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Tells of vote in Houses of Parliament abolishing apprenticeship and answers questions concerning Parliamentary actions on the slave trade.

Furnishes Clarkson with information he requested with regard to the Abolition of Slavery Act. Also informs Clarkson that he has taken Mr Soul's place as the secretary of the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society.

Asks Clarkson to add his signature to attached letter (now lost) expressing support of Robert Peel's course of action with regard to sugar duties.

Acknowledges the receipt of a letter and offers words of sympathy and encouragement in the face of Clarkson's ill health.

Thanks Clarkson for letter and wishes him well. Pleased to find Clarkson so cheerful despite being confined to his chamber. Briefly discusses anti-slavery campaign but admits that he has not been involved recently. Gives brief news of family.

Discusses financial needs, and measures taken to meet them from an English bank account, in detail, and warning against various individuals connected with the Societe, including d'Oge, who have been guilty of peculation or treachery. Some pamphlets have been printed for the 'gens de couleur'. Brissot congratulates on the ' victory humanity has gained in the last struggle about the right of declaring war'. He asks for news of Sierra Leone.

On British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society headed paper. Asks for Clarkson to attach his signature to the enclosed appeal (now lost) to the country on the proposed alterations to sugar duties.

Announces the delivery to him of several copies of the Address of the Societe to the National Assembly, by [?Demout] who knows its internal politics and the appointment of a Committee to review the question which is favourable to abolition '- the blow is struck and this trade shall go away by and by'.

Informs Clarkson that he knows from a visitor, M. Morannas, formerly employed by the French government of Senegal, of a letter of Clarkson's to M. Coquerel in which he has made honourable mention of Vincent and, from the same source, that he knows of Clarkson's visit to his abode while he was away in Italy. He regrets not having seen Clarkson, for he is aware of Clarkson's belief in Vincent's sincere attachment to his old friend Christophe [Henri Christophe, ruler of Haiti]. He was in Haiti fifteen years amid revolutionary turmoil and at the time of his last departure from Cap Henry owed his life to Christophe's zealous intervention when pursued by the false accusation [or manoeuvre or similar] of ' le general en chef Toussain' [Toussaint de Louverture??]. Discusses his literary efforts, now in England in the hands of Mr Foulerton [Fullerton?], on behalf of Christophe against a pamphlet attack on him and the blacks of Haiti. He has traveled to Italy and sought friends for Haiti with some success, but has heard nothing from this country which has preoccupied him for forty years. He begs Clarkson to forward him any communication intended for him from Haiti, which he may have in his hands.

Acknowledges his letter of the 14th, discussing the return of Mr. Foulerton [Fullerton?], and the news he has brought of the fate of Christophe and of the country of Haiti. Vincent expects that the government of the North will be assimilated to that of the West, and that Paul Romain will be elected President at Cape Henry (1). He comments on the suitability of Romain for the task, and elaborates the differences between the situation in the North and that in the South and West, where there are a greater proportion of coloureds ('hommes de couleur'). He considers the attitude of the censored press towards a black ruler, and the unreasonable charges leveled at Christophe in the same way as was the case with Toussaint, now universally admired by any reasonable person. He encloses his Observations on the two great leaders of Haiti (Toussaint and Christophe?), so slandered by ignorant opinion, which no journal in Paris will be able to publish, but which might do better in England. He solicits Clarkson's information on the situation in Haiti. (1) If this was right it did not happened. Boyer was made president (Clarkson Biography p. 151).