He suggests they should inquire into the slave trading of Spain, Brazil, and Portugal, stating his preference for Buxton's Committee to a Commission of Inquiry on the condition that the government would pay for witnesses to be brought over [from the Caribbean]. Should the Commission be chosen, he would willingly accept a seat upon it if he could be provided with clerks with knowledge of the West Indian situation; he adds that the climate out there would suit him and he might be of use to the state in his old age.