The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-09 00:00:00

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but their last drop of Wool. lie called upon the
Cict;rman not to blink the question because the ma.
jdro y ef thenteefieg appeared against the Petition,
I),e let it rattly I..ect its fate.
I AUL krttueN, Esq. one of the representatives
for tme county. said, that seeing a meeting called,
t.;gm.il I v a number of respectable individuals, he
f,l- 1! hit: :14ty to attend it, bat if he hntl lumen that
it a• to have been a ell se teeetitig with closed doors,
eettaitdm would not have come near the place.--
t!.. meeting decided upon petitioning the house of
Common-, whatev-r that portion may be, he should
fet! it duty to present it ; although he would not
pledge himself to support the landed interest to the
injury of th, ttadestonn and the mechanic.
The tll %lI:MAN having hinted that it was going a
little ton far, to say that this petition was in favour
of tett tradesmatt and mechanic, as they would not
l:amr an opportunity of voting upon the subject, he
thenoo they had better be left out of the petition.
Toe et bale meeting appeared to concur in this, and
IILet.TT proposed in draw the pen through' the
• words ‘• tradesman and mechanic;" which being
dime,
Toe Cu.IIRMAN desired all those who were for the
petition to hold tip their hats. The Chairman declared
a decided major its kept their hats on; which was fol.
lnwed by a.sy mptom of approbation; whereupon the
Chairman asserted that the meeting was so lumultu-
our he would not take the sense of it against the
petition.
Upon this the Chairman, with Mr. Beuett, and a
few of his flieads, retired to a private room at the
inn, but whether to sign this petition in stcret,which
they could not catty in public, or to abandon it
altogether, we do not know'.-11 statement of the
fate of the petition was announced to the inhabitants
a the town by Ott beilmau, amidst the becoming
cheers of the povulace.

Mer dissection on Saturday senniqlit, the body
twa• put in a plain coffin, in the presence of three
Gentlemen. When the lid was screwed down, pitch
was applied to the edges and rim. While this was
petformiig, the strictest injanctions of secresy were
given to all present. At twelve o'clock at night, the
ct end baring retired from the street, the collin was
carried by four men to the undertaker's, at the
corner of Ra'hbone-I•lace,.osford-strect. Here it
remained duliag Sunday. On Monday afternoon,
about two o'clock, it was put into a hearse, drawn by
two horses, without the usual ornament of feathers,
to fat our the belief that it did not contain a corpse,
but was old) going to rc,ceive and convey one. The
in arse, followed by three Gentlemen in a coach and
pair, then proceeded to Mary-le-Bone upper bu rviwg-
gt omit!, near Kilburn, where it was interred ; and
the usual church iervice performed by the Clergyman.
'file few people, whom curiosity attracted round the
grave had not the slightest suspicion that the coffin
contained the remains of Joanna Southcott. such
precautions were taken, that it was impossible the
secret could ptcuisturoly transpire. It was known
to mute of her followers, and scarcely to any of
her late confidants. The three Gentlemen who fol-
lowed the corpse to the grave were muffled up more
than is customary even to mow tiers : they wore great
coats, which were buttoned up to the chin, black
cloaks Standing high in the collar, handkerchiefs tied
round the lower part of the face, and their hats
pulled over their a es. So completely had they suc-
ceeded in disguising themselves, that not a feature
was iiahle : they abstained from all conversation,
so that the %iitcr of this communication could not
recognise their persons. Cri their road to the place
of interment, they were Hoed by a foerth person,
equaily well disguised as themselves, at:rl who did
not separate front them. This last is conjectured to
hare Leell Tozer.

I'ARTICULAGS C3VCLRVING IILL IMPOSTURE

Dr. Reece has published a pamphlet, in which he
states how his acquaintance with Mrs. Soutbcott
commenced, the circumstances which induced him to
place implicit confidence in her representations, to-
gether with such incidents as occurred during the
course of a gratuitous professional attendance on
her. He accounts for the facility with which he was
imposed on, by saying, that' on his first visit (made
at the request of Mr. (erder, of Leicester-place),
he was very m orb st rock with theextreme mildness and
simplicity of her manners, the motherly kindness
thst distinguished her behaviour, and the artless and
u:,111 cted detail of many circumstances of ber life.
44 Such a woman, I naturally said, does not carry
with bete the stump of imposture. There seemed to
he no basis to self-interest in her conduct. Her
sortmPot was paltry and mean, cud she did not ap.
sr to be loaded with the delicacies of life, or to
poss upon hei followers for more than the bare ne-
r-i“saries of existence."—The visits of the medical
men, with their opinions, and the letters which have
se;.pared in the Newspapers, follow this account of
the hit reduction. Dr. Reece then details some con.
Avrsiiions which he had with many of her infatuated
I •itowers. A Mr. %Vowd said, that one restlebi
'' lb', bring extremely nervous, he cried out in WS
I Shot he had no friend, when a voice immedi-
-2.c) :In?wered, " I am your friend; I am the God

e before they gave their sanction to a measure,
only had for its ohject the benefit Rini ag-
crulisement of a few rapacious landholders, whilst
teas calculated to shift the odium of a dear loaf off
tie,:r own shoulder,, and fix it upon the hack of the
flranr. Let the odium rest where it was due,. upon
oxse who were the supporters of the war, upon
those who have fattened upon the miseries of the
ry.,, le.
M;. BLEm followed on the same side with Mr.
eitp,..iog the fu!lacy of attempieg to pawn
quilt the Meeting a Petition, professing to have for
its objeet the nelfare of the tradesman and the me-
-4,:;311ie, whilst tile operation of it would tend to per.
rtuate the ni%ely they had so long endured ; he
cared to the recollection of many of the Meeting,
Cie scenes which they had been in the lothit of wit-
nessing in that Hall, the nulls of which had so often
resounded with the professions of those Gentlemen,
who were now complaiuiog of the present times, the
ca.et of that war, to support which, they had so
often solemnly pledged not only their last guinea,

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