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Sf. George’s Fields. It was for a long time the repofi- 
tory of all the filth which nightmen gather in their ope¬ 
rations, and remains (till unoccupied. We understand 
that a handfome Square is to be built there as an ornament 
to this part of the Borough ; and we hope that fcented 
Shrubs and odoriferous plants will at laft cleanfe the air of 
the mephitic vapours which Itill circulate there. 
Having palled the turnpike, we reach that public houfe, 
a place of rendezvous for a numerous quantity of ftages, 
and called, as mentioned before, the Elephant and Caftle.— 
It is amuling to fee the rapid fuccelfion of thofe public 
vehicles coining from all parts, and itoppingafew minutes 
there to receive or deliver, to take up or let .down, parcels 
and pafiengers. 
Near to this place of refort we find, what we Should 
have expelled far from the buttle of coachmen and grooms, 
from the Swearing of impatient travellers, the Snorting 
of horfes, the cracks of whips—we find a place called 
the Houfe of God-, a Small meeting-houfe with a portico 
Supported by two columns of brick faced with platter.— 
Here Mrs. Joanna Southcott began her public exhibitions 
tinder the proteftion of, and in Spiritual partnerlhip with, 
Mr. Carpenter; but the holy firm has been dilTolved Se¬ 
veral years : a fchifm took place ; Some of the cuftomers, 
detained we fuppofe by the enchantment and charms of 
the allegoric daubs with which the fides of the Houfe of 
God are ungodlily befmeared, remained Itaunch and fixed to 
the place—while others, drawn off by the more powerful 
attraction of Joanna, migrated with her high detliny to¬ 
wards the fpot where once the Dog and Duck called the 
profane on a Sunday evening, to fip tea and quaff ale in a 
garden. Thus the patriarchs of old are Said to have parted 
on the flowery meadows of Jordan, before the well-irri¬ 
gated vales and fruitful plains of Zoar. The place where 
the pretended future mother of Shiloh vends her fpiritual 
warrants for a place in the houfe of God in heaven, un¬ 
der the direction and partnership of Mr. Tozer, a Shop¬ 
keeper, is in a court at the end of Duke-ftreet, behind the 
Freemafons’ Charity School, where a crowd of pious hear¬ 
ers fwallovv the blafphematory pills. 
We expected, by the time we reached this part of our 
Survey, to have been able to announce the accoucliment 
of Mrs. or rather Mifs Southcott. This, however, has 
not yet taken place, though, reckoning after the manner 
of women, the time of geftation, from the nth of Octo¬ 
ber, 1813, (fee p. 369,) to the prefent month of Auguft 
1814, might be expeffed to have been accomplifhed. Some 
fay that the lady has mifearried. But thefe are. feeff’ers. 
Her Fourth Book of Wonders, dated April 13, 1814, has 
ihe following pafiage : (it is the Spirit that fpeaks.) “This 
Flay thou wilt fed the life of the child within thee, that 
will be announced throughout the land. For, as I (poke 
of May, in May it will be; and then they will fee, from 
the ttiadow, what the fubltance meaneth, of the fecond 
Star, and my fecond coming; and, as I told thee that my 
karveft was fait approaching, fo they will find, before the 
tnfuing harvef is ended, that the Son whom 1 have warned thee of 
will be born." The time, however, has been probably, and 
for wife reafons no doubt, enlarged; for Mr. Tozer in 
his fennon of Sunday, July 31, informed us, that “our 
fpiritual mother will bring forth the true Mefiiah J'ome time 
before the twelfth ofnext January ,” (1815.)—In the mean time 
fhe has been literally overwhelmed with prefients. Laced 
caps, embroidered bibs, and worked robes, a mohair man¬ 
tle which colt 150!. fplendid filver pap-fpoons and cau¬ 
dle-cups (one lhaped like a dove) — have been poured in 
upon her, till (lie has at length determined to receive no 
more of Inch things. To complete the defired apparatus, 
a magnificent crib has juft been finifiied by one of our firit 
uphollterers, of which a friend has favoured us with the 
following particulars. “A fliort Defcription of a Crib, 
made by Mr. Seddons, of Alderfgate-ttreet, according to. 
the order of fome Gentlemen, who are members of the 
Church eftablilhed by Joanna Southcott, for the New Mef- 
fiah, with whom they believe fhe is now pregnant. This 
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crib, which is made of an oblong fquare, is of the afuat 
fize of modern cribs; the frame is made with fatin-wood, 
richly ornamented with gold; the fides and ends filled 
with lattice-work of gold. The body of the-crib, which 
they call the manger, is richly lined with blue fatin, drawn 
together fo as to give it the appearance of fluted work. 
