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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: No Abolition of Slavery + Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem + +Author: James Boswell + +Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20360] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO ABOLITION OF SLAVERY *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness, Louise Pryor and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +book was produced from scanned images of public domain +material from the Google Print project.) + + + + + + + + + + NO + ABOLITION + OF + SLAVERY; + + OR THE + UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OF LOVE: + + A + P O E M. + + * * * * * + + _Facit indignatio versus._ HORAT. + + _Omnia vincit amor._ OVID. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR R. FAULDER, IN NEW BOND STREET. + MDCCXCI. + + [Price One Shilling and Sixpence.] + + + + + Entered at Stationer's Hall + + + ERRATUM. + + P. 13, l. 7, for mighty _read_ magick. + + + + + TO + THE RESPECTABLE BODY + OF + WEST-INDIA PLANTERS AND MERCHANTS, + + THE FOLLOWING POEM + IS INSCRIBED BY + + THE AUTHOUR. + + + + +NO ABOLITION OF SLAVERY: OR, THE UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OF LOVE. + +ADDRESSED TO MISS ----. + + + ----Most pleasing of thy sex, + Born to delight and never vex; + Whose kindness gently can controul + My wayward turbulence of soul. + + Pry'thee, my dearest, dost thou read, 5 + The Morning _Prints_, and ever heed + MINUTES, which tell how time's mispent, + In either House of Parliament? + + See T----, with the front of Jove! + But not like Jove with thunder grac'd{1}, 10 + In Westminster's superb alcove + Like the unhappy Theseus plac'd{2}. + Day after day indignant swells + His generous breast, while still he hears + _Impeachment's_ fierce relentless yells, 15 + Which stir his bile and grate his ears. + + And what a dull vain barren shew + ST. STEPHEN'S luckless Chapel fills; + Our notions of respect how low, + While fools bring in their idle Bills. 20 + + Noodles{3}, who rave for abolition + Of _th' African's improv'd condition_{4}, + At your own cost fine projects try; + Dont _rob_--from _pure humanity_. + + Go, W------, with narrow scull, 25 + Go home, and preach away at Hull, + No longer to the Senate{5} cackle, + In strains which suit the Tabernacle; + I hate your little wittling sneer, + Your pert and self-sufficient leer, 30 + Mischief to Trade sits on thy lip, + Insects will gnaw the noblest ship; + Go, W------, be gone, for shame, + Thou dwarf, with a big-sounding name. + + Poor inefficient B----, we see 35 + No _capability_ in thee, + Th' immortal spirit of thy Sire + Has borne away th' æthereal fire, + And left thee but the earthy dregs,-- + Let's never have thee on thy legs; 40 + 'Tis too provoking, sure, to feel, + A kick from such a puny heel. + + Pedantick pupil of old Sherry, + Whose shrugs and jerks would make us merry, + If not by tedious languor wrung-- 45 + Hold thy intolerable tongue. + + Drawcansir DOLBEN would destroy + Both slavery and licentious joy; + Foe to all sorts of _planters_{6}, he + Will suffer neither _bond_ nor _free_. 50 + + Go we to the Committee room, + There gleams of light conflict with gloom, + While unread rheams in chaos lye, + Our water closets to supply. + + What frenzies will a rabble seize 55 + In lax luxurious days, like these; + THE PEOPLE'S MAJESTY, forsooth, + Must fix our rights, define our truth; + Weavers{7} become our Lords of Trade, + And every clown throw by his spade, 60 + T' _instruct_ our ministers of state, + And _foreign commerce_ regulate: + Ev'n _bony_ Scotland with her dirk, + Nay, her starv'd presbyterian _kirk_{8}, + With ignorant effrontery prays 65 + Britain to dim the western rays, + Which while they on our island fall + Give warmth and splendour to us all. + + See in a stall three feet by four, + Where door is window, window door, 70 + Saloop a hump-back'd cobler drink; + "With _him_ the muse shall sit and think;" + _He_ shall in _sentimental_ strain, + That _negroes_ are _oppress'd_, complain. + What mutters the decrepit creature? 75 + THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE{9}! + + WINDHAM, I won't suppress a gibe. + Whilst THOU art with the whining tribe; + Thou who hast sail'd in a balloon, + And touch'd, intrepid, at the moon, 80 + (Hence, as the Ladies say you wander, + By much too fickle a Philander:) + Shalt THOU, a Roman free and rough, + Descend to weak _blue stocking_ stuff, + And cherish feelings soft and kind, 85 + Till you emasculate your mind. + + Let COURTENAY sneer, and gibe, and hack, + We know Ham's sons are always black; + On sceptick themes he wildly raves, + Yet Africk's sons were always slaves; 90 + I'd have the rogue beware of libel, + And spare a jest--when on the Bible. + + BURKE, art THOU here too? thou, whose pen, + Can blast the fancied _rights of men_: + Pray, by what logick are those rights 95 + Allow'd to _Blacks_--deny'd to _Whites_? + + But Thou! bold Faction's chief _Antistes_, + Thou, more than Samson Agonistes! + Who, Rumour tells us, would pull down + Our charter'd rights, our church, our crown; + Of talents vast, but with a mind + Unaw'd, ungovern'd, unconfin'd; 100 + Best humour'd man, worst politician, + Most dangerous, desp'rate state physician; + Thy manly character why stain 105 + By canting, when 'tis all in vain? + For thy tumultuous reign is o'er; + THE PEOPLE'S MAN thou art no more. + + And Thou, in whom the magick name + Of WILLIAM PITT still gathers fame, 110 + Who could at once exalted stand, + Spurning subordinate command; + Ev'n when a stripling sit with ease, + The mighty helm of state to seise; + Whom now (a thousand storms endur'd) 115 + Years of experience have matur'd; + For whom, in glory's race untir'd, + Th' events of nations have conspir'd; + For whom, eer many suns revolv'd, + Holland has crouch'd, and France dissolv'd; 120 + And Spain, in a Don Quixote fit, + Has bullied only to submit; + Why stoop to nonsense? why cajole + Blockheads who vent their _rigmarole_? + + And yet, where _influence_ must rule, 125 + 'Tis sometimes wise to play the fool; + Thus, like a witch, you raise a storm, + Whether the _Parliament's Reform_, + A set of _Irish Propositions_, + _Impeachment_--on your _own conditions_, 130 + Or RICHMOND'S wild _fortifications_, + Enough to ruin twenty nations, + Or any thing you know can't fail, + To be a tub to Party's whale. + Then whilst they nibble, growl, and worry, 135 + All keen and busy, hurry-scurry; + Britannia's ship you onward guide, + Wrapt in security and pride. + + Accept fair praise; but while I live + Your _Regency_ I can't forgive; 140 + My Tory soul with anger swell'd, + When I a parcel'd Crown beheld; + Prerogative put under hatches, + A Monarchy of shreds and patches; + And lo! a _Phantom_! to create, 145 + A huge HERMAPHRODITE OF STATE! + A monster, more alarming still + Than FOX'S raw-head India Bill! + + THURLOW, forbear thy awful frown; + I beg you may not _look_ me down 150 + My honest fervour do not scout, + I too like thee can be devout, + And in a solemn invocation{10}, + Of loyalty make protestation. + + Courtiers, who chanc'd to guess aright, 155 + And bask now in the Royal sight, + Gold sticks and silver, and white wands, + Ensigns of favour in your hands, + Glitt'ring with stars, and envied seen + Adorn'd with ribbands blue, red, green! 160 + I charge you of deceit keep clear, + And poison not the Sovereign's ear: + O ne'er let Majesty suppose + The _Prince's_ friends must be HIS foes. + There is not one amongst you all 165 + Whose sword is readier at his call; + An ancient Baron of the land, + I by my King shall ever stand; + But when it pleases Heav'n to shroud + The Royal image in a cloud, 170 + That image in the Heir I see, + The Prince is then as King to me. + Let's have, altho' the skies should lour, + No interval of Regal pow'r{11}. + + Where have I wander'd? do I dream? 175 + Sure slaves of power are not my theme; + But honest slaves, the sons of toil, + Who cultivate the Planter's soil. + + He who to thwart GOD'S system{12} tries, + Bids mountains sink, and vallies rise; 180 + Slavery, subjection, what you will, + Has ever been, and will be still: + Trust me, that in this world of woe + Mankind must different burthens know; + Each bear his own, th' Apostle spoke; 185 + And chiefly they who bear the yoke. + + From wise subordination's plan + Springs the chief happiness of man; + Yet from that source to numbers flow + Varieties of pain and woe; 190 + Look round this land of freedom, pray, + And all its lower ranks survey; + Bid the hard-working labourer speak, + What are his scanty gains a week? + All huddled in a smoaky shed, 195 + How are his wife and children fed? + Are not the poor in constant fear + Of the relentless Overseer? + + LONDON! Metropolis of bliss! + Ev'n there sad sights we cannot miss; 200 + Beggars at every corner stand, + With doleful look and trembling hand; + Hear the shrill piteous cry of _sweep_, + See wretches riddling an ash heap; + The streets some for old iron scrape, 205 + And scarce the crush of wheels escape; + Some share with dogs the half-eat bones, + From dunghills pick'd with weary groans. + + Dear CUMBERLAND, whose various powers 210 + Preserve thy life from languid hours, + Thou scholar, statesman, traveller, wit, + Who prose and verse alike canst hit; + Whose gay _West-Indian_ on our stage, + Alone might check this stupid rage; 215 + Fastidious yet--O! condescend + To range with an advent'rous friend: + Together let us beat the rounds, + St. Giles's ample blackguard bounds: + Try what th' accurs'd _Short's Garden_ yields, 220 + His bludgeon where the _Flash-man_ wields; + Where female votaries of sin, + With fetid rags and breath of gin, + Like antique statues stand in rows, + Fine fragments sure, but ne'er a nose. 225 + Let us with calmness ascertain + The liberty of _Lewkner's Lane_, + And _Cockpit-Alley_--_Stewart's Rents_, + Where the fleec'd drunkard oft repents. + With BENTLEY'S{13} critical _acumen_ 230 + Explore the haunts of evil's _Numen_; + And in the _hundreds_ of _Old Drury_, + Descant _de legibus Naturæ_{14}. + Let's prowl the courts of _Newton-Street_, + Where infamy and murder meet; 235 + Where CARPMEAL{15} must with caution tread, + MACMANUS tremble for his head, + JEALOUS look sharp with all his eyes, + And TOWNSHEND apprehend surprise; + And having view'd the horrid maze, 240 + Let's justify the Planter's ways. + + Lo then, in yonder fragrant isle + Where Nature ever seems to smile, + The cheerful _gang_{16}!