In the year 1789 the imports into it exceeded five millions sterling.

The exports from it in the same year amounted to six millions; and the trade employed three hundred thousand tons of shipping, and thirty thousand seamen.

This fine island, thus advantageously situated, had been lost in consequence of the agitation of the question or the Slave-trade.

Surely so much mischief ought to have satisfied those who supported it; but they required the total destruction of all the West Indian colonies, belonging to Great Britain, to complete the ruin.
The honourable gentleman, who had just spoken, had dwelt, upon the enormities of the Slave-trade.

He was far from denying, that many acts of inhumanity might accompany it; but as human nature was much the same every where, it would be unreasonable to expect among African traders, or the inhabitants of our islands, a degree of perfection in morals, which was not to be found in Great Britain itself.