_, ch. 66.
[7] Various petitions had come in praying for an abolition of
the slave-trade; and by an order in Council, Feb. 11, 1788, a
committee of the Privy Council was ordered to take evidence on
the subject. This committee presented an elaborate report in
1739. See published _Report_, London, 1789.
[8] For the history of the Parliamentary struggle, cf.
Clarkson's and Copley's histories. The movement was checked in
the House of Commons in 1789, 1790, and 1791. In 1792 the
House of Commons resolved to abolish the trade in 1796. The
Lords postponed the matter to take evidence. A bill to
prohibit the foreign slave-trade was lost in 1793, passed the
next session, and was lost in the House of Lords. In 1795,
1796, 1798, and 1799 repeated attempts to abolish the trade
were defeated. The matter then rested until 1804, when the
battle was renewed with more success.
[9] _Statute 46 George III._, ch. 52, 119; _47 George III._,
sess. I. ch. 36.
[10] Sparks, _Diplomatic Correspondence_, X. 154.
[11] Fox to Hartley, June 10, 1783; quoted in Bancroft,
_History of the Constitution of the United States_, I. 61.
[12] _Amer. State Papers, Foreign_, III. No. 214, p. 151.
[13] _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1815-6, pp. 886, 937
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