Also thanks to William Roscoe, esquire, for his Answer to the same.

Mr.Roscoe had not affixed his name to this pamphlet any more than to his poem of The Wrongs of Africa.

But he made himself known to the commitee as the author of both.

Also thanks to William Smith and Henry Beaufoy, esquires, for having so successfully exposed the evidence offered by the slave-merchants against the bill of Sir William Dolben, and for having drawn out of it so many facts, all making for their great object, the abolition of the Slave-trade.
As the great question was to be discussed in the approaching sessions, it was moved in the commitee to consider of the propriety of sending persons to Africa and the West Indies, who should obtain information relative to the different branches of the system as they existed in each of these countries, in order that they might be able to give their testimony, from their own experience, before one or both of the houses of parliament, as it might be judged proper.

This proposition was discussed at two or three several meetings.