G—­looking calmly at me.  How I got out of the bath I know not, but on recovering my senses I found myself sprawling on the floor.  The apparition or whatever it was that had taken the likeness of G—­had disappeared.  The vision had produced such a shock that I had no inclination to talk about it or to speak about it even to Stewart, but the impression it made upon me was too vivid to be forgotten easily, and so strongly was I affected by it that I have here written down the whole history with the date, 19th December, and all particulars as they are fresh before me now.  No doubt I had fallen asleep and that the appearance presented so distinctly before my eyes was a dream I cannot doubt, yet for years I had no communication with G—­nor had there been anything to recall him to my recollection.  Nothing had taken place concerning our Swedish travel connected with G—­or with India or with anything relating to him or to any member of his family.  I recollected quickly enough our old discussion and the bargain we had made.  I could not discharge from my mind the impression that G——­ must have died and his appearance to me was to be received by me as a proof of a future state.”

This was on the 19th December 1799.

In October 1862 Lord Brougham added a postscript.

“I have just been copying out from my journal the account of this strange dream.

“Certissima mortis imago, and now to finish the story begun about 60 years ago.  Soon after my return to Edinburgh there arrived a letter from India announcing G’s death, and that he died on the 19th December 1799.”—­The Pall Mall Magazine (1914) pp. 183-184.

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Another very fine story and one to the point comes from Hyderabad.

A certain Mr. J——­ who was an Englishman, after reading the memoirs of Lord Brougham, was so affected that he related the whole story to his confidential Indian servant.  We need not mention here what Mr. J’s profession was, all that we need say is that he was not very rich and in his profession there was no chance of his getting up one morning to find himself a millionaire.

The master and servant executed a bond written with their blood that he who died first would see the other a rich man.

As it happened the native servant died first, and on his death Mr. J——­ who was then a young man retired altogether from his business, which business was not in a very flourishing condition.  Within a couple of years he went to England a millionaire.  How he came by his money remains a secret.  People in England were told that he had earned it in India.  He must have done so, but the process of his earning he has kept strictly to himself.  Mr. J——­ is still alive and quite hale.