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Counsel and evidence having been respectively heard, the bill was ordered to be committed the next day. The Lords attended according to summons. But on a motion by Dr. Warren, the bishop of Bangor, who stated that the Lord Chancellor Thurlow was much indisposed, and that he wished to be present when the question was discussed, the commitee was postponed.
And now having given the substance of the labours of the commitee from its formation to the present time, I cannot conclude this volume without giving to the worthy members of it that tribute of affectionate and grateful praise, which is due to them for their exertions in having forwarded the great cause which was intrusted to their care.
But the commitee were not to be dismayed by such treatment, nor even if some of those, who professed good-will towards them, should turn against them. As for himself, he would do all he could to promote the object of their institution.
At the last of these sittings, the commitee thought it right to make a report to the public relative to the state and progress of their cause; but as this was composed from materials, which the reader has now in his possession, it may not be necessary to produce it. On the twenty-second and twenty-ninth of January, and on the fifth and twelfth of February, 1788, sittings were also held.
To all these I spoke, and I had the pleasure of seeing that my wishes were likely in a short time to be gratified in both these cases. It was now necessary that I should write to the commitee in London. I had written to them only two letters, during my absence; for I had devoted myself so much to the great object I had undertaken, that I could think of little else.
Wilberforce pledges himself there to take up the subject in parliament Remarkable junction, in consequence, of all the four classes of forerunners and coadjutors before mentioned commitee formed out of these on the 22d of May, 1787, for the abolition of the Slave-trade. The manner in which Mr.
On the discussion of this point he spoke a second time, and this to such effect that he had the satisfaction at this meeting to see minutes made more fully than any before, and a commitee appointed, for the advancement of the great object, to which he had now been instrumental in turning the attention of many, and to witness a considerable spreading of the cause.
The thanks of the commitee were voted during this period to Mr. Alexander Falconbridge, for the assistance he had given me in my inquiries into the nature of the Slave-trade. As Mr. The commitee, during these sittings, kept up a correspondence with those gentlemen who were mentioned in the last chapter to have addressed them.
Labours of the commitee continued to February 1788 commitee elect new members vote thanks to Falconbridge and others receive letters from Grove and others circulate numerous publications make a report send circular letters to corporate bodies release Negros unjustly detained find new correspondents in Archdeacon Paley the Marquis de la Fayette Bishop of Cloyne Bishop of Peterborough and in many others.
But the Society did not stop here; for having at the yearly meeting of 1783 particularly recommended the cause to a standing commitee appointed to act at intervals, called the Meeting for Sufferings, the latter in this same year resolved upon an address to the public, entitled, The Case of our Fellow-creatures, the oppressed Africans, respectfully recommended to the serious Consideration of the Legislature of Great Britain, by the People called Quakers: in which they endeavoured in the most pathetic manner to make the reader acquainted with the cruel nature of this trade; and they ordered two thousand copies of it to be printed.
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