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And of the more full organization of this united class in 1787.

The fourth consisted of Dr. Peck ard in 1924, of the Author in 1785, of William Wilberforce, Esq. in 1786, and of tho who followed. Here the Author gives an account of the providential manner in which he was awakened to this great cause; of his feelings upon it; of the struggle he had in abandoning his pursuits in life to devote himself to it; of his own solitary labours; and of his junction, by degrees, with others, till the class now mentioned was formed.

Having shown that four distinct classes, in each of which certain individuals seemed to have had a preparatory education, as if to qualify them for taking a part in this great work, were in existence in 1787, the Author shows the providential manner in which all these classes, hitherto unknown to each other, were joined in that year; and how the committee was formed out of these in London, which was known afterwards as the Committee of the Society formed for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade.

this subject, the spirit which was awakened; the petitions to Parliament which followed; the inquiry of the Privy Council into the evil complained of; the examinations which took place in consequence; the communications of the Right Honourable William Pitt with the committee; his introduction of the question into the Commons; the examinations there; the melancholy facts which came out; the debate which took place upon them; the sub equent introduction of Sir William Dolben's Bill into the same House, in order to alleviate the horrors of the middle passage; the debate that followed; its introduction into the Lords; the debate upon it there also; and, finally, the pas ing of the same, and the end of the session. Hence the first volume gives the history of the rie and progress of the abolition from the year 1660 to the Summer of 1788. The second will continue this history till the final accomplishment of it in 1807.

As books of history and biography generally please young persons, and may be made very instructive to them, it is to be hoped that this history may be both entertaining and useful to the youth of the present age, and confirm all in an abhorrence of the evil contemplated in it. It will have a tendency, as a worthy Friend* has remarked, who has read the Manuscript, to awaken our best feelings, to stimulate us to virtuous exertion; and, while it is a faithful record of the important circumstances, that produced the great event of the Abolition of the Slave-Trade, it will be an instructive monument of the procedure of Divine Providence.

From this time the Author states the progress of the cause under two heads-the labours of the newly formed committee, and his own as an individual, till the end of the year 1787. The first comprehends the various measures taken by the committee during this period; their different publications; their correspondence with men of eminence and others both in England and in foreign parts, and the result of them in the great spread of the cause. The second comprehends the contents of the journal of the Author during his residence at Bristol and Liverpool; the objects of his inquiry; his disThe Names of Subscribers to coveries; his painful feelings; his be sent to T. Clarkson, at William great difficulties; his severe trials, Allen's, Plough-court, Lombard and dangerous situation on many street. occasions; and, finally, his return, after many interesting anec dotes, to the committee in London.

The Author carries the next period to the end of the session of Parliament 1788. He continues his account of the labours of the committee in all the departments before mentioned. He describes the beginning of the people's attention to

MISCELLANEOUS.

CHARACTER OF MR. FOX, BY SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.

The following character of Mr. Fox appeared in the Bon bay Courier of Jan. 17th. It has been attributed, we have no doubt justly, to the pen of a gentleman who fills the first station

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in the judicial department of that guished by wit, politeness, or philo settlement. The learned and eloquent recorder of Bombay, came into public life under the peculiar patro nage of Mr. Fox, and his friend. He advocated their measures, and was the follower of their fortunes. But "hope deferred makes the heart sick." Probably despairing of any,“ tide in the affairs of men," which might carry his friends into power, he made his peace with Mr. Pitt, a statesman whom he had often justly denounced as the friend of war, and the foe of reformation. At length this gentleman had his reward in an appointment lucrative and honourable, yet by one of political taste, and talents, in danger of being regared as a splendid banishment. It was natural for such a person, on receiving the intelligence of Mr. Fox's death, to recollect former attachments and to express in a manner worthy of the subject, the esteem and affection, which a familiar intercourse with that great man, could hardly have failed to inspire.

sophy, or learning, or the talents of public life. In the course of thirty years, he had known almost every man in Europe, whose intercourse could strengthen, or enrich, or polish the mind. His own literature was various and elegant. In classical erudition, which, by the custom of England, is more peculiarly called learning, he was inferior to few professed scholars. Like all men of genius, he delighted to take refuge in poetry, from the vulgarity and irritation of business. His own verses were easy and pleasing, and might have claimed no low place among those which the French call vers de societé. The poetical character of his mind was displayed in his extraordinary partiality for the poetry of the two most poetical nations, or at least languages, of the west, those of the Greeks, and of the Italians. He disliked political conversation and never willingly took any part in it. To speak of him justly as an orator, would require a long essay. Every MR. FOX united in a most re- where natural, he carried into public markable degree, the seemingly re- something of that simple and negli pugnant characters of the mildest of gent exterior, which belonged to him men, and the most vehement of ora- in private. When he began to tors. In private life he was gentle, speak, a common observer, might modest, placable; kind, of simple have thought him awkward; and manners, and so averse from parade even a consummate judge, could only and dogmatism, as to be not only unostentatious, but even somewhat inactive in conversation. His superiority was never felt, but in the instruction which he impa ted, or in the attention which his generous preference usually directed to the more obscure members of the company The simplicity of his manners was far from excluding that perfect urbanity, and amenity which flowed still more from the mildre s of his nature, than from familiar intercoure with the most polished society of Europe. His conversation when it

have been struck with the exquisite justness of his ideas, and the transparent simplicity of his manners. But no sooner had he spoken for some time, than he was changed into another being. He forgot himself, and every thing around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed, and kindled, as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction. He certainly possessed above all moderns that union of reason, simplicity, and we not repressed by modesty, or bemence, which formed the prince of indolence, was delightful. The plea orators. He was the most Demossantry perhaps of no man of wit had thenean speaker, since DEMOSTHENES. so unlaboured an appearance. It I knew him' says MR. BURKE, in a seemed rather to escape from his mind, than to be produced by it. He had lived on the mo t intimate terms with all his contemporaries, distin

