The National Register.
London, England, 1814-09-25 00:00:00

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sa)s Mr. C. " she can never repair ; but in the criminality
Of that," he adds, " some of the bigots, who have surrounded
her, are deeply infp!icated—must stiffer," and ought forth-
with to he openly tried. Sooner or later, and it cannot
happen too soon, " there must be a complete disclosure of
all
delusion and deluders; for if she herself be not oneof the latter,
she has been surrounded by some persons who have made
her the instrument of widely disseminating the former. Had
she coutinutd the simple character she originally scliA she
would never have fallen into this deplorable snare ; but, as it
Ss, he believes what she writes--that she is pregnant, and
that she will bring forth this miraculous Son !"
Granting. that the " delusion" of the prophetess is, like
her assurance and ignorance," to be suffered to protect
from the puniliment that her writings would otherwise have
called down, this defence will certainly not apply to those
abettors by whom she is surrounded; and by whose exertions
the delusion is propagated, if not counselled. tier military
champions, Colonel 11"w"cl and his Major ; her Northern
Neptune, who declares that " be expects to nurse the child
as he did the stool" he procured for its mama ; her Re-
verend Friend, Tom ; her purser, Miss 7600*y ; her secre-
tary, Ann Underwood the god-mother, Mrs. F"s"r
her new Medical Monitor ; her amanuensis, o'n; her
Sleeping Partner ; her Counsel Learned in the Law ; and,
though last, not least, her " hiecius doecius," William T*er ;
thee, surely, with many more, are not likewise labouring
under a strong mental delusion, which incapacitates them,
each and 201, from seeing morally clear I Joanna may have
gone mai ; but it is rather too much to believe, that she
has incurably bitten so many rational and sagacious indivi-
duals as are to be found among her chief supporters.
Though it is evident that the Preacher of the House of
God still hankers after the Prophetess, hoping that " God
will humble her heart to repent," and that " in the midst of
her sorrow, when convinced of her errors, she will be glad
for the man, whom she and her mad followers have so per-
secuted, to pour a little balm into the wounds the enemy
has made," yet he does not pretend to apologise for her
" hic6us doccius," or for any others who are " disguised as
friends to the cause." Punishment is that which in this case
he prescribes. Why, indeed, should the accomplice of
Joanna Southeott be exempted from the penalty that has
been inflicted on the publisher of Thomas Paine? Eaton
was not long since condemned to stand in the pillory, besides
being imprisoned in Newgate, for the circulation of al itings
less dangerous, because less operative, than those of the pro-
phetess. This case is within the recollection of every one,
and comes expressly to the point.
Spiritual adultery is, according to Mr. Carpenter, " the
mixture of the works of God with those of the Devil ; and
they must make that mixture, for the charge to apply to
them. So," however, he adds, " has Joanna Southeott.
Fier confederates boast that 40,000 are in full faith and ex-
pectation of this imaginary Child, whose mother impiously
says—if the child do not so CODIC, then Christ Jesus never
came, as recorded by the Evangelists, and the Christian
world has been imposed on for 1800 years! Consider," ob-
serves Mr. Carpenter, "ye who are the Principals in this

§ " The woman (meaning Joanna) was as ignorant as can possi-
bly he conceived : she could not write, for any one to read ; nei-
ther coa!d she spell a word of two syllables, nor, indeed,
many
souni,syllables. A specimen of each may suffice. The word because, she
singes &cos ; the word eyes, ii ; and the word eye, i. But," subjoins
Mr. Cat peuter, " she could talk for herself m ith as mulch volulAlity as
any of the ladies who frequent the market in Lower Thames Street.'
- So also.saith .Satan, by the mouth of his Friend i adding, that her.
assurawe and ignorance protect" her!