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THE KING v. WRIGHT AND nTtitltS;
This was a prosecution against Wright, a Sheriff's
(fficer, Barnet (an auctioneer or broker), J. Shaw,
T. Bien, R. Tinker, M. Jet ome, P. Smith, D. Snsith )1
and James Philpot, h s assistants, for an assault end
trespass on the night of the 21. th of December last, in
the house of a Mrs. Olivier, mantua and dress-maker,
in Pall-mall.
From the statement of Mr. Barry, it appeared,
that in consequence of an execution for debt, in the
house of the: prosecutrix on the preceding day, the
defendants went there on the Saturday night, to carry
away the goods under seizure. About 8 o'clock, Mrs.
Olivier) who was out, returned home, and found these
men employed in taking down her beds, and prepar-
ing the goods for removal. She opposed their carry-
ing off the goods, without giving her a written inven-
tory ; which they refused. Mrs. Olivier, on her part,
resisted the removal of the goods without it. The
defendants persisted. Altercation proceeded to vio-
lence; and Mrs. Olivier stated that they seized hold of
her person, and gave her a violent shaking. She said,
the debt for which they seized was about £5O, and
the goods carried off were worth above £lOOO. ,They
tore her .pt.lis.e off her back, pushed her about, and
used other personal violence ; but she did not alledge
that any blows were. received. They continued re-
moving the goods until two o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing ; and having completely gutted the house, from
the garrets to the kitchen, they departed.
Mrs. Olivier, pursuant to tne adv.ce of her Solid-
ter, commenced this prosecution against the parties.
Mr. Ataatv, for the defendants, stated, that so far
from having acted inhumanly, or with wanton vio-
lence or cruelty, they had given every indulgence, and
had deferred finally acting under the execution tat-
tru,ted to them, the whole Friday, apt until the latest
hour they could defer the business en Saturday even-
ing, with safety to themselves ; for had they delayed
it until Monday, the landlord might have seized for
his rent, and defeated the execution. el he Officer,
with his assistants, were in the legal discharge cf. their
duty ; and if Mrs. Olivier experienced any tiling like
rough treatment, she owed it to her own violence ;
for she chew a knife from under her pelisse, threatened
to plunge it in the heart of any man wtio should at-
tempt to move off any part of her goods; and said,
that she would wade to her neck in blood, in protect-
ing the right and property of her family ; and so far
from the defendants having continued there till two
lin the morning, the last of the goods were moved
off by half past eleven that night.
This statement was supported by the testimony of a
I man named Wisbett, the Broker's assistant, and of
Cuthbert, the keeper, who had been placed there since
' Friday, and was present at the transaction. It was
alledged also, that the Defendant sent for a Constable,
to take the Prosecutrix into custody ; but he refused
to take charge of her.
The Constable was called, and said the reason
why he refused to rake charge of Mrs. Olivier was,
that nothing was ailedged against her to warrant him
in taking her. Nothing was said of the knife, or of
her violent resistance to their authority.
Mr. Barmy, for the prosecution, ably replied in
refatation to the statement and evidence on the part
of the Defendants
Mr. MatewattiNG, the Chairman, observed, that ,
the unseas.alabie lr.ur at which this levy was made,
and at such a season of ti e year, was extremely in-
discreet and severe, more especially as the return to
the warr:4llt need not have been made for eight days
afterwards. With respect also to the demand of the
Prosecurrix, I r an inventory of the goods about to be
taken a way, although it was not a matter ef strict
legal right on her part, yet it was a thin 7 so usual,
and not at all injurious to the claims of the Dekn-
dams or the duties of the Officers, that it was gene-•
rally considered a rightful claim, and was equally
advantageous to the Officers as to the Prosecutiix ;
for it would gtrtrd them against unfounded allega-
ECM as to any chattels not really taken away by
them. If the Jury believed the evidence for the pro-
secution, it was obvious that a great deal of unneces-
sary violence was used by the Defendants ; and din
supposing the circumstance of the violence charged
against Mrs. Olivier be tree, still, surely, it could not
happen that a posse of 16 men could be terrified by
the threats of a single weak woman. They made no
such charge to the Constable whom they wanted to
take her into custody; and if such a charge was true
it was their duty to have made it, is order to justify
the Constable in the task they wished to impose on
him. No such charge, however, was made -at the
time, and therefore it was totally improbable. The
Jury, therefore, if they believed the evidence for the
prosecution, must be bound to find such of the De-
fendants guilty as they conceived specially affected
by the testimony.
The Jury, after about a minutes deliberation, found
all the prisoners Guilty, except Pete, Smith and John
Philpot, who, it appeared, had no patticipation in the
affray. • . •
Mr. MAINwANINGron proceeding to prOitounce (be
judgment of the Court, observed, that he was ex-
tremely well satisfied with the verdict of the Jury,'
who, he was persuaded, would feel with him that the
Defendants had greatly transgressed their duty in the
violence they had offered to the Prosecntrix ; for al-
though their first proceedings were perfectly legal,
their conductafterwurds was wholly incompatible with
the line of duty they ought to have observed. He
trusted, therefore, the example of the present Officers
would teach Sheriff Officers in general hereafter to
feel that the law did not countenance any such vice.
lent stretch of the functions vested in them. He then
senwfitied each of the Defendants to seven days im-
prisonment, and one who appeared more active than
the rest, to fourteen days.

