Star.
London, England, 1823-02-25 00:00:00

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The expectation generally excited, that the ques-
tions which the Marquis of LANSDOWN was to put last
night to Lord LIVERPOOL would elicit from him
some more specific information than the Public at
present possess relative to war or peace, has been dis.
appointed. The questions have been put, and the
result is, that there is more obscurity and doubt on
the matter than before. The news from France yes-
terday was all warlike. Lord LIVERPOOL, however,
" deprecated all further discussion till it was evident
that peace could not be preserved." Mr. Secretary
sNING stated, that " =relations were still pend-
ing," and be also deprecated discussion " while a hope
remains of averting hostilities." Thus the intelligence
from France, atathe worth .and conduct of his MA.
JESTY'S Ministers, lead to diametrically opposite
conclusions.

We observe that the hope entertained by Ministers,
so contrary to the intelligence from France, is stated
immediately after the arrival of a courier from Ma-
drid. The negOciaticitis therefore alluded to are pro-
bably going on there: • At present we have no less
than three Diplomatic Agents of some importance
in that capital; and it is of consequence to remark,
that the Gentleman last sent (Lord W 4. BENTINCK)
is a particular friend of Mr. CANNING, and a stre-
nuous supporter of the principles of anti-interference.
We cannot suppose, therefore, that the object of the
negotiations pending at Madrid is to persuade the
Spaniards to sacrifice, for the sake of peace, one iota
of their independence.

This, as Lord ELLENBOROUGH stated last night in
the house of Lords, would be as objectionable con.
duct on our part, as the interference of the Allied
Powers. The wish of Ministers to preserve peace hai
always been evident and avow ed ; and they have never
given the Public reason to suppose that they should be
unable to.succeed. Although France and Spain are the
parties to the contest, the war is, in troth, urged on
principally by Russia. The Cossack Chief desires to
see the flames of war kindled in the West to light
him to triumph and conquest in the East. The
actual struggle is between the influence and power of
Russia and of England. We fear the event will chew
that England does not possess that commanding in-
fluence in Europe which, from her position and her
wealth, she ought to possess. For this we are in-
debted to the policy pursued at, and since the Con-
gress of Vienna by our late Minister for Foreign'.
Affairs. His measures gave consistency and strength
to that Power, whose influence now overshadows our
own, and have placed his successor in a situation
which. is more like the bed of Procrustes than a bed
of roses.

Mr. BROUGHAM seemed to consider the declara-
tion of Mr. CANNING as so satisfactory, that in
postponing, in the name of Lord ALTHORPE, the
Motion relative to the Foreign Enlistment Bill, he
postponed it " generally for the present."
Among other important proceedings in the House
of Commons, last night, Mr. BROWNLOW moved for,
some papers connected with the late outrage and trial
at Dublin; and, at the same time, gave notice that
he should bring forward further proceedings on the
subject before Mr. PLUNWIITT'S motion relative to
the Catholics came before the House.
It. is extremely curious to hear Members of Parlia-
ment, Irish Members of course, talk of this outrage
and these proceedings, as. the Game of heated party
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spirit and violent disteosiods, ,which can only be al-
layed by enquiring into the outrage and the trial
Ireland would indeed be fortunate if such an inquiry
could still the tumults of faction. But the miseries
of that unhappy country, arising from ages of mis-
government, cannot be cured by the partial relief of
one of the most unimportant symptoms of her, we
fear, incurable diseases.

THE PROSPECTS OF EUROPE.

CieNTINORD IRONS THE STAR OF WEDNESDAY.

We proceed now to inquire—and we would do it
with due reverence,—whether any, or what, informa-
tion is afforded by the Holpfscriptures respecting an
alliance of a nature of which history furnishes no
example—Sovereigns leagued against their own people.
We were the more induced to believe that in this
quarter our search would nut prbve fruitless, from
the circumstance of the men who are engaged in the
wicked conspiracy having yet the impudence to Pro-
fane the name of Holiness, by attaching it to their
impious league. As "the Man of Sid'—‘, the Son of
Perdition"—" Antichrist"—is depicted in such lively
colours in the Scriptures, it appeared to us not un-
reasonable to believe, that probably something
equally explicit might be found in the Sacred Volume
respecting a set of men every way worthy to be consi-
dered as his coadjutors—if we may judge from the
work in which they are engaged, and from the public
documents by which they have made their purposes
(as far as suited themselves) known to mankind.

