Was not this a reasonable conclusion, when they, the deputies, had almost all the first men in the Assembly in their favour?
I entreated them therefore to wait patiently; as well as upon another consideration, which was, that by an imprudent conduct they might not only ruin their own cause in France, but bring indescribable misery upon their native land.
By this time a large packet, for which I had sent from England, arrived.

It consisted of above a thousand of the plan and section of a slave-ship, with an explanation in French.

It contained also about five hundred coloured engravings, made from two views, which Mr.Wadstrom had taken in Africa.
The first of these represented the town of Joal, and the King's military on horseback returning to it, after having executed the great pillage, with their slaves.

The other represented the village of Bain; from whence ruffians were forcing a poor woman and her children to sell them to a ship, which was then lying in the Roads.

Both these scenes Mr.Wadstrom had witnessed.