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Strange Dreams.

ber, feeming rather to swim than walk; then stopped by the fide of that Indian cheft, and looking on me with her usual sweetness, Beauclair, faid fhe, between the hours of twelve and one this night you will be with me.-The furprife I was in at firft being a little abated, I began to afk fome queftions concerning that future world I was fo foon to vifit; but on the opening my lips, for that purpose, fhe vanished from my fight I know not how.

The clock, was now very near ftriking twelve; and as the difcovered not the lealt fymptoms of any ailment, we again aimed to remove all apprehenfions of a diffolution; but we had fcarce begun to fpeak, when on a fudden her countenance changed, and fhe cried out," O! I am fick at heart!" Mrs. Ward, who all this while had ftood leaning on her chair, applied fome drops, but to no effect; the till grew worfe; and in about half an hour expired, it being exactly the time the apparition had foretold."

INSTANCES OF REMARKABLE

DREAMS.

WHILST I lived at Prague (fays an English gentleman) and one night had fat up very late drinking at a feaft, early in the morning the fun-beams glancing on my face as I lay on my bed, I dreamed that a fhadow paffing by, told me that my father. was dead, at which awaking all in a sweat, and affected with this dream, I rofe and wrote the day and hour, and all circumftances thereof in a paper book, which book with many other things I put into a barrel, and fent it from Prague to Stode, thence to be conveyed into England.

And now, being at Nuremberg, a merchant of a noble family, well acquainted with me and my relations, arrived there; who informed me that my father had been dead upwards of two months; (that which I write is as true as ftrange): when I returned into En

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gland about four years after, I would not open the barrel I fent from Prague, nor look into the paper book in which I had written this dream, till I had called my fifters and fome other friends to be witneffes, where myfelf and they were aftonifhed to fee my written dream anfwer the very day of my father's death.

'Doctor Jofeph Hall, Bifhop of Exeter, fince of Norwich, gives us an inftance of a marvellous cure, which was wrought at St. Maderns in Cornwall, upon a poor cripple; befides the atteftation of many hundreds of the neighbours, I took a ftrict and impartial examination in my laft vifitation.

This man for fixteen years together, was obliged to walk on his hands by reafon of the finews of his legs being contracted; and on an information in his dream to wash in that well, was so fuddenly restored to his limbs, that I faw him able both to walk and to get his own maintenance. I found here was neither art nor collufion. The name of this cripple was John Trelille.

A citizen of Milan was demanded a debt, as owing by his dead father; and being in fome trouble about it, the image of his dead father appears to him in his fleep, tells him the whole procefs of the bufinefs, that his debt was paid by him in his life-time; and that if he looked in fuch a place, he should find a writing under the hand of his creditor, wherein he did acknowledge himself fatisfied. Awaking therefore from fleep, and reflecting upon his dream, he fearched, and found all things agreeable to what he had dreamed. St. Auftin fays that this very writing was feen by him.

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The Infernal Banquet.

ty for King Charles I. an old gentleman that was fecond-fighted, met him and told him that his attempt, though laudable, would not be fuccefsful; and that befides they would put the King to death; and that feveral other attempts would be made but all in vain, but that his fon would come in, although it would be long firft, and fhould at laft be reftored. This nobleman had a great friend hip with the Laird Bocconi, and they made an agreement, that the firft of them that died fhould appear to the other in extremity. It happened that the Lord Middleton was taken prifoner at the battle of Worcefter, and fent up to London: while he was confined in the Tower, under three locks, one day in the morning, lying penfive in his bed, Bocconi appeared to him. My Lord Middleton afked him if he were dead or alive? He replied that he was dead, and had been fo many years, but that he was come to revive his hopes, for that in a very fhort time, within three days, he fhould efcape: this fell out as it was foretold, and he did fo in his wife's cloaths. When he had performed his meffage, he lightly tripped about the room like a vapour, then ga, thered up and vanished.

AUBREY. This account Sir William Dugdale bad from the Bishop of Edinburgh, who had inferted it in his Mifcellanies, which is now depofited, with other books, in the Muleum at Oxford.

APPARITIONS OF SPIRITS.

