The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-13 00:00:00

No. 10,948.

SURREY THEATRE.

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. ELLISTON.

Fon THE BENEFIT OF MISS MARY ANNE MERIT.
TUESDAY, October 16, on which occa-
sion Ivill be produced (compressed into Two Acts,;

THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.
Captain Macheath, Mr.- Phillips.
Lucy Lockit, (for this Night only,) Miss Merit.

In Act 11. A Grand Masquerade, the Dances arranged
by Mr. Giroux, and executed by Mr. J. Jones, Madamoiselle
Rosyer, and Mr. Giroux's Pupils. And in the Prism,
Scene, a Quadruple Hornpipe in Fetters, by Madamoiselle
Rosyer, Miss Perry, Mr. Jones, and Master Edgar Webster,
(Pupil of Mr. Giroux.) .

In the course of the Evening,

A Grand Pas de Deux byllr.. J. Jones and Mrs. Searle.
To which will be added the popular Burletta entitled
THE IRISH TUTOR, -
Dr. O'Toole, Master Burke. Mary, Miss Merit.

A Soug and Hornpipe byMisa Merit, in the Character o;

LONDON, SATURDAY EVI

Little Pickle.

The whole to conclude with, (secaud time) the revived
Musical Burletta, entitled
MIDA S.
Apollo, Miss Graddon,
Her second appearance in that Character.
Midas, Mr. W. West. '

LEEDS, OCT. 11.

Bills having been placarded in various pails of this
town last week, announcing that on Sunday, at one
o'clock, "The Spirit of Prophecy would be revealed
in these days, showing that the Kingdom of Heaven
upon earth is at hank &c. by John Wroe :" at
that hour a considerable number of persons had as-
sembled in and about the school-room occupied by
the Jerusalemites as a preaching house, near Marsh-
lane Head. It *was nearly two o'clock, luiwever,
before the preacher arrived to fulfil his engagement;
and such grew the impatience for his presence, that
those who had gone from motives of curiosity, began
to take their departure, and several of his bearded
diSciples might be observed in the- vicinity of the
place, on the look out for the Prophet's appearance.
At length he came; and, as the preaching house was
too small to hold the multitude, the congregation in-
side were requested to adjourn into a stable-yarded-
joining. There, after singing a, hymn (which had
intelligible allusioes to John Wroe's "spiritual mis-
sion," and the "superior light". shown to the Jeru-
salemites), and after a prayer had been put up by
one of his disciples, the Prophet commenced his ha.
rangue. He took no text; but requested that, howl
ever much any disliked his doctrine, decency might
be observed. After alluding to the burning of Sodom
and Gomorrah because they tvould not repent, and
to the obduracy of the Israelites, who refused to
listen to the voice of Noah, previous to the destruc-
tion of the world by water, he expressed his convic-
tion that the people in these degenerate days would
trample under foot the Scriptures, and disbelieve the
warning that he was commissioned to deliver—
namely, that the World would shortly be destroyed
by fire ! He computed the period from the Creation
to its destruction as three days, each day con-
taining 2,000 years ! From the time of Adam
to Noah's flood was the first day ; 'from the
deluge to the birth of Christ was the second day ;
and the third was the present, or" the Gospel day,"
which was far advancing to its close. All• these
things, and many others, he said, were revealed to
him when he was forty years of age, in visions!
Until this period of his discourse, the most profound
attention had been paid by his auditory; but, as. the
Prophet was going on to explain . the. difference
between a vision and a dream, a young man who was
within a short distance of him exclaimed, with great
gra iity and an audible voice, " It. must have been
the night-mare !" Upon this, many people so far
forgot the decorum due to public worship as to laugh
aloud; but the preacher, after severely rebuking the
individual who had caused it, and informing his con-
gregation that he was a licensed teacher, proceeded.
It would take him, he said, too long a time, even
many hours, to tell all that he saw, or all that.the
Lord had shown him ; but he would mention a
single instance. It was one Saturday night, as he
was seated in his house about two. o'clock in the
morning;" (some person here called out, " A'n Irish
bull," and forthwith out burst an almost universal
horse-laugh ! In consequence of this, the particular
vision was not fully explained.) In the course of
his discourse, he affirmed that he had visited Ger-
many, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Scotland, 'in all
which places he had " delivered his mission," not
taking silver or gold, or any thing payable of any
man, and that he had still much work to perform on
the same terms ! He also declared that the present
generation was born in fornication; and gave an ex-
planation of the cause of his own sect wearing their
beards. Acco4cling to his account, there is to be the
exact number of 144,000 saved out of the twelve
tribes of Israel, who are all to come into England, so
that, it appeais; at no very distant period, this
country will become" the Kingdom of Heaven upon
Earth." The flowing " beard of the prophet," ex-
ceeded any thing of the kind we have ever seen,
and, we presume, had grown with the growth of his
inspiration.—Leeds Intelligences.

Tickets and Places to be had of Miaa Merit, at the
Royal Havrinnah Coffee-house, near the Theatre ; of Mr.
Wardell, Box Book-keeper, at the Box-office of the Theatre,
from Eleven till Four, where Private Boxes may be taken,
and at Sains's Royal Library, St. James's-street.
Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is.

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