{39a} It may, of course, be argued by people who accept Mr.Williams's dream as a revelation of the future that it reached his mind from the _purpose_ conceived in Bellingham's mind, by way of "mental telegraphy".

{39b} DREAM OF MR.

PERCEVAL'S MURDER "SUNDHILL, December, 1832.
"[Some account of a dream which occurred to John Williams, Esq., of Scorrier House, in the county of Cornwall, in the year 1812.

Taken from his own mouth, and narrated by him at various times to several of his friends.] "Being desired to write out the particulars of a remarkable dream which I had in the year 1812, before I do so I think it may be proper for me to say that at that time my attention was fully occupied with affairs of my own--the superintendence of some very extensive mines in Cornwall being entrusted to me.

Thus I had no leisure to pay any attention to political matters, and hardly knew at that time who formed the administration of the country.