CHAPTER VII.
_Continuation from July 1794 to July 1799--Various motions within this period._ I purpose, though it may seem abrupt after the division which has hitherto been made of the contents of this volume, to throw the events of the next five years into one chapter.
Mr.Wilberforce and the members of the committee, whose constitutions had not suffered like my own, were still left; and they determined to persevere in the promotion of their great object; as long as their health and their faculties permitted them.

The former, accordingly, in the month of February 1795, moved in the House of Commons for leave to bring in a bill for the abolition of the Slave-trade.

This motion was then necessary, if, according to the resolution of that House, the Slave-trade was to cease in 1796.

It was opposed, however, by Sir William Yonge, and unfortunately lost by a majority of seventy-eight to fifty-seven.
In the year 1796 Mr.Wilberforce renewed his efforts in the Commons.

He asked leave to bring in a bill for the abolition of the Slave-trade, but in a limited time.