1906.] Slave Trade—Inhumanity to Animals— Property-Tax. 
palled whole days there, which he em- 
poyed in writing them, and as frequently 
burning what he had written after reading 
them to me: many of them which pleafed 
me I ftruggled to preferve, but without ef- 
fed ; for pretending he would alter them, 
he got them from me, and thruét them 
into the fre. He was an acceptable com- 
panion every-where ; among the gen- 
Uemen who loved him for his genius, 1 may 
reckon the Doégtors Armirong, Barrow- 
by, and Hill, Meffrs. Quin, Garrick, and 
Foote, who frequently tock his opinion 
on their pieces befure they were feen by 
the public., He was particularly noticed 
by the geniufes who ticquented the Bed- 
ford and Siaughier’s coftce-houles.. From 
his knowledge of Garrick, he had the 
liberty of the fcenes and green rcom, 
where he made diverting oblervations on 
the vanity and falle confequence of that 
clafs of people; and his manner of relat- 
ing them to-his particular friends was ex- 
tremely entertaining. In this manner he 
lived with and upon his iriends, until the 
death of Colonel Martyn, who. left what 
fartune he died poffeffuit of unto him aad 
his tvvo filters. 
as to dates, but believe he left the Univer- 
fity in the year 43. Some ci:cuméiances 
I recollect make me almoft certain he was 
in Londcnthat year; but twill not he fo 
certain of the time he dicd, which I did 
not bear of till long after it happened. 
When his health and faculties began to 
decline, he went to France, and arter to 
Rath, in hope his health might be re- 
ftored, but without fuccefs. I never faw 
him after his fifter removed him. from 
M‘Donnald’s mad-houle at Chellea, to 
Chichelter, where he foon junk into a de- 
plorable fate of idiotifm, which, when I 
was told, fhocked me exceedingly ; and 
even how the remembrance of a man for 
whom I hada particular friendfhip, and 
in whofe company I have pafled fo many 
pleafan: happy heurs, gives me a severe 
fhock. Since it is in con‘equence of your 
own 1equeft, Sir, that I wiite this Jong 
farrago, I expe&t you will overlook all 
inaccuracies. ‘I am, Sir, 
Your very humble fervant, 
Mr. Wm. Hymers, JouN RaGspare.” 
Queen's College, Oxford. 
a ceca 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
SLAVE TRADE. 
NE objeét, and a very great one, for 
which the writer of this withed to 
fee the prefent Miniftry in office, is ob- 
tained: the late Bul againft the Slave- 
Trade. This I conceive to be preemi- 
nently honourable to thofe of the Minifry 
aay | 
and 
over all felfifh confiderations. 
I fear I cannot be certzin- 
495 
who fo decidedly fupported it. It feems to 
me asa triumph of juft, firm, generous 
principle; atriumph of humanity and right 
It proves 
at the fame time, I think, that if this 
were not done long before, the caufe reited 
here, that the former Minifter was lefs 
difpofed to refign bis fituation or his in- 
fluence, by fupperting this great point to 
which he had pledged bimfelf. 
INHUMANITY TO ANIMALS, 
I doubt I have the greateft caufe to, 
lament this great and increafing vice, one 
of the worft and moft difgracefal to hu- 
man nature, and’the fource of outrage 
and violence from man to man., 
Should a Bil be again brought into 
Parliament for reftraining wanton craelty 
to animals, though it has loft « moft able, 
eloquent, and benevolent promoter of it 
in the Houle cf Commons, it will find 
friends there whofe hearts and whofe 
power refemble his. . And if it pafics 
that houfe, and goesconfequently into the 
other, it will find thofe who regard virtue 
as nybility, and benevolence as the faireft 
and mof{t Jovely feature of virtue. It 
will find the Chancellor, Lord Erfkines 
fuch as he was in the Houfe of Commons, 
~“Erikine indeed iil], . 
The prefent ftatutes do not meet the 
evil, as by judicial decifion they are re- 
garded as only punifhing it when done te 
injuie the owner; and whatever reafon 
there was to :hink that it is punifhable as 
a mifdemeanour at common law, where 
publicly committed, the hope thar it would 
be fo confidered no longer exilts ; and if 
it did, it would not reach aéts of un- 
doubted and exceffive cruelty, unlefs pub- 
licly commited. 
_ As benevolence has been lately fhown 
hy the legiffature from man to man, with- 
cut confisement to colour, this encourages 
the expeciaticn that it will be fhewn to 
the amima's, who owe their being to the 
fame innitely good Creator ; who contri- 
bute to the comfort of man, fome of thena 
not eminently, (the dog, the horfe, the 
cow, and the theep elpecially) ; and whofe 
hagpinefs or milery fo much depends on 
bis conduct toward them, 
PROPERTY-TAX. 
However necellary the tax may be, I 
cannot think it either neceflary or juft that 
it fhould prefs as hard on a imere'life- in- 
tereit, and that perhaps denendant on a 
profeffion or bubnefs, as upon an income 
ariling from a fee-fimple, of which the 
holder has tne abfolute difpofal; nor that 
it fhould adit in the fame proportion on an 
income of 3oo0l, a yeal as 4Q,o00]. a 
. year, 
