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Letter III. Copy of a Letter to Dr. Fox, (Falmonth,) respecting a Negro Boy.
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part of the ceremonial law of the Jews , now superseded and become obsolete , but it is manifestly a moral law , a branch of the moral revealed law of God , which is of eternal obligation . And all the colonial laws ,
that are contrary thereto , are ipso facto null and void according to the constitution of England , and cannot be effectual to recover any such pretended penalties ,, if this proper plea be opposed to them : for even a statute of Parliament , enacted and formed
by all the requisite authority of king , lords and commons , must be deemed equally null and void for any purpose that is directly contrary to an express law of God I Mr . Wilberforce and Mr . H .
Thornton are at a great distance in the country , and indeed most of the leading members of our society are out of town : and , besides , we have no funds , having spent all long ago ! As to myself , I have sunk so much money in a variety of litigations on behalf of the poor Blacks , that it is absolutely
out of my power to afford any further pecuniary assistance ; but , as I have actually established the practice of rendering the Habeas Corpus Act effectual for relief in all such cases , I hope you will find no difficulty in proceeding under the direction of some honest and intelligent lawyer . 1 remain with great esteem ,
Dear Sir , Your affectionate friend and Humble servant , GRANVILLE SHARP . Mr . Harry Gandy , at Bristol . ^ mm
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SSO Copy , of a Letter to Dr . Fox , respecting a Negro Boy .
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Letter II , Mr . Gandy in Reply to Mr . Granville Sharp . Bristol , 8 tk of 8 th Mo . 1797 . Dear . Friend ,
T 1 H Y obliging favour , dated this JL day twelve months , was , for its important contents , perused by such a number of friends here to the African cause , that for a while I actually knew not where it was : so that when
I found it , the time for answering it was so fdr elapsed , that I omitted , through that and some other causes , doing it to this day : which I mentioned a few days since , with real concern to our worthy friend Richard Philips , who justly reproved me for
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No . 1 , Garden Court , Temple , Sir , London , MthJul y * 1798 .
LA ST week on my return from the country I found on my table a letter from Mr . William Phillips , ( son of your friend James Phillips , ) inclosing your letter of the 29 * h ult . respecting a poor Negro boy in
danger of being sent abroad as a slave , &c . It was never an object of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade , to undertake the defence by law of individual slaves against , their oppressors , but only to solicit a
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the neglect , and said that " even now it was better late than never , " or words to that effect ^ It is therefore under a painful sense of this inexcusable neglect that I take up the pen , not with a view to apologize for the shameful omission , because 1 know it will admit of none
but just to say , what ought to have been said almost a year since , that thy acceptable letter had its desired effect : for in a day or two after it came to hand , I had another opportunity with the merchant ai > d Captain Alleyn , who , on perusing thy
letter , and finding us determined to defend poor Harry Harper , they readily relinquished their claim and released the prisoner , and settled the matter to mutual satisfaction : previous to which we had employed an
attorney , who on reading thy letter , asked me if the gentleman who wrote it , was not a counsellor . I told him he was not professionally so , but in point of legal knowledge , he was superior to most of them .
I dont know that ever I was guilty of such a breach of correspondence before , which is the more reprehensible as the end , by that now alluded to , was so fully and completely answered : so that it justly and
deservedly precludes even the hope of a reply to this , although such , comprised but in a single line , would administer great relief to the uneasy mind of thy obliged and affectionate friend , HARRY GANDY . Granville Sharp , London .
Letter Iii. Copy Of A Letter To Dr. Fox, (Falmonth,) Respecting A Negro Boy.
Letter III . Copy of a Letter to Dr . Fox , ( Falmonth , ) respecting a Negro Boy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/10/
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