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646 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
supported by Fox. The “ African Institution ” was now established,
of which Wadström was a distinguished member. Its members
worked with the greatest zeal, but they remained for some time
in a minority. In 1794, he published in London his valuable
"Essay on Colonization, particularly applied to the Western Coast
of Africa, also brief descriptions of the colonies already formed,
including those of Sierra Leone and Bonlama"-a magnificent work
in two parts, quarto, with plates. At the same time he commenced
a manufactory in Manchester at his own expense, but at the break
ing out of the war with France it failed, and he lost the whole of
his property, which was not very large. In 1795 he went to Paris,
carried thither by the dream that the beautiful ideas of the philosophers
could be most easily realized in a country where the men of the
street had by a revolution seized the reins of government. He was
well received, was made a French citizen, and received the kiss of
fraternity and equality before the Directory. He published now his
singular work : “Quelques Idées sur la nature du Numeraire et sur
la necessité de combiner l’intéret du Cultivateur avec celui du Nego
ciant au moment où l’on établit un nouveau plan de Finance.” At
the same time he continued to labour in France in behalf of the
abolition of slavery, and in the same year, 1795, he published his
celebrated “Address to the Legislative Body and the Executive
Directory,” in which he called upon them to make common
with England in this matter, at least so far as to extend their
common protection to the colonies, which according to Wadström’s
ideas ought to be established along the coasts of Africa. Supported
by Grégoire and Lanthenas, Wadström became one of the most
zealous members of a Society which was established in 1797 under
the name of " Réunion des Amis des Noirs et de Colons." He was
one of the principal framers of the rules of that body, and was
several times its president. While engaged in this work he died in
Paris on April 5, 1799, of a pulmonary disease, leaving his worthy wife
and an only daughter in distressed circumstances. His considerable
library he left by will to his beloved native town Norrköping,
where it is preserved in the large hall of the town school.”
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NOTE 37.
SWEDENBORG’S MARBLE TABLE.
This table, which is mentioned in Document 5, § 10, and in
Document 6, S5, is still preserved in the back -room of the building
which is at present assigned to the use of the College of Mines.
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