Reasoning a priori upon this circumstance, I should as soon expect that a body projected from the earth would not return, as that it should be true; I shall venture, therefore, to of fer you a few observations upon the case.

ANN MOOR, of Tutbury. THE HE following judicious observations, written by Mr. Richard Thompson, a medical gentleman, of Birmingham, will probably not only "It is certain that we find occa satisfy the enquiries of our Chichester sional instances of animals being vacorrespondent, inserted at p. 211 of riously deformed, but there are some, our last Magazine, but also enlighten at least, that I have met with, in which the public at large with respect to this mysterious affair. It is not a little singular, that, in two of the characters selected for this month, one was known to live upon very little indeed, while the other is supposed to subsist upon what is next to nothing!

there has been the deficiency of a sto-
mach. Indeed, in the myriads of liv-
ing objects with which the face of
nature teems, there is not a single spe-
cies in which this organ is wanting
an hydatide, the most simply con-
structed creature that exist, is all
stomach; and it will be found, that as
animals become more complicated in
their organization, it is always by the
addition of other apparatus to this in-
dispensable appendage. Reasoning
in this way, we should be very cau-
tious in giving credit to any alledged
instance of the stomach becoming use-
less, especially when there is no other
apparent route, by which the aliment
can be supplied to the constitution.
Certainly, in cases of fever and other
illness, patients will live for weeks
without food; but, although these
persons in every case take liquids,
they invariably become emaciated,
and would die, if the abstinence were
continued. Here, too, the body is in
a very different state from that of
health; the pulse is quick, and every
office is more or less deranged.

Mr. Thompson observes, "Educated in the public schools, where system, that stepping stone to knowledge, hold an unresisted, undivided sway; I have been taught to think, that the natural world is governed by laws uni'form and immutable. Nor is this doctrine in the least at variance with reason. If we look around us, every object forces itself upon our thoughts as the creature of design; we see, and we admire the regularity with which the same laws produce the infinite variety of effects which characterise the operations of nature. The power which we call gravitation, the living principle, electricity, and other natural causes, produce the same effects; . and,, although there seem to exist many anomalies in the action of these laws, yet their number is daily on the decline. Children in science, we find, "How different, however, is the that as our knowledge increases, this case of Ann Moor. Her appearance beautiful uniformity becomes more is that of a handsome, respectableapparent; a circumstance which ma- looking woman, who is beginning terially strengthens the belief, that to wear her grey hairs with proper if the various phænomena presented dignity. She is pale indeed, but to us were properly understood, we looks healthy; and so far from the should find one grand law to preside functions of her body being deranged,

there is not one which does not go on the tongue is tolerably clean, and the

with the regularity of health. Her pulse is under 80, firm and good; her strength very little impaired; her conversation correct; the tone of her voice remarkably full and strong; her perspiration free and natural; and her mouth perfectly supplied with saliva; by her own account, she passes urine sometimes; has the motion of all her limbs, and certainly is not emaciated to any great extent, at all events, not more 60 than would be expected in any one who has been so long confined to bed. This is a curious state for a person to be in who has neither eaten nor drank for two years.

saliva neither diminished in quantity,
nor vitiated in quality. This is an
unanswerable proof that she does take
food in certain, although probably in
very small quantities. Nor is this at
all an unusual circumstance. The
most inattentive observer must have
seen abundance of instances, in which
women have existed, and seemingly
in very tolerable health, upon almost
inconceivably small quantities of food;,
and it is impossible to say to what ex-
tent this might be carried, especially
where there is chronic disease of the
viscera, which is, perhaps, the case
with this woman.

"Not to mention the indications of unimpaired strength which she possesses, let us for a moment consider the state of her exertions. The quantity of fluid which is perspired by a human subject, as determined by Lavoisier and Sequin, amounts to 17.63 grains in the minute, or 52.89 ounces in the twenty-four hours. This fact alone, when applied to the case under examination, is sufficient to shake the firmest belief of it. The woman's own account, with regard to he uriue, 18, at I believe, that she makes about a tea cup full once in a week. Even if she made no more, which is much to be doubted, her accounts to different people being very contradictory, whence is this derived? A medical friend of mine, to whom she said she had passed urine within two or three days of the time he saw her, could plainly perceive the bladder above the pubis, to contain a considerably larger quantity than that she mentioned, so much so, as to convince him, her own statement, as to that point, was absolutely false.

