of the Committee for the Abolition; and of the Planters and others.—­Privy Council report laid on the table of the House of Commons; debate upon it.—­Twelve propositions.—­Opponents refuse to argue from the report; examine new evidence of their own in the House of Commons.—­Renewal of the Middle Passage Bill.—­Death and character of Ramsay.

Chapter XXV Continuation from July, 1789, to July, 1790.—­Author travels to Paris to promote the abolition in France; his proceedings there; returns to England.—­Examination of opponents’ evidence resumed in the Commons.—­Author travels in quest of new evidence on the side of the Abolition; this, after great opposition, introduced.—­Renewal of the Middle Passage Bill.—­Section of the slave-ship.—­Cowper’s Negro’s Complaint.—­Wedgewood’s Cameos.

Chapter XXVI Continuation from July, 1790, to July, 1791.—­Author travels again.—­Examinations on the side of the Abolition resumed in the Commons; list of those examined.—­Cruel circumstances of the times.—­Motion for the Abolition of the Trade; debates; motion lost.—­Resolutions of the Committee.—­Sierra Leone Company established.

Chapter XXVII Continuation from July, 1791, to July, 1792.—­Author travels again.—­People begin to leave off sugar; petition Parliament.—­Motion renewed in the Commons; debates; abolition resolved upon, but not to commence till 1796.—­The Lords determine upon hearing evidence on the resolution; this evidence introduced; further hearing of it postponed to the next Session

Chapter XXVIII Continuation from July, 1792, to July, 1793.—­Author travels again.—­Motion to renew the Resolution of the last year in the Commons; motion lost.—­New motion to abolish the foreign Slave Trade; motion lost.—­Proceeding of the Lords

Chapter XXIX Continuation from July, 1793, to July, 1794.—­Author travels again.—­Motion to abolish the foreign Slave Trade renewed, and carried; but lost in the Lords; further proceedings there.—­Author, on account of declining health, obliged to retire from the cause

CHAPTER XXX Continuation from July, 1794, to July, 1799.—­Various motions within this period

CHAPTER XXXI Continuation from July, 1799, to July, 1805.—­Various motions within this period

Chapter XXXII Continuation from July, 1805, to July, 1806.—­Author, restored, joins the Committee again.—­Death of Mr. Pitt.—­Foreign Slave Trade abolished.—­Resolution to take measures for the total abolition of the trade.—­Address to the King to negotiate with foreign powers for their concurrence in it.—­Motion to prevent new vessels going into the trade.—­All these carried through both Houses of Parliament

Chapter XXXIII Continuation from July, 1806, to July, 1807.—­Death of Mr. Fox.—­Bill for the total abolition carried in the Lords; sent from thence to the Commons; amended, and passed there, and sent back to the Lords; receives the royal assent.—­Reflections on this great event

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