Wesley Corpus

What grimace is this ! His Majesty’s quiet, loyal, Protest ant subjects are abused, insulted, outraged, beaten, covered with dirt, rolled in the mire, bruised, wounded with swords and hangers, murdered, have their houses broke open, their goods destroyed, or carried away before their face; and all this in open day, in the face of the sun, yet without any remedy! And those who treat them thus are “charitable” men brimful of a Christian spirit! But if they who are so treated appeal to the common sense and reason of mankind, you gravely cry, “Sce the uncharitable, the unchristian spirit of Methodism l” 10. You proceed: “But pray, what are those facts which you say are not misrepresented? Do you mean, that Butler was hired and paid by the Corporation and Clergy?” or, “that this” remarkably loyal “city is disaffected to the present Government?” and that “a Papist was supported, nay, hired by the chief Magistrate, to walk the streets, threatening bloodshed and murder? Declare openly whether these are the facts.” Sir, I understand you well; but for the present I beg to be excused. There is a time and a place for all things. 11. I rejoice to hear the city of Cork is so “remarkably loyal;” so entirely “well-affected to the present Government.” I presume you mean this chiefly of the Friendly Society, (in whom the power of the city is now lodged,) erected some time since, in opposition to that body of Jacobites commonly called, “The Hanover Club.” I suppose that zealous anti-Methodist 80 1.ETTER. To who, some days ago, stabbed the Methodist Preacher in the street, and then cried out, “Damn King George and all his armies!” did this as a specimen of his “eminent loyalty.” It cannot be denied that this loyal subject of King George, Simon Rawlins by name, was, upon oath made of those words, committed to gaol on May 31; and it was not till six days after, that he walked in procession through the town, with drums beating, and colours flying, and declared, at the head of his mob, he would never rest till he had driven all these false prophets out of Cork.