it destroyed and brake in piece:, before the esta-
blishment of the ten kings.
_

From this it follows that the commencement cf
this fire and hail was while the CAMARS still held the
sovereignty of Rome, and the empire remained un-
broken—though we learn by their ultimate effects,
the burning up of the third part of the trees and grass,
that they were to continue much longer, during the
whole time, in which the beast was to reign with the
ten kings ; for it was only during the latter period that
its power to make “fire come down from heaven on the
earth in the tight of men," exciting wars whenever it
might think fit, respecting orthodox and heterodox
opinions, was limited to the third part of the earth, the
sea, &c.

As to the precise period for the commencement of
these evils, nothing is said in the text t ; but we
learn generally that they point to the introduction of
religious disputes, and the consequences to which
these would lead. We know from the writings of
the Apostles, that the spirit which produced this—
the wish of certain professors of christianity to rule
over their brethren, like the Kings of the Gentiles,
had shewn itself even in their day ; and we have
seen that, though it did not mark it so precisely, the
second seal included these religious disputes as well
as the persecutions to which CHRIST'S followers, in
particular, were to be subjected—and, therefore, this
trumpet may be considered as the commencement of
a new prophetic history, in which is given a more
ample detail of those circumstances which were only
sketched, as it were, in outline, but yet in perfect or-
der, by the opening of the former seals.
In corroboration of this, we find that the blood-
shed and accompanying judgments, proclaimed by
this trumpet, are followed by exactly the same conse-
quence as the going out of the rider who took peace
from the earth, and the rider with the balances.—
• The third part of the earth was burnt up," that is,
wasted with war and bloodshed ; " and the third part
of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt
up"—not only many who had heard the word and re-
ceived it joyfully were offended when this sword, or fire
of persecution § came, and so fell away from the truth ;
but, throughout all that portion of the world, which
in this book is called a third part, the whole visible
profession of Christianity was ultimately withered and
[ blasted—bishops [the trees] and their flocks [the
green grass] becoming both equally fruitless, the com-
mandments of GOD being made void by the tradi.
eons, doctrines, and commandments of men.
This defection from the truth began as soon as
persecution for the word appeared ; it reached its
• See Eirod. ix. 23. Lai. milk 2, IT. Psalms lxxviii. 17, 48,
Esti. xiii. 1 s.—Among the Eastern Magi, hail and fire, employed
as symbols, had a similar signification. Acusg Ex ts in his inter-
pretation of dreams, cap. 191, out of the Rules ef the Indians,
Persians, and Egyptians, says k " If any shall seem to see hail fall
any where, let him expect a sadden hostile attack if the hail
shall have hurt the stalks of wheat or barley ; in the place where
the stalks were so broken, warlike slaughters shall happen—And
in cap. 159 and 160, he says, thatfre, if it shall seem to burn
any thing or any one, signifieth death, war, fightings, prnisiteent,
and afflicticn.
Hsee also Fall. chap. xxi, and-Tsai. chap. ii. Acusteres, the
author mentioned in the preceding note, also puts trees for great

f The church is Goes husbandny. Cn■IST if the true vine, and
his people the branches. Those that abide in him bring forth much
fruit (lebn 5.)—" they spring up among the gram, as willows by
the wahr courses." xliv. 4.)—But if any man abide not in him
he is cast forth like the branches that are withered [or " burnt up," as
in the passage before us) which are gathered and cast into the fire.
t This obiervation applies equally to all the trumpets, but the
duration of some of them is pointed out, and in other parts of this
prophecy and in Daniel, the period for the commencement of some
of them is precisely marked, as shall be shewn hereafter.
This is the fire which the Apostle PAUL tells the Corinthians
would try every man's work of what sort it is. They were boasting,
some that they had been converted by PAUL, some by Arca Los s
ice. but he informs than, that the Apostles would receive no
, reward but for that part of their work which could endure this fire.

height after the little horn [the hierarchy] obtained
power from the Kings of the earth to wear out the
saints of the Mott High. Throughout Europe [the third
part of the earth] the truth was cast down to the
ground, and the little horn prospered, while the woman

