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ed ettential feniee to bliconntrty.snid to elle ard• of t
humanity, in effelling the regulations relaive to the
middle pottage. He atfored the _Hook thistle had
no *olio's to the abolition of the Slave Trade eo.
fuels fair,
.jue. and reafonable grounds as the Houk
ntight in its wildom hereafter adopt. He thought.
however, that perfons in the Welt Indies were end-
led to the proteition of the Hook, 041 a cafe made
out. ih which they &hid, as ipheritors of leads, as
Ptortgagery, widows. &c. thew they had fulFered in
their property. The prefent motion, be thought,
aught to have been accompanied with a motion for
the appointment of Commiffioners to inrire into
* kips OP proprietors. He confldered this. he
aid, as an Engldh, and not a Welt India trade s
and as fuck after the encouragement given to it. if
we have changed our opinions,let us meet the quef-
'ion manfully, and Cry why we have done fo. He
had no ;Gam /lions whatever as colonial agent ; but
What be had delivered were the genuine tentinsents
of his own individual mind. He thought the motion
Made by the Hon. Gentleman, went too far, is aim-
ing at an immediate abolition. and he would there-
fore move that the other orders of the day be read.
Mr. WILBERFORCE, in explanation.
according to the motion. all who thought the save
Trade ought to be abolithed, even gradually. might
rote for the Bill ; and, as to the time, if the Bill was
tamed to be brought in, that would be fixed and
filled tip in the Committee.
Mr. DEVAYNES affeeted, that tik country was
as well governed, and the laws es fairly adroioidered
ea the..e.ati of Africa, as in England. The Hon.
Member added, in vindication of the Slave Trade,
that he hadlad a converfation with one of the Afri-
cis Kings, who told him, that if the Have meta***
did net porchafe from him and others their priiemen
taken in war, thole prifoners would be killed. •
Mr. WM. SMITH. adverting to the dere:irks°
ha 4 before give, of the law of the African princess
Por.lldd that he quoted that dekriptien from the
evidence adduced by the Haaohrable Member who
had tall fpoken and his frisods. He controlled fhose
parts of the defeliption, and particularly the Rate-
meat that the prifoners of war, if not bought by the
One dealers, would be murdered, with the declara-
Oes, hotwitheanding, of the Honourable Gentle-
; than that thole African States were as *ell govern.
ed.' atsd their laws as well adminiikered as in this

country. •
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Sir WM. CIA*? thought, that from motives of
humanity thitettil fud immediate abelition of this
trade lbetekl ish-realted t becaufe, if the propane('
seem odeptado.brtmes very mach afeaid.thaithe ef-
taatelhipe to: irons* the trade to mber nations.
\firolfgh whom the fame miler a wettl4iseioduced to
121'kei of which the Hoeft hid heard lib and
provihone had been Made by the'
hasswirein esertiant of she Honourable mover of the
hrepofition before the Houfe.
Mr. ADDINGTON faid,.lie &mild rapport the',
iteendenent, bat on different grounds froth that,'
hated by the Hoe. Gentleman who moved it. The
Abolition of the trade Whieooth formed dee adojea of
debate:be idwayscoafidered ' as a queened =-
Whitey but at A godlier+ of peafthosbility
chit view, ig ihtimotins had been for the epporeml
ment of a. Committee tp confider of the Means NC
the Abolititai Of the Slave Trade,it %mild have had
Ins enoestarente ; hot mit flood, be mull vete again(
It, bea:ft:he reit,thatsit would be itnyt&rile to carry
it into esepotion... to contrary was the mode of pro-
ceeding propokd to the accompliautient of the ohjeft
in view, that he was perfeaded, atould a bill be
founded on the rtfolution dekribed by the Honour-
able Member winropened the debate, Inch Bill mull
be repealed before the Trade could be aholithed.
Sir IL9BEAT BUXTON (poke in favour of the
motion.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHETIER
Paid. that if the motion before the Hook were for
the immediate Abolition of the Slave Tradethe &meld
have no befitmioo in giving it his warmth fupport, be-
caufe be thought the SA nsoment fee, pbolithingshat
inhuman traffic would be the bell. INevertheleT4 he
was ready to fupport any propoatlenithat could ap-
protimate that defirable event. He.iieuld feel a fa-
tidal:lion in any tueafure that tended Vreo to a gra-
dui abolition. To this be uadeeflood mat Gentle-
Men who had on a former occafion delivered ;heir
ftnilettents, to be friendly. cud With the. view( 01
foe% Members the motion was fo worded as to coin-
cide. Coachmen, therefore, of that defcription could
not, ankh, they baskehmsged their opinions fusee the
left difcutlinn of this (AO) oppoft the original mo•
tier: Thole who entertained an hone h prejudice
agatith this aliominahle traffic—a prejudice which
had obtained many converts of late years, vould, he
hoped, be very far from objecting tat the motion of his
Hisp.Friend u poo fuel; grenade as had.been tail Bated.
Into the difcallion of ttse queilion at,prefent bq de-
clined to enter, etitieulaiTy as the very able sign-
ciente of his flOnottrible Friend had been quite un-
,anfwered ; but as to the time of tarrying the obje&
of his Honourable Friend into effef, no time was
prefcribed by the motion. That circumftance would
remain for the courideration of the Committee on
the Bill. With rot ft to the practicability of the
abolitiou4 the Right HonourableGentleman obferved,
that the fame argument upon that point would apply
to a gradual as to an immediate abolition; lover it
was impoMble for a Biitilh Aa of Parliament to
effect the objca in the one cafe, how was fuch Aa to
accomplifh it-in the other. This remark he addreffed
merely to the profeffed friends of a gradual aboli-
tion c but as to the praelicability of the =afore of
abolition generally. as he had only heard the im-
piaaicability asserted, without the alguivientc upon
which the affettion was grounded. he did not think
it necessary to go into any argument upon the fob-
jet% He was -happy. however, to hear from the
Honourable Gentleman under the gallery (Mr. Bar-
ham) fueh opinions, combined with other confide, a•
lions, as fully faisfied his mind that there was Ho
danger of this reedy If abolifhed by us, being taken
op by foreigner—upon• that (core there was no
ground for appreheotioa. The Right Honourable
Oentlemanpaincluded with Rating, that he would not
at precast Woofs the queflion farther, although he
could with difficulty rehain from entering into a fub-
:pea in which he irk fo lively and warm.
Mr. LEE contended the trade was an utter difgrace
to the nation. We boalled of our freedom. and yet
we facriEteed the gestural rights of our fellow creatures
in this nefarious trafik. The Hon. Mcmiler who had
urged this rasaial e tett to Mthai 41.:Itty mut peen re-