The third from J.Dawson, esquire, a slave-merchant at Liverpool.
And the fourth from the merchants, planters, mortgagees, annuitants, and others concerned in the West Indian colonies.

Taking in all these statements, the account stood thus.

For regulation there was one; against all abolition there were four; and for the total abolition of the trade five hundred and nineteen.
On the second of April Mr.Wilberforce moved the order of the day; which having been agreed to, Sir William Dolben was put into the chair.
He then began by soliciting the candid attention of the West Indians to what he was going to deliver to the House.

However others might have censured them indiscriminately, he had always himself made a distinction between them and their system.

It was the latter only, which he reprobated.
If aristocracy had been thought a worse form of government than monarchy, because the people had many tyrants instead of one, how objectionable must be that form of it, which existed in our colonies! Arbitrary power could be bought there by any one, who could buy a slave.