answer from Shelah.) "He fell 66 RAPE EXTRAORDINARY.-The following curious relation appeared in an Irish Paper during the month of May, 1804:-" Dublin, May 10 The son of a respectable landholder in the county of Meath, was strongly attached to the daughter of a neighbouring farmer, but as she did not encourage his advances, he formed a resolution of seizing her by force; and, as he knew that she was in the habit of going daily to see a favourite cow milked, he conceived that such an opportunity would be favourable to his plan. The young lady's bro ther, however, got intimation of his design, and immediately made it known to his sister, who, as there was a striking resemblance in their persons, agreed that he should dress himself in her clothes, and at the usual time go and attend the cow. This plan was that evening put into execution, and, when he arrived at the spot, four men jumped over the hedge, seized, and carried off the supposed lady (though not without much apparent resistance) to a chaise in waiting, which instantly carried them off to the house of the intended bride ing. In the mean time, the lover's mother tried every thing in her power to administer comfort to the DISTRESSED YOUNG LADY; and, in order to convince her that her son had no dishonourable intentions towards her, she proposed that she should sleep that night with her daughter. The young ladies accordingly soon after retired to rest, but they had not been long gone when an unusual noise and cry for "help" brought the parents to the door, which, as the young man had previouly secured it, they were obliged, with the assistance of the domnestics, to break open, but by that time he had accomplished his design. They immediately seized, bound, and sent him off to Trim goal, where he now lies, and is in a short time to take his trial; but, as he supposes they cannot substantiate the rape, from the circumstance of the old lady putting him into her daughter's bed, he has entered an action against the op posite party for false imprisonment." THE poem forwarded by Caias contains some tolerable ideas, but they are not expressed with much elegance; the other articles we will look over, and endeavour to make use of.-" Beauty in Tears" is by no means the best specimen of Mr. Burden's talents he has favoured us with, and is therefore put upon the rejected file: hereafter he will perhaps thank us for this.—Some of J. J. J.'s anecdotes shall appear; we are a good deal of his opinion respecting tales of Witches and Demons, but he who keeps an ordinary must try to please all palates: he will understand us. RECEIVED: Witchcraft-Archery groom. Immediately on their arri- shall be given in a week or two. LONDON Printed and Published by T. Wallis, WITCHES AND DEMONS. OUR next extract from Master Glan- On Sunday, 15th of November, 1657, about three of the clock in the afternoon, Richard Jones, then a sprightly youth about twelve years old, son of Henry Jones of Shepton Mallet, in the county of Somerset, being in his father's house alone, and perceiving one looking in at the windows, went to the door, where one Jane Brooks of the same town (but then by name unknown to this boy) came to him. She desired him to give her a piece of bread, and gave him an apple. After which she also stroked him down on the right side, shook him by the hand, and so bid him good night. The youth returned into the house, where he had been left well, when his father and one Gibson went from him, but at their return, which was within an hour or thereabout, they found him ill, and complaining of his right side, in which the pain continued most part of that night. And on Monday following in the evening, the boy roasted the apple he had of Jane Brooks, and having eaten about half of it, was extremely ill, and sometimes speechless, but being recovered, he told his father that a woman on Sunday before had given him that apple, and that she stroked him on the side. He said he knew not her name, but should her person if he saw her. Upon this Jones was advised to invite the women of Shepton to come to his house, upon the occasion of his son's illness, and the child told him, that in case the woman should come in when he was in his fit, if he were not able to speak, he would give him an intimation by a jog, and desired that his father would lead him through the room, for he said he would put his hand upon her, if she were there. After this, he continuing very ill, many women came daily to see him. And Jane Brooks, the Sunday after, came in with two of her sisters, and several other women of the neigh bourhood were there. Upon her coming in, the boy was taken so ill, that for some time he could not see nor speak, but having recovered his sight, he gave his father the item, and he led him about the room. The boy drew towards Jane Brooks, who was behind her sisters among the other women, and put his band upon her, which his father perceiving, immediately scratched her face and drew blood from her. The youth then presently cried out that he was well, and so he continued seven or eight days. But then meeting with Alice Coward, sister to Jane Brooks, who passing by said to him, "How do you do, my Honey," he presently fell ill again. And after that, the said Coward and Brooks often appeared to him. The boy would describe the clothes and habit they were in at the time exactly, as the constable and others have found upon repairing to them, though Brooks's house was at a good distance from Jones's. This they often tried, and always found the boy right in his descriptions. 