This report on the 1825 annual meeting of the British Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery was printed in the Protestant Review. The meeting in London had been attended by Sarah Bowdich, a natural scientist and African traveller. She had many contacts in France, and this article is based on her correspondence with the Review. She describes the attendence at the meeting, and the speeches by politicians such as Brougham, Denham and O'Connell. She is particularly critical of O'Connell's attempt to draw a parallel between colonial slavery and the situation of Catholics in Ireland, describing it as "an inconvenient and false comparison" (29).