The latter had published several valuable letters in the public papers, under the signature of Africanus: these had excited great notice, and done much good.

The worthy author had now collected them into a publication, and had offered the profits of it to the committee.

Hence this mark of their respect was conferred upon him.
The committee ordered a new edition of three thousand of the Dean of Middleham's Letters to be printed.

Having approved of a manuscript, written by James Field Stanfield, a mariner, containing observations upon a voyage which he had lately made to the coast of Africa for slaves, they ordered three thousand of these to be printed also.

By this time, the subject having been much talked of, and many doubts and difficulties having been thrown in the way of the abolition, by persons interested in the continuance of the trade, Mr.Ramsay, who has been often so honourably mentioned, put down upon paper all the objections which were then handed about, and also those answers to each, which he was qualified, from his superior knowledge of the subject, to suggest.
This he did, that the members of the legislature might see the more intricate parts of the question unravelled, and that they might not be imposed upon by the spurious arguments which were then in circulation concerning it.