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diff --git a/44912-h/44912-h.htm b/44912-h/44912-h.htm index 79fa4a1..0df711e 100644 --- a/44912-h/44912-h.htm +++ b/44912-h/44912-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of Private Papers of William Wilberforce, by William Wilberforce</title> <style type="text/css"> @@ -160,27 +160,10 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44912 ***</div> <h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, Private Papers of William Wilberforce, by William Wilberforce, Edited by Anna Maria Wilberforce</h1> -<p>This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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 <a -href="http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></p> -<p>Title: Private Papers of William Wilberforce</p> -<p>Author: William Wilberforce</p> -<p>Editor: Anna Maria Wilberforce</p> -<p>Release Date: February 14, 2014 [eBook #44912]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRIVATE PAPERS OF WILLIAM WILBERFORCE***</p> <p> </p> -<h4>E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, Anna Granta,<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries<br /> - (<a href="https://archive.org/details/toronto">https://archive.org/details/toronto</a>)</h4> <p> </p> <table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> <tr> @@ -431,7 +414,7 @@ not read. I am sorry that you give so bad an account of your eyes, especially as this very letter looks as if it would put them to a severe trial, and might even defy the decypherer St. John, almost -without the help of an ænigma. I have only to +without the help of an ænigma. I have only to tell you that I have <i>no news</i>, which I consider as making it pretty certain that there will be none<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> now before the meeting of Parliament. The party @@ -681,7 +664,7 @@ received from you, which prepared me for that I received from you yesterday. I am indeed too deeply interested in whatever concerns you not to be very sensibly affected by what has the appearance -of a new æra in your life, and so important in +of a new æra in your life, and so important in its consequences for yourself and your friends. As to any public conduct which your opinions may ever lead you to, I will not disguise to you that @@ -1428,7 +1411,7 @@ wine, than on himself but I have still some curiosity to know what sort of company he and his guests are likely to prove; and should therefore be glad to know a little more about them than I collect from -his list of the <i>dramatis personæ</i>, which for instruction +his list of the <i>dramatis personæ</i>, which for instruction might as well have been taken from any old play-bill. In the meantime I have been obliged out of common civility, <i>provisoirement</i> to accept his invitation. I @@ -2031,7 +2014,7 @@ higher people of the place and neighbourhood. For a few days we lived very comfortably together, but no French was learned except from the grammar, we not having a single French acquaintance. At -length we desired our friend the <i>épicier</i> to mention +length we desired our friend the <i>épicier</i> to mention us to the Lieutenant of Police, who, I think we had made out, had been employed to collect evidence in the great Douglas cause, and was therefore likely @@ -2046,9 +2029,9 @@ palace was about a mile from the city, that three English Members of Parliament were then residing in it, one of whom was Mr. Pitt, who had recently been Chancellor of the Exchequer, his Grace sent -his Grand Vicaire, the Abbé de la Garde, to ascertain +his Grand Vicaire, the Abbé de la Garde, to ascertain the truth or falsehood of this statement. The -Abbé executed his commission with great address, +Abbé executed his commission with great address, and reporting in our favour, we soon received an invitation to the Archbishop's table, followed by the expression of a wish that during the remainder of @@ -2061,7 +2044,7 @@ gentry in and about the place. They were chiefly persons whose land produced the wine of the country, which, without scruple, they sold on their own account. And I remember the widow of the -former Marshal Detrée intimating a wish that Mr. +former Marshal Detrée intimating a wish that Mr. Pitt would become her customer.</p> <p>Thence we went to Paris, having an opportunity @@ -2121,7 +2104,7 @@ or immediately afterwards, that it was suggested to the late Lord Camden by Mr. Walpole, a particular friend of M. Necker's, that if Mr. Pitt should be disposed to offer his hand to Mademoiselle N., -afterwards Madame de Staël, such was the respect +afterwards Madame de Staël, such was the respect entertained for him by M. and Madame Necker, that he had no doubt the proposal would be accepted.