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SL AVE TRADE.

The Duke of ELlll;lii...'presente d a Petition
from certain ship-ovrners and others in Liverpool
against the Slave Trade Bills also, a Petition
against the same, from manufadurers of arms in
Liverpool, stating an interest in the Slave Trade.—
Orden' to he on the table.

The order of the day, for the second reading of
the Slave Trade Bin, being read ;
Lord HAWICESBURY rose, and said, that
what he had to offer to their Lordships was not in-
tended to prejudge the case, or to enter to the
merits of the Bill. It was not his intention to net
rid of the Biil by any artifice. He wished the
question to be fairly met, and discussed on in
own merits. But he should move that the
Bill be read a second time this day three' months,
on the ground he had on a former day urged
to their Lordships. It was impossible to sup.
pose that the Bill could be patiently discussed ,
at this period of the Session. He had before noticed 4
the advanced period when the motion for leave to
bring in the Bill was made. He did nit presume to
condemn the motives of the friends of that motion.
He only looked to the fag, and maintained, that no
hope could be formed of the Bill passing both
Houses, merely the time of the Session being se- I
garded. Many petitions had been presented
against the Bill, praying to be beard by cwt..
scl. He would not say, that every person fiat.
ing that he has an interest allfted by a bill shall
be heard by counsel. He knew that might be
Ipushed to an extreme, that might prevent any
arge measure passing into a law. But it might be
justice to hear some of these petitioners. Surely, it
would be wrong to prejudge the whole question, by
refusing to hear any of them, as had been pro-
posed by some Noble Lords. The changes that
had taken place in St Domingo, since the
question of the Slave Trade was last agitated,
material!), affe.ffed tl.ii questa-fa (a cr. o/ 4 er,
hror !). He knew that might be arg.wd in beh.a of
the Bill; but it might also against at ; and what he
contended for was, that the question be fully and
t:tilly discussed, and not now hurried over in a
m inner unworthy of its magnitude. The Bid, 4
the objet was pursued, he hoped would be tirou4he
into the other House early in the next de.-

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visa. But it might he originated by any of their
,Lordships, If iteglefted in the early part of the
Sessiia in the other House.. Teen every bear-
ing of the question might be lur/ examined. He
would not now say what his condu& would then be.
He would only say, he came disposed to ipvestigate
closely iron this most romoNtant question, and Would
aa conscientiously in voting upon it. He would not
trouble their Lordships further, Merit* confined
ihimself to the various points of the expediency of.
beginning an inquiry of that magnitude, when no
full attendance of their Lordships could be reason..
ably expefied, and when no time was left to con-
clude the inqairy during the Session. His Lordship
then made his promised motion.
The Duke of NORFOLK concurred with Lord
Hawkesbury's motion, on the ground of he lateness
of the Session, and the impossibility of discussing the
question faitiy. at such a time. The Bill begins
with stating, that the Slave Trade is contrary to
justice and humanity. Taking the assertion of the
Bill for granted, yet he would not do any net that
may involve-serious consequences, and perhaps great
evils, without considering how it may be done. so
m to produce the desired gond, with as little mis-
chief as pooable. Above all, he wished that Mini-
sters would express their opinions and feelings on
the subje3 most clearly. :
Earl PiTAN HOPE said, he could not adequately
express his sur,irise, at finding the two Noble Peers
agree in a moron to postpone the 2d reading of this •
Billovithout offering the shadowof a resells. A Rill of
great importance, as had been justlystated by alloble
Lord below him (Lord Grenville) had been brought
into the House that very meet Another had lately
induced the greatest attendance in the House that
had begin k:.own the whole session. why then is
this Bill alone to be lost. because the Sessinn is
far advanced ? This Bill, which may redeem the
homes: of Parliament and the nation, and may avert
the vengeance el Heaven; called down upon the
eomory for the guilt of this wicked and abominable
trade. He would repeat what he had said OR A
former night; he would not hear men who stated
themselves to be party to a crime, and interested in
'it, and therefore prayed to be heard Mats defence.
Such persons could not he heard. He would
put a single case to illustrate mat proposition :
suppose some persons in this country to live by
forgiug the coin •of Sweden or Denmark, and
that you were about to pass a bill to punish and
prevent that crime. Would you permit those
rascals who live by sach base plunder, to be heard in
behalf of their tobberies ? But O you would nor,
Will you hear others in behalf t.t murder ? of every
crime of every guilt, which the foulest of men can
Commit? No ! There ran be no need to hear
theih I And then, the 13:11 may be gone through in
three days ; and the nation will have to bless the
hand that relieves teem t, ors thebeavy curse of that
trade. The people erut &to see this done. They
have not lust sight of what the Slave Trade 1., al-
thoiagli t;iei nave been lulled to sleep by the pr.t e.ees
simian! . 1 the false friends of the Al', liti', 1 . also
have be rased the sacred cause. tie .. ~e in,:htsie
is this :amour, the li•inc:.irable Mover in ~ .2 Bill is
the other House. He bad taken his time, p-r;.ips,
wisely; when, to say notimig of an influence that
may be more easily conceive.• char eteresa d in a
1 parliamentary manner, there wa. .us enusually full
ar.Leiance in Parliament. It was a fit _ and

