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^^ J ^ PO » > yh Mr . Addington was thuf well appreciated by Mr . ] feox in the same debate . ** will suppbse , if you please , that the West India Islands are likel y to want slaves , on account
of the disproportion of the sexes . flow is this to be cured ? A right honourable gentlemary proposes a bounty on an importation of females , or , in other words , he
proposes to make up this deficiency by offering a premium to dgy crew of unprincipled and savage ruffians , who will attack and carry off any of the females of Africa ! A bounty from the Par ** liatnent of JBritain that shall make
the fortune of any man or set of men , who shall kidnap or steal $ ny unfortunate females from that continent ! Who shall bring them over as slaves , in order that they
may be used for breeding slaves ! Who shall kill their husbands , fathers , or relations , or shall instigate any others to kill them , * in order that these females may be procured ( I should like to see the right honourable gentleman bring i ^ iuch a clause , I should like \ 6 ^ e / e how his clause would be
worded * I could like to know Who wquld be the man who woulcl dare to peh such a clause . ' ( P . ii ( l ) O ^ r moral legislator , unabash
ed by so forcible an appeal to his justice" and humanity , appear ^ to ftavlakdhefed to his proposal , like Shakespeare ' s Jew Jo hip pound of flesh- for thus says Mr . Adding . toij to e > fpJaip / mentioned , cerrfl
misfit fie laid on . imported negroes , TOft * sKoutt h * iighier on thefe < £ rf $ l ° f t iT $ ™ ^ ' 1 < fd-S « % ^ K i ^^ ^ . fef a / vonnfy on € ht women imported . ( P . 130 . ) *
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¦ • • ¦ ;* ¦> . . ^ ; t We are reminded , dn the high * est authority # mong t ^ hmtianl , that of thorns men do not ^ ga ^ h ^ ji gs , Wof of abrcmilehus ' h $ Mer they graves . No more carf ^ er
fairly expect a legislative' measufe of unqualified justice oriiBeraifry from such a senator ks my imoi ^ tions of his own language nave described . Ex nno " ais ' ce onijiia .
The lioble lord , I scarcely know why , has beeh sometimes named the Doctor . t ) e *|> enel upon it , Mr . Editor , as we h ^ ve ooserve d in the composiHon oTMr A'ddingtori ? s specific for tfiat desolating
plague the slave trade , so in his lordship ' s panacea for religious ills , there will always be "found some deleterious ingredient to corrupt its savour ^ like dead Jtieijn the ointment of the apothecary ^ GOGMAQOG JUNIOR-
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Letters jQ , a Student * i , LETTER V * i * Dear Eoge ^ i ^ s , --
You have , probably , exbfc J $ ed that before this T should baVfe Affered some remarks oh a siii cl ^^ ta which you are professe < ffy cH ?^ oted ; I mean theology . But I have purposely waved to mention it with the other pafts qf ^ -. Ve « irni ^ g not only because it is an ojiject of
peculiar impprtanqf a ) i fj dignity 9 and is to engage ^ ojur chief a . tj ^ ntion , ?) ut because / thb ¦" fi nl be p 0 > st properly and / ^ dvftntageopsly yccupied in other br ^ nc ^ es ^ t tapping . T ^ Qol og \ c ^ l qq ^ yonpJ ^ v « been , so _ qpsci \ ved to . ptff ;;» $ csf
that it , ^ e ^ S « WM ° rrPKW » f " the ii ^ st igaticj n af jH ^^ ViUiy he faguljt ^ a h ^ ve b $ m r ^ en e ^ ^ ftnd ™ i ™^ ifoMm tiMm n VF - tion has been formed , and materials and principles , by which t *
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¦ ¦ ¦ •• tettersrto a Student . —Letter V . sos
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1812, page 505, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1751/page/29/
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