We were in free conversation together for a considerable time, during which we went through most of the branches of the subject.

Mr.Pitt appeared to me to have but little knowledge of it.

He had also his doubts, which he expressed openly, on many points.

He was at a loss to conceive how private interest should not always restrain the master of the slave from abusing him.

This matter I explained to him as well as I could; and if he was not entirely satisfied with my interpretation of it, he was at lease induced to believe that cruel practices were more probable than he had imagined.