The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY AT CAI 3

The British camp under the walls of Cabool
contained eighty thousand persons, who had almost
all of them marched fifteen hundred miles to get
there. Of course this number includes the camp
followers, who in an Indian army are nume-
rous ; but we believe that half that number at least
consisted of fighting men. This is exclusive of the
army which was advancing from the Punjaub.
When our leaders consider this amount of force,
the immense distance it traversed in a few months,
and the complicated arrangements which must
have been necessary in order to bring such a
force together, to supply it with provisions during so
long a march, and to enable it to keep all the way
in such a concentrated state that it met nowhere
with any formidable resistance, and had no detach-
ments cut off, they must, we think, admit that the
great success which has crowned this immense
operation was fully as much owing to good manage-
ment as to good fortune. It would, however, be un-
just and ungrateful to our brave army not to add,
that neither good management nor good fortune
could have brought success had they not been
seconded by the the untiring patience, the unflinch-
ing perseverance, and the dauntless intrepidity of
the officers and soldiers of this gallant army. It is
impossible, indeed, to speak too highly of the skill
displayed by the General, or the valour of the
troops.—Evening Paper.
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_ITERATURE.— ie publishers are beginning
to arouse themselves from the more than ordinary state
of autumnal lethargy in which they have been immersed
for the last month or so. Although we have yet to re-
cord the actual appearance of but few new works, there
is no lack of announcements. Among others we are
promised a new novel from the fertile and charming pen
of Mrs. Gore, entitled " Preferment ;" and the lovers
of theatrical and social gossip will be rejoiced to learn
that the obstacles to the publication of the memoirs of
the celebrated actress (Duchess of St. Albans) have
been at last overcome. Sir Robert Steele, the Deputy
Lieutenant of Dorset, is about to give to the world his
sketches of service, under the title of " The Marine
Officer." We have had plenty of details of absolute
naval and military " perils and escapes," but a story told
of, and to, " The Marines," is at least a novelty, and
must be gladly welcomed by that gallant body. The
Author of " Cavendish" has just produced his new legend
of the sea, called " The Flying Dutchman ;" and Miss
Burney, the sister of the celebrated Madame D'Arblay,
her great " The Romance
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has also
Private
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tion as a writer in the department of high moral fiction.
A new edition of " Viola the Affianced ; or, 'Tis as
Old Tale and often Told," is, we are glad to see, al-
ready in demand. This work is admirably adapted as
a literary girt to young unmarried ladies.

It would, indeed, be no difficulty to compare, as Bi-
shipp Lavington has so ably dene, nearly all the ridi-
culous extravagances and profane rantings of Wesley
and his followers, with similar feats performed by their
prototypes. the Papists, whose work they arc doing
much to forward. We are not at all surprised that
a daughter of Mr. Robert Newton, the great Wes-
leyan preacher, and secretary to the Conference,
should have become a Papist. We know of no better
preparations for Popery than the Journal of John
Wesley, and such works as the Life of Mrs. Fletcher.
GROSS FRAUDS OF JOHN WESLEY.
This is a precious tale altogether, and just of a piece
with the ravings and rantings of some of the followers
of John Wesley, at the present day ; as for instance, of
Edward Brooke, who has lately been playing similar
pranks in Northamptonshire, to the disgrace of religion,
and the disgust of sober-minded reasonable people, if
not to the driving mad of some wrevalied beings whom
he had drawn into his net. But John Wesley finishes
his tale a little further on, under the date of Saturday,
of the same week, thus :—" I was sent for to Kingswood
again, to one of those who had been ao ill before [as re-
lated above.] A violent rain began just as I set out,
so that I
,was thoroughly wet in a few minutes. Just
at, that time, the woman (then three miles off) cried out,
Yonder comes Wesley, galloping as fast as he can."
The only astonishment to us is, as it will be to every
body else, how any man in his senses could hare the
audacity to write and publish such gross frauds, as this
so evidently is, as are scores of ethers recorded in the
same trashy work ! But the fabrication thus proceeds.

