SYBILLINE ORACLES.
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The following IS extracted from an olC edition of Merlm's Prophecies, supposed tc have been written about a thousand years ago imprinted al London, by John Hawkins in the year l630. For an account of this valuable and scarce hook, see Swll's works vol. ?, p. IA, ed. l77A. When the savage is meek and mild, The mother shall stab her child. When the cock shall woo the dove, The mother and child shall cease 10 love.

 III When men, like moles, worl; under ground, The lion virgin true shall wound.

 " When the dove and cock the lion shall fight, The lion shall crouch beneath their might.

  When the cock shall eussd ta eagle's nest, The shining stars shall fise in She vest. When ships above the clouds shall sail, The lions strength shall surely fail.

 VII When Neptune's bacl, with stripes i9 rai, l

 VIII When. the seven and six shall make but one. The lions might shall he undone.

 SOLUTION.

 Verse l.-Thc settlement of America by a civilized nation, is very clearly alluded to in the first line The frantic mother is Brit ain-America the child Verse 2.--the cock is France, the dove is Amerca-Columbia; their union is the epoch when America shall cease to love Britain for so understand the prophecy, ill which there $ manifestly an equivoque, which is one of the striking characteristics of the an eiept oracle.

 Verse 3.-The siege of Yorktown, where approaches were carried on hy working in the earth. We are told by Mr. Addi- son in his Spectator, that lion will not hurt a true maid-his al frs. seems conraticted bY the prophecy; but 1t will be found that he epoch referred to, the virgin, or Virginia, as North America was llen called in Eu- rope shall wound the lion, viz: Br tam, which shows the precise time when the or acle shall be fulfilled.

 Verse 4.-Aludes to the alliance between France and America, before whose mighr Great B ain crouched.

 Verse 5.-This certainly refers to tie pc rod when France the cock3 guarded the home of the Americans, (he eagles nest, and assisted the saios dhe stars4 to attain their independence: that is 10 rise in the western hemisphere.

 Verse G.-li is very remarkable that the properties of the innammable air by which balloons first tra9ersed the upper regions wee then first discovered, and they are here evidently called ships.

 Verse 7.-When Ameriea's navy covers 'he sea with her red shipes, Britain's will bt humbled.

 Verse 8.-The thirteen States first conled erated