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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1815 Excerpt:... encouragement would be given to tillage, and the poor ultimately benefited by a greater plenty. The only security to the poor, he said, was by encouraging the tillage of the country, and that was alone to be done by granting bounties, or high protecting prices, which would operate as bounties. He said, the country was oppressed by tythes, the collection of which was harsh and injurious, and he anxiously wished that some gentleman in the House would attempt to relieve the country from that species of barbarism, and discouragement to every agricultural improvement. He concluded by saying, that he had no difficulty whatever in giving his vote for the prohibition of importation, until corn should be at 52s. per quarter. Abol1tion Of The Slave Trade. April 19. SO early as the 4th of February, Mr. Wilberforce had moved for the appointment of a committee to receive and examine evidence on the propriety of abolishing the slave trade; which motion, after a short debate, was put and carried. A considerable body of evidence having been thus taken, on the 18th of April, in a committee of the whole house, Mr. Wilberforce entered into a long and minute discussion of the subject. He commenced with giving an accurate detail of the unfair manner in' which slaves were obtained on the coast of Africa. He particularized many acts of the most flagrant cruelties; and exposed all the mean devices and barbarous policy of those unfeeling men who were concerned in this bloody traffic. Different tribes of Indians, he said, were encouraged to make war on each other for the sake of taking prisoners, and of thus providing the market with slaves; the administration of justice in most parts of Africa was converted into an engine of oppression; and every fraud, every violence, was practise...