</p> @@ -2686,7 +2669,7 @@ to these must be added Mr. Windham, Mr. Erskine, and, above all, Mr. Sheridan. Mr. Pitt had also several college friends who came into Parliament about the same period with himself, men of no -inferior consideration—Mr. Bankes, Mr. Eliot, Lord +inferior consideration—Mr. Bankes, Mr. Eliot, Lord Abercorn, Lord Spencer, and several others. But these, it must be confessed, were by no means men of the same degree of brilliancy as the former set; @@ -2694,7 +2677,7 @@ nor did they in the same degree live in the circle of fashion and there diffuse their own opinions. Again Mr. Fox's political connections were numerous, and such as naturally tended to stamp a high value on -his character. Burke, Barré—for there were those<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span> +his character. Burke, Barré—for there were those<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span> also who though not of Fox's party, often associated with him in private, and tended to sustain the general estimate of his superiority; of these were @@ -2972,7 +2955,7 @@ as I told you before.</p> <p>"As to the wish expressed by our late inestimable friend relative to the Stanhopes, I suggested to you that as provision had been made for the husbands -of the two elder ones, equal to £1,000 a year, +of the two elder ones, equal to £1,000 a year, I believe, for each, I thought a further one by Parliament could hardly be acquiesced in. For Lady Hester I hoped no difficulty would be made @@ -4596,7 +4579,7 @@ may be <i>driven</i> to do, if they shut their ears to the proposal of an extended and combined administration, we shall not, in my opinion, have been justified in our own eyes or in those of the country, if any -party feelings prevented us from <i>endeavouring bonâ +party feelings prevented us from <i>endeavouring bonâ fide</i> to form such a Government as may both protect the King, and be fit for these times. They are, I believe, as little able to form a separate Government @@ -4723,7 +4706,7 @@ Wellington was ambassador to Paris in 1814 he took up very warmly the question of the Slave Trade, himself circulating in Paris Wilberforce's letter to his Yorkshire constituents on the subject, -which Madam de Staël had translated at the Duke's +which Madam de Staël had translated at the Duke's suggestion, and also undertaking to disperse Wilberforce's pamphlet to Talleyrand. The Duke writes from Paris, December 14, 1814.</p> @@ -4734,7 +4717,7 @@ from Paris, December 14, 1814.</p> <p>"It is impossible to describe the prejudice of all classes here upon the subject, particularly those of our determined enemies, the principal officers and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span> -<i>employés</i> in the public departments. I was in +<i>employés</i> in the public departments. I was in hopes that the King's measures had changed the public opinion in some degree, of which the silence of the public journals appeared an evidence. But I @@ -5187,7 +5170,7 @@ with party, Whig principles, but all my three Oxonians are strong friends to High Church and King doctrines. The effects I myself have witnessed would certainly induce me, had I to decide -on the University to which any young protegé +on the University to which any young protegé of mine should go, were he by natural temper or any other causes too prone to excess on the Tory side, I should decidedly send him to Cambridge, @@ -5510,7 +5493,7 @@ hour's leisure."</p> letter, Wilberforce also writes later to his daughter Elizabeth: "You will never find telling Robert" (afterwards Archdeacon Wilberforce), "of any fault offend -him, if you do it when you are <i>tête à tête</i>, and when he +him, if you do it when you are <i>tête à tête</i>, and when he sees from your manner and from the circumstances that you can only have his happiness at heart, I mean that this friendly regard can alone prompt @@ -5620,10 +5603,10 @@ a remarkably well-expressed description of Lady Raffles, contained in a letter from the Duchesse de Broglie, to whom I gave Lady R. a letter of introduction—'C'est une personne qui inspire un -profond interêt. Elle a tant de dignité et de<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span> +profond interêt. Elle a tant de dignité et de<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span> douceur.' The epithets appear to me very happy. And now, my dear Lizzy, I must conclude my very -disjointed letter, written <i>à plusiers reprises</i> as the +disjointed letter, written <i>à plusiers reprises</i> as the French phrase it."</p> <p>Elizabeth would seem to have written to her @@ -6445,8 +6428,8 @@ him on Sunday, 31st March, 1822."</p> <p>"Though honestly my purse is in such a state that I cannot buy books except very sparingly, I beg you will buy Hume and Smollett, 13 vols. large -8vo, for £5 10s., and Gibbon's 'Rome' you may also -purchase, if you wish it, for £4 10s., 12 vols. But +8vo, for £5 10s., and Gibbon's 'Rome' you may also +purchase, if you wish it, for £4 10s., 12 vols. But you must take these two birthday presents for Scotch pints—each double. Had I as much money as I have good will you should wish for no @@ -7111,7 +7094,7 @@ I hope, possess from me what, with the ordinary<span class="pagenum"><a name="Pa emoluments of a profession, may afford you a comfortable competence, I am persuaded I shall leave you far more likely to be happy than if -you were to have inherited from me £10,000 +you were to have inherited from me £10,000 more (and I say the same for your brothers also), the fruits of my bachelor savings. In truth, it would be so if the Word of God be true, for it is @@ -7230,7 +7213,7 @@ of calling them your friends. Is it yet too late?"