Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-09-07
PROPHECY.

Wefeel reluctance, saws the Ball
Itimore Telegraph, in the publication of
the foll owing. because we do not wish to
,implicate ourselves in the dissemination
iof reports or surmises which the next fa-
iyorable gale may prove to be false. Ne
Ivertheless, this seems matter of literary
as we'll as moral curiosity, and we request
our readers toview 1t exclusively in that
| isht. The original is in Latin, from
which we have made rough translation.
The history OF this fragment is as fol-
lows.
This prophecy has been sent to Lon
| don from the lower countries, where it
| had been preserved from 50 to GO years.
The Rev. Mr.. Truckham, priest ia Lon
don, had received it ia months or more
before Bonaparte had set out for the l.
island of EIba.
This prophecy is stated to have been
made by the Rev. Stanislaus Lends, of
the church Of st. Patrick, Ireland, in the
year us.
This curious fragment has been in our
possessions for two months, and we declin-
edits publication from the motives above
stated.
Before this age shall have passed a.
way, a horrible monster in the shape of
a human being, notorious for every
lc!ime, shall rise from the Mediterranean
Sea.-He shall be cherished by the Lii
lies; but his ingratitude shall be stirred
up, and ambition stimulate him to seize
the sceptre. In the kingdom which he
ishall treache-ously invade, executions.
|cruelties, fatsehoods and impieties shall
be patronised and encouraged. He shall
be sent into the world like Nebachadnez-
zGr, Salmonazar, Or Senacherib. the rod
! OF the Lords anger, to chastise the vari-
Gus wickedness ofman. The earth will
become corrupt, and from that cause
mighty will be its desolation. This
monster shall afFlict the world with
loud iamentation by the pestilence of
his lips and, surrounded By potentates.
kings and the wealth ofnations. he shall
iblast Jerusalem with his breath. He shall.
Ibruise tue lilies, for his heart shall be
Iprone to raracity, to make the aciis
widow, and the city desert. He shall
shake the eagles, and with an illustri-
ous daughter of one of these he SHALL u
mite III forbidden wedIock.-From this
junior will rise one who will be the
grief of his mother; she shall abhor her
own otfspring-and, stunning the sight
of men, shall fora long tima deplore her
crime in a convent. Afterwards, for
two long beMomada,* great oppression
and tribulation shall prevail, and many
shall depart from their evil ways and
Ibehold the mercy of the lord The rod
Ishall fall and snite him who has himself
Ibeen rod, and the instruments of his
depression shall fall as the leaves before
1.-THE south wind.
" Then the Eagle which gave birth
ito the monster, shall content with the
Northern Eagle. Nevertheless the tor
rent of iniquity shall not yet subside.
Alas for the lilies, great but short will
Ihe your circulation Whatever the mon
ster can add to the miseries Of war, he
Twill collect. The authors of desolation
shall support and fiatter him !; but by
|how much the more lofty he is elevated
by them, the deeper it is decreed will
he his downfall. Once more he shall run
Ibiindfold and unterriied into every
species of injustice and aggression, for
the Lord shall bewilder his counsels, and
lshall ulace a hook in his noStrils and
"a bride in his lips; he shall rave against
God, and his pride shall ascend to tue
ears of the Most High. Then all the
blood that has been shed shall cry out
AGAINST him. and he shall attempt to
destroy himselfby the sword orby poison.
But He who rules over the destinies OF
the world has not soiordained. The
monster has heaped together his crimes
land iniquities in the sight of men. 1t
lis decreed that he shall atone tor these
that thelearth which he has dssolated may
lbe delivered from the curse. AS fearful
warning to others he shall perish by
dreadful and condign punishment
Then the lilies shall rise again-peac
shall be preserved amongst powerful
,onarcbc and LOYALTY amongst the PEG