Suffice it to say, that the motion was lost by a majority of sixty-one to fifty-three.
This sudden refusal of the House of Commons to renew their own vote of the former year gave great uneasiness to the friends of the cause.

Mr.
Wilberforce, however, resolved, that the session should not pass without an attempt to promote it in another form; and accordingly, on the fourteenth of May, he moved for leave to bring in a bill to abolish that part of the Slave-trade, by which the British merchants supplied foreigners with slaves.

This motion was opposed like the former; but was carried by a majority of seven.

The bill was then brought in; and it passed its first and second reading with little opposition; but on the fifth of June, notwithstanding the eloquence of Mr.Pitt and of Mr.Fox, and the very able speeches of Mr.Francis, Mr.Courtenay, and others, it was lost by a majority of thirty-one to twenty-nine.
In the interval between these motions the question experienced in the Lords considerable opposition.

The Duke of Clarence moved that the House should not proceed in the consideration of the Slave-trade till after the Easter recess.