The National Register.
London, England, 1814-09-11 00:00:00

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in
th am,v such !Jo( ceding might confirm her followels
then he lief of hr.r inspiration. " for the purpose of
avoitlill:4 deception," enquires Dr. Reece, with great pro-
.prietr, mtglit net the Loraiiancellor place her in decent
aPartmen!s.. and appei,,tarcouchenis of expel ience and re-
gl'er:abil itY to alend on her ?" Something ought positively
to be done, Iffire hirth of her ii fain, to prevent the sus-
.picion of ti ;an inteiference which, it seems, would be-
approved of , yen by her followers.
the ne‘viy-m,redicted " King of the Jews" be once
brou4ht to ,he birth, no moiler how,- and find persons to
credit mi'e d,,,laration of his having been supernaturally con
teived h. the s' iritnal Mother of the Southcottian
her ti Mal ‘‘il Indeed have become an " awful one !" Hundreds
sr'///hen hi/icyr in !lie svremorn of th, e/ii'd, coupled with
the mission 7nothrr, -a Iv) are now towlest in !heir censures
on bre snijeel. Our guvel rment will, pe,hips, find it no
easy ta,k to hi ins .1, a, eta Se•tithcomt .o the liar, when she can
carry ht r infant theme with her ; and %then, to speak in het
own style, 4 4 the Lord sh:,ll have worked a way for her to
plead her own cause, and confound all that confounded her."
Religion, morality, aid decency, all demand that the pre-
tem sions of the pr,pliete,s sinnild be immediately subjected
to the most seri:, os and scam chins inquisition. She has
Idasphemon,ly s, initialised the established creed, by affirming.
and in print, that '• if the visitation ~f the Lord to tier does
not produce a Son this year, then Jesus Christ was not the
Son of (;cd, born in the manner spoken by the Virgin Mary ;
but if she has a Son this year, then, in like manner, our Sa-
viour was born !" Morality is set at nought, throughout
her w-iting,, by making her obedience the substitute for
man's, and appointing her seals as passports to the society of
ti e spiel's of just men made perfect ! She has outraged all
the decencies of life. Chastity seems to have been loe‘g ba-
night d from Ler breast, if ever it inhabited there; and the
only hope is, concerning her publications, that they may he
at counted too digusting to deprave the dispositions of those
mbo shall vainly explore theta for the purpose of informing
tl e understanding.

ONESIbIUS.

JOANNA'S DEFENCE.

LETTER FROM JOANNA SOUTUCOTT TO DOCTOR
RICHARD REECE.

September 1, IRI4.
Si R —Beinu informed by Mr. Carder, on Wednesday, Augwsi 31,
that you I)4d been attarkrd for potting your jugdment on my case in tlr,,
Paper, in answer to the inquiries thra had been made in The Time:
Paper, uhirh, if no on. had nswered, there would have been room
for the world to say, the Mediral Men refused to give the judgiurnt
tbry had drawn, to satisfy the mirds of die Paidic. Now, as yin have
pohlisl:ed v,:nr's, I s; all lay he-fore you the particulars, w but was the
jt,dameot of all that crone into my pre-ence, that you may see you do
not sr and al, ne iu jodernent.
The first maq th.rt came into the room where I was, from the 11th of
Oc:ober, 1813. to the Ist day of August. 1811 was 1)r Adams,
was called in, with Messrs. 'Vetherell and Phillips, tr; occouNt of mv
at that time, and for their opir.irri, of my case ; when I had
before them the manner of my illneso and the statement of all my corn.
plaiptS from the 17th of M9rch to that day, with my increasing size,
and feeling life wit no, Dr. Adams askrit me %%bar was the „Lieet of
their meeting ? I suirl, not pas their judgment according to my age
frons the statement 1 had given, or from laving kept from any man's