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liis Crown to himself as Prince of Israel and Governor-General 

 of the -world. 



SAD END OF THK PROPHET. 



Tlie madness of poor Brothers now became more prononnced. 

 He went to the Honse of Conrmons to prophesy to its members 

 of coming wars ami convulsions, but was snnnnarilv ejected. 

 Soon after he was i)laced in a Lunatic Asylum where he ended 

 his days. Numbers still believed in him and regarded him as a 

 martyr, for 



"Faith, fanatic faith, once M-eililed fast 

 To some dear falsehoo<l hugs it to the last." * 



BKOTHERS'S EARLY LIFE. 



It is somewhat of a sliock to find that tliis announced descen- 

 dant of King David was the son of an Irisliman who came oat 

 i'roni the old land to lietter his condition ; settled in Placentia ; 

 married a Harbour Giace lady named Jewer, Ijy whom he had 

 lour sons, this Richard being the eldest. By some means or 

 other his father managed to get him a place as midshipman on 

 board a British man-of-war where he rose to be a lieutenant. 

 On a reduction of the navy taking place he was retired on a pen- 

 sion of three shillings a day, and went to live in London where 

 lie developed into a prophet. There are numbers of the de- 

 scendants of the Brothers's family now living in Newfoundland 

 —industrious respectable people— who all cherish proudly the 

 memory of their learned and distinguished relative, who attained 

 greatness in sucli a lemarkaljle way. It seems he did not forget 

 his Newfoundland, relatives. He sent £100 at one time to be 

 <livided among his brothers ; also the present of an enormous 

 <iheese— the recollections of wliich are still vivid among those of 

 the family who partook of it. A niece of the Prophet — Mrs. 

 Mary Young, ox-er seventy years of age— is, or was lately, living 

 in Upper Island Cove, Conception Bay. There are also several 

 other nieces and nephews— some in Fermeuse. Richard was not 

 ;i conscious imposter ; he was an honest enthusiast and a believer 

 in his own prophecies. He must have had considerable ability 