A Nobleman in Silefia having caufed fumptuous entertainment to be prepared for feveral of his friends, they, inftead of being punctual to the time, according to promife, alledged divers excufes for the neceffity they were under af abfenting themfelves, which fo exafperated him, that he fell into a paroxim of rage, exclaiming-" Since they have thus difappointed me, may as many devils from hell, come and eat up

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the provifions thofe friends of mine refufe to partake of!" which faid, he fallied out of the houfe, and went to church to hear a fermon. He had not been long gone, when a numerous company of horfemen, all arrayed in black, of extraordinary afpect and ftature, appeared in his court-yard, and, alighting, called a groom to take their horfes, bidding another run presently to his maiter, and tell him his guests were arrived. The fervant, with hair upright, and looks betokening horror, entered the church where his mafter was, and acquainted him with the circumftance, as well as his fright would permit him. The nobleman immediately interrupted the fer mon, intreating the preacher to affift him with his ghoftly counfel. He, with all his congregation, made all speed towards the manfion, which had been deferted by the fervants; who, in the hurry of their flight, had left behind them a young child, their mafter's fon, fleeping in the cradle. By this time, the devils were revelling in the dining-room, making a great noife, as if they faluted and welcomed each other. They looked through the cafements-one with the head of a bear, another with that of a wolf, &c. taking bowls at the fame time, and quaffing, as if they had drank to the matter of the houfe. The Nobleman, who, among others, was a witnefs of their revelry, feeing his fervants fafe, bethought himself of his fon, and asked

what was become of him? The words had fcarce paffed his lips, when one of the devils had the infant in his arms, and fhewed him at the window. The father, half frantic with his feelings, on fecing his beloved offspring fo perilously fituated, fetched a deep figh, and, turning to an old and faithful fervant, faid

"What fhall become of my boy?" "Sir," faid the trufty domeftic, truly affected by the agony of defpair he faw his mafter in, "by God's help I will enter the houfe, and refcue the babe from yon devil, or perifh with him." "Heaven profper thy attempt," returned his mafter, "and ftrengthen thee

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in thy purpose !" He accordingly went, followed by the prayers of all prefent, and having entered a room, adjoining that in which the devils were rioting, he fell upon his knees, and commended himfelf to the protection of heaven; after which, he burst in among them, and beheld them in their horrible fhapes. That inftant they all preffed round him, enquiring what his bufinefs was there? He, under great terror, though resolved to fulfil the intent of his coming, addreffing himself to the spirit that held the child, faid“ In the name of God,

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deliver the child to me!" plied the fiend, let thy mafter, who is more interested in him, come." "I am come," rejoined the man, "to do that fervice to which God hath called me; by virtue of which, and by his power, I do feize upon the innocent:" fo faying, he fnatched him from the devil, and bore him off, the fpirits clamouring as he departed "Knave, Knave, leave the child, or we tear thee in pieces!" but he, undifmayed by their diabolical menaces, effected his purpose, and reftored the boy to his afflicted father.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
NOVEMBER 1791.

LORD MAYOR'S DINNER. THE dinner on the 9th was ferved up foon after five o'clock, and the tables of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs were covered with all the delicacies of the feafon and in great abundance. Befides the Lord Mayor and most of the Members of the Corporation, fome few of the Minifters of State were present, but they were not fo numerous as on many former occafions. The only perfons of rank whom we diftinguifhed were Mr. Pitt, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Leeds, Lord Dorchefter, Lord Hood, Lord Kenyon, and most of the Judges, and the Attorney General; there were befides three or four of the

foreign Minifters. The company retired into the Ball-room before eight

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tend with) and a Captain of the Swedifh Navy.. Few Minuets were dan ced.

The Duke of Leeds continued with his accustomed attention till near twelve o'clock.

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The 2nd, about one o'clock, a quantity of gun-powder at Mrs. Clitherow's, a fire-worker, in Half-Moon-Alcy, Bifhopfgate-ftreet, which had been vided for the purpose of making preparations to celebrate the Anniverfary of the 5th of November, by fome accident caught fire. The houfe in which the powder was, was blown up by the explofion, as were the houfes on each fide of it: two houfes on the other fide of the Lane alfo caught fire, and were entirely burnt down before the flames were got under.

