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VoL. ll.] GEORGIA, LOUISVILLE: —PubIiIhed every Tucfday, by AMBROSE DAY Sc (AMES HELY, at 3 dollars per an*, payable half yearly:—Where Fffiys, Articles of Intelligence, Advertifcments, See. See. arc thankfully received, and PRINTING in all its variety, is executed with neatnefa and difpatch. IRISH PARLIAMENT. SPEECH Of Mr. FR4NCTS PC BBS, I'l-mkr for the borough of Char kmont, in Ireland , on the third reading of the Union Bill. Du ring the frf) ten minutes alter Mr Dobbs began to /peak, fome lumbers thought proper to laugh. but afterwards the mo/l profound filtnce prevailed in the hcufe till the jpeech was concluded. SIR, FROM the conduft puifued tv adminiftration during this feflion, and the means that were krown to be in their power, it was not very difficult to forefee that this bill muft reach that chair. It was not very difficult fo forefee that it would fall to your lot to pronounce the pain ful words “ that this bill do pal*," Awful, indeed, would thole words be to me, did I ccnfider my fell living in ordinary tiroes; but, feeling as I do, that we are not living in ordinary times—-trelins* as I do, that we are livingin the moll momentous and eventful period of the world •—fueling as I do, that a new and betfer order of things is about to rife, and that Ireland, in that new order of things, is to be highly diftinguifhed in deed, this bill has no tenors for me. Sir, I did intend to have gone at fme h ngth into hrftory and the facrcd predifiions; hut as I purpofe in a very few months, to give to the public a work, in fchich I (hallffu r y exprefs my ©pinion as to the vaft defign of this terreflrial creation, I (hall for the prefent confine mvfelf to furh p?ffages as will fupport *“'ce pontions: The firft is, the <*nainty of the fecond advert of ffe Meffiah ; the next, the figns the times of his coming, and the manner of it; and the laft, that Ireland is to have the glori ous pre-eminence of being the « r ft kingdom that will receive film. In chapter 2d of the book of there is a mod concife, fuhfime, and romprehenfive de feription of the four greateft em pties that ever were in the world, nnder the figu rc of a great image the fhnpr of a man. It is a t r eed by fir Kaac Newton, and evpr V commentator of eminence, the head of gold was the Babylonifh empiie; tts bread and arms of fib er V re the Medoc Perfian empire; ** a * i* s hcllv and thighs of bials . ere the Grecian empire ; and * ts legs of iron were (be Roman err 'pire, p u t f ir |f a ac Newton oblerveS; that by the legs of THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE; AND ‘REPUBLICAN TRUMPET. T U E S D A Y, September t 6, 1800. LIBERTY TS OUR MOTTO HND TRUTH OUR GUIDE. iron was only meant Italy, and thofe ccuntiies which neverrorr pofed any part of the three firft empires; and when the Roman empire was divided into eaftern and weftrrn, under two diftmft emperors, in the fomth century, the weflnn wa< made up of thofe countries accordingly. The feet and toes of the image, which relate to the weftern Roman em pire, are deferibed by Daniel to be partly‘non, partly clay, part ly ftrong, and partly broken, ard as iton and clay d( not unite neither w ere they to unite. Now the exa£l arcompliff ment ol this is highly worthy of attention. By the ten toes it was predicted that it (hculd be divided into trnkirgdems, and fir llaac New ton proves that this was fo in the year 408. It was this divi fion, to be part (Ircng and fo were ihefe kingdoms, for ihc followers of Mahomet and the Turks could make no permanent conqueft within the bounds of the weftern Reman empire It was alfo to be in pait broken in its power, ano fo were tbefe king doms, for they in vain poured forth their millions of crufades into Afia without being able to make any permanent ccrquefl there. As iron and clay do not unite, neither have they been united, from the year 408 to the piefentday. In vain did Charle magne 5 ttt mpt it»-in vain did »hc emperor ( hades V. attempt it—-in vain did Louis XIV. at tempt it: No, the God of Hea ven had declared ir (hould re main in a divided (late, till an univerfal kingdom was to be eftablifhed on the earth. Kings and their minifters, without knowing if, have accomplifhed the fulfilment of this aflonifhing prophecy and that balance of power which has for fo many centuries been attended fo in Europe, is neitherrroie noi lefs than keeping up that broken (late of the weftern Roman em pire. Before I go into the remainder of the prophecy as to thefe king doms info which the wcflcrn empire was broken, it is curious to contemplate what hashappen ed within that boundary, in the crurfc of the laft ten years France dethroning and putting to death her monarch, and going through a variety of bloody re volutions—- the Auftrian Nether lands taken from their ancient princes, andmade