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suffered for so many years; and pointed out, as "the source of all these iniquities and sorrows, "the disrespect, yea, contempt, which had been "poured upon the religious and moral principles "contained in that best of all books—the Bible." When such public confessions are made, and when the first leisure thoughts of Germany seem to be directed to the establishing Bible Societies, with the view to disperse more universally the word of God, may we not hope that the chastisements have effected the purposes for which they were sent; and that "the "time appointed" for the end of their sufferings is arrived.

Ver. 36. “And the king shall do according "to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every God, and shall

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* See recent communications to the British and Foreign Bible Society, announcing the interesting and important intelligence of the formation of the following Bible Societies on the Continent, viz., A National Bible Society for the Nether lands, established on the 29th of June, 1814; The Hanoverian Bible Society, established on the 25th of July; The Prussian Bible Society, established on the 2d; The Saxon Bible Society, on the 10th; and The Polish Bible Society, on the 26th of August.-1st edit. To the foregoing may now be added the names of above forty others, recently established.

"speak marvellous things against the God of "Gods, and shall prosper till the indignation "be accomplished: for that that is determined "shall be done. 37. Neither shall he regard "the God of his fathers, nor the desire of wo

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men, nor regard any God: for he shall "magnify himself above all. 38. But in his "estate (or in his stead) shall he honour the "God of forces; and a god whom his fathers "knew not shall he honour with gold, and “silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. 39. Thus shall he do in the most

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strong holds with a strange god, whom he "shall acknowledge and increase with glory : " and he shall cause them to rule over many, " and shall divide the land for gain."

The sufferings of the Protestant countries of Germany having been described, the prophecy now returns more immediately to the personal history of the Infidel King. It will be recollected, that the last events mentioned were the re-establishment of the Roman-catholic religion in France, and the overthrow of the confederacy of the Northern powers, which was formed by the intrigues of Buonaparte against the naval supremacy of Great Britain in the year 1801. The verses now before us refer to the events which next succeeded in the order of time, de

scribing the establishment of the immense military power of Bonaparte, and treating of a long period of uninterrupted prosperity.

"The King shall do according to his will." Even pending the negotiations of the peace of Amiens, and during the period of three or four months which intervened between the signing the preliminaries and the conclusion of the definitive treaty, on the 27th March, 1802, Buonaparte "made such enormous accessions of

power as caused the greatest uneasiness "throughout the British empire, and excited "the most universal indignation." Very great tardiness was shewn on the part of France in bringing the negotiations to a conclusion, and he took the opportunity afforded by this delay to establish himself in the sovereignty of Italy, under the title of President of the Italian Republic, and openly "seized for himself, and in "his own name, all the north of Italy, and ex"tended his empire to the very frontiers of the "Neapolitan territory." And no sooner was the definitive treaty signed with England, than he produced other treaties very advantageous to France, which he had privately concluded. By a treaty with Turkey the French were put on an equality with the most favoured nation, and consequently the best of her allies were not even in a commercial view, to be more favoured

than those who, without provocation, had in vaded and plundered her dominions. By a treaty with the court of Lisbon, all Portuguese Guiana was ceded as far as the mouth of the river Amazons, which cession would have opened for the French a way into the heart of South America. By a treaty with Spain, Louisiana, with Parma and the island of Elba, were ceded to France. "The publication of these "clandestine treaties exhibited in a strong "point of view the bad faith and boundless "ambition of the French government. But the "ambition of Buonaparte," it is observed, "was by no means satisfied with his Italian "honours; he now openly assumed the most "arbitrary and absolute power in France, which

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country, as well as Italy, he from thencefor"ward seemed to consider as his patrimonial property. By whatever title he intended to govern France, he resolved to govern it abso"lutely, and settle the government in his family as a new dynasty.

He not only took upon himself the state of a sovereign, but "exercised a power more arbitrary than ever "had been exercised by the former kings of "France." Some individuals, who were accused of having spoken with too much freedom of his government in their private parties, were banished from Paris, amongst whom were se

veral ladies of respectability, and Laharpe, who had the highest name and reputation as an author, and who was seventy years of age. Mr. Duval, the author of a dramatic piece which had given offence to Buonaparte, was likewise ordered to leave Paris, and it was expected that he would have been banished to Guiana; but he was at length, at the earnest entreaties of Mademoiselle Beauharnois (the daughter of Madame Buonaparte), permitted to return. "Nothing, however, could more strongly shew "how completely the personal liberty of every

individual in France was unprotected by any "law than those instances. If such sentences "of banishment were completely arbitrary, "the pardon which followed was equally so. "The caprice of the moment, and the effect of "female solicitation, at length restored those "authors to their families; but the circum

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stance proved that not a vestige of liberty re"mained in France. Not only individuals, "but the public bodies which he had himself "constituted, felt the effects of his displeasure “when they ventured to offend him. It was "not to be expected that General Buonaparte, "who with the bayonets of his grenadiers de"stroyed the former constitution of France, "and turned out the representatives chosen by "the nation, would suffer any serious opposi

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