Knowing no other person in the place, I wrote a note to Mr.Cowdroy, whom I understood to be the editor of the Chester paper, soliciting an interview with him.

I explained my wishes to him on both subjects.

He seemed to be greatly rejoiced, when we met, that such a measure as that of the abolition of the Slave-trade was in contemplation.
Living at so short a distance from Liverpool, and in a county from which so many persons were constantly going to Africa, he was by no means ignorant, as some were, of the nature of this cruel traffic; but yet he had no notion that I had probed it so deeply, or that I had brought to light such important circumstances concerning it, as he found by my conversation.

He made me a hearty offer of his services on this occasion, and this expressly without fee or reward.

I accepted them most joyfully and gratefully.