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jtist performed , and the requests and comp laints , stated above , were again urged upon my attention , with great emp hasis and apparent sincerity ; and here ended my labours for this day . The scene was novel and tumultuous ; v et I could not help thinking that it portended well . Out of so many who professed a regard for religion , I thoug ht I might reasonably hope to find a few sincere ; but I was
disappointed . For even those who laid claim to the Christian name were afterwards found to be persons totally void of religious feelings , and absolutel y given up to the practice of the grossest vices . Discoveries of this sort were inexpressibly painful ; yet they could only he regarded as so many reasons
for persevering in our experiment . As to the unbaptized , they turned out , as your readers will see hereafter , to he equally depraved , and , to a slave , wholly destitute of what might be termed a steady desire to attend to things of a spiritual nature . They were all perfectly aware that I held
niyselt in readiness to serve them at all times , and that nothing was exported , or would be received of them , but their attendance ; their master having undertaken to bear all the expenses of the mission : yet they never runic to me in their own time , for many months together , with that
decree of regularity which was absoii « lute-l y requisite to ensure their permanent improvement . At one period a ( cw of them did , indeed , appear to fake real pleasure in hearing rne read and illustrate , in a familiar manner ,
s'Hiie ot the most striking parts of the historical Scriptures . But what took their attention above all things , wad in si ght of some of those large plates which
are hound up in Goadby ' s Bible . Upon these J have seen them gaze with deli ght and astonishment , and I douht not that in some instances they afforded them a degree of information
% these methods alone we endeavoured to turn their thoughts to subjects of a spiritual kind for the first mx or seven months we were in Jamaica , when it was resolved to allow . 1 ' ~ — * , w w WW M VyKJ V ^ » V V ^ - * * % / \^ F V M ¦* J » r
(. * * : V - IU half a day in a fortnight , out ot r <> P , tor the purpose of attending on " - The manner in which this time V ° n » ployed , together with the rela-1011 <> f » oine other particulars , will
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constitute the subject of my letter for your next Number . T . COOPER . ii ^^^ __
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Original Letter from Mr . Fox to Seeker , Bishop ofBristol ' . 219
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— <^^^^ v » Norwich , Sir , March 22 , 1822 . AM indebted for the inclosed to I Mr . -Clifford , of the Theatre-Royal
in this city . It is a copy of an additional letter from Mr . Fox to Seeker , ( then Bishop of Bristol , ) which completes the correspondence with them at that period .
From Mr , Fox to the Bishop of Bristol * Plymouth , My Lord , May 4 , 1736 . I am very sensible that an address of this kind to one in your Lordship ' s situation , ought to be attended with some reasonable apology ; especially as it comes
from a person of low rank in life , probably not thought of for many years past , and perhaps not suspected to be in the land of the living . All I can say for this liberty with your Lordship is , that I believe the same goodness and generosity which I knew to have guided your
thoughts and actions eighteen or twenty years ago , do still prevail ; and that I cannot think your Lordship will be offended with me , who had ouce the honour to be called your friend , for doing that now , which I had the pleasure of doing then very often .
Providence hath continued me in the same solitude and obscurity in which I was when your Lordship left England suffer me to assure you , my Lord , and in the sincerity of my heart I say it , that the different dispositions of it in your favour hath given me unspeakable satisfaction . The same sentiments of
friendship which you have often kindied in me are alive and warm ; and 1 rejoice to see once in my life a lover of virtue and of mankind called forth to a station in which he can so well promote the interests of both .
1 have long intended to indulge myself iu making your Lordship some humble but sincere congratulations of this sort ; but the belief that your Lordship ' s time and thoughts being employed in things of consequence hath made me afraid of
being troublesome I hope , iny Lord , you will accept this as it is meant , and not impute it to the low vanity of making myself known ; with which ( if any thing can be remembered of me ) you never knew me tainted .
1 heartily wish your Lordship a long and happy continuance in your station ; and beg leave , with all becoming delcrencQ
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/27/
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