The expression of Mr.Fox in a former debate, "that the Slave-trade could not be regulated, because there could be no regulation of robbery and murder," was brought up, and construed by planters in the house as a charge of these crimes upon themselves.

Mr.Fox, however, would not retract the expression.

He repeated it.

He had no notion, however, that any individual would have taken it to himself.

If it contained any reflection at all, it was on the whole parliament, who had sanctioned such a trade.