The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-03 00:00:00

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owing most curious ptophecy was written I On the 17th Ma.y, the'infiabitants of Chittagong, I
M the year 540, by Czsar, Bishop of Arles, who in the Eaat Indies, were alarmed by an unwelcome
. n 549. it was printed in the year 1525:and visitor, whose movements we regret to state, were
liiiiemork is deposited in the Royal Library of Paris. , accompanied with melancholy effects. • This . was a
''{There will be found in this book, in quarto, at i tigress, discovered first amongst soma cattle which
• *Chapter ".Of the Kingdom of France and- of , were grazing at the mouth of the river. As soon as i
fAe Chiirch," at pp. 55,- 56, 57, and 58, the Latin ' she was observed,the natives in the vicinity assembled
prophecy, of, which OA following is 'a literal trans+ I with all speed, and advanced against her in defence'
Wien : of their cattle. Irritated by this attempt to deprive
"` Before the world shall arrive at the year 1810, , her of her prey, she sprung furiously on the person
us. somewhere thereabouts, the Mother Church will
i that approached nearest to her and wounded him se-
Ihe much afflicted by the spoliation of her churches, 7 verulY* The immediate attack, however, of the crowd
and by the devastation and irruption of a noble city.' was successful in•rescuing the mau from her grasp,
The kingdom and the church of France will be the • although not,until he had been lacerated so dread- ;
sport of all the world. The church will be de- I fully that little hopes are entertained of his recovery'
Spoiled of ail its temporal goods; and all its mem- ) On this the tigress finding herself hemmed in on all
hers, however powerful they may be, will con- I sides, and without any way of avoiding the multitude i
shier themcelves fortunate in remaining in their except by the river, immediately took to the water':
places, if life be preserved to them. • Then, all the and swam with the flood-tide about five miles, close- ,
churches -will be defiled and profaned ; women, con- ly pursued by the natives in their boats, until she ,
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secreted to the Lord, will fly from their monasteries ; ,
landed under a tree in Mr. M Rae's dock-yard.—
the malice of mankind will be directed towards the I Here she laid herself down, apparently much fa- .1
church ; nobody, for the space of twenty-five i tigued, but, before the people in the •yard could get I
months, Will be able to suspend its course. There ! their fire-arms ready, she hid considerably recovered
will be neither a King in France nor a Pope in Rome ; i her strength. Several shots were fired at her, and. two ~
he who will govern the whole hierarchy will change ! of them penetrated -her body, one of which lamed
his seat. The Pastor and the Princes of the Church, : her. Rendered desperate by this, she advanced ,
expelled, will fly, and will find, with difficulty, a i against her new opponents, and singling out a
Earle, an European Gentleman in the yard, who
refuge where alone they can repose with their flocks
i and eat the bread of sorrow in this vale of tears.— • was provided with a cutlass, she sprung upon him
Religion will feel, in sullen silence, the effect of ter- i before he could make use of his weapon, knocked
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1 ror inspired by the fury of a passion which will aban-
him down with her fore-paw, seined his head in her
don itself to the. most horrible excesses. Then, I mouth, bit off a considerable part of the skin of his
they who govern the kingdom of Prance, will be i forehead, and wounded him in several places. After
(Lis she sprung on a native, fractured his skult, and
so blinded that they will not be able to find de- ,
otherwise lacerated him so dreadfully, that the poor
fenders amongst them. The anger of the Lord will
fellow died next day. She then entered a thicket or
be turned against them, and against the greatest
jungle close by, where she was allowed to remain
and the most powerful of the kingdom; it will
manifest itself against all, generally and individually, unmolested. As this occurrence took place on a
and will not cease among the French until (heir holiday, there were very few men in the yard, or
kingdom shall be almost entirely destroyed. The else she might have been killed on the spot. Yet this
may he perhaps regarded as a fortunate circumstance,
earth in many places will be bare, and the sciences
and manners will perish in the_ kingdom of France ; as greater injury might have been otherwise sus-
then the French, full of pride and fury, will revolt tained. . I
On the morning of the following day, the 18th,
against their -lawful Sovereign, and almost all the !
she had got about a mile farther from the water-side,
Nobles, great as their !number may be, Kill be driven
and near to the sepoy's village. Here she was again
from their dignity and their property, and he cruel-
lys massacred. Many will cry oat for Eqttalitar .rurrounded by about a thousand natives, when, al-
though she had been much famed on the preceding
.Equalily ! gauality! but there will be no equality;
day, she sprung furiously on several of them, and
I the Sovereign Prince will fly, and. will be brought
wounded one poor woman so dreadfully, as to oc-
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an overthrow and a massacre of Kings, Dines, and back to i his Castle. There will be shameful.earnage-
casion her, death. A fortunate shot, however, laid
her prostrate, and prevented farther injury. On as-
: Barons, and a•great.isomber of the highest and most
certain her dimensions, she was found to measure
i powerful Lords. The most infamous treason will
eight feet from the nose to the tip of the tail, and to
burst forth in the captivity of the King of France;
then the most noble Princes will he put into prison. have stood about four feet high. Her fore foot,
By a terrible event the King will be afflicted with above the allele, was thirteen inches in circum-
grief and with punishment by his own subjects. I ference.
We are happy in finding it mentioned, that none "The people will make tans at their own plea- 1
of the wounds sustained by Mr. Earle are considered
sure, mid afterwards the eagle will ily avec the world,
dangerous.
and will make many nations submit.to him ;Alit, the
1 kingdom of France will be invaded lao all parts, and'
mill remain 'almost destroyed.
" Many nations will be sisukuts with mew, GOultle
4tetions, but they will remain' and-re-in according' to
their Ancestors.