An Inquest was held at the Coach and Horses, in
York-street, Westminster, on the body -of Mary
Clarke, aged 91, who met her death while crossing
Bridge-street, by the inattention of a servant, in the
employ of Mr. Nvipniar, in driving his master's
chaise over her. The Jury, after having examined
several witnesses, levied a fine of 10s. on the horse,
and .50s. on the wheel.

Saturday, as T. Evans, errand-boy to Messrs. Da-
vies and Lee, hatters, Piccadilly, was cleaning his
master's second floor windcms, he fell from thence on
an iron bar, and then to the area, by which accident
two of his ribs were broken, and his recovery is v ry
doubtful.

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OLD .I).dr.L.Er. •

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Yesterday the Sessions commenced,- before Bart*
Barbn Woos), and Mr. Justice 13!tii..tv.•
Mary Taylor, a girl only 13 years of, age, and, in
appearance,' not more than eleven, was capitally in-.
dicted for stealing a horse and cart, the property of
Elizabeth Thomas, green-grocer, \Visite-yard, Ruee
mary-lane.
Mary Skinner, the daughter of the Prosecutriz, de.
potcd, that she was sent, carly on the morning of the
9th of September, by her Mother, with a horse and
cart, to Spitalfields-market ; she left them standing.
in Paternoster-row, and returned in about ten mi
Times, when they were missing. She saw the cart the
same evening, it being brought home, but did not
see the horse until last Saturday, when it was ip
Whiv.2chapel Pound.
Elizabeth Thomas deposed, she found the cart,
on the evening of the 9th of September, in Scotee..,
Fields.

\\Tinian.) Rhodes; hi boy of 13 years of age, deposed;
that, about nine o'clock on the inorning of the 9th of
September, he saw the Prisoner .with the horse and
cart, in Duckingpond-lane ; she had hold of the reins
—the cart stuck in the mud ; the witness and some
other boys, extricated it ; .i gentleman asked the PA.]
soner whoth the horse and cart belonged to ? she told
him the horse was her father's, and the cart-belonged
to a woman. She drove to the turnpike. and asked
what was to pay ? she was answered 6d ; she then
said the horse had been through before that day, but
the keeper of the gaic would not believe her, and she
asked the witness to skew her the way to Dod's-road.
When they got into Scott's Fields, she unharnessed
the horse and gave him some water; she went to rut
him in the cart again, when he kicked up his heel,
and ran away. The witness and another boy caught
himi and brought him back to her. She then said •
she would not.put him in the cart but would go home'
and bring her mother, who was much stronger ; ehe •
then went off with the horse ; there were some vege-
tables in the cart. The witness never saw the prisoner
to his knowledge, before that day.
George Boom, a pewterer, deposed, he saw the
Prisoner, at a quarter before nine o'clock, driving the
horse and cart up Whitechapel-road.. 2-le had known
her six years—she w4siticne. He also knew the wit-
ness ilhodes, he was not with her.
The Prisoner, in her defence, said it was the boys
who had taken the horse and cart, and asked her to
hold :he reins. She did not know how to drive one.
She did not call any witnesses.

Mr. Justice BAILEY summed up the evidence, and
observed to the Jury, if they considered that the pri-
soner took away the horse and cart, with au inten-
lion to deprive its lawful owner of them, they would
find ber guilty---but if they thought otherwise, they
would acquit her.

The Jury, after a few minutes consultation, re-
turned a verdict of—Guilty—Death.
Richlrd Ockden, whose trial wac, at his own tvgnest,
postponed frcra the hist Sessions, was convicted ci
haring committed an unnatural crime on Thomas
Seagur, a youth of 15, Who had lately come freim the
country, and was the prosecutor. The young man
gave his evidence in a plain and distinct manner, and
was corroborated by other witnesses upon the collate-
ral circumstances. The prisoner's conduct in ensna-
rinr; the young man, was throughout most atrocious
and abominable. This man, notwithstanding the
shock:lig nature of his offence, behaved with great
indiarence during the

