§ Mr. Wilberforcesaid, that as it was his intention, in the course of the present session, to submit to the House a motion respecting the slave trade, it would be necessary that some information should previously be laid before the House; he therefore moved, That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he would be pleased to give directions for there being laid before the House, Copies of such correspondence as may have passed between the Secretary of state and the governors of the colonies in the West-Indies, in pursuance of his Majesty's directions, issued in consequence of the address of that House to his Majesty, on the 6th of March, 1797 he motion was agreed to.—Mr. Wilberforce then moved for An account of the number of ships, with their tonnage, that had arrived from the coast of Africa, in the West-Indies, between the years 1783 and 1803, with the number of negroes imported, and also the number re-exported. Agreed to.