</p> money matters it shot across my mind that you had desired me to send you a supply, which I had neglected to do. I am truly sorry for my inadvertency, -and will send you the half of a £20 bank note which +and will send you the half of a £20 bank note which I happen to possess, the other half following of course to-morrow. Ask for what you want, and we will settle when you are here. It gives me real pleasure to @@ -7264,7 +7247,7 @@ that they themselves are so."</p> "two young widows" by Wilberforce. He had not yet learned the lesson of "economy or even parsimony" as regarded his charities—even when he -had to reduce his expenses he spent £3,000<a name="FNanchor_52_52" id="FNanchor_52_52"></a><a href="#Footnote_52_52" class="fnanchor">[52]</a> in one +had to reduce his expenses he spent £3,000<a name="FNanchor_52_52" id="FNanchor_52_52"></a><a href="#Footnote_52_52" class="fnanchor">[52]</a> in one year on charity.</p> @@ -7273,8 +7256,8 @@ year on charity.</p> </p> <p>"I have deemed it quite a duty on this delicious -day to prolong my country walk in a <i>tête-à-tête</i> with -your dear mother, a <i>tête-à-tête</i>, however, from which +day to prolong my country walk in a <i>tête-à -tête</i> with +your dear mother, a <i>tête-à -tête</i>, however, from which our dear children's images are not excluded. I own that those who are termed Methodists by the world do give more liberally to the distressed than others, @@ -7857,7 +7840,7 @@ in our days Christians are to be ascertained: may we all cultivate in ourselves this blessed principle and pray for it more earnestly. I am quite pleased myself, Robert is delighted, by the appointment to -the Professorship (Hebrew) of Pusey—above £1,200 +the Professorship (Hebrew) of Pusey—above £1,200 per annum. Pusey had opposition, and is appointed by the Duke of Wellington, solely we suppose on the ground of superior merit."</p> @@ -7888,7 +7871,7 @@ his first year of married life with a partner, between whom and himself there was great mutual attachment, grounded on esteem, and a mutual acquaintance with each other's characters and dispositions, can -never be so happy as when he is enjoying a <i>tête-à-tête</i> +never be so happy as when he is enjoying a <i>tête-à -tête</i> with his bride. By the way, do you keep anything in the nature of a journal? A commonplace book I take it for granted you keep; and speaking @@ -8318,7 +8301,7 @@ matter for gratitude and humiliation, (I am sure I find the latter most powerfully called forth in my heart by my own survey). Many thanks for your last kind letter. You have precisely anticipated -what was said by the several <i>dramatis personæ</i>. It +what was said by the several <i>dramatis personæ</i>. It is a real sacrifice for Emily and you to be absent from my family circle. But the sacrifice is to duty, and that is enough. And you have no small ground @@ -8432,7 +8415,7 @@ derived are chiefly Lives and Memoirs. Numbers of these have been published of late years, and the object is one which would give opportunities for exercising sagacity, as well as candour. There is -this also of good in it that, <i>nullus dies sine lineâ</i>, you +this also of good in it that, <i>nullus dies sine lineâ</i>, you might be continually finding some fresh fact or hint, which would afterwards be capable of being turned to good account. The Annual Registers and the @@ -8478,7 +8461,7 @@ this connection, having strong reasons for believing Mr. James to be a truly amiable as well as pious man, and my dear Lizzy is really well fitted for the office of a parson's aider and comforter. It has given me -no little pleasure to have been assured by Mr. Dupré, +no little pleasure to have been assured by Mr. Dupré, the curate of the parish, that she has been truly useful to the poor cottagers around us. His expression was, 'She has done more good than she knows of.' @@ -9326,7 +9309,7 @@ to express what I think of you."</p></div> <div class="footnote"> <p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28"><span class="label">[28]</span></a> Dundas, who had been Treasurer to the Navy, was impeached -on April 29, 1805, on a charge of misappropriating £10,000 +on April 29, 1805, on a charge of misappropriating £10,000 worth of public money. He was acquitted June 12, 1805.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> @@ -9460,7 +9443,7 @@ hymns: died 1838.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> -<p><a name="Footnote_52_52" id="Footnote_52_52"></a><a href="#FNanchor_52_52"><span class="label">[52]</span></a> A single year's almsgiving exceeded £3,000. "Life of +<p><a name="Footnote_52_52" id="Footnote_52_52"></a><a href="#FNanchor_52_52"><span class="label">[52]</span></a> A single year's almsgiving exceeded £3,000. 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