Sarah Gunnever was arraigned for having, offered,
in payment for soma: goods, a forg;ed note of the
West Ham and Essex Bank. The substance of the
evidence was, that the prisoner, on the 2.ith of Au.'
gust last, went into a mercer's shop in the city to pur-,
chase some remnants, which she said her mistress,]
who was a charitable woman, meant to give to the!
poor. She purchased two pieces fur hve shillings,l
and tendered the note in question, observing that some
tradesmen had before refused it, because it was a
country note. The shopkeeper desired her to wait'
till he should make enquiry as to the credit of the'
bank, which he did, and learning that it was of no
value, he had her taken into custody.
Several ?witnesses proved that no such firm as
Davis and Co. who signed the note, was in existence'
at Westbant.
The Learned Judge declined calling upon the Tari
soner for any defence, and directed the Jury to acquit'
her, as she had told the prosecutor •of other people]
.having refused the note, before she tendered it to him.
...Acquitted. - i
Joseph Get/ivy, a private in the East London Mi-1j
litia, was indicted fur having buigkaiously entered'
the dwelling-house of Hannah Webb, and stealing
thereout•six shirts, valued at XI, on the 18th of Au-
gust last.
The prosecutrix stated, that on the day mentioned,
she left her house about twelve o'clocl:, after having!
locked the dour and fastened the windows. She re-'
turned at one, and found an iron peg which fastened
one of the windows, had been removed, and that the
shirts had been taken away. Several witnesses sworc I
that they saw die prisoner pass from the house Ell that I
day, with a bundle under his a:rn, but they could not I
say what it contained. He was taken into custody
next day, but none of the shirts could be fainci.-1
Acquitted.
Hannah Beison Was indicted for having burglariously
entered the lodgings of Itabert Diggings near Beth-
nal Green, on the 4th of July last, and robbing it of
a silver watch, chain, and key, valued at 253. It
appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner and
Mrs. Diggings were in the house together, and went
out together, when the latter hinig.the key upon the
door ; that the prisoner returned home, took the key,
and stole the watch from the mantle-piece, which
she 'pledged for a guinea, Arid got herself very drunk
with part of the money. Information of the trans-I
action having been received, a constable was sent to :
take her into custody, and the duplicate, and twelve
shillings and some halfpence, were found upon her
person.
The prisoner. in her defence, stated, that the pro-,
secutor's wife had given her permission to pledge
the watch, but that she was to return the money.—
Guilty. .
The following were also capitally convicted—
Mary Williams, for sitiaLog a pair of boots in the shop of J.
Dodd.
T. Simpson and R. Wilson, for stealing in the dwelling-hot:ft
4 mewl. Courrbili u 4 Illecanfield i 9s yards of printed came:

_ Ann Gulag; for staging i 'rata, &O. frOni tilt awes %Lk
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Nine were convicted
,Jkl. Murphy for stealing a quantity of lead, the property of . •
ty.
teary Holmes, for Stalin: front the person Of I. TEblddo ies, s
.1. Hobacio, fOr stealing 11 s. std. the ).loj,v,ty of It: Oteenssoon:
'• ?.Hurt, for stealing 14s. the property of fr: Sparrow:
blasidter, for stvalieg a tea-spoun, the property of ...
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1. kao, for stealing three yards of carpet, die property of P:
Mart.
P. Dion, for stealing 19 Pieces of sponge,w4 Other artiell.;,c:::
property of H. Opper.heial.
J. Sit:lth, for st,sl:ll 241'.4. of pot atetal, the gaols et W.
Wen.
' Ht ilictnits, for sttaling enc pound of tobatcc, the prJpetey
V. Ryder.
The followinz were acquitted
R. Tucker, b. Ironr.lor.ger, 1. Goodwin, alias lioidin, 1. Clod-
grel, mindiAartbal.t.szley. . .1

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ASSAULT At trwiTHING.

