This he admitted; but only partially.

Witchcraft, he believed, was the secret of poisoning, and therefore deserved the severest punishment.

That there should be a number of convictions for adultery, where polygamy was a custom, was not to be wondered at.

But he feared, if a sale of these criminals were to be done away, massacre would be the substitute.
An honourable member had asked on a former day, "Is it an excuse for robbery, to say that another would have committed it ?" But the Slave-trade did not necessarily imply robbery.

Not long since Great Britain sold her convicts, indirectly at least, to slavery.