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London, England, 1821-12-18 00:00:00

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UNICIFTIAtt.r..MIGIIAIIOX :NO Jrarsattsi.---Teetereley, 11,
consequence of a Very great uproar on Sunday eight. hi "rm.
nester-street. Southwark, about the house of the .1111e:eats Pr).
phet, .lAn Decker, that singular person was broeblat boors. the
Magistrate of this Office, the irliabitants c•r the nei;l4,eurt,,,iii
having attributed the disturbance to the unfortunate iahaticisre
of the 1') ophet and his followers.
Two ("tee:tables stated, that on Sunday night, r her.p,st
eight o'clock, they saw a mob, consisting of Alum
collected at the door of the house, and heard cries Of 11:174,3
issue from within. The officers, upon going op stairs, eaed the
Prophet lying upon his back. Some persons who had 'Wee
abusing hint eecaped, and the Prophet said the cause of chit
violence was, that he had refused to get nut ef his bed to pre„eh.
lie was conveyed to the watch-house. The witnesses informed
the Magistrate, that the Prophet had made e..ree presetvw,
who were actually aim,. to leave the country with Cm, ael
za
company him upon an expedition to the Holy Land. The ies:
rish Officers were naturally alarmed at the incor.senit
which such an emigration would expose them, and t4„l
everything the arm of the law could do would be dote; to or,.
vent it. The fanatic spirit of some of the followers of he proe
phet stray be guessed from the following fact; I—The oriirers who
apprehended hint had, two or a ere times, in the course of San.
day evening, gone to the home in Worcester-street, ted „Jib.
persed a large congregation that had assembled in the rpm;
ropriated to preaching. The Prophit preached hest, and eel
succeeded by one of his most zealous followers, who was tel_
lowed by another. This was constantly the przctice, and durieg
the sets ice, which was being listened to wit!: rapterr, upwatli
nl dozen of the congregation seemed to be as violently engaged
as the. Prophet himself, whose sincerity is wal known. One mm,
a shoemaker, named Cooke, has actually soh' o 9 his stock mg
furniture, which were worth £5OO ; and if be were net knout
to be the greatest admirer of the l'rophet, might be called hie
rival, for he has allowed his beard to grow to an inmate
length, and goes about preaching and making cor.verts. Heins
a little son, el:, looks half-starved, and is denied all aidnul :keg
by the Prophet and his rather, upon the principle of Pythag‘
ras—that he might not be guilty of eating a piece of his owl
grandmother! Another tradesman, who was most industrials,
and attached to a wife and seven children, proposes to lope
them all, and go to Jerusalem! His beard is also becoming it.
dicative of his intention, cad he sleeps, as the others who re
struck by the Prophet do—with his clothes ISione of the
sixteen famikies who reside in the house in which the Pull,'
lives have, however, caught the infection ; and the landlady coos
plained most sever&y of the innoyance to which die was subjett.
iir. CHAMIERS said, he expected to have hard that the Pro.
phet was on his way to Jerusalem.
The Prophet said, be only waited for a Tur.isian vessel to ,11
sail with his brother Cooke and nine other of lus brethren. Cpsk
being questioned as to his inducing those men to leave their
milieu, he said be did not take them, a higher power tack ikon.
After having stated the manner in which he had been pullet so
of bed, and declared that he forgave his enemies, he said, is
answer to the question, whether he was at Brixton and world
there, " Yea ; and to the question whether he liked it," Nay:.
Cooke, the shoemaker, then stepped forward, and told tic
Magistrate that he was determined to follow his brother Decker
to Jerusalem, hut that the Parish should suffer no inconveniteo,
for be should take his son with hint upon hi pilgrimage. He
said that they should not preach again where they had Bemis
much abused. but should remove to a house near the Natield
School, in St. George's-fields, where they should preach till de
day of their departure.
The Magistrate assured the Prophet that he should kola
mitred if he preached again without a license, whicli he mot
have next Sessions for fourpence. He also °biased, tha the
l'arish *Officers would take care to prevent their being bladed
with the families of any of the unfortunate men who were nsi
enough to neglect their business front such ridiculous embolus.
He then discharged the Prophet.
Decker, it appeared, had baptized seventeen pass's since be
commenced his labours in St. George's-fields.

Saturday night, a poor woman, named Carroil,re.
siding in lied Lion-court, Saffron-hill, was husdedit
the street by three or four ruffians, who robbed herd
18s. which she had just received from her husband—
his week's wazes!
Two of the inhuman wretches concerned in pilfer.
ing from the wrecks on the west coast of CumberWe,
have been apprehended, and were committed to Cu-
liAe jail on Wedn-,:sday last.
Tuesday, a poacher of the name of &net, whebad
been apprehended at Clapham, with four hares, S 6
wire nooses, and a large quantity of gate nets. oaki
person, was fined in the mitigated penalty oltii,by
the Magistrates of Arundel.
A melancholy accident occurred on the mooing
of Wednesday se'nnight, at Nlonway Col itay, in t.k
Parish of Wednesbury, Staffordshire. Five men,
John Stevens, James Waldron, William Bayley,
James Waldron, jun. and John Aston, were L:escen
ing a coal-pit in the skip, when the tope suddenly
broke, and they were precipitated down the shafts
depth of nearly 30 yards. Stevens died in aboutn
hour after the accident, and the elder Wald/own
Friday morning ; the other three., though much it
jured, are still living.

BIRTHS.
Sunday, at Woburn Abbey, the Duchess of Bedford, dam
Dec. 11, at Dublin, Mrs. Huntby, of the Theatre Royel4
a son.

MARRIED.
Dec. 10, at Kirkcaldy, Henry Salmon, Esq. banker, FAA
to Misr Christina, youngest daughter of George Morgan, E 4
Kirkcaldy.
Dec. '2, at Paris, Jacob Ornilius Irving, Esq. of Jamaica, io'
merly of the 10th Light Dragoons, to Catherine Blau,,lacelat
of Sir J. Homfray, of Boulogne.

Dm).
At Leith, the 4th instant, Alexander Gordon, late age
master of the King George smack.
Dac.l2, at his seat, Donaghmade, near Raheny, Steuart rot
Esq. who was for many years a Master of the Irish lligh Ctrs
of Chancery.
'At Nenagli, the Lady of Lieutenant George Harding, R%
Saturday morning, almost suddenly, Mr. Provis, upwarani
twenty years Yeoman Porter at Whitehall Chapel. The Mb!
of London has the appointment of the person to succeed him.
July 17, at Valencia, in Sonth America, of the wounds
received on the 21th of June, in the decisive battle of Caritas
Thomas Melton Ferriar, Esq. eldest son of the late Dr. Frain
of Manchester, Colonel in the Colombian service, and Adjoin.
General of the Army of the Apure : a fearless soldier, aids
amiable and high-minded Gentleman.
July 16, at Chittledivog, in his 18th year, Lieutenant J. 31
Powell, of the 14th Regitnent of Native infantry,sof the Maths
Establishment. The death of this promisleg and exe,:Vert!olei
man, was occasioned by the explosion of some damaged l
powskr, carelessly misplaced in a cave, instead of being throes
Into water, as directed, fur the post was to be given up. 110.
nant Powell, with another Meer, and some attendano,strA
from a pzrt,; on the till, and immediately a loud exploioroo
beard, and they were all focrid dead. It is suppesesl,3l°._
cf the party had segars in their mouths when they hit the
friends, that one of them, unconscious of any dangers 11111
' down an eixt of a sear. Thus fella young ()facer of great Oh
beloved by his resiment, and ador:d by all who 'mewl:is

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