--the negroes see + Perform the task of industry: + Ev'n at their labour hear them sing, 245 + While time flies quick on downy wing; + Finish'd the bus'ness of the day, + No human beings are more gay: + Of food, clothes, cleanly lodging sure, + Each has his property secure; 250 + Their wives and children are protected, + In sickness they are not neglected; + And when old age brings a release, + Their grateful days they end in peace. + + But should our Wrongheads have their will, 255 + Should Parliament approve their bill, + Pernicious as th' effect would be, + T' abolish negro slavery, + Such partial freedom would be vain, + Since Love's strong empire must remain. 260 + + VENUS, Czarina of the skies, + Despotick by her killing eyes, + Millions of slaves who don't complain, + Confess her universal reign: + And _Cupid_ too well-us'd to try 265 + His bow-string lash, and darts to ply, + Her little _Driver_ still we find, + A wicked rogue, although he's blind. + + Bring me not maxims from the schools; + Experience now my conduct rules; 270 + O ------! trust thy lover true, + I must and will be slave to you. + + Yet I must say--but pr'ythee smile,-- + 'Twas a hard trip to Paphos isle; + By your keen roving glances caught, 275 + And to a beauteous tyrant brought; + My head with giddiness turn'd round, + With strongest fetters I was bound; + I fancy from my frame and face, + You thought me of th' Angola race{17}: 280 + You kept me long indeed, my dear, + Between the decks of hope and fear; + But this and all the _seasoning_ o'er, + My blessings I enjoy the more. + + Contented with my situation, 285 + I want but little REGULATION; + At intervals _Chanson à boire_ + And good old port in my _Code noire_; + Nor care I when I've once begun, + How long I labour, in the sun 290 + Of your bright eyes!--which beam with joy, + Warm, cheer, enchant, but don't destroy. + + My charming friend! it is full time + To close this argument in rhime; + The rhapsody must now be ended, 295 + My proposition I've defended; + For, Slavery there must ever be, + While we have Mistresses like thee! + + + + +THE END. + + + + +FOOTNOTES: + +{1} Had he the command of thunder, there can be no doubt that he would +long before now have cleared a troublesome quarter. + +{2} _Sedet eternumque sedebit + Infelix Theseus._ VIRG. + +{3} If the abettors of the Slave trade Bill should think they are too +harshly treated in this Poem, let them consider how they should feel if +_their_ estates were threatened by an agrarian law; (no unplausible +measure) and let them make allowances for the irritation which themselves +have occasioned. + +{4} That the Africans are in a state of savage wretchedness, appears from +the most authentic accounts. Such being the fact, an abolition of the +slave trade would in truth be precluding them from the first step towards +progressive civilization, and consequently of happiness, which it is +proved by the most respectable evidence they enjoy in a great degree in +our West-India islands, though under well-regulated restraint. The +clamour which is raised against this change of their situation, reminds +us of the following passage in one of the late Mr. Hall's 'Fables for +Grown Gentlemen.' + + "'Tis thus the Highlander complains, + 'Tis thus the Union they abuse, + For binding their backsides in chains, + And shackling their feet in shoes; + For giving them both food and fuel, + And comfortable cloaths, + Instead of cruel oatmeal gruel, + Instead of rags and heritable blows." + +{5} The question now agitated in the British Parliament concerning +slavery, is illustrated with great information, able argument, and +perspicuous expression, in a work entitled, "_Doubts on the Abolition of +the Slave Trade, by an Old Member of Parliament_;" printed for Stockdale, +in Picadilly, 1790. It is ascribed to John Ranby, Esq. + +That the evils of the Slave Trade should, like the evils incident to +other departments of civil subordination, be humanely remedied as much as +may be, every good man is convinced; and accordingly we find that great +advances have been gradually made in that respect, as may be seen in +various publications, particularly the evidence taken before the +Privy-Council. It must be admitted, that in the course of the present +imprudent and dangerous attempt to bring about a total abolition, one +essential advantage has been obtained, namely, a better mode of carrying +the slaves from Africa to the West-Indies; but surely this might have +been had in a less violent manner. + +{6} Diogenes being discovered in the street in fond intercourse with one +of those pretty misses whom Sir William Dolben dislikes, steadily said, +"{Greek: Phytenô Andras}--I plant men." + +{7} Manchester Petition. + +{8} Some of the Scottish Presbyteries petitioned. + +{9} _Risum teneatis amici._ HORAT. + +{10} When I forget HIM, may GOD forget me! + +{11} _Mira cano, Sol occubuit, nox nulla sequuta._ See CAMDEN'S REMAINS. + +{12} The state of slavery is acknowledged both in the Old Testament and +the New. + +{13} The great Dr. Bentley was Mr. Cumberland's grandfather. + +{14} Mr. Cumberland is a descendant of Bishop Cumberland, who wrote _De +legibus Naturæ_. + +{15} Messieurs Carpmeal, Macmanus, Jealous, and Townshend, gentlemen of +the Publick Office, in Bow-Street. + +{16} Sir William Young has a series of pictures, in which the negroes in +our plantations are justly and pleasingly exhibited in various scenes. + +{17} The Angola blacks are the most ferocious. The author does not boast, +like Abyssinian _Yakoob_, "of no ungracious figure": nor does he, like +another _beau garçon_, Mr. Gibbon, prefix his pleasing countenance to +captivate the ladies. + + + + +TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: + +All original spellings and punctuation have been retained, except as noted. + +Title page: "By James Boswell, Esq." is handwritten below "P O E M." + +Erratum: the change of "mighty" to "magick" has been made. + +Line 9: "Thurlow" is handwritten above "T----". + +Line 12, footnote 2: "Sedet eternumqre sedebit" corrected to "Sedet +eternumque sedebit". + +Line 27: There is no footnote marker in the original text for footnote 5. + +Line 35: "Brown" is handwritten above "B----". + +Line 100: The line numbering is inconsistent. + +Line 109: "magick" substituted for "mighty" as specified in the erratum +notice. + +A press cutting from _The Athenæum_ of 4th May 1896 was included with +the original. It reads as follows: + + + A POEM ON THE SLAVE TRADE + BY JAMES BOSWELL + + A hitherto unrecognized work by James Boswell was sold a few days + ago by Mr. Salkeld, of Clapham Road. It is in quarto, and the title + is, 'No Abolition of Slavery: or, the Universal Empire of Love: a + Poem, 1791.' The authorship appears to have been attributed to + Boswell on the strength of an inscription, "By James Boswell, Esq.," + in a contemporary handwriting on the title-page, and there is little + doubt that the inscription is correct. + + In the volume of Boswelliana edited by the Rev. Charles Rogers for + the Grampian Club there is a letter, written in April, 1791, to Mr. + Dempster by Boswell, who mentions a recently published poem on the + slave trade, written by himself. The editor, in his comments on the + letter, remarks that the work referred to by Boswell is unknown to + bibliographers. Mr. Salkeld's discovery, though interesting, will + not confer additional lustre on Boswell's reputation as a bard; but + the poem is characteristic and amusing. It is "Addressed to Miss + ----," perhaps intended for Miss Bagnal, who was occupying his + attention at that time, and is described in one of his letters as + "about seven-and-twenty ... a Ranelagh girl--but of excellent + principles, in so much that she reads prayers to the servants in her + father's family every Sunday evening." The merits of the work are + pretty nearly on a level with 'The Cub at Newmarket' and other + poetical effusions of the writer. Nothing could be more Boswellian + than the manner in which the subject is treated, and the piece is + full of personal allusions. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: No Abolition of Slavery + Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem + +Author: James Boswell + +Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20360] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO ABOLITION OF SLAVERY *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness, Louise Pryor and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +book was produced from scanned images of public domain +material from the Google Print project.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="transnote"> +<h2 class="smcap">Transcriber’s note</h2> + +<p>All original spellings and punctuation have been retained, except <a class="correction" title="Like this." href="#tnotes">as noted</a>.</p> +</div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 328px;"> +<img class="biggap" src="images/titlepage.jpg" width="328" height="450" alt="Title page" title="Title page" /></div> +<h1><span class="pagebreak" title="1"> </span><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1"></a> + +<span class="littlest">NO</span><br /> +ABOLITION<br /> +<span class="littlest">OF</span><br /> +SLAVERY;</h1> + +<h2><span class="littlest">OR THE<br /></span> +UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OF LOVE:<br /> + +<span class="littlest">A<br /></span> +P O E M.</h2> + +<p class="center"><i><a href="#tnote_TP" class="correction" title="Handwritten in original">By James Boswell, Esq.</a></i></p> +<hr /> + +<p class="center"><i>Facit indignatio versus.</i> <span class="smcap indent1">Horat.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Omnia vincit amor.</i> <span class="smcap indent1">Ovid.</span></p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="center little">LONDON:<br /> +PRINTED FOR R. FAULDER, IN NEW BOND STREET.<br /> +MDCCXCI.</p> + +<p class="center littler">[Price One Shilling and Sixpence.]</p> + +<p class="biggap center little bolder"> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="2"> </span><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a> + +Entered at Stationer’s Hall</p> + + +<p class="gaplet center littlest"><a href="#tnote_Err" class="correction" title="This correction has been made in the text">ERRATUM</a>.<br /> + +<a href="#Page_13" >P. 13</a>, l. 7, for mighty <i>read</i> magick.