Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-10-17
THE COMET.

l. CONlE
Notwithstanding the repeated "rumors Of
wars with which our newspapers have been
lately filed, this celestial stranger has attract
ed considerable attention. To people in ge-
neral it is an interesting spectacle, as one of
the magnificent works of the creation; and
by some it is viewed with the trembling eye
of ancient superstition, as the precursor Of
desolation and bloodshed. Among the latter
we find a prophet who signs himself Christ.
M'Pherson,a man Of color, alias Ross's Kit,
formerly Of the Elk Horn Store, Petersburg.
T;rginia." His predictions are thus express
ed in Richmond paper of Monday last:
at is well known fact that Omnipotence
out Of his great goodness, some time before
hand, generally apprises mankind by his mes
sengers of any great event which he purposes
to happen. There is no doubt, and it need
not excite wonder, that the Almighty Spirit of
Christ Jesus our Lord, can cause the influence
ofthe Comet (Which now appears to approach
u.s. to Stay the third part of men"-as ioretod
by John, and lately predicted, is to happen On
the FOURTH OF JUNE NEXT, with e.
Dual ease, as he has sent messages to this
world, through the author of this pamphlet
Please take notice that the author has dis
charged his duty in warning the world to be
prepared to meet that great and awful day,
wherein dreadful havoc will most assuredly
be inflicted on very many of the unbelievers
in Christ the Lord of Glory
Although this prediction is not hositiue, it
certainly has an "awful squirting :" the IT,
mid must console themselves with the rehec-
ton that there is wide differen between
possibility and probability.
In the paper from which the above extract
is made, Christi. M'Pherson further informs
the public that the long-expected Millennium
is at hand, and that he has published I" work
containing these glad tidings," ofthe contents
Of which he gives the following singular &C..
count:
For the history of the authors life, see page
5-for the dawn Of Newton, see a 10
the restoration of the Jews, see IL 46-the
Authors origin, lS-his character l6 ~
his commission so S6-for true and vital re-
hgion, see address to the Pope, 4l--for the
ample Justice which is shortly TO be rendered
these United States by the belligerent pow.
ers, III retrospective view and calculation
from the commencement of the revolutionary
war, see the address to the king of Great Bri-
tam, S7--to Napoleon Bonaparte, SS-to the
AlgerineS, sc. 45-and to the President of the
United States, 47-for the freedom Of the
oeas, and Isles, and of universal republican.
ism, see the address to the rulers of the
world, page 49,"
" Napoleon our King" it seems, has lately
declared his determination to re-unite to his
empire whatever territory has heretofore be-
longed to France. In India, in Amer1ca, in
the Mediterranean" said he, in reply to the
deputies from the Ionian Isles, /" every thing
that IS and has been French shall always be
so.H-" They shall return into the empire"
In .dmsrica, Canada, Louisiana, and the
florldas have been French, and these, so far
as know, compose. all the territory which
ever belonged to France on the american COM
tlnent. These, therefore, according to the
solemn promise Of the emperor, must and
I" shall return into the empire" AS to I.oui-
slanano difficulty can occur. If the admin
stratlon persevere in their compliance with
the requisitien of the emperor in regard to the
anticommercial or Continental Systsm, he
will doubtless indulge them so far as to re-
celye back the territory, upon their giving se-
curly, that no claim shall be made by them as