At length, on a division, there appeared to be one hundred and twenty-five against the amendment, and for it only seventeen.

The chairman then read the bill, and it was agreed that he should report it with the amendments on Monday.

The bill enacted, that no vessel should clear out for slaves from any port within the British dominions after the first of May 1807, and that no slave should be landed in the colonies after the first of March 1808.
On the sixteenth of March, on the motion of Lord Henry Petty, the question was put, that the bill be read a third time.

Mr.Hibbert, Captain Herbert, Mr.T.W.Plomer, Mr.Windham, and Lord Castlereagh spoke against the motion.

Sir P.Francis, Mr.Lyttleton, Mr.H.Thornton, and Mr.Barham, Sheridan, and Wilberforce supported it.