[152] Paradise Lost, book xii. 64-71.
[153] Noah's Travels, p. 248, 253; Quarterly Review, vol. xv. p. 168. Among the concubines of a prince of Morocco were two slaves of the age of fifteen, one of English, and the other of French extraction. Lemprière's Tour, p. 147. There is an account of the fate of "one Mrs. Shaw, an Irish woman," in words hardly polite enough to be quoted. She was swept into the harem of Muley Ishmael, who "forced her to turn Moor;" "but soon after, having taken a dislike to her, he gave her to a soldier."—Braithwaite's Morocco, p. 191.
[154] Braithwaite's Morocco, p. 350. See also Quarterly Review, vol. xv. p. 168.
[155] Braithwaite, p. 222.
[156] Ibid. p. 381.
[157] Somersett's case, first declaring this principle, was decided in 1772. M. Schoell says, that "this fine maxim has always obtained" in France.—Histoire Abrégée des Traités de Paix, tom. xi. p. 178. By the royal ordinance 1318, it was declared, that "all men are born free (francs) by nature; and that the kingdom of the French (Francs) should be so in reality as in name." But this "fine maxim" was not recognized in France so completely as M. Schoell asserts. See Encyclopédie, (de Diderot et de D'Alembert,) art. Esclavage.
Transcriber's Note: Delivered as a Lecture before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, February 17, 1847; this illustrated version published in 1853. Spelling varieties as in "stanch" (staunch) have been maintained.