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Thedyry retired for some time, and then found a verdict for
the Croin.

COURT OP COMMON PLEAS.—luxe 47.
" Strange—:hat such difference should be
Tweedle-tintand 'Cweediedee."
•
ASHLEY V. toRUDIMON'D, EXECUTRIX OP BOTHWIILL.
This.ivasup action brought for the 'stint .f £5OO ariei upwartil,
against the Executrix of the late Colonel Both Well, by Messrs.
Christopher and Charles Ashley. '
The evidence was,ih substance, that the Ashley., wen Imes*
hi the Magical world, had for the last seven years been ill the .
habit df attending decasfonalfy u'pfin Colonel Bothwelf,4*lto thlie
-himself a proficient in music, and performing alongWittaihim. It
was proved that they .went to Camerbiiry and to i lasting., where
they continued some time, living in the Colonel's hiniee, and they •
were upon a very familiar finning with him. They and the Co-
lonel sometimes performed together for some: heirs in the tittorn.
ihgs of Thursday and gun 'ay, wild' he lived in ttriv-n, in 'Ater
made-street—that if they happened to 'be pawing While theae. t
lonel was playing they stepped in without being asked. Neallato
was pretended to have been made hi the Colonel's .111etilme. ft
even appeared from the evidence of Captain l'omithis,;tbeeTle•
lenel Bothwell had given £5O to Mr.ChristopheeAsttleyt forgets, I
purpose, for which it was afterwards lout:dude to be Wanted pawl
upon Mr. Ashley offering it back again', that the Colonel trasimed
him to keep it by way of remuneration, and that Mr. Asideir
SirJAMMESMansrtetD,underall the el ectimseanees, dld not tee
bow tVe demand could 1* supported,' for if ' Messrs. Ashley hod
attended the Colonel not as private friends, but as prefesevesal
men, it was unacconntable Blinn they should never have made *•
demand hi his life-cline:Verdict for the 'Defendant.
BATEs V. BETTLEsToN.

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The Plaintiff is an auctioneer aMd house agent, residing In
Welbeck-stroit Cavendish-square; the Defendant a Gentlemen
of fortune; and. the action was for it stun of L'63. ss. theamount
of commission upon the sale of a house belonging to the Defendant
it Walton upon Thames;:satid" for A'so7s.
_ .

The defendant had paid s-eto into Court.
• The cause was shortly this. The defendant had entered upon
the plaintiff's registry books' a description of his house, and de-
sired that pessens should be referred to the,prensiscs4—
hi consequence of the publicity given to this deserippon ,ire the
plaintiff's catalogue, a Mr. Turner appiisd and was referred ;aid
after some negoeiation, iii whlsh however . the plaintiff 'did not
'appear to Use any personal interference,-faeiher than hy.referting:
to the:premises, Mr. Turner purchased them for .4075.14.0,n5.,
proved, du the part of the plaintiff; that a.card of the.ustiii.cem-
mission fees was shown to the defendant on 'his'fu'st
and that be made noolifectien.
On the'patt of the defendant, much strews up the
excessive charge made by the plaintiff, who, it was otptendedi.
would have been amply remunerated by the 410 pinto Quirt.
A witiims for the defendanst also swore he was preient at pipit
of the interviews %vita the plaitiiiff; anerhat Mitard of:cotn-
oon fees was shout to the fanner ; but thatit sttneulllfun-:
acrstood the plaintiff was to interfernina-fuether lhaelt~ja
refer applicants to the defendant, who was to take the trouble, pf,
hvioeustion.--:/he Jury found, for the .plaintifft damages e*,

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The day was wholly occupied In titititittAltgfilaties-6f asiellik;
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dalf!
In driving his father's hackney: coca, Pi *jog t00.,14
In the street, who was struck by one 0 ;he ?Mid
bruised. The defendant was found Guilty; ;di •
short imprisonment. • • . •-.-. ._. 1, ; !:. Al. u ...,:_
Jon tortv also • Fitaantai.—A , great avaalberait Sualotpiutik-
Farrien, who . had beta indicted AttettiOilgtilit Witeiligifts:Rad;
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thereby obstructing and otherwise injuring t!ap kuolci!--at
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TO IHE EDFIVI? OITHE SL 4R.

ON THE PROPHECIES.-NO. XXVII.

