Thats a headline you never expected to see on the Americymru website is it? Neither did I to be honest. I found it in a copy of The Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald. It is all about two lectures delivered in October 1843 in the County Hall in Denbigh. Bet you wish youd been there.On the first of the two nights the Mayor turned up and spoke in support of Mr. Jones, who clearly had remarkable gifts for all to see. The Mayor began his introduction by hoping that the people of Denbigh would be more charitable to the esteemed gentleman than the people of Mold. Well, they have always been a hard and cynical lot in Mold. Now we cant be sure exactly what he Mold-ites did but I think we can guess.You see, it appears they were not grateful for the opportunity to witness so strange a science. Indeed, they were not, apparently, impressed by some striking phenomena. In fact they seem to have let themselves down rather badly by being not terribly polite about what they saw. It was ever thus, in Mold.I cant tell you how it went on that first evening in Denbigh, but I do know that on the following night the audience was thin and that they were inclined to be sceptical until Mr. Jones mesmerised his two, presumably tame, patients the dumb young man and Miss C. Davies at the same time.I dont find that terribly impressive to be honest, since I myself have seen whole classes of children slip into a deep coma the moment I start to speak, but perhaps we should let that pass.Anyway, these two patients were then separated and the young man was taken into an adjoining room where Mr. Jones started to work his magic.He excited in the male patient, in the presence of several persons...the organ of thirst, which was no sooner done, than the female, who was left in charge of some gentlemen on the platform, manifested, by sympathy, the same desire to the complete astonishment of all.Whatever was suggested to him was illustrated by the girl on the platform. Everyone was mightily impressed. All doubts and scepticism were dismissed. Truly a triumph. The article ends with the re-assuring words that the demonstration has advanced the science in the town of Denbigh. A proud boast indeed.I am not sure to what extent Denbigh is still regarded as a leading edge community in the development of phreno-mesmerism, but on the whole I think my sympathies lie with the good people of Mold.