THE PROPHET OF l77o.
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Let us suppose ourselves carried back
sixty years in the stream of time, and to
live again the youthful subjects of the
young King George Ill. Let us likewise
imagine that in those days the divine
spirit Of prophecy had come upon MS, un,
yelling to our sights the events Of the fu.
ture. In seven years from this time the
British empire shall be rent in twain


american war in l776.) In fifteen years
men shall rise from the earth and fly
through the air, Gnvention OF balloons
l7S0) In twenty years the French mon
archy, the Oldest that ever was, and now
|fourishing, shall come to an end. A vlr-
tuous prince, (Louis XVI, l793,) not yet
king, shall in twenty three years, lay down
his life OH the scafFold J, his wife and sister
shall share the same. In those same days
news shall travel with the wind, and what
was done at midday shall be known at
the larthest bounds Of the kingdom ere the
setting of the sun, (the telegraph, 1884
In twenty-six years conqueror shall rise,
(Bonaparte,) who shall water his horse In


the Nile, the Jordan, the Tagus, and the


Boristhenes. This conqueror shall restore
the chair of St. Peter, and throw down
what he had restored, (dethroncment OF
Plus viz Finally, he whom the world
could not contain, shall die captive on u