These were such as I had collected in the course of my journey to Bristol and Liverpool, and elsewhere.

I explained, secondly, the loss and usage of seamen in the Slave Trade.

To substantiate certain points, which belonged to this branch of the subject, I left several depositions and articles of agreement for the examination of the council.

With respect to others, as it would take a long time to give all the data upon which calculations had been made, and the manner of making them, I was desired to draw up a statement of particulars, and to send it to the council at a future time.

I left also depositions with them, relative to certain instances of the mode of procuring and treating slaves.
The committee also for effecting the abolition of the Slave Trade continued their attention, during this period, towards the promotion of the different objects which came within the range of the institution.
They added the Rev.Dr.Coombe, in consequence of the great increase of their business, to the list of their members.
They voted thanks to Mr.Hughes, vicar of Ware, in Hertfordshire, for his excellent answer to Harris's _Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of the Slave Trade_, and they enrolled him among their honorary and corresponding members.