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tunately the plot was discovered , and the beads of the conspiracy have been brought to justice . How far the plot extended is not known ; but when we consider the number of blacks in the inland , it is evident that the greatest wisdom is requisite to prevent confusion .
The love of liberty is implanted in the human breast ; and , when a favourable opportunity occurs , all men , whatever their colour , will rise against those , who are or who are deemed to be their oppressors . The manner in which slaverywas first introduced into the West Indies ,
is a disgrace to the Christian name : but now it is established , it is the duty of Christians to take care , that in remedy fag the grievance , greater evils should not be incurred . The gradual increase of free blades might form a barrier between the whites and the slaves , and as
no new slaves are to be imported the danger to be . apprehended from the slaves will be gradually diminished . Whilst there are hopes held out of liber - ty in the most practicable manner , we in ay expect , that with good instruction and proper attempts at civilization , and the introduction of real Christianity ; the "
slave may be preserved from , those excesses , which are equally ruinous Xo himself and his employers . At home a circumstance has occurred much talked of in the higher circles , and which is of importance as connected with the manners of that class in life : A
noble lord has been guilty of adultery ? and adultery afflicting two families , his own and the lady ' s , in the severest manner . For both the adulterer and the adulteress have children . The adulterers now lives with the adulterer , and the brother of the adulteress thought it right , according to the usual laws of that wicked fashion ,
which prey ails in the higher classes , to attempt to murder the adulterer , giving him at the same time an equal chance of committing murder . The correspondence on this occasion has been publish ^ it * * ' ea ; and it was with great pleasure we observed , that the adulterer , a man of undoubted bravery , and who has distinguished himself very remarkably in the field of battle , refused to ad 4 tQ his otfyer exjmes , that of murder . We could have wished , that he had given a better reason for his conduct on this occa * sion , that in his contrition for his first £ ime he had added ; how shall I sin farther against God , by aiming a blow at your life ? How cab this expiate my rime , or give you rational satisfaction ?
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We rejoice , however , that the unhappy man would not increase his guilt , and that he has had the courage to decline that appeal to arms , to which fashionable folly has given the name of honouF , but which must excite the pity and contempt of all , who are not hurried away in the vortex of dissipation , and have time to reflect on the state of man after this life .
The question of a reform in the representation of tjie people has been much Agitated i > oth within and without the house , and very extraordinary language has been described in the paper * to have been held in the house upon this occasion . The most opprobrious names and the worst motives are said to have
been assigned to the reformers , a third class now in the state , "whose language and conduct by no means give occasion for the epithets which have been bestowed on them . Under this class of reformers , we must comprehend many large counties , cities and boroughs , which in their public meetings , have unanimously
decided that the state of the representation is very imperfect and requires reform , and they are completely justified in their assertions by the facts that have come out in the House of Common ' s ; for when it has been allowed by ministers themselves , that a seat in parliament has been
made by a minister a subject of barter for a place in India , and ministers have been accused of selling a seat * in parliament , and requiring resignation of the member for not voting wit ^ h them in the Duke of York ' s question , no longer doubt can remain in the mind of an
honest man , that whatever facilitates this mode of corruption ought to be stopped . The reformers have plainly stated their . grievances . They state that by the rotten boroughs , the action qf the public voice is stifled , and the legitimate use of a House of Commons rendered
abortive . Against them , an unmeaning cry is raised , and chiefly by those whose interest it Ls to preserve abuses , and wha fatten on corruption . Not only in the meetings of counties and corporate bodies , but , as is usual in
England , at public dinners , the question has been considered , and at a great public dinner ut which Sir Francis Burdett presided , and upwards of fourteen hundred persons attended this meeting from all parts of England . On this < cca ; ion a series of resolutions was unanimously passed , expressing the sense of the company on the state of the representation , its consequences , the necessity of amend-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/51/
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