Our Readers must be 'aware that, in the limits to
which we are confined, our re. ma.rks must necessarily
be brief, on a subject which would require volumes
for its full discussion. We shall, however, endeavour
to be perspiCuous; and we doubt not that the picture,
of which we can offer only a faint outline, will be
filled up, in most of its details, by many of our Readers.,
In the IGth chapter of the heveiatious, we have a
prophetic history of the pouring out of seven vials' of
wrath apol the earth—that is, as appears from the
context, upon the men of the world who are found in
any way countenancing or upholding Antichrist.
.These vials are considered by many divines and com-
mentators as forming the contents of the last of seren
trumpets, of which much is s tid in the Sth and 9th
chapters of the •Revelations ; bat by other expositors
they are considered as having reference to the same
judgments as the seven trumpets, and to synchronize
with diem throughout the whole of their different
periods, but with the addition of certain particulars
not detailed under the trumpets. The latter we con-
sider as the more correct opinion of the two. We do
not hold, indeed, that each vial, throughout, an-
swers precisely, in commencement 'and termination,
to each trumpet ; but we consider them, generally, as
nearly coincident—and some of them as entirely so.
We have no intention, however, to nmice each of
them in our columns: it will be quite sufficient that
we attend to such of them as have reference, directly
or indirectly, to the period that concerns our inquiry.
Taking this view of the trumpets and vials, the
four Angel.; which had been bound at the great river
Euphrates, and which, by the sixth trumpet, were
emu:aided to be lct loose with their armies (in chap. ix.
13), in order to slay the third part of men—that is, to
slay men belonging to what is called the third part;
viz. Europe—must be considered as indicating the
same personages, or leaders, that are spoken of in
ch. xvi. 12, when by the sixth vial poured out upon the
great river Euphrates, the water thereof was dried ,
that the way of the Kings of the East might be prepared;
that is, that the obstacles which had hitherto kept
these Angels—these Kings—in the East, and pre-
vented them from invading and punishing the men
of Europe, for their idolatries, might be removed.

These obstacles were cothpletely removed by the
capture of Constantinople, in the year 1453, by the '
'finks, who thenceforward became a grievous scourge
to the people of Europe—and particularly to such
parts of it as had the misfortune to fall under their
yoke; witness the present sufferings of the Greeks.—
On this topic, however, we must not dwell at pre-
sent: our only object in referring to the Euphratenn
horsemen, or Eastern Kings, being, that we might
thereby be enabled to ascertain a period allotted to
certain occurrences, of which we are about to take
notice.—Observe, then,—this scourge was brought
upon Europe to. punish the people for their Antichrip
tian practices, and, consequently, was inflicted during
die flux of the 1260 years reign of Antichrist, and of
the ten Kings (or Kingdoms) that gave their power
and strength to the beast—that is, employed their au-
thorit_y in establishing and maintaining the dominion
of Antichrist in their respective jurisdictions. Now
this plague of the Turkish Power having gained a.
footing in Europe by the capture of Constantinople
in 1453, as almdy noticed, we have next to ascer-
tain what farther punishments were brought on the
men of Europe and their rulers; for, notwithstanding
their having been visited with tbis and.withprecedihg
inflictions, we learn from the ApoCalypse, that " the
rest of the men, which were not killed by these plagues,
yet repented not of the tvorks of their hands, that they
should not worship &mons, and idols of gad and sil-
ver, and brass, and stone, and of Waedr wither Ye'.
pented they of their murders," &a. Now-if the- pro-
phetic history be examined, from
,the appearance of
the Turkish power in Europe till the seirendt Angel
sounds his trumpet, and CHRIST shall enter on bis
eternal reign (Rev. xi. 15). certain events will be
found very briefly, but plainly, declared (in chap. xi),
which appear to us to have bad their accomplishment

