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author, by the publication, in 1797, of his 

 " Practical View of the prevailing Religious 

 " System of Professed Christians," which was 

 warmly attacked by the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield, 

 in a "Letter" addressed to the author; by the Rev. 

 Thomas Belsham, in his " Review" of the author's 

 Treatise ; by Dr.Cogan, in his "Letters to William 

 " Wilberforce, Esq., on the doctrine of Heredi- 

 " tary Depravity ; by a Layman ;" and by others. 

 In 1S07, he printed his "Letter on the Abolition 

 " of the Slave Trade, addressed to the Freeholders 

 "of Yorkshire;" and in 1823, his "Appeal to 

 " the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the 

 " Inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of 

 " the Negro Slaves in the West Indies." In 

 addition to the works which I have enumerated, 

 Mr. Wilberforce is the author of many valuable 

 communications, published anonymously, in the 

 Christian Observer. 



" holy feelings of religion, the most pure and cheerful warmth of 

 "benevolence: there is nothing stern, severe, or morose in his religion : 

 " I never met with so cheerful and animated, and, I may say, so delightful 

 " a disposition as his. In him you see the effects of a well spent life, 

 " happily manifested in the serenity, the cheerfulness which accompanies 

 "him in a good old age, although encompassed with many infirmities. 

 " But, Gentlemen, I should needlessly employ your time in expressing 

 " any eulogium on Mr. Wilberforce, in the place where all his virtues 

 " are so well known, in the place where his silvery tones are so well 

 "remembered but that it gives me an opportunity of expressing my 

 "opinion, not taken up for the purpose of promoting my interest at this 

 "election, but also avowed at a former election, on a subject with 

 " which the name, the character, and the credit of Mr. Wilberforce will 

 " go down to the remotest posterity." 



