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^ 86 Proposed Monument to Mr . Ra ikes .
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Established Church , ( though Railces himself was of the latter number , ) I beg to submit this to their consideration through your liberal pages .- —The Fellowship Societies , so numerously established and establishing , would furnish every facility for promoting the design ; not by any appropriation of their funds , but from the
circumstance of an organized association being already formed , combining , it is presumed , the zeal and intellect of the united body . It may be objected that these are not times to encourage an idle display of gratitude or munificence , that the patriotic calls upon the scantily-replenished purses of individuals are so numerous , that
objects of real necessity ought to have a decided preference ; and . that two or three thousand pounds might be much better employed in the schools themselves , or in aid of the benevolence that would gladly contribute towards alleviating 4 he sufferings of the poor . Admitting that these considerations should have their full
weight , yet , still it must also be allowed , that every impulse that can be given to the public mind in favour of the grand principles of truth and virtue , should be cheerfully embraced ; and neither would it be contended that this expression of the
public sentiment would fail in its just and high expectations . With respect to the burden of the expense , if every adult in the kingdom , or every individual who has already heen
benefited by the institution of Sunday Schools , should contribute no more than one penny , a monument might be erected on the summit of Snowdou itself , not inferior 1 o its own majestic and sublime altitude .
JAMES LUCKCOCK . P . S . ( Nov . 3 . ) Your Correspondent ( Phantom ) Brevis ( p . 6 16 ) accuses me of twisting ( he sense of Mr . Russell ' s dispatch from l . iydrabar ) , by making him admit lhat he felt pleasure in the
massacre of the 500 Arabs . I merely said , ' « It does nor . appear that Mr . R . had any hand in ( his work of blood ; but it gives him uumiugled pleasure , without a particle of regret or corn * miseration : " and I still nv < iintrmi that , in a communication of four or five lines , that Hie word p leu sure should be so conspicuous , without an iota of palliative , is a sufficient presumption
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that he sat down with reelings of high exultation , untempered by the humanity which the case so strongly called for . Brevis may use the words " afflicting circumstance—deplore the necessity , " &c , but these are no part of
Mr . R . ' s expressions or feelings . What right have we , therefore , so to interpret them , and which of us two has most exposed himself to the charge of " outrageous inference" ? I appeal to candour and common sense if the
following paraphrase be not strictly admissible : I am glad the Fort was taken , though the event was attended with such an immense sacrifice . And will it not be allowed , on the military system , that Mr . R . would have been
justified in farther say in « ? If I could , by a wish , restore the Fort and the Arabs to the state thev were in the day previous to the attack , my attachment to the interests of my country
would not permit me to do it > What then must be the turpitude of that system which could so far stifle the claims of humanity as to admit even silence in a case of such tremendous
magnitude ? See the wretched victims crowded , unarmed and unoffend * ing , in an enclosure in the Fortress , and the ferocious assassins driving at them with their bayonets!—and calling themselves Christians ' . The sufferers were only Arabs , —An anonymous attestation to character cannot
have much weight > but supposing Brevis to be acquainted with Mr . R ., I will take him at his word * and believe his friend , in all the private relations of life , to be humane and ben «~ voleni ; but this only aids my general argument . It is the system which becomes answerable for the deformity
of mind which it inculcates ; and this must either be inherently vile , or our feelings of- compassion and human kindness are all delusive , and contradictory to the duties of our station . It has been affirmed of Frederic the
Great ( butcher ) , that after a battle , where thousands of human lives were sacrificed , he wept for the loss of Ins greyhound . Such p erversion and obliquity of reason will warfare not merely allow , but attempt to vindicate . I do not say that Brevis is their apologist ; but why overlook the intended drift of my statement , to dwell upon a pitiful and ungracious cavil ? J . LUCKCOCK .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 686, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/34/
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