The Sun. — 1833-12-14 (London, England)

QUEEN- S A U ARE  AN UNIVERSAL GENIUS.—Just at the close of the office a man was brought up by a police constable of the B division of police, followed by a mob of several hundred persons, on the following charge : ' The defendant presented a very grotesque appearance, being nearly covered with soot and lime. On being placed at the bar he threw himself into a theatrical attitude while _Ashton, the constable, gave his evidence. The defendant gave his name George _Hamilton, and declared that he lately had had a call to preach. It appeared that about one o'clock in the uftec C4-.W.7 noon t e defendant ma. e h . - ..earance in Orchardstreet, Westminster, and commenced preaching a sermon opposite-to the King's Head, when he was soon surrounded by hundreds of persons from. the Almonry. Duck-sane, and the adjacent courts and alleys. The preacher, after promising his auditors eternal . purgatory for their sins and wickedness, which was received with mingled groans and hisses, concluded his discourse by inviting them all to a splendid dinner and wine at the . Grove Tavern, at 'L.-. Camberwell. This announcement was received with loud cheers and applause, and the shouts rent - the sky when the preacher assured his flock that they should all be conveyed down to Camberwell, at his expense, in hackney-coaches and cabriolets, and after dinner he would then further expound to them the Scriptures. However repugnant the preacher's doctrines might be in the first instance, snhoomutasn ofe vael finished p• prohatiou.hisThdeiscmouohrseinacmreiadt louder increased devery minute, and the preacher went off to Palace-yard, and ordered several coaches and cabriolets to drive to Mr. Gallon's, the landlord of the 'King's Head, in Orchard-street, to convey a party of ladies and gentlemen to dinner at Camber well. The cabmen and jarvies were all on the alert in an instant, and in a short time Palace-yard was almost deserted, and Orchardstreet tilled with vehiclei. The King's Head was quite besieged, and in the last cab appeared the preacher, who invited his auditory to take their places, and also the landlord of the house whose name he had used. The landlord declared that he knew nothing of the dinner at Camberwell, and would have nothing to do with it. In vain did the preacher assert hat the dinner and wine were ordered, but the drivers all declared una voce that they would not stir without the money. The preacher appeared to want that necessary article; and, notwithstanding ids oratory and the assurance that he had had a call, the cabriolet man drove him to the .station-hotel and gave him in charge. • The preacher, in reply id the charge, said that if the cabman bad taken him and his friends down to Camberwell, where he had ordered dinner for the wicked sinners of Westminster, they would have been sure to have got their dinner and money, but now it would be entirely spoiled. He was most particularly astonished that Mr. Gallon, the landlord, should doubt his character, for he would preach a sermon, sing a song, or fight or run any man of his weight in the neighbourhood, and he had mane persons in the outer office who would back him to any amount. Mr. WHITE asked him what place he belonged to ? The defendant replied that he belonged to St. Luke's, Chelsea ; that he had been in the employ of. Mr. Freeman, the landlord of the Wellesley Aerns, in Wellesley-street, and that he gave very important evidence at the inquest held on the body of Miss Elms, who was murdered in that neighbourhood. In answer to further questions the preacher said that he had entered into an engagement with Mr. Smithers, the manager of the Orange Theatre, at Pimlico, and was to make his appearance next week as Gloucester, in Richard the Third. If he had done wrong he wished to know whether a license could be granted to him to preach. Mr. WurrE remanded him for disorderly conduct.