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DARIEN llliil? GAZETTE.
Vol VII.
“Darien <©a3ette JR
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he Readers of the Explanation of
the Apocalypse.
[essrs. Editors: Having affirmed
[j U sly that I had discovered the
,calypsej I am desirous that the
, of that assertion ap
• doubtful to men of candor anu in
gence. I now affirm that the ex
iaiion which I have given,* so far
■spectsCommodus, Matemus, Cle-,
Sr, Laetus,t Mincia, the Praetorian
rds,Severus, Albinus, Niger, Julia
nna, and Caracalla, the destruction
yzantium, and the battle of Lyons,
ibstantially correct, and will stand
test of investigation through all fu
time. •’
insist on two prodfs of the correct
i of this explanation, which, I think,
it be conclusive. \g The number
ie name of Albinqfljfis the number
he Beast. 2. The important events
arded in the civil hisipry of the time,
ceed each other in the very same
er in which I suppose them to be
itioned in the Apocalypse.
I. The number of the name.\
formed an opinion, 20 years ago,
the ten-horned Beast of the Apo
rpse (I did not then discover more
i one) vvas some Roman Emperor,
riendly to the Christians. The
über 666 is found in the name of
relius, written in Greek, and in the
usative case; but the events of the
;n of Marcus Aurelius, the greatest
best of princes, have no agree
it with the events of the Apoca
ie. The number is found in the
ie of Decimus Clodius Albinus,
ten in Greek, and in the accusative
i; and the events of the reigns of
nmodus and Pertinax, and of Seve
who, in four years, destroyed three
Is—Didius, Niger, are
posed to correspond exactly with
events of the Apocalypse,
t has been objected, that the name
be written in the nominative,
not in the accusative case. To
it is answered, that the author
ht choose to write the name in the
isative case, to increase the difficul
>f solving his enigma. Such was
effect; for although I discovered
principal characters and events in
•ch, and wrote out an explanation
Lpril, it was not until the morning
unday the 2d of iVLy, 182 4, that I
overed the manner of writing the
ie of Albinus, so as to produce the
iber 666. The writer may have
;n the number from* some inscrip
, in which the name of Albinus was
ie accusative case.
The order of the events mentioned
in the Apocalypse.
.. C*. 180. Commodus, the greatest
ler that ever lived, succeeded to the
erial crown, v. 2.
87. The revolt and death of Mate
ha great commander of robbers, v. 4.
89. The death of Cleandar, who
produced a famine by a monopoly
orn, v. 5, 6.
90. The plague continues; assassi-
with poisoned poniards,
nmqdus, more cruel than ever, put
eath many pershns of great distinc
, v. 8.
92. Marcia, the favorit concubine,
tus, the Praetorian prefect, and Ce
us the chamberlain, having discov
tl that Commodus would put them
leath, poisoned him, and*caused him
>e strangled, on the last day of De
ibcr, v. 12.
93. Pertinax raised to the throne
he Ist of January, by the conspira
i, soon afterwards sold the slaves
splendid furniture of Commodity,
4,15.
‘hap. 7. Happy reign of Pertinax,
ing 87 days.
-hap. 8. Pertinax killed, on the 28th
‘larch, by a party of the Praetorian
ftls, v. 5. - *
hap. 9. Presumed to relate to the
rch.||
hap. 10. Ireneus appears as an an
•§ rebukes Pope Victor f#r disturb
the harmony of the church,
es the Book of the Apocalypse to St#
m.
-hap. 11. Didius put to death, on
2 d of June, by order of the Senate,
laving, a few days before, caused
S’ !
DARIEN, (geougia,)- anti *§Ju3tlfe- —— TUESDAY, MARCH 22 1825.
Laetus and Marcia to be murdered, v. 7.
Chap. 12. Julia Domna, the patron
of every man of letters, and her hus
band. Severus, presented and charac
terized.
Chap 13. Albinus presented and
characterized. at
Chap. 14. Caracalla, then 5 years
old, presented, and styled the Lamb.
