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LONDON. 
-was it not done to roufe more to give ? The man who 
fays he lives by gifts, will, as he gets friends, find gifts by 
which he may live. His works amount to twenty vols. 
8 vo. 
A few years before his end, Mr. Huntington married 
a fecond wife, the reputedly-affluent widow of the late 
fir James Saunderfon, and daughter of the patriotic aider- 
man Skinner. Lady Saunderfon is underftood to have fir ft 
repaired to Providence Chapel with the view of ridiculing 
that preacher of whom fire afterwards became the wife. 
Sh$ furvives Mr. Huntington ; who, by his firft marriage, 
had thirteen children, though many of them died before 
him. Although not fo rich as he was thought, lie had 
for fome years kept his carriage. “ I had told the whole 
company that role up againlt me,” lays Mr. Huntington, 
i’peaking of the congregational commotions which were 
-excited by his oppofition to the writings of Paine, “ and told 
them publicly in the chapel, that, fo far from their being 
able to pull me down, they mult not wonder to lee me in 
my coach when old age came on; nor was the hand of 
God withdrawn till this came to pals.” He was l'eldoin 
miftaken in fuch predictions as related to himfelf. When 
fome of his family were afiilting him in pulling off his 
coat, after the latt fermon that he preached, he told them 
—that he knew his work was almolt done. He flipped the 
-evening before his death, faying, when he had finifhed, 
that it was the la It (upper he thould eat; and that he was 
ready to meet his God and Saviour! He died the next 
day, at Tunbridge Wells, where he had gone for the be¬ 
nefit of his health. Diabetes was found the immediate 
-caufe of liis diffolution. His remains were interred at 
Lewes; and a IlOne, at the head of his grave, difplayed 
the following epitaph, compofed by himfelf fome time be¬ 
fore: “I-lere lies the Coal-heaver; who departed this life 
July i, 1813, in the yoth year of his age; beloved of his 
God, but abhorred of men. The omnifeient Judge, at the 
Grand Aflife, (hall ratify and confirm this, to the confu- 
fion of many thoufands; for England and its Metropolis 
fliall know', that there hath been a Prophet among them ! 
W. II. S. S.” —We have been informed, but we cannot 
fay with what truth, that the (lone has been removed, by 
order of the heads of the parifh of Lewes. 
Huntington has conltituted an era in the modern church, 
notwithftanding his peculiarities and eccentricities ; a cir- 
cumftance that would alone render his deceafe an event 
not deltitute of importance. While, together with the 
names of Whitfield and Welley, however, the name of 
Huntington feems likely to be commemorated in future 
times, (till, unlike both of thole preachers, he, having 
eftablifhed no germinating bodies, has died without making 
■any religious provifion for the continuance of that con¬ 
gregation whofe founder he indifputably was. He de- 
edared, that his “ doCfrine and reputation (hould (land 
and fall together; that it never (hould be—the Coal-heaver 
and Co.” Dedication to the Bank of Faith. 
We (hall not have a better opportunity than the prefent 
to refume the hiltory of Joanna Southcott, whom we left, 
at p. 149. victorious over the devil. Hc-r Third Book of 
Wonders, juft: publilhed, is in manner like the former, 
as deferibed at p. 147. but in matter more blafphemous. 
The Spirit fays to her, “ This year, in the fixty-fifth year 
of thy age, thou (halt have a Son, by the power of the 
Mod High, which if they (the Jews) receive as their Pro¬ 
phet, Prieft, and King, then I will reftore them to their 
own land, and calt out the heathens for their fakes, as I 
call out them when they call out me, by rejecting me as 
their Saviour, Prince, and King, for which I faid I was 
born, but not at that time to eltablilh my kingdom. But 
low is the Lord God to dwell amonglt them, if I do not 
create a Son, by the fame power I came amonglt them ? 
And, to prove my power, that it is of God, and not of 
n an, it millt be made known unto all men whomfoever 
that read this book of thine, that no man hath been in 
thy prefence, or put a foot in the room where I have con- 
Sned^thee, fince the time I ordered thy confinement, 
V 0l. XIII- No. 91a. 
which time was OCtober it, 1813. And thou nr.ift let 
it be known to the world, that thou canit fay with Agur; 
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four 
which l know not. The way of an eagle in the air ; the way of 
a Jerpcnt upon a rock ; the zuay of a Jhip in the midfi of the 
fta ; and the way of a man with a maid. Prov. xxx. 18, 19." 
