I well known character at Rippon in Yorkshire

Tublished by J. Robins & Abion Press. London. So 18.

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with a pair of flippers in one hand, and a boot-jack in the other, exactly in the attitude represented in the plate. The company in general were so diverted with his odd appearance, that they would frequently give him a piece of money, on condition that he held it between his nose and chin. This requifition he was always ready enough to comply. with, it being no less fatisfactory to himself, than entertaining to them. Although the extraordinary length of his nofe and chin may appear almost incredible, yet we can affure our readers, that the drawing, from which the engraving was made, was taken from the life in the year 1762. He continued in the fame house for many years, but we understand he is now dead.

An account of Mrs. JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT, the remarkable modern PROPHETESS.

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HE most impartial way to detail the wonderful incidents, in this fingular prophetefs's life, is to give them in large portions of extracts from one of her own publications, dated from the prefs of G. Floyde, High-Street, Exeter, and figned Johanna Southcott, 1801.

She begins this work with declaring that her wonderful prophecies have induced many of her friends and some of the public to fuppofe her head deranged. "From my youth upward," fhe fays, in her artlefs way, "fo were the heads of my forefathers, but the principal point of our madnefs was like St. Paul's, in believing in the true God and his wonderful miracles for loft man. From my early age, the fear of the Lord was deeply placed in my heart and mind, and produced particulars already too well known, to be denied by ignorant fophifts who do not understand the spirit I prophesy by. The Lord has spoken to me in words, and made me believe in my early age the Lord fpake by

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dreams and vifions of the night, and that the angels of the Lord are miniftering fpirits, to adminifter to the heirs of falvation."

"I fhall quote one instance that happened to my father's brother, which convinced me the Lord was round our beds, and in our paths, the fame now as he was in ages past, today, yesterday, and for ever the fame, as I fhall infer from my father's brother, who was a remarkably religious young man from his youth up; and when he was defired to take more pleasure in the world than he did, he made this reply, "I cannot live as others do; this is no world to me, neither will my life be long in it." He was then mate of a ship, and when he took leave of my father, he defired him to live for a better world; and faid, "he hoped they should meet in glory, but did not think they should ever meet together again in this world." In this manner he took leave of all his friends, and fo bade them farewell. When he was returning home, he wrote a letter to his mother, fignifying that he should go in a fhip bound for London, and leave the ship deftined for Topfham, as he intended to go and fee his father's family. But my grandmother had been warned of his death in a dream, and informed him by letter that she had been troubled in dreams concerning him, and that the fhould never reft contented until she had seen him. To oblige his mother he altered his mind, and failed in the fhip bound for Topfham; the captain of which discovering another ship many leagues before him, faid he would be in Topfham before her; and in order to effect which, he fteered his fhip a nearer course, and fhe running on a rock was dashed to pieces; all the crew, except one man, went to the bottom, who faved himself on a broken plank, and was picked up by another veffel paffing by, and who, on his arrival at Topfham, related the circumstance of the ship's perifhing, as above described. Here

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was my uncle's foreknowledge of his death, and my grandmother's dream, verified together. This fingular instance, with many others, I never looked on no other than a fure fign the Lord was with us as in ages paft; but now it is explained to me, that those things that have happened in our family, were defigned as warnings to us, and we always told them as fuch."

After this follows a long detail in verse, which the calls a warning to Britain, but more particularly to her friends in the neighbourhood of Topfham, and Gittifham, in Devon, the place of her nativity and refidence as it seems. That concluded, fhe goes on with the feeling experience of her mother's brother, a remarkably religious young man, named Dagworthy, whofe fudden death funk deep in her uncle's heart," as my mother advised him in a letter that Mr. Dagworthy was ill; but my uncle not judging him dangerous, tarried to fettle fome affairs for his mother, and did not go to vifit him till a week after; when, on coming to the house, in hopes of finding his friend better, he met his corpfe at the door. This fudden fhock fo took my uncle's heart, that whether it was the death of Mr. Dagworthy, or the reflections of his own mind and heart because he had not gone and feen him sooner, remained unknown to all his friends, but the fhock went deep, and a melancholy preyed on his fpirits; his forrows feemed too great to bear, and to fly from them, he one morning faid to his mother, I will go out and fee the ground, while you get the breakfast. She waited with impatience his return till nine or ten, and then began to fear his abfence. She fent to feek him, but to no purpose. All the family began to be alarmed, but vain and fruitlefs was every search. They tried all the ponds, and fent to all his friends, but to no purpose; none that knew him had seen him. length my grandmother gave herself up to prayer, and

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