Severus arrives with his army, a.t
Rome, and cashiers the Praetorian
guards, v. 20.
Chap. 16. The friends of Didius
proscribed by the Senate, and pul to
death by Severus, v. 2.
Severus forms anew corps of Prae
torian guards, and fills the city cf Rome
with soldiers, v. 3.
Soldiers levied for the service of Se
verus throughout all Italy, v. 4.
Skirmish near Parinthus, in Thrace,
and Niger declated by the Senate a
public enemy, v. 10.
194. Byzantium invested by Severus,
who passes his army over the Helles
pont, v. 12.
Battles of Cyzicus, Nice, and Issus,
irweach of which Niger is defeated; in
the last, irretrievably, with the loss of
20,000 men, v 17, 1, 19.
Severus exterminates all the distin
guished friends of Niger, v. 20.
Severus exacts from the cities which
had adhered to Niger, a tribute! four
times as muchjis they had paid to*Ni
ger, v. 21.
Cjhap 18 and 19. —196. Byzantium,
after a siege of three years, taken, and
utterly destroyed.
Rupture in December, between Se
verus and Albinus, who assumes the
purple, and the tide of Augustus—Ca
racalla declared Caesar.
Chap. 20.— 197. Great battle near
Lyons, between Severus and Albinus,
in which the latter was defeated with
immense slaughter, and killed, v. 19,
20.
The friends and family of Albinus
extermnjated, v. 21.
From this comparison, it seems ob
vious that the r Apocalypse is an enig
matical histoiy of the Roman empire,
during the last twenty years of the 2d
century.
Dionysius, of Alexandria, a learned
writer from 230 to 265, says: “Some
ot our predecessors confuted, and en
tirely demolished this book, bringing
ali its pails to the test, and demonstra
ting the whole to be an incomprehensi
ble, senseless piece of work, and the
title of it a mere forgery; for they as
sert it is not John’s, JKir is it a revela
tion, because it is ‘nPolved in such a
thick impenetrable cloud of ignorancer
that not only no Apostle, but no honest
clergyman, could have a hand in such
a composition.” A most distinguish
ed modern considered the Apocalypse
“as merely the ravings of a maniac, no
more worthy nor capable of explana
tion, than ihe incoherences of our own
nightly dreams;” and he said that “there
is not coherence enough in them, [the
extiavagancies of the composition,] to
countenance any suit of national ideas.”
These opinions, so far as they
the work as incomprehensible, sense
less ravings of a maniac, extravagan
cies without coherence, are altogether
erroneous. The Apocalypse is- one of
tne most artfully written production#
that ever appeared.** The writer has
adopted a figurative style, by which his
true meaning is concealed, while ano
ther meaning appears. Thus, waters
signify people; (a) rivet s, and fountains,
signify towns and villages; (A) a great
river is a great city, (c) and the sea is
Rome; - blood, signifies soldiers; (rs) ri
vers and fountains turned into blood,
signifies the levying of soldiers; (e) the
sea becoming as the blood of a dead
body, ( f ) signifies the creation of a*e
Prsetonian guard, four times the num
ber of the dismissed Praetorian guard;
and thus Rome [the sea"] filled with
soldiers, [blood] like the soldiets of the
dead [guard.] So a cloud is an army;
(§•) a white cloud is a Christian army,
(h) thunder is tlta voice of an army, (i)
or multitude; lightning is sedi
tion (i# *
Somfe who deny the correctness of
the Explanation, have relied on the au
thority of Sir Isaac Nawton, to support
the genuineness of the Apocalypse.—
Sir Isaac, in sttempting to explain the
Book, made one deviation, have
found correct; “Thunder is the voice
of a cloud, and a cloud is a multitude.”
