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On Apparitions.
dream ; ' Avhich I desire you to forget , for you are now awake . ' Dr , Donne ansAvered , " I cannot be surer that I noAV live , than that I have not slept since I satv you : and I am -as sure , that , at her second appearing , she stopped , and looked me in the face , and vanished . " A servant was immediately sent to Drury-house in London , to know whether Mrs . Donne was living ; and , if alive , in Avhat condition as to her health . On the tAvelfth day the messenger returned with an
account , that he found , and left her , very sad , and sick in bed ; and that , after a long arid dangerous labour , she had been delivered of a dead child . And , upon examination , the abortion proved to be on the same day , and about the same hour , in which Dr . Donne affirmed that he saAV her pass by him in the room . ' If additional facts be deemed necessary to the above , and many
others recorded by authors , both ancient and modern , distinguished for their probity arid accuracy , we select another instance , extracted from an ingenious essay , which has lately appeared , by a Clergyman of the West of England , vindicating a belief in Spirits . * When Admiral Coates was commanding a Squadron in the East Indies , he met with this extraordinary incident : Retiring one nig ht to his lodging-room , he satv the form of his wife standing at his
bedside , as plainly ( he used to say ) as he had ever seen her m England . Greatly agitated , he hurried from the room and joined his brother Officers , Avho were not yet retired to rest . But willing to persuade himself that this appearance was a mere illusion , he went again into his bed-room , where he again satv his wife in the same attitude as before . She did not attempt to speak to him ; but then slowly waved her hand and disappeared . In the last letters he had recived from
England , he Aviis informed that his wife was perfectly well ; his mind , in short , had been quite composed . Of this very singular occurrence , however , he immediately set down the particulars in his memorandum-book , noticing the exact time in tviiich it happened . Fie saw also a minute made to the same purport by several of his friends on board . The ship had begun her voyage homeward ; so that
before he could receive any intelligence from England , he arrived there ; and on enquiry for his wife , he not only found she was dead , but that she died at the very same hour of thc nig ht when her spirit appeared to him in the East Indies . This account the Admiral himself has often given to a near relation , who had seen indeed the memorandum on the Admiral ' s pocket-book ; and who-more than once related the aboA'e particulars . "
Remarks Made By A Late Traveller In Spain.
REMARKS MADE BY A LATE TRAVELLER IN SPAIN .
TN Spain the eldest son of a Grandee is prohibited marrying the - " * heiress of one of equal rank . The writer names an instance , the Countess of'Bevenente , whose daughter is to inherit an income of 50 , 000 doubloons a year , about 35 , 000 ! . sterling yearly , and who is to be married to the second son of the Duke d'Opuna , who , a as cadet ,
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On Apparitions.
dream ; ' Avhich I desire you to forget , for you are now awake . ' Dr , Donne ansAvered , " I cannot be surer that I noAV live , than that I have not slept since I satv you : and I am -as sure , that , at her second appearing , she stopped , and looked me in the face , and vanished . " A servant was immediately sent to Drury-house in London , to know whether Mrs . Donne was living ; and , if alive , in Avhat condition as to her health . On the tAvelfth day the messenger returned with an
account , that he found , and left her , very sad , and sick in bed ; and that , after a long arid dangerous labour , she had been delivered of a dead child . And , upon examination , the abortion proved to be on the same day , and about the same hour , in which Dr . Donne affirmed that he saAV her pass by him in the room . ' If additional facts be deemed necessary to the above , and many
others recorded by authors , both ancient and modern , distinguished for their probity arid accuracy , we select another instance , extracted from an ingenious essay , which has lately appeared , by a Clergyman of the West of England , vindicating a belief in Spirits . * When Admiral Coates was commanding a Squadron in the East Indies , he met with this extraordinary incident : Retiring one nig ht to his lodging-room , he satv the form of his wife standing at his
bedside , as plainly ( he used to say ) as he had ever seen her m England . Greatly agitated , he hurried from the room and joined his brother Officers , Avho were not yet retired to rest . But willing to persuade himself that this appearance was a mere illusion , he went again into his bed-room , where he again satv his wife in the same attitude as before . She did not attempt to speak to him ; but then slowly waved her hand and disappeared . In the last letters he had recived from
England , he Aviis informed that his wife was perfectly well ; his mind , in short , had been quite composed . Of this very singular occurrence , however , he immediately set down the particulars in his memorandum-book , noticing the exact time in tviiich it happened . Fie saw also a minute made to the same purport by several of his friends on board . The ship had begun her voyage homeward ; so that
before he could receive any intelligence from England , he arrived there ; and on enquiry for his wife , he not only found she was dead , but that she died at the very same hour of thc nig ht when her spirit appeared to him in the East Indies . This account the Admiral himself has often given to a near relation , who had seen indeed the memorandum on the Admiral ' s pocket-book ; and who-more than once related the aboA'e particulars . "
Remarks Made By A Late Traveller In Spain.
REMARKS MADE BY A LATE TRAVELLER IN SPAIN .
TN Spain the eldest son of a Grandee is prohibited marrying the - " * heiress of one of equal rank . The writer names an instance , the Countess of'Bevenente , whose daughter is to inherit an income of 50 , 000 doubloons a year , about 35 , 000 ! . sterling yearly , and who is to be married to the second son of the Duke d'Opuna , who , a as cadet ,