</p> + + + + +<h2 class="biggap"> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="3"> </span><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a> + +<span class="little">TO THE RESPECTABLE BODY<br /></span> +<span class="littler">OF<br /></span> +<span class="smcap">WEST-INDIA PLANTERS and MERCHANTS</span>,<br /> + +<span class="little">THE FOLLOWING POEM<br /></span> +<span class="littler">IS INSCRIBED BY<br /></span> + +<span class="indent50">THE AUTHOUR.</span></h2> + + + +<p> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="4"> </span><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4"></a> + + </p> +<p> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="5"> </span><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a> + + </p> + +<hr class="biggap"/> +<h3> +NO ABOLITION OF SLAVERY:<br /> +<span class="littler">OR,</span><br /> + <span class="little">THE UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OF LOVE.<br /> +<br /> + + +<a name="test" id="test"></a>ADDRESSED TO MISS ——.</span></h3> + + +<div class="poem gap"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">——Most pleasing of thy sex,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Born to delight and never vex;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whose kindness gently can controul<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My wayward turbulence of soul.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Pry’thee, my dearest, dost thou read,<span class='linenum'>5</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">The Morning <i>Prints</i>, and ever heed<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Minutes</span>, which tell how time’s mispent,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In either House of Parliament?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="6"> </span><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6"></a> + +<span class="i0"><a name="Line_9" id="Line_9"></a>See <a href="#tnote_9" class="correction" title='"Thurlow" is handwritten above the dash in the original'>T——</a>, with the front of Jove!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But not like Jove with thunder grac’d<a name="Fnnum_1" id="Fnnum_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnnum">1</a>,<span class='linenum'>10</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">In Westminster’s superb alcove<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Like the unhappy Theseus plac’d<a name="Fnnum_2" id="Fnnum_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnnum">2</a>.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Day after day indignant swells<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His generous breast, while still he hears<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>Impeachment’s</i> fierce relentless yells,<span class='linenum'>15</span><br /></span> +<span class="i1">Which stir his bile and grate his ears.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And what a dull vain barren shew<br /></span> +<span class="i1"><span class="smcap">St. Stephen’s</span> luckless Chapel fills;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Our notions of respect how low,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">While fools bring in their idle Bills.<span class='linenum'>20</span><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="7"> </span><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7"></a> + +<span class="i0">Noodles<a name="Fnnum_3" id="Fnnum_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3" class="fnnum">3</a>, who rave for abolition<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of <i>th’ African’s improv’d condition</i><a name="Fnnum_4" id="Fnnum_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4" class="fnnum">4</a>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">At your own cost fine projects try;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Dont <i>rob</i>—from <i>pure humanity</i>.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="8"> </span><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8"></a> + +<span class="i0">Go, W———, with narrow scull,<span class='linenum'>25</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Go home, and preach away at Hull,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="Line_27" id="Line_27" ></a>No longer to the <a class="correction" title="There is no marker in the original for footnote 5" href="#tnote_27">Senate</a><a name="Fnnum_5" id="Fnnum_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5" class="fnnum">5</a> cackle,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In strains which suit the Tabernacle;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I hate your little wittling sneer,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Your pert and self-sufficient leer,<span class='linenum'>30</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Mischief to Trade sits on thy lip,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Insects will gnaw the noblest ship;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Go, W———, be gone, for shame,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thou dwarf, with a big-sounding name.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="9"> </span><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9"></a> + +<span class="i0"><a name="Line_35" id="Line_35" ></a>Poor inefficient <a href="#tnote_35" class="correction" title='"Brown" is handwritten above the dash in the original'>B——</a>, we see<span class='linenum'>35</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">No <i>capability</i> in thee,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Th’ immortal spirit of thy Sire<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Has borne away th’ æthereal fire,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And left thee but the earthy dregs,—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Let’s never have thee on thy legs;<span class='linenum'>40</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">’Tis too provoking, sure, to feel,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A kick from such a puny heel.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Pedantick pupil of old Sherry,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whose shrugs and jerks would make us merry,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If not by tedious languor wrung—<span class='linenum'>45</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hold thy intolerable tongue.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Drawcansir <span class="smcap">Dolben</span> would destroy<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Both slavery and licentious joy;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Foe to all sorts of <i>planters</i><a name="Fnnum_6" id="Fnnum_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6" class="fnnum">6</a>, he<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Will suffer neither <i>bond</i> nor <i>free</i>.<span class='linenum'>50</span><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="10"> </span><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10"></a> + +<span class="i1">Go we to the Committee room,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">There gleams of light conflict with gloom,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">While unread rheams in chaos lye,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Our water closets to supply.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">What frenzies will a rabble seize<span class='linenum'>55</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">In lax luxurious days, like these;<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">The People’s Majesty</span>, forsooth,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Must fix our rights, define our truth;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Weavers<a name="Fnnum_7" id="Fnnum_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7" class="fnnum">7</a> become our Lords of Trade,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And every clown throw by his spade,<span class='linenum'>60</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">T’ <i>instruct</i> our ministers of state,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And <i>foreign commerce</i> regulate:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Ev’n <i>bony</i> Scotland with her dirk,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nay, her starv’d presbyterian <i>kirk</i><a name="Fnnum_8" id="Fnnum_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8" class="fnnum">8</a>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With ignorant effrontery prays<span class='linenum'>65</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Britain to dim the western rays,<br /></span> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="11"> </span><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a> + +<span class="i0">Which while they on our island fall<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Give warmth and splendour to us all.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">See in a stall three feet by four,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where door is window, window door,<span class='linenum'>70</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Saloop a hump-back’d cobler drink;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">“With <i>him</i> the muse shall sit and think;”<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>He</i> shall in <i>sentimental</i> strain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That <i>negroes</i> are <i>oppress’d</i>, complain.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">What mutters the decrepit creature?<span class='linenum'>75</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">The Dignity of Human Nature</span><a name="Fnnum_9" id="Fnnum_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9" class="fnnum">9</a>!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1"><span class="smcap">Windham</span>, I won’t suppress a gibe.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whilst <span class="smcap">Thou</span> art with the whining tribe;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thou who hast sail’d in a balloon,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And touch’d, intrepid, at the moon,<span class='linenum'>80</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">(Hence, as the Ladies say you wander,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By much too fickle a Philander:)<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shalt <span class="smcap">Thou</span>, a Roman free and rough,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Descend to weak <i>blue stocking</i> stuff,<br /></span> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="12"> </span><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></a> + +<span class="i0">And cherish feelings soft and kind,<span class='linenum'>85</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Till you emasculate your mind.