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 the other parts of the Slave Coasts, the evidence produced upon the general investigation, at your Lordships Bar, by the African Merchants, would have proved equally true and correct. For the sake of humanity, therefore, my Lords—and I repeat it—for the sake of humanity—this Trade ought to continue; for how many thousands, how many millions of lives have been saved in the Kingdom of Dahomy! and how much bloodshed has been spared amongst the wretched and miserable victims in that quarter of the globe, thus rescued from the knife.

Mr. Macaulay, that very accommodating Witness, who sometimes inadvertently glances at the truth, has entered into the different causes of Slavery in Africa, and has given a very minute account on the subject of kidnapping, in which, my Lords, he does not dare to insinuate that the British Trader is indirectly concerned. As for war's being