EXTRAORDINARY IVALKING-31dTCIL
(The fallowing account will show that the performance of
Wilson, R 4 fir as he has been allowed to proceed, does not
stand unequalled.]
John Batty, a poor pig driver•of Richmond, ip
Yorkshire, engaged, for a bet of 20 guineas to lOU,
to walk 700 miles round Richmond. race-ground
within the space of 14 days, which he accordingly
performed as follows—beginning the 21st July, 1788.
What makes this feat the more extraordinary, that
the man is now in his 56th year.

K The neighboiorlng nations of France will be
sadly beat by Armenia, Germany,. Phrygia, and

Dacia.

64 The French will possess therUselves of all, they
will make the best fortified camps: the most power.
ful and the most terrible towns will be taken ; they
will maintnin battles ; but soon the state of the'
kingdom will be changed by divine Justice • the de-
solated towns of Frince will be abandoned, plun-
dPred, and destroyed; the wealth and honour of the
Republic will be totally lost in silence ; partiality
and singularity will be in vigour; then nobody will
keep the faith which he promised to his neighbour
each one will rather seek to deceive, the ether; anj

I 4>maiydert.y Roots?. • Miles. Yard,.
onal y . 35 !,9
5'4 2`ii
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378 •
Wrili.gday 31 yr,,t 31 • .
Thurs4ay 32 51 293
Friday • 31 -51 121'5
• S 'hardly. 29 51 Y. 95 .
Soodtty SU 43 2ul - •
111 nudity. • . .33 52 5.1
Tumid ay 23 41} :i9
• Wrilociiilny '31.1: 51 293
l'kulNday • , $l • 51 ‘i93
Friday '34 b-I# 211
Saturday 32 • 31 395 •
Sunday . `b Siii 4i
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14 442 70 i} 10
Ac a reward for his, trouble, it should be men. ,
tinned with concern, that the ppor man will get only
16 guineas, several with whom he betted having.tle-
clined payment, because he could not advance more
of his deposit thin one guinea.. He afterwards
staked' a sow against 10 guineas. From wearing a .
pair of new shoes, he lost the skin from off "his feet
after the first day, which, nevertheless, did not de-
ter him from the prosecution of what he had under-
taken 'to• perform. He is now willing to undertake ,
the same for 100 guineas, in 13 days.
It should .he remarked, that this matt is a real
walker.—Powell's pace is a kind of ambling trot. 1

ill over the kingdom there will be a cruel famine.—

The glory of the French will be changed, because
the King will be humiliated end deprived of his
Crown. The people will give it to another, to: whom
it shall not belong, but a young captive will recover
the Crown of Lilies, and will destroy the children

of Brutus in their island, so that there shall be no
mention'of them mode. •

" Then the Pope, animated by the Spirit of God,
will reform the Church and the Eeclesiaatict to their

ancient mode of living; in this way there' will be
but one faith, and all the French, united in opinion,
will love each other for many years."

EXTENSIVE Itoaamtv.---Fonr young chimney.
sweepers on Saturday last volunteered their services
to assist a woman named Ann Briggs, in removing
her stock of crockery-ware from the marketplace of
Whitby into the warehouse in the same town, when

