As a planter he differed from his lordship again.

If indeed all the waste lands were to be brought into cultivation, the present population would be insufficient.

But the government had already determined, that the trade should not be continued for such a purpose.

We were no longer to continue pirates, or executioners for every petty tyrant in Africa, in order that every holder of a bit of land in our islands might cultivate the whole of his allotment; a work, which might require centuries.

Making this exception, he would maintain, that no further importations were necessary.