The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-20 00:00:00

ORIGINAL MSS. OF THE MESSRS. WESLEY.

TO THE EDITDRS OF THE WATCHMAN.
Gentlemen,—l am persuaded that the numerous subscribers
to.the "Wesleyan Theological Institution" will read with plea-
sure the following short extract from an original letter of the
late Rev. CHARLES WESLEY, addressed to Miss Sarah Gwynne,,
of Garth, afterwards his wife, and bearing date, Bristol, Friday,
3rd March, 1749.
" Half an hour I spent with my brother at Kineswood, which
is now very much like a college, twenty one boarders there are
and a dozeu students, his pupils and sons in the gospel. be-
lieve he is now laying the foundation of many generations."
This extract is singularly interesting at the present moment,
as affording not merely collateral, but conclusive evidence that
the principle of an Institution (not to say a college, was not only
planned by
Wesley.himself, but that it was actually in vigorous
years ago, under the paternal
careand eat:li ent
fosteringope
inspection eighty-sir
o of the very'ounders of Aleihodion.
1 also forward .a MS. of the Rev. otiN Wast.F.y, equally
curious and important, which I have ventured to designate a
"Plan of Pacification." It appears peculiarly adapted to the
present unporto.nt period. Dictated by a spirit truly conserva-

tive and chri,tian, penned by our great philanthropist, authen-
ticated by his own signature, and that of his brother, and further
subscribed by eleven of their fellow-labourers in the gospel of
Christ. THE WATCHMAN will rejoice to proclaim throughout
the Wesleyan land such a." Declaration" as still " in course of
signature."

'" Jan. 29, 1752.
It is agreed by us whose names are under-written :
.—That we will not listen, or willingly inquire after any ill

concerning each other.
2.—That if we do hear any ill of each other, we will nut be for-
ward to believe it.
3.—That, as soon as possible, we will communicate what we
hear, by speaking or writing, to the person concerned.
4.—That, till we have done this, we will nut write or speak a
syllable of it to any other person whatsoever.
s.—That neither will we mention it, after we have done this, to
any other person.
G.—That we will not make any exception to any of theie•rules,
unless we think ourselves absolutely obliged iu con-
science so to do.
JOHN WESLEY
CHARLES WESLEY
JOHN TREMBATH
E. PERRONET
JONATHAN REEVES
Jos. Corm.xx
C. PERRONET

I am, Gentl,

THOS. MAXFIELD
J. Dow NES
JOHN JONES
JOHN NELSON
WILLIAM SHENT
JOHN HAIME."

Lenten, yours faithfully,
E.T. T.

MR.IO'CONNELL AND MR. P. FINN

Mr. P. Finn, of Carlow, brother to Mr. W. F. Finn, M.P.
(brother-in-law of Mr. O'Connell), who has been so horribly
abused by the great demagogue in his recent speeches at the
anti-tory association, has published a letter, addressed "Tu Dan.
O'Connell, Esq.," in which he pays him off with interest for alt
the foul-mouthed epithets applied to him. The crime of Mr.
P. Finn was the exercise of his franchise as an elector of the
borough of Carlow, in support of Mr. F. Bruen, the consrva-
tive candidate; for which Mr. O'Connell thought proper to
gibbet him as a renegade, and to.hold up the name of Finn, or,
as he termed it, the finny tribe, to public execration.
Mr. Finn commences his letter with tire following character
of Mr. O'Connell, drawn by a catholic.clergyman :—" O'Con-
nell is a knave in politics, and a hypocrite in religion."—Rev;
Andrew Fitzgerald, of Carlow College.
After giving, a portion of the abusive matter in O'Connell's
speech, the writer thus proceeds:—" It well becomes you to im-
pugn my motives for opposing Mr. Vigors—a man who had
scarcely entered, on his political career 'when you denounced
him as one unacquainted with the constitution, or with common
sense;' and he, in return, gave you the reproof valiant by
styling you a 'truculent demagogue.' It must be highly amusing
to those who know you to have read your palinode of those
opinions. Your affected commiseration of the fallen greatness
of your former associate, and your lamentation that he is lost
,toa
the cause of liberty, are marvellous indeed. * * * The real
cause of your rage is the defeat experienced, by your Spent.
Oregis in this county. How arrogant must not your pretensions
he when you imagine that the independent catholic electors of
this borough and county will be induced by your name and in-
fluence, to adopt any of your automatons, * * * • *. In one
of your repeal epistles, you stated that the evils of absenteeilim
alone would fill a volume.' I now, sir, have to inform you, that.
Mr. Francis Bruen, whom we, thirty-five honest, independent,
and undaunted catholics, strenuously and effectually supported,
in defiance of your impotent menaces and insolent mandates,
is a gentleman of enii"htenedr, views, of brilliant talents, and as
you may perceive by the enjoined letter from a catholic 'clergy-
man, of the parish of Grange, county of Wexford, No absentee.
lie had other and paramount claims on our suffrages. He ex-
pended £1,500 in an unsuccessful attempt to open the borough,
three years previous to the reform bill. Such cogent reasons
will, I trust, be deemed by every dispassionate man a complete
refutation of the malignant slanders you have uttered. • * *.
You have alluded to my republican principles ; but you are
egregiousiy mistaken in me, and if I had a tendency to such
principles, an historical acquaintance with the dire and cala-
mitous results which have followed in every country, and in all
ages, where infuriated democrats have usurped power, would
cure me at once of political romancing. Judging from what I
have seen and know of your insufferable vanity and overween-
ing ambition, I
.am quite sure that no tyranny could be so un-
relenting and so 'intolerable as that which you would establish,
were you to succeed in those nefarious designs which you. have
long fostered, for the purpose of placing yourself as dictator-
general over the affairs of this country. You have said that I
am one of those who 'sunk their principles ' with the money
they had received from the Messrs. Bruen. There is no per-
son in the garb of a gentleman, possessing a spark of either
honour or courage, who would dare to cast so foul an aspersion
on my character in my presence. But vou are secure from my
resentment, fur you are a privileged defamer—a privileged pol-
troon—and a privileged mendicant. * • 41. lon have con-
temptuously
.designated 'me ' a fellow,' but no mail living can
apply the epithet of fellow to me in the sense with which it so
forcibly applies to your own character. I shall now prove you
to be one of the most vile and perfidious, one of the most mean
and vindictive fellows, that ever was born in those fertile regions
from whence you migrated." The writer then proceeds to de-
tail Mr. O'Connell's "abominable machinations to remove Mr.
Leader from the representation of the city of Kilkenny." Mr.
Finn thus concludes:—" After this record of your unparalleled
baseness, do you expect credit from that ignorant and unreflect-
ing multitude which you have so long deluded for being any
other thing than what you really are—a sordid, lying, slander-
ing trader on the credulity of a most wretched and a most in-
fatuated people? "