"But the most remarkable circumstance with regard to her relates to the secretion of saliva. It is now generally agreed upon by physiologists, that the great use of this secretion is to act an important part in the process of digestion; and, in proof of this, we find that, whenever that operation is deranged, the state of the mouth is an instant and accurate test of the fact. In this case, however,

Those I mean which she canuot, er thinks it unnecessary to disguise.

"From such considerations, it is
my decided opinion that she is an im-
postor; and, in farther corroboration,
I shail now mention the result of an
interview with her, which took place
some time ago. She seemed to be in
a state of weakness, which made it
great labour, as well as pain, for her
even to attempt to move. This but
ill agreed with her countenance and
pulse. We carried on the conversa-
tion for some time, in which she took
a lively part, tili we began to insinuate
that the medical men of London were
so dissatisfied with the manner in
which her case had been proved by
watching, that we had heard it was
the intention of a certain number of
them to come down, for the purpose
of watching her themselves, which
would be so managed, that at no time
should she be without the eyes of a
medical man being upon her. At
this suggestion she took great offence,
and, in the course of a little time, so
completely forgot her situation, that
she raised herself upright in bed, a
position which we had preciously
learned she had not been in for more
than a year, griped her fists, threw her
arms and head about with as much
strength and ease as the most healthy
woman of an equal age could possibly
do, and talked at the same time most
loudly and incessantly, from the effect
of violent passion. She complained
of our cruelty to her bitterly, and said
we meant to impose upon her; that
she had been upon her trial once,
which she would not then have sub-
mitted to, but to oblige the Minister,
and for nobody in the world would she

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undergo a repetition of it. So con- farmers who then abounded in Scotvinced were we now of her true cha- land, but are now swallowed up in the racter, that, after paying the admit vortex of monopolists, or rather plutapte fee, we immediately left her; ralists. His father, though poor, had and the impression our interview made the honest ambition, so creditable to upon her was so lasting, that she conti- Scotchmen, of giving his son a libenues, to this day, to tell the people that ral education; and the son appeared visit her of the circumstance, which no less ambitious of profiting by this she converts to gʊnd account, by say parental attention. “Having gone ing that we intended to frighten her, through the routine of the Latin tanbut she was fully aware of our designs. guage, as it was then usually taught in "That the public may understand a parochial school, Mr. Adam turned the minutiae of this case, it is right to his steps towards Aberdeen, with the state that she is of the puritanical pro- intention of contending for a Bursary, fession of faith, and strongly impresses an exhibition of small value." Being, upon the minds of her visitors that her however, unsuccessful, he proceeded case is a miracle. However this may to Edinburgh, and here comes the be, she has made it answer very well economical anecdote, and which we in a pecuniary point of view, which, shall give in his biographer's own it is much to be suspected, was the words:-"His studies were continued chief end she wished to gain. What with unremitting vigour, and his fimakes this more probable is, that, for mances were so straitened, that in bis some time past, I understand she has auxiety to go forward to the grand told every new comer, that "God is cbject of his career, he even abridged able to restore her to her former health, his portion of the necessaries of life. and that very probably he will do He entered the Logic Class, in the it. With respect to the description vicinity of Edinburgh, 4th Nov. 1755, of people who watched her during the and about that time began to assist time of her probation, it is enough to young Mr. Maconochie (now a Lord state, that they were all belonging of Session, by the title of Lord Mea to the town of neighbourhood of Tut- dowbank) in that capacity which is bury, most of them her own acquaint- commonly styled a private teacher. ance, and of the same religious per- For his services he received only one suasion as herself. Although miracles guinea in three months; yet, as he are supposed to have ceased long had no other method of raising a sixsince, it would seem as if the neigh-pence, he contrived to subsist upon bourhood of Tutbury was either very this sum, and in a manner that will highly favoured by the Almighty, or now appear incredible. He lodged in its inhabitants particularly sceptical a small 100 at Restalrig, in the northin their religious opinions; for, since eastern suburbs; and for this accom this woman has derived so much ad- modation he paid four-pence per week. vantage from her inrmities, another All his meals, except dinner, uniform miracle has started at Barton, near ly consisted of oatmeal made into por Tutbury, in the person of a boy, who, ridge, together with smal beer, of it is said, can only see on Sundays, which he only allowed himself half being blind all the rest of the week. bottle at a time. When he wished to This I only know from report, but dine, he purchase i a penny loaf at the have every reason to give credit to it." nearest baker's shop, and if the car was fair, he would dispatch his meal in a walk to the meadows, or Hope Park, which is adjoining the souther part of the city; but, if the weather was foul, he had recourse to some long and lonely stairs, (the old houses Edinburgh have all common stair cases, mostly of an unconscionable height, one in particular being fourteen stories), which he would climb, eating his dinner at every step. B this means all expense for cookery

