Ramsay; we have been alarmed by the awful famine in Samaria, and of death being in the pot." Here the young student interrupted his father, by exclaiming Yes sir, there is death in the pot now here, as well as there was once in Israel! Touch not! taste not! see the dog dead by the poisoned pot!

What! cried the farmer, have you been raising the devil by your conjuration? Is this the effect of your study sir? No, father, said the student, I pretend to no such arts of magic or necromancy, but this day, -as the boy can testify, I had a solemn warning from one whom I take to be no demon, but a good angel. To him we all owe our lives. As to Peggy, according to his intimation, she has put poison into the pot for the purpose of destroying the whole family root and branch! Here the girl fell into a fit, from which being with some trouble recovered, she confessed the whole of her deadly design, and was suffered to withdraw from the family and her native country. She was soon after executed at Newcastle upon Tyne, for the murder of her bastard child, again making ample confession of the above diabolical design.

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Second apparition to Mr. Lilly.

BOUT the beginning of the year 1750, the same young Lilly was one day reading the zoth chapter of

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the Revelation of John the Divine; just as he was entering upon that part which describes the binding the devil a thousand years, after which he was to be loosed a little; a very venerable old personage appeared at his elbow; the young man fell on the floor, but quickly arose, and in the name of the Lord, demanded who he was, and the nature of his business; shall I call thee Satan, the crooked serpent, the devil, Beelzebub, or. Lucifer son of the morning?

Ghost. I am a messenger arisen from the dead, to see or cause justice to be done to thee and thy father: I am the spirit of one of thy ancestors!

Lilly, Art thou the soul of my grandfather, who amidst uncounted riches perished for want of food ? Ghost Thou art right. Money was my deity, and mammon my master: I heaped up the gold of › Ophir, like Solomon ; but possessed none of his wisdom to use it as the blessing of heaven.

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Lilly, I have frequently heard my father mention. you, as a sordid, avaricious, miserable man. How did you dispose of the immense riches which you are said to have accumulated by so much toil, drudgery, and self mortification?

Ghost. It is, for the most part, hidden in a field, in the farm of your father, and I intend that you his son, shall be the sole possessor of it, without suffering your father to know from whence your riches originated. Do you not recognize my face since the beginning of the last year?

Lilly. Are you the old gentleman whose timousintelligence saved the lives of all our family?

Ghost. I am. Therefore think not your father ill rewarded already,

Lilly: How can I account to him for the immediate accumulation of so much money as you seem to intimate?

Ghost. Twenty thousand pounds, sterling money!

Lilly. You seem even now in your disembodied ' state to feel much emotion at the mention of so much

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Gbost. But now I cannot touch the money of mortals; else could I quick y wing my unwearied way to to the bank of Eng and or the mines of Mexico. But I cannot stay: follow me to the field, and I will point out the precise place where you are to dig.

Here the apparition stalked forth around the barn: yard, and Lilly followed him, dreadiess and undismayed, till he came to a field about three furlongs from his father's door, when the ghost stood still on a certain spot, wheeled thrice round, and vanished into air,

This proved to be the precise place where young Lilly and his companions had often devoted to pas time, being a hollow, where stone had formerly been dug from. He lost but little time in consideration, fo having procured a pick-axe and a spade, he employed a moonlight evening in search of the treasure, and ac tually discovered it. However, having made the dis

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Govery, and not knowing how to apply it to immediate use, being but nineteen years old, and little acquainted: with business, he found himself obliged to tell his mother of the adventure, and she told her sister-in-law,. and the whole business came to the knowledge of the farmer himself, who sent his son to the university of Edinburgh settled upon him an handsome fortune;. which, with the stipend and giebe, and the mause which he enjoys in the establishment in Scotland, has. ever since rendered him respectable, and enabled him to perform many acts of charity in that country, as many can testify to this day..

The pots in which the money, consisting of largepieces of gold and silver, were deposited; are still in the possession of the parson, and have often been shewn as curiosities hardly to be equalled in the south of Scotland.

An awful warning, in a Dream.

SOME time ago a Lady dreamt that a frightful figure

appeared at the window of her dining room, which was full of company. Upon her enquiring what itwas, they told her it was Death, She begged they. would keep him out; but he forced his way in, and pointed his dart at her. She prayed very earnestly

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that he might be kept from her; upon which he answer. ed her, She might put him from her for nine days, but then he should return to her and take no denial. Immediately after, she was translated into heaven, where she saw a great company all singing, and very happy. But as she knew not the tune, nor the words, she was very melancholy. At ength she sat down in a corner by herself, when an angel came to her, and asked her why she looked so melancholy, as nothing but happiness was there? She replied, because she could not join. He then asked her, how she came there? She answered, she did not know. Upon which he opened a door, and let her down into a most dreadful place which she found to be hell, where she heard such shrieks and cries of the damned, that she awaked,

This was the dream. And it proved that the Lady died on the very day that Death said he would

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A remarkable Dream,

A COMMON hackney coachman, had a most re

markable dream not long since, which is as follows: He dreamt one saturday evening, that he was out with his coach plying for a fare; and being engaged had directions