in the Ftinch Revoletion—namely, a IDdli against the
lure witnesses of MoD [the Old and the New Testament,
as we believe], which hid power to prophesy is sack-
cloth only, during the 1260 years reign of Antichrist;.
their testimony being despised and rejected by the
adherents of Antichrist; and, which were at last put
to death—entirely silenced, in a certain streetEnance:
of the great (ity [;Europe], spiritually called Sodo►u
and Egypt ; but the rest of Europe, though it saw
the witnessed thus dead for three days and a half
Cthat is three years and a half], would not stjer then(
to be buried, notwithstanding that many men rejoiced
at the contempt that had been thrown on the Scrip.
tures in France, because of the handle it afforded
them to cry out against every kind of reform of Go-
vetnment in other countries, and for receiving or
paying subsidies for carrying on the war against
France.—But we must be brief:—We have been led
to refer all this to the French Revolution, principally
by what is detailed in the ISth verse of the 11th
chapter," In the same hour [while this was trans-
acted respecting the Bible] there was a great earth-
quake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the
earthquake were stain of men seven thousand;"—but,
in the Greek—" seven thousand names [or titles] of
men."—The city of which a tenth part is said to fall
is the same mentioned before—namely, Europe,
viewed as one community uphokling Antichrist;—
not upholding the Pope merely, but corrupt reli-
gious establishMents'derived from Rome. From this
corrupt communion France separated herself. This
tenth part of the city. fell away from her adherence to
such a corrupt system,'. and at length established the
rights ef e,nscience. ' It iN no °answer to this,. to
tell us of the reign of infidelity during the Revo-
lution. Infidelity was as prevalent before, and is tit
this moment as ptevalent in France, as it ever was
dining the Revolution ! Fiance and Eutoi:e owes
the infidelity that pervades them, not to the Revolu-
tion, but td Antichrist—to their owri Govet nments
lending their power and strength to uphold exclusive
persecuting systems of religion, as pasts and portions
of their State machines. Nor will the correctness of
the application be at all affected by the fact that,
titles have since been restored in France, and even the
Roman Catholic religion been re-established. The
event is sufficiently marked by the mention of these
occurrences, which is probably what was chiefly in-
tended .by the description, that the attention of man-
kind. Might be turned to this wonderful revolution,
and, by marking its progress, be led to see, prospec-
tively, how it is to fare with all the Antichristian
Governments of Europe.—They will all be levelled in
the dust by the insulted, robbed, abused, and enraged
people. They may form leagues, and prepare the
means of war ; but as a Mill-stone cast into the sea
shall great Babylon be thrown down—not peaceably
and quietly, but—" tvith violence" (Rev. xviii. 21),
and shall be found no more at.ait--nOt merely one or
two streets [kingdoms]. but the entire cityihall be"
subverted, or—however much some men may dis-
like the term—" Revolutionized," so effectually that
nothing whatever shall i emain of the villainies' which
their rulers are now practising :against mankind,
under the abused and undefined name of Legitimacy, ,
which they are continually dinning in their ears.
These remarks must suffice at present on the lead.
ing and most prominent events predicted in the 11th
chapter of the Revelations, as occurring subseqeent,
to the letting loose of the four Angels and their ar-
rnies against Europe. Another most remarkable oc,
curtence, however, is predicted in the' 16th chapter,
as being also subsequent to the appearance of the
Kings of the East—namely, „Three unclean spirits,
like frogs,going forth from the =nth of the dragon, and,
the n:ouilt of the beast, and the tnouth of the false pro-
phet, to gather the Kings of the-earth to the battle of
the great day of GOD ALarrafirr.—ln our next, or as
soon as we can find room, .we shall bring this most
important subject before our Readers.

By the Flanders Mail arrived this morning we
have received German and other Papers. The fol-
lowing ate extracts :

BERLIN, FP,BRUART

It is stated that Count Lamm will succeed M. de
Voss, in the fanctions of Minister of State. His offi-
cial nomination is expected to nice place immedi-
ately, as well as some other changes.

BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY
The Journal of the Province of Liege says, that in
the Secret Sittings of the Second Chamber of the
'Stator-General it has been decided, that every person
has a right to kill game on the land of which he is
the proprietor or tenant ; and that the existing tithes
shall be redeemable.
VISNNA, Fu.lo.—Metalliques, 77 5 6—Bank Shares, 882.

A Jamaica Mail arrived this morning in 33 days.
FROM THE JAMAICA ROYAL GAZETTE OF JAL 11.

We learn by the Hope, that Santa Martha was
taken possession of by the Royalists on the Sd inst.
after a spirited resistance: property of every kind was
confiscated, uncl every messel got away that could.
JANUARY 18:—We understand that, on the Roy-
alists taking possession of Sinta Martha, and on
Captain Purcell, of Majesty's. ship Falmouth, de-
manding an assurance 'from M. Xefe, Political Go-
vernor,..that British merchants and their property
should be respettedi the following reply was received :

" Banta Martha, January 9.
".In reply to your letter of yesterday, which I have received,
I feel pleasure in Informing you, that this go►ernment will
preserve the most perfect harmony with the British nation and
all its subjects, agreeably to the evgigements altered into by both
countries (Spain and England), from the tenor of which I shall
not deviate. • (Signed) " VINCENTE PUSAL3.4