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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of No Abolition of Slavery, by James Boswell
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+Title: No Abolition of Slavery
+ Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem
+
+Author: James Boswell
+
+Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20360]
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+
+<div class="transnote">
+<h2 class="smcap">Transcriber&rsquo;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">&nbsp;</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&nbsp;O&nbsp;E&nbsp;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">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a>
+
+Entered at Stationer&rsquo;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">&nbsp;</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">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4"></a>
+
+&nbsp;</p>
+<p>
+
+<span class="pagebreak" title="5">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a>
+
+&nbsp;</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 &mdash;&mdash;.</span></h3>
+
+
+<div class="poem gap"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">&mdash;&mdash;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s mispent,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In either House of Parliament?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="pagebreak" title="6">&nbsp;</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&mdash;&mdash;</a>, with the front of Jove!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But not like Jove with thunder grac&rsquo;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&rsquo;s superb alcove<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Like the unhappy Theseus plac&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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">&nbsp;</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&rsquo; African&rsquo;s improv&rsquo;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>&mdash;from <i>pure humanity</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="pagebreak" title="8">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8"></a>
+
+<span class="i0">Go, W&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;, 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&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;, 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">&nbsp;</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&mdash;&mdash;</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&rsquo; immortal spirit of thy Sire<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Has borne away th&rsquo; &aelig;thereal fire,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And left thee but the earthy dregs,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let&rsquo;s never have thee on thy legs;<span class='linenum'>40</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">&rsquo;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&mdash;<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">&nbsp;</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&rsquo;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&rsquo; <i>instruct</i> our ministers of state,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And <i>foreign commerce</i> regulate:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ev&rsquo;n <i>bony</i> Scotland with her dirk,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nay, her starv&rsquo;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">&nbsp;</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&rsquo;d cobler drink;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">&ldquo;With <i>him</i> the muse shall sit and think;&rdquo;<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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;d in a balloon,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And touch&rsquo;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">&nbsp;</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&rsquo;s sons are always black;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On sceptick themes he wildly raves,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet Africk&rsquo;s sons were always slaves;<span class='linenum'>90</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I&rsquo;d have the rogue beware of libel,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And spare a jest&mdash;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&rsquo;d to <i>Blacks</i>&mdash;deny&rsquo;d to <i>Whites</i>?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i1">But Thou! bold Faction&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;d, ungovern&rsquo;d, unconfin&rsquo;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">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a>
+
+<span class="i0">Best humour&rsquo;d man, worst politician,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Most dangerous, desp&rsquo;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 &rsquo;tis all in vain?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For thy tumultuous reign is o&rsquo;er;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">The People&rsquo;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 &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;d)<span class='linenum'>115</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Years of experience have matur&rsquo;d;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For whom, in glory&rsquo;s race untir&rsquo;d,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Th&rsquo; events of nations have conspir&rsquo;d;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For whom, eer many suns revolv&rsquo;d,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Holland has crouch&rsquo;d, and France dissolv&rsquo;d;<span class='linenum'>120</span><br /></span>
+
+<span class="pagebreak" title="14">&nbsp;</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">&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Reform</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A set of <i>Irish Propositions</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Impeachment</i>&mdash;on your <i>own conditions</i>,<span class='linenum'>130</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or <span class="smcap">Richmond&rsquo;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&rsquo;t fail,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To be a tub to Party&rsquo;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&rsquo;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">&nbsp;</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&rsquo;t forgive;<span class='linenum'>140</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My Tory soul with anger swell&rsquo;d,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When I a parcel&rsquo;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&rsquo;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">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a>
+