The late ALEXANDER ADAM, LL.D. Rector of the High School of Edinburgh.

DR. ADAM, it appears, was born in 1741, the son of one of those little

Her attendant, who is as well an educated hypocrite as her mistress, was pleased to style it "a trial for her life." This she did in arguing against her mistress submitting to a second,

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was avoided, and he wasted neither ble of bringing together upon paper coals nor candle, for when he was the various items of his friend's exchill, he used to run till his blood be- penditure, and actually found that in gan to glow, and his evening studies six months it did not amount to two were always prosecuted under the roof guineas!"

of some one of his companions. The Dr. Adam's merits as a scholar, a youths of Scotland have hitherto been teacher, a gramma, ian, and an author, remarkable for parsimony and perse- were undoubtedly high; and, during verance; but no man was ever more the forty-three years he held the reccompletely under the influence of a torship, by his talents and assiduity virtuous emulation than Mr. Adam. he raised the school (especially the The particulars of his conduct, which higher class, which it was his immeare here related, have not been exag- diate province to teach) from a very gerated in any manner, for he fre- low state to the zenith of prosperity, quently told the same story to his pu- and he was enabled for many years to pils. At a convivial meeting between live and entertain his friends in a Mr. Adam and Mr. Luke Fraser, an- style of excellence perhaps not infeother of the masters of the high school, rior to the learned Lord his former the latter, who was very sceptical as to pupil. Mr. Adam's parsimony, took the trou

MISCELLANEA, FACETIOUS AND ECCENTRIC. THE following effusion was a short fore his death, ton said, a little bewritten Sir Isaac Newton

time before his execution. The quaint-
ness of the antitheses was peculiar to
the age when he lived.

Sir Walter Raleigh's Pilgrimage.
Give me my scallop-shell of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon,
My serip of joy, immortal diet,
My bottle of salvation ;

My crown of glory, hope's true gage,
And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Blood must be my only balmer, '

No other balm will there be giv❜n,
Whilst my soul, like a quiet palmer,
Travelleth towards the land of Heav'n,

Over the silver mountains,

Where spring the nectar fountains;
There will I kiss the bowl of bliss,
And drink mine everlasting fill,
On every milky hill;"

My soul will be a dry before,
But after it will thirst no more:
I'll take them first to quench my thirst,
And taste of nectar-suckets,
At those clear wells where sweetness dwells,
Drawn up by saints in crystal buckets:
And when our bottles, and all we,
Are fill'd with immortality,
Then the blessed parts we'll travel,
Strew'd with rubies thick as gravel,
Scalings of diamonds, sapphire flow'rs,
High coral walls, and pearly bow'rs.
From thence to Heav'n's bribeless hall,
Where no corrupted voices brawl,
No conscience molten into gold,
No forg'd accuser bought or sold,
No cause deferr'd, no vain-spent journey,
For there Christ is the king's attorney.

