women, and children, as they could find them in the huts.  They then bound their arms, and drove them before them to the canoes.  The name of the person, thus discovered on board the Melampus, was Isaac Parker.  On inquiring into his character from the master of the division, I found it highly respectable.  I found also afterwards, that he had sailed with Captain Cook, with great credit to himself, round the world.  It was also remarkable that my brother, on seeing him in London, when he went to deliver his evidence, recognised him as having served on board the Monarch man-of-war, and as one of the most exemplary men in that ship.

I returned now in triumph.  I had been out only three weeks, and I had found out this extraordinary person, and five respectable witnesses besides.  These, added to the three discovered in the last journey, and to those provided before, made us more formidable than at any former period; so that the delay of our opponents, which we had looked upon as so great an evil, proved in the end truly serviceable to our cause.

On going into the committee-room of the House of Commons on my return, I found that the examinations were still going on in the behalf of those, who were interested in the continuance of the trade; and they went on beyond the middle of April, when it was considered that they had closed.  Mr. Wilberforce moved accordingly on the twenty-third of the same month, that Captain Thomas Wilson, of the royal navy, and that Charles Berns Wadstrom and Henry Hew Dalrymple, esquires, do attend as witnesses on the behalf of the abolition.  There was nothing now but clamour from those on the opposite side of the question.  They knew well, that there were but few members of the House of Commons, who had read the privy council report.  They knew therefore, that, if the question were to be decided by evidence, it must be decided by that, which their own witnesses had given before parliament.  But this was the evidence only on one side.  It was certain therefore, if the decision were to be made upon this basis, that it must be entirely in their favour.  Will it then be believed that in an English House of Commons there could be found persons, who could move to prevent the hearing of any other witnesses on this subject; and, what is more remarkable, that they should charge Mr. Wilberforce, because he proposed the hearing of them, with the intention solely of delay?  Yes.  Such persons were found, but, happily, only among the friends of the Slave-trade.  Mr. Wilberforce, in replying to them, could not help observing, that it was rather extraordinary that they, who had occasioned the delay of a whole year, should charge him with that, of which they themselves had been so conspicuously guilty.  He then commented for some time on the injustice of their motion.  He stated too, that he would undertake to remove from disinterested and unprejudiced persons many of the impressions, which had been made by the witnesses against