He could not, however, but believe, that the hour was come, when we should put a final period to the existence of this cruel traffic.

Should he unhappily be mistaken, he would never desert the cause; but to the last moment of his life he would exert his utmost powers in its support.

He would now move, "That it is the opinion of this committee, that the trade carried on by British subjects for the purpose of obtaining slaves on the coast of Africa, ought to be abolished." Mr.Baillie was in hopes that the friends of the abolition would have been contented with the innocent blood which had been already shed.

The great island of St.Domingo had been torn to pieces by insurrections.

The most dreadful barbarities had been perpetrated there.