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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'.

Notifies the writer's intention to draw on behalf of the Societe £50 upon Messrs. Gwinel, Hoare and Harmand, bankers. Should the funds not be readily available, the representative of M. Claviere has orders to wait, but he begs Clarkson to send the money with utmost speed.

The writer excuses lack of correspondence on the subject of abolition by attention to urgent political matters. The victory achieved by the 'gens de couleur' over the whites in the French colonies, on behalf of which the Societe des Amis des Noirs had merely a propaganda role in Paris, will perhaps hasten the winning of equal rights for all men everywhere. He trusts that that class of oppressed citizens who owe their triumph to the philosophy of the present age, will acknowledge it by giving support to the Societe particularly devoted to the betterment of the condition of their brothers, the Africans (1). Lanthenas considers the opening of new colonies an opportunity to give support to the cause there. He endeavours to interest Clarkson in a new publishing and bookselling venture established at No. 4 Rue du Theatre Francois, which will begin by publishing the evidences submitted to the English Parliament against the slave trade. It is intended to revivify the Societe. (1) This is just the kind of platitude that Lubersac was inveighing against in November 1789.