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    BRITISH SLAVES IN AFRICA . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , As the object of this letter is of much higher importance than to gratify idle curiosity , you would much oblige a subscriber to

    your work if you could insert it in your first number , which from the lateness of the application I fear you may experience a difficulty in doing . You have expressed in your prospectus , that your grand end will be accomplished if you succeed in diffusing the spirit of inquiry , and enlarging the circle of knowledge , objects of the first importance . But the diminution

    of human misery and promotion of general and individual happiness I am confident is what you have ultimately in view , and what would be your best reward for the labours in which . you are engaged . I wish , Sir , to be informed by any of your readers , who I doubt not will be numerous , if' there are any British subjects that are slaves on the coast , or in the interior of Africa ,

    By subsisting treaties our consuls have a right to demand their liberation , unless they are taken fighting under colours of those powers who are not at peace with them ; but I would wish to know whether there are any of this description , and also whether it is not possible that some unhappy countrymen of ours

    may be sent into the interior of the country , without the knowledge or out of the reach of our consuls to recover ? Any information on this head , or means pointed out likely to obtain it , will be thankfully received , and active measures taken that men so deplorably circumstanced shall be redeemed ,

    out of a fund appropriated for this express purpose . lam , Sir , cordially wishing a wide circulation of your Repository ^ and that it may extend knowledge , truth , liberty , and happiness to every quarter of the globe , Yours , &c * London * Jan . 28 , 1806 . E . J .

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    REMARKS ON GOGMAGQG . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , You must know , Mr . Editor , that I have long been a constant reader of the Theological Magazine , and though , as you -yvill perceive , I am somewhat different in my views from the persons who commonly wrote i $ that work , yet as I am fond of beholding the progress of opinion and the different operation ^ pf the hujqan mind , I haye , I confess , notwithstanding thp

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/21/