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tempt all at first, but trust to time to the highest national interest in a cóme bring the golden fruits they had in view mercial point of view. to maturity. He expatiated on the benefits that would ensue from this design; as instead of the horrid and inhuman traffic hitherto carried on, we should now reap greater advantages from a just and humane commerce.

Mr. Thomas Walker, could not for. bear to express his approbation of the proposed Institution. He referred to the zeal which his townsmen of Manchester had shewn against the African Slave Trade, and was persuaded that this measure would receive their generous support.

The foregoing Resolutions were then put and adopted. The Duke of Gloucester was chosen President of the Institution, and a Committee appointed consisting of a number of Noblemen and Gentlemen, to draw up Laws and Regulations, to be presented to a general meeting to be held at Freemason's Hall, the 12th of May.

Mr. Rutt said that he was persuaded the meeting could not agree to separate without testifying in the most public manner, their gratitude for those exertions, the success of which, had enabled them to indulge the hope of at length doing son.ething to repair the injuries of Africa. He was sure they would anticipate the name he was about to mention, of a gentleman who while many may have displayed equal zeal and good intention, had been called upon to perform extraordinary services in this great cause. He then moved,

Mr. Wilberforce expressed his sense of the honour done him, but declared it equally due to many others who had laboured with him and now ought to enjoy the same applause. He felt pes culiar gratification in the approbation of his conduct, by the gentleman who had last spoken, who represented a town which was most interested in the African Trade.

The resolution was then unanimously adopted.

The Rev. Mr. John Owen (of Fulham,) addressed the Meeting in very animated language. He personified Africa under the character of a deserted child, and thus introduced an affectionate culoguim on Mr. Ganville Sharp, who for more than forty years had laboured in this great cause of humanity. He concluded by moving a resolution of thanks to that gentle

man.

Mr. Rutt said that he could not deny himself the gratification of seconding a motion of thanks to Mr. Granville Sharp, whose writings on the subject of Negro-slavery falling into his hands when a boy, first gave him that idea of its enormity which had never left him to the present moment. He then caled the attention of the Meeting to the state of public opinion when, more than forty years ago, as mentioned by the Rev. gentleman, Mr. Sharp first agitated this question. There was then a general acquiescence in the notion that Black men were articles of property, and just objects of sale or barter among White men in England, as well as every where else. Mr. Sharp, in the common road of his venevolence, met with a case upon which he was determined to try the question, as it Mr. Roscoe, M. P. for Liverpool, respected Negroes in England. He beseconded the motion, and paid many lieved that the law was in his favour, deserved compliments to the exertions though all the eminent interpreters of Mr. Wilberforce. He observed that of the law were against him. He it never could have been the will of the Creator of the universe that one part of the creation should enjoy happiness at the expense of another. He was assured that though the formation of such an Institution appeared at first sight only a measure of humanity, it would, in the end, prove a measure of

That the thanks of this meeting be given to William Wilbe force Esq. for his unwearied exertions, during many years, to expose the injustice and cruelty of the African Save Trade, and to procure its abolition by the legislature of Great Britain.

persevered and after some time Lord Mansfield with the magnanimity wor thy of a great man who can most readily acknowledge himself to have been in the wrong, declared upon the bench that Mr. Sharp was founded in his construction of the law of England, which in this in tance he had grone

dusly interpreted. From that time Mr. Sharp attached himself to the great object of the abolition of the Slave Trade, and he had now the happiness to solace the calm evening of his life with the recollection of the success which had attended the benevolent exertions of his youth and manhood.

Mr. Rutt then handed to Mr. Owen a resolution that he had himself designed to move which that gentleman now adopted and Mr. R. seconded-It was in the following terms.

That the thanks of this Meeting be given to Granville Sharp Esq. for his zealous, early and persevering efforts in opposition to the African Slave Trade, and for his generous endeavours, at first unsupported, though at length suc cessful, to establish the claims of Afri cans resident in Great eritain, to the common rights of legal protection and personal freedom.

After a few words from Mr. Wilberforce expre-sive of his veneration for the character of Mr. Sharp the Resolution was unanimously adopted.

Mr. W. Smith (late M. P. for Norwich) said that he felt himself a little perplexed by a consideration of the many names which with great propriety might be mentioned on this occasion. He could scarcely refrain from proposing those of Lord Grenville and Lord Howick who had so ably introduced and carried through parliament the late Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, there was however one gentleman whom he must distinguish for whose assistance he was persuaded his friend Mr. Wilberforce had found a load of labours lightened which other wie he could scarcely have sustained,

Mr. Smith then moved,

That the thanks of this meeting be given to Mr. Thos. Clarkson for the zeal activity and perseverance which he has uniformity exerted in promoting the Abolition of the African Slave Trade.

Mr. Wilberforce seconded the motion. He declared that Mr. Clarkson's services had been always so important in their nature and so free y bestowed upon him that he atmost identified that gent eman with himself apon this question and onsidered him as includd in every mark of approbation he received.

This resolution being unanimously adopted the business of the day concluded by a Resolution to solicit sub

scriptions in London and the Country to promote the obje ts of the Institution and a Vote of thanks to the Duke of G oucester for his zealous, able and eloquent support of the cause of Africa both in and out of parliament.

