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Since the appeattratte of the sissy afilite rat.
pia. the convereatints of private patties he* Mo.
trendy turned on the sobject ; and the discussant
hos been prolonged mod invigorated hy the peens
brought out sat the theatres'. ae well of Paris as of
Loodoo. Vampirism. at one period, WA Ishmael
superseded polities sit Paris, is the journals of Viet
lively and inquisitive city. during nu inters, dof
notions) exportation. The Vrencil Menai, whom
nothing escapes, desirous of displaying their learns
nig, have brdshed off the dust of rewire sod obli-
vion felon more than one story 'applicable to the lll-
quiry, of 'which the sowed of the present paper is
to set a specimen before our readers. This article
deserves 'dentists'. no less front its temporary interr•
eat, then from its peculiar character. as pert of the
history of the human ininol. It es cosinected with
notions of the most extensive end powerful nine-
cure, owl Fumy be traced from the flays of the
roost enlightened classical amigo, ty. Nay, indeed,
so far as the relative question of the re-appear-
once or the deed may be supposed to affect it. it us
slot altogether at rest to this .lay. About I i or IS
years ago, Dr. Woertzel, in Gerinso.y. published an
account of the re-ropearaisce of his departed wife,
*sal of the Conversatoons he held with her. The
Doctor ted his facts, and arranged Isis argu-
ments and proofs with no much executers and colitis
deuce that not a few of his sciusintaisce and neigh-
hourhood gave them credit. The press produced
several works pro acid con on the possibility of the
thing; said NI. Schwartz. rector of die Gymnasium
of Gorlitz, published in consequence. Discourse us
Apparitions. iii which he adduced pretty much the
same observations as have since been supported by
by Dr. Ferriar, in his ingenious little volume.
The next " teell authenticated" story ions that of
the Polito ghost. in 1810, winch SO effectually ter-
rified the people of two villages, Newtown& mid
Gosling, that they were on the point of flying in all
direetions and the Governor of %Varsitet funnel it
necessary to send a commission with authority to
inquire into circumstaiscesi and if possible to Iran.
quilliae the people ; 114 lie was barely able to
effect, so as to roam a few fainilies in their habita-
tions, so strongly had the persons' all • re-isp-
pienfance or te beautiful young lastly, of the family of
Morawski, fixed itself saihnig thrust.
After this, it may be 'bought trivial to adduce a
public &element iu proof of human credulity ; yet
by way of sliewilig et hat teas, and that toot very long
sego, we shall insert it verbatim --
'• All persons, as well ecclesiastical as civil,
must denounce and notify all and every one of
these who to their knowledge, or as they are in-
formed, meddle with experiments iii necromancy, or
any other kind of magic.
4, Giros at the Sacred Office ire Pesaro, this.
tterserninth day of April, 1802."
To nay truth, not ninny nations have kept
themselves clear from this persuasion ; mid it has
assumed so many forms, that opiosioil his beefs
greatly embarrassed, from the days of Pliny so
the present, by their tilmnilance if nut by their
evidence. Our owl' island has had its share
boo, we shall burliest front further inquiry at pre.
sent. The origin of this 'lotion was, limitable. the
powerful sentiment of another existence hereafter;
and the human heart sod affectioas preferred the
suppositiou of spirited beings becoming visible to
;atrial eyes, however contradictory, so that of also.
hate extinction of esistenco, when vitality was de-
parted from the body. For the most, however, the
eislightened natious or initapiity attributed to the
Manes of the departed a amid 441111 benevolent do.
racier, consistent wish • peaceful, and even a passive
state: It was renewed for the ruler tribes of the
North. mud perhaps for those of the wilder parte of
the gist, to graft on the notion of re-appsirusice
of the dead. that of miligiiity and delight is the
sufferings they had the power to inflict. Some-
thing to thus effect is found iu Jotephus; but it
appears with greater strengths musing the &weed-
:oar of hordes originally Scythien.
it is a notion gentrolly received among the
Doingariatis end the Nburovions, that (whim dead
'mesons possess the power of teturting by night
to molest the living, ...specially those with
whom they have been intimate; to sock their
blood, mod by such refreshment to cominue their
own terrestrial esistroce. at the expense of their
victims, who furnished them with the matins of
subsistence. This absurd prejudice is also snore
or less accredited among the Polandets, the
Silesian'', the Sermon'. and the Greeks ; to whom
others might he added. The Illusigarians have
almost reduced the persuasion and its C 04131..
14" a system; their discover by infallible
signs. attendant out dead ',Other, whether they have
the power of returning to prey on the living; they
employ meatus to counteract this power, stall to
preserve themselves from such disastrous 1.!6,1111141.
Aloft-over, from these people is derived the name
Vampires, given to the died who possess she
power of self-lesuseitation, and of maim ig this
second life by sticking blood t the name imports
blood-suchem The Greeks, who are alive to every
impulse of superstition, are infected with nearly
the same notions I and have invented an appellation,
bartisrous enough, to denote these supernotural
brook-suckers : they call them Broucocolakoi ;
by this name they are known as well on the coon-
mot as among the islands of the Aseltipelago.
Tournelort, in his Travels into Greece, relates a
history that places this superstition' and its come-
quenves in a striking point of view :
" The mess whose story we are going to relate.
'vies sa pleasant of Mycone, naturally ill-natured said
quarrelsome; eirrsunsiatices to be noticed, ns timy
important, in such eases; he was murdered in the
fields. nobody knew how, or by whom. Two days
after his burial in a cliff gel its the town, it was ru.
moored that this quarrelsome fellow,rver reoless,lWNS
amen to walk in the night site great rapid's), through
the town; that lie tumbled rople's goods about.
put out their lamp •, griped them d posteriori. tore
their clothes, ((Heed open doors, broke %sloth's/40mM
Isis troy to the wine-cellars. asitl emptied the bottles
most benceoltv, with it thousand other 'soul pranks
mid diabolical pet forinalices. At that the thlog was
treated ate ridiculous, and the losers who complaisied
were laughed sat ; but, on s sudden, the affair took
another torn ; the better sort of people began to be
hivolved in apprehension 1 the popes, (priests) 1,r1411
d credit to the raci, mid the travellar hints at reasons

