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    this wM $ section ; hoping tliat its contents ^ notMtcfc ^ li ^ tc ^ # tTeast in some measure , to the amusement ahcf satisfaction of the i nquisitive and candid reader ; fjspeciailyifhe ever wished to learn

    fhe history of the royal touch , of which he will fihd here , perhaps , a ipore particular and circumstantial account thaa in any other p ublication . _ , f \ S . Since the section on \ he

    royal touch has been printed off , a paper has appeared in the Monthly JMtagazint i unfler the signature * of J , Batinantine ^ which casts some further light upon that subject . As it is presumed it will riot be unacceptable to the reader , we take the liberty of inserting here the substance of it . —** It does not

    anpear ( says that writer ) that any pi the House , of Brunswick have asserted tbis royftl function ; at least , | t has riot been publicly

    announced , a ^ was formerly the prac' . #£ J 0 . J but we ^ e his present majesty to resume it , such faith is yet put 'in ^ tle assertion of a king , that all ^^ 9 ^ # nd *^ . g ^ t body tn tfe ^ gnprant multitude would not hesitate to believe its

    infallibility . Ttie last sovereign who apjie ^ t ^ h ^ e exercised this miraculousgiift was Queen Anne . In the Rayal Gazelle of March 12 , } tfl 2 appears the following pub-^ f fc itdt f ^ r ' ft ^ irlg her majesty ' s ro ^ al Intenti on to tou ch publicly for the evil , the 17 th * of tibis instant March , and so to continue

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    Wiseman * serjeearxt s wfieon to Lw . 3 n 3 a hi Sli JFfgpuse c ^ jtne Evil , speaks of uxe royal ioiiM in the following terftas :,. * 1 fcave myself been freqtfefit eye- ^ rit& ^ ss

    of many hundreds of cures pferforip ^^ by hjs majesty ' s touch aloiie withoyt the assistance of clijrprgery , anfl those inaivy of tfiem siich as had fire 4 out | he endeavours of arile chiruxgeons before they caroe , thftKer / tt were enrfles ^ to rejate vv hat J myself have

    seen , fthdf what I bavi reeefved aeknowledgemenf of ^ by tetters , not Qnly from the s&veral parts of the nation , but also from Ireland ,

    Scotland Jerse ^ tod Grermarty . * —It wis irie affice q | ^ a # i ^ ltna ars sergeant siirgpon ^ to pe ] z < $ sv \ ch aippoj ^ j

    flicled objects af ^^ to be presented for the feycfcl touch . —Is it possible ( I . Bannintme Rere exclaims ) to pesif ^ . a rno |*^ satisfactory testimony o ( ^ b ? se miraculous cures , than thgtt of a f *) fn of science ^^ * T ^]^ mt ^^ ' Vridisr wl ^ se i ^ m ^^ W ^^ 0 ^ ey were perfprrrieqBjia & % o I | ^ ad

    , 4 himself b ^ eh a frfeq | ien | eVe . wi tness of m ^ ny hundieds \\ T cilfes performed by hi ^ malMv ^ rffiwh alone !—The late judge Barrmgton ( he further olfedry ^ r ^ lltes wiv ^ t he hea rd froth &h Wd i&titt « a

    witne § s in ^ mS 9 ^ . % ^^ J 9 U ^ 'Xo this miraculous power of h € a , iif ) g — « He bad fcy kis 4 « i « liM ) M -ftxted the thn& * t )* » ar ^ fact ^^ % ^ Queen Anne ' s having b € en at Oxjfafd , and touched him , whilst a child ,

    for the evil . W |^ % fef ^ iftl !! ^ hu c ^^ Mft W Sm mmmiy ^ I : ^ # a f mmwmrM bb-

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    § 3 fj RicJiatds ' s History ? f tfic R ? y < d Tvmcfc

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1813, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2427/page/16/