Robert Jackson, esquire, M.D. four years resident in the West Indies in the
  medical line, after which he joined his regiment, in the same profession,
  in America.

Thomas Woolrich, esquire, twenty years a merchant in the West Indies, but
  in the interim was twice in America.

Reverend James Stuart, two years in the West Indies, and twenty in America.

George Baillie, esquire, one year in the West Indies, and twenty-five in
  America.

William Beverley, esquire, eighteen years in America.

John Clapham, esquire, twenty years in America.

Robert Crew, esquire, a native of America, and long resident there.

John Savage, esquire, forty-six years resident in America.

The evidence having been delivered on both sides, and then printed, it was judged expedient by Mr. Wilberforce, seeing that it filled three folio volumes, to abridge it.  This abridgement was made by the different friends of the cause.  William Burgh, esquire, of York; Thomas Babington, esquire, of Rothley Temple; the Reverend Thomas Gisborne, of Yoxall Lodge; Mr. Campbell Haliburton, of Edinburgh; George Harrison, with one or two others of the committee, and myself, were employed upon it.  The greater share, however, of the labour fell upon Dr. Dickson.  That no misrepresentation of any person’s testimony might be made, Matthew Montagu, esquire, and the honourable E.J.  Eliott, members of parliament, undertook to compare the abridged manuscripts with the original text, and to strike out or correct whatever they thought to be erroneous, and to insert whatever they thought to have been omitted.  The committee, for the abolition, when the work was finished, printed it at their own expense.  Mr. Wilberforce then presented it to the House of Commons, as a faithful abridgement of the whole evidence.  Having been received as such under the guarantee of Mr. Montagu and Mr. Eliott, the committee sent it to every individual member of that House.

The book having been thus presented, and a day fixed for the final determination of the question, our feelings became almost insupportable:  for we had the mortification to find, that our cause was going down in estimation, where it was then most important that it should have increased in favour.  Our opponents had taken advantage of the long delay, which the examination of evidence had occasioned, to prejudice the minds of many of the members of the House of Commons against us.  The old arguments of emancipation, massacre, ruin, and indemnification, had been kept up; but, as the day of final decision approached, they had been increased.  Such was our situation at this moment; when the current was turned still more powerfully against us by the peculiar circumstances of the times.  It was indeed the misfortune of this great cause to be assailed by every weapon, which could be turned against it.  At this time Thomas Paine had published