After he saw that slavery would inevitably be abolished, he drew up at length a plan of emancipation according to which the condition of the slave was to be commuted into that of the old English _villein_--he was to be made an appendage to _the soil_ instead of the "chattel personal" of the master, the whip was to be partially abolished, a modicum of wages was to be allowed the slave, and so on.

There was to be no fixed period when this system would terminate, but it was to fade gradually and imperceptibly into entire freedom.

He presented a copy of his scheme to the then governor, the Earl of Mulgrave, requesting that it might be forwarded to the home government.

Mr.B.said that the anti-slavery party in England had acted from the blind impulses of religious fanaticism, and had precipitated to its issue a work which required many years of silent preparation in order to its safe accomplishment.

He intimated that the management of abolition ought to have been left with the colonists; they had been the long experienced managers of slavery, and they were the only men qualified to superintend its burial, and give it a decent interment.
He did not think that the apprenticeship afforded any clue to the dark mystery of 1840.