I must observe also, that there was such an enthusiasm among the members at this time, that there appeared to be the same kind and degree of feeling, as manifested itself within the same walls in the year 1788, when the question was first started.

This enthusiasm too, which was of a moral nature, was so powerful, that it seemed even to extend to a conversion of the heart: for several of the old opponents of this righteous cause went away, unable to vote against it; while others of them staid in their places, and voted in its favour.
On the twenty-seventh of February Lord Howick moved, that the House resolve itself into a committee on the bill for the abolition of the Slave-trade.
Sir C.Pole, Mr.Hughan, Brown, Bathurst, Windham, and Fuller opposed the motion; and Sir R.Milbank, and Mr.Wynne, Barham, Courtenay, Montague, Jacob, Whitbread, and Herbert (of Kerry), supported it.

At length the committee was allowed to sit _pro forma_, and Mr.Hobhouse was put into the chair.

The bill then went through it, and, the House being resumed, the report was received and read.
On the sixth of March, when the committee sat again, Sir C.Pole moved, that the year 1812 be substituted for the year 1807, as the time when the trade should be abolished.

This amendment produced a long debate, which was carried on by Sir C.Pole, Mr.Fuller, Hiley Addington, Rose, Gascoyne, and Bathurst on one side; and by Mr.Ward, Sir P.Francis, General Vyse, Sir T.
Turton, Mr.Whitbread, Lord Henry Petty, Mr.Canning, Stanhope, Perceval, and Wilberforce on the other.