These he gave to the public afterwards.

He communicated them also, with a copy of the trial, to the Lords of the Admiralty, as the guardians of justice upon the seas, and to the Duke of Portland, as principal minister of state.

No notice, however, was taken by any of these, of the information which had been thus sent them.
But though nothing was done by the persons then in power, in consequence of the murder of so many innocent individuals, yet the publication of an account of it by Mr.Sharp, in the newspapers, made such an impression upon others, that; new coadjutors rose up.

For, soon after this, we find Thomas Day entering the lists again as the champion of the injured Africans.

He had lived to see his poem of _The Dying Negro_, which had been published in 1773, make a considerable impression.