He had also, when the society was established in Paris, which took the name of The Friends of the Negros, enrolled himself a member of it.
The first public steps taken after my arrival in Paris were at a committee of the Friends of the Negros, which was but thinly attended.

None of those mentioned, except Brissot, were present.

It was resolved there, that the committee should solicit an audience of Mr.Necker; and that I should wait upon him, accompanied by a deputation consisting of the Marquis de Condorcet, Monsieur de Bourge, and Brissot de Warwille; Secondly, that the committee should write to the president of the National Assembly, and request the favour of him to appoint a day for hearing the cause of the Negros; and, Thirdly, that it should be recommended to the committee in London to draw up a petition to the National Assembly of France, praying for the abolition of the Slave-trade by that country.

This petition, it was observed, was to be signed by as great a number of the friends to the cause in England, as could be procured.

It was then to be sent to the committee at Paris, who would take it in a body to the place of its destination.
I found great delicacy as a stranger in making my observations upon these resolutions, and yet I thought I ought not to pass them over wholly in silence, but particularly the last.