Backup your comments table first. If you’re only dealing with comments marked as spam by Akismet, Akismet sets a WordPress cron to clean up the comment meta table so you don’t have to worry about that table.
Check this answer on StackOverflow
I would go into PHPMyAdmin, select the comments table and run this query:
ALTER TABLE your_comments_table_name AUTO_INCREMENT = 854
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