As to the losses which would arise from the abolition of the Slave-trade, they, who were interested in the continuance of it, had greatly over-rated, them.

When pleading formerly in his professional capacity for the merchants of Liverpool at their lordships' bar, he had often delivered statements, which he had received from them; and which he afterward discovered to be grossly incorrect.

He could say from his own knowledge, that the assertion of the noble earl (Westmoreland), that property to the amount of a hundred millions would be endangered, was wild and fanciful.

He would not however deny, that some loss might accompany the abolition; but there could be no difficulty in providing for it.

Such a consideration ought not to be allowed to impede their progress in getting rid of an horrible injustice.
But it had been said, that we should do but little in the cause of humanity by abolishing the Slave-trade; because other nations would continue it.