The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-21 00:00:00

METRODISTICAL POLITICS.

The following is an extract of the Address to the
King, transmitted to his Majesty, from the Methodist
Conference lately held at Liverpool :—" Instructed
by the Holy Scriptures, which, as an undoubted Re-
velation from Clod, we receive as the only rule of ore
faith and practice, to humour the King as well as to
fear God, we abhor and detest all principles of dis-
loyalty ; and as far as our influence may extend
among these of your Majesty's subjects who are the
objects of our pastoral instruction, we shall continur,
by our constant teaching, advice, and example, to
discountenance sedition and disorder in all their forms,
and strongly to enforce subjection to the laws, and
Ito all the civil authorities constituted by the State,
and no longer than we thus prove ourselves worthy,
shall we expect the protecting shade of the law to be
extended over us.,, Hitherto, however, we have bad
the unspeakable satisfaction to witness a strict ad-
herence to their duties among our Societies, notwith-
standing they unexampled pressure of distress in the
nation, and the manufacturing districts in particular,
in which they have largely shared, but which they
have endured with exemplary patience and sub-
mission."
schism 'of consirierahle extent appears to have
taken place among the Methodists in the Nortitern
Counties, as well as the South, owing principally to
the folly of some of their preachers, in interfering
with the political opinions of the people.—This began
about the latter end of last year, when their Commit-
tee of Privileges in London, in concert with his Ma-
jesty's Government, issued circulars to the differeet
preachers in the connexion, in all parts of the coun-
try, to discountenance amongst their people all those
who might be attached to Political Reform. Imme-
diately the Methodist pulpits every where resounded
with the murderous doctrines of passive obedience
and non-resistance, those doctrines which in Eng-
land brought one tyrant to, the block, and obliged
another to abdicate the throne. In consequence
of which, added to the tyranny of the preachers and
their exorbitant exactions from the people, few of
whom are opulent, great numbers of them have se-
parated from the body, and formed a new community,
under the denomination of " Independent Methodists ;"
stsaintaisting the same discipline, hut differing in
'Church Government; as their preachers, like the pri-
mitive teachers of Christianity, claim no pecuniary
reward for their labours. In Shields, Newcastle, and
their vicinities, they are rapidly increasing, and have
already 14 chapels and places of public worship, which
I are supplied by twenty-one preachers.

HOP INTR LL IC ENCE.
___......._
Booditdo, San. !S.—About 700 pockets of sew Hope
have sloe to Market, but few sold; currency 90s. to
eh: Elie accounts continue to state the Hops fall short
of the mfilmate, add the duty is now rated at 94,0111/. to
36,06111. • •
Newlin.. A, a. 1... o. New Pockets. L. e. L. a.
Kent 3 6-4 4 Kent 3 14-6 14
Sasses ....0.... it 0-3 14 Sussex
Essex • •' 0 0-0 0 Essex -0 ta
Porelgo Pith* 0 0-0 0 Pantheist -0 U
Yowling llosp. 110 s. to PAM. Yearling Pockets 745. togas.
111.storeostr, Seer. 14.—Our planters are all now
busy picking, and the account seems general of tin
s falling short of the quantity expected. As to
pikes, we have received so few samples at market that
we can say nothing abode them. Duty still called
MOW.
Catresitavax, &err. 16.—The Hops CNN down eery
*hock, and indifferent in quality. The growth of this
asiglikparbood is not expected to average more than
1 met.Ater acre. •
At ftithato, Odiham, and that neighbourhood, the
sod In general of indifferent quality, sad the crop
serrtmeed 4 cwt. is as sere.
• IN Till. Sp?. I6.—Upwards of 1,000 pockets of
*w Hypo 'were to the market this day, but only 324
sod the 'trice* fetched were 765. to 04s. and
...
Was such a market for hops witnessed at
lir ' .In the month of September. The general
tall* *pimps war sever so bad (except in a few
1 so the presidt growth, and them has not bees
se tMsince idle year 17116. Somi *samples "of
IMP* sold MANI.
•
•
reta:meetlas of the Artisans of Shelidd. held on
• amok; it wadi esasimosoly agreed that. a rah-
•Nligitos.• !boll& bo mitered lam for slid pillow of
wiakisbor •_My • the tioice *IA n Ir nod of
4 SWAM infrafdrsterr; Ili A Ismi lc *heir
•- glib*
se vsok-lis of ibslll. 111 ot•pilisi .
flliti AddirlsrrdiAd•radliim sir-
t: . sa. . ...
ert: Va# Ilegalla •'*. : 'et..AU41.444/104.011
.-t -.42'4 :fl s•LT.ss:.• ; .r.G., as. .e. i. 5

PC