It remained only that the trade to Africa should be put under as wise and humane regulations as the slavery in the islands had undergone.
These different statements, appearing now in the public papers from day to day, began, in this early stage of the question, when the subject in all its bearings was known but to few, to make a considerable impression upon those, who were soon to be called to the decision of it.

But that, which had the greatest effect upon them, was the enormous amount of the compensation, which, it was said, must be made.

This statement against the abolition was making its way so powerfully, that Archdeacon Paley thought it his duty to write, and to send to the committee, a little treatise called Arguments against the unjust Pretensions of Slave-dealers and Holders, to be indemnified by pecuniary Allowances at the public Expense in case the Slave-trade should be abolished.

This treatise, when the substance of it was detailed in the public papers, had its influence upon several members of the House of Commons.

But there were others, who had been as it were panic-struck by the statement.