With respect, however, to these he should make but one or two observations.

If we looked into the reign of Henry the Eighth, we should find a parallel for one of them.

We should find that similar convictions took place; and that penalties followed conviction.
With respect to wars, the kings of Africa were never induced to engage in them by public principles, by national glory, and least of all by the love of their people.

This had been stated by those most conversant in the subject, by Dr.Spaarman and Mr.Wadstrom.They had conversed with these princes, and had learned from their own mouths, that to procure slaves was the object of their hostilities.

Indeed, there was scarcely a single person examined before the privy council, who did not prove that the Slave-trade was the source of the tragedies acted upon that extensive continent.