tion for a History of Grautham), “I do not know what I may appear to the world; but, to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then with a smoother pebble, or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Some books require peculiar attention in reading. A spruce young genhad the most happy genius in the tleman was one day boasting that he he, "is easy. People call Euclid's world."Every thing to me," said Elements a hard book; but I got through it yesterday from beginning to end in a piece of the afternoon, between dinner time and tea time.” "Read all Euclid," auswered a genhow was that possible?"-" Upon my tleman present, "in one afternoon! honour I did, and never read smoother reading in my life."-" Did you master all the demonstrations, and solve all the problems as you weut?"" Demonstrations and problems! I suppose. you mean the a's, and 's, and c's, the 1's, 2's, and 3's, and the pictures of scratches and scrawls? No, no: 1 skip't all they, I only read Euclid himself, and all Euclid I did read in one afternoon."

A lady, it is related, borrowed of a sical manner:-"Let those who feel gentleman Locke on the Human Un- this loss deplore with me on this mederstanding, which she had expressed lancholy occasion; but if there be any a strong desire to read. The gentle- that hear me, who have secretly wishman, who had much doubt of her ca- ed for this event-they have got their pacity, lent it her nevertheless. She wish, and the devil do them good with returned it after some time apparently it." well pleased, which rather surprising the lender, he asked her if she had found nothing difficult in it. "There is only one word, Sir," said she, "that the author is very fond of, and that is ideas: I can make nothing at all, of that."

During the height of the French revolution, and the rage of democracy on this side of the water, a relative to the late Rev. Mr. Newton, of St. Mary Woolnoth, Lombard-street, married a bookseller, who frequently urged Mr. Newton to speak a few words," as he termed it, "in the cause of liberty." The old gentleman begged him to explain what he meant by liberty, which having done, Mr. N. observed, "I find, Sir, that liberty includes either speaking or holding one's tongue." "Certainly," was the answer. well," replied the old gentleman, "the liberty of holding my tongue is all I require."

The Mitred Captain.

Very

Dr. William Lyons, who was elevated to the bishopric of Cork, towards the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, was originally a captain of a ship, and had distinguished himself so gallantly in several actions with the Spaniards, that the Queen told him he should have "the first vacancy that offered." The honest captain, who understood the Queen literally, soon after hearing of a vacancy in the see of Cork, immediately set out for court, and claimed the royal promise. Her Majesty replied, that she would take a few days to consider of it; when, examining into his character, and finding him a sober, moral man, gave him the bishoprick. Lyons immediately set out for his bishoprick, which he enjoyed for about twenty years, never, however, attempting to preach but once, which was on the death of the Queen. He then mounted the pulpit, when, after giving a good discourse on the uncertainty of life, and the great qualities of the Queen, he concluded in the following whim,

Apology for short Sermons.

Thus a hearer did once on his teacher re« Your sermons of late are unusually

tort,

short."

"Why that may be true," was the good man's reply,

"When a thing is quite plain, 'tis in vain to deny ;

At the late Worcester assizes a cause was tried about the soundness of a horse, in which a clergyman, not educated in the school of Tattersall, appeared as a witness. He was confused in giving his evidence; and a furious blustering counsellor, who examined him, was at last tempted to exclaim, "Pray, Sir, do you know the difference between a horse and & cow?"" I acknowledge my igno rance," replied the clergyman; "I hardly know the difference between a horse and a cow, or a bully and a bull; only that a bull, I am told, has horns, and a bully (bowing to the counsellor) luckily for me has none."

A good hint to epicures has been thrown out in a recent French work, called Carte Gastronomique, or the Gutler's Guide. Annexed to it is a map of France, wherein the principal delicacy for which any town has acquired celebrity is marked by a figure of the article placed by the side of the town. For instance, adjacent to Amiens and Abbeville are placed patés; near to Aix, are placed bottles of vin mousseur; at Angouleme are galantines; in the Ardennes, a sheep; at Besancon, trout; wine and liqueurs at Bourdeaux; sardines and butter in Bretagne; oysters at Cancala;, preserves and cheese at Clermont; bran dy at Cognac; turbots at Dieppe; grapes at Fontainebleau; cider at Isiguy; figs and anchovies at Mar