Wesley Corpus

He sent for me thither, and said, Good woman, do you know these people that go up and down * Do you know Mr. Wesley * Did not he tell you, you would be damned if you took any money of him 2 And did not he offer rudeness to your maid 2 I told him, No, my Lord; he never said any such thing to me, nor to my husband that I know of. He never offered any rudeness to any maid of mine. I never saw or knew any harm of him: But a man told me once, (who I was told was a Methodist Preacher,) that I should be damned if I did not know my sins were forgiven.’” Your Lordship replies, “I neither sent word that I would dine at their house, nor did I send for Mrs. Morgan; every word that passed between us was at her own house at Mitchel.” (Page 7.) I believe it; and consequently, that the want of exactness in this point rests on Mrs. Morgan, not on your Lordship. Your Lordship adds, “The following attestations will suffi ciently clear me from any imputation, or even suspicion, of having published a falsehood.” I apprehend otherwise; to wave what is past, if the facts now published by your Lordship, or any part of them, be not true, then certainly your Lordship will lie under more than a “suspicion of having published a falsehood.” The attestations your Lordship produces are, First, those of your Lordship's Chancellor and Archdeacon: Secondly, those of Mr. Bennet. The former attests, that in June or July, 1748, Mrs. Mor gan did say those things to your Lordship. (Page 8.) I believe she did, and therefore acquit your Lordship of being the in ventor of those falsehoods. Mr. Bennet avers, that, in January last, Mrs. Morgan re peated to him what she had before said to your Lordship. (Page 11.) Probably she might; having said those things once, I do not wonder if she said them again. Nevertheless, before Mr. Trembath and Mr. Haime she denied every word of it. To get over this difficulty, your Lordship publishes a Second Letter from Mr. Bennet, wherein he says, “On March 4th, last, Mrs.