After a careful perusal of what I have written, weighing every paragraph distinctly, I can find nothing to retract. As it is not easy to write altogether with coolness, upon this business, and especially not easy to me, who have formerly been so deeply engaged in it; I have been jealous, lest the warmth of imagination might have insensibly seduced me, to aggravate and overcharge some of the horrid features, which I have attempted to delineate, of the African Trade. But, upon a strict review, I am satisfied. I have apprized the reader, that I write from memory, after an interval of more than thirty years. But at the same time, I believe, many things which I saw, heard and felt, upon the Coast of Africa, are so deeply engraven in my memory, that I can hardly forget, or greatly mistake them, while I am capable of remembering any thing. I am certainly not guilty of wilful misrepresentation. And, upon the whole, I dare appeal to the Great Searcher of hearts, in whose presence I write, and before whom I, and my readers, must all shortly appear, that (with the restrictions and exceptions I have made) I have advanced nothing, but what, to the best of my judgement and conscience, is true. I have likewise written without solicitation, and simply from the motive I have already assigned; a conviction, that the share I have formerly had in the trade, binds me, in conscience, to throw what light I am able upon the subject, now it is likely to become a point of Parliamentary investigation. No one can have less interest in it, than I have at present, further than as I am interested by the feelings of humanity, and a regard for the honour, and welfare of my country. Though unwilling to give offence to a single person; in such a cause, I ought not to be afraid of offending many, by declaring the truth; if, indeed, there can be many, whom even interest can prevail upon to contradict the common sense of mankind, by pleading for a commerce, so iniquitous, so cruel, so oppressive, so destructive, as the African Slave Trade! +FINIS+. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Published by the Author of these Thoughts._ 1. +MESSIAH.+ Fifty Discourses on the Series of Scriptural Passages, which form the Subject of the celebrated ORATORIO OF HANDEL. Preached in the Years 1784 and 1785, in the Parish Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, Lombard-Street. 2 Vols. 8vo. Price 12s. bound. 2. A SERMON on the Death of the late DR. CONYERS. Price 6d. 3. Apologia: four Letters to a Minister of an independent Church, by a Minister of the Church of England. Price 2s. 4. Letters and Sermons, with a Review of Ecclesiastical History, and Hymns. 6 Vols. 12mo. Price 15s. sewed, 18s. in plain binding, or 21s. bound in calf and lettered. +CONTAINING+ * 1. An Authentic Narrative of some interesting Particulars in the Life of **** ******. 2s.