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Cooper, the celebrated author of the popular American novels; Mr. Owen, of Lanark, the celebrated philanthropist. "Mr. "The Mr. Owen mentioned above is the very man I sometimes met at Mr. Wilberforce's in London, and who was present at the interesting scene I have often related that occurred at Mr. Wilberforce's.
There he lost perpetually and prodigiously, until he was stripped of every thing, and pauperised for life. It gives a strong conception of the universality of this vice, to find so timid and girlish a nature as the late William Wilberforce's initiated into the same career. The very first time I went to Boodle's, I won twenty-five guineas of the Duke of Norfolk.
Here and there, also, were little shelves of oak in the common Anglomaniac style of woodwork, ornamented with trefoils, crosses, circles, and triangles, and containing a curious collection of sacred literature, beginning with the ancient volume entitled Wilberforce's View, including the poetry published in a series of Lyras, Lyra Anglicana, Lyra Germanica, and so on, culminating at last in the works of Dr.
How had he been attacked? Where was he to be defended? But, if attacked, how did the letters aid, how connect themselves with, how, in any manner of way, bear upon the defence, or any defence, or any portion of Wilberforce's character and life? They showed him to have contributed towards the payment of a debt he had contracted to Clarkson.
The boldness displayed in its pages on this occasion was excessive. As if feeling that the weak and indefensible part in the assault was the publishing of the letters, it had the confidence to affirm, that this proceeding was called for in justice to Wilberforce's memory. So daring an attempt upon the integrity of facts has not often been witnessed. What! Then, upon what ground necessary?
He then obtained employment in the Prize Appeal Court of the Privy Council, generally known as the 'Cockpit. He divided the leading business with Dallas until his appointment to a Mastership in Chancery in 1811. Stephen was now able to avow his anti-slavery principles and soon became one of Wilberforce's most trusted supporters.
At the time of the arrival of the delegates, who were received as such by the committee, a letter came from Bath, in which it was stated that Mr. Wilberforce's health was in such a precarious state, that his physicians dared not allow him to read any letter which related to the subject of the Slave Trade.
He must give no offence. Mr. Wilberforce's humanity will go all lengths that it can with safety and discretion: but it is not to be supposed that it should lose him his seat for Yorkshire, the smile of Majesty, or the countenance of the loyal and pious. He is anxious to do all the good he can without hurting himself or his fair fame. His conscience and his character compound matters very amicably.
If Wilberforce's name was mentioned, she would say, 'Oh, I wish we had the wretch in the West Indies, I would be one of the first to help to tear his heart out! and then she would tell of the manner in which the West Indian ladies used to treat their slaves.
Their eyes were first opened by Pitt's change of attitude with regard to the object that was next all their hearts. There is something almost pathetic in the contrast between two entries in Wilberforce's diary, of which the first has become classical, but the second is not so generally known.
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