_Nam si aspexerit Mars ad Saturno opposito aut quarto tunc convertetur mundus in bellorum capium_. Thus writes Avenaris, which, Englished, is, that when Mars beholds Saturn by opposition, or quartile, the world will be involved in wars and bloodshed; and this configuration between sullen Chronus and angry Vulcan we see made this month (viz. August, 1792.) Opposite appearances also of an exceeding mild and amicable nature present themselves to our view; there being no less than three friendly Trines, and three Sextiles also of a pleasing nature, as well as four Conjunctions, bearing good will to mortals below. In a prophecy written six or seven hundred years since, taken out of the library of St. Victor, at Paris, which is to this effect—“Woe to thee, thou seven-hilled city (Rome) when liberty spreads in France; for then the fall and destruction of thy mighty men is at hand. Woe to thee, thou city of blood; the voice of the scourge, and of warlike horses and chariots, shall not depart from thee; thy gold is darkened; rust hath consumed it, and spoiled it; that is, the gold of God’s word is obscured, and religion is corrupted, &c. “The Pope’s power will receive a very great shock, civil and religious, before the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, or near that time.” * * * * * See winged Time as swift as lightning flies: Redeem each moment, and be timely wise. AN OLD PROPHECY, PRINTED 1686. WHEN New England shall trouble New Spain, When Jamaica shall be Lady of the Isles and the Main; When Spain shall be in America hid, And Mexico shall prove a Madrid; When Mahomet’s ships on the Baltic shall ride, And Turks shall labour to have ports on that side; When Africa shall no more sell out their Blacks, To make slaves and drudges to the American tracts; When Batavia the Old shall be contemn’d by the New; When a new drove of Tartars shall China subdue, When America shall cease to send out its treasure, But employ it at home in American pleasure; When the New World shall the Old World invade, Nor count them their lords, but their fellows in trade; When men shall almost pass to Venice by land, Not in deep water, but from sand to sand; When Nova Zembla shall be no stay Unto those who pass to or from Cathay, Then think strange things are come to light. Whereof but few have had a foresight. _From the BEACON_, _October_ 25, 1812. THE GATHERING OF THE JEWS, OR THE _Approach of the Millennium_.