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    T ' enforce the wrong , for such a wartfoy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey . To do justice to the author of ' * The Spirit of Laws , " it will be

    necessary to quote the whale-of his chapter , entitled " Of theSravery of the Negroes . " ( B . xv . ctu v . ) I bhall distinguish by Italic ? those passages which , alone , arje quoted in the " Essay on Government /*

    M Were I to vindicate our right to make saves of the negroes , these should be my arguments . The Europeans , having extirpated the Americans , were obliged to make slaves o £ the Africans for clearing sRch vast tracts of land . « vhv

    ^ V ^^ ^*^ ¦ ^ p ^ ^ ™ jam w ^^^ " ^^^ V Sugar would be too dear , if the plants which produce it revere cultivated b y any ether than slaves . These creatures are all over blade * and with such a flat nose , that they caa scarcely foe pitied .

    It is hardly to be believed tftat Oodp nvho is a ivisc being , should place a sou ?) especially a good soul , in such a black , ugly tody . It is so natural to look upon coloar as the criterion of human nature , that the Asiatics , among whom eunuchs are cm ~ ployed , always deprive the blocks of

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    Mrs . Lee ' s Misrepresentation of Montesquieu . 429

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    culous conception of Jesus , find the other public events connected with it , and all abjections vanish .

    into air . Till then * a discerning reader will * at least , hold his judgment in suspence , and will not condemn the Editors of the Improved Version for fixing a mark of suspicion upon the disputed narrative . I am , Sir , Yours , &c * B *

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    p roclaimed and believed from the very first , at the place where it occurred ; and it could not be

    contradicted by those who were most interested and inclined to disprove it , had it been in their power ; and in whose power it w uld have been to have detected a » . d- exposed the falsehood with the utmost ease had the apostles ' declaration been untrue . Produce such evidence for the mira-

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    ' S To tie Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    sir , July 9 , 1809 . 1 have been reading the c 4 Es-« ay on Government , reviewed in your last number , ( p- 338 ) , — Amidst a variety of information on the important subjects discussed in that volume , 1 was surprised to find a severe censure of a great moral and political author , founded on a total misapprehension of his design . 1 beg leave to offer Mrs . Lee ' s note on this subject , to animadversion in the Repository , especially as it escaped the criticism of your Reviewer .

    Mr , Clarkson , in " the History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade , " ( 1 . 49 ) bas claimed Baron Montesquieu among " the forerunners in this great cause , " in consequence of the sentiments expressed in his Qi Spirit o ( Laws . ' ' It however the authoress to whom

    I have referred be justified in her censure , IVJU > ntes < 3 j < uieu . must be placed in very different company , and is well described in the Task of Cow per . 5 ^ e finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour d like his own , " and having Jpow ' r

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    JtfRS . LEE ' S MISREPRESENTATION OF MONTESQUIEU , ON" THE S £ AVE TRADE . MONS . TtfRGOT . MRS . SHEPPARO .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/15/