• We stated on Tuesday, that the person wbcf assnalt-
ed the young lady had been taken, and un Jergone an
examination. The gentleman who etan.ls charged is
Mr. Barret, a wine and brandy merchant, in greet
trade, in the City, and he underwent an exeminatint.
yesterdey at Marlborough-street P.,licis-Otee. •
Messrs: ALLEY and Wtatkr attended fol• the aefiti-
&lit, and the former gentleman briefly addressed. •
Mr. Neve, the Magistrate, and requested on behalf
,of hisslient, that the examination should he public,
in order that the ease might be fairly represented td
the public.
'1 he testimony of Miss Latham, the preeecuirix, and
daughter of Dr.Latham, was read over, as -follows
She was walking along South-street, Worthing, at
•seven o'clock on the 10th of.lunee after having left her
brother and maid servant it a bathing Machine, when -
sae was overtaken by the defendant, who took her by
the arm, and pressed his conversation to her. She
declined his company, but he solicited her to grant
him five minutes conversation, and followed her to the
door of her lodging, where he left her. On the morn-
ing of the 12th she had returned from bathing and
whilst reading on a sofa she heard the door open, un 1
suspecting it to be the son of Mr. King, of Bedford-
row, she went down stair's, and to her surpriie beheld
the defendant, who hastily feliowed her into the draw&
ing room. He immediately began to take. libertiessnnd
shafainted. She did not know what had happened until
some time after, %rhea she found herself on the sofa,
with a handkerchief tied over her mouth. The defen-
dant had taken off her sash, and tied her hands at the
wrists. He observed that she should ,not be- hurt,
and advised her not to be alarmed. After having
violated her person, the defendant used pressing ta-
licitations to prevail on her to elope, and he added,
that a post-chaise should be waiting for her at the
door of Mr Ogle. He assured her that he wouid
treat her affectionately ; she should go to his country
.house, and have servants at command. He then
loosened the handkerchief from her mouth, in order,
as he .said, to obtain a faVourable answer ; but on her
expressing her abhorrent* of his conduct, he again
fastened the handkerchief over her mouth, and left
the room, after having placed the furniture, ice. in
order. She then loosened the handkerchief, and cell-
trived to ring the bell for her servant, who liberated
her'hands. The prosecutrie swore positively to the
defendant's person.
Mr. ALLEY begged to offer such evidence to the
Magistrate, by alibi, as should convince him of the
total innocence of Mr. Barret.
Mr. Francis Feltoe, an Excise Officer, proved hav-
ing executed two bonds in the presence of the defen-
dant, on his premises in Thames-street, on the 12th
of June, (the day the iape was said to have been com-
mitted) between twelve and two, which bonds were
produced with the defendant's signature.
Mr. Hale received a checque of the defendant,
signed by his own hand, which he paid into a benkin:s,
house on the 12th, as did also a Mr. Grubb.
Mr. Dobson, a merchant, dined- in a party with the
defendant, at the house of a friend, in Cori:-street,
LBond-etreet, on the 12th of June.
Mr. Backhouse saw and conversed with the &fen.
dant in town on the 12th of June.
Mr. Morley, a merchant, and several other, wit-
nesses proved an alibi as completely as ever was'proved
in any Court.
These witnesses, eho were of the first respectabi-
lity, described the defendant as a man of nice morale,
an exemplary husband, and the father of five children.
Mr. Bari-et had been at Worthing in the early part ef
die season, with Mrs. Barret, as it was their usual
• custom.. •
Miss Latham did not attend at this exemination,
bet Mr. Gurney watched the evidence on her behalf.
The Magistrate expreSsed his conviction of the inne-
cence of Mr. Barret, Lut he felt it his duty to order
• another examination, to give an opportunity for other
witnesses to be brought forward on so serious a charge.
GUlLDHALL—Yesterday a poor paralytic creature,
s who has lately been discharged from one of the hose
fitals, w.ts brought up by two gentlemen with a view
receiving some assistance to tale her down to
iHythe, in Kent, where she said she was born. Sin
was decently-dressed, and seemed a fit object for cha-
rity..- Alderman C. SMITH said, that the City did no:
allow any thing in that way, its only mode being to
pass such as her to their parishes ; but he generously
proposed to the gentlemen, that they should subscribe
a smell sum, by the assistance of which she might
return to her friends with more credit than by the
other mode. . The subscription was accordingly made
and the gentlemen engaged to see her off in the coach.
riTANSiON-IleUse.— l',2sterday J. Conley was fully
committed, charged with stealing several brushes,
blacking, &c. the property of Mr. 'Mathews.
A porter in the employ of Mr. Blundell, of Holborn,
haberdasher, and a female friend, named Choy, were
charged with robbing their employers. Several ar-
ticL:s were found in their possession, and they were
remanded. •
UNtotarlitit..—John Parson: was fully committed,
charged with breaking into the ibors?..of Mr. Walker.
of Kent-street, and stealing a qa..ntity of we ring-
apparel, and some Money ; as was Henry G
charged with having committed a tape on the body of
Susannah Reeve, a child under 12 years o age.
Four persons were yesterday exaMined at Bow-
street, on charges of be.ag
con
bance at Covent-garden Cher rt. • on the preeedisi
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evening. They were oia.:Letkso 'fiarnded in th. distur•
bad.