+<span class="i1">Courtiers, who chanc&rsquo;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&rsquo;ring with stars, and envied seen<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Adorn&rsquo;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&rsquo;s ear:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O ne&rsquo;er let Majesty suppose<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The <i>Prince&rsquo;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&rsquo;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">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a>
+
+<span class="i0">Let&rsquo;s have, altho&rsquo; the skies should lour,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No interval of Regal pow&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s soil.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He who to thwart <span class="smcap">God&rsquo;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&rsquo; 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&rsquo;s plan<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Springs the chief happiness of man;<br /></span>
+
+<span class="pagebreak" title="18">&nbsp;</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&rsquo;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">&nbsp;</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&rsquo;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&mdash;O! condescend<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To range with an advent&rsquo;rous friend:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Together let us beat the rounds,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">St. Giles&rsquo;s ample blackguard bounds:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Try what th&rsquo; accurs&rsquo;d <i>Short&rsquo;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&rsquo;er a nose.<span class='linenum'>225</span><br /></span>
+
+<span class="pagebreak" title="20">&nbsp;</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&rsquo;s Lane</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And <i>Cockpit-Alley</i>&mdash;<i>Stewart&rsquo;s Rents</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the fleec&rsquo;d drunkard oft repents.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With <span class="smcap">Bentley&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 Natur&aelig;</i><a name="Fnnum_14" id="Fnnum_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14" class="fnnum">14</a>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let&rsquo;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&rsquo;d the horrid maze,<span class='linenum'>240</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let&rsquo;s justify the Planter&rsquo;s ways.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="pagebreak" title="21">&nbsp;</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>!&mdash;the negroes see<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Perform the task of industry:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ev&rsquo;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&rsquo;d the bus&rsquo;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">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a>
+
+<span class="i0">Pernicious as th&rsquo; effect would be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">T&rsquo; abolish negro slavery,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Such partial freedom would be vain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since Love&rsquo;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&rsquo;t complain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Confess her universal reign:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And <i>Cupid</i> too well-us&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 &mdash;&mdash;&mdash;! 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">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23"></a>
+
+<span class="i1">Yet I must say&mdash;but pr&rsquo;ythee smile,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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 &agrave; boire</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And good old port in my <i>Code noire</i>;<br /></span>
+
+<span class="pagebreak" title="24">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24"></a>
+
+<span class="i0">Nor care I when I&rsquo;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!&mdash;which beam with joy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Warm, cheer, enchant, but don&rsquo;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&rsquo;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">&nbsp;<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&rsquo;s &lsquo;Fables for Grown Gentlemen.&rsquo;
+</p>
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">&ldquo;&rsquo;Tis thus the Highlander complains,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">&rsquo;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.&rdquo;<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, &ldquo;<i>Doubts on the Abolition
+of the Slave Trade, by an Old Member of Parliament</i>;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;<span class="translit" title="Phytenô Andras">&#934;&#965;&#964;&#949;&#957;&#969; &#913;&#957;&#948;&#961;&#945;&#962;</span>&mdash;I plant men.&rdquo;</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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 Natur&aelig;</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>, &ldquo;of no ungracious figure&rdquo;: nor does
+he, like another <i>beau gar&ccedil;on</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&rsquo;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>: &ldquo;By James Boswell, Esq.&rdquo; is handwritten below &ldquo;P O E M.&rdquo;
+</p>
+
+<p><a name="tnote_Err" id="tnote_Err"></a><a href="#Page_2" >Erratum</a>: the change of &ldquo;mighty&rdquo; to &ldquo;magick&rdquo; 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>: &ldquo;Thurlow&rdquo; is handwritten above &ldquo;T&mdash;&mdash;&rdquo;.</p>
+
+<p><a name="tnote_12" id="tnote_12"></a>Line 12, <a href="#Footnote_2" >footnote 2</a>: &ldquo;Sedet eternumqre sedebit&rdquo; corrected to &ldquo;Sedet
+eternumque sedebit&rdquo;.</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>: &ldquo;Brown&rdquo; is handwritten above &ldquo;B&mdash;&mdash;&rdquo;.</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>: &ldquo;magick&rdquo; substituted for &ldquo;mighty&rdquo; 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, &lsquo;No Abolition of Slavery: or, the Universal Empire of Love: a
+ Poem, 1791.&rsquo; The authorship appears to have been attributed to
+ Boswell on the strength of an inscription, &ldquo;By James Boswell, Esq.,&rdquo;
+ 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&rsquo;s discovery, though interesting, will
+ not confer additional lustre on Boswell&rsquo;s reputation as a bard; but
+ the poem is characteristic and amusing. It is &ldquo;Addressed to Miss
+ &mdash;&mdash;,&rdquo; perhaps intended for Miss Bagnal, who was occupying his
+ attention at that time, and is described in one of his letters as
+ &ldquo;about seven-and-twenty ... a Ranelagh girl&mdash;but of excellent
+ principles, in so much that she reads prayers to the servants in her
+ father&rsquo;s family every Sunday evening.&rdquo; The merits of the work are
+ pretty nearly on a level with &lsquo;The Cub at Newmarket&rsquo; 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>
+
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