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24 It was because, when we were asleep, the association of the ideas went on without being disturbed or counteraeted, and there was no controlling power over it. He would say a few words about the most extraordinary of all classes of dreams, namely, prophetic dreams, in which the future is revealed to the drcamer. They were all aequainted with the facts conneeted with the death of Mr. Percival, the Prime Minister. When that statesman was still alive, a gentleman in tbe country, of the name of Williams, dreamed that he was standing in the lobby of the House of Commons, and saw Mr. Perceval enter, and instantly a man levelled a pistol at him. Mr. Williams told his wife, who thought little of it, and his friends called him a fanatie. A week after, however, the news arrived that Mr Perceval had been murdered in the very same way the gentleman had dreamed. A very remarkable instance had oceurred to thc late Sir John Stuart. When young, and ill of the typhus fever, he dreamed of a dark-haired and dark- eyed young lady, with whom he fell in love. Years afterwards he went to the Continent, and there met with the identical party, and it was to her care that he owed the complete rcstoration of his health; and he married her. There was a great number of such dreams recorded. The ancients paid great attention to dreams. A decrec was published under Augustus, as commanding cvery one who had dreamed a dream, to report the same to the government. It was certain that the mind possessed sometimes in dreams an a priori knowledge which was highly remarkable. It was sometimes the same just the moment before death. There was indeed Scriptural authority in favour of dreams. But the fulfilment of dreams was by no means astonishing, generally speaking.