proper time to dis,:uss then in4.aotous trade.—
And 'oe could ask, wlist she Slave Trade?
It la tie c• . 4 :.r tliose who
were ia., ••• ~ z ortyi , .t

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country; hand cuffing thin.., iii.ttii. them in
chains. and conveying th.in to a tineign country.
Is. ' 'e the passage. of this cruel treatment
01 a . .. he leer than • :ght thousand, it is in et.-
&nee that moo t tan two thousand have died in the
very passage. Thii was murder of the most nefa
tines tii.d. Here was no sudden passion, no strong
te.uporar, temptation, to palliate the aft; but a
cold, cale dieting rapacity ; a determination to rob at
the cost of all the murders that may mime. But
the wretched viaims who reach the colonies ..re to be
tortured by every refinement of cruelty ; the hus-
band is separated from his wise, children from their
parents, hi others and sisters torn asunder, and all
this, as if tor the purpose of ii.flitthig anguish;
fine even the lost of lucre has no gratification in
this. But for this tea le, such as he had described
it. a few shabby excuses are tittered. It is said the
colonies t tnnot be cultivated without the imports.
ti' lof slaves. The fad, however, is in contradic-
tion with this. Oa the estates of Sir Philip Gibbs,
the negroes multiply for every purpose of culture,
and this, because they are humanely treated. It
is s !;:l also the Slave Trade is a great nursery to our
seamen; but the truth is quite otherwise; it is the
grave of stamen beyond the proportion of any other
trade. He would tell the House the trueobje.l and use
of the slave Trade ; it is carried on that a few slave
merchants at Liverpool may gonnan;liv with turtle,
glut tLemselves with venison, and swallow down
---- of claret. These are the great,
ted ebjetis, for which the on-
to sufer such misery. and this
with the baneful Hl': uce of
1, that he &v.], it ..tglit be ex-
divide the auuse. Ile would
: the TCASOGI. He had just re-
friend to the abolition, saving
not expeded to come on that
t therefore divide the House,
Acacia of the abolition absent.
-e the enemies of the Bill not to
istponing the second reading. He
to look at St. Domingo. Would
tics, and our other island., in
as it did in vengeance ? Would
tes inthecolonies listen to no ar-
a blind passifin? He conjured
>cher reasoning in time. Rut,
the friends of abolition, the
would never suffer the question
infamous traffic should be abo-
tots must not &ate: themselves,
int by losing the bill this Session.
110111 are more determined than
more acuiviry to work that g7eat
ey will print arid distribute hue-
and even millions of hand bills,
:ountry acquainted with the true
in. 1 hey will oat then .ore I).'
ith carrying this treasure i f the
:ar:ely stop short, till th y have
.al induence of those who sup-

