The Duke of Chandos again, and Lord Sydney, were the more conspicuous among the opposers of the humane bill; and the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis Townshend, the Earl of Carlisle, the Bishop of London, and Earl Stanhope, among the most strenuous supporters of it.

At length it passed by a majority of nineteen to eleven votes.
On the 4th of July, when the bill had been returned to the Commons, it was moved, that the amendments made in it by the Lords should be read; but as it had become a money-bill in consequence of the bounties to be granted, and as new regulations were to be incorporated in it, it was thought proper that it should be wholly done away.

Accordingly Sir William Dolben moved, that the further consideration of it should be put off till that day three months.

This having been agreed upon, he then moved for leave to bring in a new bill.

This was accordingly introduced, and an additional clause was inserted in it, relative to bounties, by Mr.Pitt.But on the second reading, that no obstacle might be omitted which could legally be thrown in the way of its progress, petitions were presented against it, both by the Liverpool merchants and the agent for the island of Jamaica, under the pretence that it was a new bill.