We are informed by a most respectable follower of and believer in, John
Church, one who gave evidence on his trial in his favour, and whose name
we will, if required, give up to satisfy the most credulous of its
authenticity, that on Monday evening last, after a visit to his
residence, adjoining the Tabernacle, in the Borough-road, he returned to
Rock-House, Hammersmith, which he had no sooner entered than the mob,
having gained a knowledge of his being there, attacked with mud, filth,
and other missile annoyances, and presently broke all the windows,
expressing their indignation at Church’s most abominable atrocities;
meanwhile, by groans, hisses, and all sorts of execrations, they having
previously drest up an effigy of him, in a black silk gown, with a
painted _Church_ placed on each side, that the most dull might be
informed whom it was meant to represent, paraded with it all through the
village, when they finally burnt it to typify those _Gomorrah fires_,
which, in the absence of a timely and sincere repentance, we are taught
to believe will be the lot of the original in that place where fire is
never quenched. Of this repentance we are sorry to observe no signs at
present, but we trust the forth-coming punishment (most probably
_solitary confinement_) will give him leisure to reflect on his
atrocities and awaken him to a due sense of their enormities: truly happy
shall we be to hear that the retribution of an earthly judge has shewn
him the greater danger in which he stands with regard to his heavenly
one.