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port the trade, and whom they technically call the
enslavers.
Lord GRENVILLE said, he could not safer the
question to pass in silence. He would not enter into
the principle of the Bill, but he would urge the
reasons he had offered on the former night. No
time was necessary to hear men in defence of crimes.
He would not look at the accounts of the profits
of robbery and murder ; he therefore could not
yield to the argument of time to be lost in
hearing counsel for these enormities. But if
there were some who thought otherwise—if some
imagined that a word could be uttered in defence of
such modes of acquiring property, he would put it
to them, if it would not be reasonable, if it would
not even he prudent, to proceed with the enquiry,
as far as the session would permit ? What obledion
could there be to that, if it was sincerely said, that
discussion only was asked, and time for examination ?
The present measure, he said, had come before their
Lordships, sanctioned by the approbation of the
House of Commons ; and even, on that account,
it was entitled to some greater degree of considera-
tion, than the House was then called on to give it.
But the merits of the question itself were sufficient
to claim their Lordships' attention. When it was
considered that Great Britain had, for years, enjoy-
ed a monopoly in this most unjust and criminal traf-
fict ; that Great Britain alone was spreading deso-
lation and misery over the coast of Arica ; and
deriving a profit from the blond and tears of its
yretche i inhabitants, no man hesitate for a
'moment in saving, that a measure, whose objea was
to put an end to these horrors, was not deserving
toe immediate consideration of the House. It the
Motion made by the N rble Secre::ry of State, was
now agreed to, it would he impossible to bring for-
ward the consideration of this business again, in a
shorter space of time than six months ; and every
thing that had already been done in it, must be done
over again. The Noble Secretary of State had said,
that there would not be sufficient time, during the
remainder of the Session. to make that enquiry
which would be necessary to guide their Lordships'
judgment, in deciding this question. Now, he
would ask, what was these to prevent their Lord-
ships proceeding in that enquiry iminediately ; and,
after all the evidence already laid before Parliam2nt,
was it necessary to waste a urgel portion of time in
such an investigation ? The Noble Secretary of
State could not undertake to say that public business
df great importance might not still he brought for.
ward, Which sh mid proloa4 the sitting of Parlia-
ment to the miudle of nes, August ; and might not
some portion of their Lordships time before then be
(xi:noted in hearing the cnmplaiits of those who op.
posed the present meastir,. ? Every principle of po-
licy and justics called on their Lordships to pro.
coed in the present i.ili. The charaEter of the na-
ti in, and GI the Pa:liarnent, was deeply involved in
the question; and a stain would remain upon it, as
to, 7 is this most wicked trade was suffered to be
e trued on by British suhjefts.
l'ne Earl of WEs rM,IRLAND supported the mo-
tio I. f,r the p-sti;i Anent of the Bill : in doing
which, he conceived that House was exercising :ts
right c.f being the guardian of the property of indi-
viduals . _ _

The .0' shop of Si'. ASAPH said, that if, In the
middle at July, and in the middle of the fifth year of
the ninetee, :h century, a question of this kind had
been brow *.: forward, for the first time, be would
certainly the last man to come to a hasty de-
eisi.m tenni it. He would put it .off for further con-
sideration. Bi•• that was not now the case. Here
was a ...hid% had undergone repeated dis-
en• • .g a period of near twenty years; and
on .•olumes of evidence had been given. Now
it was cf..:tendesf, that fresh evidence was necessary.
He was of a very dilferent opinion: he wanted no
evidence whatever. Every man was already sutfi-
ciently in possession of fads, to shew that the Slave
Trade was a system of such atrocity and wickedness,
that it ought not to be suffered to exist any longer.
He wanted no f esh evidence to know that every
part of the coast of Africa, where British übjeds
resorted f6r the putpose of seizing on their ;ellow-
create/vs, was a scene of h ivoe and bat barism ;
and that the farther men tr veiled into the interior
parts of Africa, the greater was the industry and
civilisation of the inhabitants. I'll-se fads were
confirmed by the aec ,'tots of travellers ; and they
were sufficient to shew the harrors arising from the
Sieve Trade. He di l not want any fresh evidence
to inform him of the cruel hardship.. endured by
Negroes, during the middle passage; nor of the
still more cruel injury they suffered in being reduced
to the condition of brutes, for ever the property of
mastcrs, who could dispose of their bodies as they
should think fit. With these and many other fans,
within the knowledge of every man, who would
take the trouble of informing himself upon them,
he saw no occasion for fresh evidence, when the
wily question to be decided was, whether the most
wicked and detestable trade ever carried on, should
be abolished or not. And what sort of evidence was
it which this House was to heart It was to consist
of depositions on oath of the panics interested in
carrying un the trade. To such depositions as these,
he would pay no at:ention whatever ; they were de-
serving of none. Many of these already made be-
fore P.nliamcnt, had seen contradicted by the log
book, which was her:cr evidence, and of course they

