book, merely to grace his list without involving him in any kind of expence. Handel, putting the barber's hand aside, gets up in a fury, with his face still in a lather, and cries out with great vehemence: "Tamn your seluf, and go to der teif"fel-a barson make concerto! why he no make "sarmon?" In short, Brown seeing him in such a rage, with razors in his reach, got out of the room as fast as he could, lest he should have used them in a more barbarous way than would

have been safe.

BARDSEYE ISLAND, IN WALES.

Bardseye island is about two miles in circumference and contains but few inhabitans, although it once afforded an asylum during life to twenty thousand saints, and after death, graves Well, therefore, to as many of their bodies. might it be called insula Sanctorum, the isle of saints. Dr. Fuller, however, observes, "It "would be more facile to find graves in Bard

seye for so many saints, than to find saints for "so many graves." But, to approach the truth, let it be said, that Dubritius, archbishop of Caer leon, almost worn out with age, resigning his see to St. David, retired here, and, according to the best account, died in 612, and was interred in the spot, but in after times his body was remo

ved to Landaff. The slaughter of the monks of Bangor, in the year 607, is supposed to have contributed to the population of this island, for not only the brethren who escaped, but numbers of other pious Britons, fled thither to avoid the rage of the Saxons. The time in which the re

ligious house was founded is very uncertain; it probably was before the retreat of Dubritus, for something of that kind must have occasioned him to give the preference to the place. It seems likely to have been a seat of the Culdees or Colidei, the first religious residents of Great Britain, who sought islands and desert places in which they might in security worship the true God. It was certainly resorted to in very early times; for our accounts say that it flourished as a convent in the days of Cadwan, king of Britain, coeval with Dubritius.

MIRACULOUS CREDULIT Y.

During the season of miracles, worked by Bridget Burtock, of Cheshire, who healed all diseases by prayer, faith, and an embrocation of fasting spittle, multitudes resorted to her from all parts, and kept her salival glands in full employ. Sir John Pryce, with a high spirit of enthusiasm, wrote to this wonderful woman, to make him a visit at Newtown Hall, in order to

restore to him his third and favourite wife. The letter will best tell the foundation on which he built his strange hope, and very uncommon rẻquest.

Purport of Sir John Pryce's letter to Mrs. "Madam-Having reBridget Burtock, 1748. "eived information by repeated advises, both public and private, that you have of late per"formed many wonderful cures, even where the "best physicians have failed; and that the "means used appear to be very inadequate to "the effects produced; I cannot but look upon, you as an extraordinary and highly favoured person. And why may not the same most " merciful God who enables you to restore sight "to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and strength "to the lame, also enable you to raise the dead "to life? Now, having lately lost a wife, whom "I most tenderly loved, children an excellent "step-mother, and our acquaintances a very “dear and valuable friend, you will lay us all "under the highest obligations; and I earnestly "entreat you, for God Almighty's sake, that you "will put up your petitions to the throne of "Grace on our behalf, that the deceased may be "restored to us, and the late dame Eleanor

my

Pryce be raised from the dead. If your per

"sonal attendance appears to you to be neces

sary, I will send my coach and six, with pro66 per servants, to wait on you hither, whenever

you please to appoint. Recompence of any "kind that you could propose, would be made "with the utmost gratitude; but I wish the bare "mention of it is not offensive both to God and you. I am, madam, your most obedient, and very much afflicted humble servant,

It appears from a Swedish work, called an Historical account of the Last Years of the Reign of Gustavus the Fourth, Adolphus, late king of Sweden, that that monarch had the prophetical enthusiasm upon him. He had gotten hold of a commentary upon the Revelations which turned his brain, and he persuaded himself that the letters of Bounaparte's name, composed the mystical number of 666, the number of the beast; that Napoleon being the beast, his kingdom would be of short duration, and that he himself was the chosen instrument of Providence to discomfit him. He was express in his directions to his ministers, that Bounaparte's Christian name should be written Neapoleon, because this spelling was required to support the calculation. When a Russian prince was sent to treat with

him at Lauenberg, he favoured him with the Apocalypse, and afterwards sent him a letter to Berlin, containing nothing but a chapter on the beast, translated into French from the Swedish Bible. But not merely the ex-king of Sweden, for the Rev. Mr. Faber also, prophesied the downfall of Bounaparte-the beast from the thirteenth chapter of Revelations. These are his words; "The beast rising out of the sea (Corsica,) with seven heads and ten horns, "and upon his head ten horns and ten crowns, is "Buonaparte; this beast was to have reigned "forty-two months, as emperor of France. Buo"naparte has nearly reigned this exact number "of months; the dragon, i. e. the devil, gave "him his power and great authority; and he "caused all, both great and small, rich and poor, "free and bond, to receive a mark in their right "hand, i. e. Buonaparte has caused all persons "to submit to his tyranny. The beast's number

was six hundred three score and six, which "exactly corresponds with the numerical calcula"tion of all the letters in Buonaparte's name, "reckoning the letters according to the number "affixed to each before the introduction of the "figures, thus, N 40, A 1, P 60, O 50, L 20, "E 5, A 1, N 40, the letters in his Christian B 2, U 110, O 50, N 10, A 1,

name;

P 60,