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Ominous Presages attending the latter end of the unfortunate Mr. Blandy.

Several awful presages alarmed the family of the unfortunate Mr Blandy, of Henley, in Oxfordshire, previous to his calamity. A few days before the death of his wife, a grand chorus of music was heard by the daughter and several of the servants at midnight, as if proceeding from the garden behind the apartment where Mrs. Blandy lay; this was succeeded by three distinct knocks on the window of Miss Blandy's chamber adjoining to that of her mother. Meanwhile the old lady, though insensible to those sounds, was most horribly affrighted by a dream, in which she saw her husband drinking a cup administered by her daughter; presently he swelled to a monster, and instantly expired. When she awoke in the morning, she told the dream to the woman who waited upon her, and died the same day.---This happened about two years before the memorable murder ot Mr Blandy, of the approach of which be himself had several ominous presages.

The story of that dreadful parricide is briefly as follows---

Mr Blandy was an eminent attorney, and by his practice had accumulated several thousand pounds; he had an only child, a daughter. Miss Mary, whom