must have been false. With respect to the condi-
tion of the Slaves in the el Indies, he certainly
did believe that the planters there were generally in
the habit of treating their Slan.‘ sv.h croc;•y ; bnt
that forbeara;:ce was no reason why ii,ey s:.ou id have
th • power of doing so. It the Slave Trade was
abolished, a great deal of that power would be
taken away from them. He woulti readily admit of
the argument frequently u.sget, that justice was to
give way to policy. The exercise of justice should
not be left at the discretion of others, and this was
the observation of .t very great statesnr.r,, who was
a member of as wicked a republic, excirpt that of
France, as ever existed in the world; he mzant the
Republic of Athens.
Lord Mt • WI? AVF. conceived it was impossible
for that he at, c insistently with justiee, to pass a
Rill Eke .he j:rese:e. in which the inter eta of r:any
iv..ple were coo, rned, without heanng their ye-
titi,ns arid thoir reasons why it ought not to !-,e
ado;'ted, and that could not be done duriop' the
present session of Parliament. He could 1. see
what the arguments of the !ti;;!.: Rev. P:-.l.:tc led
to, runt that of peniiail;,iz the lleu,e that no
credit etrzte. u, be given to the tebtimony of mea

who shonla give evidence on oath before their Lord-
ships; and that if the African trade was abolished,
'something more besides that should be done with
regard to the negroes in the West Indies.
rhi, Bishop of. sT. ASAPH, in explanation, as-
sured the Noble Lord, that when he lamented the
degraded condition of the Negro in the West Indies;
when delivered like a brute into the power of another,
he never meant even to insinuate that the Negro
should be removed from the contrail' which the
master had over him.
Lord HA RROWIW spoke in support of the
motion, for postponino the Bill.
Earl ST. VINCEN I' said, he was very happy to
find, that it appeared to be the wish of many Noble
Lords, to put off this Bill ; for he was convinced,
that if it was to be passed in the present Session;
there would be great danger, that in cur West In-
dian colonies the same evils might take place which
happened in St Domingo.
The LORI) CHANCELLOR rose to str?port
the motion for postponing the Bill, which he con-
sidered to be a measure or the most serittas impart-
ance, and one which Parliament ought never to pass
without the fuller and most mature consideration.
If Noble Lords would look over the various st itutes
that hal been passed in many periods since the
English first began to carry on the Slave Trade,
they would find, that the trade had been recognised
and santlioned by Parliament ; that those who had
carried it on were, in a manner, encouraged to do
so. Now he would ask whether it was a prin-
ciple of justice, by which the proceedings of a
British Legislature had ever been direifted, to de-
stroy at once, and without any enquiry, the pro-
perty
of those who had embarked in this trade, un-
der an idea that they were not only to be permitted,
but protefted, in carrying it on ? Their Lordships
were not aware of the extent of the injury which
must ensue from the abolition of this trade. It would
not he alone throwing into a state of beggary and
starvation, those numerous individuals, whose ca-
pitals were embarked in it; and who lied no other
means of getting a livelihood ; but the ruin and dis-
tress of these would bring on the ruin a: dis-
tress of others. Before even the abolition coutd
take place, niany persons wt.uld be ruined; they
could nu longer obtaiu that credit, which they
might have got before. This was a very serious
sutra ; and siv,ld make every Noble Lord rause
before he hastily gave his sanCtion to a measure of
this kind. It Was a leading principle 'n the Laws
and Constitution of this country, th.., the property
of others should always be respected; and those
Noble Lords who talks d of the injustice and inhu-
manity of the Slave Trade, ought to consider whe.
ther it would not be an aft of injustice and rditanani-
ty, to ruin hundreds of families. by abolishing that
trade ? For his own part, he could uot,.consistent-
ly with the diEtates of his conscience, vote for the
present without hearing what those persons
vain petitioned against it, had to say. And he
Was convinced, it would not be in the power of the
House to go into all those mattes. during
the present Session of Parliament. He did not re-
coiieCt that he had ever bd. 're, in either House of

Varlianhnit. voted on any question relative to the
Slave Trade; but he must now say, that before he
could vote for such a Bill as this. he must possess
much more information on the subjea, than he now
had.; and he was far from agreeing with a Learned
Prelate, who said, that every man possessed evi-
dence sufficient to be convinced, that the trade ought
no longer to nig. It WA* a very difficult and dan-
gerous thing to destroy, all at once, a system that
had grown up for centuries, and which had been
s.analoncd and encouraged by Parliament. For these
reasons, he would support the motion of his Noble
Friend, for p.tttiligof the Bill. . .

