CHAPTER III.
_Continuation from July 1790 to July 1791--Author travels again throughout the kingdom--Object of his journey--Motion in the House of Commons to resume the hearing of evidence in favour of the abolition--List of all those examined on this side of the question--Machinations of interested persons, and cruel circumstances of the times previously to the day of decision--Motion at length made for stopping all further importation of Slaves from Africa--debates upon it--motion lost--Resolutions of the committee for the Abolition of the Slave-trade--Establishment of the Sierra Leone Company._ It was a matter of deep affliction to us to think, that the crimes and sufferings inseparable from the Slave-trade were to be continued to another year.

And yet it was our duty, in the present moment, to acquiesce in the postponement of the question.

This postponement was not now for the purpose of delay, but of securing victory.

The evidence, on the side of the abolition, was, at the end of the last session, but half finished.

It was impossible, for the sake of Africa, that we could have then closed it.