The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-26 00:00:00

ON JOHN WESLEY, HIS WRITINGS, &C.

It is quite clear that neither of the two sects first
named (the Independents and Wesleyans), has any foun-
dation whatever in the word of God. Of this fact, as it
regards Wesleyanism, the book before us furnishes abun-
dant evidence, even from its title, which declares that
Wesleyanism is a new religion, a mere invention con-
trived by John Wesley, and now precisely an hundred
years old, whilst the Church of Christ is 1800 years of
age. Like almost every other work put forth by the
Wesleyans, this book is filled, usque ad nauseant, with
the most fulsome adulation of John Wesley, and the reli-
gion which he started. We believe that no man's real
character is, all things considered, less known than that
of the remodeller and reviver of the Pelagian heresy.
As it regards his writings, they are so contradictory,
that whatever any person might produce from them, we
might safely engage to produce something else from them
flatly contradictory. The first volumes Of his Journal
we ever possessed were given to us by a pious gentleman,
who said that he would be glad to have them out of his
library, for they contained so much indecency that he
began to be afraid that his children who were growing
up, would be reading them, and be contaminated by
them.

TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN.
Sin,—l have seen a letter in your paper of the 18th inst.,
being an " Address to the People of Scotland from the Aber-
deen National Association." In one part of the address it is
stated " That there are millions of our. fellow-countrymen who
are ignorant of their rights." With this extract I perfectly
agree, and the statement below will prove it is right.
Devizes was the scene of the first active and successful op-
position with which the Chartists met. The Chartists from
Trowbridge, heeded by Vincent and Carrier, held a meeting in
the Market-place of Devizes.
The Tory farmers and gentlemen in the neighbourhood
knowing they were coming, circulated a few handbills, invit-
ing the friends of order4o come to town to keep the peace.
(You will bear in mind tie former meetings of the Chartists,
as well as the last, were peaceable. )
From the village of Urchfont4 and neighbourhood, several
hundred labourers were brought into the back streets of the
town, and made half drunk, then armed with sticks, whilst two
troops of the Wilts yeomanry assembled at Mr. Escourt's, the
Member for Devizes. house, about one mile out of the town ;
and in the yard of the Bear Inn was a troop of Lancers; these
troops were to be put in action in case the bludgeon men were
defeated. After the Chartist meeting commenced, and when
it was proceeding peaceably, out rushed the bludgeon niers,
amongst which were many young booby farmors, and a few
low scamps of the town, and made a brutal attack on all.
The Chartists, totally unprepared and unarmed, were obliged
to fly. The hired labourers were then taken back to their
inns, and paid ss. each for their day's work.
But mark the result ; the farmers had set in motion a power

they could not control ; for these labourers, in returning to
their homes, went to the houses of their employers in this
business, and compelled them by threats to give them money ;
in fact, they turned the tables on them with a vengeance, for
they were not half pleased with their day's work. And as
they passed along to their houses, they were hissed and hooted
by the labourers and their wives of the villages through which
they passed, and asked if they had not been fighting against
their own friends, and for a little loaf ?
For months after they scarcely dared to show them-
selves in any of the village inns ; for although the
agricultural labourers did not understand the Chartist's
speeches and tracts, yet knowing them to be poor men, they
believed they were doing something for the benefit of all
wot king men, and they knew the Chartists were for a " bigger
loaf," and always spoke of them, in asking after their proceed-
ings, as " our side."
Devizes, June 22, 1841. TRUTH.
*Urchfont and neighbourhood is a place where so many
ricks and farm-buildings were set on fire a few years ago.

READ, COMPARE, AND JUDGE,

FACTS.

It is now more than forty-seven years since the Tories
involved the British Empire in the most expensive war
recorded in the annals of the world. Exclusively of the
annual millions abstracted from the produce of British
industry, and expended on the Continent of Europe, the
people of the United Kingdom (in order to maintain
public credit and honour), have willingly, up to this day,
consented to pay out of the National Income, twenty-
eight millions of annual interest upon the debt, for which
all the property of the United Kingdom has been mort-
gaged by the Tories.
The Tories are boasting and placarding the great re-
duction of taxation under Lord Liverpool and the Duke
of Wellington, compared with the reduction under Lord
Grey and Lord Melbourne. They ask us to " Read,
Compare, and Judge." We demand this also in its
fullest extent : but we do not ask, Read, Compare, and
Judge a statement of mystification. No ; we say, Read,
Compare, and Judge, the following incontrovertible facts,
viz. :
In the year 1792, before the war, the Income ex-
ceeded the Expenditure... ..... £2,031,000

The old permanent Revenue in 1792, including
Land Tax and the Malt Tax, was ... 17,382,435

The Taxes of this permanent Revenue yielded in
1802, only
But the new Taxes, added annually by the Tories
to the permanent Revenue, increased from
247,6861. in 1793, to per annum in 1802