And here I may observe, that among the many circumstances which ought to excite our joy on considering the great event of the abolition of the Slave Trade, which has now happily taken place, there are few for which we ought to be more grateful, than that from this time our commerce ceases to breed such abandoned wretches: while those, who have thus been bred in it, and who may yet find employment in other trades, will, in the common course of nature, be taken off in a given time, so that our marine will at length be purified from a race of monsters, which have helped to cripple its strength, and to disgrace its character.
The temper of many of the interested people of Liverpool had now become still more irritable, and their hostility more apparent than before.

I received anonymous letters, entreating me to leave it, or I should otherwise never leave it alive.

The only effect which this advice had upon me, was to make me more vigilant when I went out at night.

I never stirred out at this time without Mr.Falconbridge; and he never accompanied me without being well armed.

Of this, however, I knew nothing until we had left the place.