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light (which is-the-emblem or I?nowledge) means it-
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n 'ranee and error ft. This meaning of the symbol
is so obvious that it -can scarcely fail to strike every
one : accordingly expositors are unanimous in giving
' t ) it thit signification in the passage before us.; and
THE FIFTH TUVMPET. those who makeMAELOMET to be the fallen star, of
f 11. Of the fallen Star, and the Opening of the Pit of course apply this darkness to the false religion which
the illyu. . he propagated. But as the fallen star does not mean
"And the fifth Angel sounded, and I saw a Star, fallen MAHONIET, it so the errors
.here prtelicted do not re-
(not fall; as in the common version) from heaven unto late to the doctrines of that impostor §§, but to those
the earth : and to him watgivex the key of the pit id the of the men of whom the spirit spoke expressly (1 Tim.
abyss." (Rev. ix. 1.) iv. 1, S.), that in the latter timer they should depart from
4 Star,. as we have frequently bad occasion to see, is the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and the doctrines
a symbol of-A civil or ecclesiastical ruler. 'lt arm' ,towerning tremens Pai,v.ovuov]; speaking lies in h ..ypocrisy,
has any other signification, throughout dill lateici. or 'having :heir conscience reared with a-hot iron ; forbidding
that of DANIEL, when used as a symbol. We are not to merry, and commandAig to abstain from meats, avlrch
left in doubt here respecting this star, for this it not 'GOD lard created to be received with thanksgiving by tlum
its first introduction to our notice: it is a star falls from which &firm and know the truth. That this is the
heaven—not yet to fall, not now fall*, but-already darkness-let out of the pit of the abyss, is declared in
fallen : even the same star. who by his fall, under the positive terms et.the -endof this chapter, after the
Third Tru. mpet, enibinerid Me rivers arilfouataine q evils inflicted by the Euphratean horsemen are de.-
water. He fell from his proper sphere,which seas in scribed ; for •it is added; that the teen which - It.i re
the church. The body in which he now• had pre- not killed 4 theieftlagires, yet repented not of the works of
eminence, was not the congregation of the faithful, their hands, that they should not vp.rshift DENIO.Nb
• though he gave that appellation to his followers, but [dai:hovies] and idols, . nor of their sorceries,: &c. On
the synapgut of :man,. (Rev. ii. 99.)4 body full of kilter these doctrines of darkness, the " dark sentences," in
. envying: inul itrife, iteritr,-unnial, deoiliti (Jam. iii. Which the King of impudent countenance •( Dan. viii.
I+, 1.5.) ; and instead. of possessing-the ley if the -2S) was to be well skilled, I shall not now insist, as
hingslont of heaven, in. cnitimon • with thristiaabithops they will fall to be spoken of hereafter.
and their congregations, acting collectively, and bind- Smoke, in hierbglyphical language also sometimes
in and locking, agreeably tothe rule Of czon't 'word, signifies even the desire to do good when it receives a
(Mat. tyi. 19) to him was now given the hey ?plat I Wrong direction under the injuence of error NI, or
knit of the Op:. Instead of being any longer tat angel i' what in the language of PAUL is called " a-zeal of
of the church, a title given to Christian bisho4s (Re*. t.. 4 Gong hut not according to knowledge that mistaken
20) he has now a new title conferred on hint a Thee zeal which leads a man to persecute his fellow-crea-
oftgef [messenger] ofMe shyest." (v. 11) or of • the io- . tures on account of their religious opinions, ima-
, tondesspit,"' as in our common version. ' i gining Mat he sloth GOD service.
That the origin of the Antichristian Kingdom is . Smoke is likewie considered as the presage and ac-
the orient declared•in this trumpet, will farther appear companiment off?? t; ; and fire, as we have seen,
evideht from the follovbing considerations : Next to in this book, signifies war. This smoke, as of a great
• the setting up of the -Kingdom of the Messiah, the fu-nace,• was the presage of those wars of which the
establishment of that. king. .who was to tartar out the . man 'of site was to be the instigator, for the mainte.
taint: ef the MOST Hain, loahangi times and laws, and nonce of-his-power ; and accordingly we are told far-
to havetthe taint: given into his hand for so long a periOdi,ther on, that he had power to bring down fire from the
as 1260 prophetic years, is the most important parti. Heaven, in the sight of men ; that is to excite tem-
cular detailed in the Sealed Book, of which the Trion.' pests in the heaven-politic :—a power which he never
pet: are expositors -L-for they are brought in to explain '. could have acquired, had not darkness first covered the
the Seventh seal. Where then, among all the Trumpets, earth, and gross darkness theipeople•( Tsai. i. x. 2.).
