MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. 
sick as though she would have fainted 
away. She could not keep in her 
bed, but laid herself on the floor in 
agonies, and Said she knew not whe- 
ther to pity or condemn him; butat 
last got up in a rage against the De- 
“vil, and said her revenge would be 
sweet to see the Devil chained down, 
and sbe should like, with a sharp 
sword, to cut him in pieces. She 
' then got into bed, exclaiming against 
the clergy, and asked for a glass of 
wine; but she brought it up imme- 
diately. Soon after the bason was 
set upon the bed, she tuok it up and 
_ dashed it violently across the room, 
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and broke it to pieces. After that 
she had some lamb brought up for 
her dinner; she tried to swallow a 
mouthful but could not, but spit it , 
into another: bason, and said she 
could neither swallow the wine nor - 
the lamb, but found the fury of the 
Lord break in upon her, and she 
dashed the second bason on the 
floor. She then said she felt herself 
happier and easier since she had 
broken both the basons; forse would 
the Lord, in his anger, break the 
clergy.” 
This is from a _ book with the fol- 
lowing curious title : 
; MR. JOSEPH SOUTHCOTT, 
THE BROTHER OF 
WILL NOW COME 
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT, 
FORWARD AS DINAH’S BRETHREN DID, 
THAT THEY SHALL NOT DEAL WITH HIS SISTER 
AS THEY WOULD WITII A HARLOT, 
FOR SO THEY ARE NOW DEALING 
WITH HER, 
AND HE WILL PROVE TO THE WORLD WHERE THE 
ADULTERY IS COMMITTED, BY MEN WHO ARE 
UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART AND LIFE: 
AND NOW HE WILL EXPEND ALL THAT HE HAS 
IN THE WORLD, IF REQUIRED, IN THE IIONEST 
4 DEFENCE OF HER CHARACTER, TILL HE HAS SLAIN 
THE UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINES, 
AND ENTIRELY FREED HIS SISTER FROM THE 
REPROACHES OF THEIR ADULTERY. 
A few flowers of infernal elo- 
quence should be added from The 
Dispute with the Powers of Dark- - 
ness. Satan says to her, * Thou 
infamous b—ch! thou, hast been 
flattering God that he may stand thy 
friend. Such low cunning art I de- 
spise.—Thou wheening devil! stop 
thy d—mn’d eternal tongue; thou 
Tunnest on so fast all the Devils in 
Hell cannot keep up with thee.— 
God hath done something to chuse a 
_ b—ch of a woman that will down- 
. argue the Devil, and scarce give him 
room to speak.”—It may truly be 
said, in Joanna’s own words, ‘¢ if 
the woman ts not ashamed of herself, 
the Devil cannot shame her.” 
If the language of Joanna herselfis 
grovelling in the very mud and mire 
of baseness ayd vulgarity, one of her 
elders has soared into the sublime 
of frenzy. The passage is long, but 
deserves insertion, as, perhaps, there 
does not exist elsewhere so complete 
a specimen of a prophet rampant. 
The gentleman begins in some plain 
prose reflections upon the Fall, and’ 
gues 
