Singular Fanaticism.
The Times, 1824-01-23T00:00:00

I Frou tLhe Sa.acthu G I-91 'Jt.c pUttuc nave atreaAy ncarnS lluCh ot tie conduct of a few per. sons who were a year or two ogo disowned bF the Quaker Society, and irosecuted and punished tbr mlolesting that society. Some of those persmons and their adherenits have occasionally continued those disturbances. On the dzy of the late public thanksgiving, a young woman of this town, uho had becr disownied by that society to which she had frotn her youtb belonged, attendci the Qualzer meeting in Sn- kin, and attemIpted to preach in such a manner that she was remov. ed from the meeting as a disturber. On the following Sabbath qhe attended the Quaker meeting at Lynn, wher, there was a funeral, arnd the crpse carried into themeeting-house: she came in late, in 'white apparel, on a cold day, and madc her way into the minister's gallerv, pushing aside the person that attempted to stop her: after stttir,g a shor time, she rse and spoke nearly thus :-" Behold the Laxtib of (l.od"-.a pause-" Behold the Lamub of Got, that taketh rivay the sin of the w orld-behold the bride, the Lamb's wife; it is not because I prefer these high bencies that you see me here, but my Grod hath sent me here to bear my testimony against the idolatrouis wership that has of latter time been pail to these high benches." She called the attention of the people to her drcss (wilich was gay and uiry), and said it coveredt a pure spirit and clean heart. She was requested to sit down, and pausedl; during the pause, a regular femTale minister of the society, who sat so as net to see her or know of her continuing standinig, rose and began to preach: the young wonman interrupted her by crying out, "W Who art thou that darkenest counsel with wor,ls without knowledge, thou hypo-rite; how long will it be before this veil will be rent ?" She was then moved from tite meeting, crying out " Hypo. crites," &c. She refised to make any use of her limbs to walk, and, when out, would notshtand or sit, but laid prostrate on the step of the meeting-house; and when meeti;ng was over, it was na,cessary to remove her to make room for the people to pass out: sonte, who took sides with her, and had gathered round, were also removed, to give opportunity to take the corpse to the grave: She contiuued to lay as if helpless near the door, half an hour af. ser meeting -was over: she was then taken in her passive state and carried by two persons in a chaise to the house of a fellow-disciple, where she remained, speechless and helpless, as was pretended, ly- ing in state in bed, in the same dress she had worn at rmeeting, and so continued from that day(23d of November) to the 30th of Novem- ber: she spoke to no one and-answveredi no one by words, but woild reply to questions by writing her answers on a slate: some of her an- swers are preserved; wben asked whether she would take food, she wrote, *s Hlow can I want any thing, that am feediig on angeLs' She wrote to one of her neighbours, that " her speech was taken away by wicked men, and would be heard no more, until it was iheard in Heaven, praising God." It has not been intimated tiatshe was hardly used by those who reinbved her: her friends acknow- ledge she was removed as easily as possible ; "1 the wicked men" she complains of were those who refused to allow her to continue her preaching. During Saturday, she prophesied that " she should die before the going down of another sun," and her adherents professed to put in- licit faith in the awful predictioni, which spread like wild-fire through thte town. On the morning of her " dying d3y" site sent a solemn message in writing to an acquaintance, that, in " a few hours and this hand, which now peas this, will be cold in death, but the spirit whicrl dic- tated it crowned with eternal life." The rumour that she was to die on that day had spread through toe town, and excited a great buz and general attention. Sbe rose -that morning, washed, and attired herself in what she tenned her grave clothes, which had been previously prepared for her, and wrote that " she should die by the going down of the san," and re- -quested after het death she should be laid ontt on a sots, and be bu- ried in a tomb, after being kept a nurnber of days, so that aU wlho wished might be admitted to see her. The whole town seemed to be in a commotion that day; the honse was thronged by hundreds a-d hundreds of spectators, wyho rushed from all parts to see the wonderful woman; chaises and foot passengers, some from a con- siderable distance, were going to and fro as at a training: all desired to be in at her last moments. Within a short time of the awful pe. riod she bad set for her flight from this world, she wrote, " You now behold the exit of one whose life has been devoted to the good of sol0s, breathing this exhortatien, Glory to God in the highest,peace on earth, and good will to mnpn l" Near that tirne she spoke and zudibh, Jod, illy work is finished, and there is a crown laid up forme which I am going to inherit ;" and told her friends "4 not to Mo-ron her early exit. fst her body w( to return to dust, and her so-al to hbi vwho gave ntas Her frend ere overwhelmed with tears md grief by this last soMimn parting sceB. She then threw herself back andl appeared to gasp, as if dying, Sned remaied in the same death.like-posture, with closed eyes, till the right of .Monday, when the corpse took a little wine, and soon - after spoke-since which she has disappeared. Sonic say she went .oua of the top of the chimney. .SIN(GULAR ifII,NA TICISif. LYNN. DEC. 10.