Regency Folklore: A Terrible Vision

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Appearance to a Gentleman at St Domingo A GENTLEMAN now living of the name of Wilson who refides at Liverpool in Lancashire walking with fome friends near a place called St Domingo a little distance from the town thought he saw a relation whom he expected every day to arrive from Jamaica in a field near where he then was He directly went into the field and came so near him that he hailed him but to his great furprize he seemed to fink into the earth When he returned to his company he appeared so greatly agitated that they asked him what was the matter with him He then told them he had seen Will James whom they all knew and he faid he was sure they would hear of his death and related to them what he grounded his belief upon They jeered him upon his superstition However the next day the vessel came into the port of Liverpool and brought the fad news that this man who was chief mate of a Guineaman had at the time Mr Wilson saw the apparition tumbled down the hold of the ship frac tured his skull and expired within ten minutes This is known to hundreds now living at Liverpool New Lights from the World of Darkness Or the Midnight Messenger; with Solemn Signals from the World of Spirits. Containing Wonderful Evidences of the Visits of Ghosts, Apparitions, &c. … and Notices of Death … The Whole Forming a Constellation of Horror!!! (1800)

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