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    cither- side . ' And there are situations n which I might find more freedom than where I now reside , in associfltin * for the purpose of public worship ? under the form peculiar to our Friends—and to which / am strongly attached on account of its simplicity , and the solemnity of its design /* In" 1786 * , Mr . Mathews published

    " TThe Miscellaneous Companions . " The first volume consists of ** a short Tour of Observation and Sentiment through a part of South Wales . But even this part of his work , evinces his benevolent and virtuous disposition . Most of his remarks on the

    incidents of the journey , or on the objects that attracted fus attention , are calculated to guard against some moral evil , or to promote some practical good . Thus , in passing through Bristol , at a time when the merchants of that city were deeply engaged in the African slave-trade , before the

    public mind was awakened to its enormity ; more than twenty years before the act passed for its abolition ; and previous to the first efforts of the philanthropic Clarkson in this great cause of humanity ;—Mr . Mathews , after some interestirm remarks on the

    arts of ship-building and navigation , observes , " The evidences of superior ^ kill and elegance , in the construction of shipping which so strongly mark the present days , however flattering to the pride of modern ingenuity , and however ornamental to our trading cities , like many other boasted im

    provements and embellishments , are far from being evidences of superior virtue : and where virtue and moral usefulness are wanting , in the Maturity of contrivance , or the applications and uses of art , much is

    g to charm the mind of a Wawionate and virtuous man . Inus , while we survey with astonish-1 D jenLand delight , those productions !? mechanic genius ., which we have ' ^ treating of ; and consider their Caption to carry on an intercourse vwh k gn and rcmotc countries , urn h u J er vi * tuous regulation ^ , at leasant and ben

    fificK «« l once p e' J who but must lament thpir ^' wt also l Z sla T and < " * - hbdbnrf u * Wltn > oilt horror , can iS ? leaj | ' gilded , . and ornauiiH fl ^ > "ding at her anchors , > i 2 i ! fc « - tbot he ? * ° ! d has ' ^ I w le dungeon , and the grave , of

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    many a poor innocent and mournful African , violently dragged - on board from his native fields and every tender connexion ! Who , without blushing

    for his country , and for human infamy , can survey the splendid engine of rapacious power without shuddering to the heart , at the thought of the pangs , the sorrows , and the suffocations which have existed beneath its

    gaudy ensigns ! Who , that is worthy the name of man , but must deplore that the best principles of nature ^ and all that is benevolent in the human heart should be so wantonly violated ! That any calling himself a Christian , should commence the

    tvrant , and become the murderer , cf distant unoffending fellow-creatures , whom he never saw , merely to have a chance of augmenting wealth , which , when gotten , must prove a shame , if not a curse to his generation !"

    In the course of this journey Mr . Mathews availed himself of a ludicrous misapplication of a common word , by a genteel young man of good natural talents and disposition , who rode with him several miles , to give his readers some useful * ' thoughts on education . " From

    these 1 shall select a passage or two before I emit this volume . " The division 01 empire ? -and provinces , " says he , ** the general principles of the laws of nations—the rise * progress and importance of discoveries in arts and sciences , as well as the general history of mankind : — these , or at least the elements of these should un-,

    doubtedly form parts of a libera l education . These , inculcated \ yith a view to store the mind with important subjects for future reflection , will , have the most enlarging and beneficial tendency , especially as they

    may powerfully come m aid ^ of a frequent and . ? serious contemplation of tne great Governor of all things , and of all events ; which * in . proportion ( as the heavens are higher than the ea rth * is the supreme good pf a right education , aivd , th , e sacred pro-eminence of all knowledge . .. ' . ' .. ¦• • .

    *? - Wjth respect to religion , without * an inward experijepce of the power of . which no . man ., cap be Jhappy , die simple and unchangeably cloot ^ rinea of the -j ? ew Testauient can n ^ ver b ^ Y ^ o strongl y ^ ejaft ^ r ced . . This « oj > s ^\ fitipri , holds true with regard to youth of

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    Memoir of Mr . IVilBam Malhcws . . 56 ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1816, page 567, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2457/page/3/