The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-30 00:00:00

A DREAM VERIFIED.

Many of our readers will recollect that a few years ago
a gentleman, of respectable family and connections in this
county, was unfortunately drowned in the Caledonian Ca-
nal, after just landing on its banks from a Glasgow vessel.
He had lent his arm to a female passenger ; the night was
dark, and by a false step both were precipitated into the
water, where they perished. Very early in life, whilst re-
siding in the East Indies, this gentleman dreamt that he
was engaged, in company with several persons, in seeking
for the body of a drowned man ; they toiled long and
anxiously, with lights, boats, and grappling irons, but in
vain. At length, when they were about to abandon the
fruitless search, something was seen to rise slowly out of
the water ; it assumed the form of a human head, and to
his horror he saw that the countenance was his own ! He
awoke in great agitation, and had some difficulty in shaking
off the vivid impression left by this phantom of the night.
Years afterwards, the same circumstance occurred to him
in the West. Indies. The dream, with all its appalling ac-
companiments of seeming reality, haunted his couch, and
terrified his imagination. His duties afterwards led him to
return home, and Ile hoped he had for ever parted with
the unwelcome vision. In this, however, he was destined
to be disappointed ; a third time did the same scene appear
before him, as clearly and as indelibly imprinted on his
mind as on the former occasions. He talked of the singu-
lar circumstance among his friends, and many must yet re-
member the frequency and solemnity with which he
spoke of the dream. At last it was realized in his own
melancholy fate. He was drowned, as described above
—lights were procured, and the body was searched for,
though in vain—but, just as the party were about to
leave the spot, the head of the unfortunate gentleman rose
up, and every feature was distinctly visible in the torch-
light above the water. A very near relative of the deceased
instantly exclaimed, " Ah, now Edward's dream is veri-
fied."—lnverness Courier.

WITH A HOOK I—The Plymouth Herald states
that a young gentleman caught a large shark with a hook and
line, while fishing off Charlestown, Cornwall."
BIDEFORD AND APPLEDORE.—lncendiarism, we
are sorry to say, has again found its way into this neighbour-
hood. Last week, a farmer of Parkham, named George, had
a hay-rick burnt; and a number of mows of wheat, of this
year's produce, the property of Mr. Bale, of West Webbery,
near Bideford, have also been destroyed by fire, to the loss,
we understand, of nearly 3001. There is very strong suspi-
cion that each of the above calamities was the work of evil-
disposed individuals ; but, in the latter instance, it appears
that a servant girl, named Mary Hamlyn, who had been in the
employ of Mr. Bale rather more than twelve months, has con-
fessed to the commission of the crime, and underwent an exa-
mination before the Rev. John Dene and James Whyte, Esq.,
two county magistrates, who have committed her to take her
44 at the next Assizes. She acknowledged that she could
1"-• • ~ any reason for the rash act, as she had always been
not assig,.. '-ess by her master and the family ; but that
treated with kina... a her to hang herself, and afterwards
the devil had first tempte had so little suspicion of any
to set fire to the-mows. Mr. Baie -
one belonging to him, that before the „,",irlo's confession, he
beggars and
made every possible exertion, by seeking, 0
tit 56pver the
others Oat had been in the neighbourhood, t
offenders.,-North Devon Advertiser.
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