FOURTH TRUMPET (CONCLUDED.)
After the retreat of ALARIC from Rome, as has
:already been noticed, HONORIUS and the infatuated
Romans thought no more of the Treaty, which they
had concluded with him. OLYNIPIus the minister was
so much occupied with the ruin and destruction of all.
whom he hated or suspected, that business of real
moment was neglected. I was at last ruined in his
turn by an intrigue of eunuchs, and was succeeded by
JOVIUS4 a man equally weak and worthless, who re-
jected some equitable proposals made by ALAme ;
in consequence of which that conqueror egain made
his appearance at the gates of Rome, and compelled
the itemans to receive Arr Ares the prefect of the
city as emperor in the room. of HoNoeit'S. ATTALUS
however committed so many blunders that AtAmc
goon deposed him and again began to negociate with
110Nou; us. SAFUs, a Gothic captaia in the army of
1!;e latter, but an enemy of ALantc, broke off the
•negr-,ciation, by attacking and killing a great number
-of the Goths while the conferences were open. ALA-
mc in a rage laid siege to Rome (An. 410) for the
third time, took the eity and ge:ve it !I/7 :o bepillagtd.
Had ALA Ric wished it, lie might certainly have fol-
lowed up his victory, by taking Ravenna, and rei,,e'ned
in le-!y, but it is thought he wished rather to establish
himself in Ali ica, after pillaging Sicily. His army
had partly embarked. when his fleet was destroyed in
his sight by a dreadful stern). lie died at Casentia
before he had time to repair this disaster, leaving
his conquests to ATALLICS, his brother-in-law and a
worthy successor.
ATAULFUs wished to obtain- a settlement in the em-
pire and to marry PLAcima the sister of HONORIUsI
who had been the captive of ALARIC. He concluded
a treaty with the Emperor, was deceived, according
to custom, and in revenge laid waste the country of
Gaul, took Narbonne and Toulouse,and having gained
the affections of the Princess married her. A JaileMtni
'71).11 them gratited h:m in Spain, in Nvhich he was scarcely
confirmed, when he was murdered by one of his equer-
ries.

About the same time that the Goths obtained this
settlement, HONORIUS was obliged to yield to the Bur.
:sandiata a ft art of their unique.* in Gad.
During these revolutions in 'Europe, Africa was
distracted with violent dissentions. • The Emperor
,published new edicts against the Donatists, deClaring
whoever attempted to change the faith guilty of a ca-
piNl offence. In the East, ARCADIUS was also occu-
• pied in ecclesiastical squabbles. His wife, whq,ruled
him, died in 404, and himself in 406, leaving the em-
pire to his son Tireotiostus the Younger, then seven
years of age.
ATM:LK:S was succeeded by SIGERIC, who hav-
ing murdered the children of.the former, was put to
. death by his subjects, after reigning seven days. The
• Visigoths elected WALLIA in his stead,who concladed
a treaty with the Romans, and in their cause defeated
- the Vandals and Alans, and as a recompense received
in exchange for his former possessicns Aquitain Se-
cunda and Noven Pepulania [Poitou, Saintonge,
Perigard, Bordelois, Agenois, Angoumeis, and Gas-
cany] besides the city of Toulouse, which he made
his capital. (To his new 'possessions he gave the
name of Gothia, and the Goths held it 88 years, till
the invasion of Ccovis).
About.the year 410 the Franks, acceding to some
historians, settled ja the country situated between
Idaestricht and the confluence of the Meese and the
Waal. Others ascribe the foundation of the French
Monarchy to CLODION, in W.—The Franks, who
from the time of GORDIAN had made frequent incur-
sions into Gaul, were a collection of several confed
rate German tribes between the Rhine, the Maine,
and .the Weser, and had united in defence of their
liberty against the Romans.
CaNSTANTIVS, the only General is the army of }ION°.
RIUS 2,40 war not thorns from among the barbarians, mar-
ried PLACIDIA, the widow of ATM:LK:B' and sister of
the Emperor, in 421, and en him and hii wife the
Imperial Dignity was conferred by Hosoaws, who
bad no child. CONSTANTIUS died the same year, and
HoNoeres in 423.

