Mr.Pitt was so irritated at the insidious attempt to set aside the privy council report, when no complaint had been alleged against it before, that he was quite off his guard, and he thought it right afterwards to apologize for the warmth into he had been betrayed.

The Speaker too was obliged frequently to interfere.

On this occasion no less than thirty members spoke.

And there had probably been few seasons, when so much disorder had been discoverable in that house.
The result of the debate was, a permission to those interested in the continuance of the Slave-trade to bring counsel to the bar on the twenty-sixth of May, and then to introduce such witnesses, as might throw further light on the propositions in the shortest time: for Mr.Pitt only acquiesced in this new measure on a supposition, "that there would be no unnecessary delay, as he could, by no means submit to the ultimate procrastination of so important a business." He even hoped (and in this hope he was joined by Mr.Fox) that those concerned would endeavour to bring the whole of the evidence they meant to offer at the first examination.
On the day appointed, the house met for the purposes now specified; when Alderman Newnham, thinking that such an important question should not be decided but in a full assembly of the representatives of the nation, moved for a call of the house on that day fortnight.

Mr.Wilberforce stated that he had no objection to such a measure; believing the greater the number present the more favourable it would be to his cause.