On this subject , the opinion of Sir Isaac
is no authority. *
The genuineness of the Apoctdyyse
was by Dionysius, as ißfhave
shewn.ft Eusebios 270 to 340, doubt
ed wnether the book was genuine. It
was not acknowledged by Cyril, Bishop
of Jerusalem, from 351) to 386. It was
received by Severian, 401, nor by The
odoret, 423-3fct was expressly reject
ed by patriarch.of Con
stantinople, about 806. Luther posi
tively rejected it in 1522, but lie after
wards expressed himseU in tetrftsiess
decisive; ar\d Calvin, 1522 to ?fe64,
“refrained frolYi commenting ,on the
Book ot Revelation, as a book impene
trably obscure, and of dubious authori
ty'''fi) Lastly, Michaeiis, 1750 to
1791, a man of profound erudition, and
extraordinary talents, who was an im
partial critic, says that the Apocalypse
was almost universally consideied spu
rious among the Greek writers, at the
close of the fourth century; he himselt
entertained a suspicion that it was spu
rious, and left the decision toothers.
In full confidence that I have proved
what has often been asserted, that the
Apocalypse is a forgery, and that I have
given, what never before was given, a
true exposition of the meaning of the
writer, I leave the explanation to the
judgment and decision of the world.
* l did not supppose that I could ex
plain every verse of the Apocalypse.—
I named the principal persons & events
alluded to, with confidence; and I oJTer
ed sundry conjectures, some of which
, I am already inclined to abandon#
i t It is said of the two witnesses, that,
“during their prophesy, they have pow
■ er to pi event any rain descending from
Heaven [any benefits flowing fiom ihe
government] their power extends over
waters [people] to turn ihem into blooc
[soldiers] and to smite the earth with
, what afflictions they please.” These
are obviously the faroiite concubine,
, and the Piaetorian prefect.
$ The 24 letters of ihe Greek Al
• phabet, taken together as numerals,
produce ihe number 3999. What are
■ the chances that the u.i.ne one
• man shall pioduce the number 666?
, What are the chances that a name of
21 letteis shall produce the numbor
665?
\\Pcrhaps the locusts who come out
of the smoke of the abyss, are the bish
ops collected; in council at Rome by
Pope Victim*,.who issued a Synodica
letter respecting the time ol keeping
taster, with the name of Victor pre
fixed thereto. Perhaps Victor isthe
king over them, whose name is De
stroyer. The locusts wore crowns;
and, therefore, it is more probable that
” they were prelates in authority, than
that thny were the Lily ol any sect.
§ Several of the angels are bishops.
Perhaps the angel who ascends from
the east, having the seal of the Ever
lasting God, is also Ireneus. He would
scareely confide that seal to any of his
cofemporaries. The rainbow (Iris) on
his head,‘which is an allusion to his
name, discovers him to be the angel of
the tenth chapter. Caius, an eloquent
man, a cotemporaty of Ireneus, and
who was appointed bishop of the hea
then-, is, I presume, mentioned, chap
ter 14. 6.
1 I now incline to hail signifies taxa
tion.
(a) Rev. ch. 18, v. 15. (A) ch. 16,
v. 4. (c) ch. 9, v. 14, ch. 15, v. 12. (and)
ch. 8, v. 7. (e) ch. 1 1, v. 6. ch. 16, v. 4.
(/) ch. 16, v. 3. (g) ch. 1, v. 7. (A) ch.
14, v. 14. (i) ch. 8, v. 5. ch. 14, v. 2.
(h) ch. 10, v. 4. (/) ch. 8, v. 5. ch. 11,
v, 19. (m) Cyclop. Art. Calvin.
** The writer seems to have forgot
ten, when he wrote the Bth and 9th ver
i ses of chp-32, what he had written in
the 10th verse ol ch. 19. An Angel
speaks to the writer, ch. 21, v. 9, and
ch. 22, v. 9, who, all at once, becomes
Jesus, ch. 22, v. 12, 13.
tt The criticism of the Apocalypse,
by Dionysius, is very able; and, to an
unprejudiced mind, must be conclusive,
to prove that the work is spurio.us.
CContinuft from last Gazette.)
From the Edinburg Review.
