It appeared that more seamen died in that trade in one year than in the whole remaining trade of the country in two.

Out of 910 sailors in it, 216 died in the year, while upon a fair average of the same number of men employed in the trades to the East and West Indies, Petersburgh, Newfoundland, and Greenland, no more than 87 died.

It appeared also, that out of 3170, who had left Liverpool in the slave-ships in the year 1787, only 1428 had returned.

And here, while he lamented the loss which the country thus annually sustained in her seamen, he had additionally to lament the barbarous usage which they experienced, and which this trade, by its natural tendency to harden the heart, exclusively produced.

He would just read an extract of a letter from Governor Parrey, of Barbadoes, to Lord Sydney, one of the secretaries of state.