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Poill Me So vonectiose nerd bole water. I :
Rave s.e4elr mew liars Toornefort) I. pitiable a state j
as this Wood *as io et 01144 time; the whole, pima.
linion "II stroll( with alienation of mind. Alt '
ranks were 'fluidly affected 1 it wis truly a armor of
ouiverisal brew-fever ; ii tees stutipms than abs
loot infirmity and eassior vorselsoirs. Eutive families
wete stems, us all pasta. forsaking their fu 'tees. mod !
Dotting Mon the extremities sit the town inin the 1
public *lame, ',singing their beds wish them, for
the rake of pos.ing she Melte io company, Stilt is'
hope of ill IMO pailirl iellety. mod or 'estitainiarg
some repose. Every iitibeiriOal fool a new Moult
to complain of. At the epproach of niAlit sits.
thing was heard but groans nod lamentations
from all quarters. The most considerate meth-
drew into the country. flow way it p4loPible 1
i'l WithOLll/41 the Timidness of s whole petiole. ? Thom 1
who inferred from our silence that we drintord the
truth or the fact. cense owl reproached IPlllf inert.. 1
ifulity ; they brought evidence in proof that suds .1
things or therecorolukoi really do exist ; tool quoted. i
the Batlike of batik, the wink of a Jesuit meta
stoner), aud therefore trite; aye, and &Wily true.'
" The chief people of the city held nserliugs, at li
which the priest, soul the 'nooks assisted ; these
meetings 1 h eiVireti: that 0 war necessary, in coo.
regnenee of certain roes 'performed, or to Ise per- I
performed, to wait Moe days aber the interment;
and in the meanwhile to stay 'proceedings. On the
tenth dnv, a mass was said in the chapel, is.
order to expel the devil, who might persdvea.
lure be these, whether from co.toni, or from
curiosity g then they took op the body, and got
every 'Mug ready fur pulling ont the seat of this
stmernationl vitality, the heart. At this 1110/111fIli
the whole ossenslily begon cryiug out Rroweveulos—
and Beuircucobst re-echoed from the chapel vault
to the roof, noel from the roof to the vault:
throughout the whole or every street, nothing was te ,
be heard but shouts of Broaeoeolas I i.-except as •
intermixture of heavy arid indignant eaters trio the
onalevolrot deceased, for Hot being thoroughly
dead ; but suffering I • self to lie re-animated by
a devil, and then retu :::::: g to plague and terrify his
neighbour*. They determined as she wisest
course, to burn the heart on the Pea-shire; and the
heart was burnt aeconshogly. In mists ! the 110111.
hers of nocturnal iosoults and liatteriee inert:used
beyond what even Westminster-Hall can conceive
of rafter a general election. Where the doors were
strongly bolted and fastened. the Brume-pedal open-
ed the root and riesreodrd —who but he? As soviet.
tering of windows, creaking of doors, howling' ill the
chimnies, subterranean noises, and, as aforesaid,
cracking of bottles, and euiptyisig of casks, the
culprit had acquired as much aohlitional impu-
dence, and perhaps dexterity too, ao if he bad been
instructed by a dozen accurations and neuronal. at
the Old Motley. The resell had the knack of be.
in every where, at once, in Pus burglaries.
" Some of the citizens, says Touruefort, who
were most eminently, zealous for the public good,
saw clearly enough where the error lay :—the priests,
they argued, had said man before they pulled
out the heart : had they said mass effierreotrfib the
devil would as hove be --- as return to his out
Intent : where:re, the cunning dog of a devil—laird
it was a very et iiiii ing dog of a devil they hod to
do with), haul only fled fur a while, and after the
da:og,r was over, hack he came again, as rampant
as ever. Notwithstanding them dead centring's.%
they found their perplexities increase: tiny met
in the conned-chamber night mid moriping :
they debated and dtscu.seil, and determined no-
thing: they made processions three days awl three
nights: they obliged the Papas to fast : and there
religious were called to all parts, were never off
their legs, running from house to haw., incesostoly
plying the holy water sprinkler; scattering the
element in all directions; washing the doors with it;
nay. they even poured it pihundasitly into the leutith
of the insesoilile Broocoeoles.