STATE OF IRELAND.
This infamous and detestable code
has since been grimily modified; but a
good deal that is positively oppressive,
and much that is iritating and vexa
tious, still remains. In fact, we have
either gone too far in the way of con
cession to the Catholics, which even
Mr. Ellis does not allege, or we have
not gone far enough. Either *we
ought to have withheld the greater
part ot the tights we have conceded
to them, or we ought to grant them the
few that ate still withheld. Bigotry
might find out some miserable pretext
for retaining the Catholics in a state ol
perpetual helotism, and depriving them
of aii political privileges whatever; but
having erntfeeded those that are most
important—having raised the Catholics
from the state of abject dfepressioh, in
to which they were sunk; having ; put
weapons into their hands, and gi#fen
them power and influence whicH-can
not be resumed, why should still
hold the Catholics up as objects of
distrust and suspicin?—why, in a word
should we endeavor to perpetuate and
all the odious prejudices to
which the penal code gave lise, by
withholding the few remaining pt ivil
iges from the exercise of which the
Catholics are still debaridfl? What
we have already given up was valua
ble; what we now withhold is compar
atively worthless. And the evil con
; sists not, in the intrinsic worth of
the privileges which are denied to the
Catholics, but in the feelings of inso
lent supeiioriiy on the one>ide, and of
debasement and degradaMMk gn the
other, which that
and keeps alive. It has tWn con
tended, that the exclusion of the
Catholics ftom the Legislature and the
Bench, and from Corporations and oth
er situations of power and emolument,
is not fell as a grievance, except by a
I few individuals! But nothing can be
more eroneous than this idea. The
’ meanest Carbolic in Ireland knows that
he is excluded from rights which Pro
-lestanis possess; that he occupies a low
er place in so< iety. He knows, that
the penai code is abolished, and he
does not stop to calculate the precise
value of the partial repeal. The Cath
olics, to a man, believe that the laws
oppress them the proles
tants. They cmWider the restraints
under which they labour, as badges of
the triumph of Protestanism over
Caiholicism; of England over 1 1 eland;
and in addition to their own sufferings
of their forefathers, by the plunder,
confiscations, and massacres of Eng
lish Governors and English armies, in
former times. The Irish peasantry
are possessed of Gi eat natural talents,
and are full of Intelligence. They are
well acquainted with all the public.
measures which immedKttely affect
their interests; and they discuss what
ever aggreaves them with a force of lan
guage which rouses iheir passions, and
leads them to form * the boldest amd
most desperate resolutions. There is
a sort of Irishy about them which
makes every thing English, and dfct4v
ed from an English oiigin, nationally
odius. This peculiarity in their char
acter generally escapes the notiticeof
common observers; but the notions
and prejudices which are grafted up
\>n it establish a strong bond of union
amongst them, and teach them to look
forward with confidence, to tl)f period,
w hen they expect to be able to throw
off the English connexion and protes
tant ascendency together.
Had the Catholic code been totally
abolished in 1793, these prejudices
would now have been greatly abated;
but enough of it was unfortunately left
to preserve them entire. The Catho
lics believed that this code was framed
to secure the conquest of their coun
try and their own degradation; ‘and it
is not a cold calculation of what it de
prives them of, because they are Cath
olics, that decide their opinion upon it,
but a deep-rooted, though general con
viction, that it debases them as Itish
men, and has sunk them below the le
vel of protestants. It is in vain to say
that those feelings are not justified by
the present state of the law against
Catholics, or that the existing res
traints affect only the higher orders!
The people judge particularly, and
not speculatively—Kiey judge from
what they see and feel, and not from
what they read, or what may be told
them. The anti-catholic spirit of the
government has proved the bane of ev
ery 4uccessive#concession. Real ine
quality has rendered the letter of equal
laws a mockery and an insult. The
marked indifference with which the
bacchanalian outrages of the Orange
Societies, and their continued attempts
to disturb the public peace, and even
to injure the persons of the Catholics
lave been regarded, to convince the
atter that they are regarded with jeal
ousy and aversion by those in authority;
and they perceive that the zealots of
the ProtestaTit party are permitted,
without molestation from government, ,
to treat them with contumely, inclign
ty, and contempt.
