In this latter base, a deputation of the society waited, upon the masters, to know if they would allow their scholars to receive it.

The schools of Westminster, the Charter-house, St.Paul, Merchant-Taylors, Eton, Winchester, and Harrow, were among those visited.

Several academies also were visited for this purpose.
But I must now take my leave of the Quakers as a public body[A] and go back to the year 1783, to record an event, which will be found of great importance in the present history, and in which only individuals belonging to the society were concerned.

This event seems to have arisen naturally out of existing or past circumstances.

For the society, as I have before stated, had sent a petition to parliament in this year, praying for the abolition, of the Slave Trade.