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infant slavery-city meeting.pursuant to public advertisement a meeting waB held ,/s3ay .uheCity of London Tavern, for_U,e pue““JsaDDOdinK, by petition to the Legislature, tits Si about (i- be brought into Parliament by Lord Ashley,Uiu ^ i i_____ ^c mIiiIrlaijn m nil TtrificnBillSluicing the labour Bri^ac' ”,0 ten boars daily, and for preventing any children Sr nine j ears of age from being so employed.The meeting was graced by the attendance of a mime, vd highly respectable assemblage of ladies, who r0“ .j' ,o take t deep interest in the proceedings. Among the gentlemen who appeared on the platform,*'LaTavyTham, Lord Ashley, Hon. Mr. Duncombe, Colonel -Portens, M.P., Mr. Robinson, M.P.. , O’Connell, M.P., Mr. Sadler,late M.P., Mr. Wt.ks, P William Hazard, Mr. Lyall, Mr. AldermanWnab’es Hon. Mr. Fraser, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Vir Andrew Agnew, M.P., Mr. Owen, of Lanark, (japtain Bienton, K.N., Mr. Smith, late M.P.y Mr.(VrtuilKrs, Mr. Helps, Air. Freeze, Mr. Nathaniel Gould, Mr. Labouchere, tanker.The Lord Mayor in the chair.At about twenty minute* after one o clock the Hord tviir anneared on the hustings, and having taken theobserved that the system ought to be put an end to immediately, and that they should loot to the emancipation of the slaves at homo before they attempted to do it abroad. He had only known of the meeting that morning, but he hud great satisfaction in coming forward to do all in his power for the abolition of such a system. He was not a new convert to his present opinions upon this subject. One gentleman, the late Mr. Nathaniel GouId, of Manchester, who was the very first to stir in the question, was an uncle of his, and him he had assisted all in his power. (Cheers.) That gentleman had spent the greater part of an exceeding long life in making the attempt which he hoped was now about to be accomplished. One of the last acts' of that lamented gentleman was, in his will, leaving the sum of 5,0001. for the purpose of prosecuting the only public question on which he had ever taken an active part. He lived to see Sir R. Feel’s bill pass, but unfortunately that act had been evaded, so that anew legislative enactment was how f.eces. suryi He was glad to observe that the question had been taken up by u gentleman who had all the zeal of his la mented relative, and, added to that, a giester share of talent. To that man (Mr. Sadler) they were indebted for the meeting, and he considered it a disgrace to the coumry that lie was not now a member of the legislature, so that he might himself perfect the good work which he bad been the great meuns of bringing to its presentjy_______irr„ t_____j it... .1,.,Colonel Williams, M.P. for Ashton under Lyne, proposed the third resolution. 'Jj'he ^knowledge of the tyranny exercised over the unhappy children in factories in, Lancashire, had convinced him of the necessity of legislative interference.. He considered the mischief to arise originally from the inability of the parents to maintain themselves by their own exertions, and they were, therefore, obliged to introduce their children at an age when they were totally unfit for work. . He was happy, however, to say that there were some circumstances which tended to alleviate these things. He had received a letter from a friend at Manchester, which informed him that the masters there were determined to cooperate in diminishing these grievances. He cordially concurred with the statements of ihe Member for Dublin, that such was the anxiety of these poor children r.ot to be too late to their work, for fear of punishment, that they often got up in the middle of the night to inquire the hour. The worthy gentleman concluded by proposing the third resolu ion—. That the meeting rejoiced to perceive that the Bill introduced by Mr Sadler was *$abeu up by the Right Hon. Lord Ashley, and was zealously supported by theope;a-ticea of the empire, for the pioteUon of whose children the bill was designed.Mr, Lyall said, be had been called upon very unexpectedly to propose a resolution. The principles of political economy, no doubt, were opposed to ihvfr in-viuauiapcmuu u ,him in the same way for con emancipation of the white anxious in every way to question, like many other* money. There was one ind at that moment, who had es upon it. (Hear.) He (Mr. to go to that fountain of bene more—.not that he had evlt; because he had always been but it was impossible for to consider that one ind all the expense. For his o gone. It had been little—I The battle was now British children. The conte dren should be murdered or I —whether the bill, which w, hours* work on delicate, am receive the sanction of the 1 imrusted to Lord Ashley w battle would have to be foi malicious, a wealthy foe. scribing—nay, the very chil pittance, were subscribing— ward their measure of enian
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British Traveller and Commercial and Law Gazette
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Feb 25, 1833
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