The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-06 00:00:00

T°ma OF ORDNANCE, OCTOBER 26, 1635.
HE Principal Officers of his Majesty's Ordnance
do hereby give 'satin, That they will SELL by PUBLIC
AU at the Tower on TIxSDAY the 10 h WEDNESDAY.
,11J
and THURSDAY 12th November, 1835, at 11 o'clock in the
forenoon precisely, sundry LOTS of OLD STORES, consisting
of Accoutrements Scabbards, Steel Remmers, Pike Staves, Mus-
ltet and Pistol 'Steck', Flints, Iron- Bedsteads, Bedding, Great
~..;aats, Tents, Knatsacks, Canteen Ranges, Stoves, Fenders, Fire
;one,
_a 'WI( Tab es, Chairs, Scales, Weights, Standing Vices,
Cramps, Shovels, Pole Picks, Twybills, Miners' Borers, Carpenters'
'ramps, and a great variety of Tools and Ironmongery ; Copper
I‘4, 'Mixed Metal Nails, Screws of sorts, Copper, Brass; aid Iron
ire, Gyn Blocks Lime Screens, Helves for Pickaxes, Heads and
Staves for Powder Barrels, Drums and Cues, Bugles, Fifes,
Vellum and other Book Covers, Marble Slabs, Fire Wood, Baggage
""istilg of wearing apparel, and various other effects.
The whole of which may be viewed at the Tower, and Ordnanee
Depot, Tooley-street, 113 expressed in the catalogues four days pre-
-vious to the sale from ten o'clock till four, upon application to the
principal Storekeepers Offices at those places, where Catalogues of
• the Lots, and conditions of the Sale, will be delivered to those
persons who may apply for the same.
• . . Ey order of the Board,
R. BYHAM, Secretary.

APPEAL to the BRITISH,PUBLIC, against
the PRIESTLY AND POLITICAL POWER of the
:WESLEYAN-METHODIST CONFERENCE.
• I..Yery few are aware of what Wesleyan Methodism actually is. It
nitherto been looked upon; for the most part, as an extraorcli-
.rY means employed by the Providence of God in the spread of
andholinessreimongst the poor, the wicked, and the wretched
ot our home population : and has been acknowledged accordingly,
.131 a branch of Christ's Church here upon earth, the efforts of which
e his been pleased signally, to bless and prosper. The word Me-
th°dist, for about one hundred years, has been applied to all—what-
"er their opinions as to speculative theology, or their practice as
to ecclesiastical government might be, who were not ashamed to
Itear the reproach of Christ, by whose love they were constrained
to seek the extension of the heavenly kingdom every where, but
• Principally amongst their neighbours and fellow-countrymen, who
Were living_ around than without God and without hope.
W John esley was the founder of this sect, every where spoken
against. Both by his preaching and his living he showed himself
the witness of the truth and power of that inspiration, which enables
h. e man of God to know nothing amongst men but Jesus Christ, and
erncified. No one could ever charge him with seeking his own.
yon seek ind nOt yotirs."—was the unchallenged
Al
n-
'"aaging s•'t in which he lived, and worked, and died. ll that
he '
is before the world. He knew nothing of men's opinions and
persuasions as such. Men of all sentiments, religious and political,
Were his brethren—and with_him, they strove to flee from
thee wrath to come, and to lay hold on endless life—to save their
-‘en souls, whilst they were instrumental in assisting others also in
Workingout their salvation with fear and trembling. This was the
treat—the only bond of his confederated or " United Societies,"
l'etn he supplied with every means of grace, required by the
coming emergencies of their novel situation, and evidently furnished
Orlit of the providential storehouse of the great Head of the Church.
▪ nnself a churchman (as to its doctrines and discipline generally),
he applied himself to the reformation of mankind, according to
"e light and help which God himself. was pleased to afford, deter-
mined, in the mean time, to know no man after the flesh—but
tn,
uankfully to avail hiniself of the aid of all, and never to rest, until
Lae heavenly character of the church of Christ should be seen and
4eknowledged. and every thing worldly and unholy be taken for
ever out of its way'. In one short sentence he has left upon record
• the • full and settled judgment of his enlightened mind upon this
damental subect—on which also he uniformlcted throughout
'e whole coursje of his truly apostolical careery a ;
and, instead of
crowding together -a variety of quotations, all of them to the same
.i)eint, we shall rehearse these memorable words—written, as if for
these very times—spoken as by a spirit of prophecy, to mark ont the
doom and betoken the speedy downfall of the USURPATION that has
.I)sequently been built upon the Scriptural foundation which he was
:flasen of God to lay in this benighted land. Tux BEAST IS A
ZIILITUALLY SECULAR POWER, OPPOSITE 'TO THE EINGDO3I OF
.HRIST ; A POWER NOT MERELY SPIRITUAL OR ECCLESIASTI-
cAr, NOR MERELY SECULAR AND POLITICAL, BUT A MIXTURE
Xottr." These oracular words .of his weleave to the thoughtful
meditation of the true Christian. They will bear a second and a
thirdll
perusal. We pray God to carry them forward to his inmost
.known,
to become auxiliary to the establishment' of the almost
~744nown, unheeded, but Heaven-sprung truth of Jesus Christ,—
E11..7GD03.1 IS NOT OF THIS WORLD."