WESLEY, A MIRACLE MONGER.
This is a specimen of John Wesley's miracle-mon
Bering, not a wit inferior to the revolting fables o
the Popish saints ; but how droll it is that he shouh
make the devil a prophet, and what a fool the devi
must have been to tell John his secrets, and let hin.
know that he was about to torment L—y C—r and
S—h J—s, who were then in perfect health. Of
course, the fulfilment of the devil's prophecy soon took
place, yea even on the following evening, when the
two ladies about whom John Wesley and the &sill
had talked, went through a similar process to that
above related. Dozens of the same kind of horrible
tales are related in Wesley's Journal, which we would
advise our clerical brethren to purchase, as they really
ought to see with what kind of trash the people of
this country are fed.

WESLEY'S OPERATIONS CHIEFLY ON WOMEN.
It is deserving of notice, that most of the persons
upon whom Wesley operated were women. It is
with women also that like deeds are performed at
the present day by his disciples. Let us seriously
ask, where a single passage of God's Holy Word is
to be found giving the remotest countenance to such
horrible doings—doings which have cost many per-
sons their lives. How those texts of Scripture force
themselves upon our attention which speak of false
teachers " creeping into houses and leading captive
silly women laden with sins," and of people being
deceived by the " working of Satan with all power and
signs, and lying wonders." It is appalling to contem•
plate the dangerous deceits which are practised upon
the poor, ignorant, and weak people, in matters of reli-
gion, even at the present day, amidst what some deno-
minate the " full blaze of Gospel light."
METHODISM THE RELIGION OF THE PASSIONS,
NOT OF THE UNDERSTANDING.
(Quoted from Archbishop Magee.)
In the philosophising Unitarian all this is natural and
consistent ; but, in the Methodist (I speak of the Ar-
minian Methodist, nr follower of Wesley), it is altoge-
ther at variance with the doctrines which he professes
to maintain. Accuracy of reasoning, however, is not
among the distinctive marks of this latter description of
religionists. But what is wanting in reason is made up
in fancy. And as the great mass of mankind is moved
more by the passions than by the understanding, it is
not surprising, that a scheme of religion, which addresses
itself almost exclusively to the former, should have
been extensively embraced ; and that fanaticism and
ignorance have, in consequence, combined with alarm-
ing effect in spreading far and wide through these coun-
tries the mischievous extravagances of this sect.

AIETHODISISI OPENLY AND AVOWEDLY HOSTILE TO

THE CHURCH.
(Quoted from Archbishop Magee.)
It is much to be lamented that any of the friends
of true religion have given countenance to such a
perversion of its soundest principles, and it is matter
equally of wonder and concern that a system which,
no longer covertly, but openly and avowedly, works
in continued hostility to the established religion, has
not met with more effectual resistance from those who
may be supposed to take an interest in the well-being
of the establishment. On the contrary, examples are
not wanting of cases, in which the clergy have been set
' who openly
aside in the work of religious instruction ; whilst men who
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deemed fit objects of preference to the recognised reli-
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TERISTIC OF METHODISM, AND AN EXPEDIENT FOR
SWELLING ITS RANKS.
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(Quoted from Archbishop Magee.
This, it must be admitted, is an excellent)
expedient
for adding to the numbers of the sect. A perfect in
•
difference about doctrines, and a strong persuasion that
the divine favour is secured, whilst the fancy of each
individual is counted to him for faith,—are such recom-
mendations of any form of religion, as can scarcely be
resisted. But what can be more mischievous than all
this? What more destructive of true religion ? The
sound principles of Christian doctrine disparaged, as of
no value to the believer : and the serious feelings of
Christian piety caricatured, and thereby brought into
general disrepute : while the sober and regulated teach-
ing of the national clergy is treated with contumely and
contempt ; and separation from the National Church
deemed a decisive criterion of godly sincerity !
WESLEY MUTILATED THE LITURGY UNDER FALSE