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The future doth avenge the past— Now, for thy future's sake, Oh, England! for the guilty past A deep atonement make. The slave is given to thy charge, He hopes from thee alone; And thou, for every soul so given, Must answer with thine own.

L. E. L.

Mr. Clarkson is now in his eightieth year; and so recently as the 15th of April, 1839, had the freedom of the City of London conferred upon him by an unanimous vote of the Corporation.