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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Letters from Paris report that Dr. Fothergill's philanthropic scheme to send missionaries to Africa for sugar cane cultivation continues after his death, with a European association raising L. 300,000 to promote agriculture over slave trade. M. Vic. d'Azire delivered a eulogium praising Fothergill's benevolence.
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By letters received from Paris, by the last French packet, we learn that the philanthropic scheme of the benevolent and good Dr. Fothergill is not buried with him. Several illustrious persons in Europe are forming an association, in order to establish a stock sufficient to carry it into execution.
With a subscription of L. 300,000, they propose to send missionaries to the different parts of Africa, to instruct the natives in the art of cultivating the sugar cane, which improvement would enrich those countries, and convince their miserable rulers, that it is more advantageous and profitable for them to employ their subjects in this useful husbandry, than to sell them to the Whites.
M. Vic. d'Azire, Secretary to the Royal Society of Medicine at Paris, pronounced last year to a crowded and illustrious audience the funeral eulogium of Dr. Fothergill. He was truly an ornament to the British nation, to the human race, and to the Society of Friends, of which he was a member. He was very eminent in his profession, as a physician, and of extensive knowledge in other branches of science. It is said that he gave during his life three thousand guineas to the poor. He will not lose his reward.
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european association forming with l. 300,000 subscription to fund missionaries to africa, aiming to enrich countries and deter slave trade by promoting sugar cane cultivation.
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Philanthropic scheme of Dr. Fothergill continues; illustrious Europeans form association to raise L. 300,000 for sending missionaries to Africa to teach sugar cane cultivation, benefiting natives and rulers over selling subjects to Whites. M. Vic. d'Azire, Secretary to Royal Society of Medicine at Paris, gave funeral eulogium last year praising Fothergill as eminent physician, scientist, philanthropist who gave 3,000 guineas to poor, ornament to Britain, humanity, and Society of Friends.