The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-10-10 00:00:00

THE LATE RIOT AT OXFORD.

OXFORD, OCT. 7.
It was anticipated that further attacks on the house of
Mr. Hunt, in the High-street, would have been made, but
the riot concluded with the breaking of a few windows.
The acquaintance between Mr. Canning and Mr. Mulock
commenced alien the former gentleman was a candidate
for the representation of Liverpool; and it is said that Mr.
Mulock often advocated the Right Honourable Secretary,
on electioneering matters. They afterwards met on the
Continent, and travelled together; and since that time a
correspondence has been occasionally kept up, but in no
wise connected with religious subjects. Mr. Mulock com-
menced preaching in Oxford about twelve months since,
in a publiz auction room. He had a previous acquaintance
with Mr. Hunt, a chymist and druggist, who invited him
to Oxford, and soon gained him another disciple, in the
person of a young gentleman of considerable academic ac-
quirements, whose knowledge of the I.iteree Ramaniores
might have placed him in a class, and who was particularly
distinguished for his steady and moral conduct at Lincoln
College, of which society he was a member. Just on the
point of taking a degree (having finished his reading for
that purpose), having concluded an expensive collegiate
education, his father anticipated the advantage and the
honour that awaited his son ; but, alas ! all his hopes were
at once crushed; the young man beard Mr. Mulock and
Mr. Hunt, became a convert to their dark doctrines, struck
his name from the College books, and fixed himself as a
dependant on his father—for such he must remain, unless
he becomes an itinerant preacher. Soon after, another
young man, terrified by the horrid threats held out in the
discourses of the soi-disiint sole teacher of the Gospel,
became his follower. He is the son of Mr. Arnot, one of
the Clarendon readers, a man highly fitted for the situation
he holds, and eminent for his integrity and good conduct.
His feelings, when he heard that hia son-had determined
on following Mr. Mulock, may be imagined—they cannot
be described. The three persons above mentioned are the
leading members of Mr. Mulock's communion. Since hit
return to Oxford, where he has lately preached, in a small
room in Queen-street, he has gained few converts, except
among the lowest and most ignorant classes, but we find
that his preaching has produced much evil. An honest and
industrious workman, in possession of some little property,
who had lived happily with his wife anti family for fifteen
years, has been induced to desert them, from a conviction that
heshould not hold communication with the flesh, with tho
reprobate, with those doomed to eternal perdition—(his wife
would not become a follower of Mr. 'Unlock). lo a late Ox.
ford l'aper we saw the advertisement of this deluded fanatic,
which proclaimed his cruel desertion, and warned all
persons against trusting his unhappy, wretched wife.
The complaint of the poor woman was heard before a Ma.
gistrate, in the Town-hall; but she could obtain no re-
dress, as it was proved that he bad appropriated the re-
ceipts of rent for some small tenements for her use and
that of his family ; and therefore, that she was not thrown
on the parish.
The unhappy consequences arising from the doctrines
held forth by Mr. Mulock were conspicuous ; they were
visible to persons of every description. The separating of
wives from husbands, and children from parents, which
evidently proceeded from the preaching of the leader, and
from the terrific persuasions of his principal followers, at
length aroused public indignation, which burst forth in the
manner we have already described.
FURTHER PARTICULARS, FROM THE OXFORD imam.
Thursday. evening last, a scene of extraordinary riot
and confusion took place in St. Thomas's parish ; a re•
port having been circulated for some days past, that Mt
Mulock, who has been preaching in Oxford and its vicinity
at different periods for the last twelve months, or more.
had, with the assistance of some of his followers. induced
several men, whom they bad converted to their doctrine, to
leave their wives, because they would not conform to the
new creed which their husbands had adopted. A-vast
concourse of people, consisting of men, women,
and children, collected in front of a house in which the new
sect was assembled, and commenced hostilities by making a
bonfire of wet straw, in order to smoke them out, as they
termed it ; they then assailed the house with the most dis-
-1 cordant sounds of tin kettles, horns, &c. and after some
time succeeded in dislodging them ; when, in their retreat,
they were attacked with every species of missile, and:tenni
times rolled in the dirt. Two of the party, followed by
1 the people, took shelter in the Town Hall-yard, in a moil
deplorable condition, their coats being nearly torn off their
backs, and their persons completely covered with mud and
filth of every description. On their leaving the Town
Hall-yard, they were again pursued by the mob, and
hooted and pelted with mud and other missiles until they
effected their escape. We. think it necessary, by way of
conclusion to this paragraph, to give, for the perusal of our
readers, a clause from Blackstone 's Commentaries, book iv.
chap. 4.—" Of Offences against God and Religion"—
" A seventh species of offenders in this class are 011 religious
impostors; such as falsely pretend an extraordinary commission
from Heaven, or terrify and abuse the people with false denunciw
tions of judgments. These, as tending to subvert all religion by
bringing it into ridicule and contempt, are punishable by die
temporal Courts with tine, imprisonment, and infamous corporal
punishment."

MARRIED.
On Friday last, at Loughborough, Thomas B. Miller, FA.,
only son of Thomas Miller, Esq., Agent for Victualling the bt'Y
at Plymouth, to Susannah, relict of the late Thomas Laud, Erg.
On the 4th inst., at Sithuouth, Devon, Captain Aldose, of the
Bengal Army, to Ann Maria, youngest daughter of the late Jan
Morris, Esq., of Staines. Middlesex.
On Saturday, at St. Oeurge's, Hanover-square, Edward R'
Tunno, Esq., of Upper Brook-street, to Caroline, second claughic:
of J. M. Raikes, Esq., of Portland-place.

DIED.
OR the 4th inst., in M'impole.street, in the 3Sth year of hasp',
Anne, wife of Captain C. S. J. Hawtayne, of the Ro) di N4'l'
daughter of the late Commissioner Charles Elope.
On the 3d inst., at Southampton, Richard Higginson, Es, , of
Bath, in his GM year.

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