his avowal, I implore your particular attention, my Lords, to the interest of the West India Merchants and Planters, who adventure in Colonial Commerce, on the solemn pledge and honour of the British Government.
From what I have submitted to your Lordships, relative to the History of the Trade, it is evident that the traffick in Slaves is congenial with and suitable to the manners, laws, and customs of Africa. No wonder, therefore, that the chiefs, princes, and the different native powers of that country, should set their faces against the New Settlers at Sierra Leone.
Mr. Dawes and Mr. Macaulay, the only two evidences produced at the Bar in favour of the Bill, are men, it must be confessed, of the most accommodating memories. It is difficult to follow them through all their various digressions. When it is convenient,
