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184 of Richard Dugdale, the “Surey Demoniack,” or “Surey Impostor,” —which occurred in the latter part of the seventeenth century, in England, and was a most notorious affair,—we have the testimony of nine dissenting clergymen, to prove his diabolical miracles, all of them familiar with the “Demoniack;” and also the depositions of many “credible persons,” sworn to before two magistrates, to confirm the wonder. Yet it turned out at last that there was no miracle in the case. It it needless to mention the “miracles” wrought at the tomb of the Abbé de Paris, during the last century, or, in our own time, those of father Matthews in Ireland, and the Mormonites in New England. A miracle is never looked for but it comes.