Turonoszes, who had not acknowledged the title
of CO:,sTANTIUS and PLACIDIA, wishes{ to reunite the
two empires in his own person. But Joint, Secretary
ti State to HoNORWS, having assumed the purple,
and liberated the slaves, in order to firm them into an
army, and having solicited the assistance of the Huns,
sonostus altered his plan, and sent an army to the
'.,•est. with VALENTiNIAN, the son of CONSTANTTUS.
if,clN was taken and beheaded, and VALYNTINIAN
ill. was proclaimed Emperor. Rivalship between
two of his generals, Arms and BoNtrAcE, caused
each 6f theln to rebel in his turn—First BONJFAce,
who invited the Vandals out of Spain into Africa,
under their King GENESEitic, where they laid waste.
the country with fire and sword. The state, unable
to repel the invaders, restored BoNtrAmt to fa-
vour, who then endeavoured, but in vain, to expel
them. /writs, aft aid of his rival's power, whO en-
joyed the favour of PLACIWA, the Mother of the Ens-
peror, raised the standard of revolt. In a battle
which followed between these Gtnerals, BONIVACE
received a mortal wound, though his army defeated
t!cit of AETICS, who then took the road to Pannonia,
implore the assistance of the Puns. The Court,
t:ck with a panic, sent after him, and restored him
t,) dignities—such is the reward of revolt in a tot-
!ag state!

Gaul, exposed a prey to avaricious magistrates, as
well as to the ravages of the barbarians, had its mise-
ries aggravated by an insurrection of the peasants„
who in a body ravaged the country with the fury of
savages. The Visigoths broke the treaty concluded with
the Romans, and renewed the war.--In 438, Clodius,
Ring of the Franks, seized upon Cambray; Tournay,
and Amiens ; which were then ceded to him, the Romans
ben unable to expel him. Treves was a 4th time
plundered by the Franks, who also took Cologne.—
GLNESKRIC retained possession of the best part of
Africa. The Buevi subdued Beetica, and those coun-
tries which the Vandals had abandoned when they
crossed into Africa. In one word, nothing was to be
seen any where but massacres, revolutions, and dis-
indrnbersnents of the Empire.
• In the East, Theodosius was occupied with new
theological quarrels. Nestorius, Bishop of COnstan-
• tippple, taught that Mary was not the mother g' Pon,
the mother of Gunn The Church lapin 40kar-
.

mined otherwise he was of course a 'heretic. In 435
the Emperor ordered all the books of the Nestorians
to be burnt ; prohibited, under pain of confiscation of
goods, the granting any place of worship to these he-
retics ; and in cases of obstinacy decreed the punish-
ment of death. All the clergy who held this hetero-
dox opinion were driven from their churches; and the
laity were excommunicated ; and as a farther evi-
dence of the piety of THEODOSIUS a law was passed,
by which the possessions of Ecclesiastics and Monks,
who died without heirs, should go to the churches and
Monasteries [the latter I shall have occasion to notice
hereafter.] Those who could pass such laws could
be little removed from idiotcy. •
The barbarians, in the mean time (An. 441) con-
tinued to gain ground. Carthage was taken by Ge-
neseric, who created a large wavy and carried terror
and desolation into Sicily. THEODOSIUS, or rather the
eunuch CIIHYSAPHUS, exhausted the public resources,
in fitting out 1100 sail of ships to attack the Vandal,
who contrived to bring on a tedious negociation, in
the course of which the Romanarmy being weakened,
the Hues attacked the Empire ; in consequence of
which Geneseric obtained his own terms, and was
acknowledged Sovereign of Africa —the barbarians in
the interim pouring into the Empire on all sides.
Ae ri LA, whose genius equalled his ambition, had
,formed boundless plans of conquest, and subjected to
his power all the countries from the Baltic on the one
hand, to the eastern ocean on the other. He had re-
ceived Ambassadors from China ; hemmed in the
Roman empire, and threatened its annihilation.—
Theodosius conferred on him the title of General of
the Romans, which he deigned to accept, but with the
reservation of his jight to nuke war upon them if
they did not act as he might wish ! He soon after ex-
ercised this reserved right. In 41.7, Thrace, Dacia,
and Mcecia suffered fresh ravages from the Huns :
seventy cities were stormed by them and two armies
sent to oppose them were defeated.—Peace was then
bought by the Romans at the price of 6000 lbs. weight
of gold and an annual tribute of 2000 lbs. The
money could not be collected without the most griev-
ous oppression and violence—wealthy families were
reduced to indigence, and many perlons destroyed
themselves in despair. The Ambassadors of the
Huns were loaded with presents ; and if ArrrLA
wished to enrich any of his officers, he needed only to
send them to Constantinople! Theodosius, however,
had the consoling approbation of churchmen, and per-
suaded himself, that in attending td their senseless lo-
gomachies, he was more profitably employed than in
minding worldly concerns,—A council of 130 bishops
assembled at Antioch, condemned the doctrine of Invs
natures in one person, and pronounced sonic wholesome
anathemas, depositions and banishments against the
Eutyches—a kind of amusement in•which the Eastern
Emperors were much occupied from this time till the
destruction of the Greek empire, and which produced
internal quarrels as fatal as the arms of the barbarians.