[the true church] was obliged to hide herself in the
wilderness ; those who chive to her by flatteries, whether
distinguished Bishops and teachers, or men in less
elevated situations, having entirely perverted her
institutions, and new modelled the church to make
it suit their worldly views ; holding this lie in
their right hand : that it was possible to serve God
and mammon—and making it manifest, by their whole
conduct, that they were of the number whom Jude
calls g, trees whose fruit witherdh wit/tout fruit *, twice
dead, plucked rep by the roots; raging waves of the sea
foaming out their own shame; wandering stars t to whom
is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." This sin-
gular fact was sealed up in the book of DAN/EL. It
was there only
,told generally, what a malignant
enemy should arise against the kingdom of the MES-
SIAH, and that the people of a certain ruling power,
which was yet to come, should carry on this war-
fare : but from no part of Daniel could it be learnt,
till explained by the FAITHFUL WITNESS, that those
who should thus oppose his rule, though of " impu-
dent caantenanee," should have the effrontery to main-
tain that they were his own subjects, and were only
seeking to promote his glory !
This wonderful and universal degeneracy, as has
been before noticed, came not to its height till Anti-
christ had received his full power, usurped the outer-
court of the temple of Gon, and trodden it down as
his own property; and we know, from other passages,
that it continues till the time appointed for the ckan.

sing of the sanctuary—or, in other words—till the pe-
riod arrives, in which the saints shall flosses: the kingdom.
Hence it follows that this trumpet, in opposition to the
general interpretation, continues to sound during
the whole period of the five succeeding trumpets,
down to 44 the days of the yoke of the seventh angel,"
when the mystery of God shall be finished. BIBLICUS.
* fe.roxuspva, axaprce Expttw6Evra. Not only bearing
no fruit to perfection but barren—void of vegetable life, and
only fit to be rooted up for fuel.
t Bishop, neither appointed nor ruling by CHRIST'S authority,
but " runenog greedily after the error of Ashton for reward."

THE. EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, JUNE 3.

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The armed vessel which passed Dover the night
before last, and was taken for an American, proves
to be an English ship from Honduras, but last from
Charlestown. Having received damage at sea, she
was obliged to put into that port to repair. She
brings no news. The embargo was still continued
when she came away.

It appears by foreign journals to the 29th ult. re-
ceived last night, that on the 13th NAPOLEON was still
at Bayonne, having sent off the Royal Family of
Spain to the different residences assigned to them.
The news from Paris given in these papers is to the
date of the 25th ult. but of no moment. From Ma-
drid the accounts are to the 13th.—The Grand Duke
of BERG appears, by them, to exercise the powers of
Goverment without any opposition.
Parma, Piacenza, and Tuscany are now incor-
porated with France ; a transaction which, in the utter
annihilation of all political power, even in the roi-di-
sant independent States, will probably excite no obser-
vation or remark whatever. In Italy, besides, we find
that great hopes are professed of being able soon to
rival the naval power of Great Britain. In Genoa
one 74 gun ship has been launched, and at Venice
three ships of the line are building.

Ministers certainly entertain hopes that the French
and Spanish ships at Cadiz will soon be in our posses.
sion. Arrangements are in train to have the Sea
Fencibles in readiness, as was the case with the Da-
nish men of war, to navigate these ships home to
England. Accounts received by Government state,
that it was on the 14th ult. that the troops under Ge-
neral SPENCER left Gibraltar for Cadiz. Of their
joining our fleet off Cadiz intelligence was received
some days ago : they were there before news could
be received of the Spanish Monarch having abdicated
the Throne, and of course ready for any event which
might result from that intelligence.
A Gentleman just arrived from Lisbon states, that
a conscription is about to take place throughout Por-
tugal, including all young ncen Wom 16 to 30 years,
for the supposed purpose of being marched into Spain.

Accounts from Sicily, dated April 15, represent the
English force in that island to be in perfect health.—
They were about to change quarters, but no apprehen-
sion was entertained of a visit from the French. The
corps of MEURON, WATTEVILLE, and an English re-
giment, which were landed in Sicily some time before,
had re-embarked, for the purpose of joining the ex-
pedition which was to sail from Gibraltar under Ge-
neral SPENCER.

The Earl of COVENTRY is dangerously ill. He is
near 86 years of age.
The retreat of Sir A. 11•••••—r, and Lady $p N,
has been ascertained to be Lindhurst.