There appeared, also, an earnest desire in the committee, that, directly after this, I should begin my _Essay on the Impolicy of the Slave Trade_.
In compliance with their wishes, I determined upon both these works; but I resolved to retire into the country, that, by being subject to less interruption there, I might the sooner finish them.

It was proper, however, that I should settle many things in London before I took my departure from it; and, among these, that I should find out George Ormond and Patrick Murray, whom I had sent from Liverpool on account of the information they had given me relative to the murder of Peter Green.
I saw no better way than to take them before Sir Sampson Wright, who was then at the head of the police of the metropolis.

He examined and cross-examined them several times, and apart from each other.

He then desired their evidence to be drawn up in the form of depositions, copies of which he gave to me.

He had no doubt that the murder would be proved.
The circumstances of the deceased being in good health at nine o'clock in the evening, and of his severe sufferings till eleven, and of the nature of the wounds discovered to have been made on his person, and of his death by one in the morning, could never, he said, be done away by any evidence who should state that he had been subject to other disorders which might have occasioned his decease.