Theodosius died in 450, on his return from a pious
pilgrimage. His sister Pulcheria assumed the reins
of government, and gave her hand to Martian.
In the west the Empire was daily growing more
feeble. Geneseric having quarrelled with the King
of the Visigoths, Theodoric, the more effectually to
harass him, invited Attila to penetrate into Gaul.—
Honoria, the daughter' of the Empress Placidia, mo-
ther of Valentinian, who had taken the veil, carried
on a secret correspondence with the King of the Huns,
and had promised to give him. her hand. Attila sent
in consequence to demand the Princess in marriage,
and with her the hay of the Inspire. By negociating 1
with the Romans and Goths at the same time, Attila '
concealed the resolution Ne had formed to 'destroy
both, till he took the field (An 451) at the head of
an army of 500,000 men, composed of various .na-
tions, led by their Kings, marched aloft b•• the Danube, '
and patted the Rhinft It is impossible to describe
the havoc and devastation which he spread through-
out Gaul, between the Rhine, the Seine, the Mume,
and the Moselle. These countries wereentirely ruined,
the towns burnt, and the fields covered with the slain.
—Aetius, the Roman General, succeeded in opening
'the eyes of Theodoric, the King of the Visigoths,to
the danger that threatened him : he joined the Ro-
mans, as did also the Franks, the Burgundians, Ar-
moricz, and other nations which had obtained settle-
ments in the Empile. The most bloody battle that.
was vier fought followed : Attila was worsted, and
obliged to retire into Pannonia—but before the Ro-
mans had time to breathe, he returned (An. 452)
with a fresh army, poured into Italy, and spread an
universal alarm. At last Valentinian sent Pope Leo
'to Attila [observe the influence of this churchman]
to beg for
.peace. A truce was corttluded, the Ro-
mans agreeing to pay a,tribute, and the eonquerhr
withdrew. lie died in the year following, and his
too extended dominiOn soon fell in pieces by diisen-
dons among his ions, but the enfeebled empire never I
recovered from the shock he had given it. Several
settlements out of the divided territories of Attila
were formed in Illyria, Mcesia' Dada, the Lesser
Scythia (at the mouths of the Danube), and were re.
ceived as allies by that faqire which they were tear-
ing in pieces ; but the Ostrostiths, subjects of Attila,
were the principal gainers by this revolution. MAR.
VAN granted them all Pannonia, from Upper Maria to
Norieum, and from Dalmatia to the 2:1 tr n u e— a n d they
afterwards obtained possession of all Italy.
Those internal dissentions, originating in, and fos-
tered by, the vices of the Court, which had primarily
brought on the evils of which I have attempted to
give a faint outline, and which had now well nigh
extinguished the Roman power throu4hont the pro-
vinces, were still continued. Valentinian debauched
the wife of Maximus, a man of rank and power ; in
revenge for which the latter contrived that Aetius,
.the only person who could protect the Emperor, should
,be suspected of traiterous intentions ; Valentinian
killed this general with his ownjiand, and was soon
after assassinated by the artificibf Maximus (arm-
-4,55) who then mounted the throne. He compelled
Valentinian's Widow to marry him : In revenge she
invited Geneserie to attack Rome ; the Vandals
obeyed the summons, and speedily .embarked ; Maxi-
mus was assassinated in attempting to fly ; Genese-
rie arrived, and Rome was given up to be pillaged, after
which he returned to Africa with his booty. Avitus
a•sl
princeint- the Suevi,
e thepurple: Count Recimer, the son of a
excited a sedition against him,
took him prisoner, and, to disqualify him from reigning,
caused ,hiln to be consecrated a bishop ! He died
7uun_, alter and
throne remained vacant for some
"mss--What le change !
Anita
.fr.no,! armed Majorianus to be elected em-

