3. “A Concise History of England, from the earliest times to the death of George II.” 12mo, 4 vols. Price, to subscribers, half a guinea. Wesley says, his “volumes contain the substance of the English history, extracted chiefly from Dr. Goldsmith, Rapin, and Smollett; only with various corrections and additions.” Wesley made a profit of £200 by this publication; but gave it all away the week he got it.[252] For many years, William Pine of Bristol had been Wesley’s chief printer and publisher, and had recently brought out a revised edition of Wesley’s collected works, in thirty-two 12mo volumes. Henceforth, the connection ceased. Pine became a red hot partisan of the rebellious colonists. Wesley disliked this, and wrote as follows to his brother Charles. “LEEDS, _July 31, 1775_. “DEAR BROTHER,--I must not delay answering your important question, ‘What can be done with William Pine?’ If he still, after my earnest warning, ‘every week publishes barefaced treason,’ I beg you would once more warn him, in my name and in your own; and if he slights or forgets this warning, then give him his choice, either to leave us quietly, or to be publicly disowned. At such a time as this, when our foreign enemies are hovering over us, and our own nation is all in a ferment, it is particularly improper to say one word which tends to inflame the minds of the people.”[253] Thus Wesley’s loyalty to King George severed his connection with William Pine, the weekly publisher of the once popular _Felix Farley’s Journal_. Mr. Pine died in 1803.[254] FOOTNOTES: [221] Boswell’s Life of Johnson. [222] Ibid. [223] _Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1797, p. 455. [224] Olivers’ “Defence,” p. 19. [225] Vol. for 1775, p. 561. [226] Everett’s Life of Dr. A. Clarke. [227] Asbury’s Journal. [228] Words fearfully realised, first in America, next in France, and then throughout all Europe. [229] His “Calm Address.” [230] Wesley’s Works, vol. xii., pp. 302-308. [231] Did Wesley mean this? That is, did he use it in any sense except that which immediately follows? [232] This may seem to clash with the tenor of Wesley’s “Calm Address”; but the reader must recollect, that it was not until after the date of this letter that the “Calm Address” was written; and that Wesley’s change of opinions did not occur until after the Leeds conference of 1775. Wesley’s foresight, throughout the whole of this fearful war, was most remarkable.