fhould have treated them with the fame derifion as the monstrous legends of St. Anthony the monk, or thofe of the Abbe Paris, in the church of St. Medard, at Paris. But being a voucher, by the evidence of my own fenfes, in the truth of much of what is fo formally attefted, and having no reason to doubt the credit of others, who receive them with an equal degree of conviction, I own I can no longer withhold my affent to them. Wonderous things have been done in the fight of multitudes; the minifter and churchwardens have fet the parish seal to their authenticity, and the regifter is preferved inwhich the names of all who have vifited the faint, with the nature of the operation on each, is faithfully and exactly recorded. The Doctor, as you may fee by the papers, was interred with great funeral pomp on the 19th of November, 1771, in the church of St. Michan's on the day after, his grave was vifited by feveral members of both Houfes of Pnt; not fo much out of refpect to his memory, nor from any expectation of a miracle, as to make themselves popular among the common people at prefent, while the city election is depending.

The first appearance of any thing fupernatural was observed in the perfon of Colonel John P―y, who, though generally confined the greatest part of the year by the gout, and unable to move by the ufe of his own limbs for some time paft, yet was feen to walk from Henry-ftreet (the place of the Doctor's late refidence) to the church of St. Michan's, without fuffering any prejudice to his health, though. the streets were very wet and dirty, and the Colonel often obliged to walk above his ancle in the kennel. Moft of the miracles yet wrought have been on the minds,

minds, manners, and understandings of the devotees; but from this example of the Colonel, 'tis probable the remains may have the fame efficacy on disorders of the body. You have paid many vifits to Bath, and the hot fprings of Italy for your rheumatifin, to little purpose; I wish you could be prevailed on to try the church of St. Michan's; if it does you no fervice, it can do you no harm, and a journey of an hundred miles is no mighty matter. Whatever is your determination let it be speedy, for perhaps the miraculous virtue may foon leave the Doctor's remains, never to return, or only on certain anniverfaries, fuch as his election for the city; the paffing the Octennial-bill; the breaking open of Newgate by the foldiers in garrison on Dublin duty, and other favourite æras. On those days the crowd will be fo great, preffing to the church, that to escape with whole bones will be a miracle, almost as great as any the holy relics can perform. I muft not forget to tell you, that great fums have been already collected at the church door by the fexton, and that trustees are appointed to fee them properly diftributed, as they fuppofe would be moft agreeable to St. Charles were he living. One moiety is to be divided among the Committees of the Free-Prefs, and the Hibernian Journal; and the other is reserved for the fupport of new feminaries of oratory, on the fame footing with thofe of the Free Debating Society, the Lyceum, and the reft which are already eftablished in this city.

I am ever, dear fir,

yours,

NICHOLAS WEST.

Lift of miracles wrought in the church of St. Michan's, Dublin, by the remains of the late Doctor Charles Lucas, now known by the name of St. Charles. Taken from the parifb regifter, in the cuftody of the minifter and churchwardens of faid parifb: witneffed and fealed at the bottom by all the devotees, and figned and fealed at the top.

L. S. O STEPHEN BARRINGTON, Rector.

L. S. O ISAAC CLANCY, Churchwardens.
L. S. O BEN. BRADSHAW,} Church wardens.

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Hy Fd, Efq; member of parliament for the borough of C-n, after leaving the church of St. Michan's, went directly to the Houfe of Commons, and fpoke three quarters of an hour to the question under confideration, without the leaft perperfonality or invective against the Prime Serjeant, the Attorney General, or any friend of the prefent adminiftration.

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Efq; late Sr, came out of the church at half an hour after a eleven, on the oth of November, 1771; looked as if he was thinking, and made but one promise the whole day, viz. that he would remember his engagement to dinner; which he kept.

Counsellor H-on, member of parliament, after his return from St. Michan's to the House of Commons, spoke but one quarter of an hour, and did not mention the pier of Balbriggen.

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m Me, Bart. on his way to the Saint, ftopped at the fign of the Highlander, on the

Blind-quay, to buy nine penny worth of fnuff, where he was delayed fourteen minutes, by mifcalculating the change he was to receive out of half a guinea; but before he left the church, to the astonishment of all present, members of parliament, and others, he drew out a table of pence on a flat ftone in the church-yard, with a piece of miraculous chalk, taken from the right toe of the Saint: repeated the multiplication table twice, without a single mistake, and afterwards worked two questions in divifion, with very few errors, before Mr. Daniel Swiney, writing-mafter, at the fign of the Hand and Pen, in Skinner-row.He is alfo much better of his Scotch accent, and 'tis not despaired but by a few more vifits to St. Michan's, he may be perfectly cured.-When the miracle is accomplished, it will be registered with

the rest.

The Lord Viscount M-1-h, who drove at full gallop in a phaeton and four to the church, greatly annoying all paffengers in the ftreets, at coming out difmiffed his equipage, walked foberly home, has fince put on a clean fhirt once a day, and is now driven by his own coachman.

The Rev. Doctor Borrows, immediately after returning from the church, wrote an epigram with a new thought, and fome point in it.

His Excellency Lord Townshend, visited the church early in the morning on the 11th of November, and after his return, did not keep his company waiting dinner, and faid nothing the whole day. worthy of being remembered.

The Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, after having been at the church, was for a fhort time perplexed in deciding a point of order.

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-te, Efq; did not fit in a nich the whole day after his return to the House of Commons, from the Church of St. Michan's.

Patrick Dogherty, Farrier, of the parifh of St. Andrew's, who was born deaf and dumb, on entering the church, was observed to clinch his fit feveral times, and to strike his hand against his breast. On touching the body of the Saint, he uttered very diftinctly, and with great emphasis, the words Slavery -Impious Tyrants-Corruption-Flagitious Minifiry -Mercenary red Coat Ruffians. On which he was immediately nominated as a proper perfon to be candidate for the city, and it is imagined he will carry his election.

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The Earls of B- -t and Mtogether directly from the church-yard to the House of Lords; where the former of these noblemen, fpoke plain English, and the latter fpoke truth.

Hs Ld R- -y, Efq; was observed to laugh feveral times after he left the church, on reading the Epistle to G. E. H. Efq; with notes by Alderman Faulkner.

The Right Hon. Anthony Malone, on his return from the Saint, could not recollect the name of a witness in a Chancery caufe, in which he had been concerned in the year 1750.

Sir Js C1, after leaving the church, took down a speech of the Prime Serjeant's, in which many of the words were preserved, and not above half the substance omitted.

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