He would not enter into the discussion of the general subject at present.

He was convinced that the trade was what the resolution stated it to be, inhuman, unjust, and impolitic.

He wished therefore, most earnestly indeed, for its abolition.
As to the mode of effecting it, it should be such, as would be attended with the least inconvenience to all parties.

At the same time he would not allow small inconveniences to stand in the way of the great claims of humanity, justice, and religion.
The question was then put on the resolution, and carried by a majority of forty-one to twenty.

The same address also to His Majesty, which had been agreed upon by the Commons, was directly afterward moved.