Karl STANHoPE rose to explain, and con-
tended that the I louse was not bound either to hear
evidence, or make any further enquiry on this sub-
jea ; which had for years been investigated before
Parliament : concerning which, there was abudance
of evidence then lying on the table of the House.
le contended that the very evidence of the panics
interested in the trade was sufficient to 'hew its :n-
-;us! ice and infamy. . _ __ .

Ifs Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE
declared tnat the oftener he turned his mind to this
sulsjea, the more firmly was he fixed in his opinion
'hat the Slave Trade ought net to be abolished. He
fully coincided is the motion of the Noble Se-
cretary of State for putting off this Bill, for he was
sure their Lordships could not hear sod do justice
to all the parties duriiig the present Sesstop.—
But, independent of any con-ideration of that
kind, he would resist this Bill, because it was
aa tending to do the greatest injustice and in-
jury to vast numbers of ireipic. It would not alone
injure the persons immediately carrying on the trade,
but it would be of the most serious injury to our
colonies, in a commercial and political point of view.
The imports from the West Indian colonies into this
country amounted to eighteen millions, and these
produced a revenue of four millions annually. He
would therefore ask whether Parliament could be
justified in trying an experiment that would risk the
very existence of this meat mass of national wealth
and prosperity? It had been very justly observed
by the Noble and Learned Lord on the woolsack,
that the Slave Trade was ear led on for centuries by
the people of this country, :rod that Parliament
had recognised and crannied them in doing sn.
Lest any Noble Lord should doubt this fat%
be would quote some of the ads alluded to by the
Learned Lord. His Royal Highness read the pre-
ambles of several ads to that effect. One in parti-
cular, passed in the reign of George 11. had these
v.ords—.. Whereas the Slave Trade carried on upon
the Coast of Africa is highly beneficial to the in-
terest of the British Colonies; and whereas the im-
portation of Negroes into those Colonies is highly
useful, &c. be it enacted, Sec." It was evident,
from these statutes, that the trade had formerly
been encouraged by Parliament ; and Parliament
could not now, without great injustice, put a stop
to it; and by so doing destroy the prop!rty of :ill
who were engaged in it. But, in a vilitical point'
of view, the abolition of the trade would be the
most dangerous measure that could po,:nbly be
adopted. It would produce an immediate change
in our Colonies, that must be attended with tile
most fatal consequences, and threaten their vety
existence. Let Noble Lords recollea what had been
done by the French with regard to St. Domingo,
and th. consequences which followed. He had
himself, at an early period of his life, visited the

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once great and flourishing Colonf' of
mingo. At that time, the Inhabitants
dustrious, peaceable, and happy. The Mai
kept in due subjeabon ; the zfracle in Slay
carried on there, and every thing had •
the •appearance of prosperity, as in •the
Jamaica. ft.was unnecessary for him in
the horrors and atrocities of which that pLict
years past been one continued scene, and
sprung nut of the agitation of this new qui
Abolition. It had been said, that the.Negri
West Indies were treated with great ittre.
cruelty, by their masters. This had n
proved; and he denied the truth of the
Let any titan prove the fad if he dare. Ht
pleasure of being personally known to a go
of gentlemen who owned largo plantati,
West Indies, and he was convinced that
incapable of treating their slaves in the rm
scribed; if they were, he should think hit
grated by their acquaintance. But he
suaded that all the assertions of this kind Al
so frequently been made were perfeEtly gn
His Roy 1 Highness concluded with soppol
motion of Lord Hawkesbut y.
The question for the second reading
negatived without a division, and the odta
was then carried.—Adjourned.

HOUSE Or COMMONS.

