The committee, in order to strengthen themselves for the prosecution of their great work, elected Sir William Dolben, baronet, Henry Thornton, Lewis Alexander Grant, and Matthew Montagu, esquires, who were members of parliament, and Truman Harford, Josiah Wedgwood, jun. esquire, and John Clarkson, esquire, of the royal navy, as members of their own body; and they elected the Reverend Archdeacon Plymloy (now Corbett) an honorary and corresponding member, in consequence of the great services which he had rendered their cause in the shires of Hereford and Salop, and the adjacent counties of Wales.

The several committees, established in the country, on receiving the resolutions and report as before mentioned, testified their sympathy in letters of condolence to that of London on the late melancholy occasion; and expressed their determination to support it as long as any vestiges of this barbarous traffic should remain.

At length the session ended; and though, in the course of it, the afflicting loss of the general question had occurred, there was yet an attempt made by the abolitionists in parliament, which met with a better fate.  The Sierra Leone company received the sanction of the legislature.  The object of this institution was to colonize a small portion of the coast of Africa.  They, who were to settle there, were to have no concern in the Slave-trade, but to discourage it as much as possible.  They were to endeavour to establish a new species of commerce, and to promote cultivation in its neighbourhood by free labour.  The persons more generally fixed upon for colonists, were such Negros, with their wives and families, as chose to abandon their habitations in Nova Scotia.  These had followed the British arms in America; and had been settled there, as a reward for their services, by the British government.  My brother, just mentioned to have been chosen a member of the committee, and who had essentially served the great cause of the abolition on many occasions, undertook a visit to Nova Scotia, to see if those in question were willing to undergo the change; and in that case to provide transports, and conduct them to Sierra Leone.  This object he accomplished.  He embarked more than eleven hundred persons in fifteen vessels, of all which he took the command.  On landing them he became the first Governor of the new Colony.  Having laid the foundation of it, he returned to England; when a successor was appointed.  From that time many unexpected circumstances, but particularly devastations by the French in the beginning of the war, took place, which, contributed to ruin the trading company, which was attached to it.  It is pleasing, however, to reflect, that though the object of the institution, as far as mercantile profit was concerned, thus failed, the other objects belonging to it were promoted.  Schools, places of worship, agriculture, and the habits of civilized life, were established.  Sierra Leone, therefore, now presents itself as the medium of civilization