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is the same as it is 'With regard to the
that 1 think it oughten bo.abelfeked immeithitely.
The motion, therefore, which I have to Make,
leaving to the Honse the rime and manner of abo-
lition, I ceunot but confidently express my hopes
and confident expect st,on, will be unanimously car-
ried ; and' I implore Gentleraen not to listen to that
sort of flattery which they hare sometimes heard
(and parricularlv from one of the Members for
Liverpool), that they have abolished it already.—
When the regulations were adopted, for *e space to
he allowed for each Negro in a slave !NO, the same
Gentlemen opposed it as being destrudive, and
et-
laimrJ, 1. Oh ! it you do that, you may as well
abolish it at once, for it cannot be dore." Yet,
when we propose an abolition altogether, they use,
AS arguments against us, the great good already
done, by regulating the slave staps, and bettering
the condition of Negroes in the colonies. In the
same way, when we first proposed the abolition of
the foreign trade, they told us it would have the eff'e
of a general and total abolition; and I beg or:
them not to forget that declaration now; and hav
ing made it once, I must use to them a phrase
in common life, " Sir, if that be the case, 1 must
pray you to put your !,and In it." As to the stale ar-
gument of the ruin it would bring upon the West
India I slands, I would refer gentlemen to perhaps
the most brilliant and convincing speech that ever
was, I believe, delivered in this or any other place,
by a consummate master of eloquence (Mr. Burke),
and of which, I believe, there remains in some pub-
lications some account that would convey an
inadequate idea of the substunce, though it
would he impossible to represent the Manner; the
voice, the gesture, the manner, were not to be de-
scribed—
., 0! st ilium ♦idisses, si ilium audivilliss!"
If all the members of this house could but see and
hear the grea: orator in the delivery of that speech.
on that day, there would not he one then who could
for one moment longer suppose that the Abolition
:,f the Slave Trade could injuriously affect the inte-
rests of the West India Colonies. lam :ovate that
a calculation was once made, and pretty generally
circulated, by which it would appear, that were the
importation of Negroes into the islands put an end to,
the stock of slaves could not be kept up; and if I recol-
tta right, the calculation was made with reference to
the island of Jamaica. Fortunately, however, for
our argument, the experiment has been already tried
in Nook America, where the trade was abolished
and the effetit of it shewed, that the population of ,
the Negroes was nearly equal to that of the Whitie:
As that is the part of the world where population pro-
ceeds more rapidly than in any other,and as we know
that within the last twenty years, the population of
Whites has doubled, and that of Negroes very
nearly so, without importation; it affords, I will
not say a damning, hut a blessing proof, that our
adopting a similor coerse would ultimately produce
the hearty elle& of a gradual emancipation, of
iucreasir.' pors.ation, of enabling Negroes to ac-
quire property g.. the reward servitude ;
and-ciao; praoit*e!.., islands as state of .safety
heyond any thiot that be dons by any fleets
or armies. Nothing now rr... ,i,re for me, Sir, but
to address a rev, words to those aierobers opposite
me, who are so iond of quoting the opinions of a
Right Hon. Gentleman, deceased, and profess to en-
tertain so profound a respeft fir his memory. They
all knowthat therewas no subject on which that Right
lion. Gernleman displayed his ertraordinaty els.
(pence with more ardoer then is support of the
Abolition of the Slave Trade. His speeches on
that subject will not easily be forgotten ; and, thereo
fore, in supporting the present motion, they would
not only have art oppiwtunity of manifesting their
private friendship for him, their admiration of his
splendid talents, andthe sincerity of their zeal and re.
sped for his chat-after and memory ; but also the
opportunity of quoting him with great advantage.
—Added to which, they may now display all
this for the public good, and on a subjeact upon
which they cannot be suspefled or accused of making
diet respett and admiration, only a vehicle for
party purposes." He then moved the following
resolution—" That conceiving the African Slave
Trade to be coottary to the princie:: of justice, Au-
rnanity, and sound policy, the tiate will, with
all convenient speed, in the nestsession of Parli-
ament, take steps to abolish it in such manner and at
such time as shall be thought most advantageous
and advisable."

The Clerk then read over the entries on the Jour-
nals is the years 179 t and 1792.
Sir R. MILBANKE rose to second the Motion.
He should always, he said, endeavour to suppress a
trade so unjust and so degrading to humanity ; and
he wished it to be remembered, that he had on
every occasion given hi; vote for the abolition of it.
The sentiments of his Constituants, he WAS happy
to say, were similar to hi., and he biped the House
would concur in the opinion. l'he Hon. Gentle-
man then declared, that it was not his inteition to
enter on the subjea, after it had been to ably !lad-
led by the Right Hon. Mover, but, on the broad
principle of humanity, to second the Motior..
Gen. TAR LE FUN said, he must advert to the
whole course of proceedings before the Hou.e, for
a period of no less that. eighteen years, w:lett the
measure for the Abolition of this trade was first
brought forward by the Hon. Gentleman ('.4r.
Wilberforce) who sat on the Same bench him.
At that time, the country was in profound peace,
but still the measure was rejettled ; and now that we
were involved in a war, he did not think it should
be brought forward. Certainly, the Hon. Gentle.
man was feelingly alive to every remark which
had been made en the subjeft, since that tittle ; aud
whenever it had been introduced in debate, he had
started up, as if be had seen a ghost ; but with all
his arguments, and all his perfeverance, he never
was able to induce the Legislature to adopt so
ruinous a measure. He could not, indeed, con-
ceive how the supporters of this measure could be
se enthusiastically blind ; if the evidence, with te-
speft to the policy of the trade, was looked to, it
would be found that some was in favour of it, and
some against it. With respea to the argument
coed by the Right Hon. Secretary, relative to the
proceeding of the Court of Denmark, he did not
conceive that any Gentleman should take that ir.to
his consideration, as no data had been mentic,neA,
nor indeed was it mei relied or.. The Right
Hen. Gentleman, he s ti t, then adverted, with a de-
gree of pleesantry, to the idea, that the Gentlemen