' do we find the rise of this kingdom alluded to, if not' This darkness was indeed so gross, that it Might be
under the fifth ? If this has not been explained, then klt, and VPILS felt : the sun, i. e. the sovereign power,'
all the seals have not been removed ; for the matters'. was clouded over, not mines, as the Imperial power 1
that :elated to the king understanding DARE SMITENC/LS, I war under the former trumpet, but darkened by kb
who was to destroy wonderfully, cause tree toifirolpePia! mole from the pit, men being taught to respect and
hi: hand, mid to magnify himself against THWPRINCE Of • venerate ecclesiastics more than the higher powers,
PuNots, i. e the MESSIAH, were principal parts of the which Goo bath commanded all to obey, not except- I
contents of more than one of Davtat's seals--But to ing the highest church dignitaries upon earth. Nor ,
'lnsinuate that' anyone, or a part of any one of .the • was this all: the sovereignty of the SUN or Riosurtoi:s-
seals,lies not been opened; would be bfithlY impious. i NESs was invades!, and men Were taught,. in opposi- .
It is not vioughto say, hat very explicit descriptions tion to his testimony, that it is set a vain warship to
of this power ate • given in subsequent parts of this receive for doctrines the commandments of men t.
book of the -Revelations : - such an explanation must ; 77u air was also darkened. The osiirocritics say
be found somewhere between the begumineof the that air denotes good or evil, according to the state
Sixth chapter and the end of the eleventh ; for to in which it is seen." Clear and pure, it indicates good
these :two andlhe font' intermediate chipters is the • to all, hut when troubled and cloudy, hindrance and
opening of the seals confined; 'the subsequent parts of angry intention 1r Now here the stir is clouded and
'the . book being -Coinposed of the-things which Jonx darkened by the smoke of the pit—a most appropriate
description of the direfu; effects which flowed from
Was commanded to prophecy against many peoples, and
sealisvii, mid softies, mid kings.- '.the general ignorance and bigotry that prevailed ; for
as. the air which immediately surrounds the earth, in-
It ;two objection to this, that the Revelation is thus .
made' to repeat the same things, for it cannot be : terposed.asa medium between it and the sun, and
otherwise, when it is considered that the very things indispensably requisite for the maintenance of life, is
which Join: was to prophecy were communicated to coptauninated. and rendered unhealthy by dense smoke,
'him by making hint eta (i. e. study, weigh, ponder)ie u of a great furnace, diffused and suspended in it--
the very book from whichthe seals had been removed, so the frame of Golternment, the political medium be-
(Rev. x. 9.) ; in the coniprehending of which he was 1 tween Sovereigns and their people, by which the bles-
sings of good and equal laws ought to have been ad-
also assisted by new visions, and by instructions, !
ministered to all-ranks, and- the affections of the people
communicated by special Messengers sent from heaven
for that purpose. Nor can it be allcdged that the : secured to their rulers, was marred and spoiled by
rise of antichrist's kingdom makes part of the contents I this moral darkness. Subjects were deprived of the
of the third Trumpet : the general apostacy which, , benefits and protection which ever; government owes
according to PAUL (2 Thess. ii. 3) was to be the pre_ ! their, and for which alonegovernments are instituted
cursor of the Man of Sin, is indeed, as we have seen, ; (Rom. xiii. 1-- 10). Opinions were converted into
described under that trumpet • but, while this was i offences—and the most heinous vices were made'
carrying to maturity, hi that hi;tdered-the revelation AA virtues!
the son of perdition was still in the way ; nor was he re- . -Certain it is that the darkening of the sun and 'air,
moved till the fourth trumpet was sounded, and the! here mentioned, was accompanied with all the evils
light of the third part of the heaven politic was ex-1 to which I have alluded. Ecclesiastics-Obtained the
tinguished. Therefore none of the preceding unns_l power of sitting as judges ; and the-infamy icf execu-
, pets could embrace this event. But the hindrance i ting their sentences was left to the civitinagistrate l•
being taken out of the way, then thitiar which fell [The power of the Fatter was thus degraded; instead,-
of being levered as the first in - the state, it fell into
from heaven under the third trumpet, the head andl
leader of the antichristian hierarchy.asserted his claim i the-second place, and, asa necessary ic uence,-
to a kingdom which is of this world, and which stands i* sunk in the estimation of the people.. The evils that
in direct opposition to the kingdom of CniusT,.which I might be expected frier such.an,inverilisa of-the na-
il not from hexer,
.. i tural order of things followed. Ec * tics, taking
.
