Delivered before a Committee of the House of Commons TO WHICH IS ADDED, A Recommendation of the Subject TO THE SERIOUS ATTENTION OF PEOPLE IN GENERAL. “ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO TO THEM,” Matt. chap. vii. ver. 12. LONDON, PRINTED; PHILADELPHIA: RE-PRINTED BY DANIEL LAWRENCE. M.DCC.XCII....

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VIRTUE, say moralists, is so transcendently beautiful, that she need but be seen , to be universally admired: and is not VICE so hateful, that the more its features are viewed , the more it will be avoided? The traffic in the human species, particularly as carried on by the Europeans on the coast of Africa, has so horrible an aspect, that nothing, one should think, but the Mask , under which it has been concealed, could have prevented all the civilized nations in the world uniting to drive the d