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The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808)

CHAPTER X
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The latter said, that this great act of justice would be recorded in heaven.

The amendments were severally adopted without a division.

But here an omission of three words was discovered, namely, "country, territory, or place," which, if not rectified, might defeat the purposes of the bill.

An amendment was immediately proposed and carried.
Thus the bill received the last sanction of the Peers.

Lord Grenville then congratulated the House on the completion, on its part, of the most glorious measure, that had ever been adopted by any legislative body in the world.
The amendment, now mentioned, occasioned the bill to be sent back to the Commons.


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