Numerous modern instances of prophetic dreams might be here recited, and those too well testified by creditable witnesses. Monsieur Calignan, Chancellor of Navarre, was esteemed a man of singular virtue: being at Berne, one night as he lay asleep, he heard a voice which called him by his name, Calignan!! Awaking and hearing no more of it, he imagined it only a dream, and fell asleep again. A little afterwards he heard the same voice calling him in the same manner: this made a greater impression on him than the former, so that, being awakened, he called his wife, who was with him, and told her what had happened. They both lay waking for some time, expecting to hear it a third time; at length, they went to sleep together, when the voice awaked him again, calling him by his name, and advising him to retire immediately out of the town, and to remove his family, for that the plague would rage horribly in that place in a few days. He followed the direction, and within a few days after the plague began in the town and destroyed a great number of people.

When the celebrated Dr. Harvey, being a young man, went to travel towards Padua, he went to Dover with several others, and showed his pass, as the others did, to the governor. The governor told him that "he must not go, but he must keep him prisoner." The doctor desired to know the reason, and what he had done amiss; he said, "it was his will to have it so." The packet-boat hoisted sail in the evening, which was very clear, and the doctor's companions in it - a terrible storm ensued, and the packet-boat, with all the passengers, was cast away: the next day the melancholy news was brought'to Dover. The governor was a total stranger to Dr. Harvey, but by name and by face: only the night before he had a perfect vision, in a dream, of Dr. Harvey, who came to pass over to Calais, and an order to stop him! This the doctor was told by the governor the next day, and he told the story again to his friends in London.

Thomas Wotton, Esq., a little before his death, dreamed that the University of Oxford was robbed by five men. He wrote to his son, who was then in Oxford, and told him the particulars of his dream. The university was robbed accord, ingly, the very night before the letter came to kit ton's hand! As soon as morning arrived, there was a great noise concerning the robbery; whereupon the young man showed his letter to the persons concerned, and all the five men were taken up and found guilty.

William Nessenus, on a certain day at dinner, in a gentle sleep he had, dreamed that he was passing a river in a fisher's boat, as he frequently did for his diversion, and that the boat, striking on the trunk of a tree, was overturned, and he was drowned. This dream he told to Philip Melancthon, who then accidentally came to see him, at the same time deriding the vanity of dreams. But, however, that very evening his dream had its accomplishment.

Johannes Maria Maurosenus, a senator of Venice, while he was praetor in Dalmatia, saw in his dream one of his brothers, whom he much loved, come to embrace him, and bid him farewell, because he was going to the other world. And having, as he thought, followed him a little way weeping, he awaked all in tears, and was in great fear for his brother at Venice. On the third day letters were brought him from home, acquainting him that his, brother died on that night and about the hour he had dreamed of. This he frequently told with tears in his eyes.

In the year 1695, one John Stockden, of the parish of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, was robbed and murdered; soon after which the said Stockden appeared several times to one of his old neighbours, named Elizabeth Greenwood, in her dreams, and laid open to her the whole business, in consequence of which the murderers were taken, confessed the fact, and were executed. And again, after the murderers were taken, Mrs.

Greenwood dreamed that Stockden came to her in the street, and said, "Elizabeth, I thank thee; the God of heaven reward thee for what thou hast done." This affair made a great noise at the time, and is attested by the Bishop of Gloucester, the Dean of York, the Master of the Charter-House, and Dr. Allix, who had the particulars from Mrs. Greenwood.

Doctor Pitcairne is said never to have related the following story without some emotion of mind. His friend, Mr". Lindsey, upon reading with the doctor, when very young, the known story of the two Platonic philosophers, who promised to one another that whoever died first should return a visit to his surviving companion, entered into the same engagement with him. Some years after, the doctor, at his father's house in Fife, dreamed one morning that Lindsey, who was then at Paris, came to him and told him that he was not dead, as was commonly reported, but still alive, and lived in a very agreeable place, to which he could not as yet carry him. By the course of the post news came of Lindsey,s death, which took place, exceeding suddenly, the very morning of the dream.

Some years ago the lady of Colonel Gale, having lost her husband, was going to Kingston, in Jamaica, to administer to his effects. In her way she stopped all night at a friend's house, intending to proceed on her journey the next morning; she accordingly ordered her coachman to be ready to set out at the appointed hour. Mrs. Gale's waiting-woman, who accompanied her mistress, dreamed that night, that her master appeared to her, and inquired where her mistress was; the servant told him that her lady was going to Kingston, and was now on her journey; the colonel replied, she must not go, - she must return with him, for he was come to fetch her; this the servant told next morning to the family where they were. Soon afterwards she went into her lady's room to call her up, but was told by her that she found herself somewhat indisposed, and did not think she should be well enough to proceed on her journey that day: she moreover desired the servant to forbid the carriage being got ready, according to the order given the coachman the night before. When the lady of the house perceived her friend very feverish and indisposed, the doctor was called in, but all to no purpose, for the fever increased upon her to such a degree that she survived little more than a week or ten days.