Roscoe also wrote a pamphlet in 1788 entitled ' A General View of the African Slave Trade '.

It later absorbed the older African Association, which had been founded by Sir Joseph Banks in 1788, as well as the Raleigh Club and the Palestine Association.

In 1788 Clarkson published his Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade ( 1788 ), which was printed in large numbers.

William Paul Quinn ( 10 April 1788 – 3 February 1873 ) was the fourth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, an independent black denomination founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1816.

* Philo's endliche Antwort auf verschiedene Anforderungen und Fragen, meine Verbindung mit dem Orden der Illuminaten betreffend ( Philo ’ s Reply To Questions Concerning His Association With the Illuminati ), 1788, 2012 ISBN 978-1-105-60407-2

The Association also decided that a statue of Washington should be placed in the memorial atrium, and that this statue should be a marble copy of Jean-Antoine Houdon's 1788 statue of George Washington ( which stood in the rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond ).

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was responsible for music at the court chapel and attached school.

The success of his opera Tarare was such that it was soon translated into Italian at Joseph II behest by Lorenzo Da Ponte as Axur, Re d ' Ormus ( Axur, King of Hormuz ) and staged at the royal wedding of Franz II in 1788.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788 he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own ; and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790 he had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage.

As a result scurvy broke out, and in October 1788 Phillip had to send Sirius to Cape Town for supplies, and strict rationing was introduced, with thefts of food punished by hanging.

Robert Adam designed the screen which was added to the entrance front in 1788.

The first paper on boxing was published in the late 18th century by successful Birmingham boxer ' William Futrell ' who remained undefeated until his one hour and seventeen minute fight at Smitham Bottom, Croydon, on July 9, 1788 against a much younger " Gentleman " John Jackson which was attended by the Prince of Wales.

The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.

David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.

The Shihab leadership continued until the middle of the 19th century and culminated in the illustrious governorship of Amir Bashir Shihab II ( 1788 – 1840 ) who, after Fakhr-al-Din, was the most powerful feudal lord Lebanon produced.

When this was completed in 1788, the heavy cavalry regiments had become either Dragoon Guards or Heavy Dragoons ( depending on their precedence ).

" His father-in-law provided the money he needed for the trip, and David headed for Rome with his wife and three of his students, one of whom, Jean-Germain Drouais ( 1763 – 1788 ), was the Prix de Rome winner of that year.

The Britannica was dedicated to the reigning British monarch from 1788 to 1901 and then, upon its sale to an American partnership, to the British monarch and the President of the United States.

A notorious instance from the Britannica's early years is the rejection of Newtonian gravity by George Gleig, the chief editor of the 3rd edition ( 1788 – 1797 ), who wrote that gravity was caused by the classical element of fire.

Alexander Gordon ( 1739 – 1792 ), third son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a Lord of Session from 1788 to 1792 under the judicial title of Lord Rockville.

His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.

Washington was elected president as the unanimous choice of the 69 electors in 1788, and he served two terms in office.

His grandfather Franz Böhm ( 1788 – 1846 ) ( the violinist Joseph Böhm's brother ) was the well-known musician and the soloist in the Russian empire in an imperial orchestra.

Captain Arthur Phillip assumed office as Governor of New South Wales on 7 February 1788, when the Colony of New South Wales, the first British settlement in Australia, was formally founded.

Mary Anne Evans was the third child of Robert Evans ( 1773 – 1849 ) and Christiana Evans ( née Pearson ) ( 1788 – 1836 ), the daughter of a local farmer.

The county was formed from a part of Fayette County, Virginia in 1788.

The town was formed in 1788 by Colonel John Harper, who fought for the state of New York in the American Revolutionary war.

The Town of Northeast was formed in 1788.

The town was formed in 1788 as one of the original towns of the re-organized county.

The town was formed in 1788 from the " Palatine District " in the newly formed Montgomery County.

The Town of Whitestown was formed in 1788, before the creation of Oneida County, with a size of 12 million acres ( 49, 000 km² ).

The town of Southeast, then still including its portion of the Oblong, was founded in 1788, and formed the southeast corner of Dutchess County.

The town was formed in 1788, from the East Manor of Rensselaerwyck District.

The town was formed while still part of Albany County in 1788.

The Town of Marlborough was formed in 1788 during a period of town formation in the county.

The planters chartered prestigious academies to educate their children, one of the earliest being The Warrenton Male Academy, formed in 1788.

Versailles Township was one of the original seven townships of Allegheny County formed in 1788 from Westmoreland County.

In 1788, when Allegheny County was formed, the area now known as Penn Hills was part of Pitt Township.

In 1788 a legislature of the state of Vermont stated that " the town of Randolph, Braintree, Brookfield, Roxbury, Williamstown, Northfield, Wildersburgh, Berlin and Montpelier [...] hereby are formed into one entire probate district, by the name of the district of Randolph.

In 1788 the " Société des Amis des Noirs " was formed in Paris to bring about the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery itself.

The first organised police forces in Ireland came about through the Peace Preservation Act in 1814 for which Sir Robert Peel ( 1788 – 1850 ) was largely responsible ( the colloquial name " Peeler " derives from his surname ), and the Irish Constabulary Act in 1822 formed the provincial constabularies.

* Washington County, with its seat at Marietta, was the first county formed in the territory, proclaimed on July 26, 1788 by territorial governor St. Clair.

Pendleton County, West Virginia ( formed 1788 ) and Pendleton County, Kentucky ( formed 1798 ) were both named in Pendleton's honor.

The town was formed in 1788, the same year the county was established.

The Town of Amenia was officially formed in 1788.

The town was formed in 1793 from part of the previous " Town of Caughnawaga ," which had been established in 1788 and named after a local Mohawk community.

The modern town was formed in 1788, but was reduced to form the towns of Minden ( 1798 ) and Root ( in part, 1823 ).