The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-28 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—Time was when the Wesleyan Methodists were every-
thing that was bad in the estimation of the High Church
Tories. I have a critique before me on a work written by
Henry Card, A.M., of Pembroke College, Oxford, and a
very laudatory critique it is, and no wonder, for the work con-
tains the most abusive and absurd charges against the Me-
thodists that were ever penned, and the critique proceeds
from some of those pious and learned fools who have written
more nonsense for the British Critic than can be found in all
the other Reviews which have ever appeared. The following
is the summing up, as it were, of Card's evidence against the
Methodists:—

Of such a sect, then, we shall not be afraid to make this
concluding remark, that while we readily allow some indivi-
duals among the Methodists to be of the most respectable
reputation in private society, yet, as a body, their close hypo-
crisy and fraud, their violent and malignant zeal, their arro-
gant pretensions to the true character of primitive Christians,
and their limited notions of the mercy of the Almighty, en-
title them to the pity and contempt of every man of liberal
education and understanding."
This is the opinion which was entertained of the Methodists,
in the year 1809, by the High Church party. Many of your
Leaders know that the Methodists are now, what they ever
have been, and that the " contempt of every man of liberal
education and understanding" is as mtfch deserved by them
now as it ever was. How comes it to pass, then, that in our
day we find my Lord, the Bishop of Exeter, and many of the
same school, complimenting them, and coaxing them to re-
turn into the pale of the establishment. It is not because
they think better of the Methodists, but because they have
" ridden out" the storms of persecution, and are becoming a
powerful people.
For electioneering and other purposes, the Tories are an-
xious to recruit the Methodists in their service. But I main-
tain that the Methodists are entitled to a public apology from
the Bishops—the Clergy—and from the Universities, for all
the unfair and scandalous charges brought against them during
the last fifty years, before there can be fixed upon one common
ground whereon they should meet.
Bristol, May 26, 1835. A RADICAL.

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, MAY 27.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Mary, Gordon,
from Teneriffe ; Belsey Castle, Richardson, from Sligo ; Robert
and Ann, Thomas, from Galway ; Ebenezer, Ward, from New-
castle to Portsmouth ; and Camillo, Davison, from Sunderland to
Portsmouth. Arrived from the River, the Eliza, Gallon, for
Grenada ; Nereiad, Jay, for Naples • Zephyr, Speers, for Exeter ;
Governor M‘Lean, Freebody, for Cape Coast Castle—and sailed
with the outward-bound for their different destinations with a mo-
derate breeze from the N.E., which has since shifted, and is now,-
P. zo., S. W., fine weather.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 27.—Wind W.S.W. to N.E.

FALMORTH, MAY 26.—Wind W. to N.W., fresh breezes.—
Arrived the Hannibal, Caswell, from Aux Cayes ; and Amity,
Heleur, from Newry to Aberdeen, after being on shore.
MARGATE, MAY 27.—Arrived off port the Gleaner, Harris,
from Londonderry.
HASTINGS, MAY 27.—Arrived off port the William Hadnell,
from St. Vincent's.

ISLE OF WIGHT, MAY 27.—Arrived off port the Lady Flora,
Fore, from Madras—sailed Feb. 9, from the Cape, March 29, and
from St. Helena, on the 9th ult.

JERSEY, MAY 25.—Arrived the Minerva, Le Baton, from Rio
Janeiro ; Habuab, Shaw, from Honduras; Mayflower, Lefeuvre,
from Antigua ; Aurora, Shanbark, from Cette; and Howdon,
Briton, from Charente.

LivarooL, MAT 26.—Arrived the Sanderson, Taggoit, from
Demerara. Off port the John Brooks, from Arria ; Liver-
pool, —, from Mobile ; and Aurora, Dunning, from Sierra
Leone.
CLYDE, MAY 25.—Arrived the General Wolf, Wright, from
Jamaica ; Euphemia, Gaa, from Barbadoes ; and Isabella, Auld,
from Savannah.

WATERFORD, MAY 25.—Arrived the Dorothea Cliz, Fohrsoer,
from Memel.

HULL, MAY 26.—Arrived the Amulet, Taylor; and Hermes,
Rxoby, from Riga.
BRIDGEWATER, MAY 27.—Arrived the Heinrick and Robert,
Beckman, from Memel.

The Halcyon, Robinson, from Sunderland to Harwich, assisted
in, having been on shore on the Whiting Sand, boUnd to London.
The Betsey, Galloway, from Dundee, Bridlington, with da-
mage, having been run foul of, bound to London.