The House met at four o'clock. soon aft
Mr. Qum-me, the Deputy Usher of the Bla.
appeared at the Bar, and informed the Hr
their presence was desired in the House cm
to hear the Royal Assent given by Commi
divers Bills.

The Speaker with the House accordin)
(ceded to the House of Peers, and on the
he informed the House that he had beep
House of Lords, and heard the Royal Assn
by Commission to the Irish Cern Interco,
and to several Private Bills.

Mr. JOIINSqN, from the Office of the Chi
tary in Ireland, brought up some books cl
COunts of the particulars of Comptmsatim
pair? in Ireland. Ordered to lie on the 1'

third reading of the Irish Ctrttortr
cite Duty Bill was taken ittto further con,'
the an-tendments agreed to, and the Bill pat
The 13111 t t vesting certain Lands in His
at Chatham Wariey Common, for the
Dock and Ordnance, was brought np, rei
and ordered to be read a ,econd tame to-mt

A per..•m from the British Nluseu:n h.
certAiri p ipers, containing the resolution!
tri!stet.,, plan for building, improvement
Ordered it, lie on the Table.
Mr. RUSE said, that on a former day,
Member had ezpressed a wish that the fat
the public seciag Cue Museum might be
lle had authority to assure the lions.
Trustees hid, for s•:me considerable time!
cndeavout ing to accomplish so desirable
and that they had now so far succeeded,
persons may now be admitted in any one
was also happy to add that, in • short time
cilities of admission would be so enlarged,
person would have occasion to wait mor
day or two at the most. He then moved
of the orders made fat the admission of
the Museum, and to the Reading-room. I
The said Copies of Orders were imme
terward. brought up. Ordered to lie on
and to be printed.

The Order of the Day wa: moved for
to resolve itself into a Committee on the
Enlistment Bill.

On the question that the Speaker do
Chair;
Mr. FRANCIS said, he wished to call
tins of the House to this memare, and wa,
had not done so sooner. He wished rani,
observe on the mode in which it originat
Bill recites, that His Majesty had thought
ploy a certain number of For-istness for ti
of the kingdom. Had His Majesty done
out the advice of his Privy Council?
thought i should be mentioned in the
thoti;4lst also that a measure o' > sch impos
the introduCtion of a 13111 for ataaptalg 10,004
troops, might to have been preceded by
from His Majetty, and that would cert;
attralted the attcntian of the House.
which, this measure hid aanally been it
the evimaics, without any pat neuter mem
made, that was likely to draw the anent
House to it. Nor does the estimate take
view of the subject, for it only goes to the
of 5,300 men, and the present Bill is fi
men. 'llsere was another point which hi
mention. The Bill enables His Majestl
Commissions to foreigners to officer these
majority of whom are tioman Catholics.
his own part had no ohjeaion to any mat
Officer on account of any religion he migl
but when Commissions were aattally
men of the first rank mid charaaet in thi
and they were refused the opportunity of
their country and their properties, men
of their religi, n, rr-rely because they we,
Catholics; .gas certainly a very treat
eticy, and alsity, that such and in]
tinctions should be suffered to continu
was only one other p int on aibich he wo,
the House. We were now, he said, prepay
out troops in order to supply the severe lot
lately sustained in the East Indies. He
extraordinary that we should sen 1 out ri
English troops to India, when these foe
might have been employed on that service
we should at the same moment he told
is on the point of bring invaded, and ti
ers arc this. supposed to be better adapt
in its defence. For these seasons he o
Speaker's tearing the Chair.
Tls.: S..CRETAitY at W A ft said, th
Hnn. Gentleman's first objeetion, the esti
had been brought forward six monthsago
Friend, who was then Secretary at W;
reason why ciey were not mentioned ;
was that such mention would totally h.
the purpose; for the men, had it been kn
have been prevented from Ilancr
the second objeetion, religion—is Was to
ed these were foreign troops, and if y,
have foreign officers, you must take th
religious persuasions as they may have b,

P
mmense qua:Aides of
the noble, the elevate
ham Mricans are to
nation to be Wasted st
this trade. Frani all
peard that he woald
not ; and would state
ceived a note fmm a f
• that the question was t
day. lie would not
with many of the iri
But he would conjure
press the motion ot post
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