Since John Wesley's death, his successors of the Conference have
' tereavoured to root themselves as " a spirituall y secular power" in
other
rival, to outstrip, and then to cast under them, all
.a century,
modes or forms of faith whatever. They have, for near half
;t-teentury, been underworking the rights and freedoms of mankind ;
rsame outside show of doctrine and of discipline, which their
. bather left them, being uniformly presented to the beguiled and
'heir eye•of their unsuspecting adherents. The last meshes of
'tleir net have lately been knotted, and upwards of one million of
fellow_contrmen of their clses and cngregations , in Great
ritain alone,u nowy find, themselvesas enclosedo within the toils of an
ecclesiastical economy, which asserts the divine right of an irrespon-
sible priesthood to legislate in all matters of doctrine, whilst it
maintains, the legal right ONE HUNDRED self-chosen elders of that
priesthood to-have and to hold, to open and to shut, several thousand
„?"es for worship, all raised by voluntary subscription, for the reli-
Jmus instruetion and benefit of the respective neighbourhoods, in
which they have been built. Besides which appalling fact, it is
°PenlY, unblushingly asserted, that, while this riesthood can deal
1131 they list with the souls of men and the thingsp pertaining to God
'4l'7 members of their numerous societies and congregations have
tlio right whatever, human or divine, so much as to deliberate, much
them
to decide upon, any of the great principles which associate
h ern together as a religious or a corporate body. Certain opinions,
iel_t indiscriminately, amongst all classes of the community, civil
„4-4° religious, have been declared irreconcileable with the con-
Vrzional existence of the parties holding 'them ; certain proceed-
ings, sanctioned every where else in the churches of Christ, have
4„_cen denounced as unmethodistical, and have entailed the sum-
' ,'"-4;, rY excommunication of all who have hitherto dared to iden-
.Y themselves therewith. Thus, within a few short months (the
machinations of these lords over GOd's heritage being completed),
!event. preachers, with
xp thousands- of the members of the body,
have been solemnly eelled. These men are now unwillingly
?uliged to renounce all connexion with -their brethren—all claim
and title to the temples they have assisted in rearing, in which
themselves and their children, and their neighbours, have toge-
ther worshipped the Lord God of their fathers. Since the in-
famous Act of Uniformity was proclaimed, the consequences of
Whichi are matters of notorious history, so frightful, so dar-
ng a stretch of priestly preroge‘tve, has never been exhibited
to the United Kingdom. Of the real state of things in this
"dY, the country at large has but little knowledge—nor are
?lir fellow-countrymen at all aware of the dangers with which they
to common with themselves, are menaced by; these overt acts of an
seclesiastical tyranny. The concentration, the organisation, the
eereey, the ease, with which, at the nod of one man, the most
rtnplicated, yet most efficient machinery in the world is now
checking
to bear upon the people of England, as one means of
religion the progress of salutary reforms ; and, under the mask of
Istiliglon at home, and missions abroad, of overtopping all other
~,.nrehes, and upon their ruins causing a second grisly papacy to
ilse• These religious and political features of Wesleyan Metho-
in, as at present administered, are now disclosing themselves in
iiiwaY that, unhappily, leaves no room for, doubt, whit it fill
if e mind of the generous philanthropist with seriousapprehension,
not with dismay.
