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London, England, 1816-08-21 00:00:00

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MICTHOPA.II-a.No.
TO Tilt WIEMBEits OF THE' ot.D Mr/109M
CONNEXION IN THE UNITED KINCIDOm.-
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tinCeathiewlestrem ins STaa et Aupse Is.) •
• ft may now be roper to notice the Value of several
spenievif •in addition 'to the abOve. The,
tarot file, tbe tindhouse t3rove estate.Sperhips,ltlngs.
worth shin), the fee simple- of which is vested •an
twin/1.1411e Proschers, to the exclusion of every
layman; .notwithstanding the lay men . found the
looney far it; this may be reckoned at rEIO.OOO (at.
thesprevtin depreciated value of land) though report
saYa it cost 415,000. The' ienond is, the stock of''
the Brink Reno% City-road, London; and in 35'7
circuits; the united value of which, and the unap.
proptiated profits of it'very extensive and lucrative
business for sixteen. years, may be ValtY :aft!, reckoned
at ASS 000 more: when these sums are *Med together
they will 'amount to above 4100,Q•K), which thews,
or rather &woe:trate:, that "0114.11 V ER was ndt very
far:wicle in his " suppositions;" much less was be
notmiiiudy incotrect," when he estimated this Fund
at rtl(f0.000. Probably the " Lovxn DC OLD Ma-
-ritoopai" made a Idittfit &s -W t, and intended to have
said setwieully correct f it so, we are agreed. With,
the sum of £55,000 unaccounted for, and pro/seri*
in possession to the same amount, would any petnon
suppose that the Preachers cora taiintingly tell you,
. that this Fund' h not only their own, but that yee have
are right to interfere with it ? Yet such is the fact.•
Is the an:fount of this Fund the subject of coneena.
don. w!ten a Preacher is present, he will 'either tell
you• that he knows nothing of the matter, or that it
does ineesceed £ll,OOO, though at the same time
ha must be conscious, that in the last sixteen year.'
upwards of 4118,000 had been transferred from the
11ferofel Fetal thereto (and without reckoning' the
art6,NIO which i, we been paid to various claimants
from ow tame Fund, and in the same time) to $47
nothtog of their own stibscriptions, and the balance
of 17,021 as beiore uoticed! It may be urged
that the Wiodhosse Grove Estate is Dot a part of
the Prirachere Fund ; L should• like then to know to
whom it belongs, if it does not belong to the Preachers;
what do they want more than they now have, re-
specting it ? They !•at e possession, and a good tide
tile). I will wa•rant them. The same observations
may be made by the Prearleis, with regard to the.
Boa Lugo ; but the same reply, as made lit ma.
toce to the t state, may he 'sada tit this cast shoo. and
16,1" eqotel prormetys
I shall now off. r a few soppositions,"..whf I
/Wei this statement of the- Fund is e-storreer one
the first of which is,' that hit the ten years previous
to the establishment of the Merciful Finid (18(0) the
average amount of the sulocriptions to the preachers'
Fund. only amounted to €1,028 16s. Yd. (and the
whole Fund, •in 1790, was only £1,701 Us. I(td.)
smd I'ol, in 1800, there was a . Fund. is hand at.
471.21 ; so that, only about 5C5,(1.)0 was paid during
that time (ten yeas) mating the average' ytariy pay.
moo) ; yet in the following siateen'yeare
upwdrj...; 4170,00041, mast have been pale, et their
Fund would out now be seduced to A1f..000.
I. It it be in tact reductd to that tom, the annual
payments made in the last t'zteen jeers, hove ex-
cresied those of thr,preced;ng ten years, in the pro.
p Trion ut nine to one, though the number of
YrC ac hers were 011.1 doubled 's that titan !** Is it theft
a hi- acts en charity to _suppose, that there has Abet
been a blameable exttavagance In its distr.:baths', or
a criminal apathy at the part of a few who sneriege
the Conference, to the claims of those who had not
led claim upon their stint -Fund, before the Ifer-
citut Fund was estahliebed f The widow of s!
Peachier oho was drowned at Iltindesland, it •seans,!
knows the practical nmening of the term fire/ claim.l
111. The Iliduness of this Fend. This &cunt- I
stambas been urgW by a certainties of Preachers,'
s" the most Sicily bait Dr proselyte the Preachers in
Vie new toimetion of Methodists, en the “aeturiout.",i
ground of its boing a rhea Pond; which, if It only
onvotottel in MIS. to 4111,000, was nothing short of
• doienright afiaboneity I because, the admisso n money
of ten guineas, eolith has been demanded Mr the
kit three or four years, would emeritus to as mack
or awry, than avoid fall to their share, if this Fond
Ices now %tally distributed among the Preachers:
betides, look at Ile injustice done to the persons pro.
sklyted • for it appzars, that the Preachers in the
New Connexion, would COW have 4E50 each, if their
Fund was now divided among their Preachers. Who
vovid.have4ixioglit this?
IV. Because Mrs. lianby (in particular), besides
• several others, has received for many years, the
stoutest allowance front the Merciful Fund only,
which the roles of the Connexion allow in any case
whatever ; illooth she must, previously to the este.
beihment of this Fund in 1800, have 'been paid
edirrir from the Preachers' Fund, which renders it
highly probable, that whilst tke Merciful Fund is
supported to the amount ol 03,300 per antitim, which'
irriow the ease. diet the Preachers will never touch
their own.— No no
Y. Brennen it would require SOO annual claim-
attest at afillo each, to--absorb what has-been sub--,
4 TIM £70,000 must have been told If the Fund Is new old,
ettooo,wut appear tread,. tellewhisreespitstatiusOretel -
rgnd la Led in moo, wt.!' taterlmt So ISIS .CI s,elltl
m Clubman; ea the bilarcibil nod, frau 2000) •
is t nisi tneltelve • 10,500 0
!Wakes trausterred front the Mereltel Fund, hies
1800 to Islo, with totems *soon . 10,400 •'
Preachers' own subseripdous. from 000 to 1010,
with It...terve •►11,1141. 0.
14.sucamul 4ubscripdont • • . &sun If

