He would inform him.

It would do away the infamous practices, which took place in Africa; it would put an end to the horrors of the passage; it would save many thousands of our fellow-creatures from the miseries of eternal slavery; it would oblige the planters to treat those better, who were already in that unnatural state; it would increase the population of our islands; it would give a death-blow to the diabolical calculations, whether it was cheaper to work the Negros to death and recruit the gangs by fresh importations, or to work them moderately and to treat them kindly.

He knew of no event, which would be attended with so many blessings.
There was but one other matter, which he would notice.

The noble baron (Hawkesbury) had asserted, that all the horrors of St.Domingo were the consequence of the speculative opinions, which were current in a neighbouring kingdom on the subject of liberty.

They had, he said, no such origin.