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202 Gogmagog ) on Lord Nelson ' s Piety , &Ct .
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trifle ^ and have exposed hypocrites and bigots to contempt and scorn . I entered upon my office with exhibiting the mummery of thecereinoniespractisedat court on Epiphany or Twelfthday ^ 1806 ^ and I am happy to perceive that our daily prints did hoc disgrace themselves on the same occasion this year ^ by giving a detail of the circumstances of this contemptible superstition . I next animadverted on the political sermons preached by our Dissenting Ministers on the day of thanksgiving for the victory
of Trafalgar ; and I have it now to record that a Fast-day has } assed over our heads without insulting us ( as far as I can learn , ) with a single meeting-house philippic against the liberties of the people , or-a single harangue in praise of war and blood-shed . I lastly stood forth ., ( a shepherd lad against a giant , ) in opposition x > a high-church prelate ,, and 1 expect that the next edition of . Bishop Bursress ' s ** Elements / ' will expunge the passages upon wnicn 1 nave rjxed the mark or proscription . I am not vain or credulous , I know that the Monthly Repository finds its way
into places where you , Sir , would least expect it to be read . Orthodox Dissenters and Churchmen too , peruse it , as Mr . ' Wilberforce says Mr . Pitt " did good , — by stealth , " though when this sentence ihall meet their eye , they also ( to continue the parallel ) may " blush to find it fame / ' Corruption seldom destroys the sense cf shame , and the efforts of the humblest individual , when corruption is the object of attack , are never unavailing . The wry faces of a journeyman-printer , though no ^ no re than the workings of St . Vitus ' s dance , have been known to spread consternation through a court .
There are two subjects on which 1 mean to address you on this occasion ; to neither of which in my apprehension is the public attention sufficiently alive . 'One is an original letter of . Lord Nelson ' s on the Slave Trade ; tlie other is the address of the members of Convocation to the King , and the King ' s reply . I . —The friends of the Slave Trade brought forward , during the recent discussion of the measure of Abolition in the two Houses of Parliament , an original letter of the Hero of the Nile
and of Trafalgar , winch indeed contains internal evidence oi its genuineness , being' as to sentiment and style precisely what every one who knew his character would h : i \ c expected from the writer . The letter is dated June 10 , 1805 , and is addressed to a friend in Jamaica . The Admiral declares himself iC a firm friend to our colonial system / 7 and pledges himself to defend it as long as he should have" an arm to fip'ht or a tongue to launch his . voice / ' Thi . s was in the way of his profession . Colonies require , and they reward the naval service . But by the colonial system , " the writer means the practice of traffickingin slaves ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/34/
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