He believed, however, that the merchants of Liverpool would find no difficulty on this head.

All capitals required active motion.
It was in their nature not to remain passive and unemployed.

They would soon turn them into other channels.

This they had done themselves during the American war; for the Slave-trade was then almost wholly lost, and yet they had their ships employed, either as transports in the service of Government, or in other ways.
And as he now called upon the house not to allow any conjectural losses to become impediments in the way of the abolition of the Slave-trade, so he called upon them to beware how they suffered any representations of the happiness of the state of slavery in our islands to influence them against so glorious a measure.

Admiral Barrington had said in his testimony, that he had often envied the condition of the slaves there.