• He now became a little horn—a eirembstance which ! advantage of the inovneral.ignorance; thensselves ,
has not been generally noticed by commentators; few : masters both of Linpr,s and their subjects ; employing
of whom consider him as king, till he has obtained
' the power.of the former to persecuteand oppress all-
-4
some part of his territorialposiessions,afterwards called . who failed to yield them that reverence and
_worship-
the patrimony of Peter. But had they attended -to the de- • which they required from all ranks of men, and excite
scription given in DANIEL of this little horn, they would : ing the latter to rebel against the civil pow:Ts, when-
have seen that he has his rise before any of the three : ever they dared to oppose thoir.usurpations, or refu-
sed to bec6me their obedient andpassive instrunseats.
'horns. are cast down before him—that he is a horn'
in subjecting the people to their sway. .
prior to the period at which they-are plucked tip by -
.
the roots, -and their' possessions- given to him :*. that ! . It appears then that Dautzes little horn, the hiog of
is, he had already -placed himself in the temple vf Gon, i imptleat countenance, he prince that was yet to mate -: --
Os a god or ruler, as has : been• shewn in -treating of : Pu's's man of sin, the sou of iffrelition, wheue iniquitous
PAUL': prophecy of the Man Of Sin :
1 and it was in :pirit was at work even in the day: of the sytastkr. ; and
* -
consequence of the power be -already possessed, as a •Jolt:espial star, the angel of the abyss, the destroyer, the
ruler claiming a higher:•Jegree of veneration than t antichrist ;—all predicted the same_ arrogant, usurp
earthly potentates, that he Succeeded -
ing, unprincipled power. In the grand features by.
in prevailing on :'
which it is pointed out they all agree : Dasner. say it'
some of' the Kings -t -to gave their. strength ,to him, !
and dispossess three of the -Others of their territories,4" He shall do according to hi: man will, and magnify anti
and at length succeeded m exaltingand siagnityins ham.' exalt Isinuelf above every god," [every . potentate] ;
setf above them all.. • 'f I.es Hieroglyph. de Valerie*, p. 645. •
• The power which he claimed when be first became •tt * The darkettr. which, overspread. the East be the time el,
: MAnoodtr, was' not occasioned by hint; he made use of it for
his a horn, *as a spiritual power.; . so at least he asserted;
for, flat secret of iniqiiity lay in disguising itofrue 'Ob- .
1 §4 irked" ~
iit.ll, sbteili°ctuasknd. proper sense 'of the word, error
ject. He styli Claimed the ?power of openintaand • cannot be imputed to MA IIOMET. The word signifies rand's-
shutting, andhebecomes'possested of the tyas l_:,.:lies.fewor a right path, and, metaphorically, quittirT treat to foliate
a key, not the key. or keysef the kingdom oil-leaven; ties : but MAnomeT was a pagan, and cannot' thercfore, with
but the hey of the tit of the' abyss,, 1. e. hell:— • 1 tritb, be asserted to have quitted truth when he broached his new
religion. 'those who speak of him as if he had been a Chris..
" And he opened tlie pit-of the•abyti, -and there emu el Hair, if they wish to obtain credit, should produce their autho-•
• ":make out of the ]tit, a: •h r smoke. i great furnace I aid thy' for such an apocryphal assertion.
Me Jun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the I In :Valerian, p. 625.
• 1#1." • • t itotapo hole Hieroglyph. lib. P. cap. 16: -..
•
.In hieroglyphical language, smoke as oppo t Language cannot describe the miserable ignorance NON& "
Opposed tO for uses prevailed among the bliarl lead.re of the Wind: 1 have there-
. iitr. Fmita li . • •
as noticed the ciecnnterasee.tbia the link ho b.re avoided, entirely, a• detail which, however useful it might .
• enirgedliefore the eradication of the rahe hem. rijismrs m„..ii.mi . , could not be broushVitito a reasonable compass.—Let the
~,d,163.) But, haring followed the common p . ,77.; (Wowing-wire aia:epeibiten pc iActiAki,"lst-sone of his'
e....,„,„ing facts as the fulfilment of prophecy, and, from —"• biters to BONIFACI, the Apostle of the Gel as ins lens him that-
surnp,krvoctled his dates,he has contrived to render Ns geneasia' Christians-are fotbitteren. to oat, Jew. , tap4r, 'tort,, ha' ro • We. hr.'
system as ezetptionabie as any of those from whoa[ be dify;. another bitsays a You ask foe Xle lt rth lard ought to•''lle lefst Ike
s When pope Stephen 111. wrote to Pepin req,,,,,,mg aid ar: ' ! fore it•l4 oaten l. In this
.1.. Lornbirds, he told him, that if he did net speedily.coM-2•4,..-- arturver, my cpinion is," that it I
' •- ' the le
have :rem' -•‘ it-el terra:4 11,1
or r 18, not to be eaten Indere dried in the
yea
sibi psoietJ, aliemandliafrn a "Pa 'last /Pi" 4241441 be SZ'°l-11.11 .oe"reir Ild:Xi".e.6:ildejgatelddlriidid.i.7";t 11:1t.tt`rm. :i
Lit titi..6l:loloihedi"."B-1 it:w. Salk;,
a if
1"..;
I; c abOgintUaralled. . . i I Aat lummoxes, lib. ii.

