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habitual faying, by way of interjection almost to any thing, viz. You fay true, you fay true. You are in the right, This Mr. Bourne fell fick at his houfe at Dudley, in the year 1654, and Dr. Raymond of Oake was fent for to him, who after fome time gave the faid Mr. Bourne over. And he had not now fpoke in twenty-four hours, when the. faid Dr. Raymond and Mrs. Carlifle, Mr. Bourne's nephew's wife, whofe hufband he made one of his heirs, fitting by his bed-fide, the Dr. opened the curtains at the bed's feet to give him air; when on á fudden, to the horror and amazement of Dr. Raymond`and Mrs. Carlisle, the great iron cheft by the window at his bed's feet, with three locks to it, (in which were all the writings and evidences of the faid Mr. Mallet's eftate) began to open, first one lock, then another, then the third. Afterwards the lid of the faid iron cheft lifted up itfelf, and stood wide open. Then the patient Mr. Bourne, who had not fpoke in twenty-four ho; lifted himself up alfo, and looking upon the cheft, cried, You fay true, you fay true! you are in the right, I will be with you by and by. So the patient lay down and fpake no more.

Then the cheft

fell again of itself, and locked itself one lock after another, as the three locks opened; and they tried to knock it open and could not. And Mr. Bourne died within an hour after.

A DREAM.

A CITIZEN of London, having been about fix days in the country, twenty-eight miles from London, awaking one night about eleven of the clock, was very much difturbed at a dream which he had then had, fo that he could not com ofe himself again to reft, but told his deam to his bed-fellow, which was, that a special friend of his at London, was on his death-bed; and that in his dream he faw him laid forth, and c vered for dead; but being anfwered by his bed-fellow, that it was,

but a dream, and had not reality in it, he notwithstanding continued his fear, and haftened his journey to London, whither when he came, the first news he heard was, that his friend was dead; and enquiring the time when he died, he found it was the very fame night wherein he had that dream of him in the country: which apparently fhews that there is a fecret intercourse betwixt our fouls and thofe that are, departed; and that there are communications made to one by the other in dreams, and fometimes by vifions, voices, and appearances.

A MOTHER'S APPEARANCE TO HER SON WHILE AT BEA.

A WOMAN, who lived on Rhode Island, in America, whilst on her death bed, and just before the expired, expreffed a great defire of seeing her only fon, who was then a mariner, navigating in the Weft India feas, and of delivering him a mcflage. She informed the

perfons near her what he wanted to fay to her fon, and died immediately. About that inftant fhe appeared to him, as he was standing at the helm, it being night and bright moonfhine. She firft appeared on the fhrouds, and delivered her meffage; and afterwards walked over fome cafks that lay on the deck, then defcended regularly to the water, where fhe feemed to float for awhile, and at laft funk and wholly difappeared. The young man immediately fet down. the time and day, and the substance of her meffage, and found, on his arrival at Rhode Island, that fhe died at the very juncture when fhe was feen by him; and that the words fhe fpake to him, correfponded exactly with thofe he delivered to the perfons around her. This young man had soon after the misfortune to be drowned at fea; perhaps her appearing to him, and finking in the water, was a forerunner not only of her own, but of his death.

A young woman who lived on the north fide of Long Island, in the ftate

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A CLERGYMAN who lived in the Maffachusetts, and had entertained an opinion, for more than fifty years, that fuch ftories were only the vapours of diftempered and weak brains, was convinced at laft in the following manner being in his own garden, he faw his own likeness or apparition, dreffed just as he then was, pafs by him, and look him full in the face. He ran into the houfe in a great furprize, told his family what he had feen, that he was convinced of his former error, and that he feared he should live but a few days. His words proved true, for he died a fhort time after.

These three ftories are related upon the teftimony of an eminent phyfi

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trine of fpiritual manifeftation, has from the earliest time prevailed amongst them.

OMINOUS DREAM.

