The National Register. — London, England, 1814-08-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. . A`?G• 28. faketcb 91: MR. W. TO7ER, M. J. S. COUPLED WITH 1115 RECENT STATFMENTS RPRPECTING SOUTHCOTTISM. 'Tls a (lark-lantern of the Spirit. Whieli note mew by, but those that bear it! A ligl.t, that fall.' (Town from on high. For Ppiritual trades to cozeti by. BUTLER. Desperation itself will beget assurance. It is the know. ledge of this princ;nle of action that can alone solve many of the pr(•blem% which occiir in life. Joanna Southcott's friend-, therefore, instead of %inking under the difficulties ill which their cause appears likets to be involved, seem to assume fl ew fails, and maitvain their late pretensions with redoubled conficleire. We have nothing to do but stand according to her advocates, and see the accomplish ment of the wonners that are speedily to take place. Mil letsinm has, indeed, just o nmenced. Mr. T,tzetr. her chief priest, at length denies that he post-. poued 'he ac , oft' hement of Joanna ; asserting, on the con tta• v, th,IN t.he is . actually in the ninth month of her preg mw% ; ansl that she has been visited by nine medical gen tlt•tnen. who at! concurted in admitting it impossible for her t. lay het ome so in the natural course of things. con& den. ti this, Mr Tozer further said. on Sunday last, that if whatever he had advanced respecting her, and !he great elm igws . iteo at hand, did not tike place by the twenty-fifth of 1) c , sober next, 1814, he would consent to proclaim to mankind that he had been deluded ! " The time," added Al r. Tozer, "is short ; and, ere long, it will he sharp." Belief h" no longer asked for, therefore, but only that per anus would have patience to wait the wonders that were ap proaching. The power had Begun to work this year, and would next year go forth. Joanna, he contended, was about to produce the Person so long foretold by ithe proobet Malachi, she having for twenty years been warning the nation of the Seconsl Advent. It was . not true, however, that Government had interfered, as some newspapers said ; though the Prince Regent had been writ ten to, together with the two Archbishops, and many. noble Lords, to whith letters no - attention was paid. Investigation was, indeed, Most courted on their own part, the candle not being designed to be hid under a bushel ; yet that investi gation was not conceded to their solicitations. But the Kingdom of.llleaven , wa4 nigh Palaces and ministers having thus reje ted it, it would now be revealed to the poor, who, rich in faith, were about to enjoy its promises. What then is Joanna Southcott to bring forth ?—lsrael is shortly to be restored; and, if Mr. Tozer be correct in this, it is nothing less than the tong-promised Ileir of David's Throne whom the prophetess has thus been privileged to conceive. Hence, says Mr. Tozer, he will be a . Sin to the Jews, who have hitherto waited for him, and oho will he collected and conducted by this forthcomitw. Prince to their ancient land, to whose throne all people will then flock. h 53 Millennium of course is acc om pli s h e d. Thi s most blisF.- ful state of thing, so remotely looked to,'is by Mr. 1 1 ,izer & scribed as actually'Cotne, and even at our doors. lial , our, he savß,'Avill he superseded. War, with Ml its concommittant train of woes:is immediately to be haniibed from the earth; and the earth' itself will regain the condition in which it flourished before the fall of man. Charity will dilate all bosoms. He that bath two coats, therefore, will spoutane_. ously clothe hied that hash none. Animosity will find no place ; and nothing will be heatd hut ascriptions of glory to God in the highest, and breathinvof peace a n d good-will to mankind! Now, does any man ask what indicates this peat change in the state of the woild ?—Joanna's pregnancy. 'Mr. Tozer hints, moreover, that the Birth of this King of the Jews will he attended with such circumstances as shall. attest the errand on which he is come, Bud confound- those who previously had presumed to discredit his claims. -W011.• ders ate to accompany his entry into our world, at once to preparft and substantiate his high destiny. We are not in formed of the precise nature of these signs ;. but some few weeks may now be expected to disclose them to us. Persuaded of such things, 11r. Tozer declares that, for Zion's sake, he will not hold his peace, and for Jerusalem's sake he will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that but ne:h.' This redoubtable priest of the snuthcottian church, WIL- L' A M .TOZER, M. J. S. was log ambitious to signali.te him self in the sectarian way and hurried up from Exeter, with this view, about ten years since. Having heard of his coun- trywoman's prophecies, be, on his arrival in town, paid his respects to the preacher of the House of God, whom Joanna was .then intimate with, and by whom her doctrines were at first espoused. Here he tried every possible means to ingra tiate himself with Mr. Carpenter, ()tiding to proclaim that preacher as Elias, and wondering he could not discover hii title clear," respecting his name and apimintment, in the concluding verses of the last chapter of Malachi, both which he seethed zealous to set forth ! • Fin4ing that he could not compass his end, exactly as he expected, Mr. Tozer next solicited 411 hitroductiuu to Joanna, which Was granted. There had at this time arisen sonic dif ference of opinion betwixt the prophetess and the preacher of the House of God. Tozer did not neglect to profit by this circumstance, during his interviews with her; and, havin4 been introduced to her in December 1804, he contrived to erect and open the new Chapel, in Duke Street, St. George's Field, some tune in the Spring of ISOS. His trade, that of lath-render, was serviceahle ta him in the building line, as it qunlified him f,ar proceecting, with dispatch and cheap ness, directly to his end. Tozer owus his having no pie sentiment of the numbers who congre;:lte to hear 14im, or he would have erecte4 a larger place of worship . . The devotees of the prophetes:i now deserted the [louse of God, against whose preacher her 3 Dat1;(1113S were denounced, and Duke Street became their favoGred ',lace. Tozer soon made a property of the new concern. Hip eccentricity attracted to bitn followers, and PirronterY has se , the 4 • soon y first 'cured I a 4 • /o. • • • ' ' , A ' • . • • • ~, • ,