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    on the spot where he committed the wrong * . Your pages , also , will be open to " the Honourable Member for Bristol , " and I shall be most desirous of retracting any sentence or expression by which , from erroneous information , I may have misrepresented him .

    May 16 . I observe in the Times of this day , that , during * the last night's discussion in the House of Commons , * the Honourable Member for Bristol" transferred liis accusation , from Mr . Cooper , to the author of < s Negro-Slavery , "

    which he described as " a most notorious book , full of mistakes and misrepresentations , " and " imputed an evil intention to the man who put it together . " This man , unfortunately , I think , for the credit of the Hon . Censor ' s discernment , was Mr .

    Macaulay , " a name , " as Mr . Brougham remarked , €€ respected wherever it was known . " We must , perhaps , except the reception of that name among Negro-Slave Holders , yet unawakened

    to their true interest , whose disapprobation Mr . Macaulay has largely earned , as I have frequently witnessed , by the unwearied , gratuitous labours of an active life , in behalf of the injured Africans .

    '' The Honourable Member' is also reported to have " contended" that * ' the statements of Dr . Williamson , instead of being disadvantageous , were highly creditable to the Planters of the West Indies . " Your readers , who have perused the descriptions of West

    India discipline , which I have quoted with scrupulous accuracy from those statements , as extracted in " Negro-Slavery , " will be prepared to discover the senses of disadvantageous and highhj creditable , peculiar to a West-India vocabulary . «< The Honourable Member

    for Bristol . " " hnwpvpr fall : himsp . lf oer tor Bristol , however , felt himself " bound in justice to declare" that among " the West-India Planters he had found nothing but a disposition to advance , as far as they with safety could advance , the comforts and

    interests of the beings committed to their care . " If the report be correct , we are left to guess whether these are considered as human beings . I suspect that West-India Planters have not yet quite forgotten the caution of Montesquieu given them more than 70 years a <> : " II eat impossible que nous

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    suppoaions que ces gens-l& soient des hommks ; parce que si nous tes supposions des hommes , on commenceroit a croire que nous ne somraes pas nous-memes Chretiens . " See De L Esprit des Loin , L . xv . ch . 5 . De U Esclavage des N&gres .

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    On Early Recollections . Weldon , Northamptonshire , April 13 , 1823 . EARLY impressions are the most indelible : there is something exquisite in calling forth associations connected with our youth and

    juvenility . A tree that one has long known—known from one's infancy , becomes an object of interest ; and we cannot help cursing the unfeeling axe which levels it to the ground , and mourn for it as for a departed friend : for , perhaps , a thousand pleasing recollections are identified with it . * " We

    remember in our childhood to have frequently loitered on the thick boughs of an old fir-dale which stood contiguous to a rivulet , and watched on a sunny day the minnows playful beneath its glassy surface—it remains there still , and we never pass it without sensations of pleasure . Earlfriendshi also

    y ps are exquisite . Who ever met an old school-fellow without a smile ? He must be an iron-faced one , and we pity him . — About six months back we passed through the village where we received our earliest education ; a thousand little remembrances burst upon ussome of our favourite haunts remained

    as heretofore—others , fresh proprietors had modernized . We were particularly attracted by a staring and gaudy figure of a greyhound as a sign for the village inn , where we remembered the more humble representation

    of a malt 3 hovel !—empty and unmeaning innovation 1 for where is the analogy between the qualities of a greyhound and the beverage of Boniface ? There was some meaning in the malt shovel , and we are fond of

    meanings even a sign . As we sauntered along the streets recognizing many objects which were once familiar to us , we arrived at the well-known residence of our late revered tutor . Alas ! the busy hum was silent ; the artless merriment of unsophisticated childhood had long

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1823, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1784/page/29/