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towards the ultimate accomplishment of the great object. In felling a mighty tree, each several stroke seems to effect but little, yet every one contributes its part, and at length the tree falls. It was not this stroke or that which effected it, but all together.
The eight motions referred to were:—
- By Mr. Brougham, on the trial and sentence of the missionary, Smith, in Demerara.
- By Dr. Lushington, on the deportation of Lesesne and Escoffery, two free men of colour, and excellent, long established characters, who were arrested and hardly dealt with, and sent off the island of Jamaica as aliens and dangerous persons, although no charge whatever could be substantiated against them, and although many persons of the highest rank and respectability attested their full conviction that these persons were not only British subjects, but perfectly free from all imputation of disaffection or disloyalty.
- By Mr. Buxton, on the expulsion of the missionary, Shrewsbury, from Barbadoes, and the demolition of the methodist chapel there.
- By Mr. Denman, on the trial of the alleged insurgents in Jamaica, see p. 332.
- By Mr. Buxton, on the Mauritius slave-trade.
- By Mr. Whitmore, on the sugar duties and bounties, by which the monopoly of the trade was secured to the employers of slave labour.
- By Mr. W. Smith, on the expediency of placing the administration of the slave laws in the hands of those who were not slave-holders. Without this measure, every attempt at reforming the
