PREFACE. It has been suggested that the English public will expect to meet with something in the present Volume relative to my difficulties with the Wesleyan Conference; that, finding no allusion in it whatever to the subject, nor anything with regard to my future movements, some disappointment is likely to be felt. I have avoided intruding my personal trials upon public attention, although often impelled to do so by those inherent principles common to man, and of which, religion is not designed wholly to deprive us, to lift my pen in self-defence against those "thousand and one" false reports, and uncharitable insinuations, which have been circulated to my disadvantage. After much prayer, some tears, and many secret struggles, I concluded to commit my cause to God, and be silent. My object in taking the pen this morning, is to say a little about the doings of the last Conference, regarding myself, and "the line of conduct," which |