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    220 Politico-Religious Intelligence .

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    tempt all at first , "but trust to time to bring the golden fruits they had in view to matuaty . he expatiated on the benefits that would ensue from this design ; as in tead of the horrid and inhv . aan traffic hitherto canied on , we should bow reap greater advantages from a just and humane commerce . Mr . Thomas Walker , couid not forbear to express his approbation of the proposed Institution . He referred to the zeal which his townsmen of Manchester had shewn against the African Slave Trade , and was per . uaded that thi- , measure would receive their generon > sunnorr .

    1 he foregoing Resolutions were then put and adopted . The Duk ^ of Gloucester was cho . en President of the Institution , and a Committee appointed consisting of a number of Noblemen and Gentlemen , to draw up Laws and Regulations , to be presented to a general meeting to be held at Freemason ' s Hdli . the 12 th of May . iKtsaia tnat

    jvir .. K ne was persuaded tne meeting could not agree to separate "without testifying- in the most public ananiier , th . ir gratitude for those exertions , the success of which , had enabled them to induLt the hope of at length doin ?; soh ething to repair the injuries of Africa , tie was sure they would anticipate the name he was about to mention , of a gentleman v . ho while mar y may have rJisp ayed equal zeal and good intention , had been e ailed upon to perform ; - > : r . racrc ' -jary sew ices in this err * at . ¦ : •;>• - - . sle then moved ,

    - Tixdt thv - i hanks of this nice * -ing- "be g-iven to V iiiam Wilbettfoi ce . Esq . f'jr h * s rn \ ve * i . ; c d ^ xertion-, du ing many yeaiS , to u . ji e the injustice and cruelty of the African S . * avc Trade , ahd to procure irs abolition b y the ) cgi , 1 ature of Great l'ntair ..

    IVlr Ro coe , M P . for Liverpool , secoiuied the : Mo 'ion , and paid many deserved coirj p imunts to the rxx'ituws of Mr . Wilbfiforce . lie observe \ that it never could have b ( . ' en tiie will of the Cicat . or of the universe that one pai t of the crcatK-Ti should ci : joyh , : pp incss at the expense of another- ^ ic wa , assured tLat though the forniaticn of sLich an lusti'r . vum appeared at first sig ; ht only a nic ^ sure o £ humanity , it \ yould , in the end , prove a measure of

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    the highest national interest In a con * , mercial point of view . Mr . Wi'berforce rxpressed his sense of the honour d ne him , but declared it equally due to many others who had laboured with him and now ought to enjoy the same applause . He felt peculiar gratifi ation in the . approbation of his condu : t by the gentleman wh > had last spoken , who represented a town which was most interested in the Afri- * can Trade .

    The resolution was then unanimousl y adopted . The Rev . Mr . John Owen ( of I ulham . ) addressed the Meeting in very animated language . hie personified Afiica under the character of a deerted child , and thus introduced an affectionate euloguim on Mr . Gianville Sharp , who for more tha . n forty years had laboured in this great cause of humanity . He concluded by moving a resolution of thanks to that gentle * man .

    Mr . Rutt said that he could not deny himself the gratification of seconding a motion of thanks to Mr . Granville Sharp , whose writings on the subject of Nejro-slavery falling into hi ; har < J 3 when a boy , first gave him tha" idc $ of its enormity which had never left him to the pre ent moment . He then ca led the attention of th r Meeting to tlu" state of public opinion "when , more han forty years ago , as mentioned by the Rev . gentlmv-ir . j Mr . Sharp first agi * . ated this question . There "wa ^ then a general acquiescence in the notion uhat Black men w ^ re articles of

    propcj ' cy , \ ind just otj ^ ct-s or sale or barttr aiiiong Whih ; rcicn in England , as wcU a '~ -vr : ry wJicre cl e . JVIr . hharp , m the con : inon road of his ! encvalence , met v ith a ca . e upon which he was dctermin : d to try the que tion , as it respfj red Negroes in England . He believed that the law wa . in his favour , though all th ^ eminent Interpreters of the law were against him . He

    persevered , and aite . borne time JLord Mansfit . Id with ths magnanimity wori ' ly of & great f tian who can most readily acknowl . dge himsLlf to have been in the wrong declared upon the r . ench iliat Mr . Sharp was fouiul ^ d in his construction of the law of iiM ^ i . i . 'ic / , wliich in this instance he hud erroiue- *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/52/