Page:Substance of the speech of His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, in the House of Lords.djvu/21

 capital of 250,000l.; that Mr. Stevens has laboured to prove, that at present they are worth 50,000l. though I have the strongest reason to believe that they are not worth more than 30,000l. By Mr. Stevens 's own account, there is an annual deficit of 6000l. a year; so that these great and flourishing colonists, as they wish to be thought, must shortly dissolve partnership, or continue trade at an immense loss, and consequently increase their capital, or become bankrupts.

Considering, my Lords, the manner in which this investigation has been carried on by those Noble Peers who support the Bill, I am confident, that if Mr. Mungo Park had been favourable to the Abolition of this Trade, he would have been brought to your Lordships Bar. I am, therefore, not a little surprised to hear Mr. Stevens quote certain pages in Mr. Park's very excellent work. And, my Lords, nothing could so completely refute Mr. Stevens's different quotat-