The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-14 00:00:00

DEVILS;

ONE of the Devils that was lately exorcised by
the Curate of Berncastel -has, it is said', given the
following Account of his adventures :
" It is now above four hundred years that I
have sojourned in this lower world; and'as I did
not long remain at any fixed post, I had an oppor-
tunity of visiting a great many pedple. The so:.
-ciety in which I generally lived, was that of Phi-
losophers "and Men of Letters, and if I had not
taken a fancy. to propriety, I should have remained
with them, because I, do- not like changing my
lodgings ; and when once I was lodged in the body
of one of those men, I could remain there as long as
I liked. During the course of the last-Century, I
remained for forty years in the head of a PhiloSo.
pher, who, to the very last hour of his life, gave
me constant employment. You will suppose, that
I had time enough to examine every part of my
lodging, and that I cannot easily forget the,kind
of furniture that I found:in it. His head was di-
vided into several cells, some of the principal' of
which I will describe .to you. The cell which was
called the Sovereignty of the People, was inhabited
by a great Fury, artned from head to fool, and.sur-
rounded by a number of little Sovereigns, Who were
in great agitation at his feet, calling Upon him
loudly for bread, 'for tribunes, for woollen bon.
nets, and wooden shoes ; and they made sti dread-
IA an uproar, that DeVil as I am, I found the, post
was not tenable. -The cell of Universal Toleration;
presented. a singular contrast with the title which it
bore. Vanity, pride, and the desire of governing-,
had taken- complete possession of it ; and I never
met any thing else there but little despots, peevish
,and_medling, always ready. to declare war against
those who were not of their opinion. The cell of
l'erfedion gave me at first some uneasiness,, because
we Devils cannot 'get cleverly through our work in
this lower world, unless there are people a little
disposed to adopt the plan of Pelfeaion, 'laid down
for themby,Modern Metaphysicians. Rut in exa-
mining closely what was passing in this cell, I
found' I had no great reason fi;r alarm, for the
.more
my good man-of a-Philosopher laboured to. furnish
it with ideas, the more it seemed to me that he
emptied it of common sense. The cell of Expe-
rience wits there, only to make up the. number :—I
cannot tell you- what, was in it; for I never saw it
open..'
_ _

" After remaining 40 years with this Philoso-
pher, I entered the body of an old Poet, wham. I
hoped to remain with uatil his death, but I round
it impossible to remain above six months, without'
running the risque of dying with hunger; Bitt that
was not the only disagreeable circumstance attached
to my new habitation : you know, or you do not
know, that we Devils take the opportunity, when-
our hosts are asleep, fo take the air and a little re-
creation: Now, the chamber in which he lived was
so stnali, that I might as well remain in'his body;
which I constantly did an night—His poor neigh-
bours who' lived under him, for there- Were none
above hiM except owls, felt the inconvenience Its.
muth.as I did, for he would jump cueof bed at one
o'clock in the morning to continue a bad-Play, the
Charaaers and Songs of which he repeatedly sung
with so much vociferation, that it was impossible
for any one who lived within 200 yards ulhim, to
sleep.
_ _

"It was that Man that disgusted me with paver_
ty, and, consequently, with 'men of -letters.—
Though I was afterwards sufficiently tired of Dema-
gogues, becaUse they had a great deal of wicked,
ness, and very little common sense, yet, I must
confess,. that the ten years I passed with them, ap-
peared to me not so long as the six months I spent
with the Poet. The greatest part of the'extraor-
dinary persons I met with during that time, in por
pular Socteties, were not very well acquaintctiwith
good living, and consequently I was always in dan-
ger of dying with.hungee, and now that their kitchen
is threatened with a counter-revolution, 1 am glad ,
to decamp and seek my fortune elsewhere. If then
I wish now to enter the body of a man of property-,
it is because I am tired of spare diet, and property
seems now secured in a way that leaves me no un-
easiness upon the subject."

SHIP NEWS.

YARMOUTH, -OCT. 72

-Arrived—the Ouse, JefE:rson, front York to London, put
in with Joss of anchors. and .cables ; Mary, Horn, and Ast-
ley, E !lard, from London.
Sailed--the Crdizer, Mullender • Endeavour,' Foreman ;
Hannah, Marshall, and Swan, Bonifant, for koudon ; Lowes-
toff, Cutting, for Liverpool ; Little John, l'hurriel; and
Vigilant, Ferretf, for Hull ; Mary, Moss, and Lively,
Swinnard, for-Leith. •

The HO.,vatd, of North Shields; passed these Roads to
the Southward, having lost her-main-niast.

POOLE, OCT. I;

Arrived—the Hope, Manetaws, from Lymington ;
Williams, and Dart, King, froM POrtsMouth ; and Ann,
Yule, from Sunderland.
Sailed—the WilliaM, cockram,-. and Francis, Lander, for
London -;. S wattage, RosSiter.;,Two 13rothers, jenet ; Race-
horse, Davis ; .Nancy, • HoWard ; Hope, •Smedmore; and
John and Sophia, Hixon, for Portsmouth. . •

(IR A V P.S.END, OCT. rz.
Passed by—the Thomas, —, fromiGrenada ; Liberty,
Dye, from Hambro' ; Triton, ) and Favourite, --,
from Demerara; Hugh Johnston, Stoddart, from oston ;
Eleanor, Howe, from BoUrdeaux ) • nay", Leak, from Ross;,
Atalanta, from Archangel ; Suir, Jones, from Wa-
terford ; Arundo, ---- ' from Bilboa ; s:.'amperdovvir, Ford ;
'Mercury, Fisher, and Pallas, -, from Jamaica.
Sailed-the Matilda, , for Barcelona; Nelson, Met-
calfe, for .Hambro' ; Alfred, Mann, for Dublin ; Four
Friends, • , for Cork ; Amelia, —,---, for Stockholm;
-Naiad, Rolserts, and Augustus Cvesar, --r-, for Jamaica.