“The word rapis’ or Catholic,” say
Mr. Wakefield, and ol
all that regains Ireland, “caries as
much contemn! along with it, ark ii u.
beast were designated by the teim.—
When the comfort or the inteiest ot
the Catholic is under consideration, he
must always give way; for although he
stands as erect before his Makei as
does the protestant, he is jet consider
ed as an inferior animal, and though
unworthy of participating in the same
enjoy merits. The. protestants -are, in
general, ijetter educated than the Cath
olics; bnt many of them aie still ignor
ant enough to belic\e, that their Cath-*’
olic fellow-subjects at e the helots of
the country, and that they ought to be
retained in state of perpetual bon
dage. ”
By the-rec.ogniiion of the indepen
i deuce of the Spanish province in Amer
,j tea, Great Britain has adopted a meas
ure t||at must disturb the feelings of
the Holy Alliance. One ofi heir funda
mental maxims is, that all improve
ment in govei nments, and in the con
dition of sulffjecis must proceedjHiom
sovereigns. Hence they combine their
efforts to put down effectually all at
tempts on the part of their former, to
transljprm despotic, into milder systems
of government, and all endeavors to
change absolute into constitutional or
limited monarchies. It was an adher
ence to this principle which led the
Emperor of Austria, in 1821, to ai rest
the exertions the of NEfpolitans to form a
constitution; and the King of F’ance,
in 1822, to overthrow the system which
had been established in Spain, and to
resfbre the ancienj,
though we do not suppose'tiiat
pe*orsof Rnsia, and Austiia, and the
King of Prusia, care any thing for the
revolution that lias been produced in
the Spanish dominions on this contin
ent in itself considered, yet as it origin
ally proceeded from subjects, and did
not meet the approbation of the sove
reign, they must, if they act consistent
ly, affect to consider the case as falling
within their general scheme, and es
tablishing a precedent against their
main piinciple. Now Great Biiiain,
by acknowledging the Republics of
Mexico and Columbia as independent
sovereignties;, has set her seal to the
legality of revolutions, accomplished
by the people of a country against the
will and wishes of their monarch. This
example must be an alarming one to
that Northern Confederacy against the
rights and happiness of mankind, and
the independence of nations, the c on
sequences of which cannot be easily
foreseen or estimated. Suppose the
Holy Alliance should take it into their
heads to call her to account for this
inroad upon their system, and say we
cannot submit to such a measure as
this, as it is with ruin to our plans, and
our hopes, and therefore you must ei
ther take back w hat you have said and
done, or we will have a quarrel with
you. Gteal Britain might say at once,
we will give you business enough for
some years to come—we will assist the
Greeks against the Turks, and thus
thwart the views of Russia in that quar
ter; we will stir up Naples once more,
and defeat the projects of Austria in
that region; and we will throw) our
force into the constitutional scale in
Spain, and put down the influence and
control of France over that miserable
nation.
The truth is, the government oT
G t eat Britain itself is a constant eye
sore to the combined despots of the con
tinent? and if it were in their power to
reach it, we have no doubt there would
be a crusade against the liberties and
independence of that nation, before she
is many years older. It is all impor
tant to her that the continental powers
do not gain even combined strength
enough to deprive her of the dominion
of the ocean, which they would soon be
able to do if Russia could take posses
sion of Turkey in Europe, Austria of
I tally, and France gain the absolute
command of the peninsula. The poli
cy of the British gove-nment in ac
knowledging the southern republics,
is very important in a political, as well
as s ,a commercial point of view, and we
have no doubt will be found in the end to
be such. —N Y. Advertiser.
The above remarks are those of a correct
Judgment —deep thought—and well drawn
conclusions. —Editor
Ao. 12.