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have been a good deal astounded by the exhibition which the Honourable and Rev. Defendant and his witnesses made in this case, for he read him a very severe lecture-which he concluded by the pithy observation, that he must say "it was extremely dishonest of the Rev. Gentle"man to permit the horse to be rode day after "day throughout the whole hunting season, and

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now to expect, by the verdict of a jury, to ex"onerate himself from the payment of his con"tract."-Verdict £200 damages and costs.

WILLIAM HACKET.

The celebrated fanatic William Hacket seemed

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to have great assurance in his prayers. "hadst power (said he) and I have the faith; "therefore the thing shall be done." He used imprecations in his prayers against himself and pretended that the efficacy of his imprecation was exterior. He boasted that, on disputing with a papist, he proposed to him this condition; "I submit instantly to eternal damnation "do you do so too; and one of us shall change "his religion, according to the miserable or "happy success of our imprecations." This was absurd enough; for the effect of the imprecation was to be sudden death of one or the other, and consequently neither of them could change his

opinion; the dead man could not do it; and the survivor would be far from doing it, since the bad success of his adversary's imprecation had given so authentic a testimony to his religion.

ABBE PREVOT.

This celebrated character, supping one evening with some friends, introduced a paradox which was taken up with some marks of indignation. He supported his thesis and his friends combated it. He maintained that if strict justice were done to every one, there would be very few men who would not deserve to be hanged. "But," said a friend," to begin now with yourself, what "have you done that could merit so severe a "punishment? we have known one another from "infancy, and though it is true that you have "always been a wild fellow, and even something "of a libertine, there is not, I believe, one among us, who can recollect a single act of yours that merited death." "It is because "" you do not know all," said he; "I have con"fidence in you, and the confession I am going "to make, can therefore, be attended with no ill

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consequence. What will you say, if I own "to you that I killed my Father." "Good God," exclaimed one of the company, 66 every one "knows that your father died of a fall which he

"had from a staircase." "It is true," continued he, "but it was I who pushed him down. It was "thus: I was in love with a young girl, daugh"ter of a neighbour whose house joined ours, " and I wished to marry her. My father not only "refused his consent, but absolutely forbad my

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seeing her. I did not pay any respect to this "injunction; and, as the father of the young lady would not permit me to enter his house,

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we had found the means of seeing each other, "and conversing together on the leads, and I "admitted her once into our garret; my "father surprised us together. Though a very "good man he was extremely violent when an"gry. He reproached me severely, as he did "also the poor girl. He was even going to "strike her, when I put myself before him, and, "in my endeavours to stop him, I pushed him "towards the staircase; being close to the edge "of it, he lost his footing, and falling backwards, "was dangerously wounded in the head and "became insensible. I raised him up; I called "for help: we put him to bed and brought him "to himself. He witnessed my grief and the "care that I took of him. I never ceased watch

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ing at the side of his bed, during the time "that he survived the accident. His great goodness towards me caused him to hide from

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"his friends the true cause of his death, by "which he only augmented my chagrin and re"morse. ." This man, who accused himself of having deserved hanging, terininated his existence by a more dreadful death. Walking in the Bois de Boulogne, he was attacked with a fit of apoplexy, which laid him as dead at the foot of a tree. Some peasants, who found him in that state, conveyed him to a surgeon who called in the aid of justice. He was considered as dead, and the surgeon had orders to proceed to open the body. At the first cut of the knife, the unhappy creature, who was not dead, gave a frightful scream, but the mortal wound was given. He lived only a sufficient time to learn the horrible manner in which his life had been taken from him."

PERSEVERING RECLUSE.

Agnes du Rocheir, a very pretty girl, the only child of a rich tradesman in Paris, had like many others of her communion, a wish to get to heaven without once going out of her chamber; and accordingly on October the fifth, 1403, she built herself a little chamber, joining to the wall of a church, wherein was nothing but a little window, from whence the pious (but filthy) solitary heard the offices of the church, and received the neces

saries of life. The church celebrated this seclusion with great pomp, for Agnes was rich. She lived this holy life till she reached her ninetyeighth year and then died.

HORRIBLE FANATICISM.

In another part of our work we have laid before our readers a detail of the horrible effects of fanaticism in a Canton in Switzerland, aud though perfectly aware of the extreme ignorance and credulity-the parents of fanaticism and superstition of the lower orders in Ireland we did not think it possible that they could be productive of results such as those we are about to communicate-results which equal, if they do not exceed, in horrifying reality, those to which we have alluded. For several days it had been intimated, by written notices despatched some miles round the country, that a Miracle was to have been wrought, on Friday July 9, 1824, by the Rev. John Carroll, Roman Catholic Curate of Ballymore. On that day he visited a man of the name of Henry Neale, of Killinick, who was lying dangerously ill of apoplexy. Immediately after his arrival, he said the man was troubled with devils, he jumped on him several times, and cried out to the people present to keep him in prayer, in order to dispossess the sick man of the evil spirits. Such was

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