1788.--List of new Correspondents.


CHAPTER XXII Progress of the cause to the middle of
May.--Petitions to Parliament.--Author's interviews with Mr.
Pitt and Mr. Grenville.--Privy Council inquire into the subject;
examine Liverpool delegates.--Proceedings of the Committee for
the Abolition.--Motion and Debate in the House of Commons;
discussion of the general question postponed to the next
Session.


CHAPTER XXIII Progress to the middle of July.--Bill to diminish
the horrors of the Middle Passage; Evidence examined against it;
Debates; Bill passed through both Houses.--Proceedings of the
Committee, and effects of them.


CHAPTER XXIV Continuation from June, 1788, to July,
1789.--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.