He highly approved of what Mr.Pitt had said, relative to the language it became us to hold out to foreign powers in case of a clandestine trade.

With respect, however, to the assertion of Sir William Yonge, that a clandestine trade in slaves would be worse than a legal one, he could not admit it.

Such a trade, if it existed at all, ought only to be clandestine.

A trade in human flesh and sinews was so scandalous, that it ought not openly to be carried on by any government whatever, and much less by that of a Christian country.

With regard to the regulation of the Slave-trade, he knew of no such thing as a regulation of robbery and murder.