On the twenty-second of March, though the commitee of council had not then held its sittings more than a month, and these only twice or thrice a week, the following paragraph was seen in a morning paper:--"The report of the commitee of privy council will be ready in a few days.

After due examination it appears that the major part of the complaints against this Trade are ill-founded.

Some regulations, however, are expected to take place, which may serve in a certain degree to appease the cause of humanity." But while they who were interested had produced this outcry against us, in consequence of what had fallen from their own witnesses in the course of their examinations, they had increased it considerably by the industrious circulation of a most artful pamphlet among persons of rank and fortune at the West end of the metropolis, which was called, Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of the Slave-trade.

This they had procured to be written by R.Harris, who was then clerk in a slave-house in Liverpool, but had been formerly a clergyman and a Jesuit.

As they had maintained in the first instance, as has been already shown, the humanity of the traffic, so, by means of this pamphlet they asserted its consistency with revealed religion.