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Let <span class="smcap">Courtenay</span> sneer, and gibe, and hack,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">We know Ham’s sons are always black;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">On sceptick themes he wildly raves,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Yet Africk’s sons were always slaves;<span class='linenum'>90</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">I’d have the rogue beware of libel,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And spare a jest—when on the Bible.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1"><span class="smcap">Burke</span>, art <span class="smcap">Thou</span> here too? thou, whose pen,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Can blast the fancied <i>rights of men</i>:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Pray, by what logick are those rights<span class='linenum'>95</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Allow’d to <i>Blacks</i>—deny’d to <i>Whites</i>?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">But Thou! bold Faction’s chief <i>Antistes</i>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thou, more than Samson Agonistes!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who, Rumour tells us, would pull down<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Our charter’d rights, our church, our crown;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of talents vast, but with a mind<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="Line_100" id="Line_100"></a>Unaw’d, ungovern’d, unconfin’d;<span class='linenum'><a class='correction' title="The line numbering is inconsistent" href="#tnote_100">100</a></span><br /></span> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="13"> </span><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a> + +<span class="i0">Best humour’d man, worst politician,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Most dangerous, desp’rate state physician;<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a name="Line_105" id="Line_105"></a>Thy manly character why stain<span class='linenum'>105</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">By canting, when ’tis all in vain?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For thy tumultuous reign is o’er;<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">The People’s Man</span> thou art no more.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1"><a name="Line_109" id="Line_109"></a>And Thou, in whom the <a class='correction' title='"mighty" changed to “magick" as specified in the erratum notice' href="#tnote_109">magick</a> name<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of <span class="smcap">William Pitt</span> still gathers fame,<span class='linenum'>110</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who could at once exalted stand,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Spurning subordinate command;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Ev’n when a stripling sit with ease,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The mighty helm of state to seise;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whom now (a thousand storms endur’d)<span class='linenum'>115</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Years of experience have matur’d;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For whom, in glory’s race untir’d,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Th’ events of nations have conspir’d;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For whom, eer many suns revolv’d,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Holland has crouch’d, and France dissolv’d;<span class='linenum'>120</span><br /></span> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="14"> </span><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a> + +<span class="i0">And Spain, in a Don Quixote fit,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Has bullied only to submit;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Why stoop to nonsense? why cajole<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Blockheads who vent their <i>rigmarole</i>?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">And yet, where <i>influence</i> must rule,<span class='linenum'>125</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">’Tis sometimes wise to play the fool;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thus, like a witch, you raise a storm,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whether the <i>Parliament’s Reform</i>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A set of <i>Irish Propositions</i>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>Impeachment</i>—on your <i>own conditions</i>,<span class='linenum'>130</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Or <span class="smcap">Richmond’s</span> wild <i>fortifications</i>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Enough to ruin twenty nations,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Or any thing you know can’t fail,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To be a tub to Party’s whale.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Then whilst they nibble, growl, and worry,<span class='linenum'>135</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">All keen and busy, hurry-scurry;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Britannia’s ship you onward guide,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Wrapt in security and pride.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="15"> </span><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15"></a> + +<span class="i1">Accept fair praise; but while I live<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Your <i>Regency</i> I can’t forgive;<span class='linenum'>140</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">My Tory soul with anger swell’d,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When I a parcel’d Crown beheld;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Prerogative put under hatches,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A Monarchy of shreds and patches;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And lo! a <i>Phantom</i>! to create,<span class='linenum'>145</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">A huge <span class="smcap">Hermaphrodite of State</span>!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A monster, more alarming still<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Than <span class="smcap">Fox’s</span> raw-head India Bill!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1"><span class="smcap">Thurlow</span>, forbear thy awful frown;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I beg you may not <i>look</i> me down<span class='linenum'>150</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">My honest fervour do not scout,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I too like thee can be devout,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And in a solemn invocation<a name="Fnnum_10" id="Fnnum_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10" class="fnnum">10</a>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of loyalty make protestation.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="16"> </span><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a> + +<span class="i1">Courtiers, who chanc’d to guess aright,<span class='linenum'>155</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">And bask now in the Royal sight,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Gold sticks and silver, and white wands,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Ensigns of favour in your hands,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Glitt’ring with stars, and envied seen<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Adorn’d with ribbands blue, red, green!<span class='linenum'>160</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">I charge you of deceit keep clear,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And poison not the Sovereign’s ear:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O ne’er let Majesty suppose<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The <i>Prince’s</i> friends must be <span class="smcap">His</span> foes.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">There is not one amongst you all<span class='linenum'>165</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whose sword is readier at his call;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">An ancient Baron of the land,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I by my King shall ever stand;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But when it pleases Heav’n to shroud<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The Royal image in a cloud,<span class='linenum'>170</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">That image in the Heir I see,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The Prince is then as King to me.<br /></span> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="17"> </span><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a> + +<span class="i0">Let’s have, altho’ the skies should lour,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No interval of Regal pow’r<a name="Fnnum_11" id="Fnnum_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11" class="fnnum">11</a>.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Where have I wander’d? do I dream?<span class='linenum'>175</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sure slaves of power are not my theme;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But honest slaves, the sons of toil,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who cultivate the Planter’s soil.