By this melancholy accidert, about eleven perfons are fuppofed to have lost their lives;-only four of their bodies have yet been found; but fome limbs of others, torn in a moft fhocking manner, have been picked up-f -feveral of them at a confiderable distance. All the houfes in the neighbourhood, and for fome diftance round, have received confiderable damage-many doors were torn from their hinges, and every window for fome hundreds of yards round entirely deftroyed. The effects of the explofion extended as far as Broad-street Buildings, and round a great part of

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Dreadful Accidents.

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Mrs. Clitherow, and three of her children, are among the number of thofe who were killed. Her fon, who conducted the bufinefs, happened to be from home, by which means he escaped the deftruction that otherwife would have been inevitable.

It is impoffible to defcribe the confternation and alarm 'which the explofion occafioned; as far as its effects extended, the houses fhook as if an earthquake had taken place. A woman in the garret of the houfe where the accident happened had a moft miraculous efcape, fhe was blown out at the roof of the house, and fell down in the Court yard, unhurt.

Sunday the 6th, the remains of Mrs. Clitherow's children, and two other perfons, viz. her fifter and a female lodger, were interred in an adjacent burial ground. Since the further recovery of Mrs. Clitherow's eldest daughter in St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, it appears that the lives of three other perfons have been loft, which we did not mention before, viz. the fifter of Mrs. Clitherow, the lodger, and her child, a boy about twelve years of age, which make in the whole nine perfons, with three that are much hurt. When Mrs. Clitherow's fon was discovered, the body was in an erect pofition, with the arms folded, and being very little burnt he is fuppofed to have perifhed by fuffocation.

9. The eldeft daughter of Mrs. Clitherow is fine dead in the hofpital; and the fon, who was abfent when the me lancholy accident happened, has been taken out of the New River, a corpfe.

Edinburgh, Nov. 10.-On Tuesday morning, about twenty minutes after nine, a newly finished glafs-houfe, at Dumbarton, fuppofed the largeft in Britain, the cone being 120 feet in height, fuddenly fell down. At this time, there were twelve men in the infide, employed in removing the scaffolding, all of whom were buried in the ruins. The greatest exertions were made to remove the rubbish, and fix were-got out alive; but we

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underftand, from a perfon who left Dumbarton yesterday morning, two of them are fince dead; fo that eight out of the twelve have loft their lives, and the other four are not out of danger. The hour of breakfast was unfortunately altered, the morning before, from nine till ten o'clock.

14. A great number of failors, lately belonging to the Henry Dundas Indiaman, were examined at the office of Meffrs. Sarles, Attornies, Surrey-street, Strand, relative to the death of one Tupman, late boatswain's mate. Their depofitions are of too ferions a nature to be made public. "But what is very extraordinary," fays the communicant of this article, "the boatswain's call is heard on board the said ship every night, which is now in the dock at Blackwall !"

Monday, the 14th, in the morning, about three o'clock, a diftreffing circumfiance prefented itfelf to the passengers of the Manchefter poft coach: three ladies, one gentleman, and a foldier outfide, who had been overturned in the Leeds heavy coach, about an hour and an half before, all much bruifed, were fitting by the road-fide, nearly perished with cold, about five miles from the nearest inn-one lady in particular was fo much hurt, that it was with the greatest difficulty they could get her into their coach, and have been informed fince, that her recovery is very doubtful, The accident happened between Harborough and Northampton, by the careleffnets. of the coachman, for it was moonlight; the paffengers fuppofe him to have been afleep, as they perceived the coach reclining for feveral yards before it went over.

The proud, the haughty, the domineering Prince Potemkin, fupposed to have died worth more than fixty millions of crowns, befides very large eftates, and many thousands of vaffals, breathed his laft on the bare ground; unable to bear any longer the pains of his diftemper, or even to endure the jolting of his carriage. What a picture, here, of the vanity of all human grandeur !

THE

Conjuror's Magazine,

OR,

Magical and phyliognomical Mirror.

For DECEMBER, 1791.

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Embellished with Three Capital Copper Plates, purposely engraved for this Work. Laft FAREWELL of CALAS' DAUGHTER. 2. Head of HEIDEGGER. 3. Portrait of JUDAS ISCARIOT. All from Lavater.

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