The pillars on which it ftands are taper, with ribbands of 
gold entwining round them. The head-cloth is of blue 
latin, with a celeltial crown of gold embroidered upon it, 
and underneath this appears the word Shiloh, in Hebrew 
characters, richly drawn, and exhibited in gold fpangles. 
Over the head-part of the crib appears an elegant canopy 
of blue fatin, lined with the fineft white muflin, which is 
drawn together to a point, and fattened underneath, or 
withinfide the canopy, by a role of blue latin. The outer 
point of the canopy is finifbed with the figure of a dove 
in gold, retting on a f'mall white ball, and bearing a branch 
of olive in its mouth. Around the outer rim of the ca¬ 
nopy is this infeription, in letters of gold : A free-will of¬ 
fering by Faith to the promifed Seed. The curtains and 
other drapery are blue fatin edged with gold fringe, 
and looped up with gold line and gold taflels. The 
inner curtains are of fine white mullin. The above i$ 
a defcription of what they call the manger-, befides which 
they have a crih which fits within the former, and hangs 
upon fwivels, that a proper motion may be given to it 
whenever the young prince may require rocking. The 
crib itfelf is made with fatin wood, fitted in with the moft 
beautiful cane-work, from which pafles a cord of gold to 
a pedal, which isdeiigned to rock the cradle whenever 
this may be proper for the infant, and to prevent the ne- 
cefiity of leaning over the manger, which might incom¬ 
mode the fupernatural babe. The bed is of the fineft ei¬ 
der-down, in a white covering; the coverlet is of the 
richelt white fatin, with a medallion in the centre, bearing 
the figure* of a lamb lying down with a lion. The 
lamb is worked in filver, the lion in gold. Thefe are fur- 
mounted by a tree of life, worked in gold alfo. The Iheets 
for the bed are made of the belt cambric edged with ex* 
penfive lace.—July 29, 1814.” 
While pondering upon thefe things, in the neighbour¬ 
hood of the Obeliik, on Sunday evening laft, the 7th of 
Auguft, we were roufed by a lort of hilfing, hooting, or 
Ihoutieg, Bluing from Duke-ftreet, juft behind the Surry 
Theatre ; and vie had the fortune to meet Mr. Tozer fol¬ 
lowed by about fix fcore of boys, aflailing his ears with 
no pleafing mulic; but w’e became fore afraid left thefe 
obftreperous youths Ihould have been treated as the little 
children were by the prophet Elijah. 2 Kings, ii. 24. 
Our prophet, however, who had no Jhe-bears at hand, took 
all in good part, and went his way.—This made us de- 
firous to fee the chapel where Mr. Tozer had juft dif- 
played his timber-frong eloquence; for we underftand that, 
befides keeping a chandler’s (hop, he exercifes the trade 
of carpenter and timber-merchant; and it is a curious coin- 
cidence, that, whilft we are told thatjofeph, the fuppofed 
father of Chrift, was by profeflion a carpenter, Joanna 
(liould have had for her friends two carpenters, one by name 
and the other by trade. The chapel is a plain low build¬ 
ing of brick : under fhe gable-end is a white dove, in 
the act of delcending from above, carved in wood or 
(tone upon a yellow ground ; and under it this myttical 
infeription : “Built by William Tozer, April 16, 1808, 
by voluntary contributions.” The meaning of which we 
do not perfectly underftand. 
We prefently come to a much more ufeful and more 
rational eftabliftunent; a place of fiience, folitude, and 
comfort, for old and infirm tradefmen : two fets of ahns- 
lioules belonging to the Filhinongers’ Company. The 
molt ancient of thefe is St. Peter’s Hofpital, ereCted- by 
the Company of Fifhmongers, who procured letters pa¬ 
tent tor that purpofe, from king James I. in the year 5618. 
It is a plain Gothic jtruCiure, built with brick and (tone, 
with a wall before it, within which are two rows of tall 
trees, and behind the building is a large garden. The 
entrance 
