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

THE ANTI-WESLEYAN MOVEMENT. •

'e take this opportunity of warning our friends against the
incorrect statements and rumours winch are.now circulated by
interested parties, respecting the legal proceedings instituted
by Dr. Warren, against the trustees 01 two' f the chapels in
Manchester ' As our readers wilt be anxious to be intOrnied
of the state and progress of these proceedings, we would ob-
serve, that notice had been given by the plaintiff's solicitors,
that, on Monday last, motions would be made in the Vice-
Chancellor's Court for an injunction to restrain the Rev.
Robert Newton from occupying the pulpits of those chapels, in
pursuance of the decision of the district meeting. Accordingly,
the subject was mentioned by the plaintiff's counsel, when Sir
William Horne and Mr. Pigott, on behalf of the defendants in
both causes, in one of which (the Oldham-road chapel) the Rev.
Robert Newton and the majority of the trustees are defendants,
—in the other, (Ohlhain-street chapel,) the Rev. Robt. Newton
and the whole body of the trustees, defendants, requested that
the.thotions might stand over for a few days, in order to..allow
time for the production of affidavits, in reply to those filed by
the plaintiffs; it being the intention of the defendants to show
cause, in the first instance, again"st the application, Though
the plaintiffs seemed wishful to have obtained an earlier decision
of the motions, his.honour directed thein to stand over (ill the
next seal, (Feb. 25,) for the purpose stated by the defendants'
counsel. _ .

Dr. Warren appears to be incapable of taking any public step
in the promotion of his revolutionary designs, without exposing
himself more and snore to the charge of disingenuousness
and carelessness about the truth. We take the following in-
stance from his speech at the late meeting at Hull. He said,
"it had beets attempted to be proved that John Wesley was
favourable to a college (?) when, after all, by the testimony of
Henry Moore, that most omscular man, who was *cunt •-at• the
time it was agitated, he declared, that John Wesley was inimical
to it, but that Charles Wesley was the person who for two or
three years dwelt upon the necessity of a college ;" thus making
the impression on. Iris audience that Mr. Moore was present
during the life of Mr. Wesley, when the question of a seminary
for labourers, not a college, was discussed in conference, although
uncontested history shows that that question was proposed in
1744 or 45, before Mr. Moore was born ! He next produced a
cony of a letter which he said had fallen into his hands most ac-
cidentally—he might say providentially, within the last four days
—an original letter of Mr. Wesley, written within three years
of his death, and which would convince his audience that Mr.
Wesley, up to his dying day, protested against a college, and
this might be supposed to settle that point for ever. This most
providential discovery our readers may peruse for themselves,
in Vol. 13 of the last edition of Wesley's Works, page 58. It
is addressed to Mr. Asbury, and may be considered as more
favourable to a theological institution, or a seminary for labour-
ers, than even against an American college. "I found a
school," said the venerable Wesley, "you a college; nay, and
call it after your own names; " allsiding to Cokesbury College ;
and this is all that is in the letter upon the subject. But who
has forgot how stoutly Dr. Warren pleaded for a college not
many months ago? He also owned that it was "after his own
suspension that he began to think, if there were not some law in
metbodisin to prevent ministers being cut off without moral or
religious delinquency." Ile most gravely affirmed that Jos. R.
Stephens was not allowed by conference to speak or even think
on political subjects! And acknowledged that his consenting
to the suspension ofiMr. Stephens was an act of sinful expe-
diency. How is the gold become dim !—.Watchman.