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 The following accouot of the plague at London in l665, which taken from Rothelaad, will be read with peculiar interest at the present tine. Ii is . most striking and melancholy picture. De Foes history of that memorable ca lamity, contains nothing of the same length, more graphic or impressive.
 HE PLAGUE. In allits maiiguity 1t cngrossed the ills of all other maladies, and made Doctors despieabie. Or 4 potency equal 10 death, il possessed t. self of all his afnefes, and itself the death of ever, mortal distemper. The touch, yea the very sight of the infect cd, .as deadly; and the signs were sa sudden, that families seated iR happl. ness at their meals, have seen the plague spot begin to redden, and have wildly scattered themselves forever. The eez ment of society was dissolved by it, Mothers when they saw the sign of in- fectio9 or the habes q their bGsom, cast them from them with abhorrence. Will places We're sought for shelter; some ventinto ships and anchored them selves afar off on the waters. But the angel that was pouring the phial, had q foot on the sea as we'll as on dsY land. No place was so wild that the plague did not visit, none so secret that tht. quick sighted pestilence did not dis cover,r-none could fly that it did not overtake.
 II was as if heaven repented the ma king of mankind, and was shovelling them Il into tie sepulehre. JaSiief was forgotten and her courts deserted. The terrified jaiIors fled from the felobs that were ia tetters: the innocent and the gully leagued themselves together. and kept within their prison for safety. ---fte grass greao ifa tue nlarket places = the cattle went moaning up and q wn the fields, wondering what had become of their keepers ;-the rocks aad the ra. vens came into town and built their nests ia the mute belfrees; ;-silenee was universal save when some infected wretch was seen clambourlng at win. dow.
 For d time, all commerce was in cof- fins and saEousls, i,u; even that ended. SSlriits there was none; churches a9 | cliapels were open; but neither priest nor penitent entered; all went to the charnelhouse. The sextoaandt the phy. sician were cast into the same deep and wide grave; -the testator, and his heirs and executors were hurled from the same cart into the same hole together. Fire became extinguished. and is ele. menttoo had expired ;-the seams of the s;silesiess ships yawHed to tttre surr.- Though doors were open aad coflers unwatched, there was 40 theft:-aIl offences ceased, and no cries but the universal woe of the pestilence, were heard among men. The wells over. flowed, and the eoBduits ran to waste i; tic dogs banded themselves together. having lost their masters, and ran howl ing over the land; horses perished Of famine in their stalls,-o old friends look edat one another. when they met, keep ing themselves far aloof- little children went wandering Up and down. and nnmbers were seen dead in all corners. Nor was 1t only in England that the plague 80 ragged. It travelled over the third part of the whole earth. like the shadow of an eclipse, as if some dread fal thing had been interposed between the world and the sun, the source of fife.
 At that epoch for short time, there was silence, and every person in the street, for moment stood still; and London was dull as church yard.-- Again the sound of bell was heard.- for it was that sound so long nsleard. which arrested the the u,l..s and caused their silence. It the third toll a universal shout arose, as when a herald prochims the tidings of great