 As Britons, it behoves you in the present important crisis to act with that dignity which has long characterised this nation".In the second sermon of 18 November 1792, there is scarcely an illusion of political matters, unless a reference to the African slave trade may be so called.Because he expressed too liberal views in his sermons, Winterbotham was put into jail in Newgate Prison in 1793 and released in 1797.