The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-25 00:00:00

THE CRISIS COME AT LAST I

We have at last arrived at a crisis ! We have been threat-
ened with it a long time by the venerable prophet of Ireland
the " manti haekon" of all our misfortunes—the truly revered
Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, who foresaw the fall of the Spanish
funds when they were beginning to rise, and who foresaw that
the Duke of Wellington would be turned out when he agreed
to the Relief Bill ; who foresaw when cider was making in
Devonshire, last year, the apple-potatoe crop would nut be as
good as the ignorant Irish Papists who planted them expected
this autumn ; and who now not only knows that the two Houses
of Parliament were burned by a fire, but also foresees the most
awful explosion in these united kingdoms, only that he keeps
it down by a patent pressure of his own invention. Here, good
reader, is his letter, as published in the Evening Post of last
night—tremble at its prediction. We have no doubt but if
you live to the year 1934, you will see it verified :

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE EVENING PACKET.

Blackrock, Monday evening, Oct. 20.
SIR,—As I consider it to be the bounden duty of every loyal
and upright subject, at this awful and alarming crisis of national
danger and scarcely suppressed insurrection, to afford as much
information on the subject of the late appalling fire in London
as may be consistent with prudence and a due regard for the
personal safety of the Sovereign, and the security of the State,
I think it incumbent upon me to proclaim, through your co-
lumns, that from documents and informations originally sworn
to by an English conspirator, in my presence, and at this
moment in my possession. I have not the least doubt* that the
firing of the Houses of Parliament was the work of AN IN-
CENDIARY. Sir, from what I know, but dare not communicate
publicly through the press, lest that crisis should occur which
I have already twice, by my timely discoveries averted, before
our miserable rulers should have made a single preparation to
meet, much less to repel, the danger, and which I have so fre-
quently warned them of, I do not hesitate to say that I have
the strongest grounds for believing that an explosion of a most
sanguinary and diabolical character is not far distant in both
countries.
I have the honour to remain, Sir, your most faithful
HARCOURT LEES.

—Dublin Evening Packet.

It may be remembered that, some time ago, a num-
ber of labourers were employed in digging, to a certain extent,
through the Vauxhall-bridge-road, in order to form a common
sewer from Westminster to the Thames. During the pro-
gress of this undertaking, various fragments of wearing ap-
parel were found, which has led to the discovery of a cemetry,
which, in the melancholy year of 1665, received so many hun-
dreds of the ill-fated inhabitants of London, who perished by
the awful ravages-of. the 'Agile. In the centre of the fields,
formerly stood a large building, called The Pest House ;"
and it was to this that all who could reach its portals before
the fatal malady had overpowered them, fled for succour ; and,
as fast as they departed from this world; they were interred in
dikes dug for the purpose, within the vicinity of the house.
Of this mass of buildings there are at present considerable re-
mains ; and a large coffin was the other day discovered, con-
taining the skeletons of five persons, in a complete state. As
usual, upon the exhumation and exposure of the bodies to the
air, the bones crumbled into dust.