pe.rer, hoping to govern under his samt, but finding'
hi mseif disappointed, formecta plot against him (ann.
461) and destroyed him. Ho then set up in his room
sue Severns, but who this phantom was is not known.
He disappeared—but by what means is equally a
secret, and Reamer governed the state, with abso-
lute authority, during a year and a half. Anthe-
mius was now (ann. 467) appointed emperor.—
Recimer married one of his daughters, but being
counteracted by him in some of his projects,' he re-
volted, beat the troops that opposed him, took the city
of Rome, (ann. 472,) gave it up to be pillaged by his sol-
diers, and caused .elntheniius to be put to death.
In the prophetic account; as will be shewn here-
after, this sacking of Rome put an end to the wes-
tern empire. It is true that the imperial head had a
nominal, but only a nominal existence, till the fourth
year after, but the power was gone, the light of the Im-
perial sun was set. •
OLYBIUS, the next phantom appointed by RECIM
(who died shortly after), reigned only a few months.
He was succeeded by GLYCERIUS, known only by
name, who was dethroned by NEPOS, an officer of the
Eastern Emperor, in 474. In the following year
NEPOS was drives from the throne by the patrician
ORESTES, who appointed his own son RostoLus, sur-
named Auousrus, but commonly, in colitempt, called
Auousrews. At this period all that remained of
the mighty empire of the west was confined to Italy,
Dalmatia, and a small part of Gaul, of which the
nominal head had so slight a hold, that it only re-
quired the attempt to be made to dispossess him en-
tirely. In 476, the barbarians who served in the Ro-
man armies with the name of allies, demanded one-
third of the lands as a recompence-for their services,
and, being refused by OftzsTEs, chose ODOACER,
private soldier, for their leader. He attacked Pavia,
where ORESTES .had shut himself up, took the place,
put the patrician to death, and then marched to Ra-
venna, where, finding that Augustulus had voluntari.
rily quitted the purple, he gave him his life, lint con-
fined him. He then subdued all Italy, of which he
stiled himself Kixc !—Such were the events by which
the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part
of the ,noon and the third part of the stars; so that they
ceased to diffuse their light throughout the heaven
politic of the western empire, called in this book
" the third part." 13113LICLS.

Some time ago we mentioned, that in the Report of the Com"
rnissioners of Military Inquiry it was stated that Colonel Arm-
strong's charge for his Levy was - - X 37,31 t)
'That the amoutv allowed wu - I 9,Y03
The amount disillowed - - 17, ;83
And the amount , issued - - ;V: "03
.. .-. .. _ _ _ _

" These accounts," says the Report, " are finally examinvd,
and a balance against Lieutenant-Colonel Arnistroneof ./27500 is
due to the public." •

Colonel Armstrong has t omplalned that this statement is incor-
rect. It is not ours but that of the Commis,ioner., who, if it is
erroneous, are the proper Gentlemen to corrr:•t it. AVe
•however, subjoin Colonel Armstrong's explanation of the matter :
" The entire sum issued to my agent was no more than 26,7901.
and you will be pleased to observe, that of this sum 294451. were
only received by me, 4,2441. having been paid by him to the dis-
trict paymasters, in Irelard and England for subsistence, &c. to
the men of my corps, after City had been approved of and taken
off my hands by the inspecting Generals of the recruiting service.
Thus it appears clear and inoontrovertible, that in place of
having actually been received by me, 22,4431. only came into my
hands, which does not amount to 20 7ttineas a run for my levy.
I had the aid of no more than three assisting officers, an adjutant,
and quarter-master, to raise a corps of 1000 men ; the non-com-
missioned officers (IS excepted, who were discharged according to
the terms of my letter of service) and drummers forming no part
of what is termed the recruiting machinery, as they all wens into
his Majesty's service.
" With regard to a balance being due by me to the public, I
must take the liberty of observing, that the terms of my letter of
service never having been fulfilled, the accounts of,zny corps could
not be finally settled, and therefore no sptkific balance can at pro.
sent be ascertained.

" The Gentlemen of the Committee, to whom these accounts
were referred, did not possess sufficient authority to decide be-
tween the public and the individual; and•several questions of great
consequence involving my own rank, and pay and subsistence to
officers and non-commissioned officers, &c. though clearly pro-
vided for by the letter of service, ore still undetermined. When
these questions aro decided, as they must ultimately be, id a
manner consonant with the express sti-oulation of that itktrunieut,
a considerable balance must exist in my favour.
" With respect to the malversatiogs which may have taken
place in foreign or Irish kvies, I have nothing to observe. Con-
scious of the rectitude of my own conduct, I feel perfectly at ease
—but, anxious that my hunourand character as a soldier should
not be confounded with persons with whom I had no common
feeling or interest, t beg leave to introduce the following cer,ifi-
cate, which was given to me by the Inspectors-General of the Re.
crafting Service, atter the termination of my recruiting duty :
" V.raterlord, 22d Feb. ISCO.
" We certify that the books of Major Armstrong's levy of re-
cruits for general service have been folly examined, and they have
been found perfectly correct ; and Major Armstrong's conduct on
that service has been proper and becoming an Of and a Gen-
tleraan. " HENRY JOHNSON, I. G.R.
" WM. FAWCETI, I. Cr. R."

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