PROSE

ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

THE GHOST IN COCK-LANE.

Saturday, February 13, 1762.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.

Paris.TH

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

HERE have been lately held, in the Rue de Coq, feveral extraordinary lits de juftice, at which fome of the chief persons in the nation have affifted; and what is extremely remarkable, a Proteftant Clergyman has voluntarily adminiftered more than Extreme Unction to a Ghoft.-[From the Paris A-la-main.

Lisbon. Several of the Jefuits who were exiled from this country have gone over to England in difguife. The effects of their horrible machinations begin to discover themselves already in the VOL. II. myfterious

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myfterious affair of the Spirit in Cock-Lane, which engroffes the attention of the whole British Nation. We are affured by fome gentlemen of the English Factory, that the absolute laws against witchcraft, &c. will speedily be revived in GreatBritain !

IRELAND.

Dublin. We hear from London, that the Apparition in Cock-Lane, has never been seen by nobody.-[Faulkner's Journal.

SCOTLAND.

Glasgow. The feventh fon of a feventh fon is just fet out on a walk to London, in order to vifit the Spirit in Cock-Lane; and as this gentletleman is bleft with the faculty of fecond fight, it is thought that he will be able to fee her.

The fpirit's great propenfity to scratching, makes it generally supposed here, that Miss Fanny died of the itch rather than the small-pox, and that the Ghoft is certainly mangy.

LONDON.

Yefterday the Committee of Enquiry on the Ghoft in Cock-Lane, met at the Jerufalem Tavern in Clerkenwell; when Mifs P. was put to bed by one of the maids of honour, in the room where

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the Cockney's Feaft is generally held, in the prefence of the Right Hon. the Earls of

and

-and -; the Right Rev. the Bishops of

and. and above fifty more of the nobility. The knockings and feratchings began about midnight, and the examination was in the following

manner:

2. Will you go into that pint bottle? (pointing to a pint bottle that flood on the table.)-One knock.

From the time of this preliminary answer in the affirmative, all the fubfequent noifes iffued as from the bottle.

2: (From the Right Rev.

looking roguishly

at Betty P. in bed.) Pray, Mifs Fanny, is not your real name Mifs Betty?-Much fcratching, as if angry.

2 (From a lord of the treasury.) What is the amount of the national debt?-Above a hundred and thirty million knocks.

2. How many years fince the creation of the world?-Above five thousand knocks.

2. What is the number of the present Anno Domini?-One thousand feven hundred and fixty two knocks.

2. How many people are there in this room Fifty-eight knocks.-Right.

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2. How

2. How many women? Twelve knocks. Wrong: there was another lady in man's cloaths.

2. How many maids?-One knock. Certainly wrong; for there were five unmarried ladies in the room, befides the girl in bed.

2. Will you have prayers read to you?-One knock.

2. Shall they be read by any of the archbishops, bishops, or other regular clergy?-Two knocks.

2. Shall they be read by Doctor Wh-d? One knock.

2. Or Dr. Rone?-One knock. 2. Or Mr. Mn?-One knock. 2. Or Mr. M▬▬re?-One knock. 2. Or Mr. B-g-n?-One knock. 2. Or Mr. Sn?-One knock.

2. Can you fay the Lord's Prayer backwards? Much fcratching, as if angry; after which the bottle fuddenly cracked, and flew into ten thousand pieces, and no more answers were given.

We hear that the above Committee propofe to fit out a privateer to cruise in the Red-Sea.

We hear that the Rev. Mr. M. is preparing a new work for the ufe of families, especially children, to be published in weekly numbers, called

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The Ghoft's Catechifm. We have been favoured with a transcript of the Creed, which is as follows:

MR. M's BELIEF.

"I BELIEVE, in figns, omens, tokens, dreams, visions, spirits, ghosts, spectres, and apparitions. "And in Mary Tofts, who conceived and was brought to bed of a couple of rabbits.

"And in Elizabeth Canning, who lived a whole month without performing any of the ufual offices of nature, on fix crufts of dry bread and half a jug of water.

"And in A-d B-r who made his escape from the Ing-n at M-c-r-ta.

"And in all the miracles of the Holy Roman Catholick Church.

"I believe in fairies; I believe in witches; I believe in hobgoblins; I believe in the shrieking woman; I believe in the death watch; I believe in the death-howl; I believe in rawhead-and-bloody-bones; I believe in all stories, tales, legends, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c."

We are affured that the Ghoft will continue her rout in Cock-Lane, and her drum at the two The

atres.

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