CHAP. 1. Continuation from June 1758 to July 1739--Author travels in search of fresh evidence--Privy council resume their examinations--prepare their report--Proceedings of the Committee for the abolition--and of the Planters and others--Privy council report laid on the table of the House of Commons--Debate upon it--Twelve propositions--Opponents refuse to argue from the report--Examine new evidence of their own in the House of Commons--Renewal of the Middle Passage-Bill--Death and character of Ramsay CHAP. 2. Continuation from July 1789 to July 1790--Author travels to Paris to promote the abolition in France--His proceedings there--returns to England--Examination 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--Wedgwood's Cameos. CHAP. 3. 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 CHAP. 4. 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 CHAP. 5. 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--Proceedings of the Lords CHAP. 6. 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 CHAP. 7. Continuation from July 1794 to July 1799--Various motions within this period CHAP. 8. Continuation from July 1799 to July 18O5--Various motions within this period CHAP. 9. 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 CHAP. 10. 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 Commons--amended, and passed there, and sent back to the Lords--receives the royal assent--Reflections on this great event