TO THE EDlr9l? OF THE STAR.

ON. THE PROPHECIES.-NO. XXX.

•
PAUL Says, " lit oMouth and exahethhiarself above all '
Mat is called god [all that is known by the name of ci-
vil authority] or that is reverenced ;"—JoliN says,
that' he 44 darkens the sun," that is the sanzpoli-
tic, putting the lawful power of kings in . the shade,
that his own may be exalted.. They likewise agree•
in the time : DANIEL'S little horn comes up among the ten ,
horns of his fourth beast, i. e. rises at the same time;—
PAUL'S man of sin is revealed when the then ruling power
which hindered him is taken away, i. e. when the impe-
rial head is removed, by the establishment of the ten
kingdoms which succeeded it ;—and JouN's king of
the locusts makes his appearanCe in that character,
when the imperial sun is smitten. by the 'blast of the
fourth trumpet; for,then the fifth trumpet sounds,
and it is permitted to him to open the pit of the abyss :
—and, farther on, in thr Revelation, we are likewise
informed, that this 44 beast,' or kingdom, the eighth
head of the Renian empire, was to.rece;ve its power in
one hour, i. e. at the same time with the ten kingdom:.
I have been the more particular in pc in:big out the
rebellious spirit by which this usurper was to display
I's contempt for the higher powers, because this part
of his character has been too little regarded. by expo-
sitors ; but it may be proper here to remark, that
NIEL, PAUL, and Jolts, agree also in the character
they ascribe to him as the enemy of JEHOVAH. Da -
Nisi. says, 44 lie shall speak great words against TIIE
MOST HIGH, wear out the saints of the MOST'
HIGH," and worship the god Mahuzzim, i.e. proteF-
tors, dead-men, demons ;—PAtii. says, he sit in
Me temple of GOD, exhibiting himself as GOD" and
teach 44 Doctrines concerning Demons ;"—and Jokey
says, " he denieth that JESUS ir THE CHRIST,"
i. C. THE ANOINTED, that iS THE KING ; for such is the
import of the word MESSIAH in the Old Testament,
and Cultist' in the New, when accompanied with the
article " tlq."—With whatever apparent piety men
may, in words, confess that JEsus• is the Christ, if
they do not in every thing submit to his authority, if
they yield obedience in matters of faith, or in any
thing that regards their practice as Christians, to any
other authority than his, they are in works denying him ;
and this is that spirit of anttekrist which was at work
even in the Apostles' days—that spirit of error which
in its operation darkened the sun and the air, when the
fallen angel set loose his locusts against the earth --
But of these in the next section. • MIMES.

The LORD BISHOP of C.d.R.I.ISLE,,to Mr. CHING, Apatite,
rary, Cheap4de, London. • •
readily embrace the opportunity your letter
affords me, of adding-my testimony to that of the Lord Chief
Baron, in f•.votir of your CHING's PATHNT WORM IQ.
ZENGES. my eldest son having, a file months ago, deriVtd very
material bytielit from the use of it, He had been unwell for se,
veral weas, previous to his taking it; appeared pale and erna,
dated, was languid, sad complained frequently Of pains is
his head and side. The Lord Chief Baron, who had acei-
(kingly item him An this state, fortunately recommend, d to n. 6
the trial of your Lozenges and that no time might hv lost,
or any micalta might . occur, in obtaining the genuine 1111,;,;..
clue, sent me three doses of it. '1 he first of these occasioned
a visible amendment, and after the second dose every uni•!(
sant symptom disappeared, but I :judged it right:. to ';:yr
the third, as the two former had agreed so uncommonly
From that time my son has been in perfect health, and 1 certairly
attribute his cure wholly to the efficacy of the Worm 1.64, r,a;
1 have since recommended your Lozenges iu several ins
I wherein I bavv the satisfaction to assure you, they have
been of great 3ervice. I ought to add, that from the rot; 1..
the effect produced by them, in my son's case, I apprcli4;l,! .1,
I complairits to have arisen from an obstruction hetween

CITY BCSINESS.—Tuesday a Court of Aldei•men
was held at Guildhall, at which the price of the
quartern loaf was ordered to be advanced to 1 ed.—
The Emanuel Hospital Committee reported that the
Rev. Mr. SI4k:PIIEnD, deceased, received €2OO per ann.
in lieu of Tythes for the Brandsburton estate, in York-
shire, left by Lady DAenE, kir the support of that
Charity • and that Mr. BRADSHAW, his successor, has
demanded £S9.O for the same; which report was read,
and referred to the City Solicitor, to take legal advice.
After• some other routine business the Court ad-
journed. •
John Fosset, of South- Batley, Wilts• was lately
taken before a Magistrate, for profaning ;he Sabbath,
and was sentenced to slight punishment. In order to
be revenged, he committed acts of cruelty on several
cif the clergyman's cattle, and whilst destroying phea-
%ants in the parson's pheaiantry, on Sundaylast, his
gun burst, by which his head and ..am were so shat-
tered that he died the same day. •
The extraordinary success attending the StateLoi-
tery Offices of HORNSBY and Co.. in 1807. and "1808,
augurs they will be equally successful in 109: they
therefore hope to receive their usual distinction of fa...
your on the present occasion. Hortssat and co..
anxiously wish that the present. Lottery raise,
their Friends a great proportion. of tie #200,060
Prize Money, which will be determinea hn Ope Day.
October the 20th. No. 26, Coruhiil, aiid' Si. Marisa-
ret's Hi'l, Borough.