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Show 72 I ' the wrongs of Africa and tlJC pl1ilnnthropic mnn of Great Britain, who Jutd hborcd so long and 1'0 :-.ne cessfully for the abolition of the slave track, ml'l the emancipation of the slaves of tbc \Vest Indies ; nnrl I at once resolved to pay a visit to the grave "f \\"i lberforee. A half nn hour n.ftcr, I entered \Y cstminstrr . .\lJlJCy, at Poets' Corner, and procccdCll in SL:arch ul' the patriot's tomb i I had, however, gone but a i:'w ~lo ps, when I found myself in front of the tablet erected to the memory of Granville Sharpe, by the A 'ric·au Institution of London, in l SlG; upon the m:u·Lio was a long inscription, recapitulating m~ny of the !lectb of this benevolent man, ami from whieh l copic-cl tl>e following :-''lie aimed to rc:::;cuc lt.is n:1tivc c:ountry from the guilt and inconsistency of cmployi1'g the arm of freedom to rivet the fetters of bombg·, ancl establish for the negro race, in the person of Somerset, the long-disputed rights of human nature. llaving in this glorions cause triumphed over the combinf'(l resistance of interest, prcjutlicc, and pride, llC took l1is post among the foremost of the honorable ban<l associated to deliver Africa from the rapacity of Europe, by the abolition of the slave-trade; nor was death 'a 73 permitted to interrupt his career or usefulness, till he l10<l witnre,; "l that act of the British Parliament by \Vhich tl10 a'Lolition w::ts decreed." After viewing minutely the profile of this able defender of tl<e negro's rights, wllich was .finely chiselled on tl•c tablet, l took a hasty glance at Sbakspcare, on the one side, and Dryllcn on the other, and then }Xtssed on, an(l w!:ls soon in tllC north aisle, looking upon the mementoes placed in honor of genius. rrhcre stood a. grand :::md expressive monument to Sir Isaac Newton, wl1ich wns in c\·ery way wortl•y of the great man to wllOSC memory it wM erected. A fl.hort distance from tUnt wns n. statue to Addison, representing the great writer chul in l1i~ morning gown, looking as if he l1ail just left the stucly, after finishing some chosen article for the Spectator. The stately monument to the Earl of Chatham is the most attractive in this part of the Abbey. Fox, Pitt, Grattan, and many otl1cre, arc here representee! by monuments. I hocl to stop at the "plemlicl marble erected to the memory of Sir Fowc1l Buxton, Bart. A long in scription cHumcrates his many good qualities, and concludes by saying:-'· This monument is erected by his friend> and fellow-!aborCl-s, at home and abroad, assistecl by 4 |