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

THE NATIONAL. REGISTER.

Whatever may be the extent of Joanna's knowledge in
spiritual things, however, she appears to be little acquainted
with the jurisprudence of thecountry ste has so commended.
All impostures in religino, she ought to know, or falsely
pretel ding to estraorlinary commissions from Ged, and
icrri:/;.. /int er alarming the people with false denunciations of
judgments, are, by our laws, puni,hable by the temporal
Judges (net such Judges as met at the Neckinger-house !)
with fine and imprisonment; and also such corporal and
infamous punishment as to the Court, exercising its discretion,
shall seem meet, excording to the heinousness of the crime !
Joanna and her preachers would, therefore, act wisely by
paying more attention to the penalties with which their pro-
phecyings may yet be visited by the verdict of their country-
men.

She at first prophecied of her end, and the treatment she
should experience preparatory to it ; so that she naturally
has recurrence to it now. Numbers are still looking for this
result. tier enemies are to persecute her, and she is to be
taken up. " Neither the prediction of this trial, however,
nor its accomplishment, will be decisive of her mission.
She had every reason to think, that, some time or other, such
persecution mubt come on; and, therefore, it was policy to
predict it."

Joanna dwells much on the subject of her awful trig.
" awful though glorious," when she assumes that her writ-
ings will I.e proved, and their truth be established ! She no
longer talks, however, of her three days' trance, during the
trial, and her subsequent resumptiod of life, to tell her
lends what she has seen, before she dies. Whether " her
death will convince more than her life," as matters at t)re-
sent arc, remains to be seen ; for she once promised that, at
her death, the power of Satan would he titken away, and
the working of Miracles be imparted to those who were
Sealed !

But she now asserts she is not to be called forward in a pub-
lic trial before the Son is barn, spoken of in her late wri-
tings ; and that all mankind would have expected as much,
although she did not comprehend the thing, so herself, " if
men had understood whet they read." Seeing the great ad-
vantages that are to acct ue to the world whenevershe is tried,
however. might it not he adviseable to bring it on without
the least delay ? Since she admits the " possibility of her
being deceived " respecting her state ; that her promised son
may " prove not to be a child in the end ;" and " that the
life within may faring death upon her," even while the feel-
ing of such life is greater than ever ; let it not be tegrette4
hat site has descended to the grave without her writings be-
ing put to the ordeal so long solicited by her. Physical dis-
section will not be forted satisfactory to individuris who vet.
call for spiritual invest.gi&on. When our prophetess shall
have suddenly "finished :lte work, which," she says, " God
his given her to it k‘il! evidently' be ton late to examine
into the nature of thlt wept k ; we shall he censured as
having ' a question of vit.d impot tauct! to us all.
A pplicaiolis ate stated to have been wade to the Arch-
bishop ,if i'anterbo, y, by ihe friends of Joaona Soothcott,
that he would appoirt some person to attetid her accouch-
inept hich he hai declined to do, under the suipusition

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