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Motion in the House of Commons, by Mr. Wilberforce, for a final Abslition 
of the Slave-Trade.—Negatived.—Acquittal of Mr. Hastings.—Reflec- 
tions on the History and Issue of his Trial, and’ on his oun CharaGer and, 
De portment.—Motion by Mr, W dein tending to maintain Discipline, 
and increase the Sting ih of the Militia Regiments.—Carried.— Bill 
passed for new-mode ling the London Militia. —Motion for intr oducing 
‘into the Miliiia the Use of Artiller, ry —Carried.—Exira Allowance to the 
Army for Bread and Meat, herd ty the Army by Gowernment, without 
the Participation of Parliameut,—A subje& of Alarm to Oppositim, and 
many others.—Moation for a Censure on this step, by General Macleod.— 
Negatived.— A Laan of Public Money to the Merchants of Grenada and 
St. Vincent? st iStarenens of East India Affairs,— Regulations in favour 
of the Officers in the Military Service of the East India Company.— 
Marriage of the Priace of Wales to the Princess Caroline of Brunswick. 
—Settlement of his Revenuc,—And éther Pecuniary Affairs. 
HILE these discussions, on 
the great objects of the war, 
employed the abilities of ministry 
and of opposition, a large portion of 
the public sincerely lamented that 
an object, which had lately been 
’ favoured with the peculiar atten- 
tion of the people at large, should 
remain almost in. state of neglect, 
especially as the wishes of a majority 
of the nation .wére considered as 
friendly to, the, intentions of those 
who first brought it before parlia- 
ment. This was the long-agitated 
business of the slave-trade, so zeas_ 
lously reprobated by-one party, as 
a. criminal and digraceful, 
no less warmly justified by the 
other, as absolutely necessary in the 
actual situation of the commercial 
and colonial affairs of Great Britain. 
Those. two contradictory opinions 
_ stilldivided numbers, both in and 
out of parliament, and were mains 
tained by the respective adherent 
to each, with great fervour and 
variety of arguments. 
Mr. Wilberforce, the original 
* promoter of this business, recalled 
the attention of the house of com. 
mons toit, on the 26th of February, 
He reminded the house, thata formal 
resolution had passed in the sessions 
of 1792, that after the expiration of 
the month of January, 17965 it 
should no longer be lawful to im. 
port African negroes into the Bri, 
tish colonies and plantations. He 
recapitulated the chief motives that 
had led to this determination; such 
as the barbarity of the practice, and 
the excessive loss of scamen in the 
unwholesome climates where that: 
trade was carried on. He adverted 
to the reasonings adduced to prove 
its impolicy, and to the acknow. 
ledgment of nearly the whole 
house, that they were epmatly 
ed, 