MEMOIRS OF AN AFRICAN CAPTAIN. THE subject of the following narrative is a FREE NEGRO. He is Captain of an American vessel, now on her passage from Savannah to Liverpool, and the whole of the crew are also FREE NEGROES The Delaware Society for promoting the Aboli hing of Slavery have authenticated this narrative, for the purpose of shewing that, with suitable culture and a fair opening for the exertion of talents, the NEGRO possesses a portion of intellect and energy by which he is enabled to form great designs, to adapt means to the end in the prosecution of them, to combat danger,to surmount difficulties; and thus to evince that, with equal advan.ages of education and cir umstances, the Negro-race might fairly be compared with their white brethren on any part of the globe.

BRIEF MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE of Capt. PAUL CUFFEE,

Of West-port, Massachusetts. The father of the subject of this memoir, was a native of Africa, and brought a, a slave into Massachusett he was owned by a person named Slocum and remained in slavery a considerable portion of his life-From the family to which he belonged he acquired the name of Cuffee Slocum. He was a man of an active mind, and habituated to industry. Le many of his countrymen he possess el a spirit above hi condition, and although he was di igent in the bu iness of his master, and faithful to his interest yet he contrived, by great industry and economy, to collect money for the purchase of his personal liberty. At this tune the fragment of several indian tribes, who possessed the original right of soil, re ided in the, then, province of setts-Cuffre became acquainted with a woman belonging to one of those tribes, named Moves, and married her econ tinu in his habits of frugality and industry, and by the biessing of Providence on his labours, he was enabled to purchase · afarm of one hundred acres, on the Westport river in Massachusetts.

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From Cuffee Slocum and Moses his wife, descended several children. It ap pears that three of their sons are farmers and occupy lands near their birth place. We are not sufficiently acquainted with their characters to speak particularly respecting them. While his children were yet young, Cuffee died, leaving his property by will among them, whom he surnamed Cuffee. At this time Paul Cuffee, the subject of the present memoir, who was born in 1759, was about fourteen years of age. Notwithstanding his youthfulness he seems to have been burthened with such cares as generally require the mental vigour of manhood. His portion of his father's legacy was charged with several debts, and the care of providing for his mother, and younger brothers, rested on his shoulders. He felt the weight and importance of his charge, and he did not, like many other persons of a different complexion, desert his duty, but resolved, honourably, to exert all his abilities for the performance of the task committed to his hand. At this time the products of labour, on the farm, were not adequate to his wishes nor necessities. He perceived that commerce furnished to industry more ample rewards than agriculture, and he was conscious that he possessed qualities which, under proper culture, would enable him to pursue commercial employments with fair prospects of succes. At the age of sixteen years he entered as a common hand on board of a vessel destined to the Bay of Mexico, on a Whaling voyage. He was so well pleased with the result of his first enterprize, that he speedily engaged in a second of the same kind. After his second voyage, being about eighteen years of age, he thought himself sufficiently skilled to enter into business on his own account. He laid before his elder brother a plan for opening a commercial intercourse with the state of Connecticut. His b other was well pleased with the prospect, they procured an open boat and proceeded to sea. Here, for the first time, his brother found himself exposed to the perils of the ocean, and the hazards of a pedatory warfare, which was carried on for many leagues along the coa t, by the Refugees. They had not traversed many kagues of the sea when his brother's fears began to multiply and magnify the dangers-his courage sunk, and he resolved to return.

This disappointment was a severe trial to a young man of Paul's adventurous and intrepid spirit-but he was affectionate and many years younger than his brother, and he was obliged to submit to the determination. Paul returned to his farm and laboured diligently in his fields-but his mind was frequently res volving new schemes, and forming new plans of commercial enterprize. When he attained twenty years, he had collected materials for another effort-he made the attempt-went to sea, and lost all the little treasure which, by the sweat of his brow, he had gathered. The unfortu nate result of his voyage would have discouraged a common mind from ever engaging in schemes of so great hazard, toil, and uncertainty. But Paul possessed that active courage which is the natu ral offspring of a mind satisfied of the practicability of its plans, and conscious of its power to accomplish what it conceives, and therefore he resolutely determined to persevere in the road which he had marked to himself as the way to fortune. The necessity of aiding his mo ther and his younger brothers was a constant and strong incitement to renew his efforts. His funds were not very amplethey were not sufficient to purchase a boat and cargo. But a boat must be procured-for a cargo without a boat would be useless, and a boat without a cargo would be equally unprofitable. In the very outset he felt himself in a dilemma--What should he do? Give up all hope of com merce and return to the unproductive labours of his farm? He was not indolent-he felt no aversion to the toils of employment-they were agreeable, but he had proved to himself that however diligently he should cultivate his fields they would not yield so much profit as would better the condition of himself and family. Commerce bid fair to satisfy his wishes. If he could once rightiy enter on the business, by the blessing of providence, he believed his efforts would finally succeed. What he was unable to purchase with money he resolved to acquire hy labour. He saw that his own hands were formed like those of other men, and if one man could build a boat, he concluded that another with similar tools might do the same thing.

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ERRATA.

The reader is requested to correct the following Errata in the Review of Griesbach's New Testament, in our last Number.

P. 152.—Col. 2.—I. 26. For Mt. as read Mt. ar

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