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earlier, but I was called into the country► soon after my first
letter for a few days, and when I came back, found so much
business on my hands, that I had not leisure until yesterday
afternoon, (and not in time to write fully by the post,) to
look out the Morning Chronicle, to which you referred me
in your seccn letter.

I find the substance of the report to be generally correct.
but, as far as my recollection serves me, it would have been
more faithfully given in something like the following terms :
" He had been taunted with the proceedings of the Anti-
slavery Society of Liverpool. What were the facts ? Many
members of the society had discontinued their attendance
since the Act of Emancipation, conceiving that their work
was done, and that there was no longer any object for their
meeting. The society had dwindled to a fraction of the
original body ; but when it appeared that her majesty's
government wanted assistance, these gentlemen, the crumbs
of the old society,, were called together, and the resolutions
passed. He had letters from two of the delegates of the old
society, who expressed their regret at seeing such use made
of the name of the society, and their anxiety that the feelings
of the anti-slavery body of Liverpool should not be mis-
understood. After this statement he did not think that the
right honourable gentleman bad much reason to boast.pf the
support of the anti-slavery party in Liverpool."
This, I believe, as far as my recollection of words, not
very deliberately considered, serves, would be a more accu-
rate statement of what I said; but there is not much varia-
tion in the substance.

My object was to show, that the resolutiens which had
appeared under the title of the Anti-Slavery Society of
Liverpool were not to be considered as representing the feel-
ings of that numerous party which had made the abolition of
the slave trade, and the emancipation of slaves within the
British dominions, their special care, but merely of a section
of that party ; and this I supported by a statement that a
large proportion, and some of the most active members of
the original body, had ceased to take a part in its proceed-
ings, and that I had letters from two of the delegates of
1233, expressing their regret at the transaction. I have since
referred to two of the letters of the Rev. Dr. Tattershall and
Mr. A. Hodgson, the gentleman alluded to ; one letter I
have mislaid, and I find that they bear me out as to the facts
of the statement. To the warmth of tone I must plead guilty
as my own ; and if it has been. unjust, lam sorry for it. I
may not have been justified m attributing the resolutions ra-
ther to a desire to support her Majesty's ministers than to a
simple explession of anti-slavery opinion, and I may have
expressed myself with more tartness than the occasion called
for ; but I spoke under a keen sense of the injustice of the
charge of hypocrisy which had been brought against me, and
of the hardship of having the name of the Anti-Slavery So-
ciety, as representing the anti-slavery feeling, of Liverpool,
thrown into the scale, as I conceived, unfairly, in such a
cause.

I confess, also, I was labouring under a feeling of surprise
that the opinion of Anti-Slavery Society, in favour of the
admission of foreign slave-grown sugar into competition with
that of our lately-emancipated colonies, as the best encou-
ragement of their industry, and the most effective discou-
ragement of the foreign slave trade, should have been long
withheld ; nay, that from all previous demonstrations, the
contrary had been so long left to be inferred, and that this
unexpected disclosure should have been reserved just for the
moment when her Majesty's government most needed sup-
port. _ _