They contended also, that Mr.Dundas had now proved, a thousand times more strongly than ever, the necessity of immediate abolition.

All the resolutions he had read were operative against his own reasoning.

The latter observed, that the Slave-traders were in future only to be allowed to steal innocent children from their disconsolate parents.
After a few observations by Lord Sheffield, Mr.Drake, Colonel Tarleton, and Mr.Rolle, the House adjourned.
On the twenty-fifth of April it resumed the consideration of the subject.
Mr.Dundas then went over his former resolutions, and concluded by moving, "that it should not be lawful to import any African Negros into any British colonies, in ships owned or navigated by British subjects, at any time after the first of January 1800." Lord Mornington (now Marquis Wellesley) rose to propose an amendment.

He congratulated his countrymen, that the Slave-trade had received its death-wound.

This traffic was founded in injustice; and between right and wrong there could be no compromise.