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THE HAMMERSMITH GHOSTS. 6$
Vents him from learning any business to earn his living.—*
He converses with great propriety upon every subject,
although his articulation is also defective. .
A case similar with the above, occurred some years ago
in the South of France; where the unfortunate subject hav-
ing neither legs nor thighs, was kept in a kind of case, and
occasionally lifted about. What made the situation of this
person the more lamentable, was his being endowed with
an uncommon share of sensibility*, which rendered him
so much the more susceptible of the peculiarity of his
situation. From the smallness of his size, it should be ob-
served, he was deemed a dwarf.
Dec. 14, 1803. - Yours, &c. J—s. R—n,
THE HAMMERSMITH GHOSTS.
Being an authentic and particular Account of that mysterious and complicated
Affair, which has excited so much Curiosity and Conversation j the Characters
and Appearances of the supposed Spectre, the Circumstances that led to the
Death o/Thomas Millwood ; the Trial of his Murderer, 8§c. §<?.
aIammersmith, it appears, has been disturbed for some
months past, by more than one supposed spectre, to the
great annoyance of the male and female inhabitants.—In
the church-yard, and several of the avenues about the
place, it seems that various persons had been very much
alarmed, by what they understood to have been super-
natural beins;s, -which had of course filled the minds of
numbers with a variety of apprehensions ; and these ap-
pearances latterly.became particularly troublesome in the
lower part of the town, near Dorvell’s-row. Several of the
inhabitants, aware of the imposture, during this time, had
given themselves much trouble to detect it, but without
success.—But on the night of Tuesday, January 3, Francis
Smith, .an exciseman, who lodged at Mr. Oakley’s ad-
* The poor youth of Ednam, having a portion of this gift, has published
some very pretty verses, and in commiseration of his case, some well-disposed
persons have lately opened a subscription for his benefit,
Vol. IL K joining
Vents him from learning any business to earn his living.—*
He converses with great propriety upon every subject,
although his articulation is also defective. .
A case similar with the above, occurred some years ago
in the South of France; where the unfortunate subject hav-
ing neither legs nor thighs, was kept in a kind of case, and
occasionally lifted about. What made the situation of this
person the more lamentable, was his being endowed with
an uncommon share of sensibility*, which rendered him
so much the more susceptible of the peculiarity of his
situation. From the smallness of his size, it should be ob-
served, he was deemed a dwarf.
Dec. 14, 1803. - Yours, &c. J—s. R—n,
THE HAMMERSMITH GHOSTS.
Being an authentic and particular Account of that mysterious and complicated
Affair, which has excited so much Curiosity and Conversation j the Characters
and Appearances of the supposed Spectre, the Circumstances that led to the
Death o/Thomas Millwood ; the Trial of his Murderer, 8§c. §<?.
aIammersmith, it appears, has been disturbed for some
months past, by more than one supposed spectre, to the
great annoyance of the male and female inhabitants.—In
the church-yard, and several of the avenues about the
place, it seems that various persons had been very much
alarmed, by what they understood to have been super-
natural beins;s, -which had of course filled the minds of
numbers with a variety of apprehensions ; and these ap-
pearances latterly.became particularly troublesome in the
lower part of the town, near Dorvell’s-row. Several of the
inhabitants, aware of the imposture, during this time, had
given themselves much trouble to detect it, but without
success.—But on the night of Tuesday, January 3, Francis
Smith, .an exciseman, who lodged at Mr. Oakley’s ad-
* The poor youth of Ednam, having a portion of this gift, has published
some very pretty verses, and in commiseration of his case, some well-disposed
persons have lately opened a subscription for his benefit,
Vol. IL K joining