They gave an account of specific evils, which had come under their own eyes.

These evils were never disproved.

They stood therefore on a firm basis, as on a tablet of brass.

Engraved there in affirmative characters; a few of them were of more value, than all the negative and airy testimony, which had been advanced on the other side of the question.
That the public may judge, in some measure, of the respectability of the witnesses in favour of the abolition, and that they may know also to whom Africa is so much indebted for her deliverance, I shall subjoin their names in the three following lists.

The first will contain those, who were examined by the privy council only; the second those, who were examined by the privy council and the house of commons also; and the third those, who were examined by the house of commons only.
LIST I.
Andrew Spaarman, physician, botanist, and successor to Linnaeus, traveller on discovery in Africa for the King of Sweden.
Reverend Isham Baggs, chaplain for two voyages to Africa in H.M.