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IN the night of Sunday, March 18, 1739, the foreman of Mr. Philip G, a master-builder in the LittleMinories, was terribly frightened by a dream, concerning his master's family. In the morning of the Monday, about five o'clock, he went to his mafter's houfe about his bufinefs, as ufual, and being let in by young Mr. Ghe enquir ed how all the family did? And was answered, they were all very well. To which the foreman replied, he was very glad, for he had been in terrible agonies all the night with dreams; at which his young mafter laughed. He then asked, if his old mafter was well? And was told yes. Hereupon they went up, as ufual, to call him, and miffing him from his chamber, they fearched about the house, and at lait, to their very great furprife, found him hanging in his, cellar with a piece of jack-line. He was cut down immediately, and a furgeon let him blood, but to no purpose: and on the Thursday following, the coroner's inqueft fat on his body, and brought in their verdict, Lunacy.

APPARITIONS IN TURKEY.

IT is the common opinion of the Turks and Perfians that near the clofe of life, every perfon has fome fort of extraordinary revelation of that awful event; and the most ancient of their writings prove it. Herbelot, in his Bibliotheque Orientale relates that the Sultan Metandi Bemvillia, as he rofe one day from table, faid to one of his wives, who was prefent, "Who are thefe people that are come in here without leave?" Upon looking round, fhe could fee none, but obferved that he grew pale, and immediately fell down dead. The Mahometan writings are full of ftories, which fhew that the doc

APPARITION OF MR. THOMPKINS TO THE REV. MR. WARREN.

MR. John Warren, minister of Hatfield-Broad-oak, in Effex, a worthy and pious man, being one day in his garden reading Bunyan's Publican and Pharifee, was accofted by a neighbour, as he thought, who entered into discourse with him upon the words, "Shall man. be more righteous than his Maker " Mr. Warren's difcourfe in general ran upon the promises,, while Mr. Thompkins, his neighbour, as he imagined he was difcourfing with, chiefly urged the threatenings of God. For a while they difcourfed in this fort, till Mr

Warren's

Warren's fervant came and informed him the dinner was ready, and miftrefs waited for him: common civility made him afk his neighbour Thompkins to come in with him and cat fome dinner, which the latter, with tears now ftanding in his eyes, refufed, faying, "My time is come, and I muft away." Mr. Warren thought it very odd, and was proceeding to expoftulate with his friend Thompkins, when the fervant repeated the meflage, urging that a neighbour had fent for him to go immediately upon occafion of life and death. Mr. Warren withdrawing towards the house, fill held up the difcourfe upon the former fubject, comforting his friend till he arrived at the door, when entering firft, he left the door open that Mr. Thompkins might come in; but nobody coming in, he went directly and fought him all over his garden, but found him not, which much disturbed his mind then, and much more foon afterwards, when he found that his neighbour and friend Thompkins was juft expired, and had not been out of his houfe, according to every teftimony, that day. Mr. Warren's fervant teftified feeing her master

ONE Mr. Wilkinfon, who formerly lived in Smithfield, told his daughter (taking her leave of him, and expreffing her fears that the fhould never fee him more) that fhould he die, if ever God did permit the dead to fee the living, he would fee her again. After he had been dead about half a year, on a night when in bed, but awake, fhe heard mufic, and the chamber feemed greatly illuminated, at which time fhe faw her father, who faid, Mal, did not I tell thee, I would fee thee again? and difcourfed with her about fome weighty affairs, and then disappeared.

SEPTEMBER I.

A PRIVATE letter received by the Hawke, lately arrived from India, relates the following. pleafing incident, which occurred to Major Gowdie, thortly after he entered Bangalore, with the other affailants. Laft war he had been Tippoo's prifoner, and was confincd, with many other gentlemen, in Bangalore, where they fuffered every fpecies of infult, hardthip, and barbarity.