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He who to thwart <span class="smcap">God’s</span> system<a name="Fnnum_12" id="Fnnum_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12" class="fnnum">12</a> tries,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Bids mountains sink, and vallies rise;<span class='linenum'>180</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Slavery, subjection, what you will,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Has ever been, and will be still:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Trust me, that in this world of woe<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Mankind must different burthens know;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Each bear his own, th’ Apostle spoke;<span class='linenum'>185</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">And chiefly they who bear the yoke.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">From wise subordination’s plan<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Springs the chief happiness of man;<br /></span> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="18"> </span><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"></a> + +<span class="i0">Yet from that source to numbers flow<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Varieties of pain and woe;<span class='linenum'>190</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Look round this land of freedom, pray,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And all its lower ranks survey;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Bid the hard-working labourer speak,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">What are his scanty gains a week?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All huddled in a smoaky shed,<span class='linenum'>195</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">How are his wife and children fed?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Are not the poor in constant fear<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of the relentless Overseer?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1"><span class="smcap">London</span>! Metropolis of bliss!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Ev’n there sad sights we cannot miss;<span class='linenum'>200</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Beggars at every corner stand,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With doleful look and trembling hand;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hear the shrill piteous cry of <i>sweep</i>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">See wretches riddling an ash heap;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The streets some for old iron scrape,<span class='linenum'>205</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">And scarce the crush of wheels escape;<br /></span> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="19"> </span><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19"></a> + +<span class="i0">Some share with dogs the half-eat bones,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">From dunghills pick’d with weary groans.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Dear <span class="smcap">Cumberland</span>, whose various powers<span class='linenum'>210</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Preserve thy life from languid hours,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thou scholar, statesman, traveller, wit,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who prose and verse alike canst hit;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whose gay <i>West-Indian</i> on our stage,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Alone might check this stupid rage;<span class='linenum'>215</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fastidious yet—O! condescend<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To range with an advent’rous friend:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Together let us beat the rounds,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">St. Giles’s ample blackguard bounds:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Try what th’ accurs’d <i>Short’s Garden</i> yields,<span class='linenum'>220</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">His bludgeon where the <i>Flash-man</i> wields;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where female votaries of sin,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With fetid rags and breath of gin,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Like antique statues stand in rows,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fine fragments sure, but ne’er a nose.<span class='linenum'>225</span><br /></span> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="20"> </span><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20"></a> + +<span class="i0">Let us with calmness ascertain<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The liberty of <i>Lewkner’s Lane</i>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And <i>Cockpit-Alley</i>—<i>Stewart’s Rents</i>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where the fleec’d drunkard oft repents.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With <span class="smcap">Bentley’s</span><a name="Fnnum_13" id="Fnnum_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13" class="fnnum">13</a> critical <i>acumen</i><span class='linenum'>230</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Explore the haunts of evil’s <i>Numen</i>;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And in the <i>hundreds</i> of <i>Old Drury</i>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Descant <i>de legibus Naturæ</i><a name="Fnnum_14" id="Fnnum_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14" class="fnnum">14</a>.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Let’s prowl the courts of <i>Newton-Street</i>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where infamy and murder meet;<span class='linenum'>235</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where <span class="smcap">Carpmeal</span><a name="Fnnum_15" id="Fnnum_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15" class="fnnum">15</a> must with caution tread,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Macmanus</span> tremble for his head,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Jealous</span> look sharp with all his eyes,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And <span class="smcap">Townshend</span> apprehend surprise;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And having view’d the horrid maze,<span class='linenum'>240</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Let’s justify the Planter’s ways.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="21"> </span><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21"></a> + +<span class="i1">Lo then, in yonder fragrant isle<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where Nature ever seems to smile,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The cheerful <i>gang</i><a name="Fnnum_16" id="Fnnum_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_16" class="fnnum">16</a>!—the negroes see<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Perform the task of industry:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Ev’n at their labour hear them sing,<span class='linenum'>245</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">While time flies quick on downy wing;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Finish’d the bus’ness of the day,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No human beings are more gay:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of food, clothes, cleanly lodging sure,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Each has his property secure;<span class='linenum'>250</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Their wives and children are protected,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In sickness they are not neglected;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And when old age brings a release,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Their grateful days they end in peace.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">But should our Wrongheads have their will,<span class='linenum'>255</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Should Parliament approve their bill,<br /></span> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="22"> </span><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a> + +<span class="i0">Pernicious as th’ effect would be,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">T’ abolish negro slavery,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Such partial freedom would be vain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Since Love’s strong empire must remain.<span class='linenum'>260</span><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1"><span class="smcap">Venus</span>, Czarina of the skies,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Despotick by her killing eyes,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Millions of slaves who don’t complain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Confess her universal reign:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And <i>Cupid</i> too well-us’d to try<span class='linenum'>265</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">His bow-string lash, and darts to ply,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Her little <i>Driver</i> still we find,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A wicked rogue, although he’s blind.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Bring me not maxims from the schools;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Experience now my conduct rules;<span class='linenum'>270</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">O ———! trust thy lover true,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I must and will be slave to you.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="23"> </span><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23"></a> + +<span class="i1">Yet I must say—but pr’ythee smile,—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">’Twas a hard trip to Paphos isle;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By your keen roving glances caught,<span class='linenum'>275</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">And to a beauteous tyrant brought;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My head with giddiness turn’d round,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With strongest fetters I was bound;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I fancy from my frame and face,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">You thought me of th’ Angola race<a name="Fnnum_17" id="Fnnum_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_17" class="fnnum">17</a>:<span class='linenum'>280</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">You kept me long indeed, my dear,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Between the decks of hope and fear;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But this and all the <i>seasoning</i> o’er,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My blessings I enjoy the more.