Every instrument of punishment should be banished, except the whip.

The number of lashes should be limited; and the punishment should not be repeated till after intervals.
These and other improvements should be immediately adopted by the planters.
The character of the exemplary among them was hurt by being confounded with that of lower and baser men.

He concluded by stating, that the owners of slaves were entitled to compensation, if, by means of the abolition, they should not be able to find labourers for the cultivation of their lands[A].
[Footnote A: Mr.Vaughan declared in a future stage of the debate, that he wished to see a prudent termination both of the Slave-trade and of slavery; and that, though he was the eldest son of his father, he never would, on any consideration, become the owner of a slave.] Mr.Henry Thornton conceived, that the two last speakers had not spoken to the point.

The first had described the happy state of the slaves in the West Indies.

The latter had made similar representations; but yet had allowed, that much improvement might be made in their condition.