66 On a certain Sunday about noon, the child being in a room with his father and one Gibson, and in his fit, he on a sudden called out, that he saw Jane Brooks on the wall, and pointed to the place, where immediately Gibson struck with a knife. Upon which the boy cried out, O father, couz. Gibson hath cut Jane Brooks's hand, and 'tis bloody." The father and Gibson immediately repaired to the constable, a discreet person, and acquainting him with what had passed, desired him to go with them to Jane Brooks's house, which he did. They found her sitting in her room on a stool with one hand over the other. The constable ask'd her how she did? She answered, not well. He ask'd again why she sat with one hand over the other? She replied, she was wont to do so. He enquired if any thing were amiss with her hand? Her answer was, it was well enough. The constable desired he might see the hand that was under, which she being unwilling to shew him, he drew it out and found it bloody according to what the boy had said. Being ask'd how it came so, she said 'twas scratched with a great pin. On the eighth of December, 1657, the boy, Jane Brooks, and Alice Coward, appeared at Castle-Cary before the Justices, Mr. Hunt and Mr. Cary. The boy having begun to give his testimony, upon the coming in of the two women and their looking on him, was instantly taken speechless; and so remained till the women were removed out of the room, and then in a short time,upon examination, he gave a full relation of the mentioned particulars. On the eleventh of January following, the boy was again examined by the same Justices of Shepton Mallet, and upon the sight of Jane Brooks was again taken speechless, but was not so afterwards when Alice Coward came into the room to him. On the next appearance at Shepton, which was on the seventeenth of February, there were present many gentlemen, ministers, and others. The boy fell into his fits upon the sight of Jane Brooks, and lay in a man's arms like a dead person; the woman was then willed to lay her hand on him, which she did, and he thereupon started and sprang out in a very strange and unusual manner. One of the Justices, to prevent all possibilities of legerdemain, caused Gibson and the rest to stand off from the boy, and then that Justice himself held him; the youth being blindfolded, the Justice called as if Brooks should touch him, but winked to others to do it, which two or three successively did, but the boy appeared not concerned. The Justice then called on the father to take him, but had privately before desired one Mr. Geoffery Strode to bring Jane Brooks to touch him at such a time as he should call for his father, which was done, and the boy immediately sprang out after a very odd and violent fashion. He was after touched by several persons and moved not, but Jane Brooks being again caused to put her hand upon him, he started and sprang out twice or thrice as before. All this while he remained in his fit and some time after; and be ing then laid on a bed in the same room, the people present could not for a long time bow either of his arms or legs. Between the mentioned 15th of Nov. and the 11th of Jan. the two women appeared often to the boy, their hands cold, their eyes staring, and their lips and cheeks looking pale. In this manner on a Thursday about noon, the boy being newly laid into his bed, Jane Brooks and Alice Coward appeared to him, and told him that what they had begun they could not perform. But if he would say no more of it, they would give him money, and so put a two-pence into his pocket. After which they took him out of his bed, laid him on the ground and vanished, and the boy was found by those that came next into the room lying on the floor as if he had been dead. The two-pence was seen by many, and when it was put into the fire and hot, the boy would fall ill; but as soon as it was taken out and cold, he would be again as well as before. This was seen and observed by a minister, a discreet person, when the boy was in one room, and the two-pence (without his knowledge) put into the fire in another, and this was divers times tried, in the presence of several per sons. Between the 8th of Dec. and the 17th