Their petitions, however, were rejected, and it was committed and passed through its regular stages, and sent up to the Lords.
On its arrival there on the 5th of July, petitions from London and Liverpool still followed it.

The prayer of these was against the general tendency of it, but it was solicited also that counsel might be heard in a particular case; the solicitation was complied with; after which the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed.
On the 7th, when it was taken next into consideration, two other petitions were presented against it.

But here so many objections were made to the clauses of it as they then stood, and such new matter suggested that the Duke of Richmond, who was a strenuous supporter of it, thought it best to move that the committee then sitting should be deferred till that day seven-night, in order to give time for another more perfect to originate in the lower house.
This motion having been acceded to, Sir William Dolben introduced a new one for the third time into the Commons.

This included the suggestions which had been made in the Lords.

It included also a regulation, on the motion of Mr.Sheridan, that no surgeon should be employed as such in the slave-vessels, except he had a testimonial that he had passed a proper examination at Surgeon's Hall.