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The raison d'être of the Congo Free State was, that it stood for freedom of trade in that great area; and to sign away one of the birthrights of modern civilisation, owing to the plea of a temporary want of cash in Congoland, can only be described as the act of a political Esau. He also granted to slaves the right of appeal to him in case they were cruelly treated. See Parl.
Journals, Sept. 6, 9, 11, 19. "Next day, 13th, the common prisoners were brought through Westminster to Tuthill fields a sadder spectacle was never seen except the miserable place of their defeat and there sold to several merchants, and sent to the Barbadoes." Heath, 301. Fifteen hundred were granted as slaves to the Guinea merchants, and transported to the Gold Coast in Africa. Parl.
In this instance they found that Prince Alexander had made the revolution. See, too, Parl. At first, however, the Prince doubted whether he should accept the crown of a Greater Bulgaria which the men of Philippopolis now enthusiastically offered to him.
Rigby replied, that he was obliged to his worthy friend for teaching him Latin, and would take the first opportunity to return the favour by teaching him English. Southey's Cowper, iii. 317. Lord Chatham, in the House of Lords, said of Trecothick: 'I do not know in office a more upright magistrate, nor in private life a worthier man. Parl. Hist. xvi. 1101. See post, Sept. 23, 1777.
He marched back to the capital; the hope of resistance was abandoned; Edinburgh and Leith opened their gates, and the whole country to the Forth submitted Whitelock, 470, 471. Ludlow, i. 283. Balfour, iv. 97. Several proceedings, No. 50. Parl. Hist. xix. 343-352, 478. Cromwelliana, 89.
Pitt, in 1784, laid a tax of ten shillings a year on every horse 'kept for the saddle, or to be put in carriages used solely for pleasure.'Parl. Hist. xxiv. 1028.
Six days earlier the Lord-Advocate Dundas had brought in a bill for the Regulation of the Government of India. Hastings, he said, should be recalled. His place should be filled by 'a person of independent fortune, who had not for object the repairing of his estate in India, that had long been the nursery of ruined and decayed fortunes. Parl. Hist. xxiii. 757. Johnson wrote to Dr. See ante, p. 66.
And, as the civil power prescribed limits unto, and at pleasure altered, the prelatic church, so this church has accepted of a formula, prescribed by the civil power, requiring that all the ordinances within the same be performed by the ministers thereof, as they were then allowed them, or should thereafter be declared by their authority, as Act 23d, Sess. 4th, Parl. 1st, 1693, expressly bears.
And it plainly appears from this incident, as well as from many others, that, of all European nations, the British were at that time, and till long after, the most under the influence of that religious spirit which tends rather to inflame bigotry than increase peace and mutual charity. * Journ. 18th April, 1626. Franklyn, p. 3, etc. * Parl. Hist. vol. vi. p. 374. Journ. 1st Aug. 1625. Parl.
* Rush. vol. v. p. 351. Rush. vol. v. p. 203. v Parl. Hist. vol. vii. p. 282. Rush. vol. v. p. 209. A committee was elected by the lower house as a court of inquisition upon the clergy, and was commonly denominated the committee of "scandalous ministers."
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