" Alas! for the wit and wisdom of mortal man !
An acute Allegorise, who happened to be at My.
cone, observed, that it was 110 wonder die devil cows
tinned is—for, how could he get met? if they
deluged the holy with holy seater, could the devil
come through Mat ? If they stuck naked sword*
be dozens over his grave-a-which they did—the
sword-handles being crimes, terrified the devil
from passing Mem. He, therefore, recommended
Turkish scimitars; and Torish scimitars were
tried—without efficacy the wine-tuba of those
who were so foolish as to leave them exposed, were
continually emptied and though Turks abhor
pork, yet whether that abhorrence extended to the
devil in question, our author does not say ; but, lie
hints very shrewdly at the loss as well of bacon as
of eggs.
" The advice of the learned Albanese was even-
tually found to be fruitless; the inhabitants had
prayed to every saint of their aequaintaioce tie
I fearer), without ub aiuiug a hearing—ur, if the
saints Sid hear, they were as mach at a loss as
their votaries; usilel.s, indeed, by way of answer,
they seed clown a general inspiration among
their prtireoners aforesaid, who now began to
bawl with universal vocilerati 1111 l that the dross•
rocolas should be burnt reline, and then let the
devil lurk in it if lie could. %Vali this the
magistrates complied; seeing the island teas in
danger of being deserted ; lot all the best families
were packing up in preparation for departure
to Spa or Tinos : secoreliogly, the carcass was ice
duce.' to ashes, January 1,1701 a

(To be continued.,

CORN EXCIIA NOR, Nemesia 1.

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We hove had hut (et! firf IV3iS of soy train since !Woodsy.
w Iwo a large properties of the *ti pia y fru in SW ILIA
remained outliiiposca tif, aril 6.r which there wss but little
demand this morning, especially fur the inferior qualities,
which could out be yid tiff, although teudereil at ao 'bite*
meat of 2s. per quart. r; but prime samples supported
Mooday's prices. Eine Bark, being sa-aree, soW on lull as
good terms as on Moods,' bat all other warts were yearly
uoeskable. la Mims, Prase, sod Data there is oo alteration.

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