I had collected also by this time, one thousand of my Essays on the Impolicy of the Slave-trade, which had been translated into the French language.

These I now wished to distribute, as preparatory to the motion of Mirabeau, among the National Assembly.

This distribution was afterwards undertaken and effected by the Archbishop of Aix, the Bishop of Chartres, the Marquis de la Fayette, the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, the Comte de Mirabeau, Monsieur Necker, the Marquis de Condorcet, Messieurs Petion de Villeneuve, Bergasse, Claviere and Brissot, and by the Marchioness de la Fayette, Madame Necker, and Madame de Poivre, the latter of whom was the widow of the late Intendant of the Isle of France.
This distribution had not been long begun, before I witnessed its effects.
The virtuous Abbe Gregoire, and several members of the National Assembly, called upon me.

The section of the slave-ship, it appeared, had been the means of drawing them towards me.

They wished for more accurate information concerning it.