Mr. Francis, Mr. Duncombe, Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Martin, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Milnes, Mr. William Smith, Mr. Steele, Mr. John Smyth, Mr. Coke, Mr. Robert Smith, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Powys, Mr. Montagu, Lord Apsley, Mr. Bastard, Lord Bayham, Mr. Stanley, Lord Arden, Mr. Plumer, Lord Carysfort, Mr. Beaufoy, Lord Muncaster, Mr. I.H.  Browne, Lord Barnard, Mr. G.N.  Edwards, Lord North, Mr. W.M.  Pitt, Lord Euston, Mr. Bankes.  General Burgoyne]

The committee for the abolition held a meeting soon after this our defeat.  It was the most impressive I ever attended.  The looks of all bespoke the feelings of their hearts.  Little was said previously to the opening of the business; and, after it was opened, it was conducted with a kind of solemn dignity, which became the occasion.  The committee, in the course of its deliberations, came to the following resolutions: 

That the thanks of this committee be respectfully given to the illustrious minority of the House of Commons, who lately stood forth the assertors of British justice and humanity, and the enemies of a traffic in the blood of man.

That our acknowledgements are particularly due to William Wilberforce, esquire, for his unwearied exertions to remove this opprobrium of our national character; and to the right honourable William Pitt, and the right honourable Charles James Fox, for their virtuous and dignified cooperation in the same cause.

That the solemn declarations of these gentlemen, and of Matthew Montagu and William Smith, esquires, that they will not relinquish, but with life, their struggle for the abolition of the Slave-trade, are not only highly honourable to themselves as Britons, as Statesmen, and as Christians, but must eventually, as the light of evidence shall be more and more diffused, be seconded by the good wishes of every man not immediately interested in the continuance of that detestable commerce.

And, lastly, that anticipating the opposition they should have to sustain from persons trained to a familiarity with the rapine and desolation necessarily attendant on the Slave-trade, and sensible also of the prejudices which implicitly arise from long-established usages, this committee consider the late decision in the House of Commons as a delay, rather than a defeat.  In addressing a free and enlightened nation on a subject, in which its justice, its humanity, and its wisdom are involved, they cannot despair of final success; and they do hereby, under an increasing conviction of the excellence of their cause, and inconformity to the distinguished examples before them, renew their firm protestation, that they will never desist from appealing to their countrymen, till the commercial intercourse with Africa shall cease to be polluted with the blood of its inhabitants.

These resolutions were published, and they were followed by a suitable report.