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Contented with my situation,<span class='linenum'>285</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">I want but little <span class="smcap">regulation</span>;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">At intervals <i>Chanson à boire</i><br /></span> +<span class="i0">And good old port in my <i>Code noire</i>;<br /></span> + +<span class="pagebreak" title="24"> </span><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24"></a> + +<span class="i0">Nor care I when I’ve once begun,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">How long I labour, in the sun<span class='linenum'>290</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of your bright eyes!—which beam with joy,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Warm, cheer, enchant, but don’t destroy.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">My charming friend! it is full time<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To close this argument in rhime;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The rhapsody must now be ended,<span class='linenum'>295</span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">My proposition I’ve defended;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For, Slavery there must ever be,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">While we have Mistresses like thee!<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h2 class="biggap"><a name="THE_END" id="THE_END"></a>THE END.</h2> + + + +<div class="footnotes"> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_1">1</a></span> Had he the command of thunder, there can be no doubt that he +would long before now have cleared a troublesome quarter.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2" id="Footnote_2"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_2">2</a></span> +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0"><i>Sedet <a href="#tnote_12" class="correction" title='"eternumqre" in the original'>eternumque</a> sedebit</i><br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>Infelix Theseus.</i><br /></span> +<span class="i0"> <br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Virg.</span><br /></span> +</div></div> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3" id="Footnote_3"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_3">3</a></span> If the abettors of the Slave trade Bill should think they +are too harshly treated in this Poem, let them consider how they should +feel if <i>their</i> estates were threatened by an agrarian law; (no +unplausible measure) and let them make allowances for the irritation +which themselves have occasioned.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4" id="Footnote_4"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_4">4</a></span> That the Africans are in a state of savage wretchedness, +appears from the most authentic accounts. Such being the fact, an +abolition of the slave trade would in truth be precluding them from the +first step towards progressive civilization, and consequently of +happiness, which it is proved by the most respectable evidence they enjoy +in a great degree in our West-India islands, though under well-regulated +restraint. The clamour which is raised against this change of their +situation, reminds us of the following passage in one of the late Mr. +Hall’s ‘Fables for Grown Gentlemen.’ +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“’Tis thus the Highlander complains,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">’Tis thus the Union they abuse,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For binding their backsides in chains,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And shackling their feet in shoes;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For giving them both food and fuel,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And comfortable cloaths,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Instead of cruel oatmeal gruel,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Instead of rags and heritable blows.”<br /></span> +</div></div> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5" id="Footnote_5"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_5">5</a></span> The question now agitated in the British Parliament +concerning slavery, is illustrated with great information, able argument, +and perspicuous expression, in a work entitled, “<i>Doubts on the Abolition +of the Slave Trade, by an Old Member of Parliament</i>;” printed for +Stockdale, in Picadilly, 1790. It is ascribed to John Ranby, Esq. +</p><p> +That the evils of the Slave Trade should, like the evils incident to +other departments of civil subordination, be humanely remedied as much as +may be, every good man is convinced; and accordingly we find that great +advances have been gradually made in that respect, as may be seen in +various publications, particularly the evidence taken before the +Privy-Council. It must be admitted, that in the course of the present +imprudent and dangerous attempt to bring about a total abolition, one +essential advantage has been obtained, namely, a better mode of carrying +the slaves from Africa to the West-Indies; but surely this might have +been had in a less violent manner.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6" id="Footnote_6"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_6">6</a></span> Diogenes being discovered in the street in fond intercourse +with one of those pretty misses whom Sir William Dolben dislikes, +steadily said, “<span class="translit" title="Phytenô Andras">Φυτενω Ανδρας</span>—I plant men.”</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7" id="Footnote_7"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_7">7</a></span> Manchester Petition.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8" id="Footnote_8"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_8">8</a></span> Some of the Scottish Presbyteries petitioned.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9" id="Footnote_9"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_9">9</a></span> <i>Risum teneatis amici.</i> <span class="smcap">Horat.</span></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10" id="Footnote_10"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_10">10</a></span> When I forget <span class="smcap">Him</span>, may <span class="smcap">God</span> forget me!</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11" id="Footnote_11"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_11">11</a></span> <i>Mira cano, Sol occubuit, nox nulla sequuta.</i> See <span class="smcap">Camden’s +Remains</span>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12" id="Footnote_12"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_12">12</a></span> The state of slavery is acknowledged both in the Old +Testament and the New.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_13" id="Footnote_13"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_13">13</a></span> The great Dr. Bentley was Mr. Cumberland’s grandfather.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_14" id="Footnote_14"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_14">14</a></span> Mr. Cumberland is a descendant of Bishop Cumberland, who +wrote <i>De legibus Naturæ</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_15" id="Footnote_15"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_15">15</a></span> Messieurs Carpmeal, Macmanus, Jealous, and Townshend, +gentlemen of the Publick Office, in Bow-Street.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_16" id="Footnote_16"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_16">16</a></span> Sir William Young has a series of pictures, in which the +negroes in our plantations are justly and pleasingly exhibited in various +scenes.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_17" id="Footnote_17"></a><span class="label"><a href="#Fnnum_17">17</a></span> The Angola blacks are the most ferocious. The author does +not boast, like Abyssinian <i>Yakoob</i>, “of no ungracious figure”: nor does +he, like another <i>beau garçon</i>, Mr. Gibbon, prefix his pleasing +countenance to captivate the ladies.</p></div> +</div> + +<div class="transnote"> +<h2 class="smcap"><a name="tnotes" id="tnotes"></a>Transcriber’s notes</h2> + +<p>All original spellings and punctuation have been retained, except as noted.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 206px;"> +<img src="images/author.jpg" width="206" height="60" alt="Handwriting" title="By James Boswell, Esq." /> +</div> +<p><a name="tnote_TP" id="tnote_TP"></a><a href="#Page_1" >Title page</a>: “By James Boswell, Esq.” is handwritten below “P O E M.” +</p> + +<p><a name="tnote_Err" id="tnote_Err"></a><a href="#Page_2" >Erratum</a>: the change of “mighty” to “magick” has been made.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 128px;"> +<img src="images/thurlow.png" width="128" height="30" alt="Handwriting" title="Thurlow" /> +</div> +<p><a name="tnote_9" id="tnote_9"></a><a href="#Line_9" >Line 9</a>: “Thurlow” is handwritten above “T——”.</p> + +<p><a name="tnote_12" id="tnote_12"></a>Line 12, <a href="#Footnote_2" >footnote 2</a>: “Sedet eternumqre sedebit” corrected to “Sedet +eternumque sedebit”.</p> + +<p><a name="tnote_27" id="tnote_27"></a><a href="#Line_27" >Line 27</a>: There is no footnote marker in the original text for <a href="#Footnote_5" >footnote 5</a>.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 113px;"> +<img src="images/brown.png" width="113" height="30" alt="Handwriting" title="Brown" /> +</div> +<p><a name="tnote_35" id="tnote_35"></a><a href="#Line_35" >Line 35</a>: “Brown” is handwritten above “B——”.</p> + +<p><a name="tnote_100" id="tnote_100"></a><a href="#Line_100" >Line 100</a>: The line numbering is inconsistent.</p> + +<p><a name="tnote_109" id="tnote_109"></a><a href="#Line_109" >Line 109</a>: “magick” substituted for “mighty” as specified in the <a href="#Page_2" >erratum +notice</a>.