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Charley James Fox ( Continued from p . 473 . ) IS . Indian Letter . ( Produced by Mr , Fox in the debate on the Charges against Mr . Hastings , June 1 , 1786 . ) nPIRANSLATION of a letter from p a wife of Hafez Rharnet Khan to Colonel Champion ,
" The English gentleman renowned through Indostan for justice , equity and compassionating the miserable . Hafez Rhamet Khan for forty years governed this country , and the very beasts of the forest trembled at his
bravery . The will of God is resistless ; he is slain , and to his children not an atom remains , but they are cast from their habitations , naked , and exposed to the winds and the heat , and the burning sand , and perishing for want even of rice and water : how shall I either write or state
my condition ? My sighs dry my ink and scorch my paper . It is evident as the sun the English are brave and merciful , and whomsoever they subdue , their children they preserve , who forget their sorrows by the kind treatment they receive , nor draw the sword in an unjust cause . Yesterday I was chief of a hundred thousand
people y to-day I am in want even of a cup of water ; and where I commanded , I am prisoner : fortune is fickle , she raises the humble and lowers the exalted : but I am innocent , and if any one is guilty it is Hafez : but why should the innocent be punished for the errors of their father ? I am taken like a beast in a snare ,
without resting-place by night or shade by day . From you , Sir , I hope justice and compassion ; for I am as a bird confined in a cage : 'tis better to give up life by the dagger , than
famish thus by hunger and thirst . You , I hope , Sir , will reflect on my state , or my misfortunes will be doubled : I have nothing left : pardon thifepaper .
14 . Politeness not the same as Humanity . ( June 1 , 1786 . ) In this corner of the work ! , happi-Jy for us , we see few atrocious acts of cruelty , and are strangers to that fierceness of temper and unfeeling disposition which prevails very much in other quarters of the globe . The
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people we converse with are in general mild and humane , and have an external politeness and softness of manner , which we suppose to be the natural effect of these qualities : and wherever we meet with that external
appearance any man , we are apt to persuade ourselves that he is possessed of these virtues ; but in fact they have no natural connexion in themselves , and we often find that those who are of an insinuating , soft and engaging manner , conceal more cruelty and inveterate hatred in their
temper , and have less of real sensibility for the distresses of others , than men of a very different external appearance : men whose manner appears full of warmth and passion , have generally more real tenderness and humanity than others who are calm , cool and collected in their behaviour .
15 . Abolition of the Slave Trade . ( May 9 , 1788 . ) The Right Honourable Gentleman ( Mr . Pitt ) was pleased to observe , that it had been a very general opinion that the African Slave Trade
should be put a stop to . Again , he had said , that others had not gone so far , but had given it as their opinion , that it required to be revised and regulated . Mr . Fox said he had no
scruple to declare , in the onset , that his opinion of this momentous business was , that the slave-trade ought not to be regulated , but destroyed . To this opinion his mind was pretty nearly made up j and he was persuaded , that the more the subject was
considered , the more his opinion would gain ground ; and it would be admitted , that to consider the subject in any other manner , and on any other principles than those of humanity and justice , was idle and absurd . If there were any such men , and be those
did not know but there were , who , led away by local and interested considerations , thought the slawtrade might still continue underWtain modifications , those men were the dupes of error , and mistook what they thought their interest , for wiiax he would undertake to convince them was not their interest ;—since nothing could be the true interest of any ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 536, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/4/
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