He said that even Lord Penrhyn and Mr.Gascoyne, the members for Liverpool, had admitted the evil of it to a certain extent; for regulations or modifications, in which they seemed to acquiesce, were unnecessary where abuses did not really exist.
Mr.Grigby thought it his duty to declare, that no privy council report, or other mode of examination, could influence him.

A traffic in the persons of men was so odious, that it ought everywhere, as soon as ever it was discovered, to be abolished.
Mr.Bastard was anxious that the House should proceed to the discussion of the subject in the present session.

The whole country, he said, had petitioned; and was it any satisfaction to the country to be told, that the committee of privy council were inquiring?
Who knew anything of what was doing by the committee of privy council, or what progress they were making?
The inquiry ought to have been instituted in that House, and in the face of the public, that everybody concerned might know what was going on.

The numerous petitions of the people ought immediately to be attended to.

He reprobated delay on this occasion; and as the honourable baronet, Sir William Dolben, had stated facts which were shocking to humanity, he hoped he would move that a committee might be appointed to inquire into their existence, that a remedy might be applied, if possible, before the sailing of the next ships for Africa.
Mr.Whitbread professed himself a strenuous advocate for the total and immediate abolition of the Slave Trade.