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Another effect of this humane treatment had been, that these slaves were among the most orderly and tractable in that island.
From these and other instances he argued, that if the planters would, all of them, take proper care of their slaves, their humanity would be repaid in a few years, by a valuable increase in their property, and they would never want supplies from a traffic, which had been so justly condemned. Two others, the one from Travers Hartley, and the other from Alexander Jaffray, Esqrs., both of Dublin, were read.
These gentlemen sent certain resolutions, which had been agreed upon by the chamber of commerce and by the guild of merchants there, relative to the abolition of the Slave Trade.
They rejoiced, in the name of those whom they represented, that Ireland had been unspotted by a traffic, which they held in such deep abhorrence; and promised, if it should be abolished in England, to take the post active measures to prevent it from finding an asylum in the ports of that kingdom. The letters of William Senhouse, and of Travers Hartley, and of Alexander Jaffray, Esqrs., were ordered to be presented to the committee of privy council, and copies of them to be left there. The business of the committee having almost daily increased within this period, Dr.Baker and Bennet Langton, Esq., who were the two first to assist me in my early labours, and who have been mentioned among the forerunners and coadjutors of the cause, were elected members of it.
Dr. Kippis also was added to the list. The honorary and corresponding members, elected within the same period, were the Dean of Middleham; T.W.Coke, Esq., member of parliament, of Holkham, in Norfolk; and the Rev.William Leigh, who has been before mentioned, of Little Plumstead, in the same county.
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