id:--

Brother William and I called on the Rev. Mr. Hetherington at
Kingston. He said:--That there could be no union; that we were
Radicals; that they would not be united with us; that the District
Meetings of Lower Canada, Halifax, etc., intended to make common
cause with them; especially they intended to remonstrate against
giving up York and Kingston. They also intended to appeal to the
British Conference, and if they were not heard by it they would
appeal to the British people. If the British Conference will allow
its members to throw firebrands, arrows, and death around in this
way, and reciprocate their proceedings after this manner with
impunity, they are very different men from what I have taken them
to be.

_Nov. 20th._--In a subsequent letter to Dr. Ryerson, his brother John
says:--

I fear much for the Union from the English Missionary party. Should
they, from any consideration, undertake to retain Kingston and
York, our cause there will be ruined. In case of such an event, I
will retire immediately, and bid farewell to the strife and toil in
which we have been engaged ever since we have been travelling
preachers. Let me know who have thrown up the _Guardian_. You will
have seen the Cobourg _Reformer's_ attacks. It is of much more
importance for you to expose Mr. Radcliffe, the editor, than any
one else, and point out that, in his present enmity to Methodist
principles, this is not the first time he has endeavoured to break
the Methodist ranks, and to sow the seeds of discord among her
friends. I would take good care not to lean a hairsbreadth towards
radicalism. One reason of their making this onslaught is to scare
you, and induce you to say something which will excite the jealousy
of the Government, and the disapprobation of our British brethren,
and thereby destroy us with them as they seek to do with other
parties.

_Nov. 22nd._--What is thus stated by his brother John was corroborated
by his brother William, who was stationed at Kingston, and who, in a
letter to Dr. Ryerson, said:--

I need not say what my feelings were when I arrived at this place,
and found that arrangements had been made by Mr. Marsden, in
violation of the understanding with the Conference, and in defiance
of the opinions and wishes of every one of our friends in the