BUDGET OF TRUTH: RELATIVE TO THE PRESENT ASPECT OF AFFAIRS IN THE RELIGIOUS AND THE POLITICAL WORLD, ESPECIALLY TO The Existing State of Christendom. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, OBSERVATIONS ON THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS, AND "THE HOLY ALLIANCE," BEING A DEVELOPEMENT OF THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL & JOHN, WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING CURIOUS OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, &c. BY JOHN BURRIDGE. "What new doctrine is this?" "Extremum hunc, Deo concede laborem." LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, AND SOLD BY J. CHAPPELL, ROYAL EXCHANGE, AND ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1 PREFACE. In critical cases and complaints, physicians are generally obliged to compound medicines, and call them MIXTURES. They care little as to their numbers, so that they imagine they prescribe the right medicines for the fevers, &c. according to the respective SYMPTOMS, requiring firm judgment and experience, as to quantities and quality; so, I, perceiving England's heart and soul sickness, in CHURCH and STATE, have ventured to mix, in this book, to the best of my humble skill and knowledge, many subjects, forming strange mixtures of civil, political, and religious matters: regardless, like physicians, how disagreeable soever they may be to the PALATES, or rather (on this occasion) to men's consciences, eyes, and understandings; therefore, I admit, NECESSITY has obliged me to use the strongest COMPOUNDS; but all, not possessing common sense or reflection, will " THROW PHYSIC TO THE DOGS," regardless of THE GREAT PHYSICIAN, who daily offers his divine medicine, GRATIS. Mr. Auldjo has just published a book, called "The Ascent of Mont Blanc, 8 and 9 Aug. 1827." When near the summit, the party found a bridge, or mass of snow, laying across a chasm (several hundred feet deep), over which the party passed, after having breakfasted upon it, because rather sheltered from the wind! The heedless creatures chose that spot for breakfast; if an avalanche had happened, eternity must have opened in a minute upon them. On accidentally viewing the plate, I thought it was an allegory of Christendom's danger, she having placed herself upon the quicksands of UNIVERSAL IDOLATRY, instead of the rock of God, whence she must be launched into the precipice of hell (in the midst of the abomination of desolation), by earthquakes, &c.. No part of this world has been more blessed than Great Britain, our native land. The bowels of the earth contain all that is necessary to contribute to the comforts, convenience, and commerce, of human life, while the surface yields abundance of the staff of life, and almost all the luxuries, under a mild healthy climate. In the midst of abundance, millions pine and die in want and wretchedness. Our coal mines alone, afford inexhaustible treasures-our copper, tin, lead, and salt mines, are inestimable blessings. If Englishmen employed all these blessings |