Five thousand two hundred and fifty additional _Reports_ were ordered to be printed, and also three thousand of FALCONBRIDGE'S _Account of the Slave Trade_, the manuscript of which was now finished.

At this time, Mr.Newton, rector of St.Mary Woolnoth in London, who had been in his youth to the coast of Africa, but who had now become a serious and useful divine, felt it his duty to write his _Thoughts on the African Slave Trade_.

The committee, having obtained permission, printed three thousand copies of these also.
During these sittings, the chairman was requested to have frequent communication with Dr.Porteus, bishop of London, as he had expressed his desire of becoming useful to the institution.
A circular letter also, with the report before mentioned, was ordered to be sent to the majors of several corporate towns.
A case also occurred, which it may not be improper to notice.

The treasurer reported that he had been informed by the chairman, that the captain of the Albion, merchant ship, trading to the Bay of Honduras, had picked up at sea, from a Spanish ship, which had been wrecked, two black men, one named Henry Martin Burrowes, a free native of Antigua, who had served in the royal navy, and the other named Antonio Berrat, a Spanish negro; that the said captain detained these men on board his ship, then lying in the river Thames, against their will; and that, he would not give them up.

Upon this report, it was resolved that the cause of these unfortunate captives should be espoused by the committee.