part of France revolutionized, and her ftadtholdcr fent into exile —Switzerland revolutionized— Venice annihilated as a ftatc all Italy fora time revolutionized, and though reduced by the Auf* frian and Ruffian forces, yet ftill in a ft te entire ly nnfettled'- the late pope bereft of all bis tem poral domirirns, and dying a prifoner in France, the new Pope not even ele£led at or refidirg in Rome—Spain bordering on revolution-—Portugal in danger cither of being ’rvolutionizfd or fubdued—»he affairs of Ger many and the bou f r of Auftria in a critical fituatior—and Great Britain enraged in an arduous war to which we ran fee no ter mination T bus fir, the whole I may fay, of what was the weft ern empire, and which confaim the meft polifhrd rations of the cairh is convulfed from one end totheoihcr. But the next and laft part of the prophecy of the 2d chapter of Daniel will tell us the winding up of all thofe eventful feenes. After having deferibed the image, Daniel proceeds, and fays he beheld a ftone cut out without hands, w hich fmete the image on his feef, that were of iicn and clay, and bieak them to pieces. Then were the iron, the clay, the brafs, the filvtr, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like tie rbafF ol the fumn er tbreft ing floor, and the w ird carried them away and no plare was found for »hem : and the ftene that fmote the image, became a great mountain, and filled tie whole earth. To know more exi.6fJy what is meant by this Horn , we have on'y to read the 7th chap ter of Daniel. There, the lour great empires are more minutely treated of under the defeription of four head?, and inflead ot the ten kingdomsbeingdebribod by toes, they arc made thf ten horns of the fourth braft—and when their delliutlion is menti oned, :n thefe words, %l I faw in the night vifion?, ard lei old ont like the Son of Man, came with the clouds of Heaven, and c me to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near le fore him And there was given I im dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages (hculd ferve him ; his dominion is an cverlafting don inion, whch (hall not pafs away, and his kingdom that which (hall not be deftroyed," There cannot therefore be a doubt, but that the ftone and the perfonage thus pointed out, is the Meffiah, and fo does fir Ifaac and all the beft of the commentators explain thofe paf fages ; and there arc many texts in the fcripturcs that corroborate this explanation. But for my own part, if there was not any other pailage in the Bible, than what is to hf rnct with in the ed and 7th chapters of Daniel, not ary other rnmnrnfafor than fir Ifaar Newton, 1 fhould not have a doubt of the cei taintv of the fccond coming of the Meffi ah. I (hall however add what is the opinion of the Jewilh miion, beraufc it ought to have great weight, as thev are in faft a Handing miracle : hut I (hall fnO ptemife the exa6f accom plifhment of die prophecy as to them, which has already taken p'ace. near three thou fand years ago, predifted that thev fhould be plucked from theii land ; that they fhould be fratte ed over all nations ; that they (bruld be evrry where found, but 11 ould have a re fling place no where, and that they fhould become a byc-woid and a from toall nations. It is now niar 1700 years finre thci wet® diiven from fudea by the Ro* mans, fo exatily has the predio lion been fulfilled, that it would be impofliblc, in the fame num ber of words as were ufed by Moles, to give a better hiflory of them Every Jew expeftf the coming of the Mrfliah in power and glory, when their re flotation is to take place. And flrange would it be, if they did not expeft it, when thofo vcy feriptures w hich cor-tain the proph« nes as *o their affli6tions, have a thouknd pafl ges as to their future happy (late. I (hall however, cor tent myfcK with givi- g you one of the plained and flrongefl. It is in Ihr 13d chapter of Jeremiah— ’* Behold the day is come, faith rhr I ord that I will raife unto a righteous branch, and a king fhail reign and profprr, and fball execute judgment and juflice on caith—ln his days |udah fhail be laved and Ifraei fball dwell and this is his name whereby he fhail be called the Lord our Rightcr uCrefc. There fore hr hold the day is come faith the Lord, that they (hall no more fay the Lord hveth which bro't up the Childicn of Ifraei out of the land of Egypt; but the I ord liveth which brought up, and which led the feed of the houlc of Ifraei out of the North coun try, and from all the countries whither I had driven them, and they (hall dwell in their own land,” T hus, fir. all the Jews, all the hefl commentators, and I will he bold to fay, all the heft informed ( hnflians unite in the opinion, that the k ciliah is to come in power and glory, and to be a&ually and in perfon, the king of kings of the earth. I (hall now fir, briefly give [No. 85.