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On the a 5 th of March , 1807 , a daysacred to humanity , an Act for abolishing the Slave Trade , received the Frbyal Assent . It was brought into the House of Commons by Mr . Fox , and into the House of Lords by Lord Gren ^ ilie . The ministers were sincere in the
measure , which Mr . Pitt never had been , and they consequently carried it . } , t was , we are told , a measure which lay near the heart of Mr . Fox , who was a generous statesman , and who lived only for mankind .
Scon after the abplition act had passed , the leading men , wjio had patronized and carried it , or who rejoiced in it , convened a meetjng of the friends of the much-injured Africans , at which , on the 3 t 4 th of April , it was resolved to institute a society , under the name of
the African Insjitutjon . Qf the proceedings ojf this meeting , a full account was -given , by a gentleman who had taken an active pait in it , in ou , r second volume , p . 219 . —The second meeting of the society , was fr olden ( by
-adjournment from tne lath of May ) on the 15 th pf July , when as before , the Duke of Gloucester was in the chair ; a prince , more distinguished by his virtues than his rank , arjd wjipse sentinients , with regard to the Slave Trade , are the more honourable , as being totally opposite to those of some other branches of
the royal family . T ^ e Duke ha <> more lately displayed his sense of justice and humanity , by signing a protest on the journal pf the House of Lords , against the Jate unprincipled , and cowardly attack on Copqnhagrn . ——At
this second meeting , a Report from the Committee ** containing a view of the objects proposed by the Institution , and the meaus for carrying those objects into effect , together with rules and regulations for its interior constitution , ' * was
read , and ordered , to be printed . Jt was resolved that a subscription of sixty ^ guineas , should constitute an hereditary go-
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vernor ; of thirty guineas , a life governor ; and of three guineas per annum , a governor ; one guinea per annum ^ member ; and ten guinea- a member for life . The members to v ote at all meetings of the Institution , but £ 0 be incapable of election to any part of itfe management .
The most interesting circumstance at this meeting , was a short , biit impressive speech from a Bla ^ k , who declared ( hat he could not suffer the meeting to pa-s , without the grateful acknowledgements of at least one of the sable complexion . The speaker , we understood to be Mr . William Sancho , who has some
literary engagement , under Sir Joseph jpanks . He is , we apprehend a son of the ingenious Ignatius , Sancho , an African , vvno died in 1789 , and whose letters were published , with Memeirs of his life , by a . lardy , and have lately been re ? published .
The Report has been since , published , forming an 8 vp . pamphlet , of , 78 pages . \ t is elegantly written , and is adapted to satisfy inquirers , and to silence objectors . We wish , we could hope that the spirit of it -Avill be infused into the folio winer abstract .
?• A plan , " say the Committee , truly , " which proposes to introduce the blessings of civilized society , among a people , sunk in ignorance and barbarism , and occupying no less than a fourth part of the habitable globe * , holds forth an object , the contemplation of which , It will be allowed , is sufficient to warm the coldest , and fill the amplest mind . '
They then proceed to shew , that the p lan is not disproportiohed to their means . Individuals and strangers h 4 ve often efYected great changes , in the manners and institutions of a country . Cong est , though the ordinary , is not the onl y medium of spreading -civilization . Next to Christianity , commerce has been the instrument of the greatest and most progressive improvement of mankind .
* " Africans computed to contain 150 millions of inhabitants , but the interior is so little known , that the estimate is purely conjectural . "
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meanest fneeting-house , as well as in the most magnificent cathedral , in coloured clothes as well as in black one ^ . Robert Robinson , who will not be
suspected of partiality to priests , used to suy that the very worst animal in a re * . ligiou , ; •* embly , was a JL . ORDBROTHER .
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286 Report of the Committee of the African Institution .
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE AFRICAN INSTITUTION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 286, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/58/
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