The two Universities applauded her conduct by their own example.

Large manufacturing towns and whole counties expressed their sentiments and wishes in a similar manner.

The Established Church in separate dioceses, and the Quakers and other Dissenters, as separate religious bodies, joined in one voice upon this occasion.
The commitee in the interim were not unmindful of the great work they had undertaken, and they continued to forward it in its different departments.
They kept up a communication by letter with most of the worthy persons who have been mentioned to have written to them, but particularly with Brissot and Claviere, from whom they had the satisfaction of learning, that a society had at length been established at Paris for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade in France.

The learned Marquis de Condorcet had become the president of it.

The virtuous Duc de la Rochefoucauld, and the Marquis de la Fayette, had sanctioned it by enrolling their names as the two first members.