In an old book, entitled _The Prophecies of Robert Nixon_, printed in
the year 1701, is the following prophetic declaration, which appears to
refer to the late melancholy event, which has deprived the English
nation of one of her brightest ornaments:--“In the year 1827 a man will
raise himself by his wisdom to one of the most exalted offices in the
state. His king will invest him with great power, as a reward for his
zeal. England will be greatly rejoiced. A strong party will enter into a
league against him, but their envy and hatred will not prevail. The
power of God, which reigneth over all, will cut him off in his prime,
and the nation will bitterly bemoan her loss. Oh, England? beware of thy
enemies. A great friend thou wilt lose in this man.”
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The preceding is a prediction made after the event--a mere “hoax” on the
credulous. There is nothing of the kind among the prophecies imputed to
Nixon, who was not an astrologer, and probably existed nowhere but in
the imagination of the writer of the manuscript copied by the “Lady
Cowper.”
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