Wesley Corpus

' and, on Wednesday, October 2, returned to Newcastle, where they were just informed that the rebels had left Edinburgh on Monday, and were swiftly marching toward them. But it appeared soon that this also was a false alarm ; it being only a party which had moved southward, the main body still remaining in their camp, a mile or two from Edinburgh. On Thursday and Friday I visited the rest of the country societies. On Saturday a party of the rebels (about a thousand men) came within seventeen miles of Newcastle. This occasioned a fresh alarm in the town; and orders were given by the general that the soldiers should march against them on Monday morning. But these orders were countermanded. Mr. Nixon (the gentleman who had some days since, upon being apprehended, cut his own throat) being still unable to speak, wrote as well as he could, that the design of the prince (as they called him) was to seize on T'ynemouth castle, which he knew was well provided both with cannon and ammunition; and thence to march to the hill on the Uct. 1745. | REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 3538 east side of Newvastle, which entirely commards the town. And if this had been done, he would have carried his point, and gained the town without a blow. The mayor immediately sent to Tynemouth zastle, and lodged the cannon and ammunition in a safer place. Tues. 8.--I wrote to General Husk as follows :-- **A surly man came to me this evening, as he said, from you. He would not deign to come up stairs to me, nor so much as into the house ; but stood in the yard till I came, and then obliged me to go with him into the street, where he said, ‘ You must pull down the battlements of your house, or to-morrow the general will pull them down for you.’ “Sir, to me this is nothing. But I humbly conceive it would not be proper for this man, whoever he is, to behave in such a manner to any other of his majesty’s subjects, at so critical a time as this. Iam ready, if it may be for his majesty’s service, to pull not only the battlements, but the house down; or to give up any part of it, or the whole, into your excellency’s hands.”