Pressed hard immediately by other questions, he then acknowledged that he had lost one hundred and twenty or a third of his slaves also.

But would he say that these were all he had lost in that voyage?
No: twelve others had perished by an accident, for they were drowned.

But were no others lost besides the one hundred and twenty and the twelve?
None, he said, upon the voyage, but between twenty and thirty before he left the Coast.

Thus this champion of the merchants, this advocate for the health and happiness of the slaves in the middle passage, lost nearly a hundred and sixty of the unhappy persons committed to his superior care, in a single voyage! The evidence, on which I have now commented, having been delivered, the counsel summed up on the seventeenth of June, when the commitee proceeded to fill up the blanks in the bill.

Mr.Pitt moved that the operation of it be retrospective, and that it commence from the tenth instant.