e was cleared, the master-at-arms made his
appearance, announcing, to the great surprise of all present, two
sail in the distance; (and General D---- assured me that on
reaching the deck they appeared to him precisely the same in place
and distance as in his dream)--'the chase--the distant action--the
loss of the topmast--the escape of the enemy during the night--and
the announcement from the companion frigate that she had lost two
men--all took place precisely as represented in my dream.' The
General had but just concluded his narration, when a coincidence
took place, little less extraordinary than that of the dream and
its attendant circumstances.--The door opened, and a gentleman
rushed into the room with all that eagerness which characterizes
the unexpected meeting of warm friends after a long absence--and
immediately after the first cordial greetings, General D----
said--'My dear F----, it is most singular, that although we have
not met during the last fifteen years, and I had not the most
distant expectation of seeing or hearing from you, yet you were in
my thoughts not five minutes ago--I was relating to my friend my
extraordinary dream when on board the ----; you were present, and
cannot have forgotten it.' Major F---- replied, that he remembered
it most accurately, and, at his friend's request, related it to
me, in every particular correspondent with the General's account.

"What I now relate to you cannot be called a dream, but it bears a
close affinity to 'those shadowy tribes of mind' which constitute
our sleeping phantasmagoria. Calling one morning on my friend, Mrs
D----m, who had for some time resided in my neighbourhood, I
found her greatly distressed at the contents of a letter which she
had just received. The letter was from her sister, Mrs B----, who
was on her return to England, on board the ----, East Indiaman,
accompanied by her two youngest children, and their nurse; Mr
B----, her husband, remaining in India. One morning, shortly after
breakfast, Mrs B---- was sitting in the cabin, with many other
passengers present, but not herself at that moment engaged in
conversation with them; when she suddenly turned her head, and
exclaimed aloud, and with extreme surprise, 'Good God! B----, is
that you?' At the same moment the children, who were with their
nurse at