£86 



Bfll the Life Guardsman. — Cornucopia, 



[Juljr I, 



Millennium, Mr. Dobbs supiHJsed were 

 to come from New South Wales ; aud 

 Armagh, in Ireland, he understood was 

 the Armaggedon mentioned in the Re- 

 velations, where the great battle was 

 to be fought. Eveiy person in exist- 

 ence, Mr. Dobbs maintained, liad lived 

 in this world more than once, and that 

 before the Millennium there would be 

 an army of a hundred and forty-four 

 thousand persons, who would have the 

 full confidence of their having been in 

 the world before. 



A volume in octavo, being a concise 

 View of History and Prophecy, &c., by 

 Francis Dobbs, Esq., member for the 

 borough of Charlemont, in Ireland — 

 London, 1800, will suflSciently evince 

 that the sentiments of this gentleman 

 have been by no means misrepresented 

 in this sketch. In Mr. Dobbs's book, 



not a little upon account of the positive 

 assertion of the latter, that Sir Isaac 

 Newton had borrowed his ideas of at- 

 traction and gravity from thealchymis- 

 tical, theological, and astrological shoe- 

 maker of Gorlitz, in his book entitled 

 " Tlie Three Principles." 



Mr. John Bell, commonly called 

 the Life Guardsinan, who predicted 

 the end of the world, and the certain 

 destruction of Ix)ndon, about the year 

 1757, was a kind of honorary member 

 of this society, and, when he uttered 

 these terrible effusions, was a preacher 

 in Mr. John Wesley's connection, from 

 which of course he was excludetl ; but 

 he lived not only to recover his reason, 

 but to renounce all his former connec- 

 tions and predilections. Mr. Bell, for 

 several years after, kept a hosier's 

 , shop near Holborn Bridge. The writer 

 he refers to the meeting at Hoxton, of this article saw Mr. Bell in the act 

 consisting of « thirty persons, all of of making himself very merry at the 



M'hom declared they had reasons out of 

 the common order of things, to think 

 that these times would produce mighty 

 changes, that would end in the esta- 

 blishment of human happiness." 



Several of these characters, espe- 

 cially Mr. J. Dennis, the bookseller. 



expense of Mr. Rowland Hill's hearers, 

 when, previous to his establishment in 

 the Surrey-road chapel, he used occa- 

 sionally to preach in the open air near 

 White Concluit House, in the London- 

 field, at Hackney, and elscM here. Mr. 

 Bell was living in genteel retirement. 



were ardent admirers of the writings of on a small farm at Hyde, near Edge- 

 Jacob Behmen, and his recent transla- ware, in the winter of 1794-5. 

 tor, the late Rev. William Law, and this 



CORNUCOPIA, 



Of Literary Curiositiesand Remarkable Facts. 



after the incorporation of the East Irt- 

 dia company (A.D. 1597) was in 1(502, 

 In 1669 Bombay was transferred by 

 Charles II. to the company. 



SPIDERS. 



The sexton of the church of St. Eus- 

 tace, at Paris, amazed to find frequently 

 a particular lamp extinct early, and yet 

 the oil consumed only, sat up several 

 nights to discover the cause. At length 

 detected that a spider of surprising' 

 size, came down the cord to drink the 

 oil. A still more extraordinaiy in- 

 stance of the same kind occurred dur- 

 ing the year 1751, in the cathedral of 

 Milan. A vast spider was observed 

 there, which fed on theoilof the lamps. 

 M. Morand, of the academy of sciences, 

 has described this spider, and furnished 

 a drawing of it. His words are — Le 

 corps, coiileur de sine, arrondi, termine, 

 en pointe, avec le dos et les pottes ve 

 lues, pesoit quatre litres. This spider, 

 of four pounds weight, was sent to the 

 Emperor of Austria, and placed in the 

 imperial museum. 



HANOVERIAN 



EARLY SETTLEKS IN INDIA. 



NO other record of the original set- 

 tlers at Battacolo. on the western 

 coast of India, is to be obtained on 

 the spot than the following monumen- 

 tal inscriptions. 



HERE LIETH THE BODY OF GEORGE WYE 



MARCHANT. DEC. XXV : MARCH : 



AVO. DNl : NRI. CHRISTI. SALV : MVNDI. 



MDCXXXVH : 



:J637: GEO: WYE: 



HERE LIETH THE BODIE OF ANT. VERN- 



WORTHY' MARCHT. DEC : JO. APRIL ANO. 



DNI.NRI: CHRISTI. SALV : MVADI : 



MDCXXXVII: 



ANTO. VERNEWORTUY' : J6.37 : 



HERE LIETH THE BODY" OF WILLIAM BAR- 

 TON CKY'RVRGION : DEC: XXX: NOVEM- 

 BER: ANNO DNI NI CHRISTI: SALV: MWDI. 

 MDCXXXVII : 

 ; J637 : WILLIAM BARTON. 



From the dates it would appear the 

 persons buried here were amongst the 

 eiirliest of the British settlers in India. 



The first fleet which left England 



