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m, domaof Europe. Id which I caDnotbutadmireUie righteous recompencc of God, that, as the infidct army of Napoleon, which feared no God but tha^ G04I of Daturr« was, afltr it had done its vrork tfamplingupDD the supentituHisc^pitaU of apostate, ChrieteDdom, offered up as a hecatomb to the God of nature, amidst the soows and ice of a Dortherm winter, and in the passage of a few days; sotbeae troopa of the Turkish empire hererc nd-rmaaolofo able to Kiirrjpe, after they have done their work of chastising ami de^ttn^j' ing, are ofierrd up by their own countrymen with that coId*blooded cruelty and wilful obstinacy which has marked that brave but uubridled soldtcry. Many of our pohticiao^ think this to be the cutting of an incumbrance; for myaclf 1 believe it to the second great token of that self-destruction and^ dissolution of power which shews us that this sixth' vial bath bep:ua to be poured out.— The thirds ai^ which I observe, is the adoption of Etiri cuAtoma, in detiance of the Mohammediin oppoii' boo thereto, which provcth to mc that the relip> ous zeal of the people, which waa their cl^cf streni^tli, i-s dying ouL-^Tlie rourtli, is their be- pnning to drain by severe customs and exacttona the richer cf the people, which cannot be boave save by a commercial nation, to which character they have no claim whatever. And many more ma- nifestations of the decline and gradual exhauatJoo ofits strength, all dating from the breaking oQtof their insurrectiofis, might be entuiierated. Time will shew: and I lay claim to nothing beyond a fceblo attempt to interpret prophecy; hut 1 now^ declare that 1 Ahall not be surprised if this kiagdom^l should exhibit the same character in its decline IV-l Tue DaviNu UP or the eufeibates. IQIC that it did in iU grxmth. Twenty years, botb in iheoaseof I)ogri»aandOtliman, were sufficient to briiii^ tlic wntcr^ uf Eu^ilirute^ lo tlieir tali tide heiifhc. and full stream 6ow: twenty years may perhaps prove sufiicient to bring them to the lowest ebb, and to exhaust them to their former unperr reived and unfcU impotcncy. 1 have thus eodcavciired from holy Scripture to aRcertain what is the mcaniug vf thi& emhlem, " the drying up of the waters of Euphrates/' and to fihew that ii iB not so much an act of agf^reKston orof violence from without, as a process of inward decay and dissolution. But. aeccndly, that, being givcnasavmlofjudginentpitmustcomconinsomc sinking, severe, and judicial act to begin with, wevcr it may proceed by u gradual progrci9 icreaf^cr : although it seemeth more eonfionant with th