The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-10-15
From the Lendon Ningaelne.

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| q coward con,r 'rHee, how dosf thou ailliet nc .
The lights bura hue--is it not dead midnight
! Coldienttul drops stand ON my trembling losh
Sk9asptlre
This mysterious subject has exercised
the faculties of some Of tho worlds most =
lruditc scholars and profound thinkers. phe
learned Herman llumrnbsrges All srmaia-
tanning that candles dsfi4r Their name f,om
taudauIe, King OF Lydia, uho lrst made
ase of them when h showed hlsNile taiat-
ti.d to the minister Gygea, laf which he
los hla crown and life, enters into Il srhn.
llstic hut somewhat lar fetched argument
10 prove that, a. that monarch Wis grea,
magician, and in habits Of frequent inter,
course with ghosts and speelres, he endurd
ms candles with thia iaexpleahe property,
that he might learn the approach al his sn-
pernatural vistants. Sueianlous, honeAerf
who took liis uame from the circumstance
of his being t1llow chandler. On which
trade he has lett a learned tredia,, altoge-
Their dcrides this solution ~ hniasiieal and
raiil, asking very perineutly why this ghost
Indicating TlaIuNeFenl II originally mpart-
ed. should have deGcended Ia pnatcfity :ald
proceeds to argue, first, that tn eolorasau-
med - not hur bat purple, saeh being thu
proper translation of TIT ancient word pur-
PtrtHS ; and secondly, that tbs being the
color Sacred To Kings aud bishnps, the mum.
hcr of those personages inthe loNefregions
may have 40 saturated the air with purple.
that all rcv'si'ors OF Guf pmer atmosphere
give it out, like halo, md lmphft It's hnr
more perilcuiarvln the lights ihai surronnd
them. This seems 10 Be a fond conceit,
and moreover savouinS ol the samr illi5c-
rlity that mad" Barry - pfedigal OF starr,
aud mtrcs, Nheu pantMg his scene ot
Judgment iur t.lc arts and Sciences IN Tie
Adeiphi,
Certain mysterious igues ftH always as
sumo spon,au, ots,y b,uish tint. In the
Pyrtegum, or Cur.rw Act, passed by the
Conqucror, b tim lpl.oTgseAesfiiseea use:
" Hoe nOnoby'un'e liccat ii GG,ieimgs dc
N'spo, alas Johannes dc Lan'olna, Diet
lncem caric2m quoeanque qaotiesql!. vel
lrr. W" y" u enacted nevertheless, that
VIII o'-tlc-Wiap, alias Jaci.o'-Ianthun,
have permission 90 show his blue light
where socvcr and uhcnsoetcr he Will
Whence we learn, that 80 early us the cun-
quest ial5 WH5 the prevalent color Of all su.
pcnatural fame, and that They were spe-
eally exempted from the jufis,liction Of
cNtiHguisher OF sG4ilrrs. swift, IN note
UU bis lines
This squire he droppd h4 pen full .,oou,
While q, iic light burnt llaelY,--
hazards conjecture, thai ~ none bnt The
ghosts 81 the "ieiseG re-appear, and can
de, Improperly made, are Themselves uack-
ed, there alay be- some secret sympathy or
affinity bctHreu thcm; IN support ofn hirh
hypothesis hc ai6lns, thai t5ey gi4e'oGl
generally faint blue whenever there Is "A
iiIIef in them. he asserts q 81, pinusbly u
nough, that there may b. Il visual deception
produced rs the prevalent expectation Of
.hls coiurrd light; that nothing Is 81 vary
ng or Uurcrtain rs the haes which the
snac object nssuune5 10 diilfrtBt optics /;
thai men seem 10 iid,e psner3r del, lit IN
collOuadIus thc whole theory al c9lors, u
one SEES constantly written up over various
h ps-GaEY Sgrrueroccr, BgDHs, black
smith, RLAuG, Whltr3iaith, FALL!.r, blac
nakcr, Sc. wtiileuatorc herself has given
rs the cam,ron az puzzle and Las 81
confused One - our field fruits ii is pro
grc55 to maturity, that VIZ my say With
STREET regard 10 truth, hlaekberfIes are ri
HER white or red when they are green, Il.
2. uAripr.)@ Mica moreover" he acnicly
REMARKS, - never sea sptctre5 except when
they are in a 1T Of tie bIaes devils, which
may impaI their tore 10 surrounding OBJ
loci4 and that bue,degils are superihdu-
ced by The parties getting into hot water,
which circumstance alone may account for
Il change of hue as ii1leut a5 II produces
on Holsters au,t ilcas, and occasion the pa
tients 20 imagine every thiny blue, as men
IN calentDlrc fancy the whole world to be-
green These lucubratiohs appear Ia nle
profound aud philosophical, hut | doubt
W hrrwc rnay implicitly adopt .helnw.
on. Farther inquiry.
DIR. Plot, in his Natural History Of OK
iordsiIIre, Informs Us that
Soon afte, the murder % hing Charles
|. commission WAS appointed 10 shrey
the Kings house mt u oodstoci, with the
manor, park, woods, aud other delaesnes,
for " h!ch purpose they mt on tae l9h of
OFT Der, 1919, aad tool. ny tl.eifreAdencc
- The king $ own rooms, sitting in the Pre-
seace Chamber for the dispatch Of business.
On The 10Th of this month, n the milt Gf
thrir debate, there entered n large black
dog iiO" Ing, who overturned three Of their
chairs. crept under bed and ya1isBrd, al
though all the doors had been kept careful
| y locked. The next day, sitting in u low
er room, thry heard persons walaing over
mead, tho the chamber was locked up the
wood OF the Kings oak Vas brought from
the dining room, and thrown with great Vi
olencc into Tia. Presence Chamber thr
chairs, stools, tables, aud other furniture
were forcibly hurried about the room the
papers containing the minutes oftheir trans
actions were torn, and the ink glass broken,
the doors al the while remaining fast, and
the keys IN the custody OF the commission
ers. The night following, Sharp, the Sc
cretary, and two Of the servants, beng a
sleep in the same room, had their beds