TO counteract this influence, and, if possible, to subvert this
V:er—to find out what is the freedom wherewith Christ has made
r- People free, and then—having attained unto the truth of God
\ whether Wesley, or Calvin, or Luther, may have aided us in our
,•1641,„,. eh after it), to hand down the clustering blessings that grow
-" of it, to our children after us this great idea has led to the for-
mation of the Wesleyan Methodist Association. Whether it shall
succeed or not, it is for God—for time—for the friends of truth—
PYwhere to determine. On this one thing the members of this
themselves,
have set their hearts, and they hereby again pledge
Oraselves, never to grow weary, so long as they have any hope from
.;,t,ven—any help from their brethren, whatever may be their creed.
whatever the name by which they are called. The object of
I' address is to call the attention of Christians, and of the public
?eaerally, to the present position and aspects of the Wesleyan Con-
feZnee, on the one hand, and of its reformers on the other—to
their Englishmen of all classes of the danger that threatens
municipal and national liberties, through the wily but stea-
Y Progressing career of this now stupendous body, more secret—
: thee ramified--and more dangerous than any Orange Union that
ZZ:r plotted against our freedom—to forearm all, thus forewarned,
t they may be ready to meet these men at every fresh develop-
-.,.ent of their deep-laid schemes, and to bespeak the counsel and
;Wort of all who are willing to take any part in reforming this
Pat People, and so, relatively, in reforming the entire Church of
- °Las Chris'.
.1 The friendly leaning of Wesleyanism towards the Church of Eng-
„m grandiloquently but gratuitously trumpeted forth by the
hiPference of 1834, and so covertly made to bear upon the politico-
t; igiolla crisis of that period, together with some more recent at;.
Previously
to 'conciliate the influential Dissenters, whom they had
theevi°'lsly most cavalierly affected to despise, has happily opened
ehareYes of both these great • parties in the State to the Jesuitical
acter of modern Methodism,—running with the hare, buthold-
'tirlg with the hound,--standing aloof on the field of battle, and in
I:,atY with each of the contending hosts,.until the hour of hottest
I°:t should afford'an opportunity to pour down with its mercenary
ag:l2, and occasion their mutual discomfiture. This trickery with
botione party, and treachery with the other, has disgusted them
„n• Whig and Tory, Churchman and Dissenter, Conservative
tt Reformer, Protestant and Papist, ere all alike prepared for the
• I:orttious, though undeviating, policy of the best organised, and
w_st dangerous hierarchy, at present to be found in Christendom.
e seek not as an Association, to mingle in this strife. We are
tlea, Britons, and followers of Christ ; as such, we would seek out
istruth, and, having found it, under whatever shape we care
is ,? we are willing tO walk after it, and to abide by it. Whoever
th!''ke-minded with . ourselves in this matter, or whoever should
We are iti-this, followers of that which is good, he is the man
tiati."olll look-at the present crisis of our ecclesiastical and ne-
- „'d existence, for the kindly help he sees we need ; whilst,
all `4"le same time, we rust we shall not be backward in doing
of 'fiat may be in our power 'to assist him in the furtherance
aricrerything that shall be shown to be-truly wise and good.
Strong and holy. Sure we are, 'that the times we live in,
7 1154 times either for sleep or for sloth. The minds of men
til,rYwhere are athirst, we might almost say, agasp, for some better
'•
ng than that they have hitherto been furnished with. We are
hating the
are woe, when we look at the tearing, the biting, the
too "g, the worrying of one another, that has been, and still is,
etriisible in some of the sections of the professing church of
't• Men and brethren help—conie up with us to the help of
11T.ord----to the help of the Lord 'against the mighty.
• e call, then, most earnestly upon the free press, Metropolitan
hindrovincial, to afford their powerful assistance in disabusing the
of the public, who know little or nothing comparatively of
re,al state'of this hierarchy ; we invite the notice of all parties
thelVtieians to the existence of a priestly power, that is ready for
silejle and to the seeming, to coalese with any, whilst it is
the Y working its way over them all, and above them all, and to
destructionziald of them all. we solicit the assistance, pecuniary
vgrtelat_ev,ezcither of the friends of truth and liberty—the wise—the
good of all parties, who are bound to none, but God
'0 enable us to carry to successful termination a work which
go bare undertaken, not with any private aim, but for the public
ker.) and in which we are resolved never to slacken, Whatever the
13ro ea we may be called upon personally to make, until having
law and the subject before the whole British public in its courts of
• its "of equity, and of supreme legislation ; and, lastly, before
mP't awful and all-determining tribunal—the tribunal of public
at -104---it be seen what the truth is, and whether that truth shall
s:orifall.
thodle n every principal town a Committee of the Wesleyan Me-
se,int.c Association is to be found, to whom Donations and Sub-
thet; ttma can be transmitted; thence to be conveyed to the Man-
,,,„low`er and Liverpool Central Committee, tie to either of the fol-
-poiling gentlemen :—W. Smith, Esq., Reddish House, near Stock-
' .k'sr",.; IV. Wood, Esq.,' Newton-street, Manchester ; Richard
Catbir'•nEscl-, St. Ann-street, Liverpool ;or John Thurston, Esq.,
,rrt e-street, Strand, London.
I'lrerP°ol, Oct. 24, 183
5.
•