of Feb. in the year mentioned, divers persons at sundry times, heard in the boy,a noise like the croaking of a toad, and a voice within him saying, Jane Brooks, Alice Coward, twelve times in near a quarter of an hour. At the same time some held a candle before the boy's face, and earnestly looked on him, but could not perceive the least motion of his tongue, teeth, or lips, while the voice was heard. On the 25th of Feb. between two and three in the afternoon, the boy being at the kouse of Richard Isles in Shepton Mallet, went out of the room into the garden, Isles his wife followed him, and was within two yards when she saw him rise up from the ground before her, and so mounted higher and higher, till he passed in the air over the garden wall, and was carried so above ground more than 30 years, falling at last at one Jordan's door at Shepton, where he was found as dead for a time (see Cut No. 2, p. 105); but coming to himself, told Jordan that Jane Brooks had taken him up by the arm out of Isles his garden and carried him in the air, as is related. The boy at several other times was gone on the sudden, and upon search after him, found in another room as dead, and at sometimes strangely hanging above the ground, his hands being flat against a great beam in the top of the room, and all his body two or three feet from the ground (See Cut No. 3.). There he hath hung a quarter of an hour together, and being afterwards come to himself, he told those that found him that Jan Brooks had carried him to that place, and held him there. Nine people at a time saw the boy so strangely hanging by the beam. From the 15th of Nov. to the 10th of March following, he was by reason of his fits much wasted in his body and unspirited, but after that time, being the day the two women were sent to goal, he had no more of those fits. Jane Brooks was condemned and executed at Charde Assizes, March 26, 1658. This is the sum of Mr. Hunt's narrative, which concludes with both the Justices' attestation, thus: "The aforesaid circumstances were some of them seen by us; and the rest, and some other remarkable ones, not here set down, were, upon the examination of several credible witnesses, taken upon oath before us. "Subscribed, "Rob. Hunt, John Cary." (Resumed at p. 147.) pendicular rock six hundred feet high, the bottom of which, for about the height of twelve feet, is continually washed by the waves, except four or five days in the year, during the utmost recess of the sea, when, for the space of three or four hours, it leaves fifteen or twenty fathom of dry sand at the foot of the rock. Bois-rose, who found it impossible by any other way to surprise a garrison, who guarded with great care a place lately taken, did not doubt of accomplishing his design, if he could enter by that side which was thought inaccessible; and this he managed, by the following contrivance, to perform : He had agreed upon a signal with the two soldiers whom he corrupted, and one of them waited for it continually upon the top of the rock, where he posted himself during the whole time that it was low water. Bois-rose, taking the opportunity of a very dark night, came with fifty resolute men, chosen from amongst the sailors, in two large boats, to the foot of the rock. He had provided himself with a thick cable, equal in length to the height of the rock, and tying knots at equal distances, run short sticks through, to support them as they climbed. The soldier whom he had gained, having waited six months for the signal, no sooner perceived it, than he let down a cord from the top of the precipice, to REMARKABLE CAPTURE OF which those below fastened the cable, A FORTRESS. THE manner in which Feschamp (a fortress in Normandy) was surprised, is so remarkable, that it well deserves a particular recital. When this fort was taken by Biron from the League, in the garrison that was turned out of it there was a gentleman called Bois-rose, a man of sense and courage, who, making an exact observation of the place he left, and having concerted his scheme, contrived to get two soldiers, whom he had bound to his interest, to be received into the new garrison which was put into Feschamp by the Royalists. The side of the fort next the sea is a per by which means it was drawn up to the top, and made fast to an opening in the battlement with a strong crow passed through an iron staple, Bade for the purpose Bois-rose giving the lead to two serjeants, whose courage he was well convinced of, ordered the fifty sailors to mount the ladder in the same manuer, one after the other, with their weapons tied round their bodies, himself bringing up the rear, to take away all hope of returning; which indeed soon became impossible, for before they had ascended half way, the sea rising more than six feet, carried off their boats and set their cable floating. The necessity of withdrawing from a |