The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-03-21
From the chronological Journal
Lord Brougham's Ghost.

raphy Of Lord Broughum." the following
occurrence is related:
Tired with tho cold yesterday | was
glad to take the advantage Of o hot bath be-
fore turned 10 And here a most re-
markatls thing happened to me--so 70
mAfkAble that I must tell The story from
the beginning. After | left the Higl
School, ! went with c., my most init
mate friend, to attend the clusscs 10 TIL
University, There was no divinity class
but frequently 10 our walks we discussed
and speculated upon many grave subjects
among others on tho immortality Of The
soul and on future state. This question
and the possibility, I will not say Of
ghosts walking, but Of the dead appearing
to the living, were subjects Of much spccu
lation; aud we actually committed The fol-
" OF drawing up an agreement, writer
with our blood, that whichever Of US died
first should appear to tho other, aud thus
solve any doubts We had entertained Of The
life after DEATH And after We had 6n.
ished our classes at the college, c. went
to India, having got an appointment there
in the civil service. He seldom wrote to
me, and after Tue lapse Of few years |
had almost forgotten him; moreover, bis
family having little connection with Edin-
burgh, | seldom saw or beard anything Of
them, or Of him through them, so that oil
the school.boy intimacy had died out, and
| had nearly forgotten bis existence. |
had taken. as | have said, q warm bath
and while lying in it and enjoying the
comfort Of The heat, after the late freezing
/ had undergone, | turned my head around,
looking toward tho chair on which | de.
posted my clothes, as ! was about to get
up out Of tho bath. On the chair eat
C., looking calmly at me. How |
cot ont 0f the bath know not: but on 70.
covering my senses found myself sprawl.
ing on the floor. The aIpari'ion, or
whatever it was tbat'bad taken tho like
ness Of c., had disappeared. This
vision produced such shock that I had
no inclination to talk about it, even to
Stuart. but the impression It made upon
me was too vivid to be easily forgotten,
and SO strongly was | affected by it that |
have written down The whole history,
with the date, 10th December, and all the
particulars as they ore now fresh before
me. No doubt | had fallen asleep; and
that the appearance presented SO distinctly
to my eycs.was dream, | con not for q
moment doubt; yet for years | bad no
communication with c.. nor bad there
been anything to recall him to my recol.
lection; OothdjRg bad taken place during
our Swedish travels either CONNECTED
With G.. or with India, Or with any.
thing relating tohim, or to any member
Of bis family | recollected quickly
enough our old discussion, and the bargain
we had made. Icould not discharge from
my mind the impression that c. must
have died, and that bis appearance to mo
Tas to be received by me as proof Of q fu.
ture state; yet all the while | felt convin-
ced that the whole was dream; and SO
painfully vivid and so unfading was the
impression that | could not bring myself
to talk oft or to make The slightest allus.
ion to it, finished dressing, and as we
had agreed to make an early start, I was
ready by six o'clock, the hour Of our early
breakfast"
The sequel to the above, recorded more
than sixty years after the blood.written
compact was made, runs thus:
"Brmghaa, Oct. l6 1867 have
just been copying out from my journal tho
account Of this strange dream: Certissi-
ma nsartis iimagoi And now to finish the
story, begun above sixty years since
Soon after my return from Ediuburg. there
arrived o letter from India announcing G. g
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