A humane and benevolent butcher, whofe bufines led him often to their prifon, faw and felt for their fufferings; they had been ftripped of their clothes, and robbed of their money before they were confined. It would probably have colt the butcher his cars, perhaps his life, had he difcovered any fymptoms of pity for the prifoners before his

countrymen. They were allowed only one feer of rice, and a pice, or halfpenny per day, for their fubfiftence: but the butcher contrived to relieve their neceffitics. Upon opening the fheep-heads, which they frequently bought of him for food, they were aftonished to find pagodas in the brains. Upon paffing the yard of their prifon, he often gave them abufive language, and threw balls of clay or dirt at them to teftify his hatred or contempt; but upon breaking the balls, they always found that they contained a fupply of money for their relief; and this he did frequently for a confiderable length of time.

Major Gowdie had not long entered the breach, ere he faw and recognized his quondam friend the butcher; he ran with eagernefs to embrace him, faved

him

him from the carnage, and led him to a place of fafety;-the tranfports of the two generous fpirits at their meeting gave the most pleafing fenfations to all who beheld them: it foftened the rage of the foldiers, and made the thirft of blood give way to the emotions of hu

manity.

George Dingler, the pork butcher, who murdered his wife in Strutton Ground, Weftminiter, was tried at the lafl Old Bailey feflions, found guilty, received fentence of death, and on the fucceeding Monday morning was hanged before Newgate, and his body diffeited. The Recorder pronounced his fentence in a very awful manner. It is remarkable that, about the time of Dingler's execution, a fellow was taken up in the borough, charged with the murder of his wife.-A fon of Dinler hung himself about a year fince in a fit of jealoufy; and jealoufy it was which inftigated his father to the commiffion of the horrid deed for which he justly fuffered.

Sufannah Hill was tried at the fame feffions, for hanging the musician Kotiwarra, in a fit of luftful dalliance, and acquitted.

A man this month cut his throat while shaving himself, in Norton-street, near Portland Chapel. He was a German, and by profeffion a stone-polisher; he fubmitted to have the wound fewed up, after which he appeared perfectly compofed, and made his will with great perfpicuity and decifion, by which he affigned the whole of his property to his brother he then fent for a perfon with whom he had worked, and delis vered to him 150 guineas and other property, to be appropriated to the ufe of his brother, leaving his wife without even the neceffaries of life. Having effected this, with the most determined ferocity, he tore out the thread by which the wound was closed, and immediately bled to death, about five hours and a half after he first made the wound. Two gypfies were lately committed, one to Worcester caftle, and the other to the Bridewell there, on a strong fuf

picion of being concerned with others in the murder of E. Gomery, his wife and daughter, and Thomas Sheen, his wife's brother, at Organ's Crofs, in the parish of Betrow, near Birch-Mortoncourt, about four miles. from Malvern, in Worcestershire, on the 7th of May, 1783. The above men belong to a gang of gypsies, who have long infefted the neighbourhood of Worcestershire, and were apprehended on the confeffion of William Jones, another gyply, now under fentence of tranfportation in Worcester gaol, for ftealing a gold ring, and in all probability the whole of this gang, who committed the horrid murder, will be brought to juftice, as diligent fearch is making after them, though committed eleven years ago. The number the gang confifted of, is computed to be feven. A difpute among the gypfies, it is faid, brought the above tranfaction to light.

A melancholy accident lately happened at Strangwich paffage, between Truro and Falmouth. About nine o'clook one evening, a company returning from a feaft in that neighbourhood, got into a fmall packet boat, with their three horfes, which were carclefsly left without being tied or held. The horfes, being very unquiet, got on one fide cf the boat, which upfet and funk. Three lives were loft: a young gentleman traveller on his firft journey, from Lore and Sons, Birmingham; Mils Joanna Pellowe, of Penryn; and one of the boatmen. Another of the boatmen, and a young lad, caught hold of the mane of one of the horfes, and reached the fhore. Mr. Richard Behenna, of Penryn, and Mifs Pellowe, caught hold of the landing board; but, Mifs Pellowe's fpirits being quite exhaufted, fhe foon funk. Mr. Behenna would foon have fhared the fame fate, but fortunately a boat woman hearing the fhricks, got into a boat and rowed to their affiftance, and feizing Mr. Behenna by the hair, dragged him fafe on fhore, almost deprived of life. Early the next morning, a diligent fearch was made, when the bodies of the young