Then Joanna (peaks in her own perfon : “This I can 
take my folemn oath to, that I never had knowledge of 
man in my life. So that, if the words of the Spirit are 
fulfilled in me, this year, to have a Son, it is by the power 
of the Lord, and not of man ; and this fign is let, to 
prove the truth of the Gofpel, or to prove that the Gof- 
pel is not true. For, if the vifitation of the Lord to me 
now does not produce a Son this year, then Jefus Chrift 
was not the Son of God, born in the manner Ipoken by 
the Virgin Mary ; but, if I have a Son this year, then, 
in like manner our Saviour was born.” 
Now the Spirit fpeaks : “ Let them look'to their pro¬ 
phets, then they will fee that they prophefied of me two 
ways ; to come as a fufferer, and to come as a conqueror. 
And now I tell them, it is not all the power in the world, 
nor ail the nations upon earth, lhali ever eilablilh the Jews 
upon the throne of Jerufalem, to be a peaceable and happy 
nation, if they will not receive the Son, that I have told 
thee (hall be born this year, to be the King over them. 
Therefore, let them not look to the great men amonglt 
them, or to their rabbies, their priefts, or their rulers, to 
think that their King (hall come from them, when their 
great men amonglt them fought my life, and the mean- 
nefs of my birth was then defpifed. But let them look 
to the marvellous manner the way I have placed the fign 
before them ; let them look to thy age, and the manner f 
have confined thee from any inan coming into thy pre¬ 
fence; and, to prevent men’s faying a man might come 
in woman’s apparel, I have alfo forbidden ail thy female 
friends to come into thy prefence iikewife. Therefore.f 
have ordered it in fuel; manner as it is impolfible for de¬ 
ceit to be praCtifed.” Third Book of Wonders, p. 4, 6, 9. 
Some of our readers may perhaps blame us for making 
thefe extracts, the lubjeCt and exprellions being too 
folemn to be treated with levity. We lhould certain))' 
think it not an undue ftretch of power, if a magiitrate 
were to interfere, and order this mad foolilh woman into 
confinement in Bedlam, or Bethlehem, as being of all 
places the molt proper for this fecond incarnation ; where 
Ihe might be feciuded from the vifits of Mr. Tozer and 
every other comforter, till the grand manifeftation takes 
place, which, according to the common courfe of nature, 
cannot be farther diltant than the month of July or Au- 
guft next. 
On the 27th of Oflober, the friends of the uninftrufted 
poor witnefied a molt interesting ceremony, in laying the 
firft (lone of a building for the education of 1000 children, 
in the Whitechapel-road, by the duke of Cambridge, who 
honoured the inltitution let on foot by the Whitechapel 
Society for the Education of the Poor with his prelence. 
His R. H. was attended in the procefiion by the bilhop of 
London, the lord-mayor, Mr. Sheriff Marlh, Rev. Arch¬ 
deacon Cambridge, Rev. Archdeacon Pott, Rev. Thos. 
Hughes, D.D. canon refidentiary of Sr. Paul’s; Jefi'e Ruf- 
fell, elq. treal'urer of the fociety ; David Pike Watts, efq. 
and a numerous affemblage of the clergy, and friends of 
the fociety; together with the committee of management 
of the fchool, and the children under their patronage 
(at prefent educating in a temporary fchool-room), tire 
children of the Whitechapel and Govver’s-waik free- 
fchools, &c. and the regiment of Whitechapel volunteers 
elcorted the whole. Some gold and filver coins, of the 
prelent reign, and lateft mintage, having been depolited 
in the Hone, under a plate, with an appropriate inferip- 
tion, which was publicly read by the fecretary, his R. H. 
in the prefence of feveral thoufand fpeftators, went 
through the ufual ceremony of lpreading the cement and 
laying the firft (tone, and another Itone was (aliened dowa 
upon the whole. 
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