The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-15 00:00:00

ANOTHER SHILOH.

A new order of disciples, seceding from those of
e late Johanna Southcote, have succeeded in ex-
citing the curiosity of the public, by propagating a
report that young Shiloh had arrived in this town,
and was to make his appearance as " a preacher, a
prophet, a priest, and a king," in a large room in
Pack-court, Woolpack-lane, on Sunday evening
last, and also on Wednesday evening. Curiosity to
hear and see this wonder " in these latter days," at-
tracted crowds, so that numbers were obliged to go
away unable to obtain admission. On Wednesday,
evening, about six o'clock, two persons, each wear-
ing a green silk handkerchief round his neck, a blue
coat and light waistcoat, and upon the fore linger of
the left hand a gold ring, ascended the pulpit, one 1
of whom (John) commenced a long harangue,
which was called preaching upon the prophecies in
the Old Testament, and their fulfilment in former
and now in these latter days. After speaking for
upwards of an hour, he was succeeded by his bro-
ther, who also spoke for nearly another hour. The
former, in the course of his address, declared that
all denominations of Christians were under delusion
—that lawyers, schoolmasters, and parsons were no
more than bugbears—and that, positively, he him-
self had often gone u mile round, rather than meet
either one or the other of the three—that the whole
of the prophecies in the Bible, which have been ap-
plied to Jesus Christ, beginning with that in the
book of Genesis, where it says, " The sceptre shall
not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between
the feet, until Shiloh came," are entirely applicable
to the person who, as Shiloh, has now made his
appearance in these " latter days." The preacher,
after introducing this part of his subject, said he
would tell the congregation the truth—and they
might make what they would of it—" that the
Shiloh, the true Shiloh, was in truth there !—and
that he was a friend of publicans and sinners. He
then stigmatised all who were connected with other
religious denominations, Bible arid Tract Societies,
&c. Another gentleman (perhaps the Shiloh) now
made his appearance, and if not omnipresent, could
at least from the form of his eyes, see both ends of
the room at once. This illustrious personage
began to read from manuscript his own commen-
taries upon the Prophets, in the course of which he
occasionally attempted to exemplify the mysteries
that he found in the sacred writings, and he assured
his congregation that they must " mystically under-
stand the word of Gov." Having for a length of
time mystified himself and his audience, he was in-
terrupted by several persons, who were anxious to
put some questions. To one he replied " that
(meaning the question) comes from a long-faced
one ;" and, to another, " Ah I he's a leader," with
a variety of epithets characteristic of anything rather
than good-will towards men. The elegance of their
style is heightened by the frequent introduction of
such words as " the deuce," " bug-bear," " dog's-
meat," &c. and their reasoning is enforced by such
assertions as " that they expect the people will take
no more notice of what they said, than if axe was
to speak." Since writing the above, we have been
favoured with the history of two gentlemen, who
are said a short time ago to have left London—one
as Shiloh, and the other us his herald, messenger, or
companion, for the purpose of enlightening the
people. We dare not take upon ourselves roundly to
assert that these are the two, and for the honour of
humanity we should say, that we hope they are not;
for we are told, that one has left a wife and twelve
children chargeable to the parish, who are receiving
in addition to the scanty means obtained from teach-
ing a school for young children, the miserable pit-
tance of Sc. Gd. weekly from the parish ! and that
the other, who is represented as the Shiloh, has also
left his wife and family, from whom he has been se.
parated for a length of time, and cohabits with
another female. We cannot take upon ourselves to
say that the illustrious personages now in this town
are the individuals who have acted thus cruelly to
their families, but we can assure our readers that the
fact is as here stated, let the actors be wheresoever
they may. We understand that our Derby friends,
were yesterday honoured with a visit by these lights
of the age, of whom it ;s to be remarked that,
when asked by a poor man if they were infallible
they said, " No, they themselves were not infallible,
but the spirit within them Notting/ram
Journal,

The will of the late THOMAS SHELTOy,
Esq., who, for nearly half a centuty, filled the offices of
Clerk of the Arraigns, Clerk of the Indictment!, Clet k of
the Peace, and Coroner for the city 04,' Landaa, was proved
nit Friday last, at Doctor,' Commitne. The personal pro-
perty w;s &worm under.Bs,ooo/. The testator, after be-
queathing an annuity of 1601. ;to each of his sisters,
MARIA ANN SHELTON and LETITIA SHELTON, and an
annuity of 50/. to his nephew, WILLIAM CLArzE,
a reservation, prohibiting the latter from clOrev selling or
transferring his interest under thg.. wiil, heque,iths a legacy
of 50 guineag to Ir;s prinsipal clerk, Mr. MOSELEY ; and
the life sus) to TowNsnin, the housekeeper at the Sea.
sions House, Old Bailey. The testator bequeathed all the
rest, residue, and remainder of his real and rereptd estate
to his nephew, Mr Jon:: CLARE:e, :''so succeeded him as
Clerk of the Pace, c, he will is dated the 10th of
July, 1.82:14 the day of the testator's death, and appoints
his sisters and nephew, jam( CLARKE, exeemfixee and
executor. It was proved liy Mr. ,11,w.1 Or.anKE only,
with a power reserved fox thc:-excoutrixes to a.-lininister.
Last week, during the dead of night, a Emily
in the parish of St. Stephen's were alarmed by thc. pries
of murder! uttered by a woman named T:lix:ralzwr.v.—
A light was speedily procured, aa,:i fief proceeding; to the
bed of the poor wt‘mr.n, large rat Lampe; from it, and
made escape; the woman was covert d with blood,
which flowed from Ler right shoulder which waf,
fully lacerated, and froin a s,vere er chetk.—
She was awaked l.y hiir shoulder torn by the teeth
of the rat aid ;') rear etideavour to free herself horn the
assaiLint, the rat fixed its teeth in Il,l' chet.l4 where
it
held until the approach of the persc,p4 17,'4c, had been
roused liy the cries of the sufferer. The poor woman is
still ill of the fright and of the wounds she received.—
Fah quth Podict,