... en', h nith;riates")on to II .5 inv. • - --- -
observing a box of gold coin which the saving female t- ---,--- I T,frip. bet •not Wore." 'The ettptoln then /edema Complain.:
- 'nut's clothes So betel et. end -Wet hesboulls he Matto esel.idoe
DelitlNQ Roasetty.--..--On Sunday, the 24th ult. fillet dozeu holies., st hith WalS (WIC lsamehliaielv•
potter had, it appears, carried about with her, two
of the boys. made free to help themselves, and to daring Divine Service, five men, who we onderstaed, ' Captnin Duiableion telartiy.4 it.o this mean iii.d been flortirl
secure the secrecy of the other two, had bribed them came from Hull (where the plan for the intended robe
.:I„,'„hrtnrd4c.,',ldt," bai4 111";" in c°ll'clueficetif his ibiluall"
bery appears to have been settled), entered the dwel- i Another »Althea had olio hen granted again,: the ent,i,ie,
with two guineas and a half each. from the stolen
treasure. The master of one of the boys having Hog-house in Morehy Park, near York, the residencesidenee '...,""he gl"ndai"' of n ei.a"l""' """"11 i:heel; hut. r3trel "4
seen the gold in his possession, an investigation of the of the Rev. T. Preston, one of his Slajesty's Justices ! —et-
..ifeip...4i torte .0.'1.1. recd4t.wiel:inlV:in"isrt juntiel. *4l' aall is
matter took plaLi,, and a confession of the whole foe the East Riding of this county. They had con- ' thitaarr two cuss,, which i.e arc. r.1,n41 Ai. , , transactiou was the result. A pursuit isosued, and celled themselves near the premises, and Watched the ,
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fa .lly going out to church, a dis fence of nearly two' .. 'Cappelli-is:from the llepeal p. that. mail
the two young thieves were taken shod three miles
avers. 11. from the town, one of them having one hundred . es. Two female servants were left in the house. I,coach has been established to Tao besween Diagl°A
guineas and a half, and the other sixty.four guineas toe of the robbers knocked at the door, pretending ' Barbs/or and Calcutta. • and a half, independent of the bribes they bad given. to have business with Mf. Preston ; on its being t. List Tuesday night 14tessrs.Refters' tobaicn.ma•
The box from whence the money way stolen, is said , •opened, be rushed in, threatening the maid, that if : nulactory at Morden, in Surrey ~95 brokenavell,
to have contained no less than 1600 guineas in gold. i she gave any alarm he would kill her—the other four ' and.rolgield of a quantity „of.inanulfcie-tored tobacco
and secured the two females by locking most. who err !Inswing wider imhsfillo.,l nbiiinnte bit:II"
OnWednesday last, as a keel, frees Boroughbridge, ;then entered,
the' them op in the cellar, while they committed their de.
""d three
it Vent:tire whenththey :ire in.ft,rmetrtittililr..Coorer.oa...
was unloading above Lintoit Lock, hear 'York.
cord by ichiai it . had been listened gave way ; the predations in the house, croon :which they stole money I.slitlastee, DereleiTir, soft Srr:tns.,,eu",r3iit‘sease"4..4..aregair en 1,,,,,i
Owner, John Bailey, his wife, and four children, and notes of the value of 'bout forty-nine pounds, In Nlerlicitl . Itn3r4 :tt Cliirlotte..6,Lor..(irest ChArl :le s'ix•
being at the same tine on beard; when the former: three gold rings, and one silver.ritig, and then made ;ryl'wn`i;::;,:'ilig,..'`:;,:iplitic".v'.‘4"lespill'"vtd wshh"Lel: Ilitnigirlirhos.,'lr4;;.
the consequencel! , off, locking the.bouse door after.them. The two fe. !sent. 'l%m Inoitelinii chins., the nnetainn o'r those
,nii...teet
perceiving the disaster, and fearing
males, with the aid of a pair of scissersi.opened the neieneeed the care, or low ,h,,,,• efinsil:ted ilile,sito fh'
seised two of his children, and escaped in ig boa,'
but•not without endeavouring to persuade his wife to cellar door, got out of the window, andblarined the :: 14"".1.071,7nr0idtei.,1141 re.oift,titr 1144;um'itattd,;,
.7:,.74j p., 1
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A pursuit of the robbers was set; on noise in the earst.orellinki in rite rte k, eiturtess. of rig.:t : :10c
heighbourhood.
foot in all directions, sod we have the pleasure to an. r', pains hi .latiiiaiiith"tr hmtii••AlloyeatlY 1"'"4"" f'''
flounce that three of the villains were taken a Holme, srw'
follow his exastp:e. She, however,. wausnwunilaibingle
ttk:,
rescue the other two, ainnclitie'warns.tagr
tniYme,
proroeded
passed with sed commuted to the Cagle on Monday evetaing, by
brare thetis ; the keel, cevan itiarcie,we.a.
i auk"nseasare lot
erteiT, ell. ; ttcneinell.t,ilesehainr.:ll t;.•,.
rapidly towards the dam, over which it
John Wilsee, and George end too often Unbitten the witiirnonfal siiire."Mestsrri. Coorg:'
al Co. are c.metilted tbsthilly lat rehtits ttf pertele,-fri:i• I
,Pte. tn.en
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pieces, sad, we are . the
ai 'llamas of James Soffit.,
great velocity, wet thrshed. to
44 right preentely ; mid give name mete, Ilt seeeirlvwt
lorry to add, the mother sod two children ionises
.pp col*, mariners. Diligent search is making day, Amid Sunday merning.k„ till twelve q'clo . A d.aorouipt
quently perished •tdgether. it Ss. almoet....nee es 4 after the.other two., and wettest they will be secured. the Corner, null private ronrai -et females. .te f dile One of these it ato remark, tkO poor iligiS.o--beorlY in a 001--•° . -Meat* lived in'Mr. Vittateu'a seisms . _ ...__ . i,e4s4seeße.,_ : ..._i__.' • ' -.....-1"1"
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traction. -
' • tome year, ago. flailtDenis-Ptirited. teldt:l9l.lll:ted !it, D..t.evees, ao se!
if•Tates it 011retza, liC, Fleet street
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