rete!ri'l I

• 01,007 0
Marco in Wand, as theassergiur of the Preachers
(u4tsLe par detailed wham and eirdika statunsaus) 11',000 0
Dotarce unsccotinted for . • s A 10,1107
Ma.iterer win compare the it/solutions of 1100,1 (see the
tebstsecsisif It ha Ma rucintsw, No. P.) whew the I&Jersifel
Food ow establi.ked, . with rapid to the dl, ributioa therefrom,
arsdthe: Ruhr attached to tbdirdoted 1.6 t of butwaribers to
the fund, itt 1111.5, win. bet m dh loss so aoroent for the buy '
awns of coney which the fiss#4 annually sad; for whilst ad
those dabs., irbichforpurty waisatislied Wpm the yearly odlea
thm, are now eupplieJ tram th& Ifeedful Fiord, " toper &Wei"
tied the tintunues stun which tiii.dopk are hew caged apes to
pay, to support the children of the Preachers each they arrive
it ifstogi of *lenity. if do' sabocriptlOns to this antettated
to ruhntj Merman I ter aingwq, they would be insuilltrent to satisfy
clic demands upon it. AM if there It llot one subscruher in a
kundrt d to the. food, which t hello/Ahem Is rot, who tiger*
hie c,Psklmet Labe a dead charge upon hips fill chit age, hlt ere-
sons* or proper that such a perste, vlith less nulanis' sboidi
SiViliniaistpet mates-children, equally mgishk Of, earning dolt
Qua lufhitoodt Let moan= ;axe stretbe aostece.-

scribed for tte last footle's.%t s netassr
...4•ASTLY, their pisidi!ried inpustainefutek
taints %. • s
• It way 'with. *keg,' *Re orison toe die mob,
*sign. why tbey do' ot again what could not mis►
..iisfy slo any hirwtillsit Assis aim th•jr duty), Sbi
MOO' AraW is Mash ibinNiy 'condi Certainly no
good reason ;an be glVsn t because the interests of
.the Preachers and the interests lithe Methodist bud,s
ate, or ought to be one ; and where such conduct u
rp. manifested on this subject as either treats:the part.?
iskiagfor information with an evasive answer, oust
flat denial, itconfirms doubt into oestsintrs that tha.J

:46 wedge of gold is in the tent of Aehan 1"
• •My brethren, is it not high time, to bestir your-
selves, and is not the time cow Arrived, when neither
faint exertions, much less faint Wishes . will remedy
these things t • If so, it isilite duty of every member
of the Methodist Connexion to follow the dictates of
brand kidg men% rather than take the mere esterawo
of others, who she so very immediately interested in
these transa..tions ; and have you not every proof
.given, which need bel'iliat the Conference dread the
diffasion of as much knowledge on these objects
among you, (its they themselves possess) as they
would the pestilence which welketh at noon day
For if a man makes the least iuQuiry on these points;
and gives the lesst proof that he as a min of business,
and regularity, and anxious to see the concerns of the
Church of which he is a. Member, as well regulated
is fkiesem ; Oh, how is be cautioned by the Rreschers,
not to meddle with temporal things! While they,
Ibtsog)th, whose avocationi arc professedly spiritual.
have sitar and TALIMIS fur the dtbch-arge of both tem-
poral and %piritual also. It is really amusing, to RV
how suddenly, yet how la wailly, (tte Preachere
make the laws) the balarces of t(ie Merciful fund
disappear. I cannot refrain loom quoting a literal
transfer for one year, for the amusement of my
Readers. In 1800 the first transfer runs thus--A Paid
to the -Treasurer •of the legalized PreacherePund.'
41.004 12. 7d. ;" and in iiiis whAesale way, has
epw rids et ralB,ooo disippeared since 1800.
It is, however, in )(me power, lay only becoming
plea& parsive (in your donations), to effectually
stop this priestly aristocracy in its career to absolute
your sway; and, clan tintsing passive for onlyitwoyears.
victory will be as complete A s that of the Commons
of England was ever their Sovereign,Charles I. who
first declared war. and then wanted to raise money to
Prosecute it, merely to feed his own ambition and
revenge; but which he was forced to abandon, by
the wan of news to prosecute it. But probably the
following plan would be as effectual end alarming :
kt the itnellizent • part of the Methods.; Connexion
(duly authorized by those of the mese opinion.)
throughout the kingdom, hold a Conference of their
own, and at the saw taw and place she Preachers hold
theirs : this would orate. what I beg leave to call a
pinks-osekr ; itn inwornent, by *hick the friends of
the Connexion would be distin.. uiaheJ from the
(aiendsof this self created aristocrAcy. and that with'
the tailliCat erictliebs aodairspiciaity.
(7,i, le sonsiamithis geed.) •

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