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by which " the Negroes imported into Jamaica , Barbadoes and Antigua only , amounted in three years , from 1700 to 1702 , to 42 , 000 / ' Against some writer
who opposed him on the subject of this trade , though apparently on points of political ueconomy , and not from any moral scruples , he is very severe , describing him as entertaining ' * villainous de
signs , " and as justly « odious to all men of true probity and vir . lue . " This is the only occasion on which probity and virtue are 3 iamed , or indeed considered ,
through the 50 pages of this pamphlet . Humanity is quite out of the question . The great mortality among the Negroes during the passage , and while kept for
& market , is indeed mentioned , but only commercially as a set-off against the profit on sales , like the staving of rum puncheons , or j& salt-water damage to bale-goods .
Reflecting what feelings on this subject Britons have lately discovered , even in spite of ihe apathy displayed by their government , and what is their present jealousy of France , we have at least one
satisfactory answer to those , if there are any , who say that the former times ivere better than these . MERCATOR .
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Birth-place of George Fox . Hinckley ^ Avg . 5 , 1814 . Sir , We are informed that no less
than seven famous cities contended for the honour of having been ihe birth-place of the oldest and greatest of poets- ^ -
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Smyrna , Chios , Colophon , Salamis , Rhodos , Argos , Athene . Orbis de p atria cert at , Homere , tua . At this distance of time , and in the absence of the necessary documents , it is , perhaps , impossible to decide to which the honour ought to be awarded .
But where the birth-place of eminent and extraordinary per . sons can be ascertained , it ought to be carefully preserved ,. I have been led to make ihis observation by reading , in Mr . Parsons ' s second edition of his Abridgment of
Neal ' s History of the Puritan * , the account he gives of the founder of the sect , called Quakers , who , he says , was born at Dray ton , in Lancashire . Whereas it is well known , that George Fox was born at Fennv Dravton * a
village in Leicestershire , about six miles from Hinckley , In this place he preached bis first sermon , under a large tree ; which , with
the village itself , has been held in veneration by his followers , who have made pilgrimages there , contemplate the birth-place of their founder ; and no less happy did he deem himself , who could
obtain a piece of the tree , under which Fox first held forth , than a pious Catholic in possessing a bit of the true cross . I have known Irish Quakers , very lately visit Drayton , out of respect to the memory of George Fox ; but alas ! like the wood of the true cross , the tree at Drayton has
disappeared . As there have been other editions of Neah it is highly culpable in the abridger to silflfei ^ rfiis error to disgrace the present- The edition of Neal , published some years since , by my honoured
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552 Birth-pl&ct ofl George Fox ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 552, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/28/
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