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DARIEN llliil? GAZETTE. Vol VII. “Darien <©a3ette JR edited AND PUBLISHES BY • - * A’S. F. DRANDISON. (ON THE BAY) }5 fier annum, payable in advance. - 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.