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    therefore the friends of this cause be requested * to use their utmost endeavours , as well in France as in all other countries where that trade still subsists , to diffuse authentic information and excite just sentiments and feelings on thin great subject .

    VII . That this meeting is deeply impressed with the increased necessity of immediately adopting such measures in parliament as may be best calculated to prevent the evasion or infraction of

    the abolition laws of Great Britain , by the clandestine importation of slaves fr # rn ihe neighbouring French colonies injoour own , or by the employment of British capital in this nefarious traffic .

    VIII . That this meeting strongly feels , that if the conduct of Great Britain has contributed in any degree to the peace and independence of Europe , she may hope to plead with success the cause of Africa , especially with sovereigns not more distinguished by their elevated ! rank than by their declared reverence fox the obligations of religion

    IX . That , in the negociations which are still depending with other states , we should endeayour to secure all that under the existing circumstances can he effected ifor mitigating the wrongs and miseries qf Africa . More particularl y * in puf . su a nee of this principle , that no colony yet remaining in the possession

    of Great Britain , ! wherein slavery exists , should be ceded to any other power , without requiring an express stipulation for re : inqmVhing the Slave Trade immediately ancjfor ever . Also , that at the approaching congress every effort should be used to induce those powers which will not consent to an absolute

    abandonment of the trade , to impose on it additional limitations and restraints , so long as it shall be permitted to continue . X . That on these general grounds this meeting most anxiously implores

    all those in the government , in parliament , and in the country at large , who are friends to this great cause , to make in their respective spheres every possible exertion 10 carry the views of this meeting into complete effect .

    XI That a pititicn be presented to both houses of parliament , grounded on these resolutions , praying them o adopt such measures as to their wisdom shall seem meet lor obviating the various evils which have been specified . XII * That this meeting respectfully

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    requests his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester to present the petition to the House of Lords , and Mr . Wilberforce to present that to the House of Commons .

    XIII . That the most cordial thanks of this meeting be presented to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester , for his conduct in the chair this day , and for the able and zealous support he has uniformly given to this great cause .

    His Royal Highness having been obliged by an indispensable engagement to retire , and the Marquis of &ansdowne having taken the chair , it was further resolved unanimously : — . XIV . That the warmest thanks of

    this meeting be given to William Wilberforce , Esq . the father of this great cause , for the uniform zeal , ability , and perseverance he has during so long a period displayed in endeavouring to effect the entire abolition of the Slave

    Trade . XV . That the board of directors of the African Institution be requested to employ their efforts to carry inlo full effect the objects of the above resolutions . XVI . That the best thanks of this

    meeting be given to the Marquis of Lausdowne , for his able conduct in the chair , and for his unremitting services in this cause . The following is a copy of the Petition * which the Meeting resolved to adopt , " To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled . ^ < c The Humble Petition of the

    undersigned inhabitants of . London and its Vicinity , shewethu That your petitioners have seen with the deepest regret and disappointment that in the recent treaty of peace with Fi ance no provision has been made for the immediate abolition of ihe African Slave Trade—a trade avowedly repugnant to every moral and religious ^

    rin-* This petition may serve as a model to others . The words beiween brackets must be changed , in the petition to the House of Commons , into c < your Ho . nourab ' e Hou ^ e . "

    f Or , in the petition to the House of Commons , tc To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled . '

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    Intelligence . —~ Abolition of the Stave Trade . 443

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 443, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/59/