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    "Wiiose Brissot 9 Raynal > f late , indign £ n 1 rose r-ji : ^ & rrrr < -- > ^^^ i- "oxyl ? ?'¦?* " - ~ To jg&jj Cit ; fiJ ^ ro ^^ ; rj gfi ^ , ^' ^ grde s woes . Nor is . thc nagic to virtuous praise im' known ' " " ~ "" " ' r '" . ^ . .

    thpu ^ h it has sinc ^ rc ^ i ^ d in full forc ^« Yet generality , or eveauniversality is no certain testimony or infallible sanction of nature . Human wickedness prevails over every thing , puts a force on nature , gives the power of law to her owrt e ^ t ^ v ^ gant desi res * , nor is there

    any cruelty or crime that she cannot rec ^ e , nca ^ yiituc and piety- It appears by a passage in B . " 1 . Ch . 34 , of the poath y caous edition of Wisdom , used by ttfe ^ finglisn translator in 1729 , that CJia ^ roji was w-ell acquainted with the Afncati SfaVe ^ Trade . He describes the

    < f ? ij ^ a , ^ ajit $ of Guinea" as " made slaves hy kidnapping and force , and not oniy their , persons enslaved but ail their posSeH ^ y tox > . " ^ Brijgot ! f exertions for the inj ure ^ Africans are well known . Even Washinj ^ n j ^ whpBa he justly admired , did not Escape his censure as a slave-holder . Raynaj , fprty Y £ * rsago , declared

    himsea f iuli x SfWS * t"e slave . trade , of which Jfte thus speaks , in his Histoire Phub&fitiiqiic des Deuoc Indes . " pette soif insatiatble de l ' or a donne naissance au j 3 ft ^ "iniltrne > au plus atroce de tous les commerces ,. celui . des esclaves . O n

    parlg des ' . climes " contre nature ^ et Von ne cite , pa » celui-la com me le plus ex-Iscrabltf . That insatiable thirst of gold has given birth to the most infamous and atrocious of all trades , the slavetrade . We speak of crimes against nature , and forbear to instance that which is the most' execrable .

    $ ,. A ^ thiojiy Benezet , bom at St . Quintin , in Picardy , in 1713 , of a Protestant family . By the persecutions , on the revocation of the Edict of , W £ B'te 0 , hia father was first driven to Holland , then settled in London wi ( jb his w ; ife and several children in 1715 . In 1731 , the whole family remoji'Mto Philadelphia , where Anthony becwuv a . school master , and joiued the society of Quakers , assisting their endeavours to annihilate the

    unchristian practice of iiotding Negroes in slavery . His writings on this subject were numerous \ in 1762 be published Some Historical Account of Guinea , and

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    By tyrant-powY debarrrM his native la ^ d , o 5 r . r : ^ ¦ - ' . .: . ' . ' e . ¦ •* -.. ; . ' : ? .. ' : ,- ¦ ... ¦;¦ ^ By mercy guided to Columbia ' s strand , In mercy ' s cause hiiB life ' s long labours end

    Who liv'd and died , confest , the Ncgroe ' s friend . ho I Avarice ! at thy calf , the dread decree , Afric , a Slave , with Britain's guaranty . Yes , Britain , boasting her higbxfavourM

    land , ' Where pow ' r submits , while equal laws command , Whose legal sage , | j renownM , could erst declare , That SlavVy breathed not in her hcahJiful air ,

    in 1767 , Caution and Warning fa Gr&& Britain and her Colonies * With the same benevolent views Vie cones ponded with many persons in Europe , A merica , and the West Indies . Among the " r ^ . with Mr . Granville Sharp and Abb 6

    Raynal . Though mean i n hid jiersbnal appearance } such was the covtt € &iftf his manners , aftd so evident the purity of bis intentions , that he had read y access to people of all descriptions , and obtained the respect of 44 * 6 * sfew whom he failed to ittfittence , ' - ^

    Anthony Benezet zealously prorated t he cst ablishment of a ec hool to Philadelphia , for instructing the black people in common learning , ^ nd xde- ^ voted the two last years of hife life ' ^ a personal attendance on th « ecliooL By his . will ^ he . directed ^ thtt % arWf the decease of his widow , tife'Wli ^ ie

    little fortune ( the savings ' of &ky ye 4 rsi industry ) should , except a few ^ &ittftU legacies , be -applied to the support < &t the Negroe school . . ^ tit ^ y * & After-a few days illnees , thi ^ e ^^ eJ ^ lent man died , .. at Phjladcl | lliiay- _ ia His funeral attended b

    1784 . was y several thousands of aH •¦ i-aika , ^ pirpi fessioiiSj and parties , who a |> peari !| li sincerely to unite in deploi 4 rtg jAe ^ ii ' of this friend of mankind . The niOlirji ful procession was eloped Hy * smne hundreds of those pooi ' ^ Fegra > £ k ^ wli b had been personally bene ^ fifcfed b ^ hik labours , and whose behtiVitihr oi |*^ ei occasion arTefctiiigly eviniced tJbieir ^ rStitmle and afteclion for ^^ * h % tr ^ iri ^ efatf '

    gable benefactor . See ^ Advert , prefixea to the historical Account of Guinea . London . 178 8 . || The name of the lawyer who

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/46/