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 ¬when I visited Capetia whilst Armata was passing through her provinces in triumph, the evidence of it was decisive. — This mighty man, who had shaken the earth, collected all its spoils, and overwhelmed its dominions, was not to be seen or heard of even in his own capital, amidst the trophies of his universal conquests." ¬I was moved by this just description, and said to Morven, " that it reminded me of a passage in our Sacred Scriptures most divinely eloquent, and which, since the days of the Psalmist, had never been so strikingly illus- trated : — ¬I I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, ' and flourishing like a green bay-tree. — I passed 1 by, and lo, he was gone. — / sought him, but his ' place zvas no where to be found' ¬" So prosperous a conclusion of a war so pro- tracted and ruinous, was a fair and a national occasion of triumph to its authors and supporters ; ¬but ¬