Upon this, Mr.
Hawkins Browne and Mr.Windham both said they would support him there.
Before I left the company, I took Mr.Wilberforce aside, and asked him if I might mention this his resolution to those of my friends in the city, of whom he had often heard me speak, as desirous of aiding him by becoming a committee for the purpose.

He replied, I might.

I then asked Mr.Langton, privately, if he had any objection to belong to a society of which there might be a committee for the abolition of the Slave Trade.

He said he should be pleased to become a member of it.

Having received these satisfactory answers, I returned home.
[Footnote A: I do not know upon what grounds, after such strong expressions, Mr.Boswell, in the next year, and Mr.Windham, after having supported the cause for three or four years, became inimical to it.] The next day, having previously taken down the substance of the conversation at the dinner, I went to James Phillips, and desired that our friends might be called together as soon as they conveniently could to hear my report.