</p> + +<p>A press cutting from <i>The Athenæum</i> of 4th May 1896 was included with +the original. It reads as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + <p class="center">A POEM ON THE SLAVE TRADE<br /> + BY JAMES BOSWELL</p> + + <p class="just">A hitherto unrecognized work by James Boswell was sold a few days + ago by Mr. Salkeld, of Clapham Road. It is in quarto, and the title + is, ‘No Abolition of Slavery: or, the Universal Empire of Love: a + Poem, 1791.’ The authorship appears to have been attributed to + Boswell on the strength of an inscription, “By James Boswell, Esq.,” + in a contemporary handwriting on the title-page, and there is little + doubt that the inscription is correct.</p> + + <p class="just">In the volume of Boswelliana edited by the Rev. Charles Rogers for + the Grampian Club there is a letter, written in April, 1791, to Mr. + Dempster by Boswell, who mentions a recently published poem on the + slave trade, written by himself. The editor, in his comments on the + letter, remarks that the work referred to by Boswell is unknown to + bibliographers. Mr. Salkeld’s discovery, though interesting, will + not confer additional lustre on Boswell’s reputation as a bard; but + the poem is characteristic and amusing. It is “Addressed to Miss + ——,” perhaps intended for Miss Bagnal, who was occupying his + attention at that time, and is described in one of his letters as + “about seven-and-twenty ... a Ranelagh girl—but of excellent + principles, in so much that she reads prayers to the servants in her + father’s family every Sunday evening.” The merits of the work are + pretty nearly on a level with ‘The Cub at Newmarket’ and other + poetical effusions of the writer. Nothing could be more Boswellian + than the manner in which the subject is treated, and the piece is + full of personal allusions. Now that the authorship of the work is + known, it is probable that other copies will turn up.</p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 267px;"> +<img src="images/cutting.png" width="267" height="500" alt="Press cutting" title="Press cutting" /> +</div> +</div> +</div> + + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's No Abolition of Slavery, by James Boswell + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO ABOLITION OF SLAVERY *** + +***** This file should be named 20360-h.htm or 20360-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/3/6/20360/ + +Produced by Bryan Ness, Louise Pryor and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +book was produced from scanned images of public domain +material from the Google Print project.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: No Abolition of Slavery + Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem + +Author: James Boswell + +Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20360] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO ABOLITION OF SLAVERY *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness, Louise Pryor and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +book was produced from scanned images of public domain +material from the Google Print project.) + + + + + + + + + + NO + ABOLITION + OF + SLAVERY; + + OR THE + UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OF LOVE: + + A + P O E M. + + * * * * * + + _Facit indignatio versus._ HORAT. + + _Omnia vincit amor._ OVID. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR R. FAULDER, IN NEW BOND STREET. + MDCCXCI. + + [Price One Shilling and Sixpence.] + + + + + Entered at Stationer's Hall + + + ERRATUM. + + P. 13, l. 7, for mighty _read_ magick. + + + + + TO + THE RESPECTABLE BODY + OF + WEST-INDIA PLANTERS AND MERCHANTS, + + THE FOLLOWING POEM + IS INSCRIBED BY + + THE AUTHOUR. + + + + +NO ABOLITION OF SLAVERY: OR, THE UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OF LOVE. + +ADDRESSED TO MISS ----. + + + ----Most pleasing of thy sex, + Born to delight and never vex; + Whose kindness gently can controul + My wayward turbulence of soul. + + Pry'thee, my dearest, dost thou read, 5 + The Morning _Prints_, and ever heed + MINUTES, which tell how time's mispent, + In either House of Parliament? + + See T----, with the front of Jove! + But not like Jove with thunder grac'd{1}, 10 + In Westminster's superb alcove + Like the unhappy Theseus plac'd{2}. + Day after day indignant swells + His generous breast, while still he hears + _Impeachment's_ fierce relentless yells, 15 + Which stir his bile and grate his ears. + + And what a dull vain barren shew + ST. STEPHEN'S luckless Chapel fills; + Our notions of respect how low, + While fools bring in their idle Bills. 20 + + Noodles{3}, who rave for abolition + Of _th' African's improv'd condition_{4}, + At your own cost fine projects try; + Dont _rob_--from _pure humanity_. + + Go, W------, with narrow scull, 25 + Go home, and preach away at Hull, + No longer to the Senate{5} cackle, + In strains which suit the Tabernacle; + I hate your little wittling sneer, + Your pert and self-sufficient leer, 30 + Mischief to Trade sits on thy lip, + Insects will gnaw the noblest ship; + Go, W------, be gone, for shame, + Thou dwarf, with a big-sounding name. + + Poor inefficient B----, we see 35 + No _capability_ in thee, + Th' immortal spirit of thy Sire + Has borne away th' aethereal fire, + And left thee but the earthy dregs,-- + Let's never have thee on thy legs; 40 + 'Tis too provoking, sure, to feel, + A kick from such a puny heel. + + Pedantick pupil of old Sherry, + Whose shrugs and jerks would make us merry, + If not by tedious languor wrung-- 45 + Hold thy intolerable tongue. + + Drawcansir DOLBEN would destroy + Both slavery and licentious joy; + Foe to all sorts of _planters_{6}, he + Will suffer neither _bond_ nor _free_. 50 + + Go we to the Committee room, + There gleams of light conflict with gloom, + While unread rheams in chaos lye, + Our water closets to supply. + + What frenzies will a rabble seize 55 + In lax luxurious days, like these; + THE PEOPLE'S MAJESTY, forsooth, + Must fix our rights, define our truth; + Weavers{7} become our Lords of Trade, + And every clown throw by his spade, 60 + T' _instruct_ our ministers of state, + And _foreign commerce_ regulate: + Ev'n _bony_ Scotland with her dirk, + Nay, her starv'd presbyterian _kirk_{8}, + With ignorant effrontery prays 65 + Britain to dim the western rays, + Which while they on our island fall + Give warmth and splendour to us all. + + See in a stall three feet by four, + Where door is window, window door, 70 + Saloop a hump-back'd cobler drink; + "With _him_ the muse shall sit and think;" + _He_ shall in _sentimental_ strain, + That _negroes_ are _oppress'd_, complain. + What mutters the decrepit creature? 75 + THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE{9}! + + WINDHAM, I won't suppress a gibe. + Whilst THOU art with the whining tribe; + Thou who hast sail'd in a balloon, + And touch'd, intrepid, at the moon, 80 + (Hence, as the Ladies say you wander, + By much too fickle a Philander:) + Shalt THOU, a Roman free and rough, + Descend to weak _blue stocking_ stuff, + And cherish feelings soft and kind, 85 + Till you emasculate your mind. + + Let COURTENAY sneer, and gibe, and hack, + We know Ham's sons are always black; + On sceptick themes he wildly raves, + Yet Africk's sons were always slaves; 90 + I'd have the rogue beware of libel, + And spare a jest--when on the Bible. + + BURKE, art THOU here too? thou, whose pen, + Can blast the fancied _rights of men_: + Pray, by what logick are those rights 95 + Allow'd to _Blacks_--deny'd to _Whites_? + + But Thou! bold Faction's chief _Antistes_, + Thou, more than Samson Agonistes! + Who, Rumour tells us, would pull down + Our charter'd rights, our church, our crown; + Of talents vast, but with a mind + Unaw'd, ungovern'd, unconfin'd; 100 + Best humour'd man, worst politician, + Most dangerous, desp'rate state physician; + Thy manly character why stain 105 + By canting, when 'tis all in vain? + For thy tumultuous reign is o'er; + THE PEOPLE'S MAN thou art no more. + + And Thou, in whom the magick name + Of WILLIAM PITT still gathers fame, 110 + Who could at once exalted stand, + Spurning subordinate command; + Ev'n when a stripling sit with ease, + The mighty helm of state to seise; + Whom now (a thousand storms endur'd) 115 + Years of experience have matur'd; + For whom, in glory's race untir'd, + Th' events of nations have conspir'd; + For whom, eer many suns revolv'd, + Holland has crouch'd, and France dissolv'd; 120 + And Spain, in a Don Quixote fit, + Has bullied only to submit; + Why stoop to nonsense? why cajole + Blockheads who vent their _rigmarole_? + + And yet, where _influence_ must rule, 125 + 'Tis sometimes wise to play the fool; + Thus, like a witch, you raise a storm, + Whether the _Parliament's Reform_, + A set of _Irish Propositions_, + _Impeachment_--on your _own conditions_, 130 + Or RICHMOND'S wild _fortifications_, + Enough to ruin twenty nations, + Or any thing you know can't fail, + To be a tub to Party's whale. + Then whilst they nibble, growl, and worry, 135 + All keen and busy, hurry-scurry; + Britannia's ship you onward guide, + Wrapt in security and pride. + + Accept fair praise; but while I live + Your _Regency_ I can't forgive; 140 + My Tory soul with anger swell'd, + When I a parcel'd Crown beheld; + Prerogative put under hatches, + A Monarchy of shreds and patches; + And lo! a _Phantom_! to create, 145 + A huge HERMAPHRODITE OF STATE! + A monster, more alarming still + Than FOX'S raw-head India Bill! + + THURLOW, forbear thy awful frown; + I beg you may not _look_ me down 150 + My honest fervour do not scout, + I too like thee can be devout, + And in a solemn invocation{10}, + Of loyalty make protestation. + + Courtiers, who chanc'd to guess aright, 155 + And bask now in the Royal sight, + Gold sticks and silver, and white wands, + Ensigns of favour in your hands, + Glitt'ring with stars, and envied seen + Adorn'd with ribbands blue, red, green! 160 + I charge you of deceit keep clear, + And poison not the Sovereign's ear: + O ne'er let Majesty suppose + The _Prince's_ friends must be HIS foes. + There is not one amongst you all 165 + Whose sword is readier at his call; + An ancient Baron of the land, + I by my King shall ever stand; + But when it pleases Heav'n to shroud + The Royal image in a cloud, 170 + That image in the Heir I see, + The Prince is then as King to me. + Let's have, altho' the skies should lour, + No interval of Regal pow'r{11}. + + Where have I wander'd? do I dream? 