The Sun.
London, England, 1812-08-10 00:00:00

-PII2INTASNIA,GORIA.

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The following marvellous narrative,. Communi,
caterUy the Ghost Seers, has produced a good
,deal of conversation in a part_of this County;
and may serve to astonish the credulous, amuse
, the sceptical, and occupy the spe6tlative
On Sunday evening; the 28th alt. between
seven and eight o'clock, Anthony Jackson, far-
mer, aged 45 years, and Maitin Turner; the son
of William Turner, farmer, zwd 15 years, while
engager' in . inspecting, their cattle, grazing ,on
Havarah Park, near 'Ripley, part of the estate of
" Sir John lnglehy, -Bart, were soddenly surprised
by a most extraordinary app,earance :in the Park.
Turner,. whose attention wa2 first drawn to this
spectacle, said, .• LoC,k, Anthony, what a Auan7
tity of beasts,l' 'Beasts,' cried Anthony, Lord
bless tisl they are not beasts, they arc men By
this time the body was in. Motion, and,the specta-
tors discovered that it was an 'army of soldiers,
dressed in a white military uniform, and that in
the centre stood a' personage commanding as-
spect, clothed-in-scarlet. Alter performing a num-
- her of evolutions, ,the body began to march
perfect orcker to. the summit of
.a hill, passing the
• spectators at a distance of abont Mit yards: No
sooner bact.the first body, Which Seemed to con-
sist of several hundreds, and extended four deep
over an eaclosur!e of thirty acres; attained the hill,
than another assemblage-of men, far more nume-
rous than, the .forracr, dressed in dark-coloured
.clothes, arose and marched, without any apparent
hostility, after the -military spectres ; at the top
..of the hill -both the, parties formed what the spec-
tators called an L, and passing down the oppoSite
side of the bill, .disappeared. At- this moment a
v'olu'me of smoke, apparently „like that vomited by
a park of artillery, spfead over the plain, and was
so imperviousras for pearly two minutes to bide
the cattle from the view of Jackson and Turner,
who huitied home with all possible expedition ;
and the.effeet upon their minds, even at this dis-
tance of time, is so strong, that they cannot men- •
tion the circumstance without visible emotion.
/ "We have had the curiosity; and an idle en,
riosity perhaps it was, to collate the accounts of,
this strong •vision, as given by the-two spectators,
and find them to agree -in every part, with., these'
exceptions :---The young man Says., that as far
as be could mark the progress of time, while a
scene-So novel and alarming was passing before -
him, he thinks that from the appearance of the
-first body to the "disappearance- of "the smoke,
might- be about five minutes ; Jackson says, it-
&mid not be less than a quafter of at:lion'', and
that during all this time they were making to
each-other such observations as arose out of the

spectacle.. The junior spectator says, he observ-
ed, amongst the first body, arms glistening in the
, sun ; the senior says it may be so ; but that did
,not strike him, nor can he in thinking of it since,
recall any such appearance to his recollection.
" On this strange story we shall only observe,
that the ground forming the scene of action is
peffectly sound, and not likely to- emit any of
those exhalations which tnight'arise from a swamp;
that the narrators are both persons of character ;
that those who kno:tv- them best, believe them
most ; and that they themselves are unquestiona-
My convinced of the truth of their own narrative;
that tradition records a scene somewhat similar,
exhibited on Stockton Forest; about the breaking
out of the present war ; and that we shalt be glad
to receive any satisfactory elucidation of this. Phan.-
tz.smptgoria."
Titus far The Leeds Mercury. We do not know
'whether the following article will be considered its-
affording any Satifactory-clucidation ; but it may,
perhaps, contribute something ,to the amusement
• of our readers-:

FROM AN' ACCOUNT OF CUMBERLAND.

Souter-fell is nearly .90d yards high, barrica-
doed on the North arid-West side with precipitous
rocks, but somewhat more Open on the East, and
easier of access. On this mountain occurred .the
extraordinary .phenomenon, that, towards the mid-
dle of the past century,-excited so much.cohver-
sation and alarrn. We mean, the visionary ap-
pearances of armed men, *and other figuro, the
causes of which have never yet received satis;.,
factory solution,- though, from the circhinstanees
hereafter mentioned, there seems reason to .be-
li-eve 'that,_ they are hot entirely inexplicable.—
The • 7partehlars are related -somewhat 'different-
ly ; but as Mr, Clarke procured the attesta-
tious Of two of the persons to whom the

phenOnienon was first visible,' to the accrount
inserted in his " Survey of the Lakes,'' we
relate the circinnsiances•froin thilt.authority.
the-at)ested-relation, it seems, that the first
time any of these visionai-,r phenomena was ob-
served, was on a summer's -eveninig., in. the wear
174:.. As DanicUStricket, then. servant to John
Wren, .al next house to libtke-
was sitting at they door with his master,
they sav the figure Of a maxi .with'a dog, pursu-
ingslyne horses along -Souter-fell:, side; a place
sT.steep that,a horse can scarcely travel ou-it.—
.appeared to run at an:. amazing • pace,
tii,..they got out of sight :at the loWer r.end_of
the fell. The next morning 'Strick.et and his
• ix-luster ascended the steep 'side of the mountain
in• full expectation that •they should find' the
man lying dead, as they were persuaded that the
sWlftiitss with which he ran mnst have killed him;
and imagined likewise, that they ,should pick up
a.pme Ofthe shoes, which-they thought the horses
must have lost iii galloping at such a,fcirious Tate.
They, hoivever, were disappointed, Tor there ap--
Teared: not The „least
,vestiges of-either man or
horses not. so much as- the mark. of a hoils,e's
hoof upon the turf. Astonishment, and a degree

of' lear,.perhaps,: for some time, induced them to
conceal the Circumstances ;• brit they at length
disclosed them,. and, as, might be expected,. wad
only laughed at for their credulity.
'Thel6ll6Wing 7ear, 1744; on the 23d of June,
RA the same Daniel
.StrieLet, who at ,that tiine
lived With Mr. William Lancaster's father, of
Blakehills, was walking .a little above the house,
about half past •seven in the evening, -he saw a
• *These places are abOOt half a mile from Souter4ell.

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