In these extracts, the reader has before him the substance of all the charges which Dissenting ignorance and hatred have brought against the character of this venerable man. It is scarce worth while to refute them; for they are all in flat contradiction to the facts published in the previous pages of this narrative; and yet, perhaps, a brief reply may be of service:— CHARGES. ANSWERS. Defoe says that Wesley was a Defoe gave utterance to a malicious “mercenary renegado.” slander; in support of which he does not even attempt to adduce the slightest evidence. Defoe says that Wesley was hired to Who hired him? What was his expose the private academies of remuneration? This also is an Dissenters. unfounded assertion, unsupported by a single particle of proof. Defoe says that Wesley ingenuously All that Mr Wesley acknowledges is, confesses himself guilty of many that he wrote some “silly lampoons crimes in his youth; and that he on Church and State,” at the was a little rakish while he was instigation and urgent request of among the Dissenters. some Dissenting ministers, who ought to have known better than expose a youth from the country to such temptations. He further maintains that if he was not an “_exemplary_ liver” while with the Dissenters, he was, at least, not a “scandalous one.” Defoe says Mr Morton never taught Mr Wesley says the same; and also antimonarchical principles. adds, that whenever Mr Morton heard any of his pupils talking disaffectedly, or disloyally, he never failed to rebuke them. Defoe meanly insinuates that Mr We have no account of his being in Wesley fell into ill company after any ill company after he left the he left the Dissenters. Dissenters, except on one occasion, when he was in company with a number of Dissenting scoffers at the Calves-head Club. Leaving Defoe, turn to Dunton. The The Dissenter who purloined the latter says that Wesley’s letter manuscript from under Wesley’s “taxing the morals and behaviour of pillow while he slept, and then Dissenting ministers was a dishonourably read it, freely malicious falsehood.” acknowledged that there was nothing in the letter but what was true.