The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1853-11-24
WESTERLY, R. l., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 81, 1858.

Imany mortal will be swept away
through war and pestilence, even when
he least expects it.
A great revolution will break out in
France. The king and his family will
be driven out Of their country, and a
war will commence against the mobiles
and the wealthy; their palaces will be
burned, and their wealth will be sufficient
to protect them no more. Many cap
italists will leave France, where an at
tempt will be made to destroy the power
of money, by declaring all usury abolish
ed. The Jews shall also suffer much
at this time; and the wcalthiest one
among them will become a victim to the
enraged multitude. There will arise a
: governing power of the working class ;
but after Il short continuance it will,
however, disappear, and in the midst of
war with foreign powers. Then con-
servative party will reach the summit of
power in the country, under whose
direction France will again recover, but
only after bloody confusion. From
thenceforth there will be no kings in
France, but certain Prince will, at
this time, make yet another attempt to
erect for himself a throne he shall,
however, atone bitterly for his foolish
undertaking, and will lose his life
thereby
Belgium will unite itself with France
and, in other respects, will share the
same fate with it.
Spain and Portugal will be rent and
distracted by bloody civil wars; one
party will succeed another in the gov
crnmcnt, and each one will act more
violently than the preceding. There
will remain no traces whatever either of
law or order, and sorrowiul mourning
will prevail throughout the entire land.
Then, a man, gifted with intellectual
powers, such as are but very rarely be-
slowed upon one person, will come sud-
denly upon the arena of life aud give
again unto these distracted people the
blessings of peace ; the parties will COM
pose themselves-the names of Portugal
and Spain will disappear, and the States,
united under the name Of "Pyrencan
Republic" will become great and pow
eriul, both on land and sea.
In Great Britain, the distress of the
working classes will increase continually
more and more. The raging European
wars, causing all commerce to cease,
will give a severe blow to English in
dustry, and bring the multitude to the
lowest depths OF despair. Their rage
will turn itself against the manufacturing
proprietors, whose establishments they
will demolish and burn to the ground.
Many thousands of half-starved men
will cross over from Ireland, in order to
take part part in this work of destruc-
ton. Through these commotionS Great
Britain, the worll-mistress of commerce
will receive a shock from which she will
never recover. Her great possessions
in America and Asia sac will lose, and
which will declare themselves indcpend-
ent her fleets will be annihilated in a
great sea-fght, and, after many vicissi-
tudes, foreign wars, and domestic rcvo-
lutions, she will again become tranquil,
but will not be any more powerful than
other nations. Royalty will be abolished
later, however, than in the other
European States.
In the midst Of all these storms and
revolutions, Switzerland will rejoice in
an undisturbed rest. che will increase
powerfully under new Constitution /;
and, after a short political agitation,
commerce and industry will dcvclope
themselves within her more than ever.
While all those States surrounding her
will be at the mercy Of political and
social revolutions, she will be an asylum
for all cxilcd refugees. Many of those
who were formerly her enemies, and in
vokcd evil upon her, will consider them
selves happy to have found a refuge
there. The cities of Switzerland will
swarm with refugees; kings and princes
will feel themselves happy to have found
in the bosom of the old republic Of the
world, place where they can enjoy the
repose of sleep without fear and tremb-
ling.