He then shows the kind of power, which has supported this execrable trade.

He throws out the idea of a general compact, by which all the European nations should agree to abolish it.

And he indulges the pleasing hope, that it may take place even in the present generation.
In the same year we find other coadjutors coming before our view, but these in a line different from that, in which any other belonging to this class had yet moved.

Mr.George White, a clergyman of the established church, and Mr.John Chubb, suggested to Mr.William Tucket, the mayor of Bridgewater, where they resided, and to others of that town, the propriety of petitioning parliament for the abolition of the Slave-trade.

This petition was agreed upon, and, when drawn up, was as follows:-- "The humble petition of the inhabitants of Bridgewater showeth, "That your petitioners, reflecting with the deepest sensibility on the deplorable condition of that part of the human species, the African Negros, who by the most flagitious means are reduced to slavery and misery in the British colonies, beg leave to address this honourable house in their behalf, and to express a just abhorrence of a system of oppression, which no prospect of private gain, no consideration of public advantage, no plea of political expediency, can sufficiently justify or excuse.
"That, satisfied as your petitioners are that this inhuman system meets with the general execration of mankind, they flatter themselves the day is not far distant when it will be universally abolished.