175 + Sure slaves of power are not my theme; + But honest slaves, the sons of toil, + Who cultivate the Planter's soil. + + He who to thwart GOD'S system{12} tries, + Bids mountains sink, and vallies rise; 180 + Slavery, subjection, what you will, + Has ever been, and will be still: + Trust me, that in this world of woe + Mankind must different burthens know; + Each bear his own, th' Apostle spoke; 185 + And chiefly they who bear the yoke. + + From wise subordination's plan + Springs the chief happiness of man; + Yet from that source to numbers flow + Varieties of pain and woe; 190 + Look round this land of freedom, pray, + And all its lower ranks survey; + Bid the hard-working labourer speak, + What are his scanty gains a week? + All huddled in a smoaky shed, 195 + How are his wife and children fed? + Are not the poor in constant fear + Of the relentless Overseer? + + LONDON! Metropolis of bliss! + Ev'n there sad sights we cannot miss; 200 + Beggars at every corner stand, + With doleful look and trembling hand; + Hear the shrill piteous cry of _sweep_, + See wretches riddling an ash heap; + The streets some for old iron scrape, 205 + And scarce the crush of wheels escape; + Some share with dogs the half-eat bones, + From dunghills pick'd with weary groans. + + Dear CUMBERLAND, whose various powers 210 + Preserve thy life from languid hours, + Thou scholar, statesman, traveller, wit, + Who prose and verse alike canst hit; + Whose gay _West-Indian_ on our stage, + Alone might check this stupid rage; 215 + Fastidious yet--O! condescend + To range with an advent'rous friend: + Together let us beat the rounds, + St. Giles's ample blackguard bounds: + Try what th' accurs'd _Short's Garden_ yields, 220 + His bludgeon where the _Flash-man_ wields; + Where female votaries of sin, + With fetid rags and breath of gin, + Like antique statues stand in rows, + Fine fragments sure, but ne'er a nose. 225 + Let us with calmness ascertain + The liberty of _Lewkner's Lane_, + And _Cockpit-Alley_--_Stewart's Rents_, + Where the fleec'd drunkard oft repents. + With BENTLEY'S{13} critical _acumen_ 230 + Explore the haunts of evil's _Numen_; + And in the _hundreds_ of _Old Drury_, + Descant _de legibus Naturae_{14}. + Let's prowl the courts of _Newton-Street_, + Where infamy and murder meet; 235 + Where CARPMEAL{15} must with caution tread, + MACMANUS tremble for his head, + JEALOUS look sharp with all his eyes, + And TOWNSHEND apprehend surprise; + And having view'd the horrid maze, 240 + Let's justify the Planter's ways. + + Lo then, in yonder fragrant isle + Where Nature ever seems to smile, + The cheerful _gang_{16}!--the negroes see + Perform the task of industry: + Ev'n at their labour hear them sing, 245 + While time flies quick on downy wing; + Finish'd the bus'ness of the day, + No human beings are more gay: + Of food, clothes, cleanly lodging sure, + Each has his property secure; 250 + Their wives and children are protected, + In sickness they are not neglected; + And when old age brings a release, + Their grateful days they end in peace. + + But should our Wrongheads have their will, 255 + Should Parliament approve their bill, + Pernicious as th' effect would be, + T' abolish negro slavery, + Such partial freedom would be vain, + Since Love's strong empire must remain. 260 + + VENUS, Czarina of the skies, + Despotick by her killing eyes, + Millions of slaves who don't complain, + Confess her universal reign: + And _Cupid_ too well-us'd to try 265 + His bow-string lash, and darts to ply, + Her little _Driver_ still we find, + A wicked rogue, although he's blind. + + Bring me not maxims from the schools; + Experience now my conduct rules; 270 + O ------! trust thy lover true, + I must and will be slave to you. + + Yet I must say--but pr'ythee smile,-- + 'Twas a hard trip to Paphos isle; + By your keen roving glances caught, 275 + And to a beauteous tyrant brought; + My head with giddiness turn'd round, + With strongest fetters I was bound; + I fancy from my frame and face, + You thought me of th' Angola race{17}: 280 + You kept me long indeed, my dear, + Between the decks of hope and fear; + But this and all the _seasoning_ o'er, + My blessings I enjoy the more. + + Contented with my situation, 285 + I want but little REGULATION; + At intervals _Chanson a boire_ + And good old port in my _Code noire_; + Nor care I when I've once begun, + How long I labour, in the sun 290 + Of your bright eyes!--which beam with joy, + Warm, cheer, enchant, but don't destroy. + + My charming friend! it is full time + To close this argument in rhime; + The rhapsody must now be ended, 295 + My proposition I've defended; + For, Slavery there must ever be, + While we have Mistresses like thee! + + + + +THE END. + + + + +FOOTNOTES: + +{1} Had he the command of thunder, there can be no doubt that he would +long before now have cleared a troublesome quarter. + +{2} _Sedet eternumque sedebit + Infelix Theseus._ VIRG. + +{3} If the abettors of the Slave trade Bill should think they are too +harshly treated in this Poem, let them consider how they should feel if +_their_ estates were threatened by an agrarian law; (no unplausible +measure) and let them make allowances for the irritation which themselves +have occasioned. + +{4} That the Africans are in a state of savage wretchedness, appears from +the most authentic accounts. Such being the fact, an abolition of the +slave trade would in truth be precluding them from the first step towards +progressive civilization, and consequently of happiness, which it is +proved by the most respectable evidence they enjoy in a great degree in +our West-India islands, though under well-regulated restraint. The +clamour which is raised against this change of their situation, reminds +us of the following passage in one of the late Mr. Hall's 'Fables for +Grown Gentlemen.' + + "'Tis thus the Highlander complains, + 'Tis thus the Union they abuse, + For binding their backsides in chains, + And shackling their feet in shoes; + For giving them both food and fuel, + And comfortable cloaths, + Instead of cruel oatmeal gruel, + Instead of rags and heritable blows." + +{5} The question now agitated in the British Parliament concerning +slavery, is illustrated with great information, able argument, and +perspicuous expression, in a work entitled, "_Doubts on the Abolition of +the Slave Trade, by an Old Member of Parliament_;" printed for Stockdale, +in Picadilly, 1790. It is ascribed to John Ranby, Esq. + +That the evils of the Slave Trade should, like the evils incident to +other departments of civil subordination, be humanely remedied as much as +may be, every good man is convinced; and accordingly we find that great +advances have been gradually made in that respect, as may be seen in +various publications, particularly the evidence taken before the +Privy-Council. It must be admitted, that in the course of the present +imprudent and dangerous attempt to bring about a total abolition, one +essential advantage has been obtained, namely, a better mode of carrying +the slaves from Africa to the West-Indies; but surely this might have +been had in a less violent manner. + +{6} Diogenes being discovered in the street in fond intercourse with one +of those pretty misses whom Sir William Dolben dislikes, steadily said, +"{Greek: Phyteno Andras}--I plant men." + +{7} Manchester Petition. + +{8} Some of the Scottish Presbyteries petitioned. + +{9} _Risum teneatis amici._ HORAT. + +{10} When I forget HIM, may GOD forget me! + +{11} _Mira cano, Sol occubuit, nox nulla sequuta._ See CAMDEN'S REMAINS. + +{12} The state of slavery is acknowledged both in the Old Testament and +the New. + +{13} The great Dr. Bentley was Mr. Cumberland's grandfather. + +{14} Mr. Cumberland is a descendant of Bishop Cumberland, who wrote _De +legibus Naturae_. + +{15} Messieurs Carpmeal, Macmanus, Jealous, and Townshend, gentlemen of +the Publick Office, in Bow-Street. + +{16} Sir William Young has a series of pictures, in which the negroes in +our plantations are justly and pleasingly exhibited in various scenes. + +{17} The Angola blacks are the most ferocious. The author does not boast, +like Abyssinian _Yakoob_, "of no ungracious figure": nor does he, like +another _beau garcon_, Mr. Gibbon, prefix his pleasing countenance to +captivate the ladies. + + + + +TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: + +All original spellings and punctuation have been retained, except as noted. + +Title page: "By James Boswell, Esq." is handwritten below "P O E M." + +Erratum: the change of "mighty" to "magick" has been made. + +Line 9: "Thurlow" is handwritten above "T----". + +Line 12, footnote 2: "Sedet eternumqre sedebit" corrected to "Sedet +eternumque sedebit". + +Line 27: There is no footnote marker in the original text for footnote 5. + +Line 35: "Brown" is handwritten above "B----". + +Line 100: The line numbering is inconsistent. + +Line 109: "magick" substituted for "mighty" as specified in the erratum +notice. + +A press cutting from _The Athenaeum_ of 4th May 1896 was included with +the original. It reads as follows: + + + A POEM ON THE SLAVE TRADE + BY JAMES BOSWELL + + A hitherto unrecognized work by James Boswell was sold a few days + ago by Mr. Salkeld, of Clapham Road. It is in quarto, and the title + is, 'No Abolition of Slavery: or, the Universal Empire of Love: a + Poem, 1791.' The authorship appears to have been attributed to + Boswell on the strength of an inscription, "By James Boswell, Esq.," + in a contemporary handwriting on the title-page, and there is little + doubt that the inscription is correct. + + In the volume of Boswelliana edited by the Rev. Charles Rogers for + the Grampian Club there is a letter, written in April, 1791, to Mr. + Dempster by Boswell, who mentions a recently published poem on the + slave trade, written by himself. The editor, in his comments on the + letter, remarks that the work referred to by Boswell is unknown to + bibliographers. Mr. Salkeld's discovery, though interesting, will + not confer additional lustre on Boswell's reputation as a bard; but + the poem is characteristic and amusing. It is "Addressed to Miss + ----," perhaps intended for Miss Bagnal, who was occupying his + attention at that time, and is described in one of his letters as + "about seven-and-twenty ... a Ranelagh girl--but of excellent + principles, in so much that she reads prayers to the servants in her + father's family every Sunday evening." The merits of the work are + pretty nearly on a level with 'The Cub at Newmarket' and other + poetical effusions of the writer. Nothing could be more Boswellian + than the manner in which the subject is treated, and the piece is + full of personal allusions. 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