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of opponents' evidence resumed in the Commons.--Author travels in quest of new evidence on the side of the Abolition; this, after great opposition, introduced.--Renewal of the Middle Passage Bill.--Section of the slave-ship.--Cowper's _Negro's Complaint_.--Wedgewood's Cameos. CHAPTER XXVI Continuation from July, 1790, to July, 1791.--Author travels again.--Examinations on the side of the Abolition resumed in the Commons; list of those examined.--Cruel circumstances of the times.--Motion for the Abolition of the Trade; debates; motion lost.--Resolutions of the Committee.--Sierra Leone Company established. CHAPTER XXVII Continuation from July, 1791, to July, 1792.--Author travels again.--People begin to leave off sugar; petition Parliament.--Motion renewed in the Commons; debates; abolition resolved upon, but not to commence till 1796.--The Lords determine upon hearing evidence on the resolution; this evidence introduced; further hearing of it postponed to the next Session CHAPTER XXVIII Continuation from July, 1792, to July, 1793.--Author travels again.--Motion to renew the Resolution of the last year in the Commons; motion lost.--New motion to abolish the foreign Slave Trade; motion lost.--Proceeding of the Lords CHAPTER XXIX Continuation from July, 1793, to July, 1794.--Author travels again.--Motion to abolish the foreign Slave Trade renewed, and carried; but lost in the Lords; further proceedings there.--Author, on account of declining health, obliged to retire from the cause CHAPTER XXX Continuation from July, 1794, to July, 1799.--Various motions within this period CHAPTER XXXI Continuation from July, 1799, to July, 1805.--Various motions within this period CHAPTER XXXII Continuation from July, 1805, to July, 1806.--Author, restored, joins the Committee again.--Death of Mr. Pitt.--Foreign Slave Trade abolished.--Resolution to take measures for the total abolition of the trade.--Address to the King to negotiate with foreign powers for their concurrence in it.--Motion to prevent new vessels going into the trade.--All these carried through both Houses of Parliament CHAPTER XXXIII Continuation from July, 1806, to July, 1807.--Death of Mr. Fox.--Bill for the total abolition carried in the Lords; sent from thence to the
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