five slaves to three tons.  He believed, however, that it was upon the whole a losing concern; in the same manner as the lottery would be a losing adventure to any company who should buy all the tickets.  Here and there an individual gained a large prize, but the majority of adventurers gained nothing.  The same merchants, too, had asserted, that the town of Liverpool would be mined by the abolition.  But Liverpool did not depend for its consequence upon the Slave Trade.  The whole export-tonnage from that place amounted to no less than 170,000 tons; whereas the export part of it to Africa amounted only to 13,000.  Liverpool, he was sure, owed its greatness to other and very different causes; the Slave Trade bearing but a small proportion to its other trade.

Having gone through that part of the subject which related to the slaves, he would now answer two objections which he had frequently heard stated.  The first of these was, that the abolition of the Slave Trade would operate to the total ruin of our navy, and to the increase of that of our rivals.  For an answer to these assertions, he referred to what he considered to be the most valuable part of the report, and for which the House and the country were indebted to the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Clarkson.  By the report it appeared, that, instead of the Slave Trade being a nursery for British seamen, it was their grave.  It appeared that more seamen died in that trade in one year than in the whole remaining trade of the country in two.  Out of 910 sailors in it, 216 died in the year, while upon a fair average of the same number of men employed in the trades to the East and West Indies, Petersburgh, Newfoundland, and Greenland, no more than eighty-seven died.  It appeared also, that out of 3170, who had left Liverpool in the slave-ships in the year 1787, only 1428 had returned.  And here, while he lamented the loss which the country thus annually sustained in her seamen, he had additionally to lament the barbarous usage which they experienced, and which this trade, by its natural tendency to harden the heart, exclusively produced.  He would just read an extract of a letter from Governor Parrey, of Barbados, to Lord Sydney, one of the secretaries of state.  The Governor declared he could no longer contain himself on account of the ill treatment, which the British sailors endured at the hands of their savage captains.  These were obliged to have their vessels strongly manned, not only on account of the unhealthiness of the climate of Africa, but of the necessity of guarding the slaves, and preventing and suppressing insurrections; and when they arrived in the West Indies, and were out of all danger from the latter, they quarrelled with their men on the most frivolous pretences, on purpose to discharge them, and thus save the payment of supernumerary wages home.  Thus many were left in a diseased and deplorable state; either to perish by sickness, or to enter into foreign service; great numbers of whom were for ever lost to their country.  The Governor concluded by declaring, that the enormities attendant on this trade were so great, as to demand the immediate interference of the legislature.