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who were at this moment- peculiarly attentive " , that ft was ever administered with—* -mercy was the word be was about to bring out , —but his eye at that instant encountered his brother ^ the Lord Chief Justice ! The preacher paused—he hemmed—his hearers were afraid that his manuscript ,
by some unlucky blot , v ^ is de illegible at this important place . A moment ' s consideration , however , re-assured him—* Mercy / said tie bishop , * is , in this
country administered with impartialityS Upon the whole this necessary alteration was made adroitly enough /'
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Abolition of the Slave Trade . At a most numerous and respectable Meeting of the Friends of the Abolition of the Slave Trade , held at the Freemasons' Hall on Friday the 17 th of June , 1814 , His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester in the Chair .
The following Resolutions were unanimously adopted — I . That this meeting has seen , with the deepest regret and disappointment , that in the recent Treaty of Peace with France no stipulation has heen made for
the immediate abolition of the African Slave Trade—a trade avowedly repugnant to every moral and religious principle—but that , on the contrary , a provision is contained in it , the consequence of which must be its revival on a large scale , and to an indefinite
extent . II . That this revival is attended with circumstances of peculiar aggravation ; great and populous colonies , in which , during the last seven years , the importation of slaves has been strictly prohibited , and has even been made highly penal , having been freely ceded to
France , not only without any stipulation for the continuance of that prohibition , but with the declared purpose , on the part of that country , of commencing a new Slave Trade for their supply : and thus a system of robbery and murder , which had for many years been practically extinct , is now to be renewed
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at the very moment when France . ha * been manifestly and signally favotrfd by Divine Providence : and the restoration to that country of the b . ess ing * and enjoyments of peace , is ! o be the signal for bringing all the evils and miseries of a continued warfare on the unoffending inhabitants of the African Continent .
Ill , That the revival of the French Slave Trade , and the unconditional restoration to France of her African forts and factories , must excite peculiar regret , by disappointing the * hopes which we had been led to indulge of the improvement and civilization of a
district of 150 O miles extent , in which those possessions are situated ;—a district in ^ hich . the Slave Trad e haviag been nearly suppressed , the consequent introduction of cultivation , and of a legitimate commerce , had begun to make some compensation for the misejies formerly inflicted *
IV . That since the abolition of the Slave Trade by Great Britain , the legitimate commerce of Africa had materially increased , and was rapidly augmenting to an extent which pro * mised important advantages to both
countries ; and that this intercourse , already become so beneficial and so consolatory in its prospects , is exposed to immediate injury and to eventual destruction , by the revival of that inhuman traffic which has so long retained that ill-fated coast in a state of barbarism . and desolation .
V . That this meeting cannot but lament that the recognition in the treaty of the radical injustice of the African Slave Trade should be followed by a provision for its revival ; and though that provision is accompanied by the declaration of an intention to abolish the trade in slaves after five
years , yet we cannot conceal from ourselves that various and extensive interests will be created , which , at the end of the specified term , will present new and alarming obstacles to the fulfilment of that declared intention . VI . That it appears to this meeting ,
that the strong disposition to favour the Slave Trade which is stated to prevail in France , at a time when there is so high a profession of reverence for the authority and an increased attention to the institutions of religion , probably arises from ignorance of the true nature and effect * of the Steve Trade ; and that
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442 Intelligence . —Ab o lition of the Slate Trade .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/58/
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