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72 traveller, and the boatman were taken up, as was also the boat: the body of Mils Pellowe was not found at a late hour. The 9th at twelve o'clock, Reed, the celebrated pedestrian, fet out in a field near Gofport, to go 100 miles from that time till next morning at ten, to decide a trifling bet of ten guineas. He refted two hours and twenty minutes of the time (twenty-two hours), and performed the undertaking, extraordinary as it may appear, with three miles over, and fome minutes to spare.

12. On Sunday, about twelve o'clock at noon, Mr. F....., of Lothbury, a wholefale woollen-draper, threw himfelf out of a three pair of stairs window, and after a few minutes of dreadful agony, expired. He has left a wife and feven children to lament this unpreparedfor termination to domeftic happiness. He was a very respectable character in private life, and no caufe is yet known for the rafh act.

15. About four o'clock this morning the poft-boy carrying the mail from Warrington to Manchester, was murdered about a mile from the former place, and the bags with the letters from Chefter for Manchester and Rochdale, and thofe from Liverpool and Warrington for Rochdale, taken out of the mail, which was left open. This attrocious deed is fufpected to have been committed by two villains, fuppofed by their accent to be Irishmen, who were feen near the fpot where the murder was committed immediately afterwards, and likewife about an hour after on the road to Liverpool, with fmall bundles under their

arms.

This month died, near Mile End, Mr. Philip Lewis, for many years a performer in the provincial theatres. As an actor he had fome merit, but was more remarked for an aukward and undifcriminating fenfibility, which impelled him to tears on every change of fortune, whether fortunate or the contrary. Shuter gave him a name from this habit, which he retained to his laft hour; he was called "the King of Grief!"

The body of a new-born infant was this month discovered murdered in the garret of Mr. Slaughter's houfe, in North Lane, Canterbury. Very strong fufpicions falling on the fervant-maid, the was apprehended, and committed. The inftrument with which the perpetrated the horrid act, was her fciffars; with thefe fhe mangled its throat in a moft fhocking manner.

A bill of indictment, for perjury, has been preferred at Clerkenwell Seffions, against a merchant of great credit and refpectability in the city. The Grand Jury found it a true bill; and, on the iffue, a property is faid to be depending to the amount of 150,000l.

In digging for the foundation of an additional wing to the Eaft-India Company's warehouses in Fenchurch-street, at a confiderable depth have been difcovered fome veftiges of the ancient Northumberland houfe, formerly the town refidence of the illuftrious family of the Percy's, particularly of that fa mous Earl who fent a challenge to our King Henry the Fourth, extant in the British Museum, and who was the father of the gallant Henry, furnamed Hotspur.

At Newcastle upon Tyne, was tried a cause of great importance, to the mercantile intereft of this country, Mr. Ralph, the traveller to Meffrs, Spence and Coulman of Leeds, merchants, in the month of September laft, had his bags, containing near 8ol. in cafh and fmall notes, taken out of his lodgingroom at the Queen's Head Inn, at Newcaftle-upon-Tyne, in the afternoon about five o'clock, and rifled of their contents, and the bags were found in an adjoining room about two hours afterwards. The action was brought against the landlord, to recover the above fum; after the examination of several witnesses, the Jury gave a verdict for the Plaintiffs, for the whole amount.

18. At eight in the morning a young woman, in diftrefs, threw herfelf from a two-pair of stairs window in Frithstreet, Soho, when two gentlemen paffing by,humanely catched her from death.