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rth, was acc^implislied by ihe exaltation of Napoleon to the imperial power, who scourgied with war, vexed with innumerable levies, and by hia trampling pride ^lled to death all the ten king<> doma of the earth. But the fifth %nal fallctb on tJ»e seat or throne of the beaM ; that ia, tlie beasl of infidelity from tbc bottomless pit, which now hath the rule, (the former being oxlioct at the be- ginning of tbe«e viala,) upon his throne, which is not in Rome, but Pah«, the capital of that scorch- ing monarchy which chaf^tened others and is now to be chastened in its turn, fallcth Lliis \jal. and straightway the burning focal light which iasued Ibence is ecli[wvd, and hiii kingdom i% full of darkncsK* and the* people of it arc so trailed and grieved with the judgment which aitendeth there- upon, that they gnaw their very tongues with pain. This mu»t be eome zno^X signal reverse, some total obscuration, ftome manifeAt wounding of that mighty ruling sovereign and all his people ; which wasaccoinpli»hed when the allied annies dethroned him, posscGsed his capita^ and for five yeara curbed and bridled the fiery spirit of hia nation: of which I may say, France had not experienced the like since the Black Prince, and not the equal 1000 THE DItyiNa i;POf THC EVrJIHATLa. [/>x. at ftny liin^nf her hiHtory ; iliat, Tmin a hriUiaui ^ory KUfpasKiiig CbarlemagQe ft, kit ibrgiie »twul< be covered with darkness and db^race in coui^c of a lew yenrii. Prom this sb^rt review these vialfl it is tnont maniicat that every one them brJDgcth tiot ouly a coDspictiou^ but a oi< u-oiidcrful and amazing event: events for whii centuries of^ivcret causes have (trepared the wayj but which faU out like the explosion of oil ej quake or the stroke of doom ; ever)' one of thai UD event unparalleled in tlie CbrbUan history the quarter in which it falls, aad wblcb caoDot KurpmHAed hut by their utter annihilation ^Si poiiti" cbI and powtrfui Ktutric atul cait any r^a«on ti a3.»igtied why the same character should not observable iw the event ushered in, orratlier coi manded to appear by the angel of the &ixth vial! We i^liould therefore expect, upon the poui out of this Ti£kl over the csctcnt of the seat of Turkiiih power, that it would begin to maoi some i>ueh clear and eouKpicuouit signs of rapid dissolution and disorpani/stion as niijcbt justiiy the appropriation of such a fsymbol- It inu$t be something manifest and rcmarlcable. not silently progreiuuvc and invisibly slow; for what need of a vial of wrath to bring in what is coming