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pamphlet written after their unhappy difference, 'when he was ninetcen; since which time he has risen, by slow degrees, to be the most brilliant, and ac

complished debater, that the world this part of MR. Fox's character, than the words of MR. BURKE, who in January 1797, six years after all intercourse between them had ceased, speaking to a person honoured with some degree of MR. Fox's friendship said.

To be sure he is a man made to be loved!' and these emphatical words, were uttered with a fervour of manner which left no doubt of their heart-felt sincerity.

ever saw. The quiet dignity of a mind roused only by great objects, the absence of petty bustle, the contempt of show, the abhorrence of intrigue, the plainness and downrightness, and the thorough good nature which distinguished MR. Fox, seem to render him no very unfit representative of that old English national character, which if it ever changed, we should be sanguine indeed to expect "These few hasty and honest sento see succeeded by a better. The tences, are sketched in a temper too simplicity of his character inspired sober and serious for intentional exconfidence, the ardour of his eloquence aggeration, and with too pious an roused enthusiasm, and the gentleness affection for the memory of MR. Fox, of his manners invited friendship. I to profane it by intermixture with the admired' says MR. GIBBON, the factious brawls and wrangles of the powers of a superior man, as they are day. His political conduct belongs to blended in his attractive character, history. The measures which he supwith all the softness and simplicity of a child: no human being was ever more free from any taint of malignity, vanity or falsehood.' From these qualities of his public, and private character, it probably arose that no English statesman ever preserved, during so long a period of adverse fortunes, so many affectionate friends and so many zealous adherents. The union of ardour in public sentiment, with mildness in social manner, was, in MR. Fox, an hereditary quality. The same fascinating power over the attachment of all who came within his sphere, is said to have belonged to his father; and those who know the survivors of another generation, will feel that this delightful quality is not yet extinct in the race.

"Perhaps nothing can more strongly prove the deep impression made by

ported or opposed may divide the opinion of posterity, as they have divided those of the present age. But he will most certainly command the unanimous reverence of future generations, by his pure sentiments towards the commonwealth, byhis zeal for the civil and religious rights of all men, by his liberal principles favourable to mild government, to the unfettered exercise of the human faculties, and the progressive civilization of mankind, by his ardent love for a country, of which the well-being and greatness were indeed inseparable from his own glory, and by his profound reverence for that free constitution, which he was universally admitted to understand, better than any other man of his age, both in an exactly legal and a comprehensively philosophical sense.”

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CORRESPONDENCE.

Our Review of Books is excluded this month by the variety and length of other Communications.

The Clergyman's Second Letter will appear in our next number.

The Letter occasioned by the Review of Bennet's Se mon in our last Number will be published next month, if the writer will send us his name and address Our Correspondents in general will at once see the propriety of our making it a rule to insert nothing in cur work relating to matters of fact which comes to us under the unauthentic shape of an anonymous letter.

A Correspondent has favoured us with a life of Professor Griesbach, which shall appear in an early Nuniber.

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SOME ACCOUNT OF MORGANT, COMMONLY CALLED PELA¬ GIUS: WITH A SKETCH OF THE STATE OF CHRISTIANITY IN WALES FROM HIS TIME TO

THAT OF WICKLIFFE.

THAT HAT Pelagius was a Briton, is allowed on all hands. "All ancient writers" (says Wall)" style him a Briton; and we understand by St. Austin, (Ep. 106 ad Paulinum) that he was commonly called Pelagius Brito, Pelagius the Briton, ta distinguish him from another Pelagius that was of Tarentum.” He is said to have been educated at the celebrated monastery or college of Bangor in Flintshire, of whose order or constitution many remarkable things have been related. The monks or students were said to be divided into twenty-four classes or companies, consisting of so many hundred persons. Each class or company spent an hour daily in devotional exercises, which was done in regular rotation, so that the whole twenty-four hours were employed in acts of devotion or divine worship, by one part or other of the community. The rest of the time of each class was regularly spent or distributed between sleep, literary pursuits and agricultural, manual or mechanical labour: so that it might be said that they supported themselves or subsisted by their own industry and the sweat of their brows. In this seminary Pelagius's literary proficiency seems to have been very considerable, for he appears to have acquired a complete knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages, and of all the different branches of learning then deemed most necessary and reputable; which is more than could be said of most of the Fathers, as they are called, of that period, St. Austin himself not excepted: St. Jerome was perhaps almost the only exception. He was very learned, and at the same time very uncourteous, illiberal and abusive to all who differed from him, or with whom he had any dispute; of which Pelagius and his friends, VOL. II,

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