One of these heads shall deliver messages of great importance
to the governing party, and the other to the party that is opposite to
them. The first shall believe the monster, but the last shall discover
the impostor, and so happily disengage themselves from a snare that was
laid to destroy them and their posterity. After this the two heads shall
unite, and the monster shall appear in his proper shape.
3. In the year 1721, a philosopher from Lower Germany shall come, first
to Amsterdam in Holland, and afterwards to London. He will bring with
him a world of curiosities, and among them a pretended secret for the
transmutation of metals. Under the umbrage of this mighty secret he
shall pass upon the world for some time; but at length he shall be
detected, and proved to be nothing but an empiric and a cheat, and so
forced to sneak off, and leave the people he has deluded, either to
bemoan their loss, or laugh at their own folly. N.B.--This will be the
last of his sect that will ever venture in this part of the world upon
the same errand.
4. In this year great endeavours will be used for procuring a general
peace, which shall be so near a conclusion that public rejoicings shall
be made at the courts of several great potentates upon that account; but
just in the critical juncture, a certain neighbouring prince shall come
to a violent death, which shall occasion new war and commotion all over
Europe; but these shall continue but for a short time, and at last
terminate in the utter destruction of the first aggressors.
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