At the second, the Dean of Middleham's answer
was received. He acquiesced in the request of the committee; when five
thousand of his letters were ordered immediately to be printed.
On the 22nd a letter was read from Mr. James Mackenzie, of the town of
Cambridge, desiring to forward the object of the institution there. Two
letters were read also, one from the late Mr. Jones, tutor of Trinity
College, and the other from Mr. William Frend, fellow of Jesus College.
It appeared from these, that the gentlemen of the University of
Cambridge were beginning to take a lively interest in the abolition of
the Slave Trade, among whom Dr. Watson, the bishop of Llandaff, was
particularly conspicuous. At this committee two thousand new _Summary
View_ were ordered to be printed, and the circular letter to be prefixed
to each.
CHAPTER XXI.
[Sidenote: Labours of the committee continued to February,
1788.--Committee elect new members; vote thanks to Falconbridge and
others; receive letters from Grove and others; circulate numerous
publications; make a report; send circular letters to corporate bodies;
release negroes unjustly detained; find new correspondents in Archdeacon
Paley, the Marquis de la Fayette, Bishop of Cloyne, Bishop of
Peterborough, and in many others.
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